Does Schizophrenia Deplete PUF From The Body ?

[johnwester130]

"Another theory of schizophrenia based on the computer metaphor has to do with the idea that nerve cells’ wire-like and switch-like functions depend on their membranes, and, in the most popular version, that these all-important membranes are made of fish oil. The supporting evidence is supposed to be that the fish-oil-like fatty acids are depleted from the tissues of schizophrenics. Just looking at that point, the “evidence” is more likely to be the result of stress, which depletes unsaturated fatty acids, especially of the specified type, in producing lipid peroxides and other toxic molecules.


In one of its variations, the “essential fatty acid deficiency” doctrine suggests that a certain prostaglandin deficiency is the cause of schizophrenia, but experiments have shown that an excess of that prostaglandin mimics the symptoms of psychosis. "


What is schizophrenia then ?

 

[lampofred]

Extreme stress depletes PUFA (fasting, starvation) because your body has no option but to burn the PUFA as fuel. But if you deplete PUFA by burning it instead of allowing your liver to detox it, that is when you are doing the severe metabolic damage.