Posts Tagged ‘SSRI’

For the past five years, I have been questioning the effectiveness of Prozac-like drugs known as SSRIs. I’ve pointed out that when the drugs first came out in the early 1990’s there was a wildly enthusiastic uptake in the prescribing of such Selective Serotonin Uptake Inhibitor (SSRI) drugs. Doctors were jubilantly claiming that the drugs were 80-90 per cent effective in treating depression and related conditions like OCD. In the last few years those success …

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Psychiatrists are amazed how many brain neurotransmitters (serotonin, for example) are in the gut and Gastroenterologists are amazed by how many gut neurotransmitters are in the brain.

It is interesting to note that the gut’s (enteric) nervous system forms from the same neural …