Oxytocin, yet another flash in the pan

Oxytocin is being trumped up as cureall for anything, including Autism. To me, as soon as there are claims about a product being beneficial for everything under the sun alarmbells go off. Evidently not so in the sheepfold of medical journalism.

But someone did wake up, finally , and started to question the holy grail:

Kemp and Guastella are right, that could mean that oxytocin could also increase anger and other negative approach-related emotions. That could have important implications for people who are studying how to use oxytocin as a psychiatric treatment. “If you were to take a convicted criminal with a tendency towards aggression and give him oxytocin to make him more social, and if that were to enhance anger as opposed to suppressing anger, then that has very substantial implications,” Kemp says.

http://www.psychologicalscience.org/index.php/news/releases/the-dark-side-of-oxytocin.html

Yea, it's like the stupid drugs they advertise for Fibromyalgia. My wife has tried them all and they were either like taking a placebo or the side effects were worse than the intended help.

I think with so many of the drug companies "main" drug (such as lipitor) about to lose their patents they are scrambling to push the next money maker.

I take citalopram. At exactly the time the patent ran out suddenly escitalopram came on the market. Hugely trumped as a better, stronger acting totally new medicine.

Studying the molecule you see there is an inactive mirrored part which gets metabolized as an effect reducer of the active part. So you need much more of the molecule, and you get more sideeffects.

Miraculously Escitalopram doesn't have that part anymore, making it indeed more potent per weight. But the active part is exactly the same so whilst its more potent thats only because it's less big a molecule and the anti-effect part is gone.

It got a patent anyway. Alumina foil is needed here since i got a major attack of conspiracy theories.

I'm still taking citalopram because escitalopram is 50 times more expensive. Its patent soon runs out so i can switch. I'm mighty curious what they'll release then......