in some countries (such as Russia for example) one of the treatments for schizophrenia is fasting … fasting has proven effective in treating the symptoms of schizophrenia … why fasting is so effective? have you ever tried ?
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dont know mostly muslim and hindu go on fasting.i think fasting makes situation more severe…
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I fasted for 3weeks in jail once. Came out a spun cookie.
Maybe in a different environment…
I have done some fasting before and, when I did, my mind cleared up enough to get an answer from God.
I think fasting works because it forces the brain into survival mode and not allowing any other issues to take precedence in our minds.
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“…gastrointestinal inflammation is a relevant pathology in schizophrenia, appears to occur in the absence of but may be modified by antipsychotics, and may link food antigen sensitivity and microbial infection as sources of immune activation in mental illness.” Quote from Gastrointestinal inflammation and associated immune activation in schizophrenia at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22446142.
The article points to a correlation between GI inflammation and absence of anti-P metabolites in the gut.
There’s quite a bit of pseudo-scientific nonsense – and outright insanity – out there about fasting producing miraculous results for sz… the junk currently being recycled on reddit being the most available at this time. I don’t blame those who are thought-disordered, emotionally suffering and cognitively challenged for jumping at such beacons of (false) hope, but let’s hope than sanity prevails at some point.
I don’t see it happening again. It just…made me…like…really hungry.
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I’m not a doctor, so I do not know if what I say is right or wrong and I’m interested to schizophrenia after my sister became ill with schizophrenia … I think schizophrenia is caused by a defect in metabolism of glucose … in people with schizophrenia, brain cells can not absorb glucose and to work properly (because can not feed on glucose) according to a mechanism similar to diabetes and Alzheimer’s … when the body does not ingest carbohydrates and sugars the body does not produce glucose, but to feed is forced to produce ketones … human cells can feed only glucose or ketones and this would explain why the ketogenic diets or fasting are helpful in schizophrenia …what do you think?
I see benefits from a raw food diet. Just not fasting.
It’s interest now I fast all the time or live on beer and pistachio nuts but when I was hearing voices they always went away briefly after eating.
its strikes me as like sleep deprivation for lifting severe depression.
this is a real thing , google it😃
I’ve only fasted when I’ve been on a sneaky brained thinking trip and thought that fasting would help me get more in tune with the universe.
Let me ask you a question. Don’t you think in the 100 years since schizophrenia was first recognized as a legitimate medical disorder that if something as simple as fasting could really work to alleviate symptoms of schizophrenia that it would be in wide-spread use around the world already? Why is it only in Russia? Maybe because the Russians can be a little backward in their practices? Do they not sentence political dissenters to spend years in insane asylums as punishment for criticizing their government? Does this sound like a country with cutting edge treatment for mental illnesses?
They go to Siberia or a living hell.
It is the month of Ramadan now and I tried fasting but only made myself more sick, I was constantly irritable and angry and depressed, so my pdoc told me its better for me to not fast. Fasting didn’t help my sz at all.
fasting is not good because you haven’t food to fight your illness. I found making head cooler with water, in little bottles make conditions so better &second is if your conditions permit fill ears with cotton to avoid hear voices, because that voices are external voices not internal, truly work and weaken voices, try it
It is a good way to achieve sobriety. Water should not be denied.