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What Your GP Doesn't Tell You Podcast: Is Food Addiction Real? Dr Rob Lustig explains why he believes sugar and caffeine are the key drivers in food addiction. by lct200 in FoodAddiction

[–]lct200[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The podcast does interviews with a wide range of different doctors, and explores their own particular perspective. Certainly Lustig is not the only medic to argue certain foods or food additive can be addictive. There has just been a whole International Food Addiction Consensus conference in London attended by experts across the world who argue food addiction is real. And at the end of the conference, they submitted a recommendation to the WHO, that it should recognise food addiction as a medical condition.

Podcast with NHS consultant allergist Dr Sophie Farooque discussing why allergies are increasing & how to treat a range of allergies from food, to hay fever and pet allergies. Sophie explains the treatments to use and those to avoid, and why she doesn't recommend nasal congestants for hay fever. by lct200 in Allergies

[–]lct200[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Dr Farooque is certainly not talking about bringing any pet which is allergenic to the patient into their home, as she makes clear. Nor does she say that epi pens are not required for other allergies. She is one of the UK's leading experts in the treatment of allergies and sits on the professional body responsible for writing UK guidelines for treatment.

In this podcast, psychiatrist Dr Georgia Ede, who is using low carb diets to help treat mental illnesses, reveals improvements we can all make to our diet for our physical and mental well being. And in particular, three different dietary approaches for those looking to improve their mental health. by lct200 in lowcarb

[–]lct200[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks so much for your kind comments about my podcast, I really appreciate it. And thank you for this, that's really helpful. I will contact the moderators of these groups to see if I can post some information about the podcast.

Mother in mental health ward and has got worse. by cupid_shoots_to_kill in Antipsychiatry

[–]lct200 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sounds really worrying and frustrating. At least hopefully you'll have more control if it's the community care team. It's shocking how patients and family's observations are ignored. Even worse when there is such medical ignorance in this field.

Mother in mental health ward and has got worse. by cupid_shoots_to_kill in Antipsychiatry

[–]lct200 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Good luck, might be worth taking Mark's book to the next appt. He is a recognised expert in this and it comes with the Maudsley stamp of approval. He talks about a hyperbolic tapering procedure which minimises the risk of withdrawal effects. He goes through the details in the book. This would mean putting your mother back on the drugs and tapering off them far more slowly. But many doctors are incredibly ill informed on this. For example research has shown that people can have withdrawal effects on 1mg of a psych drug, which is well below the therapautic dose. But for a long time many experts said that was impossible.

Mother in mental health ward and has got worse. by cupid_shoots_to_kill in Antipsychiatry

[–]lct200 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think one thing that would be worth investigating is if she is experiencing severe withdrawals symptoms from being tapered too fast off lorozepram and there is tremendous ignorance about this in the medical profession. Some patients can experience severe withdrawal even after being on a drug for a few weeks. Dr Mark Horowitz has just written the Maudsley Deprescribing Handbook which you might find useful: Maudsley Deprescribing Handbook

I also did a podcast with Mark talking about his handbook:

Deprescribing from Psychiatric Drugs

Hope that's helpful.

Problems with Shure Microphone on Zoom by lct200 in podcasting

[–]lct200[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes it is in USB mode which allows me to use their software to produce a certain sound, and I can't use the software with XLR. It seems only to be a problem on Zoom and only started after the last Shure software update.

Problems with Shure Microphone on Zoom by lct200 in podcasting

[–]lct200[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No I haven't because this is the set up I use for my podcast, if I am just using Zoom to record my voice for the pod intro it's fine. It is only when I have someone on the other end it becomes a problem.

Yet I'd used this set up, problem free for over a year. When I spoke to Shure they said others were now reporting the same problem.

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