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.
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.
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]
There are some newer studies since then that are backing up this one. I ran across this one about a couple months ago and bookmarked it and then searched for others as well. One goes back 10 years ago so I was pretty much shocked because I've been looking into this (Schizophrenia) for quite a long time and somehow never came across this.
Keto is also being studied for bipolar. Many anecdotes available on YouTube and elsewhere. It appears mental illnesses have in origin metabolic / mitochondrial dysfunction, through a combination of environmental and genetic factors.
matthest|1 year ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketogenic_diet
Then drugs came out and everyone ran for the quick fix.
lambdaba|1 year ago
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.
onemoresoop|1 year ago
lambdaba|1 year ago
It's interesting to go through her earlier videos where she documents her daily life.
oblib|1 year ago
deanc|1 year ago
[1] https://www.cell.com/cell-reports-medicine/fulltext/S2666-37...
neogodless|1 year ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20421989 Chronic Schizophrenia Put into Remission with Ketogenic Diet (psychologytoday.com)
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