Toronto: A new study revealed that the drugs taken to remove depression are more likely to cause harm than cure.
Paul Andrews, who led the study, said there was need to be much more prudent about the widespread use of these drugs.
“We need to be much more cautious about the widespread use of these drugs,” says Paul Andrews, evolutionary biologist at McMaster University, Canada, who led the study.
Andrews, an evolutionary biologist at McMaster University, Canada, said, “Millions of people are prescribed anti-depressants every year, and the conventional wisdom about these drugs is that they are safe and effective,” the journal Frontiers in Psychology reported
Andrews et al. examined past researches about the effectiveness of such drugs and noted that most anti-depressants caused various risks, including premature death in old-age patients.
Anti-depressants are designed to ease depression by increasing the levels of serotonin in the brain, where it regulates mood. The vast majority of serotonin that the body produces, though, is used for other purposes, including digestion, forming blood clot at wound sites, reproduction and development.
Researchers found that antidepressants had negative effects on all processes normally regulated by serotonin in the body.
“Serotonin intimately regulates many different processes in the body, and when you interfere with it you can expect, from an evolutionary perspective, that it’s going to cause some harm,” he said.
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