Putting things in the body and hoping for the best is not the best strategy to live by.
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Yet that’s what happens most of the time when we are prescribed pills. We take prescriptions based in large part on assumptions.
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We assume the science is in order
We assume agencies have done the safety studies
We assume the root of our problem will be addressed.
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Here’s the reality
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The science is bought a lot of the time.
The regulatory agencies do not conduct the safety studies the companies who make and profit off the products do.
Most of these pills just cover up symptoms. They don’t heal anything.
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A recent article by The Guardian indicates that there is a vast amount of research over several decades and there is no convincing evidence that depression is caused by serotonin abnormalities.
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While 85 to 90% of people believe depression comes from a chemical imbalance that’s never been proven.
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“Many people take antidepressants because they have been led to believe their depression has a biochemical cause, but this new research suggests this belief is not grounded in evidence,” said the study’s lead author, Joanna Moncrieff.
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Science does not explain exactly what these drugs are doing to the body and never has. The human brain is complex, so complex we really don’t fully understand it. Some studies suggest these pills do the opposite of what they claim to do. Nonetheless, they are prescribed and some have taken them for decades.
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This discovery will upset a lot of people. Why? Because many people feel that their pills have really helped them. They’ve given them to their kids and it will be difficult to accept the reality of that.
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I know people who have articulated that just having their pills within reach makes them feel better.
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If there’s no science behind this medication then there is no reasoning for why people believe it helps and so what do we call this?
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Faith.
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Faith in the big pharma medical model. It’s true some people worship science and that’s often at the temple of pharmacy.
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I can’t tell anyone who or what to put their faith in. However, just so we are clear science often has little to do with it.
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#naturallyinspired