Tagged: schizophrenia

Case Reports / Metabolic Disorders / Nutrition

March 8, 2020

Ketogenic diet helps young Ecuadorian twins improve their schizophrenic symptoms

Chris Palmer, MD was a co-author of this 2018 case study which showed an improvement in schizophrenic symptoms in young Ecuadorian twins on a ketogenic diet. They were a male and a female, diagnosed with...

Metabolic Disorders / Nutrition

November 18, 2019

Summary – The ketogenic diet may help stop seizures an Advancing Psychiatry article by Chris Palmer, MD

This dietary treatment, the ketogenic diet, based on ancient medicine, is making a comeback as a treatment for epilepsy. The ketogenic diet controversy The keto diet is one of today’s most controversial diets, so...

Metabolic Interventions / Nutrition

July 15, 2019

Why evaluate dietary interventions? They’re just food.

Chris Palmer. MD just published Diets and Disorders: Can Foods or Fasting Be Considered Psychopharmacologic Therapies? It is in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry(1) and you’ll find an executive summary in this post. First...

Case Reports / Metabolic Disorders / Nutrition

May 17, 2019

Doris’s chronic schizophrenia put into remission bringing hope to many

Starting at the end, Doris is ok. She is living happily ever after. But it wasn’t always so. She gave us permission to share her story of schizophrenia in remission. Why? Doris wants to...