{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Recovery News | Mental Health & Addiction Recovery","title":"How Nutritional Ketosis Targets the Metabolic Roots of Psychosis","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":203,"description":"For decades, the standard medical response to managing serious mental illnesses like schizophrenia and bipolar I disorder has centered almost exclusively on psychotropic medications. While antipsychotics and mood stabilizers are essential for controlling acute psychotic episodes, they often come at a heavy cost. Patients frequently endure severe metabolic side effects—including massive weight gain, insulin resistance, and pre-diabetes—while remaining burdened by persistent cognitive deficits and debilitating depressive symptoms that current drugs simply cannot fix. But according to a groundbreaking clinical report published by the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation, an entirely new frontier known as \"metabolic psychiatry\" is offering profound new hope. \nResearchers have delivered the peer-reviewed results of the first-ever randomized controlled trial evaluating a medical ketogenic diet for individuals with schizophrenia-spectrum and bipolar disorders. The trial, led by BBRF grantees and clinical researchers at UCSF, evaluated outpatients placed on a therapeutic ketogenic diet consisting of high fats, moderate protein, and ultra-low carbohydrates. Skeptics in the psychiatric community have long argued that complex, restrictive diets are too difficult for individuals living with severe mental illness to sustain. However, the study shattered those assumptions, demonstrating high patient feasibility and excellent adherence over a four-month period. In the initial one-month randomized phase, participants on the ketogenic diet demonstrated rapid, statistically significant improvements in key metabolic markers—such as reduced insulin resistance and lower blood glucose levels—compared to those on their usual diet. While one month was enough to correct underlying metabolic health, the true psychological breakthrough unfolded over time. \nParticipants who completed the four-month ketogenic extension experienced widespread, statistically significant improvements across all...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/1HMwgudOv-9iLP25S2rFy3To1lXT_m4L2ceV1SNYp_k/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS83NWQ4/NzUyZmIxMzg4YjVk/YzI2NWVkOGVkYmQ0/NzBkOC5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}