What are the socio-political effects of mass psychological changes brought about by putting a large chunk of the population on medications without full knowledge of the side effects?
Imagine putting an equally large percentage of the population on androgenic medications.
> equally large percentage of the population on androgenic medications
Its funny you say this because doing this would actually put humanity back to the testosterone levels men had for most of human history.
Women and men respond differently to testosterone, so this argument does not hold.
But there is? Thousands of years of evolution is actually a pretty high bar to pass.
As for modern therapies, I mean - depends? A lot of our modern illnesses also simply didn’t exist at the scale they do now.
Heart disease has been going up steadily in the past few centuries for example.
ADHD is an interesting one too. I have ADHD. For the vast majority of human history it probably won’t have been a big deal for my mental health, but it is now due to what’s expected of me.
Imagine what would happen if people start routinely living to 150.
I assume you were talking more about physical risk taking though, because as "tomorrow you may die" becomes less and less likely, you're perhaps that much less incentivized to "live for today" (to deconstruct the popular boomer adage). This angle I'd take less issue with.
Not really a question big pharma is interested in discussing ...