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Scott.

Um, you know, if we look at the literature, the largest study ever done on antidepressant medications, the STAR*D study, had, uh, well over 2,000 participants, and they looked at all of the, the panoply of different selective serotonin react- uptake inhibitors, as well as some other antidepressants, and what they found was something really astonishing.

It's that on their very best day, a, an antidepressant medication has about a 37% chance of doing anything but giving you side effects.

So 37% chance that n- you know, it'll work at all.

Um, and a litany of side effects include sexual dysfunction, um, you know, dysphoria.

Yep.

Yep.

And it's primarily because of how much exposure to traumatic blasts that we endure all the time, whether it's during training operations, we're doing demo, we're breaching.

Um, you're just constantly getting blast waves that go through the brain.

And, uh, you know, it...

I was o- back from my second deployment, uh, had just been overseas with, uh, a gr- an ODA, a group of, uh, Green Berets, you know, giving the Taliban the good news.

And I was about to get out of the Army, and I, I'd lost my kind of entire identity, and I didn't realize what was going on in my brain at the time.

Uh, just exposure to all these blast waves, PTSD, the whole nine.

Yep, correct.

Mm-hmm.

So you spill Legos all over the floor, and then this floor's kind of floating around.

So your brain's immune system, it's called your glial cells, these little guys, they have three primary roles.

If you're in a healthy brain where nothing's going wrong, they shepherd your neurons' functions.

They help you, uh, think and cognate better.

Uh, when they see a foreign contaminant, see these Legos floating around, or like a bacterium or something, they switch modes.

They, they normally have these little tendrils that reach out.

Yeah.