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Originally Posted by vital
I think he just means that antidepressants don't work in the sense of not being a reasonable way to treat someone with depression. The risks outweigh the benefits, in other words. He discusses it further in the video.
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HERE’S SOME DEPRESSING RECENT medical news: Antidepressants don’t work.
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How is a reader of The Huffington Post supposed to know what he might actually mean. If he doesn't mean what he says he shouldn't say it.
And the study he sites actually says the opposite of that statement.
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I think that it has to be admitted that Dr. Hyman's approach also has really dramatic success stories and, best of all, the Functional Medicine approach is essentially safe. I think that this should be viewed as wonderful news and a promising thing to try many people in this forum.
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I have no problem at all with functional medicine and nutrition. I think we would all agree that exercise and nutrition are good for you. It should be studied much more than it is.
If his approach has had dramatic success you need to post the scientific studies that prove this.
I am very skeptical in my personal case because when I was in high school I was in the absolute optimal shape and ate are very good whole food diet yet I still had periods of severe depression. I ran two miles a day, 100 push ups, 100 sit ups, 10 sets of ten pull ups, tons of stretching, playing hockey everyday all winter, neighborhood pickup sports all summer, and ate a good whole food diet. Yet I still went into periods of severe depression out of the blue.
I also don't think that functional medicine and nutrition will find a cure for schizophrenia or something like that.
Doctors are always promising all kinds of miracles cures. I mentioned Dr. Oz calling green coffee bean extract a miracle cure and it was based on a 17 person study in India payed for by the company that makes the product.
Half of Dr. Oz?s medical advice is baseless or wrong, study says - The Washington Post
It makes it hard for the general public to know what the hell is going on when there are so many claims that are not backed up by scientific studies. And so many doctors selling supplements. How is one to know unless it is evidence based using the scientific method and peer review? That is the method that has really served us well for centuries in science.