Kelly Brogan, MD
Live in London for Two Days
- Practitioners and the General Public Welcome
- 5 CPD Hours Available for Each Day16 & 17 July 2016 • London, UK
Believe it or not:
Live in London for Two Days
- Practitioners and the General Public Welcome
- 5 CPD Hours Available for Each Day16 & 17 July 2016 • London, UK
Believe it or not:
- In six decades, not a single study has proven that depression is caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain.
- The serotonin theory of depression is a myth that has been supported by the manipulation of data and an echo chamber of industry and media rhetoric.
- Depression is not a genetic disease. It is an epigenetic syndrome. In 2003, a study published in Science suggested that those with genetic variation in their serotonin transporter were three times more likely to be depressed. But six years later this idea was wiped out by a meta-analysis of 14,000 patients published in the Journal of the American Medical Association that denied such an association.
- Depression is often an inflammatory condition, a manifestation of irregularities in the body that can start far away from the brain and are not associated with the simplistic model of so-called ‘chemical imbalances’.
- Depression is an opportunity. It is a sign for us to stop and figure out what’s causing our imbalance.