Mental Health Keto

A focus on adherence signals and implementation fidelity Some of you may be seeing people talk about the RCT that came out for Depression using ketogenic diets. The results were not much to write home about, as they say. So you are probably seeing posts like these on different platforms. First Keto trial in treatment resistant depression (n=88)▪ Compared it to adding fruit/veg▪ Barely positive…

Most people are told a simplified explanation of thyroid physiology. They are told that if they reduce carbohydrates their thyroid function will decline and that carbohydrates are required for a healthy thyroid. When they lower carbohydrates and begin to feel fatigued, cold, anxious, or experience menstrual or sleep disruption it is easy to attribute all of those changes to carbohydrate intake…

Some of you have been doing a ketogenic diet for a while. And some of you haven’t. And regardless of how long you have been doing your ketogenic diet, you may not have had very good ketone levels or may have of had higher ketones in the beginning and watched them plummet or become inconsistent without a reason you could figure out. And when you asked about it in forums and watched YouTube videos…

What if standard of care access is already there waiting for us, thanks to the epilepsy centers who have paved the way worldwide? Could expansion of services in epilepsy centers offering Ketogenic Therapy increase access for children and adults with mental illness wanting to use it as a treatment? Hear me out, and then tell me your thoughts in the comments. Introduction Ketogenic Diet Therapy…

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Keeping keto for mental health simple (and affordable) means choosing high-fat options made from healthy fats (coconut, avocado, olive, and animal fats), and nutrient-dense foods that require little to no prep. Stop telling yourself this can’t be done. It’s doable. It’s affordable. And if you are currently in really bad shape, I promise you there are likely people in your life and even in…

What’s Coming and Why It Matters to the Future Adoption of Ketogenic Diets as a Standard of Care for Mental Illness Recently, a very important pilot study was published by Stanford University. And it’s important you understand how the publication of this pilot trial is building momentum in the metabolic psychiatry movement. They reported some amazing clinical outcomes that came from a total of…

Introduction In this post, I will briefly outline some of the research showing that a ketogenic diet can be an excellent treatment for Binge Eating Disorder (BED). We will not be going into the underlying mechanisms involved in the pathology seen in Binge Eating Disorder (BED) or how the ketogenic diet can modify them. That article is available below if you have not already read it. Ketogenic…

Introduction I am very behind in writing this article. To be honest, I have avoided writing about the use of ketogenic diets with eating disorders completely. I didn’t want to deal with what I imagined would be the backlash from the clinical psychology community, which has a strong belief that any type of restriction in choices of food will lead to a worsening of symptoms or has the power to…

Exploring BHB’s Role in Mental Health: Epigenetic Modulation as a Metabolic Psychiatry Treatment Estimated reading time: 16 minutes So when we talk about ketogenic diets making ketones, and those ketones are molecular signaling bodies, this is what I mean. BHB is the most well-studied ketone body in the literature at this time. That doesn’t mean that the other ketone bodies do not have…

Will exogenous BHB supplements treat my mental illness? I get it. You don’t want to change your diet. Totally understandable. And my answer to whether exogenous β-Hydroxybutyrate (also known as beta hydroxy-butyrate or BHB) supplements will treat your mental illness is that I don’t know. And even the experts on exogenous ketones don’t know. Although they strongly hypothesize that there could be…

What is up with this keto rash? Estimated reading time: 15 minutes This article is going to talk about something called a keto rash, which can happen in some people initiating a ketogenic diet. We are going to review some articles shared with me by Marco Medeot. If you are on LinkedIn and do not follow Marco, let me assure you that you are missing out. He really does share some of the best…

Estimated reading time: 19 minutes Table of contentsIntroductionRestoring Brain Energy: Ketogenic Diets and Substance Use DisordersNeuroinflammation in Substance Use: How the Ketogenic Diet Offers ReliefCombating Oxidative Stress and Mitochondrial Dysfunction: The Protective Role of the Ketogenic Diet in Substance Use DisordersNeurotransmitters and Reward Systems in SUDs: The Balancing Act of…

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but ketogenic diets are being investigated as a treatment for eating disorders. Yes, even Anorexia. Case studies treating anorexia with ketogenic diets have been published with some stellar results. And so now the real work begins in furthering the research literature for this population. UCSD is carving a fresh path, and I think you should know about it and…

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