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Chris Palmer predicts that randomized controlled trials documenting ketogenic diet efficacy for mental disorders will eventually be completed.

On Huberman Lab · unverified speaker · Huberman Lab · Aug 27, 2026

“If you're looking for randomized controlled trials documenting efficacy in large numbers of patients with these disorders, we don't have them. They're underway now, but we don't have them yet.”

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Randomized controlled trials documenting efficacy of ketogenic diet for chronic mental disorders (depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder) are published in peer-reviewed journals.

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