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Your body makes DMT in your lungs

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Before you go hiking into the wilderness to find obscure hallucinogenic plants, you should know you are already holding. The human body naturally synthesizes minute amounts of DMT in the lungs and brain. While it is rarely enough to induce a spontaneous trip, it proves our biochemistry is already entirely familiar with the heavy stuff.

Your body makes DMT in your lungs
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