Depression and the FDA
September 7th, 2008It is no secret that I do not like the FDA. The very existence of that Leviathan organization suppresses innovation and promotes the cronyism so prevalent in the Big Pharma-Mainstream Medical Complex we have today.
The entire concept of the Mainstream Medical Model is defined by waiting for some disease to occur, then hit it with a toxic, foreign chemical called a prescription drug in the hopes that it will improved. More often the rule, and not the exception, is that the prescription drug is worse than the disease it was intended to treat. History if full of examples beginning with blood letting to arsenic administration in vain hopes of improving one’s sickened condition.
The latest version is the treatment of depression with a broad class of prescriptive drugs called anti-depressants. There are multiple classes of anti-depressants. The details of those classes are not important, whether they be “tricyclics” or “SSRI’s (Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors).What is important is that they universally fail to improve depression and worse, turn the user into a zombie.
What we promote is that depression is a condition that is caused by a biological deficiency, namely of a combination of a deficiency of hormones and certain essential nutrients. When those deficiencies are replenished, then the depression goes away.
This model is the basis of Naturopathic Medicine. I am not a naturopath, but a medical doctor. However, in my career through trial and error and ultimate rejection of the failed mainstream prescription drug model, this is the approach that makes the most sense and most often is successful.
This is no different from early theories about vitamins, without which some notorious diseases can occur. These are well known to any first year biology student.
The same approach applies to depression. And migraine headaches. And PMS. And infertility. And I will venture on and say also applies to inflammatory diseases like rheumatoid arthritis, Lupus, ulcerative colitis, Crohn’s Disease, etc.
Going further, heart disease and cancers are largely preventable as well.
This whole concept is rejected outright by my mainstream physician colleagues. Of course, they have been brainwashed, like I used to be by the education we received from medical school to the present. Our physician education is controlled by the research largely sponsored by the Big Drug companies.
Don’t let NIH grants fool you. Research is controlled for the benefit of big drug companies so they introduce the next blockbuster drug. Trillions of dollars (and Euros and Pounds Sterling) are at stake.
The latest version is the treatment of depression with a broad class of prescriptive drugs called anti-depressants. There are multiple classes of anti-depressants. The details of those classes are not important, whether they be “tricyclics” or “SSRI’s (Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors).What is important is that they universally fail to improve depression and worse, turn the user into a zombie.
What we promote is that depression is a condition that is caused by a biological deficiency, namely of a combination of a deficiency of hormones and certain essential nutrients. When those deficiencies are replenished, then the depression goes away.
Andrew Jones, M.D.
Medical Director, Women’s Health Institute of Texas