Ah yes, the old PM standby belief... “doctors don’t know anything”. Much better to go by what someone in the gym, online or google told you.
May I ask what background your formal education is in?
You don't ever go by just one persons information...Not even mine...And trusting everything one doctor says is probably one of the most foolish things anyone can do if their health is on the line. Always get multiple opinions, especially when its life or death. Remember doctors will always act like they know everything, rarely will they admit they don't know something or they're wrong because they are trained to make you feel as comfortable as possible.
None of us know much about neurotransmitters brother....We're at about the beginning stages in history just now starting to understand the basics....Not even the top neurologists can tell you everything there is to know about the brain (actually very little) and what exactly is going on when we introduce ourselves to a foreign chemical....And that is a fact. So it doesn't even matter what my credentials are to begin with since 99% of doctors are ignorant when it comes to this subject. Obviously I have read allot of books and done my research for years with multiple sources of information and cross-referencing. Even then you have to sort through a helluva lot of conflicting info, including information from doctors. I've been to many docs and always get different answers on my questions about neurotransmitters and allot of these are questions to psychiatrists.
Go to any doctor...Any psychiatrist...Any Pharmaceutical drug rep and you ask them about the drug they're pushing and ask them which neurotransmitters the drug effects. You will get answers on what the drug can help you with and or what the side effects are.....But you rarely will get any doctor describing which neurotransmitters that particular drug they're pushing will effect. You will also get a bunch of different answers with conflicting info if you continue to ask different doctors about the same drug.
I'm sure all of you know about the famous SSRI's, which have to do with serotonin obviously...But think of each neurotransmitter, i.e. serotonin as a string of music notes that's really really long. So within your brain's serotonin regions there are thousands of strands of different types of serotonin combinations all connected (making your own personalized serotonin system). And each individual serotonin related drug will hit all of those music note combos in the strand differently because everybody has a slightly different strand of "music notes" or very different. Think of each individual note as a feeling/emotion...Some can make you feel good, others can help you sleep, others can effect the way you perceive things, thus creating your own individual personality. These are all the "natural drugs" in our head that create who we are and how we act/feel etc. And they're already there...So implementing a new drug to your personalized serotonin system can change your personality, sometimes dramatically. Just like a street drug.
Go ahead and look up prozac. Its one of the oldest SSRI's on the market made in the 1970's...And nobody knows exactly what the hell its doing to the brain when ingested, besides the fact that is has to do something with serotonin. The list of drugs like this one is very very long lol
The subject of neurotransmitters and neurology in general is on par with how much we know about the universe. There are many many pharmaceutical drugs are on the market right now as we speak and we really don't know how many of them truly work or what they're doing....
I should really draw out a pictorial of the "music note" type strands of each neurotransmitter and how different patterns create different people, with different personalities that will react to the same drug differently.