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Alcohol and pot, yes, though use of the two are common because of addiction and self-medication. The other two, no.

Ketogenic diet showed better results in treating bipolar disorder than medication. Bipolar disorder and schizophrenia seem to have to do with mutant mitochondria which metabolize differently. Fed a normal (carb-heavy) diet they are unable to produce sufficient energy, which leads to neurological degeneration.

I think link to sources would help here.

A finding of this magnitude which was actually proven in a way that the post seems to suggest would not be something you see only in one hacker news comment, because it would be huge.

This.

Not to mention all of the other variables to check, such as simply putting less energy into food prep (less stress) and so on.

here are the relevant results from the first page when I type "schizophrenia ketogenic diet" into google scholar

https://nutritionandmetabolism.biomedcentral.com/articles/10...

https://www.schres-journal.com/article/S0920-9964(15)30041-4...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3641835/

3 of those 4, and pot exasperating the mental condition after the fact, mhmm.

Weed is known to exacerbate psychosis.