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TL;DR the jury is still out on whether or not you need the D for your mental health.
As these kind of stories are so popular on HN, I recently started curating a list at https://github.com/Jimnotgym/Hacking_Depression I hope it helps someone one day.
The study PDF says that it's not clear why there's a correlation with Vitamin D deficiency but one explanation might be that people stay inside.
Regarding drugs, actually people with a latent "sleeping" schizophrenia can get a psychosis even from soft drugs like Marijuana. Marijuana is a lightly psychedelic drugs, Magic Mushrooms even more so.
At least you should put around a giant disclaimer and possibly also link to websites like erowid.org which go into a lot of detail, I guess they should also have details about complications, safer use etc.
This is close to the rate of vitamin D deficiency in the general population, e.g. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21310306
As these kind of stories are so popular on HN, I recently started curating a list at https://github.com/Jimnotgym/Hacking_Depression I hope it helps someone one day.
Most of these patients are likely exhibiting some spectrum of antisocial behavior, which means staying indoors or generally away from other people. I don't think it's as interesting as it seems. I'm rather certain there's a sensible explanation.
> ...antisocial behavior, which means staying indoors or generally away from other people. That is not at all what "antisocial behavior" means. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-social_behaviour
As these kind of stories are so popular on HN, I recently started curating a list at https://github.com/Jimnotgym/Hacking_Depression I hope it helps someone one day.
Definitely a nice idea. Although I'd strongly suggest to leave out the recommendation about supplements and drugs. The study PDF says that it's not clear why there's a correlation with Vitamin D deficiency but one explanation might be that people stay inside. Regarding drugs, actually people with a latent "sleeping" schizophrenia can get a psychosis even from soft drugs like Marijuana. Marijuana is a lightly psychede…
I don't think there are any recommendations in the list at all, just a list of reading materials to discuss with your doctor
As these kind of stories are so popular on HN, I recently started curating a list at https://github.com/Jimnotgym/Hacking_Depression I hope it helps someone one day.
"Nutrient Power: by William J. Walsh" https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14603192-nutrient-power
If found it via this article: https://www.lewrockwell.com/2013/02/bill-sardi/weaning-away-...
"Dr. Walsh concludes, after years of investigation, that a gene-altering process called methylation (explained below) is involved in 70% of serious psychiatric conditions. That means it will soon be possible to molecularly reverse chronic mental problems. As brain science advances, the use of psychiatric drugs will gradually become obsolete since most mental disorders involve disturbances or imbalances of essential nutrients that alter brain function."
As these kind of stories are so popular on HN, I recently started curating a list at https://github.com/Jimnotgym/Hacking_Depression I hope it helps someone one day.
"Studies in recent years have shown MBCT to be 43 per cent effective in reducing relapse in sufferers of depression—as effective as antidepressants."
If you are going to supplement your vitamin D, just make sure to monitor your calcium too. My wife sees patients taking high doses of vitamin D, because their doctor puts them on it, or they do it themselves, and they do not realize that they are doing massive damage to their bodies because their low vitamin D levels are caused by a parathyroid tumor. http://www.parathyroid.com/low-vitamin-d.htm