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Schizophrenia can be cured with niacin (vitamin B3). Search for Adam Hoffer's achievements


It's weird that you would state that so confidently when, as wikipedia says, "Hoffer's ideas about megavitamin therapy to treat mental illness are not accepted by the medical community." It didn't pan out.


Didn't pan out because it's not the plan to pan out. The plan is to make people think there's something wrong with them and recycle them with insurance.


It didn't pan out because attempts to replicate it didn't work. He seems like another LSD abuser who thinks every idea they have is good or maybe a grifter who wanted to maintain interest in fruitless theories.


Every single time someone has told me a disease could be cured with vitamins, it was scurvy or bullshit.


Enzymatic cofactors (vitamins) many not a be cure, but maybe a better, cheaper, less harmful, treatment. Take pyridoxine (B6) as an example.

Also, did you know vitamin C deficiency not only casues scurvy but mood disorders as well? The neuropsychiatric effects of vitamin C deficiency: a systematic review https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7302360/

on Pyridoxine:

Pyridoxamine: A novel treatment for schizophrenia with enhanced carbonyl stress https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/pcn.12613

Vitamin B6 deficiency hyperactivates the noradrenergic system, leading to social deficits and cognitive impairment https://www.nature.com/articles/s41398-021-01381-z

Vitamin B6 as add-on treatment in chronic schizophrenic and schizoaffective patients: a double-blind, placebo-controlled study https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11838627/

Decreased serum pyridoxal levels in schizophrenia: meta-analysis and Mendelian randomization analysis https://www.jpn.ca/content/43/3/194.abstract

Treatment of Pyroluric Schizophrenia(Malvaria) With Large Doses of Pyridoxineand a Dietary Supplement of Zinc https://isom.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/JOM_1974_03_4_11_...


Very Nice! I have a request...can you possibly add MemoryRAG?


Schizophrenia is the result of deficiency (and dependency) of vitamin B3, aka niacin. Adam Hoffer's therapy cured thousands


Is Termux enough to run the 1B model on Android?


depends on your phone, but try a couple of these variants with ollama https://ollama.com/library/llama3.2/tags

e.g. `ollama run llama3.2:1b-instruct-q4_0`


LMStudio + AnythingLLM


Good riddance!! In Brazil we've been using the Pix payment system account to account for well over 2 years! India has a similar system in place


I believe that can be compared to BLIK in Poland, which offers that but already has very wide adoption locally. To the point that you can use it for phone to phone transfers, online payments and even paying directly in card terminals for cashless payments on every store (terminals are very widely adopted here) or ATM withdrawals.

I guess Visa could try to be the first one to offer similar but truly worldwide.


India’s NPCI helped Brazil build Pix.


"While researchers determine the cause"...


It's often said human bodies are very tolerant to abuse. But are they? Wouldn't surprise me if (with hindsight, in a few decades or so) such claims will be walked back on.

Ultra-processed foods, microplastics, a variety of volatile organic compounds (VOCs), pesticides, PFAS, medicines flushed in toilets with some of them persistent in environment, heavy metals, 1000s of plastic additives, the list goes on. All of those getting everywhere & with happily interacting, poorly understood effects. And then we're 'surprised' early-onset cancers are on the rise.


I'm about to implement https://www.getlago.com/ on my SAAS. Spoke to the team, great bunch


I mostly again with the author, except on the NFT point. QR codes are meant for screens, not printed material. They can be set to refresh every 15 seconds. So anywhere there's a QR code there should be a screen


Even if these studies, barely making statistical relevance, were accurate, they still fail to highlight the fact that vitamin B3 cures schizophrenia


I am not aware of any testing that has approved vitamin B3 (niacin) as a treatment for schizophrenia. Perhaps you are thinking of vitamin B13.

At one time orotic acid was known as vitamin B13. It is no longer considered a vitamin. It is interesting that orotic acid can combine with lithium to form lithium orotate and some people believe it could be used as a treatment.

Lithium (carbonate) is sometimes used for the treatment of schizophrenia and although lithium orotate can also provide lithium, it has not passed testing for approval in any medical treatment that I have encountered.


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