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I have 13 days left in a 100-day weight loss and body transformation challenge using the MacroFactor App and it feels like every algorithm on the Internet these days knows what I’m up to and is feeding me fitness, weight loss, and body transformation content. The vast majority of that stuff are videos I scroll right past but this interview from Diplo below about how he uses LSD as a motivator when running caught my attention.
Diplo was a guest on the TSL Time Podcast recently and discussed his habitual use of LSD, a very powerful psychedelic drug which the DEA’s Diversion Control Division says “produces delusions and visual hallucinations that distort the user’s sense of time and identity” and the Mount Sinai medical center claims “changes your mood, behavior, and the way you relate to the world around you.”
Diplo says for him, LSD is a motivator. And he uses it as a tool in long-distance running and marathons. There was a post-marathon video (included below) of Diplo on LSD after the Los Angeles Marathon that went viral back in March that appears to have sparked this discussion about the DJ’s LSD use.
Obviously, this is NOT AN ENDORSEMENT of illegal drug use. Don’t get that twisted. This is merely a fascinating clip of Diplo discussing his running journey and LSD as a motivator throughout that journey:
It is interesting that Diplo, real name Thomas Wesley Pentz, claims that LSD makes him a better communicator with people. Of course that’s with the caveat that it is taken in small doses and not full ‘hits’ or ‘tabs’ or ‘cubes’ or potent ‘drops’ as they are called on the street.
With the post-marathon clip below of Diplo discussing his marathon experience it would appear that LSD doesn’t always improve his communication skills. Though he admitted above that he dropped too much into his water bottle…
Diplo’s claim about the body expelling LSD through sweat is interesting. Healthline states that it is excreted from the body primarily through urine so the fastest way to run it through the body’s system is by hydrating which would also suggest it is excreted through sweat as well.
Does LSD Improve Athletic Performance For Diplo And Others?
The interview with Diplo discussing LSD as a motivator for him and a tool in long distance running sent me down a rabbit hole of reading which led to this 1997 study published by the National Library of Medicine titled ‘Psychoactive drugs and athletic performance.’
What that study found was counter to Diplo’s LSD claims. The 1997 study determined “some psychoactive drugs have actual performance-enhancing side effects. However, many actually decrease performance, primarily because of adverse cardiovascular effects and impaired judgment.”
So what may be true for Diplo appears to not be the case for the majority of individuals.
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