Andrew Huberman· PhD
It's an established evidence-based treatment for epilepsy. We use evidence-based treatments for epilepsy across the board for a wide range of mental disorders. And so in many ways, that's all I'm doing with the ketogenic diet.
The evidence is convergent. Multiple independent sources reach the same conclusion, the underlying mechanism is well-characterized, and even the field's most cautious voices treat it as worth doing.
It's an established evidence-based treatment for epilepsy. We use evidence-based treatments for epilepsy across the board for a wide range of mental disorders. And so in many ways, that's all I'm doing with the ketogenic diet.
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if this diet stopped seizures and the neurologists like legitimately neurologists are using it for legitimate neurological disorders like epilepsy maybe we should be using it for like legitimate psychiatric disorders just like we currently use depakote neurontin and valium all those other things for all the disorders and symptoms were treating