Stanford Keto Study is Revolutionizing Mental Health

Paper: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38547601/

Metabolic Psychiatry website: https://www.metabolicpsychiatry.com

Authors: Shebani Sethi, Diane Wakeham, Terence Ketter, Farnaz Hooshmand, Julia Bjornstad, Blair Richards, Eric Westman, Ronald M Krauss, Laura Saslow

* Minor corrections
– In the MetS pentad there is a typo where “low” TG should be “high” TG. Kudos to those who were paying attention and caught this. I could say, “it was a test and you passed,” but in truth it was just a typo introduced by the editor that I (we) missed.
– Nutritional ketosis threshold is 0.5 mM.
– “Blue whale” B roll doesn’t show blue whales. We couldn’t find Blue whale B-roll. But as a fun fact, they can grow up to 200 tons and their only natural predator is Orcas. Also, their latin name is Balaenoptera musculus, which means – roughly – winged whale and mouse, respectively… which may be a pun by Carl Linnaeus when he named the species.

0:00 – Intro, New Study!
0:47 – Metabolic Psychiatry
2:22 – Study, Metabolic and Mental Health
5:01 – Closing, Thank You. Inspired!
6:22 – Patients’ Quotes

32 Comments

  1. Thank you for saying thank you to the participants. I wish there was to thank them with at least a pin or shirt or something. They provide a service for all of us and probably never get a shout out.

  2. Another research that will prove that keto will soon be declared as optimum diet. Hope there will be RCT on how keto compared with other diets on effects to memory and learning with students

  3. How can your subscribers help convince the government to support this important researches? We can flood the government with email and postal mail.

  4. Impressive improvements in serious conditions BUT listen to the public health authorities bemoaning the massive escalation in mental health morbidity across the population but NEVER asking "WHAT ARE THEY EATING??"

  5. Are these results sustained even after stopping a ketogenic diet protocol? It would be valuable to know whether this approach is comparable to some of the other keto benefits when it acts as an elimination diet to let various systems of the body heal, or whether these benefits here are directly linked to ketosis.

  6. I would like to see a study done for mental health with a group of participants are doing keto and another group doing whole healthy animal based diet for healing mental health and see those results because what if it’s not keto healing but just the quality of nutrition

  7. There are also randomized trials showing that moving towards a Mediterranean diet can significantly reduce depression & anxiety severity:
    * SMILES (2017) by Felice Jacka et al
    * HELFIMED (2019) by Dr. Parletta et al
    * Brief dietary intervention study (2019) by Heather Francis et al
    * AMMEND (2022) by Jessica Bayes et al
    A keto diet may provide similar health benefits. I personally believe most of the benefit comes more from cutting out processed carbs (donuts, pizzas, muffins, sugary cereals, cookies, etc) than from cutting out all carbs. Cheers…

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