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SSRIs

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1 use 7 mention 2 critical
Last discussed Oct 6, 2026

Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, a class of antidepressant medications.

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Kevin Love
uses
Used for: Managing anxiety symptoms and preventing physical manifestations Praised: Helps prevent anxiety from manifesting in extremities, reduces sweating and o...

"I take medications. I have my SSRIs and those help. The anxiety and that feeling isn't coming out my extremities."

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Andrew Huberman
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"SSRIs, believe it or not, have helped so many people with true clinical grade OCD. They were overprescribed for depression."

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"I'm not a big fan of SSRIs in many cases, but I will say if there's one place where SSRIs have really helped a great number of people not completel..."

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Alok Kanojia
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Used for: Treatment of depression and anxiety Praised: Described as 'amazing' vs: Compared with benzodiazepines and opioids in the context of post-market surve...

"Haloperidol is an amazing medication. SSRIs are amazing medications. I'm not like anti-pharma."

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Joe Rogan
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Used for: Treatment for severe depression and suicidal ideation Praised: Can be life-saving for some individuals with severe depression vs: Contrasted with natural solutions like exercise, nutrition, and community

"I personally know people that have been saved by SSRIs. I'm not a blanket 'SSRIs are bad.' I have a friend that was severely depressed and suicidal, and I got him a psychiatrist. He eventually got his life back in gear, weaned himself off them. No..."

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Nolan Williams
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Used for: Depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, panic Praised: Proven effective in meta-analyses for various anxiety and mood disorders vs: Don't work immediately like TMS, likely work through brain plasticity effects...

"SSRIs clearly work. Many meta-analyses kind of proving that out, right? That in a subpopulation of individuals, they achieve great benefit for depression, for obsessive-compulsive disorder, for generalized anxiety disorder."

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Mark Normand
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"She's probably on SSRIs, didn't know what she was doing."

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"There's lots of people who benefit from SSRI. There's no question. SSRIs have been very very helpful to the community of people who suffer from true OCD."

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Rhonda Patrick
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"People that don't respond to classical SSRIs, serotonin reuptake inhibitors, they typically have very high levels of C-reactive protein inflammation."

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Isabel Brown
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"Most people estimate that about 12% of American adults of all ages are on some form of anti-depressant in American culture today in the last year. And that goes up significantly when you start looking at the range of 18 to 24 years old. It's almos..."

Joe Rogan
critical

"Also SSRI. How many of these people are on these psychiatric medications that violent ideation is a part of the side effects of these psychiatric drugs."

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