r/Metabolic_Psychiatry

I post this here because it was removed from BPD subreddit....

BPD has almost ruined my life. I lost my job, I couldn't study, my relationships. I wanted to die pretty regularly.

6 years after therapy I was getting better at relationships, but I was still splitting. I was better at communicating about it, I was better at handling it, but the splitting still happened, and I could not stop it from happening. Also other symptoms.

Then, just out of coincidence, I started using a continuous glucose monitor. It showed me my blood sugar highs and lows. I started to notice that my dissociation was associated with the glucose highs. That was pretty much all I could observe.

Slowly I started to cut down carbohydrates. First I changed grains to whole grains. Didnt really help. Then I started kicking out carbohydrates, like grains and rice and basically anything that had carbohydrates and started eating low carbohydrate (uhh hard).

And the weirdest part was, that I was targeting dissociation and my DRPR, but my BPD symptoms pretty much disappeared completely. Like w h a t t h e * * * * . It actually helps.

And the freaking most weirdest part is that science backs this up that this is possible for at least some. So much so, that this method is being researched for schizoaffective disorder right now in Kuopio University. Also I think for BP, but nobody studies us right now.

There is also a Harvard psychiatrist who has written a book about the subject called Brain Energy.

Others mostly speak about BP and schizoaffective disorder, but there has been a study proving that we (BPD) also have altered brain glucose metabolism. And if your brain glucose metabolism doesnt work - you have reaally bad symptoms.

But you have to know it is not the only pathway - there is another metabolism pathway that might work fine - which is the fat metabolism pathway. So buy activating the fat metabolism pathway you might be able to bypass the glucose metabolism pathway and get a lot of symptoms away with that.

I found a subreddit, psychiatry metabolism (or something like that) - where people with different disorders, including schizoaffective disorders have been able to get rid of psychoses etc with this approach. Not everyone, but many.

Anyway, I felt obliged to share this information, after years of hell. Though I have to say this diet sucks. It really does. And I'm struggling with the diet pretty much, though I'm still in the beginning and it takes some new skills. But nothing sucks as much as BPD.

Also a really sad thing is, that anyone with eating disorders shouldn't be doing this alone without help.

The ketogenic diet was the diet our preancestors were most likely on - before the agriculture and carbohydrate rich food was available. This is why we have a working brain metabolism pathway that was used when we used to hunt food etc.

This is not a cure, basically the moment you start eating carbohydrates again, the symptoms probably come back. All I'm saying, if you can and its safe for you, try it out. And give it some time, like a week or two at least.

Also notice that I did go to therapy for 6 years and still continuing and if you are in an abusive relationship our your life is full of stressors, maybe it doesn't work the same way.

hey. I've had multiple episodes of psychosis. I did keto for a year and i got all the benefits and had no issues. I stopped the diet and relapsed eventually into psychosis after another year (so I had two years off meds). I stopped the diet due to a life event and found it challenging to go back onto it.

I found out the hard way that keto is something I may need to do for life if I use it to manage my mental health issues. It works. It does what I wish the medication would do for me. But as I said I found it hard to sustain.

Is there anyone else in a similar situation? Did others on this subreddit experience psychosis and manage their condition using keto?

Also how do you guys manage to sustain the diet long term? Has anyone else stopped it and struggled to restart it at times?

Thanks

In his bestseller book Sapiens, Yuval Noah Harari proposes a bold theory: the most successful species on Earth isn't humans—it's wheat. We didn't cultivate wheat; wheat cultivated us. Here is how it happens:

When we consume gluten-containing foods, they don't break down into amino acids entirely. Instead, protein fragments persist as opioid peptides known as gluteomorphins. Meanwhile, gliadin- another component of the wheat grain- compromises the delicate gut lining, opening a direct pathway for these opioid compounds into the bloodstream.

The intestinal wall nor the blood-brain barrier is completely leak-proof. Under certain conditions (such as gastritis, dysbiosis, or SIBO), that single-cell-thick barrier breaks down, dumping raw stomach contents straight into your blood. Imagine your immune system suddenly encountering last night's dinner.

Because gluten structurally mimics human tissue, this is where many autoimmune conditions likely originate. Particularly Hashimoto’s and autoimmune encephalitis.

I am currently working with my mother whose gluten reactions occur within just a few hours, which inspired me to write this post

Hi! I went into remission from bipolar disorder and near remission from ocd while on keto. Now it isn't working as well after a year for the OCD. My nutritionist told me to get labs done and my free carnitine was low and my esterified/free carnitine ratio was high. I asked her what to do and she told me to ask the metabolic psychiatrist at the clinic. I went to the meeting with the metabolic psychiatrist and it quickly became evident that she didn't have the expertise she claimed she had and she seemed unfamiliar with supplementing carnitine. My GP won't help me, endocrinologists won't help me... I gave up and just supplemented it myself and I didn't tolerate either alcar or l-carnitine. I can take like 100 mg tops of l-carnitine or I get extremely anxious, and alcar makes anxiety worse and gives me too much energy. I really feel like I don't know where to turn. I don't want to pay hundreds out of pocket to see another specialist; ideally I could find someone covered by my insurance, UHC. I don't think I can just add more meat to my diet, because I will likely go into glycogenesis. Thanks in advance.