We know recurrent episodes of apnea, over months and years, may cause an increase in carbon dioxide levels that can change the pH of the blood enough to cause a respiratory acidosis. We also know sleep apnea may be prevalent in patients with bipolar I disorder. It would be great to see a comparison study of patients with OSA versus CSA (specifically REM-related sleep apnea) examining acidosis, mood disorder prevelenc…
Increased acidity found in schizophrenia and bipolar patients’ brains
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#22Wim Hof Method, baby.
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#23More evidence for the health benefits of an alkaline diet.
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#24For me, this further confirms that metabolic problems are causally-associated with 'mental disorders'.
Lactic acidosis is a medical condition characterized by
the buildup of lactate (especially L-lactate) in the body,
which results in an excessively low pH. It is a subtype of
metabolic acidosis, where excessive acid is due to a
problem with the body's metabolism.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lactic_acidosisI used the courts to get the mental health system to reduce the harm they were perpetrating upon my friend, who they thought had a 'persistent mental disorder'. Really she was just self-medicating depression with the street pharmacy. (Cocaine and the amphetamines are not very good for people's mitochondria/metabolism, which is why they're illegal.)
In response to my bullying, the treatment provider did a genetic test, and decided that she needed Folate (Vitamin B-9), as she can't convert folic acid like most people. She's doing much better on the reduced dosages of tranquilizers ('anti-psychotics')/etc.
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#25From the 2010 story:
> Sixty million years ago, a lemurlike animal—an early ancestor of humans and monkeys—contracted an infection. It may not have made the lemur ill, but the retrovirus spread into the animal’s testes (or perhaps its ovaries), and once there, it struck the jackpot: It slipped inside one of the rare germ line cells that produce sperm and eggs. When the lemur reproduced, that retrovirus rode into the next generation aboard the lucky sperm and then moved on from generation to generation, nestled in the DNA. “It’s a rare, random event,” says Robert Belshaw, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Oxford in England. “Over the last 100 million years, there have been only maybe 50 times when a retrovirus has gotten into our genome and proliferated.”
>...Perron in 2008, found HERV-W in the blood of 49 percent of people with schizophrenia, compared with just 4 percent of healthy people.
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#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hard to analyze lots of brains of dead schizoids until we had a methodology to diagnose, permission to analyze them, and then looked closely enough. http://www.nature.com/mp/journal/v9/n7/full/4001511a.html?fo... Sometimes lots of theories come out of a minute variation correlation and sometimes it's just a sampling coincidence (like it's just how schizoid brains break down). I'm VERY sure, someone has altered a schi…
I've never heard someone refer to a schizophrenic as "a schizoid". Schizophrenia and schizoid personality disorder are distinct disorders with different symptoms.
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#27[1] Biochemistry of exercise-induced metabolic acidosis. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15308499
Note: During low oxygen levels in tissue, metabolism becomes anaerobic -> lactic acid is produced. Lactic acid lactate + H+.
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#28Excuse my ignorance, but I don't see how they ruled out the possible link between antipsychotic drug use and increased acidity?
I'm also puzzled by how they can confidently diagnose rodents with human social disorders based solely on "genetic indicators" when the links between genetics and disorders like schizophrenia are still far from understood.
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#29Wim Hof Method, baby.
Re: Increased acidity found in schizophrenia and bipolar patients’ brains
#30More evidence for the health benefits of an alkaline diet.
Isn't the body very good at maintaining homeostasis? Meaning you could eat an alkaline diet, but if your body composition is such that you have such a given acidic composition then your body has processes to maintain whatever it's 'normal' is.
In this case, you'd try an acidic diet in order to coerce your body's natural processes to bring yourself to a more normal pH.
Obviously I don't know if that would work, but nobody can really say one way or the other without doing some proper research.