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Re: The Link Between Inflammation and Depression?

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Post by sridca » Thu, Dec 27, 2018, 2:38 AM UTC

cageface wrote: post #90

sridca wrote: post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'd like to hear of even one of those hundreds of studies that shows that a strict carnivore diet (not a hybrid diet) leads to those problems. I bet you can't because they don't exist. If so the words you write here are but reflective of your beliefs. Which is not gonna help anyone (I'm certainly glad that I did not come across these words while looking to resolve a chronic medical condition).

There are plenty of studies of populations that historically have eaten essentially carnivore diets. The Masai and the Inuit are the two most common. They have all the problems I've enumerated. If you think about it for even five minutes a diet with zero fiber and zero vitamin C makes no sense.

I prefer to be well-informed[1] than think about it for five minutes.

And no wonder you can't cite any specific study I requested for. :P

[1] https://youtu.be/isIw2AN_-XU

Re: The Link Between Inflammation and Depression?

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Post by ada1981 » Fri, Dec 28, 2018, 2:47 AM UTC

perseusmandate wrote: post #63

ada1981 wrote: post #27

I suffered from suicidal depression, anxiety, mania, psychosis, paranoia, panic attacks and more. I flirted with diagnosis of schizoaffective disorder to bipolar. My life was pretty out of control. I didn’t like the outcomes I saw of people who were on meds their entire life and I didn’t buy the story from mainstream psychiatry. I found MDMA therapy via an underground practice and it transformed my life over the cour…

Have you used classical psychedelics therapeutically? If so how would you compare their efficacy for your issues

A frame that was useful for me has been this: MDMA is useful for integrating existing information and experience (trauma, childhood stuff, etc).

Classic Psychedelics (LSD, DMT, Psilocybin) are useful for generating new information which then needs to be integrated.

MDMA was a much more predictable space to work. Psilocybin tended to take me to deeper as more frightening material - often on the cultural level.

I don’t think I would take psi to work with mania / hypomania; with MDMA it has worked beautiful to create more space to integrate and express the part of myself that was frightening.

That said, I have much more experience w MDMA in a therapeutic setting as an adult, and I could see how Psi could be just as effective.

If there is trauma to be dealt with, I’d personally start with mdma — but again, I’m bias from my personal experience.

Re: The Link Between Inflammation and Depression?

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Post by partomniscient » Fri, Dec 28, 2018, 8:49 AM UTC

ada1981 wrote: post #50

cortesoft wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am very glad this worked for you, but isn't MDMA a psychiatric med?

It’s currently in Phase 3 for PTSD after spending a couple decades in prohibition. It’s not a sanctioned medicine yet, and historically has been outside the bounds of western psychiatry. And when I mean no psychiatric meds I mean nothing ongoing.

Bit late to the thread, but here's a link to where I assume the poster is referring to:

https://maps.org (Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies)