Updated August 2026
Colorado asks every licensed healing center to commit to something beyond its own operations, and to say publicly what that commitment is. Here is ours.
The gap we are trying to help close
Most of what is known about psilocybin comes from research that treats the body as if it does not have a cycle.
Hormones move. Cycle phase moves. Whether someone is on contraceptives or hormone replacement therapy moves. Any of that could shape how a person responds to this medicine, how long it lasts, how intense it gets, what they carry out of it. Almost nobody is asking. The standard instruments used to measure psychedelic experiences do not contain a single question about reproductive factors, and the research that shaped this field was largely not designed with women’s biology in mind.
That is not a small oversight. It is half the people walking through our doors.
What we are doing about it
We are supporting GALILEA, an education and research initiative building a better standard of women’s care in psychedelic medicine. GALILEA works with practitioners and practices on cycle-aware care, and is developing the research to back it up, including work with the University of South Florida on a questionnaire that finally accounts for reproductive factors.
Our support has two parts.
We fund the work. Numia makes an annual contribution to GALILEA’s research agenda, reviewed each year against the financial condition of the business, with the intention of growing it as we grow.
We contribute what only a licensed center can. Money is the easy part. The harder and more useful thing we have is a license to work with psilocybin legally, in a supervised setting, with people who have chosen to be there. We are participating in GALILEA’s women’s health data collection so these questions get asked in a real clinical setting rather than reconstructed from a survey years later.
Colorado made that possible. Very few places in the world can gather this kind of information lawfully and carefully. We hold that license, and we would rather use it toward something that outlasts us.
How we protect the people in our care
Participation runs on de-identified data only.
It is voluntary. You can opt out. Opting out changes nothing about your care, your sessions, or how we treat you. We do not send anything that identifies you to GALILEA or to anyone else. If you would rather not take part, tell your facilitator, and that is the end of it. No explanation needed.
What comes next
We will keep funding the research and grow our support as the business allows. We will build the women’s health questions into how we work, carefully and with consent. And we will report on it honestly, including the parts that do not go the way we hoped.
Women’s health has been an afterthought in this field for a long time. We are a small clinic in Denver and we are not going to fix that alone. But we can make sure the questions get asked in the room where the work actually happens.
