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“ meaning we’ve been wrong about some basic ways in which the brain and immune system are connected.” I’ve been screaming this at my doctors for years. For thos

by PIKAL 6y ago

“ meaning we’ve been wrong about some basic ways in which the brain and immune system are connected.” I’ve been screaming this at my doctors for years. For those who don’t want to read the article, the quote sums it up. They discovered new lymphatic vessels in the brain in 2016 where previously the brain wasn’t thought to have any. 2 years ago I had a stressful life event. I became schizophrenic because of it. I accidentally discovered that ketosis cures the schizophrenia. It turns out a doctor at Harvard has been sounding the alarm about this and nobody is listening to him [1]. After researching these things somewhat deeply, it appears that almost all diseases that involve the death or inactivity of neurons (Alzheimer’s, schizophrenia, autism, etc) are sometimes caused by “inflammatory signals,” as I call them, which interfere with the metabolism of glucose. Note the way I worded that — there’s more than one way for those neurons to become deactivated. What we currently think of as being a single disease might be many diseases, many different types of pathology that ultimately lead to the silencing of the same general population of neurons and thereby causing the same symptoms. The point is that the metabolic angle doesn’t explain all neural pathology, so keep that in mind when ketosis is found to only put 20% of schizophrenics into remission in the next five years. There is currently exactly one study looking at the effect of ketosis on schizophrenia, in Finland, and it keeps getting delayed. When a cells glucose metabolism is interfered with by inflammatory signals, ketone metabolism is not affected apparently. Plaques are a downstream effect of metabolic dysfunction, not the cause. Doctor Mary Newport has been sounding the alarm for years after witnessing the remission of her husbands Alzheimer’s following administration of ketogenic foods and nobody is listening to her [2]. Doctor Robert Naviaux at UC San Diego is provoking astounding recoveries in children with autism with a drug that is thought to interfere with immunological signaling [3]. If you have chronic fatigue syndrome, pay close attention to this. In a bizarre plot twist, people who eat nothing but beef are experiencing the most miraculous recoveries from autoimmune problems that I have seen so far in becoming preoccupied with this general area of research [4][5]. It appears that ketone bodies are somewhat anti-inflammatory [6] but their main benefit is providing fuel that can power cells that are being shut down by inflammatory signals, whereas the carnivore diet seems to deactivate inflammation that is currently underway for many people. This is 100% a medical revolution that is still in the pipes. The work being done in this area of brain inflammation and inflammation in general will rock the medical establishment, cure thousands of diseases seemingly overnight and turn a burning light onto the cruel and sordid apathy that has infected western medicine in the last 80 years. https://youtu.be/06e-PwhmSq8 https://youtu.be/06e-PwhmSq8 [1] https://youtu.be/eQwRSuwRP9c https://youtu.be/eQwRSuwRP9c [2] https://youtu.be/Ux68qHr4CnI https://youtu.be/Ux68qHr4CnI [3] https://youtu.be/iWWF5nN7fUA https://youtu.be/iWWF5nN7fUA [4] https://youtu.be/N39o_DI5laI https://youtu.be/N39o_DI5laI [5] https://youtu.be/HLF29w6YqXs https://youtu.be/HLF29w6YqXs [6] https://youtu.be/A5_R13Luit0 https://youtu.be/A5_R13Luit0

gnulinux 6y ago
Total layman here and know almost nothing about biology. But I'm skeptical of this comment mainly because your sources are youtube videos. Which of course doesn't necessarily mean they're wrong, but I wanted to go over some of the people behind these. Some of them (e.g. Dr. Steve Phinney) seem like area experts, some I wasn't able to verify credentials of (e.g. Dr. Mary Newport) and some seem to have controversial (and possibly fringe?) opinions regarding nutritional science (i.e. Jordan Peterson, who is a psychologist not a medical expert). So may I please ask experts chime in here, how reliable information in this comment? What are some papers one can read on this issue? [1] [1] Except obviously OP. But OP is from 2016, and if this is understood, I expect there to be more papers on this? Also the relationship between parent comment and OP paper isn't clear to me, so maybe an expert can explain whether the parallel is justifiable.
- kfarr 6y ago
  good research! I'm intrigued by the concept of an all beef diet, sounds too good to be true!
  - hh3k0 6y ago
    > I'm intrigued by the concept of an all beef diet, sounds too good to be true! Yeah, let's all do that and see how many degrees we can tickle out of this whole climate change thing by 2050.
    - DoreenMichele 6y ago
      The science is not all sorted out and I can't find anything that's a nice succinct summary, but locally grown, grass-fed beef is very likely much better for the environment than the way beef is typically produced these days. Beef does not have to be some giant environmental disaster.
      - hh3k0 6y ago
        > Beef does not have to be some giant environmental disaster. I disagree. A giant environmental disaster is inherent in man's livestock addiction -- even if you disregard the unsustainable emissions that come with it: > Livestock takes up nearly 80% of global agricultural land, yet produces less than 20% of the world’s supply of calories […] If everyone were to adopt the average diet of the United States, we would need to convert all of our [global] habitable land to agriculture, and we’d still be 38 percent short. https://ourworldindata.org/agricultural-land-by-global-diets https://ourworldindata.org/agricultural-land-by-global-diets

by PIKAL 6y ago

gnulinux 6y ago

Total layman here and know almost nothing about biology. But I'm skeptical of this comment mainly because your sources are youtube videos. Which of course doesn't necessarily mean they're wrong, but I wanted to go over some of the people behind these. Some of them (e.g. Dr. Steve Phinney) seem like area experts, some I wasn't able to verify credentials of (e.g. Dr. Mary Newport) and some seem to have controversial (and possibly fringe?) opinions regarding nutritional science (i.e. Jordan Peterson, who is a psychologist not a medical expert). So may I please ask experts chime in here, how reliable information in this comment? What are some papers one can read on this issue? [1] [1] Except obviously OP. But OP is from 2016, and if this is understood, I expect there to be more papers on this? Also the relationship between parent comment and OP paper isn't clear to me, so maybe an expert can explain whether the parallel is justifiable.

kfarr 6y ago
good research! I'm intrigued by the concept of an all beef diet, sounds too good to be true!
- hh3k0 6y ago
  > I'm intrigued by the concept of an all beef diet, sounds too good to be true! Yeah, let's all do that and see how many degrees we can tickle out of this whole climate change thing by 2050.
  - DoreenMichele 6y ago
    The science is not all sorted out and I can't find anything that's a nice succinct summary, but locally grown, grass-fed beef is very likely much better for the environment than the way beef is typically produced these days. Beef does not have to be some giant environmental disaster.
    - hh3k0 6y ago
      > Beef does not have to be some giant environmental disaster. I disagree. A giant environmental disaster is inherent in man's livestock addiction -- even if you disregard the unsustainable emissions that come with it: > Livestock takes up nearly 80% of global agricultural land, yet produces less than 20% of the world’s supply of calories […] If everyone were to adopt the average diet of the United States, we would need to convert all of our [global] habitable land to agriculture, and we’d still be 38 percent short. https://ourworldindata.org/agricultural-land-by-global-diets https://ourworldindata.org/agricultural-land-by-global-diets