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Apr 2 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
Can ketogenic therapy be use to treat OCD?
A recent case series suggests that the ketogenic diet may significantly reduce symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and even bring some individuals into remission. Here’s what happened. 🧵👇
OCD is a complex psychiatric condition. Current treatment options are effective for some, but for many, medications only help partially, or not at all.
But in this report, 3 individuals experienced dramatic improvements after adopting a #ketogenicdiet, putting their symptoms into remission and eliminating the need for medications.
🧠Your brain runs on energy, and tiny power plants inside your cells, called mitochondria, make it happen. But not all parts of the brain have the same energy needs.
🔍A new study mapped mitochondrial activity across the brain to see what that means for health & disease.
🔋Mitochondria take fuel from food and oxygen and turn it into ATP, the body's energy currency.
⚡️This is especially important for the brain, which needs constant energy to function properly, or neurological and psychiatric disorders can ensue.
Mar 7, 2023 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
1/ Wow. It just keeps getting worse. Since we made this video about the "keto causes heart attacks" news story, more info has surfaced about the study
2/ As described on the ACC website, participants filled out a food questionnaire once and then were followed for 11 years but never updated their nutrition information! acc.org/About-ACC/Pres…
Dec 22, 2022 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
1/ Roblox Founder @davidbaszucki & his wife @janellison share how a keto diet sent their son’s bipolar disorder into remission. Hear their welcome remarks at the 1st Metabolic Psychiatry retreat, May ‘22
2/ “We traveled with Matt on his mental illness journey. We watched him go into it & come out the other side. Having an idea of what made his recovery possible enables me to stand up here and have something to offer you all, which is his story.” @janellison#ketoformentalhealth
Dec 16, 2022 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
1/4 Metabolic Psychiatry has the potential to transform treatments not only for depression and anxiety, but also serious mental illnesses like bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. #KetoforMentalHealth#MetabolicMind#MetabolicPsychiatry 2/4 Understanding the connection between metabolic & mental health could transform how we diagonse and treat mental illness. We can do better that just using drug therapies. Targeted medications with nutritional ketosis could prove to be a gamechanger for psychiatric treatments.
