
05/09/2024
An interesting pilot study of ketogenic diets for mental illness was published recently in Psychiatry Research. The study was a single-arm trial with 23 subjects with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder plus metabolic abnormalities. Inclusion criteria were diagnosis of one of those conditions and currently taking psychotropic medications, plus being overweight or having obesity (based on body mass index) and having gained more than 5 percent of their body mass while using psychotropic medications to manage their mental health condition, or having at least one metabolic abnormality, such as insulin resistance, impaired glucose tolerance, elevated triglycerides, or dyslipidemia.
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An interesting pilot study of ketogenic diets for mental illness was published recently in Psychiatry Research. The study was a single-arm trial with 23 subjects with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder plus metabolic abnormalities. Inclusion criteria were diagnosis of one of those conditions and curr...