As I’ve mentioned before, I’m a subscriber to Joe Mercola’s newsletter. Mercola is a family practitioner osteopath who is something of a pariah in his field. Those who follow Chiron will recognize a good dose of the influence in Joe’s mission. I’ve been following his articles and videos for a couple of years, and my impression is that he does enviable investigative reporting work — some of the best IR pieces I’ve ever read, and the very best consumer advocacy journalism, in the medical field. From what I have read, his facts check out in the long-run; in other words, after I learn about something on Mercola I tend to see it check out over time, many other places.<\/p>\n
In today’s edition, he interviews a journalist named Robert Whitaker, who has been digging out the story of antidepressants for many years. In this interview, Whitaker reports that in the short-run most people on antidepressants don’t do any better than those in the placebo group, and that in the longrun, the drugs change depression from an episodic situation to a chronic one. In other words, the drugs do work in the nervous system — to influence people to be more sensitive to depression, have more episodes and less likely to work the process through to resolution.<\/p>\n
Here is a link to the page on Mercola’s site<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As I’ve mentioned before, I’m a subscriber to Joe Mercola’s newsletter. Mercola is a family practitioner osteopath who is something of a pariah in his field. Those who follow Chiron will recognize a good dose of the influence in Joe’s mission. I’ve been following his articles and videos for a couple of years, and my … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25018"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}