A short YouTube conversation (host Vishen Lakhiani with a supplement scientist guest) arguing that most antidepressants—particularly SSRIs—are ineffective and may cause harm because depression involves multiple neurotransmitters, not just serotonin. The video introduces Mindvalley States, a new combined supplement line plus app intended to improve mood by addressing biochemistry and learned emotions.
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The mechanisms for how antidepressants work. As far as big pharma, they largely do not work and may actually cause more harm than goods. With depression, we see all the neurotransmitters go down. So that's acetylcholine, norepinephrine, histamine, gaba, serotonin, dopamine. This whole idea of just serotonin being the only one that matters is deeply flawed. All the studies on SSRIs, the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors that are most of the mechanisms for how antidepressants work, and they found, found that they largely do not work in depression. The body is smartly trying to say, hey, too much is coming in, we don't want to feel this much. They're trying to turn everything down and dampen it because you're traumatized again. That works short term, long term, you're experiencing less life and you're going into this depression circle. Obviously, it's ideal to do the things that improve all the neurotransmitters.
Sean Wells is one of the leading supplement scientists in the world. So I sat down with Sean and I asked Sean to educate me on supplements. And before you, you know it, I had supplements everywhere because I started to understand how powerful supplements were. You have to combine a variety of different supplements just to get the effect you want. What if all of this was in one bottle? That's where mindvalley States comes in. What you're seeing is a brand new line of supplements, mindvalley States. So mindvalley States doesn't just come with a collection of pills to change your mood. Mood is a function of biochemistry as well as learned emotions. The app is designed to guide you into the emotion that you are seeking so that you have exceptional results. Combined, this becomes a really powerful tool to master your day, master your state, and command any mood you want. We just launched it. You can check it out@mindvalleystates.com.
