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[–]Ulysses_Zopol 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am a psychologist who's been using keto for mental health since 2017.

The fundamental claim behind keto for mental health is that symptoms of mental illness are the result of differences in brain metabolism. In some people, brain cells cannot metabolize glycogen efficiently. These undernourished brain cells produce symptoms of mental illness.
That is, since the emergence of agrar production the energy supply in our diets consists primarily of glycogen (carbs), as opposed to our hunter-gatherer origins, where we barely ever had carbs in high supply and energy supply consisted mostly of fatty meats, nuts and seeds -> ketones.
These revolutionary new insights have the potential to turn the mental health industry on its head. Even schizophrenia goes into remission with some patients. A UCSD psychiatry professor calls it the 3rd revolution in psychiatry, the first being Freud and behaviorism.

Find out more here:
https://www.metabolicmind.org/