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Chronic Schizophrenia Put Into Remission Without Medication
New research suggests ketogenic diet may play a role in treating schizophrenia.
www.psychologytoday.com
One question I had was about this part:
"Interestingly, the effects of this diet on the brain have been studied for decades because neurologists have been trying to figure out how it works in epilepsy. This diet is known to produce ketones which are used as a fuel source in place of glucose. This may help to provide fuel to insulin resistant brain cells. "
The brain uses insulin to get glucose to cross the cell membrane like in the rest of the body? For some reason I imagined glucose just floating around in the brain being sucked up as needed, even though I knew the mechanism (crudely) by which insulin helps transport glucose in the rest of the body. I guess because I knew there's no blood in the brain I assumed it was a different mechanism.