September 05, 2026
You are What You Eat, and You Kill That way Too
Timothy Birdnow
Jeannie DeAngelis, who puts the Jeanie in Jeanieology, pens a thought provoking piece at American Thinker this morning on the Lindsay Clancey case and how her diet may have impacted her crazy behavior.
DeAngelis first points out that before Clancey lowered the boom she worked at a hospital which required a COVID vaccination. The clot shot has been implicated in anxiety and depression and a host of other psychiatric disorders.
Then Jeanie gets to the meat of it; Clancey wanted to be "healthy" and ate a diet heavy in plant matter and light in, well, the stuff that makes life worth living.
The article states:
We know that on the night of the murders, Lindsay ordered ThreeV’s Mediterranean Power Bowl, which contained plant-heavy foods. Testimony indicates that when asked whether she wanted protein with the meal, she politely declined. The trial also revealed that the nanny, Elaine Rossi, received detailed daily food-prep notes from Lindsay instructing her to feed the children sweet potatoes; in closing arguments, Reddington also mentioned beets. This is not surprising, given that the nanny said Lindsay appeared overly concerned with weight, fitness, food, and health.
Clancy’s litany of symptoms included: loss of appetite, "crazy brain fog,” disconnection, severe insomnia, anxiety, a diagnosis of being in a postpartum state, apparent preoccupation with food and health, plant-based food choices, detailed household food preparation, and obsession with food and sleep schedules for herself and her children.
I've always said healthy living will kill you. And I'm still alive while people I know who were obsessed with healthy living are not - go figure.
And while I don't think this is a good excuse it certainly is a mitigating circumstance, if true. You think and feel how you eat in many instances. America has become obsessed with "healthy" food, non-carnivorous food, and appearing to be fit and thin are the holy grail of modernity. But that comes at a price, perhaps a great price.
DeAngelis continues:
The literature recognizes that apparent postpartum psychiatric syndromes can occasionally have metabolic or endocrine causes that should be ruled out, especially in a murder trial in which postpartum psychosis is blamed for the brutal strangulation deaths of three children.
There is even a publislhed case of a woman initially diagnosed with postpartum psychosis whose symptoms were ultimately traced to a late-onset urea-cycle disorder.
Key signs of this disorder sound familiar: extreme tiredness (lethargy) and confusion. Psychiatric symptoms such as behavioral changes, hallucinations, delusions, or sudden combativeness are often mistaken for a mental health crisis. Gastrointestinal issues can also occur, including self-imposed avoidance of high-protein foods like meat, known as auto-selective vegetarianism.
This is interesting given Lindsay’s request that protein not be added to her power bowl.
So did green vegetables drive Lindsay Clancey mad? I know most vegetarians are coocoo for Cocoa Puffs and the question always is which came first? The chicken or the egg? Do crazy people become vegetarians or does eating all those vegetables make people crazy?
I don't know but I think Jeannie has a point here.
The article goes on to point to a number of vitamins and minerals lost by mothers before and after child birth.
One interesting point she makes is the lack of sunlight in her part of Massachusetts and how that would lead to a vitamin D deficit. Interesting. Many years ago I had a relative who moved up to Wyoming and her husband had to bring her back because she was going mad. Lack of sunlight during the winter months had the poor woman in a deep depression and they feared she might harm herself. Once she came back down south she perked right up!
In Alaska people actually walk around with sunlamps in hats during the winter to buoy their spirits. Lack of vitamin D leads to black depressions.
Jeannie points out:
While bringing up vitamins and sunlight as possible contributors to murder may seem silly to some, it’s not.
Because medicine itself has investigated the relationship between postpartum depression and micronutrient status, Lindsay's nutritional state isn't inherently outside the scientific conversation about symptoms attributed to postpartum illness.
There is no way to prove that Lindsay Clancy was vegetarian, but historically, vegetarians do struggle with low B12. Although several of the subjects were not anemic, the authors of a 1981 Biological Psychiatry review recommended that serum B12 testing be considered when patients present with the psychiatric symptoms described in the study.
She's right. It certainly is a failure of her doctors in not testing for stuff like this. It may not excuse Clancey but it certainly is a mitigating circumstance. Her lawyers should have looked into this.
That said, I do not in any way excuse her for this. She could have turned her children over to foster care for a while, or asked her husband to take them and go for their own protection. She could have handed them to her own parents or her husbands. She didn't and in fact she lied to her husband and set the murders up carefully. I know it's possible to do terrible things and still be calculating even while insane, but that is why she should be incarcerated, probably for the rest of her life. BUT insanity is a valid defense and always has been in English Common Law and in the laws based on Latin legal codes. I would add we are asking a jury to make that decision when they do not have any sort of background to understand many of the issues involved.
I sat on a jury one time. It was a very long trial and I was picked because the company I worked for had just gone out of business so I was unemployed - the perfect juror for a trial that would last over a month. This was a civil suit where some wealthy people had contracted to build a luxury home and the contractor screwed it up. He refused to fix the problems, and they began a campaign against him, putting out fliers warning people not to do business with him. He countersued.
Now, I have friends who are in the trades and I longed to speak with them about this trial but of course I was muzzled. Still, I knew the rich folks got the shaft even if I didn't like them (they seemed pretty arrogant) and DID like the contractor. We couldn't agree and went back to the judge saying as a jury we were hung (and to quote Madelein Kahn in History of the World "not necessarily!") The judge insisted we come to a verdict and I was a holdout, as were a couple of other guys and one very sweet, soft girl who was just sick about it coming down to her vote. (I talked to her, telling her I supported her decision and that she shouldn't sweat it so much). In the end we crafted the worst pile of parrot droppings of a verdict ever, finding for the contractor but making him pay to fix everything, thus everyone was very unhappy at the end of it. There were no winners, which is why we made the decision the way we did.
The point is we made that decision largely because nobody understood the problems. I spoke with my friends in the trades after. My friend, who is a master plumber, busted out laughing when I told him about the plumbing problem. He knew exactly what the contractor had done to cut costs and it was pretty shady.
The reality is we were wholly unqualified to rule on this subject.
I think this is especially true in this case. The jury could ONLY go on what was presented to them, and they didn't understand it when it was. While it may or may not have made the right decision the fact is it was like putting your faith in a folk healer to diagnose your brain cancer.
The jury system is the best we can think up, but that doesn't make it very good. It ends up coming down to who can do a better job of reading potential jurors and stacking the bench with those who will be favorable to you.
At any rate I generally shy away from the true crime stories for this and other reasons. They don't interest me all that much. But I found Jeannie's article thought-provoking and wanted to share it with you all.
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