Posted by stjames on July 17, 2003, at 23:08:28
In reply to Re: 5 htp- all hype?, posted by Anton on July 17, 2003, at 17:52:51
> I thought depression was casued by serotonin depletion between neurons? A deficiency of serotonin or serotonin activity between neurons in the brain?
Maybe 20 years ago. We really don't know what causes depression. Depletion theories are far too simple.
Raising the levels of NT's at the clef does happen but it happens almost at once after taking an AD. If that was the issue, AD's would work at once. It seems that raising levels in one place causes a cacsade of events, down regulation, ect.The logic here is simple, if we really knew the specifics of depression it would have very effective treatments that worked for almost everyone.
Here, a well know researcher and pdoc says "we really don't know"
http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/20030714/msgs/242749.html
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