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Michael Pollan



Michael Kevin Pollan is an American author, journalist, activist, and professor of journalism. Among his bestsellers are books that explore the socio-cultural impacts of food and the efficacy of mind-altering drugs to help fight depression, anxiety, and other mental disorders.

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Michael Pollan on the Medical Potential of Psychedelics

After decades in the shadows, new studies are looking at psychedelic drugs and their efficacy at treating a variety of psychological issues, including depression.

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In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto

Because in the so-called Western diet, food has been replaced by nutrients, and common sense by confusion--most of what we’re consuming today is longer the product of nature but of food science.

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My Adventures with the Trip Doctors

My first psilocybin journey began around an altar in the middle of a second-story loft in a suburb of a small city on the Eastern Seaboard.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageDon’t eat anything incapable of rotting.

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The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

A New York Times bestseller that has changed the way readers view the ecology of eating, this revolutionary book by award winner Michael Pollan asks the seemingly simple question: What should we have for dinner? Tracing from source to table each of the food chains that sustain us—whether industrial...

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The Sickness in Our Food Supply

The pandemic is making the case not only for a different food system but for a radically different diet as well.

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How Should We Do Drugs Now?

While we can now begin to glimpse an end to the drug war, it is much harder to envision what the drug peace will look like. How will we fold these powerful substances into our society and our lives so as to minimize their risks and use them most constructively?

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FindCenter Quotes ImageThe shared meal elevates eating from a mechanical process of fueling the body to a ritual of family and community, from the mere animal biology to an act of culture.

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How to Feed the World

The world’s agricultural lands make up a precious and finite resource; we should be using it to grow food for people, not for cars or cattle.

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Michael Pollan: A Plant’s-Eye View

What if human consciousness isn’t the end-all and be-all of Darwinism? What if we are all just pawns in corn’s clever strategy game to rule the Earth? Author Michael Pollan asks us to see the world from a plant’s-eye view.

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