SSRIs
topic on 8 shows · 15 statements across 14 episodes
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15 statements about SSRIs, every show
Mares: Ketamine therapy works better than SSRIs for severe depression and PTSD
“Ketamine therapy, ketamine assisted therapy works better than SSRIs in many cases, especially for treating things that are very intense, like treatment resistant depression, PTSD, things like this.”
Calacanis: Upwards of 20% of American kids are on SSRIs, Adderall, or stimulants
“I'll be, I talked a little bit earlier about the medication that they're putting all these kids on, and I'm going to keep talking about it because we're talking about, you know, upwards of 20% of our kids have been on SSRIs or on Adderall or some stimulant rig…”
Carlson: One-fifth of Americans are on SSRIs
“One-fifth of the entire American population is on SSRIs”
Tucker Carlson calls for an immediate ban on SSRIs
“The whole country is addled on drugs, and it's changing the nature of people, and making them into something that is less than people, and it should be banned immediately.”
Wilkinson: Taking an SSRI improved my mental state more than wealth
“No amount of money or success or attention or anything else had done what this little tiny yellow pill could do for my mental state. And so now I've been on an SSRI for four and a half years or something like that.”
Tony Robbins claims meta-studies prove SSRIs do not work
“SSRIs don't work. They don't. They've been proven not to work by the meta studies, but we're still giving them millions of people.”
Mack: Meta-analysis shows dance therapy is the top treatment for depression
“The number one, however, significantly more than exercise and cognitive behavioral therapy, higher than yoga, higher than Tai Chi, was dancing. Dance therapy outperformed exercise significantly. Dance, According to this meta-analysis had the greatest impact in…”
Mares: Exercise and sleep treat chronic conditions better than pharmaceuticals
“If you look at studies, they show that exercise, sleep supplements, all these things actually work better for treating many chronic conditions than, you know, SSRIs or any such sort of other like pharmaceutical intervention.”
Codie Sanchez: 60% of US women under 30 have taken antidepressants
“For women under 30 in the US, 60% of them at some point in time have been on an SSRI or an antidepressant.”
Coogan: Medical practice consistently shifts over time from lifestyle advice to drug prescriptions
“There's some condition that doctors recommend a lifestyle changes for. Then an exciting new medication comes out and over a generation or so, doctors go from demanding the lifestyle change to gesturing at the lifestyle change before prescribing the medication …”
Israetel: Exxua antidepressant matches SSRI efficacy without libido or appetite side effects
“There's a new medication that just got approved in early twenty-twenty-four, late twenty-twenty-three. Japerone is the not the trade name, Japerone is the generic name, the trade name is Exua. E-X-X-U-A. I don't know who the hell comes up with these drug names…”
Patrick: Running Matches Antidepressant Efficacy of SSRIs
“It's undeniable that doing aerobic exercise, like they've compared running to classical antidepressants like SSRI, so serotonin reuptake inhibitors, right? The, in terms of the antidepressant effects, it's like the same only the running has all the other benef…”