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Welcome to the Tudor Dixon podcast. We are so blessed today to have a doctor with us. Dr. Joseph

Wittoring. He is with us today, and you've probably seen him talking all over about the FDA and medicines that are prescribed to us. You've seen him on social media on a bunch of different podcasts.

So he has expertise here.

He's actually a former FDA medical officer, too.

So we're really excited about having you.

Thank you so much for joining me today.

Tudor, I'm so glad to be here.

Thank you for having me on.

Absolutely.

So as I said, we've seen you in many different interviews. We hear you talking

about these medicines that I think people are interested in hearing about because we have people

that in our lives, either we are taking them or people that we love are taking them every day.

And we've seen this, you know, those of us who have been around it,

we've seen the changes in their ability to connect, their ability to have an emotional reaction,

their ability to have intimacy. And it's devastating, these devastating effects. So I ask you,

as someone who was at the FDA, how did these drugs get approved?

So, I mean, these drugs are, and people are often shocked when they hear this, what

the studies are like to get them approved.

So the first thing I usually emphasize is that

the studies are only about 12 weeks long, and we've never had a randomized controlled trial

go longer than a year. And that should be a reason for a lot of people to pause, because we put

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