The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
But the disorders range from chronic depression to-- we've got a trial underway for PTSD. We've got one actually decent pilot trial from the National Institutes of Health for the ketogenic diet for alcohol use disorder, of all things. And we can go into that a little more. We've got a couple of pilot trials of the ketogenic diet for Alzheimer's disease. And those are randomized controlled trials.
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he's looked at ways that people can use ketogenic diet maybe not to cure but to treat and in some cases maybe even cure schizophrenia
And we've used ketogenic diets in neurologic conditions, like epilepsy, in medicine for decades. We now know, for example, that ketogenic diets can be very effective for schizophrenia, for things like autism, for Alzheimer's, for people with bipolar disease or depression or anxiety. And this has to do with its effect on the metabolism and the way it affects our brain and our mitochondria.