Coconut oil, niacin/niacinamide (vitamin B-3), and other pro-metabolic interventions help get at the actual causes behind the diagnosis.
Coconut oil is helpful because it can be directly metabolized by the cells, whereas longer saturated fats have to be ... processed somehow before they can be used for energy (I forget the exact name of the step). Coconut oil is also helpful for alcohol cravings.
Cortisol deficiency is now associated with psychosis [0]. This is one of the manifestations of the metabolic problem at the root of the behavioral symptom (psychosis).
[0] https://psychcentral.com/news/2016/06/04/low-morning-cortiso...
Sometimes metabolic problems are caused or amplified by emotional stress.
Question:
Cortisol is a stress hormone, how can a deficiency cause psychosis?
My earlier comment about the reason some people find alcohol to be so seductive: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14085230
> I avoid coconut oil because of the fats, but I will change it now!
If you're avoiding sugar too, try salted orange juice. This is a good source of sugar and potassium. If your OJ isn't very sweet you can add a spoonful of sugar.
> I already noticed probiotic foods make me much happier.
Good observation. Less-desirable intestinal microorganisms create endotoxin, which have to be detoxified by the liver.
> Cortisol is a stress hormone, how can a deficiency cause psychosis?
Cortisol tells the body to get more sugar into circulation. Cortisol levels are highest in the morning, when it's been the longest since the last meal. Cortisol is released when blood sugar gets low, or when a person might suddenly need a jolt of sugar to respond to a threatening situation.
My current understanding is that when a person runs low on fuel (sugar), their body will compensate by putting its most fuel-hungry organ (the brain) into hibernation: "psychosis".
Alcoholics train their nervous system to run on alcohol. People who become psychotic from alcohol withdrawal need help avoiding alcohol, and retraining their nerves to run on sugar. (Edit: alcoholic psychosis is some combination of inflammation, insulin resistance and fuel deprivation.)
See link above, and search my comment history for 'alcohol'.
Edit: So I guess what are you refuting, coconut oil or the metabolic aspect?
> You can't cure psychosis with fucking coconut oil.
The person I responded to said in a later comment that his psychosis was related to alcohol use. This being the case, coconut oil is an appropriate treatment to help keep his alcohol use under control.
> PLease stop peddling this dangerous advice.
People like HN user clydethefrog (above) and my girlfriend (my comment history) are hurt by the mental health industry's standard of care. Someone probably told clydethefrog that he has now has a chronic condition and that he'll have to be on "antipsychotics" for the rest of his life to keep from becoming psychotic again.
One case study acknowledges the possibility that people who made themselves psychotic through alcohol withdrawal can be made delusional with Abilify [1]. The actual experience of patients is that maintenance antipsychotics makes their condition worse [2].
I think in the very near future the mental health system will have no choice but to listen to the resistance's complaints.
[1] https://europepmc.org/abstract/med/26502575 - "At first, we regarded all the symptoms as alcoholic hallucinosis, by a clinical standpoint, in spite of no auditory hallucination in this case. However, taking the overall clinical course into consideration, withdrawal syndrome could have been affected by some factors. One of the possibilities is that delusion might have been induced by aripiprazole." (emphasis added)