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Originally Posted by Wifezilla
I posted about going low carb on a mental health forum. You would have thought I was advocating eating broken glass! LOL
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Thanks for making me laugh about it! I've been getting myself worked up into a dither over it. It makes me sad that someone reading that forum might think, "Gosh, I'd like to try that diet, but I'm scared of eating so much fat! Guess I'll just stick with my Zyprexa."
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From all I have learned about low carb and mental illness over the past decade, I DO BELIEVE there is some kind of connection with seizures and mental illness. Maybe the underlying brain structure can result in MI for some people and seizures for others while some get both.
Don't know for sure. I guess I will have to wait for a study.
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I'm convinced too, but I also have no evidence. I glanced through a couple of books on insulin resistance/metabolic syndrome and MI. Both authors noted the correlation then pretty much concluded that mentally ill people don't take very good care of themselves, so they become obese and diabetic and have heart attacks.
If we continue to try and make our new research fit our old, unproven hypotheses we'll never make any progress.
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I do know that the brain is mostly fat and requires a lot of fuel. It makes perfect sense to me that giving your brain crappy fuel would make it not run correctly.
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Yep. But, hey, that dietary fat is dangerous! Far safer to down whatever medication your psychiatrist is pushing this week!
The conversation on that forum is all about which meds they're taking and how to deal with the side effects. No one ever comes on talking about how well their lives are going now that they're on meds.
One woman came on outraged because her pdoc wouldn't prescribe a sleeping pill. Seems she can't sleep at night but she sleeps during the day. So her doctor told her to stop sleeping during the day. Makes sense? Well, a number of people responded telling her to switch doctors! I mentioned that a low-carb diet cured my lifelong insomnia. No one even responded. My comment was ignored.
Ah, but suggest a ketogenic diet and all of a sudden they're all wanting to consult their doctors! Scary, dangerous, radical diet!