Tag: cause
Endotoxin (LPS) may cause depression / anhedonia
As many readers know, anhedonia is one of the most pernicious aspects of clinical depression. It is…
Dieting (fasting) is deleterious
Hot on the heels of another post I recently made is the study below, which concludes that…
Progesterone can prevent recurrent miscarriages
I am only posting this because this is yet another mysterious condition for which officially there is…
Osteoporosis is caused by mitochondrial dysfunction, driven by nitric oxide (NO)
Let’s repeat the mantra one more time – structure and function cannot be separated, they are interdependent…
Endotoxin (LPS) may be a major cause of preterm births
As many readers have probably heard, rates of preterm births due to a variety of maternal conditions…
SSRI drugs during pregnancy cause child autism, antiserotonin drugs cure it
Yet another study pointing the finger directly at serotonin as a major causative factor in autism. This…
Elevated serotonin increases criminal activity
The study looked at correlations between ambient temperature and criminal activity and found that higher temperatures correlate…
Blocking stress signal (adrenaline) just once cures anxiety, PTSD and maybe any mental disorder.
This is a remarkable study, which once again implicates extreme stress in the pathology of mental health…
Cheating is driven by cortisol, not testosterone
The topic of macho behavior and its apparent mediator testosterone has been studies every since steroids were…
Cortisol (stress) directly causes depression
I have posted quite a few threads/posts on the role of stress as perhaps the main cause…