Category: Metabolic Factors

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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,...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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. ...

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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...