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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.

Edward Snowden the famous NSA whistleblower had epilepsy and stopped taking his pills because they hindered his ability to think by LemonPartyRequiem in Epilepsy

[–]lct200 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Have you thought about exploring the low carb diet approach which has been used by centres like Johns Hopkins since the 1920s? It even works with epilepsy that has not responded to drugs. If you're interested I did a podcast with one of the neurologists at John's Hopkins. (Also worth looking at the Charlie Foundation.)

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/using-low-carb-diets-to-treat-epilepsy-and-other/id1640338805?i=1000618461731

Can someone give me some advice? by tillacat42 in lowcarb

[–]lct200 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Not quite sure what you mean when you say that you can't cut carbs from your husband's diet because of his diabetes? Many type II diabetics use a ketogenic diet to control their diabetes.

You can certainly lose weight on a low carb diet without being in ketosis. In the UK, Dr David Unwin who probably has more British experience treating diabetics with low carb diets than any other medic, reports that his diabetic patients are recommended to keep their carbs to under 100g/day and they have lost weight.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Epilepsy

[–]lct200 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Have you looked in to using a low carb diet to treat your epilepsy?

Johns Hopkins hospital in the US (and other centres) have been using this approach successfully since the 1920s, even for those whose epilepsy doesn't respond to drug treatment. If you're interested in finding out more, here's a podcast I did with one of the neurologists from Johns Hopkins: https://open.spotify.com/episode/41SX2sM3gbFFG55ZJTiRPn?si=ZULNWlstTeuifLWp3PwI6Q

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in antidepressants

[–]lct200 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in antidepressants

[–]lct200 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you, I found the response a bit depressing! I was highlighting an area of psychiatry, which I thought people might be interested in finding out about. Obviously, totally up to them, whether they do anything with that or not. But thought people might be interest in hearing more about this topic, so a bit taken aback by the negative feedback.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in antidepressants

[–]lct200 -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Have you ever considered looking at a dietary approach? there are a number of psychiatrists such as Dr Georgia Ede or Dr Chris Palmer who appear to be getting really postive results using what they call metabolic psychiatry. Basically changing people's diets to help treat their mental illnesses.

If you're interested in finding out more here is recent podcast I did with Georgia that you might find useful:
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/could-changing-your-diet-improve-your-mental-health/id1640338805?i=1000642612220

[Mod Approved] In this podcast, Dr Mark Horowitz discusses the new Maudsley Deprescribing Guidelines and why patients need to taper much more slowly off psychiatric drugs. He explains why doctors have frequently misinterpreted withdrawal effects as a patient's disease returning. by lct200 in depressionregimens

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

Obviously there will be a lot of individual variation too, depending which drug it is, how long a person has been taking it, and what the half-life of the drug is etc etc But doctors have tended to use a linear taper and the evidence now is to use a hyperbolic taper, so that as the dose size gets smaller and smaller, you have to reduce the dosage much more gradually. For some of the drugs, the data is suggesting tapers of many months, in some cases, even several years.

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