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The New Frontier of Mental Health (with Dr. Chris Palmer)

The Mark Divine Show

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The Effects of Ketogenic Diets on Brain Function

Dr Palmer uses ketosis or ketogenic diets to help intervene to bring energy balance back in the brain. The diet is low in carbohydrate usually moderate sometimes high in protein and usually high in fat. But although most people know the ketogenic diet as a weight loss diet it's actually an evidence based treatment for type two diabetes. Dr Palmer: Ketogenic diet can stop seizures even when medications fail to stop seizures.

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