Laura Delano

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Culture Apothecary with Alex Clark · Why So Many People Can't Get Off Their Antidepressants | Laura Delano · 12 Jun 2026 podcast

So you'd cut nine milligrams.

So you're down to 81.

And then in month three, you'd cut 8.1%, 10% of 81.

So you end up making reductions that get progressively smaller over time.

So it has what's called a hyperbolic curve.

This is a critical distinction between how most of conventional...

psychiatrists who do deprescribing, most of them don't do it hyperbolically.

They do it in a linear way.

So you would just cut 10, 10, 10, 10.

The problem with this is that what research is now starting to reveal is that the way these drugs interfere with your neurotransmitter receptors, it doesn't happen in a linear fashion.

So the impact of a drug on your brain

is not directly correlated with the amount of drugs.

So if you're on like the five milligrams of Lexapro that you were put on, which any doctor would say is like sub-therapeutic, that's like a tiny dose, it's barely doing anything, is having a dramatic effect on receptor function.

The higher the dose you go up on, the less of an effect over time.

So people find when they're on higher doses, they can taper down faster, but the lower the dose, the harder it gets to come off.

Which, if you say that to a standard prescriber, they'll say that's all in your head.

You know, like, you're on a low dose.

You should be able to jump off.

But it's actually the opposite.

So this hyperbolic tapering is what helps...

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