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

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

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Post by deanc »

Ketosis is an interesting topic. There's also emerging research suggesting that it can play a role in the development of cysts for those who have APKD (Polycystic kidney disease). [1]

[1] https://www.cell.com/cell-reports-medicine/fulltext/S2666-37...

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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.

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Post by lambdaba »

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 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.

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

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Post by lambdaba »

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 nutrition, to be fearful or dismissive of supplementation (see: vitamin D) and believe there is a pharma drug for every condition.

The good news is it's rather easily fixable, but it is something that will never come from top down, it is and is going to be a bottom-up process.

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

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Post by onemoresoop »

lambdaba wrote: post #6
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 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.
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