6 ms·

https://brainenergy.com https://brainenergy.com

by arijo 2y ago

fao_ 2y ago
Gosh! Another self-help book to "cure" my ADHD and depression! /s Sarcasm aside, we already have cures for these disorders. It's absolutely insulting to struggle for decades dealing with mental health problems, for the medical industry to hold the cure (which, incidentally, is also the key to allowing you to perform a lot of self-care steps which would improve your mental health), and to then be told that — no, you won't receive the cure because you're not our "ideal patient" so, instead, maybe try and bang your head against this self-help book that "cures" the disease. Obviously, the disease will be cured if you just try hard enough! Or if you just, idk, Cope With It. The majority of self-help books exist to generate money and only end up reinforcing the point of view that if you are struggling with mental illness it must be your fault. They take the burden off the rotting, decrepit husk of capitalism and put the burden back on to you. "Oh, you have struggled every day of your life with X? Ah, but this self-help book solves X, so if it doesn't work that must be your fault and you need to struggle harder with the methods in the self-help book!"
- arijo 2y ago
  [flagged]
  - amanaplanacanal 2y ago
    Where are the studies? His list of publications only had individual case studies, which are nice, I guess, but... Lots of people have theories. Where is the science?
    - arijo 2y ago
      I see you did not read the book - if you go to the notes section you'll find references to all the technical papers that support each chapter of the book. I suffer from a severe mental illness and following a ketogenic therapy has been life changing for me. It is giving me hope and I see the mind blowing results every day. It's not a theory to me.
      - Gasp0de 2y ago
        I don't have the book, since you have read it, could you provide some of the scientific studies that it cites? I believe you when you say it helped you, but you will have to agree that your anecdotal evidence is not sufficient as proof that it was the ketogenic diet that helped you.
  - tilne 2y ago
    It is absolutely a self-help book.
    - arijo 2y ago
      Did you read the book? Provide some quotes that support your absolute certainty that this is a self-help book.
      - Cthulhu_ 2y ago
        It's a book. You read it. You are helped by the words and insights in it. Its tagline is "If you or someone you love is affected by mental illness, it might change your life." It is a more accessible format of the scientific papers it uses as sources. That's some definitions of a self-help book, no?
        arijo 2y ago
        Sorry, but not well thought through complete nonsense is not an acceptable answer.
  - soulofmischief 2y ago
    ADHD has been linked to a reduced amount of dopamine receptor sites in the brain, and an abnormally high amount of dopamine transporters, which has a profound neurological and physiological impact. Please, explain how this is just a metabolic issue and how simply adjusting my blood sugar and meditating will magically grow me more dopamine receptors.
    - arijo 2y ago
      It's all in the book. Read it. When your insulin levels are deregulated, the receptors in your brain-blood barrier became insulin resistant and despite being drown in a sea of glucose your brain cells cannot access it and let their mitochondria use it to produce energy. Your brain cells then start malfunctioning and neurotransmitter pathways, like dopamine, serotonin or GABA, get messed up. This is the link from carbs, to glucose levels, to insulin resistance, to the pathophysiology of neurotransmiter pathways which are the SYMPTOMS, not the CAUSE of mental illness. Read the book. Watch videos from metabolicmind.org. There are a lot of researchers working on metabolic health studies as we speak.
      - soulofmischief 2y ago
        I don't need to read some guy's book or watch random videos when I can read peer-reviewed, published medical papers. You're misunderstanding the role of genetics in brain development. From birth, the ADHD brain begins developing differently. In the presence of childhood trauma, often exacerbated by ADHD itself, the brain's development diverges even further. Your worldview fails to account for genetic, environmental and sociological effects on brain development, and you seem to think that someone can just will their brain to suddenly develop more dopamine receptors and better neurological dopamine regulation systems.
        arijo 2y ago
        Please read the book. The genetics are accounted for as are all other biopsychosocial factors that correlate with a lot of metabolic and mental illnesses.
      - 2y ago
- soulofmischief 2y ago
  I hear you. I lost a best friend last year after moving in with him and getting effectively bullied and belittled over my ADHD, which he was adamant was made-up and was just a skill issue that I could meditate my way out of. After he became increasingly hostile and psychotic I had to cancel my lease. Really screwed me up for a while.
  - arijo 2y ago
    Listen, stop playing with serious mental illness. I suffer from severe mental illness since I was young - ketogenic therapy is evidence based medicine and has changed my life in a way medication never has. When you downplay this emerging field of metabolic health you're preventing many people to have access to a treatment that can save their lives. Please inform yourself better - do not careless spread misinformation that can hurt other people.
    - soulofmischief 2y ago
      > Please inform yourself better - do not careless spread misinformation that can hurt other people. Please inform yourself on ADHD research. When you downplay the role of genetics in mental illness you're preventing many people from having access to life-changing treatment. The irony of your last statement is quite something. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC161723/ https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC161723/ It's wonderful that ketogenic therapy has changed your life. That has absolutely no bearing on people with different a brain structure. Ketogenic diets can be beneficial, meditation is essential, but there are aspects of ADHD that simply cannot be fixed other than introducing more dopamine into your brain.
      - arijo 2y ago
        Watch this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUAbqXcSAzg&t=24s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUAbqXcSAzg&t=24s It's a Oxford’s Keto for ADHD & Depression Randomized Controlled Trial My personal story is with psychosis which is as severe a mental illness as there can be - and I'm very thankful there are doctors and researchers out there battling all the misinformation about metabolic therapies. People have different brain structures, but all brains are composed of cells and cells depend on their normal metabolic pathways to do their job. I actually took dopamine reducing drugs for more than 20 years and I do know from personal experience how these drugs mess up people's lives. So, yes I'm following a ketogenic therapy to, via metabolic normalization, regulate my dopamine pathways, and after 20+ year of misery I finally feel like I have a brain and a life. I hope everyone has the chance to benefit from this research as I am benefiting, because I do know how painful it is to be prescribed these drugs for life.

https://brainenergy.com https://brainenergy.com

by arijo 2y ago

https://brainenergy.com https://brainenergy.com

fao_ 2y ago

Gosh! Another self-help book to "cure" my ADHD and depression! /s Sarcasm aside, we already have cures for these disorders. It's absolutely insulting to struggle for decades dealing with mental health problems, for the medical industry to hold the cure (which, incidentally, is also the key to allowing you to perform a lot of self-care steps which would improve your mental health), and to then be told that — no, you won't receive the cure because you're not our "ideal patient" so, instead, maybe try and bang your head against this self-help book that "cures" the disease. Obviously, the disease will be cured if you just try hard enough! Or if you just, idk, Cope With It. The majority of self-help books exist to generate money and only end up reinforcing the point of view that if you are struggling with mental illness it must be your fault. They take the burden off the rotting, decrepit husk of capitalism and put the burden back on to you. "Oh, you have struggled every day of your life with X? Ah, but this self-help book solves X, so if it doesn't work that must be your fault and you need to struggle harder with the methods in the self-help book!"

arijo 2y ago
[flagged]
- amanaplanacanal 2y ago
  Where are the studies? His list of publications only had individual case studies, which are nice, I guess, but... Lots of people have theories. Where is the science?
  - arijo 2y ago
    I see you did not read the book - if you go to the notes section you'll find references to all the technical papers that support each chapter of the book. I suffer from a severe mental illness and following a ketogenic therapy has been life changing for me. It is giving me hope and I see the mind blowing results every day. It's not a theory to me.
    - Gasp0de 2y ago
      I don't have the book, since you have read it, could you provide some of the scientific studies that it cites? I believe you when you say it helped you, but you will have to agree that your anecdotal evidence is not sufficient as proof that it was the ketogenic diet that helped you.
- tilne 2y ago
  It is absolutely a self-help book.
  - arijo 2y ago
    Did you read the book? Provide some quotes that support your absolute certainty that this is a self-help book.
    - Cthulhu_ 2y ago
      It's a book. You read it. You are helped by the words and insights in it. Its tagline is "If you or someone you love is affected by mental illness, it might change your life." It is a more accessible format of the scientific papers it uses as sources. That's some definitions of a self-help book, no?
      - arijo 2y ago
        Sorry, but not well thought through complete nonsense is not an acceptable answer.
- soulofmischief 2y ago
  ADHD has been linked to a reduced amount of dopamine receptor sites in the brain, and an abnormally high amount of dopamine transporters, which has a profound neurological and physiological impact. Please, explain how this is just a metabolic issue and how simply adjusting my blood sugar and meditating will magically grow me more dopamine receptors.
  - arijo 2y ago
    It's all in the book. Read it. When your insulin levels are deregulated, the receptors in your brain-blood barrier became insulin resistant and despite being drown in a sea of glucose your brain cells cannot access it and let their mitochondria use it to produce energy. Your brain cells then start malfunctioning and neurotransmitter pathways, like dopamine, serotonin or GABA, get messed up. This is the link from carbs, to glucose levels, to insulin resistance, to the pathophysiology of neurotransmiter pathways which are the SYMPTOMS, not the CAUSE of mental illness. Read the book. Watch videos from metabolicmind.org. There are a lot of researchers working on metabolic health studies as we speak.
    - soulofmischief 2y ago
      I don't need to read some guy's book or watch random videos when I can read peer-reviewed, published medical papers. You're misunderstanding the role of genetics in brain development. From birth, the ADHD brain begins developing differently. In the presence of childhood trauma, often exacerbated by ADHD itself, the brain's development diverges even further. Your worldview fails to account for genetic, environmental and sociological effects on brain development, and you seem to think that someone can just will their brain to suddenly develop more dopamine receptors and better neurological dopamine regulation systems.
      - arijo 2y ago
        Please read the book. The genetics are accounted for as are all other biopsychosocial factors that correlate with a lot of metabolic and mental illnesses.
    - 2y ago
soulofmischief 2y ago
I hear you. I lost a best friend last year after moving in with him and getting effectively bullied and belittled over my ADHD, which he was adamant was made-up and was just a skill issue that I could meditate my way out of. After he became increasingly hostile and psychotic I had to cancel my lease. Really screwed me up for a while.
- arijo 2y ago
  Listen, stop playing with serious mental illness. I suffer from severe mental illness since I was young - ketogenic therapy is evidence based medicine and has changed my life in a way medication never has. When you downplay this emerging field of metabolic health you're preventing many people to have access to a treatment that can save their lives. Please inform yourself better - do not careless spread misinformation that can hurt other people.
  - soulofmischief 2y ago
    > Please inform yourself better - do not careless spread misinformation that can hurt other people. Please inform yourself on ADHD research. When you downplay the role of genetics in mental illness you're preventing many people from having access to life-changing treatment. The irony of your last statement is quite something. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC161723/ https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC161723/ It's wonderful that ketogenic therapy has changed your life. That has absolutely no bearing on people with different a brain structure. Ketogenic diets can be beneficial, meditation is essential, but there are aspects of ADHD that simply cannot be fixed other than introducing more dopamine into your brain.
    - arijo 2y ago
      Watch this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUAbqXcSAzg&t=24s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUAbqXcSAzg&t=24s It's a Oxford’s Keto for ADHD & Depression Randomized Controlled Trial My personal story is with psychosis which is as severe a mental illness as there can be - and I'm very thankful there are doctors and researchers out there battling all the misinformation about metabolic therapies. People have different brain structures, but all brains are composed of cells and cells depend on their normal metabolic pathways to do their job. I actually took dopamine reducing drugs for more than 20 years and I do know from personal experience how these drugs mess up people's lives. So, yes I'm following a ketogenic therapy to, via metabolic normalization, regulate my dopamine pathways, and after 20+ year of misery I finally feel like I have a brain and a life. I hope everyone has the chance to benefit from this research as I am benefiting, because I do know how painful it is to be prescribed these drugs for life.