Why write reports about unique medical cases?
Publishing unique case reports in the medical literature helps move mental-health care forward. “I would push you to write up some case reports…. Writing a case report might seem like a waste of time,...
Category: Metabolic Factors
Chris Palmer, MD: Ketogenic therapy may help stop seizures
This dietary treatment, the ketogenic diet, based on ancient medicine, is making a comeback as a treatment for epilepsy. Dr. Palmer‘s perspective on the ketogenic diet controversy Connections between epilepsy and psychiatric illnesses Ketogenic...
Might keto therapies help fight Alzheimer’s Disease?
Major Risk Factors for Alzheimer’s Disease Studies show that major risk factors for Alzheimer’s include metabolic, lifestyle and genetic factors: Problems with brain glucose usage related to Alzheimer’s One significant alteration experienced by Alzheimer’s...
Why evaluate dietary interventions? Are they just food?
Chris Palmer. MD just published Diets and Disorders: Can Foods or Fasting Be Considered Psychopharmacologic Therapies? It is in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry(1) and you’ll find an executive summary in this post. First...
Fact check – Americans Can’t Afford to Wait Any Longer. It’s Time to Overhaul the U.S. Dietary Guidelines
“Americans Can’t Afford to Wait Any Longer. It’s Time to Overhaul the U.S. Dietary Guidelines.” More than 50 doctors, researchers, and clinicians signed an open letter that was published in the New York Times...
Relieving depression with the ketogenic diet?
Perhaps those suffering from treatment-resistant depression could find some relief with the ketogenic diet? Any attempt to try this MUST be medically supervised because there are both psychiatric and metabolic dangers in this dietary...
Doris’s chronic schizophrenia remission brings hope
Did keto cure her schizophrenia? Starting at the end, Doris ended up ok. Her ketogenic diet put her schizophrenia into remission. Remission is not a cure, but a state where the disease symptoms reverse. ...
My mother’s suffering spurred me to find keto
Christie Barnett’s keto journey: Sitting in a nursing home with my dying mother is where it all began for me, Christie Barnett. There she was, a 71-year-old formerly dignified college instructor, stuck in a...
