Research by an Iowa State University scientist due to be published this month in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences indicates that cholesterol-lowering drugs (statins) may lessen brain function.The results of the study show that drugs that inhibit the liver from making cholesterol may also keep the brain from making cholesterol, which is vital to efficient brain function."If you deprive cholesterol from the brain, then you directly affect the machinery that triggers the ...
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In Part I and Part II of this series, we examined drug-free alternatives to treating depression including exercise, psychotherapy, light therapy, St. John's Wort and acupuncture. We have learned that all of these treatments are at least as effective as antidepressants in the short term, and some (exercise and psychotherapy) are more effective in the long-term. All of these treatments have far fewer side effects, risks and complications than antidepressants. In fact, the ...
The most widely prescribed drugs in the U.S. are not for pain management, cholesterol lowering, heartburn or hypertension.They're for depression.Last year doctors wrote $232.7 million prescriptions for antidepressants. That's an increase of 25 million prescriptions since 2003 and translates into an estimated 30 million patients in the United States who spent $12 billion on antidepressants in 2007.With numbers like these, a person might make these assumptions:
Antidepressants are effective treatments for depression
There are few, if any, ...
Today's article is the sixth in an ongoing series on antidepressants and depression. It's long, so you might want to print it out or go grab a cup of tea. If you are visiting the blog for the first time, or you haven't had a chance to read the previous articles, you might find it helpful to do so before diving into this one.The treatment of depression with drugs is based on the enormous ...
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