… Is that how he’s self treating his own?
I think we should make him Trump’s personal health advisor.
Kennedy Jr’s statement probably referred to the Harvard psychiatrist Dr Christopher Palmer, who said he has “never once used the word ‘cure’ in my work. I have never claimed to have cured any mental illness, including schizophrenia,” but added: “I have talked about ketogenic diet being a very powerful treatment, even to the point of inducing remission of symptoms of schizophrenia.”
Of all the things to criticise RFK for, confusing the technical definition of “cure” and “treatment” seems like pedantry.
When discussing them, Palmer was quick to emphasise that “yes, it’s only two”, and that “case reports don’t prove anything. They’re not controlled. They come with tremendous amounts of bias.” But, Palmer noted, that can be important for generating hypotheses about what treatments might work.
Sounds like there is little to no actual evidence that this is even a possibly real treatment and requires significant further study. This is straight out of the author’s mouth. Statements like RFK Jr made have real impact, and there may be a bunch of people about to stop their psych meds as a result of this.
Palmer was clear that nobody should stop psychiatric medications without careful supervision.
Too late
While one of the patients in his study worked with her doctor to safely taper off her psychiatric medications, the other decided to stop all of them suddenly on her own. “Let me be clear, that was an unmitigated catastrophe for her. She became severely psychotic. She was hospitalized for over two months,” Palmer said. That patient continued her diet throughout her hospitalization, and had to go back on medication before tapering off safely.
