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298: Depression in the modern world vs. Stone Age

Beat Your Genes Podcast

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The Effects of the Modern Environment on Depression

An algorithm that's very useful to try to address any kind of clinical problem is going to transport yourself back to the Stone Age and see how things look like then. The overwhelming majority, not all, but the overwhelming majority of medical problems in the United States today are directly due to the differences between the Stone Age environment and the modern environment. In the Stone Age, you can't crawl up in a ball and die. And I would argue that that would be unlikely.

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