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Ketogenic diet associated with 70% decrease in depression symptoms in new pilot study

Karina Petrova
psypost.org
Tue, 30 Sep 2025 00:00 UTC
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© Adobe StockKeto Diet
A new study suggests that a well-formulated ketogenic diet, followed for at least 10 weeks, is associated with a significant reduction in depression symptoms among a small group of college students. Published in the journal Translational Psychiatry, the research also documented notable improvements in the participants' overall well-being and their performance on several cognitive tests.

The research was prompted by the rising prevalence of major depression, particularly on college campuses. Existing treatments, such as psychotherapy and medication, are effective for many but do not help everyone and can come with unwanted side effects. Researchers led by Drew D. Decker at The Ohio State University sought to explore a different approach, one that addresses the potential link between metabolic health and depression.

A growing body of evidence connects issues like insulin resistance and excess body fat to an increased risk of depression, possibly through inflammatory pathways. The team hypothesized that a dietary intervention known to improve metabolic health, the very low-carbohydrate ketogenic diet, might serve as a beneficial add-on therapy for students already receiving treatment for depression.
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Brain

'Groundbreaking' gene therapy is first treatment for Huntington's disease to slow the condition

Nicoletta Lanes
Live Science
Wed, 24 Sep 2025 16:58 UTC
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© KATERYNA KON/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY via Getty ImagesHuntington's disease is an inheritable condition that causes brain cells to die. A new gene therapy may help slow the disease's progression, trial data suggest.
In a groundbreaking first, a gene therapy in clinical trials has slowed the progression of Huntington's disease, a rare genetic disorder in which toxic bits of protein cause brain cells to malfunction and die.

To date, approved treatments for Huntington's disease aim to manage its symptoms, which most often emerge in a person's 30s or 40s. The progressive condition injures and kills key neurons involved in controlling mood, cognition and motor control. Various drugs can help to offset the depression, hallucinations and poorly coordinated movements that arise from that destruction.

However, no available treatments have been shown to slow the underlying drivers of Huntington's, and patients typically die within 10 to 25 years of their symptoms starting.

Comment: More research on Huntington's disease:

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Syringe

Best of the Web: The child vaccine schedule is finally under fire

Jeffrey Tucker
ZeroHedge
Thu, 25 Sep 2025 21:00 UTC
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© Andrew Harnik / Getty ImagesPresident Donald Trump and Secretary of Health and Human Service Robert F. Kennedy Jr, sannounce plans to combat what his team calls an "autism epidemic".
Well, Donald Trump did it. He scheduled a news conference on the science of autism, what we know and what we do not, and handled it masterfully. He is profoundly aware that as a parent and the president of the United States that he can make points that his own science advisors cannot make for reasons political, sociological, and scientific.

Trump, however, knows that expecting mothers and families still have to make decisions and those decisions could affect the health and well-being of their children for the rest of their lives. Nothing is more important. Meanwhile, autism is an epidemic. Something is causing this.

There is no such thing as a genetic epidemic. Nor is this traceable to changed definitions of the term else we would see a growing distribution among adults too, which we do not. FDA head Marty Makary, normally very cautious and careful in his statements, said the straightforward thing that no one has stated as clearly: autism is preventable.
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Syringe

As it always should have been: CDC vaccine panel votes to change COVID-19 vaccine guidance - "individual-based decision"

Joseph Choi
The Hill
Sat, 20 Sep 2025 21:18 UTC
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© Unknown/KJNU.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
A federal vaccine advisory panel voted on Friday to recommend people talk with a clinician before getting a Covid vaccine, while voting against a motion to require prescriptions for the shot.

All 12 members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) voted unanimously to update COVID-19 guidance so coronavirus vaccinations for all people should be based on "individual-based decision making."

For people between six months and 64 years old, the recommendation advised that vaccinations be based on individual-based decision-making along "with an emphasis that the risk-benefit of vaccination is most favorable for individuals who are at an increased risk for severe COVID-19 disease and lowest for individuals who are not at an increased risk, according to the CDC list of COVID-19 risk factors."
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Syringe

Best of the Web: Why is every newborn forced to get the dangerous Hepatitis B vaccine?

A Midwestern Doctor
The Forgotten Side of Medicine
Thu, 18 Sep 2025 19:57 UTC
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The suppressed history behind the Hep B vaccine and the actual risks and benefits of it we are never told about.

In order to have a healthy and meaningful life, people need to have a unifying purpose behind everything they do. Recognizing the importance of this at a young age (as I saw many lacking one struggle greatly), I decided to devote myself to the pursuit of truth, regardless of where it took me. From this, I quickly realized how difficult this was, as on virtually every issue, there is a massive amount of ambiguity, which inevitably leads you reaching false conclusions produced from your existing biases.

Because of this, whenever I try to figure out why something "bad" is happening, I take numerous possibilities (often over a dozen) into consideration, and frequently never fully commit to any as I don't feel a definitive case was made for any of them — an approach which lies in stark contrast to those who come across one explanation and immediately commit to espousing it (as it "makes sense"). Rather, I patiently wait and have faith I will eventually uncover the thread that ties all the disparate pieces together (which when finally revealed, is an immense source of joy).
Note: this is why, while I sometimes claim things are true, I am also quite deliberate in prefacing other statements with "I suspect" or "I believe."
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Promising preliminary research finds diet change could make brain cancer easier to treat

RJ Mackenzie
Live Science
Tue, 16 Sep 2025 21:26 UTC
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© DR P. MARAZZI/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY via Getty ImagesScientists uncovered a unique way the brain cancer glioblastoma relies on serine, an amino acid.
A new lab study exploited a unique aspect of metabolism in glioblastoma to boost the effectiveness of chemoradiation, turning the cancer's properties against itself.

A dietary change may make the fatal brain cancer glioblastoma more vulnerable to cancer therapies, a new study suggests.

The researchers behind the work think this dietary change exploits a key metabolic vulnerability in the cancer, and their work demonstrates that the approach extends survival in mice when used in combination with chemoradiation therapy.

Healthy cells in the brain need fuel to maintain their extensive list of functions, like electrical signaling and the release of chemical messengers. Cancer cells dispose of these normal processes as they rewire to become "professional dividing cells," said study co-author Costas Lyssiotis, a professor of oncology at the University of Michigan.

Comment: Interesting work, but it seems they missed the obvious:
"The tumor cells, by contrast, set these processes aside. Instead, the cancer cells directed glucose to produce nucleotides — the building blocks of DNA. These molecules are vital fuel sources for the tumor cells' endless replication."
Why not start by cutting excess sugar in all its forms (carbs and simple sugars) out of the patient's diet to begin with, and then monitor the results? Oh wait, it's been done:

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Life Preserver

Keto, Ivermectin, & Fenbendazole: New Cancer Treatment Protocol Gains Momentum

Stu Cvrk
American Greatness
Fri, 05 Sep 2025 16:25 UTC
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A groundbreaking hybrid protocol using repurposed drugs and nutrients left one man cancer-free after Stage 4 prostate cancer — at a fraction of standard treatment costs.

In 2023, according to the US Centers for Disease Control, 613,349 Americans died of cancer. That number is projected to increase to over 618,000 this year. As a result, medical research has been focused on the development of cancer treatment protocols for decades for all types of cancer.

Comment: It is wonderful to witness "experts" now seeing the common sense approach to combating cancer.

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Syringe

Russian cancer vaccine 'ready for use' - health official


RT
Sun, 07 Sep 2025 18:20 UTC
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© Ramil Sitdikov/RIA NovostiHead of Russia's Federal Medical-Biological Agency, Veronika Skvortsova • Gamaleya Center • January 2016
The breakthrough drug reduced tumor size and growth by up to 80% in early testing.

Russia's newly developed cancer vaccine has shown high effectiveness in preclinical trials and is ready for rollout, according to Veronika Skvortsova, head of the Federal Medical-Biological Agency.

The breakthrough drug is awaiting approval from the Russian Health Ministry.

The vaccine showed excellent results in three years of preclinical trials, the official told Izvestia on Friday on the sidelines of the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok.

Skvortsova said:
"The [trials] have proven the safety of the vaccine, including its repeated use, as well as its high efficiency, which was associated with a reduction in tumor size and a slowdown in tumor growth."
She added that in some cancers, the effect reached 60-80%.
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Syringe

Florida surgeon general says state will eliminate all vaccine mandates

Minyvonne Burke
NBC News
Wed, 03 Sep 2025 21:24 UTC
line for a COVID-19 vaccine
© ReutersHundreds wait in line for a COVID-19 vaccine in December 2020, days after it became available.
"Every last one of them is wrong and drips with disdain and slavery," Dr. Joseph Ladapo said. "Who am I to tell you what your child should put in [their] body?"

Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo said Wednesday that the state will work to eliminate all vaccine mandates, a move that drew condemnation from public health experts.

"All of them. All of them," Ladapo said during a news conference as the crowd stood and erupted in applause. "Every last one of them is wrong and drips with disdain and slavery." He said the Florida Department of Health will work in partnership with the governor.

He said forcing vaccine mandates is "wrong" and "immoral."
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Syringe

Best of the Web: Houston, We Have Another Problem


The Ethical Sceptic
Tue, 19 Aug 2025 20:56 UTC
mrna vaccination pregnancy baby
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This follow-up to our earlier report, Houston, We Have a Problem, identifies a new and deeply concerning signal: excess infant and child mortality in those who neither contracted Covid-19 nor received the vaccine themselves, but whose parents bore prior mRNA exposure. The evidence points to two neglected risks — teratogenic effects passed in utero and transgenerational epigenetic effects transmitted through germline biology — together forming a warning of historic consequence for generations yet unborn.
We again invoke the Apollo 13 crew's now-immortal phrase, "Houston, we have a problem," as the title-thematic of this article — offered as a direct continuation of our earlier blockbuster report, Houston, We Have a Problem. That first analysis marked the earliest significant identification of morbidity and mortality impacts associated with the Covid-19 mRNA vaccine. It stood as a "shot heard around the world," revealing excess non-Covid natural-cause mortality across multiple ICD-coded categories documented within the National Vital Statistics System (NVSS). Much as thalidomide once forced medicine to reckon with teratogenic risk, these findings underscored the ethical necessity of considering systemic, population-wide harms that may only emerge through rigorous epidemiological tracking.
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