Posted by LostBoyinNC45 on July 12, 2014, at 11:05:42
In reply to Re: Shutting down insulin/leptin improves mood? » LostBoyinNC45, posted by Phillipa on July 12, 2014, at 10:07:57
It is a healthy diet for about anyone, actually. It is "the in diet" for fitness nuts who are hardly diabetics. Its also the "in diet" for those who are fat and disgusting from years and years of sedentary lifestyle, lack of exercise and high dosages of psychiatry medications, booze abuse, smoking pot abuse and so on.
Since I was talking about mood, I was not asking about whether or not people think this sort of diet can address atypical anti-psychotic induced type II diabetes, obesity and high cholesterol. In all honesty, the atypical anti-psychotic/metabolic syndrome cause and effect thing is another subject that I consider more to be a legal issue than a health issue. It is clear that atypical anti-psychotics such as zyprexa and others destroy the pancreas. Eli Lilly paid out a HUGE settlement about a decade back to a bunch of states and if I remember correctly, to the federal government as well. Because so many people taking zyprexa were developing type II diabetes and the states and federal government were having to pay for treating type II diabetes now...as most schizophrenics and manic depressives are on medicaid or receive their care in outpatient, taxpayer funded clinics, or inside the prison system.
I am talking about whether or not this sort of diet can actually improve mood in those whose Axis 1 dx is a mood disorder, probably major depression or one of the variations.
> That to me is a healthy diabetic diet. But as to helping with weight with antipsychotics. Don't the meds themselves change metabolism. And it doesn't have that much to do with diet? Phillipa
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