What Really Happened in the Original Fluoxetine (Prozac) Trials for Children and Adolescents?
Antidepressant use soared in the 1990s due to marketing, direct to physician and direct to consumer advertising producing a controversial era in which drug makers directly targeted consumers for their products. As a result of the antidepressant marketing campaign, depression diagnoses also surged during this period. Within a decade, the diagnosis of depression increased from…
Read MoreProzac, Beginning of the Anti-Depressant Era
The integrity of medical literature has been called into question. Drug makers spend significantly more money on advertisements than on the actual research and development of the drug. The media targets the consumers with ads, acting as the marketing arm of the pharmaceutical industry, with great financial interest. Much of the research results are misreported…
Read MorePart II Do Psychotropic Medications Cause More Harm than Good?
What Do Studies on Psychotropic Medications Show? With every research publication, there is some level of unavoidable inherent bias. You may read one source in complete support of an intervention and another in complete opposition. Most articles rely on information and conclusions read by the author without the author’s further investigation or in-depth analysis into…
Read MoreAre Psychotropic (Psychiatric) Medications Doing More Harm than Good?
All psychotropic medications alter a person’s mental state. The origin of the word ‘tropic’ comes from Greek meaning “a turning.” Psychotropic quite literally means to turn the mind. Psychotropic drugs such as antidepressants may benefit some people but determining who they may benefit, who they may harm, and why, are remaining questions. For some people…
Read MoreSunscreens – Do They Work to Protect Your Skin?
As temperatures are heating up and the first day of summer is upon us, this blog looks into sunscreens and how we can safely get our Vitamin D without burning or damaging our skin! Natural vitamin D synthesis via the skin is an incredible process we humans possess. We require UVB to synthesize vitamin D.…
Read MoreTrust the Science An Editorial
Over the past three years, we have heard the phrase “trust the science” repeated over and over again by doctors and the media. But what does this really mean? What is science? How do we get to the truth? Who do we believe? Is science really the real truth? Or not? Where is integrity? What…
Read MoreDepression Caused by Traumatic Brain Injury
Depression Caused by TBI Last week’s blog, Neurosteroids for Treatment of TBI, addressed the significant prevalence of hormone deficiencies following traumatic brain injury (TBI). The underlying treatable symptoms of neurosteroid insufficiency (growth hormone, testosterone, DHEA, pregnenolone, estradiol, progesterone, thyroid) following TBI is currently not well known or accepted in traditional medicine. Hence, patients may be…
Read MoreNeurosteroids for Treatment of TBI
The diagnosis of Traumatic Brain Injury, TBI, is NOT new. Treating TBI with neurosteroids is new! Approximately 5.3 million US citizens are currently living with disability secondary to TBI. A 2010 report showed “a brain injury occurs every seven seconds and results in death every 5 minutes representing approximately 4.3 million brain injuries and 53,000…
Read MoreHormone Replacement Therapy After Breast Cancer. Is It Safe? Part 2
Last week’s blog post, “Hormone Replacement Therapy After Breast Cancer. Is It Safe? Part 1,” began to address the controversial statement most believe to be true, “Hormone replacement therapy (HRT), especially estrogen, is dangerous and linked to cancer.” The blog summarized the many health benefits of HRT, however: Is the risk too great for breast…
Read MoreHormone Replacement Therapy After Breast Cancer. Is it Safe? Part 1
“Psychologists have amply documented the human difficulty of changing our minds when the evidence says it is time to do so. The challenge for physicians is to recognize when we are stuck in an outdated paradigm, admit it, and move ahead.” Estrogen Replacement Therapy (ERT) is Dangerous and Linked to Cancer This controversial, polarizing statement…
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