Welcome to the Madden America Podcast, your source for science, psychiatry, and social justice.

Welcome to the Madden America podcast. My name is Brook Seam, and I am the author of the award-winning

memoir on antidepressant

withdrawal may cause side effects. Today I am so excited because I am with Chris Masterjohn PhD.

Chris is a nutritional scientist, former professor, and founder of mitome. With a PhD in nutritional

science and years of research in mitochondrial biology, Chris's work focuses on translating

pure-reviewed science into practical tools for human health. At Mitome, Dr. Master John pioneered

the first analysis designed to measure mitochondrial respiratory chain function directly,

identifying individual energy bottlenecks and guiding personalized science-backed protocols

to optimize the system

responsible for over 90% of cellular energy production. His mission is to bring mitochondrial testing

out of the rare disease space and into everyday health. And all of this is going to connect to

his work around antidepressants in SSRIs, which is why I am specifically very excited to have

him here today. Chris, thank you so much for being here.

Thank you for having me. Great to be here.

So I started researching more of you and your work back over in the summer because I'd been

following you for a while and we had gone from talking a lot more about nutrition

to suddenly talking about SSRIs. And in my case, I was put on a combination of FXER XR and

Wobudron XL when I was 15 as a kid and my father had suddenly died. I was tossed on these drugs.

And then I was on those drugs, long with four others

for other side effects from the antidepressants for the next 15 years. And then I was suddenly

pulled off of them by a psychiatrist, which sent me into horrific antidepressant withdrawal.

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