The Thermostat That Forgot How to Cool Down: A Long Look at SSRIs and Body Weight
It is a common belief, almost a dogma in the modern medicine, that the mind and the body are two separate houses. We treat the sadness in one house with pills, and we expect the hunger in the other house to remain unchanged. This is a mistake of great proportion. When we speak of Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors, known commonly as SSRIs, we speak not only of mood. We speak of a chemical signal that travels through every corridor of our biology.