====

Is Your Prescription Drug Causing Your Depression?

Let’s face it... our current medical industry loves pills.

When you go to the doctor for any kind of discomfort with any kind of diagnosis, chances are that the doctor will write out a slip of paper and send you to the pharmacy. Every illness, every injury, every bodily inconvenience has some kind of corresponding medication for us to take. So that’s what we’ve done for the greater part of the last century. It’s tempting to think that we can be “fixed” by medication because it’s quick and easy. That’s why the United States pharmaceutical market was valued around 446 billion U.S. dollars in 2016 alone.

But the truth is that our bodies are more complex than we’ve been taught, and more importantly, we know much less than we think we do. Only recently have we started to understand how connected the gut, brain, hormones, and immune systems are. So it’s not a huge surprise that we think of our bodies as machines—that we can feed them some chemicals and they’ll run smoothly again like a car that just got an oil change.

The severity of consequences that result from thinking this way hasn’t really settled into the public consciousness yet, but a June 2018 study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association explores that very question:

What does this society-wide reliance on prescription drugs really cost us?

https://kellybroganmd.com/is-your-prescription-drug-causing-your-depression/?utm_source=Kelly+Brogan+MD+Newsletter&utm_campaign=28981c3ab9-Is+Your+Prescription+Drug+Causing+Your+Depression&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_d0f977a8c5-28981c3ab9-124531643

***************************************************************