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My landlady's son is schizophrenic. Could a diet of alcohol, pot, and sugar and carbs make the condition worse?
by da02 8y ago
My landlady's son is schizophrenic. Could a diet of alcohol, pot, and sugar and carbs make the condition worse?
- acct1771 8y ago3 of those 4, and pot exasperating the mental condition after the fact, mhmm.
- Broken_Hippo 8y agoAlcohol and pot, yes, though use of the two are common because of addiction and self-medication. The other two, no.
- andai 8y agoKetogenic diet showed better results in treating bipolar disorder than medication. Bipolar disorder and schizophrenia seem to have to do with mutant mitochondria which metabolize differently. Fed a normal (carb-heavy) diet they are unable to produce sufficient energy, which leads to neurological degeneration.
- rimliu 8y agoI think link to sources would help here.
- krageon 8y agoA finding of this magnitude which was actually proven in a way that the post seems to suggest would not be something you see only in one hacker news comment, because it would be huge.
- Broken_Hippo 8y agoThis. Not to mention all of the other variables to check, such as simply putting less energy into food prep (less stress) and so on.
- SuoDuanDao 8y agohere are the relevant results from the first page when I type "schizophrenia ketogenic diet" into google scholar https://nutritionandmetabolism.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1743-7075-6-10 https://nutritionandmetabolism.biomedcentral.com/articles/10... https://www.schres-journal.com/article/S0920-9964(15)30041-4/abstract https://www.schres-journal.com/article/S0920-9964(15)30041-4... https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3641835/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3641835/
- eigenstuff 8y agoWeed is known to exacerbate psychosis.