A new study conducted by the researchers of Standford Medicine has revealed a ketogenic diet can not only help restore metabolic health but it can further improve serious psychiatric conditions like schizophrenia or bipolar disorder.
The standard treatment for people living with serious mental conditions like schizophrenia or bipolar disorder includes antipsychotic medications which can have a negative effect on their bodies.
Although these medications help in regulating brain chemistry they also lead to metabolic side effects like insulin resistance and obesity.
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Now this pilot study reveals that suggest that a dietary intervention can be a powerful aid in treating mental illness. The findings of the study were published in the Psychiatry Research on March 27.
“It’s very promising and very encouraging that you can take back control of your illness in some way, aside from the usual standard of care,” said Dr. Shebani Sethi, MD, associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences and the first author of the new paper.
In a statement, Standford Medicine revealed that Sethi, who is board-certified in obesity and psychiatry, remembers when she first noticed the connection. When she was a medical student, she witnessed a patient with treatment-resistant schizophrenia whose auditory hallucinations quieted on a ketogenic diet.
While researching Dr. Sethi found that a few decades-old case reports in which the ketogenic diet was used to treat schizophrenia. However, there was a long track record of success in using ketogenic diets to treat epileptic seizures.
“The ketogenic diet has been proven to be effective for treatment-resistant epileptic seizures by reducing the excitability of neurons in the…