E317: Drug Safety Expert: The Secret Dangers of Prescription Drugs w/Dr Josef | Lila Rose Show
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Lila Rose
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🗓️ 12 May 2026
⏱️ 90 minutes
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Summary
We are more stressed, depressed, and mentally unhealthy than ever. Are prescription drugs the solution? Today we sit down with Dr. Josef Witt-Doerring who lifts the veil on the reality of the FDA approval process and explains how and why holistic healing is far more effective for most people.
We also discuss:
◼️ The terrifying long-term effects of antidepressants
◼️ Lila's childhood diagnosis
◼️ The myths around "chemical-imbalance"
◼️ Why Dr Josef disagrees with Dr Andrew Huberman
◼️ How modern cannabis (weed) is far more destructive than people like to think
◼️ How gluten might be causing you depression
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His Website: https://taperclinic.com/
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00:00:00 - Intro
00:01:02 - Realizing prescriptions were hurting people
00:03:24 - The secret about how psychiatric drugs are approved:
00:04:45 - How are clinical studies done?
00:07:34 - How do these drugs work?
00:11:33 - When the cure is the problem
00:14:31 - When Dr Josef started questioning the system:
00:21:35 - Lila’s childhood diagnosis
00:25:25 - Gluten might be your problem!
00:28:21 - Please be aware of THIS:
00:29:02 - How to understand pharmaceuticals and SSRIs
00:31:19 - The WHY Behind Mental Unhealth
00:37:37 - Do prescriptions work?
00:40:51 - How to live a happier life?
00:42:56 - How to go from STABLE to THRIVING?
00:43:53 - Why doesn’t the ‘quick fix’ work?
00:44:57 - Has the modern world gotten more stressful?
00:47:34 - How to get off drugs
00:50:03 - Cannabis, bipolar, and schizophrenia
00:57:08 - Whole generations are being hurt
00:59:46 - Brett Cooper’s brother
01:05:40 - How to get better and healthier?
01:09:28 - What about financial difficulties?
01:12:14 - What are essential foods?
01:15:25 - How does light affect our sleeping?
01:18:58 - Is depression about lack of meaning?
01:23:07 - Dr Josef interviews Lila:
01:25:58 - Biggest pushback Dr Josef gets
01:28:00 - Advice for the next generation
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Can you describe the day? |
| 0:01.0 | You realized for the first time, prescriptions were hurting people more than helping them. One thing that I thought was mind-blowing was that we did not study the drugs any longer than about a year. Most people take antidepressants for two years, three years, sometimes even decades. And our clinical research doesn't go any longer than a year. The group that gets medicated, they have a slightly lower depression score compared to the group on |
| 0:21.9 | placebo. But Lila, it's really small. On a 52 point scale, on average, it's about a two point difference. |
| 0:28.1 | Here's something else that most people aren't aware of. Any depressants actually increase the |
| 0:32.3 | likelihood that someone has a suicide attempt. You are lowering the depressive symptoms, but at the |
| 0:37.1 | same time, you're making |
| 0:38.3 | that group more suicidal. To me, it is madness that we give these drugs to children, teens, and young |
| 0:43.6 | adults. This language of chemical imbalance. Sounds like what you're saying is there is no such thing |
| 0:47.8 | as a chemical imbalance. Absolutely. I mean, we have looked. If somebody wants to live a happier life, |
| 0:52.7 | where do you recommend that they start? |
| 0:54.5 | There really is one thing that is at the root of so many problems. |
| 1:02.1 | Dr. Joseph, welcome to the Lila Rose Show. |
| 1:04.4 | Thank you so much for having me. |
| 1:05.9 | You were a medical officer at the FDA, which is the gatekeeper for the world's medicine. |
| 1:11.6 | Can you describe the day when you were sitting at your desk and you realized for the first time |
| 1:16.6 | that prescriptions were hurting people more than helping them? |
| 1:20.6 | One thing that I thought was mind-blowing was that we did not study the drugs any longer than about a year. And so that, |
| 1:29.6 | for me, that was the moment where I was just like, hang on a second. Most people take antidepressants |
| 1:36.3 | for two years, three years, sometimes even decades. Same with the benzodiazepines and the sedatives. |
| 1:42.2 | And our clinical research doesn't go any longer than a year. |
| 1:45.9 | And it just kind of hit me. |
| 1:47.3 | I was like, well, you know, is there a reason for this? |
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