"Kennedy Jr's statement likely referred to Harvard psychiatrist Dr Christopher Palmer, who said he has never once used the word cure' in my work. I have never claimed to have cured any mental illness, including schizophrenia, but added: I have talked about ketogenic diet being a very powerful treatment, even to the point of inducing remission of symptoms of schizophrenia."
"The evidence that ketogenic diet might help with schizophrenia symptom remission comes from two case reports that Palmer published in Schizophrenia Research in 2019. When discussing them, Palmer was quick to emphasise that yes, it's only two, and that case reports don't prove anything. They're not controlled. They come with tremendous amounts of bias. But, Palmer noted, that can be important for generating hypotheses about what treatments might work."
Robert F. Kennedy Jr claimed a Harvard doctor cured schizophrenia with ketogenic diets, prompting pushback from psychiatric researchers while acknowledging potential benefits of supervised keto for mental health. Harvard psychiatrist Dr Christopher Palmer said he never used the word 'cure' and never claimed to have cured any mental illness. Palmer described ketogenic diet as a very powerful treatment that can, in some cases, induce remission of schizophrenia symptoms. Keto requires a high fat-to-protein-and-carb ratio, does not typically emphasize red meat, and differs markedly from the carnivore diet Kennedy Jr follows. Evidence comes from two 2019 case reports of women with long-term schizophrenia who improved while on keto and later stopped medications; Palmer warned such reports are uncontrolled and hypothesis-generating.
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