Bad News Food | Obesity-Diabetes-Schizophrenia Linked

Researchers have established a molecular connection between diabetes and schizophrenia, one that connects food and mood.

Vanderbilt University Medical Center investigators have discovered a molecular link between impaired insulin signaling in the brain and schizophrenia-like behaviors in mice. The findings, reported June 8 in PLoS Biology, offer a new perspective on the psychiatric and cognitive disorders that affect patients with diabetes and suggest new strategies for treating these conditions. via Science Daily

Researchers already know that insulin — the hormone that governs glucose metabolism in the body — also regulates dopamine, the brain’s neurotransmitter focused on attention and reward, and also motor activity. Disrupted dopamine signaling is already implicated in brain disorders including depression, Parkinson’s disease, schizophrenia and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder. 

To be clear — this research connects many Love to Eat dots already documented here at AOC. The scientific research between obesity and mental disorders grows stronger monthly. It’s truly time to recast the obesity debate out of body image and culture’s attacks on large-size women and onto the personal health platform, where it belongs. Anne

Comments

[Yale Landsberg]

Many ills, not just diabetes and schizophrenia, that men suffer and even more so women, are now known to be associated with poorly functioning body clocks and disrupted circadian rhythms. And a woman's circadian rhythm affects her menstrual cycle and vice versa.

Yet to the best of our knowledge, only our Better Times Project is seeking to see how much being more aware of sun time and also moon time might assist our minds and bodies being more in tune with Nature's rhythms and cycles. Since you are an iconoclast, a deep thinker, and fashion leader, a feminist, a cultural creative as well as having perhaps the most interesting and delighfully raunchy blog on the web, my wife of forty years and I are hoping that you will take a look at what we are doing and give us some suggestions. Note: as you would see, while we may be onto something cool and perhaps even important, we are light-weights when it comes to everything that you are expert at. And your counsel would be very much appreciated.

Warmest regards, Yale and Jackie Landsberg Charlottesville

[Yale Landsberg]

Hi Anne, much thanks for posting our comment. But, alas, it is an example of how poorly we are going about spreading the Better Tymes/TrueTyme word. :-(

In any case, would you also please post this follow-up comment of ours? Because we are embarrassed to say that not only did we omit our http://TrueTyme.org site info in the body of our original comment for those interested in using for free our TrueTyme clock and more, but, perhaps even worse, we spelled the name of our project incorrectly. Its correct name is The Better Tymes Project. :-)

Warmest regards, Yale and Jackie