Fitness

A place to talk about fitness and health on Farcaster.

notdevin

That prescription you’ve got, you’re going to be taking for the rest of your life. It’s going to wreak havoc on your gut biome, that’s why you haven’t had a normal bowel movement since you were a kid. 

Throw that shit away and take some action to support the most important piece of equipment you’ll ever get your hands on, your body

@notdevin.eth and his holy war on anti-depressants has never seen postpartum depression, ptsd, sad, etc

what about pain medications for termally ill people?

there are, for sure, drugs that shouldn't be needed, e.g. ozempic, blood pressure drugs, etc—this is managed by diet and exercise much better, yet requires systemic changes (i.e. making junk food less available)

on the other hand, there's way more evidence that animal products cause harm than that seed oils cause harm (literally all the evidence says seed oils are safe)—yet people are afraid of seed oils while indulging on red meat daily

the world is nuanced and there're no easy solutions

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Bullshit, top to bottom. I can look at you and tell you eat a vegan diet, your skin has an off color and inflammation, you also carry weight you shouldn’t. 

You think I’ve never felt what depression feels like? I have, the solution is in your sleep, food, and exercise. It’s a lie that you need these pharmaceutical but useful in keeping you a slave.

Love you still though 😘

> I have, the solution is in your sleep, food, and exercise

oof, Devin, this is very dangerous notion you have here, i'm talking as a clinical psychologist here

it's like trying to deal with cancer by using essential oils

depression, ptsd, sad are real diseases that have physical manifestations in the brain chemistry, and these physical manifestations *do not* go away after people fix their diet, sleep and exercise

i'm afraid that you haven't dealt with real depression and trying to extrapolate your personal experience for the larger population

but this leads to issues like Jobs dying from a very treatable form of cancer

again, we *can see* clinical depression in the brain with fMRI and can clearly diagnose it like we can diagnose a tumor, and we can also see the healing like you see a scratch or a cut healing

it does not heal with diet, sleep and exercise in *most* people, unfortunatelly

@notdevin.eth here's one of the mri studies that showed physical manifestations of depression: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30051779/

if you see a wound infected with bacteria, you treat it with antibiotics or at least antiseptics—otherwise chances are that you are going to be dead (ofc there are people who didn't die, but majority does die from untreated infected wounds)

just like you can't treat flu by exercise, can't treat infected wound with exercise, you can't treat depression with exercise

again, it's a *physical disease* that structurally changes your brain, call it a brain wound if you want

and anti-depressants help heal this wound

> and yet the numbers rise

ofc they rise! lack of good diet, sleep and exercise can certainly *cause* depression, but fixing only the diet, sleep and exercise in most of the cases *does not reverse the condition*

you need complex approach with medication in *most* (not all) of the cases

Devon, no, you cannot go into depressed state at will, I've seen the fMRI of depressed people and healthy people

it's like if you said "put me in an x-ray and I'll willingly cause liquid in my lungs to pneumonia levels" or "put me in an x-ray and I'll grow a second penis by the sheer force of my will"

it doesn't work like this, you can't alter your brain this fast with simple thought

fMRI doesn't just measure the electric currents between your neurons, *it literally shows you the physical structure of neuron networks*, we can see *amount of mass* in the regions of the brain

and *mass* differs, not just electric impulses

Every doctor and doctor adjacent person seems certain that the most unnatural garbage we make is required to now live a quality life. We seem to be drowning in cures for depression and anxiety and yet the numbers rise. 

Put me in an fMRI, I’ll show you I can willingly go into a depressed state and that I can come out of it. The power is in the mind, not the laboratory. 

If you’re saying these are required because people don’t have the willpower, discipline, or the drive, I’ll buy that, though I’m not accepting of it.