This month’s publication in JAMA Psychiatry, by researchers from the University of Toronto, Canada, shows small to moderate improvements in depressive symptoms when people are on a ketogenic diet ...

In the most comprehensive investigation of the ketogenic diet’s mental health effects yet, researchers pooled 50 studies spanning six decades to see what we actually know about its influence on mood.

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Research in mice shows dangerous consequences of a very high-fat, low-carb ketogenic diet. Keto was associated with fatty liver disease and harmed blood sugar regulation, with some changes happening ...

In pre-clinical models, high levels of lipids accelerated tumor growth in triple-negative breast cancer cells. Targeting blood lipids through medication or diet may help slow cancer progression, ...

Researchers have shown that young rats fed a ketogenic diet – a diet with high fat and low carbohydrates – are protected from the lasting experience of pre-natal stress. This work, which needs to be ...

A high-fat, low-carb ketogenic diet may protect the brain from early Alzheimer’s disease changes in people genetically at risk, new research suggests, by rebalancing gut bacteria and restoring brain ...

Consuming a ketogenic diet along with medication and/or psychotherapy was associated with a nearly 70% decrease in symptoms of major depressive disorder (MDD), a small pilot study showed. After 10-12 ...

It sounds counterintuitive: Eat more fat and lose more weight. But it's the underpinning of a keto diet -- a controversial eating regimen designed to retrain the body to rely on something other than ...

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Share on Pinterest Keto diet may aid weight loss but impair metabolism, a mouse study suggests. Image credit: Nadine Greeff/Stocksy Ketogenic diets that provide most of the daily calorie intake from ...