{"id":26587,"date":"2020-02-14T11:27:03","date_gmt":"2020-02-14T00:27:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=26587"},"modified":"2020-02-14T11:27:03","modified_gmt":"2020-02-14T00:27:03","slug":"the-medications-that-change-who-we-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=26587","title":{"rendered":"The medications that change who we are"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"816\" height=\"466\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Medications_That_Change_Us.jpg\" alt=\"Medications That Change Us\" class=\"wp-image-26588\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Medications_That_Change_Us.jpg 816w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Medications_That_Change_Us-300x171.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Medications_That_Change_Us-768x439.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Tom: I have known about the cholesterol scam for some time and advised against statins and their dangers but did not have some of this data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It turns out many ordinary medications don\u2019t just affect our bodies \u2013 they affect our brains. They\u2019ve been linked to road rage, pathological gambling, and complicated acts of fraud. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/future\/article\/20200108-the-medications-that-change-who-we-are\">https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/future\/article\/20200108-the-medications-that-change-who-we-are<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom: I have known about the cholesterol scam for some time and advised against statins and their dangers but did not have some of this data. It turns out many ordinary medications don\u2019t just affect our bodies \u2013 they affect our brains. They\u2019ve been linked to road rage, pathological gambling, and complicated acts of fraud. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=26587\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The medications that change who we are&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-health-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26587"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26589,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26587\/revisions\/26589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}