Posted by NoMotic on December 16, 2003, at 11:53:07
In reply to Lar,Re: Interrogate Saddam after using trypto-free, posted by McPac on December 15, 2003, at 17:18:21
As far I know, Tryp free diets don't necessarily make a healthy person feel depressed or anything. In addition, lack of serotonin does not make one psychotic, though its possible to become impulsive, from the viewpoint that OCD and impulsive spectrum disorders can be helped by bringing serotonin levels up. Psychosis is involved with too much dopamine at the D2 receptors and probably too much catecholamine activity in general. In addition, probably too much activity at the 5-HT2a receptor is involved, not too little. I don't agree with most of what this article says and the author comes off as not being very knowledgeable... Tryp free diets induce depression in those people who are currently on antidepressants that function via serotonin, not those that inhibit Norep. reuptake. Nor have tryp free diets conclusively been proven to cause any decline in any mental status in humans - the data still conflicts. Health humans deprived of tryp do not suffer. 12 hours of tryp free diet will hardly cause psychosis, from all I know. But I would suspect it might cause some degree of impulsivity... but how would being impulsive make him tell the truth. If anything, he might just be quicker to get pissed off or argue, lacking the normal inhibition from serotonin.
In my opinion, we should give Saddam antidepressants and antipsychotics - he's delusional and I think he needs a way to feel friendier and remorseful for what he's done. He's already psychotic enough, as anyone would be who's done what he's done. You can't be normal to do that kind of stuff. You have to be delusional...
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