Why Are 23% of Women on Antidepressants?
Change Your Brain Every Day
Dr Daniel Amen
4.7 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 9 March 2018
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
With a staggering 23% of women taking an antidepressant medication, there's clearly a need for interventions. In this episode of the podcast, Dr. Daniel Amen and Tana Amen discuss the reasons why so many women struggle with depression.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Brain Warriors Way podcast. I'm Dr. Daniel Aaman. |
| 0:06.0 | And I'm Tanna Aaman. Here we teach you how to win the fight for your brain to defeat anxiety, depression, memory loss, ADHD, and addictions. |
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| 1:01.0 | So we are back, and today we're going to talk about something that we hear a lot about in |
| 1:07.6 | fact something that affected me personally it's women and depression why are women |
| 1:11.6 | so much more affected by depression? |
| 1:14.0 | Now we say that but I know a lot of men who have been severely affected by depression and when |
| 1:18.5 | they are it's usually bad. |
| 1:19.5 | Well, most of this will apply to men as well, 23% of women are taking antidepressant medication. |
| 1:25.8 | Dr. Drew Pinsky and Dr. Mehmet Oz and I did a program on the Dr. Oz show |
| 1:31.4 | about this and we've noticed on the And part of the reason is women have less serotonin than |
| 1:46.0 | then according to one study women have 52% less |
| 1:51.0 | serotonin than men. |
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