Matt Walsh

Where are you looking at the right balance?

And then you're judging that my balance is not balanced.

Where is that coming from?

Nobody knows.

Nobody can answer that question.

And there's never been any evidence to back any of this up.

This is from a paper that was published in Nature from researchers at University College London.

And I'm going to read it at some length because it remains one of the most extraordinary passages that's ever been published in a medical journal, at least in recent times.

It was published in the summer of 2022.

And in this article, leading researchers admit that actually there is no basis whatsoever to think that serotonin has anything to do with depression.

That's kind of a big deal since we've been told for more than 30 years, a lot longer than that, that depression is caused by a lack of serotonin in the brain.

That's why they told people to take SSRIs, selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors.

After all that, we learn it's a lie.

Quote,

Our comprehensive review of the major strands of research on serotonin shows that there is no convincing evidence that depression is associated with or caused by lower serotonin concentrations or activity.

Most studies found no evidence of reduced serotonin activity in people with depression compared to people without, and methods to reduce serotonin availability do not consistently lower mood in volunteers.

High-quality, well-powered genetic studies effectively exclude an association between genotypes related to the serotonin system and depression,

including a proposed interaction with stress.

The chemical imbalance theory of depression is still put forward by professionals and the serotonin theory in particular has formed the basis of a considerable research effort over the last few decades.

The general public widely believes that depression has been convincingly demonstrated to be the result of serotonin or other chemical abnormalities.