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.
um so at this point we now have over 50 published pilot trials case series case reports other lines of evidence of the ketogenic diet for psychiatric disorders um schizophrenia bipolar disorder depression anxiety anorexia or neosa surprisingly um these 50 reports represent over 1,900 people
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uh published by Ian Campbell and colleagues in the UK that uh they just did a pilot trial 20 patients with bipolar disorder put on ketogenic diets and they found in wide- ranging improvements in
so at this point we now have over 50 published pilot trials case series case reports other lines of evidence of the ketogenic diet for psychiatric disorders um schizophrenia bipolar disorder depression anxiety anorexia or neosa surprisingly um these 50 reports represent over 1,900 people and on balance the ketogenic diet appears to be an effective treatment sometimes an extraordinarily effective treatment like in able to induce remission of schizophrenia or bipolar um in people who otherwise had treatment resistant disorders and they're going off medication simultaneously some of them are
they just did a pilot trial 20 patients with bipolar disorder put on ketogenic diets and they found in wide- ranging improvements in metabolic Health biomarkers like weight blood pressure other things but they also found a reduction in brain um glutamate activity which is often associ iated with bipolar disorder and Hyper excitability and seizures
But Mayo Clinic just got funded over $3 million to do research on the role of ketogenic diets in serious mental illness.
And so I was sensitized to that area of of work and research and then dozens of other patients and I've met you know so many people now who who manage their mental health disorder with uh ketogenic diet and they they test you know their blood ketones to make sure they're still in in ketosis
she is now in remission from her schizophrenia she is in full remission
I've seen a number of patients now who have dramatically improved some of them have gone into complete remission after decades of serious disabling mental illness they've gone into complete remission been able to get off all medications and are kind of living the happy ever after story
we actually have a case series of ten schizophrenic patients dating all the way back to nineteen sixty five of the ketogenic diet for schizophrenia and they reported that the diet worked for them
And there's groups of people getting together...you know, there's a group that I'm involved in that's associated with metabolic psychiatry, and they are looking at dietary interventions for a broad range of psychiatric disorders. And that could be depression, that could be bipolar. Even eating disorders like anorexia is under the umbrella of a psychiatric disorder.