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“Publication: Vitamin D hormone regulates serotonin synthesis. Part 1: relevance for autism. Publication: Vitamin D and the omega-3 fatty acids control serotonin synthesis and action, part 2: relevance for ADHD, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and impulsive behavior.”

“A larger randomized placebo-controlled study investigating the effects of sulforaphane on schizophrenia is ongoing and is expected to end in July of 2019. The dose of sulforaphane used in this study was approximately 17.7 mg for 7 days.”

Since sulforaphane’s discovery, countless studies have investigated its effects on many human diseases, including air pollution toxicity, asthma, autism[1][2], radiation dermatitis, schizophrenia, cancers of the bladder, breast, colon, lung, and prostate, and many others.

“Cellular damage incurred by oxidative stress underlies the pathophysiology of many chronic health disorders, including neuropsychiatric conditions such as schizophrenia. Glutathione, an antioxidant compound produced by the body’s cells, helps prevent damage from oxidative stress.”

“Approximately 95% of patients had improved mood after exercise. There have been several other intervention studies showing that exercise improves mood in people with depression, improves psychosis in people with schizophrenia, and improves anxiety.”

“Exercise silenced genes in sperm DNA involved in several diseases including schizophrenia, Parkinson's disease, cervical cancer, leukemia, and autism. In contrast, exercise activated genes involved in development and adaptation to exercise.”

“This study was able to pinpoint the 10% increase in body mass to altered gut bacteria by transplanting the gut microbiome from mice given the risperidone drug to the control mice and the same effect occurred. Risperidone is a common drug that is used to treat autism, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia in adults and children and its prescribing rate has increased 8-fold in the last 2 decades.”

“Heat stress as a means to sensitize pathways important to thermoregulatory cooling that also affect brain regions implicated in the regulation of mood. The thermoregulatory dysregulation found in other relevant psychiatric conditions outside of depression, such as schizophrenia.”