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Although the evidence is limited, some psychologists are using ketogenic diets to treat psychiatric disorders.

It's a really exciting area of research. I read the papers when they come out. It looks very promising

If you address the underlying metabolic dysfunction, Palmer said, you may take care of its downstream manifestations, too. Metabolic psychiatry, a field named by Sethi in 2016, focuses on addressing the significant underlying metabolic components of mental illness (with several therapies including KMT) instead of simply trying to suppress the effects of that dysfunction — that is, symptoms of mental illness.