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Decades of research suggest that mental disorders are metabolic disorders
- drekipus 4y ago> The much more exciting news about this theory, in my view, is that it opens the door to new treatments. Interventions such as diet, exercise, stress reduction, sleep management, and reducing substance use can effectively treat mental disorders in many people You can't profit from that. It's not going to work. I hate mental health discussions, it's always a trainwreck. I myself was a mental health patient and I can only speak from my experience that others seem very keen on dismissing or invalidating if it doesn't fit their worldview.
- tabtab 4y agoOur bodies are designed to live like medieval peasants: work many hours of physical labor and eat mostly unprocessed boring food.
- amanaplanacanal 4y agoThe Paleo folks point out that humans were hunter-gatherers for hundreds of thousands of years, and really have only had a few generations since the invention of agriculture. They then study the few remaining Hunter-gatherer societies as a model for how humans were evolved to live. I like the idea, but data is scarce, and humans are so adaptable it’s hard to make any firm statements.
- kikikiko 4y agoNot everyone can make those changes (it requires to have some energy at first at least, and the ability to stick to it), and those interventions are actually used already (and have been for a long time) so I assume this may lead instead to some research on targeting the metabolic pathways