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Ketogenic diets for mental health - Dr Chris Palmer

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The Atkins Diet for Weight Loss

At that time, there was no good clinical evidence for the Atkins diet for weight loss even. Low carb diets had been around for 200 years but almost everybody talked about them as fad diets and of course dangerous diets. There were definitely physicians who were losing their licenses to practice medicine because they were publicly recommending low carbohydrate or acute genetic diets. So I just laid low with this information. I talked about it with my patients. I never forced it on anyone. It's actually quite common in psychiatry for us to start using off label or complementary and alternative treatments for which there is very little or no evidence.

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