Prozac is a ‘selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor’ or SSRI commonly prescribed to treat depression, bulimia nervosa, obsessive-compulsive disorder, recurring panic attacks, and premenstrual dysphoric disorder. Prozac’s primary ingredient is the fluoride-containing compound fluoxetine hydrochloride. At large, the chief concern with Prozac’s administration is its irrefutable tendency to invoke suicidal and other psychotic states, behaviors, and episodes.
The manufacturer of Prozac, Eli Lilly & Company, the same organization who brought us the incredibly poisonous thimerosal and the same organization who monopolized the manufacture of insulin after stealing the method for extracting insulin from animal pancreata put forth in Ernest Lyman Scott’s Master’s thesis (which was submitted to the University of Chicago’s library in 1911), was well aware of Prozac’s hazards when they colluded with the FDA for Prozac’s approval – even internal documents (dating back to 1988) associated with a product liability lawsuit filed against Eli Lilly & Company confirm that they had full knowledge of Prozac’s “side effects,” to put it lightly. Prozac was formulated largely in response to the observed effectiveness of L-tryptophan (the precursor to serotonin) supplementation for the treatment of depression, and four days (!!!) after the criminal Food & Drug Administration officially banned the public sale of L-tryptophan as a dietary supplement in the United States (March 22, 1990), Newsweek magazine featured a cover story on Prozac extolling the drug as a “breakthrough for the treatment of depression.” L-tryptophan is a naturally occurring amino acid that has absolutely no relationship to the condition labeled ‘Eosinophilia–myalgia syndrome’ (EMS). The FDA recalled L-tryptophan supplements in 1989 after stating that this amino acid could cause EMS, which of course is B.S., but the recall gave Eli Lilly & Company the final leverage they needed to begin making billions of dollars through ushering in the era of SSRI prescriptions. Symptoms such as hostility, hallucinations, memory loss, convulsions, tremors, severe depression, and insomnia have all been reported to MedWatch from the use of Prozac, but now let’s look at the adverse effects of this drug as documented in the research literature. Memory loss, convulsions, tremors, agitation, insomnia, and seizures have all been reported in subjects taking Prozac [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]. Prozac has been said to be the least selective of the SSRIs and have unwanted effects on catecholamine function in the brain [8]. The three catecholamines are dopamine, epinephrine, and norepinephrine. Correspondingly, akathisia (severe restlessness) can be induced by SSRIs, and this condition has been conjured with the use of Prozac [9] [10]. Next, Bolling and Kohlenberg surveyed a collection of 161 SSRI users and identified 29 categories of unwanted psychological effects from the use of these drugs [11]. Some of the side effects of Prozac may be due to the unintended binding of its metabolite (norfluoxetine) to ‘TREK-2’ potassium channels embedded in cell membranes, which could interfere with these channels’ regulation of the membrane potential of different cells (such as neurons in the CNS) [12]. Similarly, the inhibition of ‘GIRK’ channels (a family of potassium channels) in both brain and heart cells by fluoxetine may contribute to Prozac’s potential for neurological toxicity, in particular its ability to induce seizures [13]. Prozac has also been linked with accelerating abnormal cell proliferation and an increased risk of developing cancer [14]. It seems the increased cancer risk is due in part to fluoxetine’s interfering with the release of cytochrome c from mitochondria and thus the normal signaling for apoptosis (programmed cell death) [15]. Lastly, despite attempts to suppress such evidence, the invoking of hallucinations and suicidal ideation by Prozac has been well supported in the research literature [16] [17] [18] [19] [20]. So, I hope this short post has served as another example as to why we don’t want to take medical advice from quack physicians who have no capacity to think for themselves or to conduct any research on the pharmaceuticals they prescribe, but simply regurgitate the crap they learned in medical school with an ever-inflating god complex and an abysmal ignorance of the human body’s true operation and the use of real (i.e., natural) medicine. Also, this write-up was simply intended to inform the consumer, by no means am I stating that the consumer should know better or anything like that as it is the physician’s responsibility to understand the dangers of the pharmaceuticals available to them, not the patient’s. Enjoy the rest of your week! References:
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