Browsing: Fifty

Matt Damon is 55. As the protagonist in Christopher Nolan’s all-conquering adaptation of Homer’s Odyssey, his strong, lean physique is not that of a typical 50-something. But this aesthetic is “merely a side effect of really good training,” his long-time trainer Jason Walsh tells me. What’s more impressive, he argues, are the signs of fitness…

Could LSD treat common psychiatric disorders like generalized anxiety disorder or major depression? It sounds almost absurd considering LSD’s long-standing reputation as psychiatry’s “wicked witch”—a drug previously viewed as too dangerous, controversial, and politically radioactive to study. Yet that is precisely where the new data are leading