Study: Electroshock therapy more successful for depression than ketamine
My friend figured out for herself, when she was in her 30&#x27;s, that she&#x27;s a poor methylator who can&#x27;t turn the food fortification folic acid into a usable form of Vitamin B-9. She once told me that adding L-Methylfolate to her routine was like flipping a switch from &quot;depressed&quot; to &quot;not-depressed&quot;. But the doctors had already decided she was being &quot;stabilized&quot; by the anti-psychotic prescriptions they forced on her, so they just added this vitamin to their cocktail of prescriptions.<p>Vitamin B-9 has to do with DNA synthesis... My source for physiology told me that even the mutants get enough Vitamin B-9 from an adequate diet, it&#x27;s just poor methylators who rely on fortified food who are screwed. Deplin is the prescription form of Vitamin B-9. It&#x27;s approved as an add-on therapy, for when patients don&#x27;t respond well to the prescriptions that never work.<p>Usually &#x27;mental health&#x27; diagnoses are manifestations of stress: emotional stress is the big one, but malnourishment is often a factor too. Stressed brains use more energy thinking about the stress all the time.<p>ECT should be retired from use. I heard once that brain damage causes the brain to increase production of the steroid allopregnanolone. The beneficial effect of the SSRI&#x27;s seem to also be related to increased allopregnanolone, NOT to boosting serotonin levels.<p>I wonder if my friend&#x27;s guardian [0] could consent to her getting electrocuted.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=33307982" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=33307982</a><p>Edit: She remembers being depressed for as far back as her memories go. Someone on twitter says food fortification didn&#x27;t really take off until the 1980&#x27;s. Before then you had to explicitly buy &quot;wonder bread&quot; to get fortified flour, now you can basically assume white flour is fortified white flour.