- The Truth About the KETO diet, APOE4 and Mental Health
In this video, psychiatric nurse practitioner Jezel Rosa breaks down how APOE, along with genes like FADS1, COMT, MTHFR, and BDNF, influences fat metabolism, brain inflammation, and cognitive
- Stanford Medicine expert shares five key insights on keto therapy and . . .
Growing scientific evidence suggests that a high-fat, moderate-protein, low-carbohydrate ketogenic diet can help those patients manage their metabolic health and improve psychiatric symptoms and the weight-gaining side effects of their anti-psychotic medications
- Pilot study shows ketogenic diet improves severe mental illness
Now, a pilot study led by Stanford Medicine researchers has found that a ketogenic diet not only restores metabolic health in these patients as they continue their medications, but it further improves their psychiatric conditions
- The Potential Role of the Ketogenic Diet in Serious Mental Illness . . .
The use of a KD can potentially improve the response to treatment and reduce the symptoms of serious mental illness (SMI): bipolar disorder (BD) [15], schizophrenia (SZ) [25], and major depressive disorder (MDD) [26] More and more evidence highlights the importance of nutrition in maintaining mental health
- Five things to know about keto therapy and serious mental illness
Growing scientific evidence suggests that a high-fat, moderate-protein, low-carbohydrate ketogenic diet can help those patients manage their metabolic health and improve psychiatric symptoms and the weight-gaining side effects of their anti-psychotic medications
- The Ketogenic Diet for Refractory Mental Illness: A Retrospective . . .
The administration of a ketogenic diet in this semi-controlled setting to patients with treatment-refractory mental illness was feasible, well-tolerated, and associated with significant and substantial improvements in depression and psychosis symptoms and multiple markers of metabolic health
- Ketogenic Therapy in Serious Mental Illness: Emerging Evidence
The ketogenic diet prevented the schizophrenia-like abnormal behaviors induced by acute MK-801 administration, including hyperactivity, stereotyped behavior, decreased sociability, working memory deficit, and impaired pre-pulse inhibition of startle in male mice (Kraeuter et al , 2015, 2019c)
- A Possible Connection Between Mental Illness and Diet
For nearly 10 years, Palmer has been a leading advocate of using the high-fat, moderate-protein, low-carbohydrate ketogenic diet — or “ketogenic metabolic therapy” as some clinicians call the rigorous and restrictive regimen to distinguish it from the popular weight-loss diet — to help people suffering from mental illness regain control
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