Dr. Daniel Amen
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Saffron.
If you added zinc and curcumins, even more effective.
And the supplement SAMe, those were the ones that had good scientific evidence that they were effective.
And I love saffron and I've taken it every day for six years.
Why?
Studies for mood.
I'm not depressed, but I'm happy to be happier.
Studies for memory.
And it's pro-sexual rather than SSRIs, which sort of numb your sex drive and make it harder to have an orgasm.
So I'm like, so what would I do?
Prozac or saffron zinc and curcumins?
I'd do saffron.
Immunity infections, we haven't talked about this.
I would know your vitamin D level and I would optimize it.
60, 70% of the population in America has suboptimal levels.
And that's because they don't go outside or they're slathered.
Because of the sunscreen.
Yeah.
And because they're not going outside.
But we've been told that skin cancer is the real threat.