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Posted by tex1 on April 16, 2002, at 5:35:37
After years of antidepressant meds I arrived to this conclusion: every single food, med, every single thing that we put inside of our body will at first cause the wanted effect, but, with time, it looses its effect. It's just question of time : I've been doing body building for years and muscle building is based just on this point : the body just get used to the work it does, and reacts by making muscle to grow up. In another way : the body search a homeostasis. The only way to keep the desired effects is to surprise the body (in the case of body building by changing the exercises) givin' to it always a new stimulus. I believe that only when medicine will find psychoactive agents which can always surprise the homeostasis tendency of the brain this will be a great discovery. Even if some manufacturers have tried to tell that the antidepressant effect which occurs after a couple of weeks is right the wanted therapeutic effect dues to serotonine receptors downregulation, is also true that only in the first days of therapy for instance many people felt great relief from their anxiety and depressive symptoms (this due to higher concentration of serotonin in the synapse). And what about benzos ? They work in the first few days but then they loose their therapeutic effect creating tolerance. What you guys think ?
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Posted by JohnX2 on April 16, 2002, at 11:53:24
In reply to Homeostasis, posted by tex1 on April 16, 2002, at 5:35:37
>I believe that only when medicine will find psychoactive agents which can always surprise the homeostasis tendency of the brain this will be a great discovery.
Or if a medication could be discovered that maintains some existing homeostatis of the body upon the introduction or chronic administration of a thereaputic agent.....
John
Posted by SLS on April 18, 2002, at 10:07:36
In reply to Re: Homeostasis, posted by JohnX2 on April 16, 2002, at 11:53:24
> >I believe that only when medicine will find psychoactive agents which can always surprise the homeostasis tendency of the brain this will be a great discovery.
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> Or if a medication could be discovered that maintains some existing homeostatis of the body upon the introduction or chronic administration of a thereaputic agent.....
>
> John
I think the goal with antidepressants is to convince the brain to establish a *new* dynamic homeostasis - hopefully one that resembles the original genetically programmed baseline.
- Scott
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