In this podcast, we share the stories of participants of the first case studies of monotherapy with a ketogenic diet to treat active anorexia. In June 2023, Dr. Nick Norwitz published a case report of three dramatic stories of individuals living with anorexia who had failed to find a successful treatment. After all three tried an animal-based ketogenic diet, their thoughts and anxiety around food restriction disappeared. We are fortunate to have interviews with all three individuals, plus two more, including a registered dietician, all brave enough to share their stories and help educate everyone about their experience.

It’s important to note that while this doesn’t mean nutritional ketosis is a cure for anorexia, these case reports provide important evidence that we need to consider. They challenge the common medical belief that a ketogenic diet is contraindicated in anorexia. Case reports like these are helping encourage more research into whether therapeutic nutritional ketosis can and should be used as a treatment for anorexia. Watch this channel for news of the first larger-scale clinical trial conducted by University of California, San Diego which will begin August 1 (via funding from Baszucki Group).

Author of the Case Report:

Nick Norwitz, PhD, Medical student at Harvard Medical School

Twitter: @nicknorwitz

Publications relevant to this video:

Animal-based ketogenic diet puts severe anorexia nervosa into multi-year remission: A case series

https://doi.org/10.4102/jir.v6i1.84

Remission from Chronic Anorexia Nervosa With Ketogenic Diet and Ketamine: Case Report

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2020.00763/full

Ketogenic diet and ketamine infusion treatment to target chronic persistent eating disorder psychopathology in anorexia nervosa: a pilot study

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9803738/

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