Eric Topol
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I mean, do any of them have any data to support their use?
Well, we'll talk about prescriptions in a moment.
What about the ashwagandha or anything else that is worth mentioning about on this long list of putative supplements that help?
But you mentioned about the placebo effect, because even in studies, when you tell the person it's a placebo, it still works.
Now, recently there was a paper about Ambien.
Of course, it was in the experimental model, but it showed that instead of the washout of toxic metabolites from the brain, Ambien led to a backflow.
Is that accepted now, that don't take Ambien, which I never thought was a very good drug anyway, but that it actually can make your sleep worse, quality worse?
Okay, so next, the medical community isn't yet really aware, even though it's been available for some time now, on the erection group of drugs, which are supposedly ideally suited if you're going to prescribe a medicine to help sleep.
Yeah, no, this is, I think, one of the reasons that I think a lot of people are not aware of this class of drugs.
You point out they're expensive, not covered by insurance.
The one thing you mentioned earlier,