Dr. Caroline Leaf

Because sleep has been so badly affected over the last 40 years as well.

Oh my gosh.

I interrupted you there.

Sorry.

That's a great question.

So first off is that medication, I'm not anti-medication for like heart disease and diabetes and just general medication for medicine and surgery.

I think it's a fantastic, phenomenal thing.

And your mind is so important in getting the benefit from that.

And research has shown just very quickly that

That if you are, let's say, getting cancer treatment and your mind is not, if you're not managing your mind, you won't get the same kind of benefit.

There's huge amounts of bodies of research showing that to get benefit from medication for physical illness, you really need to have your mind involved.

Okay, so that's the first thing.

So when we talk about psychotropics, we're talking about antidepressants, anti-anxiety meds.

antipsychotics and stimulants.

Now the anti already is the wrong word because they're not anti anything.

They're based on the concept of an antibiotic and antibiotic is given to phytobacteria, so it's anti the bacteria.

So psychotropic language has been stolen from that.

And the impression is that, okay, well, if I take the antibiotic, it kills the bacteria.

If I take the antidepressant, it kills the depression.

It doesn't do that.