Posted by linkadge on April 29, 2018, at 6:26:51
In reply to Re: Number of cases of Lyme Disease in the USA?, posted by Lamdage22 on April 29, 2018, at 5:34:32
Understandably people want answers, but I do believe it is foolish (and possibly harmful) to assume that 9/10 psychiatric patients have Lymes (which they don't). This is about as overly-simplistic as assuming that 9/10 psychiatric patients have low serotonin.
Overuse of antibiotics may not only lead to antibiotic resistance. Here is a recent study linking antibiotic use to heart disease.
I would not jump to suspect Lymes, unless you had a specific reason to suspect it.
I know people don't like to hear about the genetic component of depression, because they want to believe that they can fix / cure everything. However, researchers are more clearly undersanding the presence of genetic abormalities which may contribute to depression:
A new meta-analysis of more than 135,000 people with major depression and more than 344,000 controls has identified 44 genomic variants, or loci, that have a statistically significant association with depression.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/04/180426130031.htm
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