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Recent Research on Keto for Mental Health
Keto diets are perhaps most popular for weight loss, but a growing body of research as well as increasing numbers of patient anecdotes support the use of keto for mental health. The ketogenic diet was originally developed over a century ago as a treatment for intractable epilepsy, so it has long been recognized that this…
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Keto & Heart Health
“The pharmacological targeting of ketone body metabolism has emerged as a novel therapeutic approach to improve cardiac efficiency, reduce energy deficiency, and enhance cardiac function in failing hearts.” So states a paper published recently in Frontiers in Pharmacology, which presented the evidence for ketotherapy as a treatment for heart failure. The review covered the ketogenic…
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Keto & Eating Disorders
People commonly adopt ketogenic diets with the goal of losing weight, but what about the other side of this: can keto help people – particularly those with anorexia – gain needed, healthy weight? Emerging research suggests that keto has the potential to be effective for correcting some of the brain energetics that may be contributing…
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Keto for Migraines
A paper published recently in Frontiers in Nutrition makes a case for why ketogenic diets with a specific emphasis on sodium supplementation may be an effective prophylactic for migraine. Research is expanding in this area (as was covered in a past blog article) with an increasing number of case reports being published. It’s not certain…
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Troubleshooting the Keto Diet
Social media is replete with astounding before and after pictures of lives transformed by weight loss on ketogenic diets. Word is also getting out about the use of ketogenic diets for mental health and putting type 2 diabetes into remission. So when a patient adopts a keto diet and doesn’t get the results they want,…
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Keto Diet & Schizophrenia
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…
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Keto & Polycystic Kidney Disease
A study published recently in Cell Reports Medicine showed that a ketogenic diet is safe, feasible, and may be a beneficial intervention for patients with autosomal-dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD), which is the most common genetic cause of kidney failure.
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Keto for Type 1 Diabetes
“Research increasingly shows that strongly limiting dietary carbohydrate can have a profound effect on improving quality of life and reducing risk for long-term complications in people with type 1 diabetes.” (Source)
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Keto Diet for Lipidemia
A paper published recently in Current Obesity Reports presents evidence for the efficacy of ketogenic diets for lipedema. Lipedema is notoriously difficult to treat, as the hyperplastic, fibrotic, and painful adipose tissue that characterizes the condition is highly resistant to reduction via diet and exercise. The advanced stages may result in reduced quality of life…
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Keto for McArdle
A recent study published in Clinical Nutrition adds additional evidence to what we covered in a past blog article: ketogenic diets may be beneficial for people living with McArdle disease (glycogen storage disease type V).