Bruce H. Lipton See book keywords and concepts |
Hippocampal cells renewed cell division at the time patients first began to experience the mood-shifting effect of the ssri drugs, weeks after the onset of the drug regimen. This study and others challenge the theory that depression is simply the result of a "chemical imbalance" affecting the brain's production of monoamine signaling chemicals, specifically serotonin. If it were as simple as that, the ssri drugs would likely restore that chemical balance right away.
More researchers are pointing to the inhibition of neuronal growth by stress hormones as the source of depression. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts |
The highly corrupt Food and Drug Administration didn't "accidentally" approve psychotropic drugs that just happened to kill children, you see: The administration knew that ssri drugs (antidepressants) were killing children for well over ten years! The FDA then went out of its way to bury the evidence, colluding with prominent drug companies to hide key documents while hastening the approval of dangerous drugs and keeping the public ignorant of the true risks from consuming them.
Kevin Miller's Generation Rx covers all this (and more) in heart-wrenching detail. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts |
Or that if you take enough ssri drugs, you'll reverse bone loss (even though all the women taking those drugs have the lowest levels of bone density). Or how about the fact that ADHD is a "real" disease requiring treatment with amphetamine stimulants? Or that sunlight will kill you?
There are all sorts of idiot "facts" promoted by the mainstream media today. What's truly hilarious in all this is that Big Pharma and the FDA claim their pharmaceutical system of medicine is entirely "evidence based." You heard that right: It's all based on rock-solid, scientifically proven evidence. |
| Now, based on this reporting, you're going to have women suffering from osteoporosis who run out and get on antidepressants, thinking that the ssri drugs will reverse their osteoporosis.
Understand: This is exactly what Big Pharma wants to accomplish with this news! The whole point of this exercise in junk science, lousy reporting and astonishing nutritional ignorance is to get more women to take more drugs. It's really as simple as that. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts |
Depression, of course, is treated with ssri drugs, none of which have ever been safety approved by the FDA for use on children or teens. In other words, the use of these drugs on teenagers is a grand, mind-altering medical experiment, and what we just witnessed in Omaha is one result of that experiment.
There will be more. I hate to be accurate about this grisly prediction, because I grieve for the families of those lost to pharmaceutically-induced violence, but the truth is that until we stop drugging our children with psychotropic drugs, the shootings are not going to stop. |
Dawson Church See book keywords and concepts |
One study reported on the results from sixteen medical centers using Pulsed Magnetic Stimulation to treat depression in 300 patients who had been unresponsive to ssri drugs such as Prozac and Zoloft. Patients sit in a special chair for forty-five minutes per session, while magnetic pulses are directed at the parts of their brains linked to depression. Some 45% of the patients in the study experienced relief from depression using this method. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts |
Serotonin is the feel-good neurotransmitter in the brain that Prozac, and that whole class of antidepressants, is meant to elevate -- they're the ssri drugs.
Mike: Right.
Pederson: Sunlight also elevates serotonin, right?
Mike: Yes.
Pederson: That feeling you get on a nice sunny day when you're out there -- and you get that feeling in the sun that's actually a serotonergic response caused by the sunlight, right? Everyone feels better on a sunny day.
Mike: Yes.
Pederson: Right? |
Kelly Patricia O'Meara See book keywords and concepts |
Food and Drug Administration, " that analyzed clinical trial data submitted to the FDA to establish the SSRI drugs' efficacy, found that "the pharmacological effects of antidepressants are clinically negligible."10
Kirsch et al. |
Greg Critser See book keywords and concepts |
No one really knows just what that will mean for a new generation, who will be relying not just on ssri drugs, but also on Ritalin and its imitators. The frontal lobes of the brain, which manage feeling and thought, do not mature until age thirty. Will prescription drug use alter those key structures? Speaking in a recent Time cover story, the noted University of California, San Francisco, expert on child psychopharmacology Dr. Glen Elliott uttered a rare discordant note. "The problem," he said, "is that our usage has outstripped our knowledge base. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts |
There are so many murder/suicides linked to Prozac and other ssri drugs that the public would be absolutely shocked to learn the true details of how many people have been killed by these drugs. Remember Phil Hartman, the comedian? He was killed by his wife who was also on these drugs. And let's not forget the Colombine massacre, in which both teenage boys who blew away their classmates were on antidepressants. What amazes me the most about all this is how drug companies manage to cover up these facts and suppress negative evidence for so long. |
Mike Adams See book keywords and concepts |
In fact, ssri drugs such as Prozac work for depression by influencing serotonin levels."
This statement is also quite true, and yet the FDA demands it be censored under the threat of being prosecuted for violating federal laws. f ' / , I'l.:
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Mike Adams: I started out as more of a critic of the drug industry, writing in '98 and '99, and at that time people thought I was nuts to say that ssri drugs caused aggressive behavior, or that statin drugs caused muscle wasting and things like that. And now it's headline news every day.
Amazon John: Headlines every day, every day. And recently there was the headline that they're adding another dozen things to the list of carcinogens, including several kinds of viruses as being directly linked to cancer. |
Dr. Timothy Scott See book keywords and concepts |
I base that estimate on information gained from an analysis of all drug studies submitted to the FDA which were responsible for the approval of various ssri drugs.
The Freedom of Information Act became law in 1966. That law forces government agencies to release information which the drug companies do not want the public to know about. In 2002 a Freedom of Information Act request led to the discovery that the drug companies (who must submit all their drug studies to the FDA) had been sharing only their "successes" with the public in their antidepressant advertising. |
| This extreme reaction to ssri drugs is rare; yet it is common enough to have a name— amotivational syndrome.4 The earlier reports involved only adults, but that was before widespread use of antidepressants by children became common.
Amotivational syndrome is also known as frontal lobe syndrome. The frontal lobes located just behind our foreheads hold within their cells our personality, more than any other part of the brain. |
| If his estimate is even close to being accurate, then the number of suicide attempts (and actual suicides) related to just the first of the ssri drugs is staggering. As Tracy noted, it was in February of 1990 that the suicide concern came to "public and professional attention."
Specifically, she was referring to an American Journal of Psychiatry article published by Dr. Martin Teicher and his colleagues from the Department of Psychiatry at the Harvard Medical School which received much attention. |
Bruce H. Lipton See book keywords and concepts |
If it were as simple as that, the ssri drugs would likely restore that chemical balance right away.
More researchers are pointing to the inhibition of neuronal growth by stress hormones as the source of depression. In fact, in chronically depressed patients, the hippocampus and the prefrontal cortex, the center of higher reasoning, are physically shrunken. A review of this study published in Science reported: "Overtaking the monoamine hypothesis in recent years has been the stress hypothesis, which posits that depression is caused when the brain's stress machinery goes into overdrive. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts |
Sure, the murder gets covered, because that gets ratings, but the true cause of the murders (the ssri drugs) are almost never explored.
Where are all these stories? You don't see them in the big media outlets. And here's why you don't see them: because they weren't issued in press releases submitted to the wire services by Big Business. Most mainstream news organizations don't even have journalists any more. Sure, they call them journalists, but they're basically just paper pushers. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts |
And one of the fastest ways to create a psychotic adult is to dose a child with Ritalin and ssri drugs for as long as possible. That's exactly what's going on today, and the drug companies continue to push for the heavy use of mind-altering drugs in our nation's youth.
Suppressed evidence to keep documents out of the public realm and litigation:
The drug companies have done this on numerous occasions. |
| In fact, one drug company actually buried their own evidence showing a strong link between ssri drugs (antidepressants) and suicidal thoughts in children. Still today, nobody talks about the fact that the two Colombine High School killers were taking antidepressant drugs when they slaughtered their classmates with automatic rifles. Nor that Phil Hartman's wife, who killed the famous comedian and then took her own life, was also on SSRIs. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts |
This is largely because overwhelming evidence has surfaced in the last several years pointing to an increased risk of suicidal thoughts and violent behavior in children given ssri drugs -- a class of drugs to which Prozac and other antidepressants belongs. Now this study brings to light new safety questions: could the drugs be causing bone disorders?
The manufacturer of Prozac, Eli Lilly & Co., continues to stress that Prozac has been proven quite safe, even in use with children. It has been the FDA approved, after all, and we all know how stringent the FDA drug safety program is. |
Mark Blumenthal See book keywords and concepts |
Other Potential Uses
Sexual dysfunction associated with use of ssri drugs (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors); control of acute symptoms of altitude sickness and vascular reactivity to cold exposure; protective action in hypoxia (insufficient oxygen in the body); acute deafness related to the cochlea (part of the inner ear).
Dosage
Dry extract (standardized): a total of 120-240 mg per day, taken in dosage forms (e.g. |
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| Garcinia cambo-gia contains hydroxy citric acid, which has been found to increase the availability of serotonin in
Leaf lettuce
Lean, white freshwater fish
Leeks
Lemons
Lima beans
Limes
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Olive oil (small amounts)
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Onions
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Parsley
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Sunflower seeds, raw Swiss chard Turkey the brain almost as much as ssri drugs do. It has also been found to decrease body fat synthesis. |