How Sensory Starvation Is Dimming Your Emotional Life

The Urban Monk Podcast by Urban Monk Productions, Inc

May 29, 202636:14Health

🎙️ What if a significant portion of what gets diagnosed and medicated as depression isn't a chemical problem at all? Dr. Pedram Shojai makes the case that chronic sensory starvation, not a neurotransmitter deficiency, i...

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