Preliminary studies have suggested a keto diet could help improve psychiatric symptoms in people living with mental illnesses ...

The health secretary claimed twice earlier this month that the high-fat, low-carb keto diet can "cure" mental illness.

Share on Pinterest Emerging evidence suggests that a ketogenic diet may help with depression symptom management. Nadine Greeff/Getty Images A 2025 pilot study showed that young adults saw a 70% ...

A ketogenic diet may provide some modest antidepressant benefits as an adjunct for pharmacologic intervention.

While medication for schizophrenia remains the gold standard for treatment, there's an emerging field known as metabolic psychiatry that may hold some promise as a complement to that approach. The ...

The keto diet might help ease depression in people who aren't responding to antidepressants, a new study reports. People prescribed a keto diet had slightly lower symptoms of depression after six ...

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. asserted Wednesday that the keto diet could cure schizophrenia -- an unfounded claim that experts say vastly overstates preliminary research into whether the ...

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A ketogenic diet - one that is high in fat and extremely low in carbohydrates - has been known for decades to reduce seizures ...

Patients with treatment-resistant depression showed improvement on the 9-item Patient Health Questionnaire versus a control diet at 6 weeks in a randomized trial. No difference was seen between groups ...

To be healthy, conventional wisdom tells us to exercise and limit fatty foods. Exercise helps us lose weight and build muscle ...

Researchers at the University of Utah Health ran a trial with female and male mice for around nine months or more. The mice were separated and put onto one of four different diets, and allowed to eat ...