Alzheimer’s Disease Prevention: The latest Causes Or Cures Podcast, and one you don’t want to miss. Alzheimer’s disease is frightening, heartbreaking and tragic, yet it’s very common. I don’t think I know one person who hasn’t been impacted by this disease in some way. With an aging population, at least here in the […]
Depression in the Modern World: Treatment Implications for a Social Brain
(This is a guest post written by Dr. Douglas Watt, Ph.D. His bio is included at the end of the piece.) Depression: It’s Not a Chemical Imbalance: In Part I on depression, I talked about the uncritical acceptance of a cultural meme propagated by big Pharma and by mainstream Psychiatry that depression can be meaningfully […]
On the Problem with Depression, by Dr. Douglas Watt
On the Problem with Depression, a guest post by Dr. Douglas Watt It frequently comes as quite a shock when people learn that depression is now the most expensive condition facing Western societies, when you put together the cost of treatment with the cost of lost productivity (including the devastating cost of total disability […]
Evolutionary Perspective on Health, by Dr. Douglas Watt
Evolutionary Perspective on Health, a guest post by Dr. Douglas Watt We are dangerously close in the United States to spending 20% of our GNP on healthcare – this year it will top $3.2 trillion or ~$10,000 per person. Yet we lag behind virtually all other Western democracies in nearly every health biomarker, including longevity, […]