So you go to your doctor about doing a ketogenic diet to treat your mental illness, and they have the concern that it is too difficult and restrictive to follow. 🧵(1/10)
Many people have been on a ketogenic diet for years and find it sustainable. Like literally, decades. And some lifetimes. (2/10)
Remember epilepsy? Yeah. Whole lives. It's how they controlled their seizures before the dawning of big pharma. (3/10)
Therapeutic nutritional ketosis has been found to improve symptoms and quality of life for some patients with mental illness, making them more likely to stick with the diet. (4/10)
Imagine that. Escaping from the living hell that is mental illness or loss of cognitive function and self can be more motivating than having a bag of chips and oreos! 🤷‍♀️ (5/10) #notsurprised #duh
Just because a ketogenic diet eliminates junk food and processed foods doesn't mean it has to be restrictive. There are thousands of recipes using foods that fit within a ketogenic diet. You can totally have sweet tastes. (6/10)
Foods that can be used in a ketogenic diet include meat, eggs, seafood, fish, dairy, nuts, and above-ground vegetables, allowing for variety and enjoyment. (7/10)
There is no shortage of ingredients to work with on a ketogenic diet, allowing for complex and intriguing recipes to be made. (8/10)
A ketogenic diet doesn't have to be restrictive. With a variety of foods to choose from and plenty of recipes to follow, it can be a delicious and sustainable way of eating. (9/10)
If you liked this thread and you want to learn how to talk to your doctor about other objections that come up, I think you will really like this video from @Metabolic_Mind and @bschermd (10/10)

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Feb 11
So you go to your doc to talk about using a ketogenic diet to treat your mental illness and faltering cognitive function, and they are all like, "Noooo you need fiber and whole grains!" What do you do? 🧵(1/9)
Mostly you get a low-carb doc that knows better. But if you like your doc and you want to educate them, you can do that! Here's what you tell them! (2/9)
Ketogenic diets do not have to be low fiber because above-ground veggies and nuts that you eat on a keto diet have oodles of fiber. If you have digestive issues, there is a whole research body saying you should prob stay away from fiber, but that's a diff thread. (3/9)
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Feb 11
So you visit your doc about using a ketogenic diet to treat your mental illness or cognitive dysfunction, and they say absolutely not! Your brain needs glucose! What do you do? 🧵(1/8)
Many college-educated dietitians still believe that the body needs 130 grams of carbohydrates per day. So why would your poor doctor, with their super limited nutrition education, know any better? (2/8)
Here is what you tell them ⬇️ (3/8)
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Feb 10
Let me be clear. I have zero interest in using my precious energy, arguing with skeptics. I think this is where we lose momentum and power in this movement to bring this treatment to people. (1/5)
Any skeptic worth their salt, I would hope, understands how to evaluate levels of evidence and can find Google Scholar. Don't waste your precious life force arguing with people who are not interested in truly learning. (2/5)
Please do not allow them to waste your time and energy. Some are using it to shore up their own views to maintain their comfort of current beliefs about what is possible. And that is a disingenuous use of your time and attention. (3/5)
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Feb 10
Some people think ketogenic diets are restrictive and that any kind of restriction is bad. But I think we need a short thread defining what food is and is not. 🧵(1/11)
A lot of you are calling highly processed products "food". They are not food. They deplete more nutrients than they provide. They are drugs. They are designed to hijack your neurochemistry and make you crave them and buy them more. (2/11)
Just because there is a commercial industry that wants to make money off of messing with your brain, and they infer it's food, doesn't mean it is. (3/11)
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Feb 10
I don't know who needs to hear this, but the restriction of carbohydrates does not = an eating disorder (1/6) #realtalk #therapist #mentalhealthcounselor
It is an evidence-based and strategic nutritional intervention to rescue mood, cognitive functioning, and basically all-around metabolic function. (2/6)
Some people will need to restrict carbohydrates to treat chronic illnesses of the brain and the body. And they don't need misinformed mental health counselors scaring them and telling them they are going to develop an eating disorder. (3/6)
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Feb 9
The struggling brain is already trying to shift to ketones for fuel. (1/4)
"The bioenergetic system of the brain is compromised early in the progression of AD and is evident during the prodromal (preclinical) stage of the disease. (2/4)
Glucose hypometabolism and a compensatory shift to an alternative fuel substrate, ketone bodies, have been established as a metabolic phenotype characteristic of the AD brain in both clinical and preclinical studies." (3/4) doi.org/10.1016/j.ebio…
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