Researchers Find Further Evidence That Schizophrenia is Connected to Our Guts

DiscoverMagazine.com ^ | February 7, 2019 | Roni Dengler

[BitWielder1]

Is it possible that certain microbes produce psychotropic toxins?
If so, a hefty dose of antibiotics should have a noticeable effect.

[fruser1]

So the government isn’t controlling your mind with radio waves after all.

It’s the school lunch.

[blueunicorn6]

“Hear voices”?

So hearing voices makes you crazy?

I could see if you smelled voices, but doesn’t pretty much everybody hear voices?

Not those guys in the monasteries where no one can talk.

But they probably have a really good data plan.

I hear my wife’s voice just now.

“Quit fooling around on that Free Republic and get out there and shovel the snow off the driveway!”

“Can’t Dear. I hear your voice so I must be crazy and there’s a law that crazy people aren’t allowed to shovel snow.”

[mjp]

“The brains of the animals given microbes from patients with schizophrenia also showed changes in glutamate, a neurotransmitter that is thought to be dysregulated in schizophrenia,” he added.

The Microbiota-Gut-Brain Axis in Neuropsychiatric Disorders: Pathophysiological Mechanisms and Novel Treatments.

Glutamate and dopamine in schizophrenia: an update for the 21st century.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

A friend of mine that I got my BS in chemistry with worked on a project in the ‘70s where schizophrenics were put on dialysis and their psychosis went away. He was analyzing the dialysate to determine what it was that was making them crazy. I never heard the outcome.

[ETL]

Is it possible that certain microbes produce psychotropic toxins?

Sounds quite plausible to me.

[LiveFreeOrDie2001]

Paranoia will destroy ya......

[Ken H]

So I went to see a shrink one time. He said, “You have a split personality. That’ll be $100. So I said, “Here’s $50. Get the rest from the other guy.”

[ETL]

Lol! Did you make that up yourself?

[E. Pluribus Unum]

A friend of mine that I got my BS in chemistry with worked on a project in the ‘70s where schizophrenics were put on dialysis and their psychosis went away. He was analyzing the dialysate to determine what it was that was making them crazy. I never heard the outcome.

[Faith65]

BFL

[Ken H]

Nah, I stole it from Jerry Lewis in the Nutty Professor.

[Falconspeed]

“Chongqing Medical University in China.” Enough said.

Schizophrenia is caused by the mis-wiring of the T-cells in the brain near the anterior cingulate cortex. American universities.

[trebb]

The cost of pro-biotics is gonna skyrocket now.....

[YogicCowboy]

LGS: Leaky-Gut Syndrome.