Loading ...Huh?? Ya know this makes sense. Because your emotions can give you medical problems. Especially with back pain. And with all the extreme info on how bad it is if you catch it, and your fear psychosomatically make it worse.
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“We saw that patients taking SSRIs were (on average) 8% less likely to die from COVID-19 than matched controls,” said study author Marina Sirota. She’s an associate professor with the Bakar Computational Health Sciences Institute at the University of California, San Francisco.
Even more encouraging was the higher survival rate among those taking two specific SSRIs — Prozac (fluoxetine) and Luvox (fluvoxamine). The 481 patients taking either Prozac or Luvox alone — without any other antidepressant — were 26% to 28% less likely to die from COVID-19, the study team found.
With more than 5 million deaths worldwide already attributed to the lethal coronavirus, the study offers welcome news, with one expert calling Luvox, in particular, a “massive game-changer.”
“First, several antidepressants have known anti-inflammatory properties targeting specifically the inflammation markers seen in severe COVID-19,” noted Hoertel, who authored an editorial accompanying the study in JAMA Network Open.
Hoertel also pointed to recent German research that identified the impact that SSRIs have on a particular kind of cellular fat (lipid), which the COVID-19 virus relies on to gain access to a patient’s cells. SSRIs were found to trigger a drop in such lipids, he said, with Prozac and Luvox exhibiting the strongest lipid-lowering impact.
“This mechanism could lead to both anti-viral and anti-inflammatory effects depending on the dose prescribed,” he noted.
This could turn out to be good news for the global effort to rein in COVID-19, particularly in poorer regions where vaccination rates remain low and access to treatment is limited, said Hoertel.”
https://www.drugs.com/news/certain-antidepressants-appear-curb-severe-covid-19-101669.html