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antipsychotics is backwards

admin — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 04:21:28 +0000

First of all the hypothesis behind antidepressants and atypical antipsychotics is backwards. Serotonin is not low in depression, anxiety, etc. What is low in those conditions is the ability to break down or metabolize serotonin with the end result being elevated serotonin levels. What “Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors” means is that these drugs inhibit the reuptake or metabolism of serotonin thus causing the serotonin to rise even higher compounding the initial problem. Then when serotonin levels become too high the end result is Serotonin Syndrome – a condition which can cause death by multiple organ failure. This was the cause of the death of Anna Nicole Smith’s 20 year old son, Daniel.

placebo

admin — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 04:20:26 +0000

The end of February 2008 the truth came out about the initial studies done on these new antidepressants. These studies had never before been made public or even submitted to the FDA for their review. Yet these studies showed that the drugs were of no more benefit than a placebo! What the FDA does is judge the “Risk to Benefit” ratio for all drugs. Our question to them now is: “If this group of drugs are of no more benefit than a sugar pill and yet now have an FDA imposed Black Box Warning for increased risk of suicide – the next closest thing to banning a drug and they have warnings of suicide, hostility or psychosis with any abrupt change in dose, where is the Risk to Benefit ratio other than down the toilet? Why are they still on the market with little to no benefit and so great a risk?

Dr. Candace Pert

admin — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 04:18:15 +0000

Secondly one of the two discoverers of the serotonin binding process that made these drugs possible, Dr. Candace Pert, who headed the Brain Chemistry Department at the National Institutes of Health for 13 years, publicly came out against the drugs in October of 1997 in TIME magazine. She boldly stated: “I am alarmed at the monster that Johns Hopkins neuroscientist Solomon Snyder and I created when we discovered the simple binding assay for drug receptors 25 years ago . . .

quote from Dr. Candace Pert:

“I am alarmed at the monster that Johns Hopkins neuroscientist Solomon Snyder and I created when we discovered the simple binding assay for drug receptors 25 years ago. Prozac and other antidepressant serotonin-receptor-active compounds may also cause cardiovascular problems in some susceptible people after long-term use, which has become common practice despite the lack of safety studies.

“The public is being misinformed about the precision of these selective serotonin-uptake inhibitors when the medical profession oversimplifies their action in the brain and ignores the body as if it exists merely to carry the head around! In short, these molecules of emotion regulate every aspect of our physiology. A new paradigm has evolved, with implications that life-style changes such as diet and exercise can offer profound, safe and natural mood elevation.”

Dr. Candace B. Pert

Letter to the Editor of TIME Magazine, October 20, 1997, page 8.

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