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Re: Ketogenic diet may play a role in treating schizophrenia: research (2019)

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Post by lambdaba » Mon, Apr 15, 2024, 9:24 PM UTC

onemoresoop wrote: post #9

lambdaba wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I came to comment exactly this, here is the video where she announces it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kU1ORt6ZnVE It's interesting to go through her earlier videos where she documents her daily life.

It's interesting to watch plenty of homegrown YouTube channels where people document their mental health, it's absolutely fascinating to watch this phenomena take place.

For sure. It's like seeing the fog clear. I'm very optimistic about this development. Chronic health issues are numerous and immensely costly to individuals and society, and the establishment has obviously no clue how to fix it as was obvious in recent events.

Re: Ketogenic diet may play a role in treating schizophrenia: research (2019)

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Post by oblib » Tue, Apr 16, 2024, 2:20 AM UTC

neogodless wrote: post #4

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20421989 Chronic Schizophrenia Put into Remission with Ketogenic Diet (psychologytoday.com) July 12, 2019 (14 comments)

There are some newer studies since then that are backing up this one. I ran across this one about a couple months ago and bookmarked it and then searched for others as well. One goes back 10 years ago so I was pretty much shocked because I've been looking into this (Schizophrenia) for quite a long time and somehow never came across this.

Re: Ketogenic diet may play a role in treating schizophrenia: research (2019)

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Post by oblib » Tue, Apr 16, 2024, 2:22 AM UTC

onemoresoop wrote: post #5

There's a YouTube channel named 'Living well with schizophrenia' in which the protagonist is talking about her own story and suffering with this mental disorder. Recently she announced she'd started her ketogenic diet and so far so good, she's symptom free and slowly tapering off her medication.

I love hearing that! I'll go check out that video. Thank you for sharing that.

Re: Ketogenic diet may play a role in treating schizophrenia: research (2019)

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Post by matthest » Tue, Apr 16, 2024, 5:54 PM UTC

lambdaba wrote: post #7

matthest wrote: post #3

They were using keto for epilepsy as far back as the 1920s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketogenic_diet Then drugs came out and everyone ran for the quick fix.

This is true for other very effective cures: vitamin D has a similar story. There is no money in cures that target the root cause which is often basic nutrition and using the biology as it was designed, instead drugs can be invented, patented, and when everybody takes them there isn't a control group left to notice that in aggregate they make things worse. And the doctors are indoctrinated to know nothing about nutri…

Agree with everything you say here.