New use for an old drug: How does ketamine combat depression? + COVID Vaccine & Pregnancy

New use for an old drug: How does ketamine combat depression? + COVID Vaccine & Pregnancy w/ Professor Argel Aguilar-Valles, PhD – Alex Leaf MS, CISSN
A group of proteins called 4E-BPs, involved in memory formation, is the key to unlocking the antidepressant effect of ketamine in the brain, according to researchers from three Canadian universities. The discovery could lead to better and safer treatments for certain patients suffering from major depression. PLUS If a young woman gets a virus like COVID and gets better her immune system develops antibodies that will be passed down to her offspring. This is one component of herd immunity. But what if a young woman gets the COVID vaccine and never gets COVID, but then has a baby? Is the immunity from the vaccine passed on to her baby? More importantly, this new mRNA vaccine is thought to have unknown effects on the mothers immune system that many scientist warn against. Is there the possibility of trans-generational epigenetic effects to be concerned about?