Posted by Lao Tzu on December 26, 2008, at 8:58:51
In reply to Re: Pyroluria, posted by nolvas on December 25, 2008, at 4:48:52
Thank you for your input. I guess pyroluria might be a well-intentioned theory, but not evidence or cause of schizophrenia. I believe you because you can look at depression, schizo, bipolar, etc. from so many different angles---not only a multitude of nutritional theories, but also changes in monoamine systems, synaptic differentiation, cellular signalling proteins, changes in cellular differentiation among the various layers of brain tissue, excitatory neurotransmitters and cellular apoptosis leading to loss of brain tissue, oxidative stress and phospholipid abnormalities. The list is quite comprehensive and confusing because at which point do you start to look for answers? Is schizophrenia a whole host of abnormalities that arose from mutated genes during fetal development? I doubt that genetics could account for all of these abnormalities at once. No, there has to be a primary cause for them that affects multiple systems downstream. It's only logical. Can nutrition and/or medicine correct this primary causative factor over time, even after there has been great stress and/or damage to the brain? That's the question we have to ask ourselves, as well as our delicate relationship to our natural environments which have become so toxic in both an emotional and physical sense.
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