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Ketogenic diet achieves remission in severe mental illness including schizophrenia and bipolar disorder
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Harvard Psychiatrist REVEALS We Have Been Treating Mental Illness All WRONG
"I hear from people around the world who have suffered from chronic, severe, crippling mental illnesses. And a lot of them are getting full remission, sometimes off of their psychiatric medications. Sometimes they're able to completely taper off. When they get remission, there's this phase that almost everybody goes through of profound grief for the life that they've lost. They recognize, I just lost 30 years of my life to that illness."
Dr. Palmer reported that thousands of people with severe conditions like schizophrenia and bipolar disorder are achieving full remission using ketogenic diets, sometimes eliminating psychiatric medications entirely. He noted 20 controlled trials are now underway worldwide, with over 1,900 people already participating in published studies. The ketogenic diet was originally developed 100 years ago as an epilepsy treatment and is evidence-based for stopping seizures.
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