Randomized trial shows improvement in metabolic measures and clinical symptoms in SMI patients, indicating significant health impacts.
A groundbreaking randomized trial has found that patients with serious mental illness who followed a ketogenic diet experienced improvement in both metabolic measures and clinical symptoms of their psychiatric illness. High adherence rates to the diet during the study suggest that when a diet plan is properly structured, patients with the most severe mental health diagnoses can successfully implement a lifestyle change crucial to their overall health.
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