Rhonda Patrick· PhD
Elevated levels of the pro-inflammatory cytoine IL6 have also been linked to depression.
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Elevated levels of the pro-inflammatory cytoine IL6 have also been linked to depression.
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Now IL6 is a bad guy, I think. It’s the one that’s most consistently elevated, somewhat, in depression. There’s all sorts of evidence that if it’s elevated, if you’re a Western person hanging around, if I measure your IL6, and if it’s up, bad. You’re going to get heart attacks, you’re going to get strokes, you’re going to get cancer, you’re going to get... You know, it’s a bad deal to have your IL6. It’s going to shrink your hippocampus.