• Palmer was clear that nobody should stop psychiatric medications without careful supervision. While one of the patients in his study worked with her doctor to safely taper off her psychiatric medications, the other decided to stop all of them suddenly on her own.

    “Let me be clear, that was an unmitigated catastrophe for her. She became severely psychotic. She was hospitalized for over two months,” Palmer said. That patient continued her diet throughout her hospitalization, and had to go back on medication before tapering off safely.

    if you read through the lines it’s two supervised cases and only fully supervised case to be clear. Despite the keto diet the second patient was, in fact, psychotic, until the medication was reintroduced.

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    Bobby may himself be evidence that his diet actually causes mental disorders

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    “Experts, schmexperts. I’m on the salt and beef diet, and that cures everything!”

    – “wellness” morons, probably

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    There’s plenty of evidence. The voices he hears all promised that it’s true, and they say they’re all doctors and wizards and wizard doctors.

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    There’s a day coming when most Americans will have very limited access to real medicine. A plurality will have to depend on quackery and home remedies.

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    The evidence that ketogenic diet might help with schizophrenia symptom remission comes from two case reports that Palmer published in Schizophrenia Research in 2019. When discussing them, Palmer was quick to emphasise that “yes, it’s only two”, and that “case reports don’t prove anything. They’re not controlled. They come with tremendous amounts of bias.” But, Palmer noted, that can be important for generating hypotheses about what treatments might work. Palmer thought it was valuable to publish these case reports because remission of schizophrenia symptoms is incredibly rare.

    Two case studies! The scientist quoted knows that it means nothing! Don’t read one article that might show something that confirms your bias and go “this is real.”