Rhonda Patrick· PhD
And the folks at UCLA used the LPS endotoxin, sort of it’s all the same thing, especially in women, not so much in men. It seems like there’s a tropism for women, which is interesting thing. There is an evolutionary story there, perhaps too. But what’s interesting is there’s a counter, there is a little bit of counter data. This was done years ago in Germany where they actually took people that were catastrophic, it’s a small study, but they took people that had been inpatient, catastrophically depressed, and they shot them up with endotoxin and it produced a powerful antidepressant response.