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Q: Does Serotonin Affect Insulin Levels & Do Psych Meds Contribute?
Dr. Atkins new book age defying diet page 44, mentions metformin and
a professor or Dr. Vladimir Dilman of St. Petersburg as in Russia and attributes
insulin as reason and cause of aging and of course diabetes/heart disease.
It say way more and I'm still on this page. Thought you would like to know there
are other studies with metformin???
Will my meds that affect Serotonin levels in the brain affect this in any way.
Help please. I will see if I can get a answer from my Dr who prescribes my
meds but it's hard to get answer to this dilemma and I just had my blood test
again and my triglycerides are way high. My Doctor says take fishoil and
we will see if we can bring in down in three months ????
Please do tell if Serotonin affects insulin levels and do psych meds contribute
to this. by the way I've seen your link on
http://www.schizoaffective.org and if you ask me they don't advocate meds
and I was wondering if this is why ?
Dear Chris --
Thanks for the references, I'll check those out. Here's an interesting one I
found while researching yours: a patient whose quite
severe depression improved, not with antidepressant treatment, but with
metformin (and spironolactone, also used with metformin for the treatment of the
metabolic syndrome variant PCOS). Somehow you'd think that there's a connection
to serotonin, wouldn't you -- although searching on PUB MED using "serotonin
metformin" yielded nothing else.
Dr. Phelps
Published September, 2003
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