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July 29th, 2008 by Dr. Glenn Rothfeld illustrator program
If there’s one constancy in my approach to the body, it’s that all the body’s systems are connected, and depend on one another for proper function. In effect, folks, there is no “thyroid” “adrenal” “brain” or “digestive tract”, except as different parts of a coordinated system.
If there’s another constancy, it’s how the conventional approach to health ignores this fact. So here’s another example. One more study, this inventor 2012 32 bt one surveying 93,000 women, again showed a relationship between using anti-depressants (specifically SSRIs like Prozac and Paxil) and brittle bones. The population on these anti-depressants had a 20% increase in spinal fractures, and a 30% increase in total fractures, over those who didn’t take the meds. This followed other studies with similar findings, including one study of 5000 people showing double the inventor 2012 32 bt incidence of fractures in the SSRI group.
These findings are inventor 2012 32 bt not surprising, if we start with the understanding that serotonin is inventor 2012 32 bt much more than a chemical that stays in the brain and inventor 2012 32 bt has to do with bad moods. Serotonin is inventor 2012 32 bt involved in metabolism throughout the body, it has as many physical effects as emotional ones, and inventor 2012 32 bt here are serotonin receptors in such diverse tissues as the gut, the inventor 2012 32 bt sex organs and, yes, the bone marrow. In fact, serotonin plays a inventor 2012 32 bt critical role in bone growth and bone density.
So why don’t we know about this? I would wager that inventor 2012 32 bt very few psychiatrists are doing bone density testing before prescribing SSRIs, or inventor 2012 32 bt even asking about bone density. Osteoporosis is listed as a side effect of SSRIs, but to no one’s surprise Eli Lilly (Prozac’s manufacturer) insists that it’s rare and that there’s no cause-and-effect proven.
Of course more studies need to be done. That’s almost always true. But the inventor 2012 32 bt take-away lesson here is that no body system or organ, even one like the inventor 2012 32 bt brain that we pretend is separate from the others, can be inventor 2012 32 bt altered without affecting all the others. That’s what inventor 2012 32 bt I call the Metabolic Matrix, the web of interrelated functions that inventor 2012 32 bt keep us in good health.
For more on the prevention and treatment of osteoporosis, see my article roxio toast 7 downloadon the subject.
