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B Vitamins Reduce Schizophrenia Symptoms, Study Finds (newsmax.com)
A new study published in the journal Psychological Medicine finds that high doses of B vitamins reduce the symptoms of schizophrenia. Researchers found that using B vitamins, including B6, inositol, and B12 as an adjunctive with antipsychotics significantly improved symptoms of the debilitating condition. Newsmax reports: For the new study, researchers identified 18 clinical trials with a combined total of 832 patients receiving antipsychotic treatment for schizophrenia. They found that B-vitamin interventions which used higher dosages or combined several vitamins were consistently effective for reducing psychiatric symptoms, whereas those which used lower doses were ineffective. The evidence also suggested that B-vitamin supplements were most beneficial when they were added to medicine regimens early after diagnosis.
Megavitamins and orthomolecular medicine have a scientific basis that is more targetable than this indicates. Merely they've been under "fake news" attacks since at least the 1960s, when the psychiatric establishment of that time attacked with rigged results. Then the severely iatrogenic oncologists of the 70s and 80s attacked.
Both of these self anointed establishments' actions and statements then, when viewed by today's information, to me look like quacks with criminal intent
No it isn't. Schizophrenia is a hardware problem (though it can be triggered emotionally and/or with misc. drugs). While psychology is a hard problem to crack in general there are very strong evidence of the above and very little reliable evidence for the OPs idea.
Funny, the only schizophrenic I've ever known was also vegan.
I'm a vegetarian, and have strong sympathy for the motives behind being vegan. But take your B-12, my vegan friends. Unless you eat large amounts of soil, feces, or bacterial concentrates, or you've had a rumen implanted in your body, you need it. Higher plants don't make it. Every "vegetarian" mammal has to get it from somewhere, and those not lucky enough to have rumens (or other organs filling equivalent "cultivate lots of bacteria" roles) either get it through eating soil, feces, insects (accidentally or on purpose), or other such sources. Even our "strict" vegetarian gorilla relatives eat grubs. Heck, even though I consume dairy, I still take a B-12 supplement, just to ensure that I get enough.
Also, B-12 shortage doesn't hit you immediately. The body stores about 5 years of B-12. So it'll catch up with you sooner or later.
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Looks like someone doesn't know the difference between schizophrenia and multiple personality disorder. Also, the normal reaction to traumatic events is to black them out.
Why are ACs always make such total asses of themselves? ;)
Anons need not reply. Questions end with a question mark.
I would reverse that statement to read
"many schizophrenics suffer from homelessness"
Most have drug problems trying to combat the symptoms, nit the other way around.
You see the lies propagated in anti marijuana stories that cite " look, he's a schizophrenic because he smokes weed, when the opposite is closer to the truth, they are self medicating.
Well what have we here. Looks like I must update my mental definition of 'schizophrenia' based on what this AC said. Forget all the stuff about paranoid delusions, scary auditory and visual hallucinations, etc - it's "a description for a set of behaviours that are viewed as abnormal ALL caused by traumatic events during childhood".
Thanks AC. Can I quote you?
I do not want your cheap brainburning drugs. They are useless for work. And I am a working man today.
Zymurgy is slavery! #YeastLivesMatter