I’ve had very good results with Zinc (25 mg elemental zinc daily, which is a very safe dose and well within what someone can take safely >>to my understanding<<) and then I also found this study, which also says it’s a good idea for schizophrenia. take a look at it for god’s sake. This is only the results after 6 weeks. Maybe the dudes got even better after that who knows? note that they gave the same dose of Risperdal to both groups, but the ones who got additional Zinc got moarrrr better. Of course this should work together with other AP’s. I see no reason why it shouldn’t. it works for me with my zyprexa… (it doesn’t have to be zinc sulphate, there are better zinc supplements out there, like ororate and other stuff).
Efficacy of Zinc Sulfate as an Add-on Therapy to Risperidone Versus Risperidone Alone in Patients With Schizophrenia: A Double-Blind Randomized Placebo-Controlled Trial
This paper is also very relevant:
The Emerging Role for Zinc in Depression and Psychosis
Quote from paper:
This is relevant to the risk of schizophrenia, as a 30–50% reduction in brain zinc content is demonstrated for early onset cases compared to control samples in postmortem samples (Kimura and Kumura, 1965; McLardy, 1973). The expression of the schizophrenia phenotype may reflect interactions of prenatal zinc deficiency with other risk genes, and/or ongoing deficiency following birth. Studies on zinc deficiency and zinc supplementation in relation to psychosis are summarized in Table Table22 and are discussed in the following sections.
Some image from the first study mentioned for motivation:
