A Revolutionary Breakthrough in Understanding Mental Health Through Metabolism—and Improving Treatment for Anxiety, Depression, OCD, PTSD, and More with Chris Palmer • 263
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The Benefits of Stimulants for Depression
Some psychiatric medications we know with certainty from numerous studies that they are impairing metabolism. That can be helpful because when, when parts of your brain are overactive, it causes symptoms. But if you suppress metabolism in those cells, you're also probably suppressing metabolism in lots of other cells in the brain and body. Many of the medications we prescribe will cause weight gain. They can cause type 2 diabetes. And in older people, at least, we know that they can cause premature mortality. So please don't try to get off your medicine just cold turkey on your own. It is so, it can be really dangerous. Try to do that with their mental health provider or whoever's responsible for
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