Re:New £4M hub for metabolic psychiatry
by swatcoder on Saturday April 27, 2024 @12:08AM
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> What has changed in then human race over the past 100 years that has led to such a huge increases in mental illness and developmental problems. For me there is only one answer.
> Our diet!
Well, that... and decreased infant/youth mortality, and increased population density, and increased pollution, and novel models of what qualifies "illness and problems", and social fragmentation, and cultural erosion, and de-institutionalization, and expansive communication, and sedentary lifestyles, and... well, and about a quite a lot other potentially contributing things.
That said, I actually think the large variety of possible contributors better makes the point about how pharmaceutical approaches are shallow and inadequate anyway.
Well, that... and decreased infant/youth mortality, and increased population density, and increased pollution, and novel models of what qualifies "illness and problems", and social fragmentation, and cultural erosion, and de-institutionalization, and expansive communication, and sedentary lifestyles, and... well, and about a quite a lot other potentially contributing things.
That said, I actually think the large variety of possible contributors better makes the point about how pharmaceutical approaches are shallow and inadequate anyway.