092: Dr. Kelly Brogan – Depression, Myths & Misconceptions • Medications That Commonly Cause Psychiatric Side Effects • Gut Health Impacts Brain Health

This week our featured guest is Dr. Kelly Brogan, a Manhattan-based holistic women’s health psychiatrist and New York Times Bestselling author of A Mind of Your Own.

Kelly completed her psychiatric training and fellowship at NYU Medical Center after graduating from Cornell University Medical College, and has a B.S. from MIT in Systems Neuroscience. She is all about getting to root-cause of psychiatric syndromes and symptoms.

Kelly is the proud mother of two young girls.

In this episode, we discuss:

• How the conventional medical community responded to her new book, A Mind of Your Own
• Getting shunned by mainstream media
• Depression is the number one cause of disability in the world
• Long-term treatments with antidepressants result in worse outcomes than no treatment at all
• Getting diagnosed with Hashimoto’s disease and naturally putting it into remission
• Hashimoto’s symptoms are very similar to major depression
• Wheat (gluten) and dairy (casein) may be having a negative effect on your mental health
• Wheat in North America (frankenwheat) vs. European wheat
• Sugar burns like paper vs. fat burns like a log
• Psychiatric patients need to be concerned about thyroid function
• Research is around 20 years ahead of what doctors are doing
• Depression isn’t caused by a chemical imbalance
• Inflammation is at the root of depression
• The evolutionary purpose of depression
• SSRIs are being used for a myriad of very different conditions
• Birth control, statin drugs, acid blocking medications, and tylenol commonly cause psychiatric side effects
• The disabling withdrawal syndromes associated with SSRIs
• Gut health impacts brain health
• The diet Kelly recommends to her patients
• You have the option of changing your story, daily

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Dr. Kelly Brogan – A Mind of Your Own (book)
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