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by zug_zug 814 days ago
It may seem like armchair common sense to you, but I doubt any medical facility in the entire country would prescribe a ketogenic diet for those patients because there isn't a hard scientific basis to do so. Also going from insulin resistant to schizophrenia/bipolar is a bit of a surprise.

So this is important work. It'll also be interesting to see if it replicates and generalizes.

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There is some evidence out there that links insulin resistance to depression via BDNF depletion, which is also implicated in schizophrenia. BDNF is also thought to be up regulated by exercise.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain-derived_neurotrophic_fac...