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How Oversimplification Leads To Harmful Medicine
Scientific dogma hurts healthcare!
So this piece kind of builds on another recent one I published talking about the rudimentary mechanics of neurons, brain hormones or neurotransmitters and synapses.
In this one, I wanted to review what is going on in the brain which most influences our complex emotions throughout the day; and how an oversimplification of this process has led to a pretty harmful form of medicine that many professionals have spoken out against.
I’ve been framing these most recent discussions around a new book called Overloaded: How Every Aspect of Your Life is Influenced by Your Brain Chemicals. It was authored by Ginny Smith.
How Emotion Works
In the last article, I was explaining more or less how neurons deliver messages throughout your body. Basically, when a neuron is engaged, it sends electrical impulses down toward the end of it, secretes a particular neurotransmitter into the synapse, and binds to a receptor (or several of them) on the tip of the second neuron. This first produces a fast-acting and then a second slower change in the cell.
