{"podcast":{"title":"Giants Shoulder","slug":"the-giants-shoulder-6943930","podcast_index_feed_id":6943930,"rss_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/f592b1d4/podcast/rss","website_url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/evanmcgloughlin","image_url":"https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/staging/podcast_uploaded_nologo/41100317/41100317-1740226956129-96396ebc63bd9.jpg","author":"Evan McGloughlin","episode_count":140,"summary":"A Neuroscience podcast. Each week I talk with experts on a range of topics from consciousness and neuroplasticity to evolution and everything in between. I have a particular interest in consciousness and understanding our inner subjective conscious experience. Evan has a Neuroscience degree from Trinity College Dublin and is the co-founder of 2 (failed) edtech startups. He is a professional tennis coach and Triathlete enthusiast.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-03T04:19:34.566536+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-giants-shoulder-6943930"},"episode":{"title":"#125 Meet The World’s Greatest Endogenous DMT Psychedelic Scientist","slug":"125-meet-the-world-s-greatest-endogenous-dmt-psychedelic-scientist","published_at":"2026-06-02T02:31:11+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-giants-shoulder-6943930/125-meet-the-world-s-greatest-endogenous-dmt-psychedelic-scientist","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-giants-shoulder-6943930","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/evanmcgloughlin/episodes/125-Meet-The-Worlds-Greatest-Endogenous-DMT-Psychedelic-Scientist-e3k6be9","audio_url":"https://traffic.megaphone.fm/APO2563581439.mp3","summary":"Get One Month Free of Consensus (The Best Ai Science Tool): https://get.consensus.app/we00d2cmjpqe Upgrade Your Shaving Experience With Henson (100 FREE BLADES): https://hensonshaving.com/thegiantsshoulder Want a full breakdown of your own conscious inner experience? Join the Giant's Shoulder community: https://www.skool.com/the-giants-shoulder-6526/about Steven Barker is the world's longest-running DMT researcher and the analytical chemist who helped prove the molecule exists in the mammalian brain. He argues your brain manufactures its own psychedelic at the same concentration as serotonin — and floods your cortex with it under stress and as you die.Expect to learn why Steven believes your brain produces DMT at serotonin-level concentrations, how 29 years of drug-testing racehorses gave him the tools to find it, why he says David Nichols is wrong about endogenous DMT, why stress can make brain DMT spike tenfold, how a hidden receptor inside your neurons may explain how psychedelics rewire the brain, why the DMT trip might be neuroplasticity you can actually feel, what DMT entities really are, and much more… Timestamps 0:00:00 Trailer 0:02:40 The Recurring Dream That Started a 50-Year Obsession 0:06:53 Hunting For The Brain's Own Psychedelic In 1972 0:12:54 The Discovery That We ALL Make DMT 0:19:07 Were Psychedelics Ever Meant To Be Medicine? 0:22:17 How The War On Drugs Killed The Research 0:24:02 Funding Psychedelic Science With Racehorse Drug Tests 0:34:56 Why You Can't Patent A Psychedelic 0:36:31 The Psychedelic Trip Is Just An "Overdose" 0:41:58 Why David Nichols Is Wrong About DMT 0:50:16 The "Pineal Is Too Small" Argument Is Ludicrous 0:54:20 DMT Is In Your Brain At Serotonin Levels 1:01:00 Stress Floods Your Brain With DMT 1:02:32 Why Eve…","meta_description":"Get One Month Free of Consensus (The Best Ai Science Tool): https://get.consensus.app/we00d2cmjpqe Upgrade Your Shaving Experience With Henson (100 FREE B…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":6418,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-giants-shoulder-6943930/episodes/125-meet-the-world-s-greatest-endogenous-dmt-psychedelic-scientist/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-giants-shoulder-6943930/125-meet-the-world-s-greatest-endogenous-dmt-psychedelic-scientist.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}