In a article posted in 2015, by Morris. Amy (Bsc (Hon) Nutritional Therapy) she explains the findings of university study testing the natural herb Rhodiola Rosea against a popular anti depressant, Zoloft. She writes:
"A 2007 article in the Nordic Journal of Psychiatry found that people who suffered from mild to moderate depression benefited from 340 or 680 mg of Rhodiola over a six week period. 31 of the study’s participants received two tablets of rhodiola extract daily (340 mg per day), 29 participants received two rhodiola tablets twice a day (680 mg per day), and 29 participants received two placebo tablets daily. The authors discovered that both groups that received rhodiola experienced an improvement in their depression, insomnia, emotional instability, and somatisation score, but not in their self-esteem score. The placebo group remained the same."
"In a 2015 study that directly compared the effects of rhodiola and Zoloft, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania found that Zoloft had slightly stronger antidepressant effects than rhodiola, but that its side effects were much worse. Unlike the previous studies, their subjects had been diagnosed with mild to major depression, which perhaps explains why the participants who received Zoloft improved a bit more than those who received rhodiola. Still, while Zoloft worked better than rhodiola, rhodiola was not far behind. This is the study about which many bloggers became enthusiastic earlier this year, but as you will see if you read the study abstract, the study did not, in fact, find rhodiola to have greater antidepressant effects than Zoloft. The problem with Zoloft was simply that many participants were threatening to stop taking it because of its severe side effects."
Morris. Amy, Rhodiola Herb Versus Zoloft – What Depression and Anxiety Sufferers Need to Know.
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