A clinical trial conducted by researchers at Stanford found a ketogenic diet may help people with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder.
A ketogenic diet consisting of low-carb, high-fat foods may ease the symptoms of serious mental illness and reduce weight gain and other side effects from the drugs used to treat it, new research shows., led by researchers at Stanford Medicine, recruited 23 patients diagnosed with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder and instructed them to follow a diet consisting of 10 percent carbohydrates, 30 percent protein and about 60 percent fat.
To determine how well they were sticking to the diet, patients were monitored with weekly blood tests. Fourteen of the participants stuck with the diet and six were “semi-adherent.” One person was not adherent, and two more dropped out of the study. Before starting the diet, 29 percent of the participants had at least three of the five markers for metabolic syndrome — a cluster of conditions that together raise the
“The big questions around keto and patients with severe mental illness are around compliance, sustainability and potential negative metabolic effects,” Ramsey wrote in an email.A high-fat diet causes your body to burn fat for energy, instead of glucose. This process leads to the production of ketones, an acid produced when the body breaks down fat. Ketones don’t rely on the same “metabolic machinery” the body uses to turn glucose into energy, Sethi said.to treat epilepsy.
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