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Podcast: Beer and Conversation with Pigweed and Crowhill
Episode: 251: Recent news in psychiatry. Was Tom Cruise right all along?
Description: P&C drink and review a homebrewed mild ale, then discuss recent disturbing revelations about psychiatry, and a very disturbing finding in the area of Alzheimer's research.Â
An analysis of multiple studies shows there's little evidence that depression is caused by a "chemical imbalance" -- which is what we've been told for decades. It's "common knowledge" that depression is from low serotonin, right? Well ... maybe not. And experts in the field have known this for years, but psychiatrists have continued to prescribe drugs based on this apparently false theory.Â
One in eight people in America ar...