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I honestly wonder how many of these types of studies aren't taking into account the other variables. Such as, low cardiorespiratory fitness leading to depressio
by ulamel 3y ago
I honestly wonder how many of these types of studies aren't taking into account the other variables. Such as, low cardiorespiratory fitness leading to depression, or poor diet which obviously leads to diabetes, which means depression obviously can lead to diabetes. How much is causation versus correlation? The entire article goes beats around the bush until it finally admits, "And while a direct cause was not found for diabetes causing depression, experts still believe that the burden of living with type 2 diabetes may be a factor in developing depression." Basically all this research found was the people with obesity likely have depression and 37% of people with obesity have diabetes. The title is complete click-bait.
- Llamamoe 3y agoBecause mental illnesses are a throwaway diagnoses for the doctor to say "nah, whatever, this is on you, think healthier and go take a pill for your symptoms we won't be doing any more diagnosis". It seems much more likely that things like sleep disruption, persistent inflammation(gut dysbiosis, misc infections), metabolic disturbance(brain isn't getting enough energy to do its job) are causative of depression which manifests as reduced tolerance to stressful life events and ability to manage one's life, to me. But instead we get the thought-terminating cliche of "depression causes everything else, so just go to therapy and stop looking for health problems"
- makeitdouble 3y agoDid you get to the actual study ? I couldn't, and these kind of articles are usually cutting important details off making them basically useless to properly understand what's at stake.