Books
Ede, G. (2024). Change your diet, change your mind. Balance, Hachette Book Group.
Palmer, C. (2022). Brain energy. BenBella Books.
Unwin, J. (2021). Fork in the road: a hopeful guide to food freedom. FITR Publishing.

Resources
Keto-Mojo Blood Glucose and Ketone Meter
https://shop.keto-mojo.com/collections/all
Think + Smart: A Free Metabolic Framework for Mental Health
https://thinksmart.metabolicmind.org/
Society of Metabolic Health Practitioners
https://thesmhp.org/directory/

Research

General Mental Health:
Cipriani, A., et. al. (Apr. 2018). Comparative efficacy and acceptability of 21 antidepressant
drugs for the acute treatments of adults with major depressive disorder: a systematic review and
network meta-analysis. The Lancet.
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(17)32802-7/fulltext
Clinical Guidelines for therapeutic carbohydrate restrictions.
https://thesmhp.org/clinical-guidelines/
Cohen, E., Cragg, M., deFonseka, J., Hite, A., Rosenberg, M., & Zhou, B.
(January 01, 2015). Statistical review of US macronutrient consumption data,
1965-2011: Americans have been following dietary guidelines, coincident with
the rise in obesity. Nutrition (burbank, Los Angeles County, Calif.).
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0899900715000775?via%3Dihub
Danan, A., Westman, E. C., Saslow, L. R., & Ede, G. (2022). The ketogenic diet for
refractory mental illness: A retrospective analysis of 31 inpatients. Frontiers in
Psychiatry, 13, 951376.
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychiatry/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2022.951376/full

Framer, A. (Mar. 2021). What I have learnt from helping thousands of people taper off
antidepressants and other psychotropic medications. Ther Adv Psychopharmacol.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7970174/
Grigolon, R. et. al. (2020). Mental, emotional and behavioral effects of ketogenic diet for non-
epileptic neuropsychiatric conditions. Prog Neuropsychopharmacol Biol Psychiatry.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32305355/
Hite, A. H., Feinman, R. D., Guzman, G. E., Satin, M., Schoenfeld, P. A., &
Wood, R. J. (October 01, 2010). In the face of contradictory evidence: Report of
the Dietary Guidelines for Americans Committee. Nutrition.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0899900710002893?via%3Dihub
Jakobsen, J., et. al. (Feb. 2017). Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors versus placebo in patients
with major depressive disorder. A systematic review with meta-analysis and Trial Sequential
Analysis. BMC Psych.
https://bmcpsychiatry.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12888-016-1173-2
Mujica-Parodi, L. et. al. (March 2020). Diet modulates brain network stability, a biomarker for
brain again, in young adults. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32127481/
Norwitz, N., Sethi, S. & Palmer, C. (October 2020). Ketogenic diet as a metabolic treatment for
mental illness. Curr Opin Endocrinal Diabetes Obes.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32773571/
Ostrow, L. et. al. (Jul. 2017). Discontinuing psychiatric medications: a survey of long-term users.
Psych Serv.
https://psychiatryonline.org/doi/full/10.1176/appi.ps.201700070?journalCode=ps
Ozan, E., Chouinard, V. & Palmer, C. (May 2024). The ketogenic diet as a treatment for mood
disorders. Curr Treat Options Psych.
https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s40501-024-00322-z.pdf
Poff, A., et. al. (Dec. 2021). Ketone supplementation: meeting the needs of the brain in an energy
crisis. Front Nutr.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35004814/
Sarnyai, Z. & Palmer, C. (Jun .2020). Ketogenic therapy in serious mental illness: emerging
evidence. Int J Neuropsychopharmacol.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7387764/
Sethi, S. & Ford, J. (Oct. 2022). The role of ketogenic metabolic therapy on the brain in serious
mental illness: a review. J Psychiatry Brain Sci.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36483840/

Talbot, A., Lee, C., Ryan, S. et al. Experiences of treatment-resistant mental health conditions
in primary care: a systematic review and thematic synthesis. BMC Prim. Care 23, 207 (2022).
https://bmcprimcare.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12875-022-01819-3
Tillery, E., et. al. (May 2021). The use of the ketogenic diet in the treatment of psychiatric
disorders. Ment Health Clin.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34026397/
Tondo, L. & Baldessarini, R. (Feb. 2020). Discontinuing psychotropic drug treatment. BJPsych
Open.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7176895/
Vinkers, C., et. al. (Mar. 2024). Discontinuation of psychotropic medication: a synthesis of
evidence across medication classes. Mol Psych.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41380-024-02445-4

Bipolar/Schizophrenia:
Campbell, I., et. al. (2023). A pilot study of a ketogenic diet in bipolar disorder: Clinical,
metabolomic and magnetic resonance spectroscopy outcomes. medRxiv. Advance
online publication.
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.10.23.23297391v2
Cambell, I. & Campbell ,H. (May 2024). The metabolid overdrive hypothesis: hyperglycolysis
and glutaminolysis in bipolar mania. Mol Psychiatry.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38273108/
Cambell, I. & Cambell, H. (Jul. 2019). Ketosis and bipolar disorder: controlled analytic study of
online reports. BJPsych Open.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6620566/
Gilbert-Jaramillo, J. et. al. (Jan. 2018). The effects of the ketogenic diet on psychiatric
symptomatology, weight and metabolic dysfunction in schizophrenia patients. Clin Nutr Metab.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/327909054_The_effects_of_the_ketogenic_diet_on_ps
ychiatric_symptomatology_weight_and_metabolic_dysfunction_in_schizophrenia_patients
Needham, N. et. al. (Oct. 2023). Pilot study of a ketogenic diet in bipolar disorder. BJPsych
Open.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37814952/
Palmer, C. et. al. (Apr. 2019). The ketogenic diet and remission of psychotic symptoms in
schizophrenia: two case studies. Schizophr Res.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30962118/

Phelps, J. et. al. (Apr. 2013). The ketogenic diet for type II bipolar disorder. Neurocase.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13554794.2012.690421
Saraga, M. et. al. (Nov. 2020). Ketogenic diet in bipolar disorder. Bipolar Disord.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33021024/
Sethi, S., Wakeham, D., Ketter, T., Hooshmand, F., Bjornstad, J., Richards, B., Westman,
E., Krauss, R. M., & Saslow, L. (2024). Ketogenic diet intervention on metabolic and
psychiatric health in bipolar and schizophrenia: A pilot trial. Psychiatry Research, 335,
115866.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0165178124001513?via%3Dihub
Yu, B. et. al. (Jan. 2023). Ketogenic diet as a metabolic therapy for bipolar disorder: clinical
developments. J Affect Disord.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666915322001494

Depression/Anxiety:
El-Mallakh, R. & Paskitti, M. (Dec. 2001). The ketogetnic diet may have mood-stabilizing
properties. Med Hypotheses.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11918434/
Ji S, Chen Y, Zhou Y, et al. Association between anxiety and metabolic syndrome: An updated
systematic review and meta-analysis. Front Psychiatry. 2023;14:1118836. Published 2023
Feb 16.
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychiatry/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1118836/full
Moncrieff, J., Cooper, R. E., Stockmann, T ., et al. (2022). The serotonin theory of
depression: A systematic umbrella review of the evidence. Molecular Psychiatry.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41380-022-01661-0
Ricci, A. et. al. (Aug. 2020). Exploring the mechanisms of action of the antidepressant effect of
the ketogenic diet. Rev Neurosci.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32406387/
Wlodarczyk, A., et. al. (Dec. 2020). Ketogenic diet: a dietary modification as an anxiolytic
approach? Nutrients.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7765029/

Addiction/Carb Addiction:
Carmen, M. et. al. (Jan. 2020). Treating binge eating and food addiction symptoms with low-
carbohydrate ketogenic diets: a case series. J. Eat
Disord.https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6988301/

Keto diet may help manage alcohol use disorder withdrawal. (n.d.). Retrieved from
https://www.aaas.org/news/keto-diet-may-help-manage-alcohol-use-disorder-withdrawal
Sethi, S., et. al. (2020). Low carbohydrate ketogenic therapy as a metabolic treatment for binge
eating and ultraprocessed food addiction. Curr Opin Endorcinol Diabetes Obes.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32773576/
Wiers, C. E., Manza, P., Wang, G., & Volkow, N. D. (2023). Ketogenic diet reduces a
neurobiological craving signature in alcohol use disorder. Biological Psychiatry.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38410637/