Drew Burney

They're just small.

Yeah.

Like they do find a good effect size on anxiety and even some other mental health conditions, but –

They're small, and so it's just I'm cautious, I would say.

Yeah.

I got you, yeah.

But there's nothing there that's not true, right?

Yes, correct.

There's absolutely nothing there.

No, they work for some people for sure.

So I guess it could be, that could be true.

Yes, SSRI, selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors.

Technically, what they do is they increase the amount of serotonin that's in the synapse between neurons, the space between neurons.

And serotonin has been implicated in all sorts of different mental health conditions and just in general, right?

Like I said, a lot of it is producing your gut though.

Really going back, I don't know, 60s, 70s, 80s probably, there's this chemical imbalance theory of mental health disorders, right?

We're really going away from that.

There's been several kind of high-profile meta-analyses that have looked at decades and decades worth of data that

they really can't establish a link between serotonin specifically and, say, depression or anxiety.

Depression was supposed to be the one that was like, yeah, definitely for depression there's something going on, maybe for anxiety.