Can a Keto diet drastically improve serious mental ill health? Professor Zoltan Sarnyai is looking to find out in a trailblazing clinical trial.
Join host Claire McDonnell Liu for this discussion on how ketosis could transform serious mental ill health, bringing new hope to patients everywhere.
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02:00 How Prof Zoltan Sarnyai first became fascinated with brain health
06:00 How a young man's suicide affected Zoltan's career
13:30 Anti-psychotic drugs cause obesity, insulin resistance, diabetes
14:00 Twenty years shorter life due to cardio-metobolic
15:20 Schizophrenia a disorder of synaptic function
16:00 Keto diet therapy for epilepsy
14:40 Keto as a metobolic approach
15:15 Ketones into ATP for neurone
15:40 The brain's high energy demands
18:00 Ecstasy drug use induces schizophrenia
19:00 Early Keto diet experiments normalised schizophrenia behaviour
27:00 What we could learn from this Ketogenic Diet RCT
28:00 How does the Keto Diet work in the brain
32:00 How the trial will be blinded
34:00 How ketosis will be measured
42:00 Ketogenic dietician meal plans
44:00 The Keto Diet meal plans
44:30 High fat for health
46:00 How non keto diet improvements may support mental health
47:00 How to hear the results of the trial
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Family Health Lab Podcast: Game Changers S1: E24
Interviewer: Claire McDonnell Liu, Nutrition Researcher
Episode time: 50:08
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