Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has recently promoted the unproven claim that keto diets can “cure schizophrenia,” and while scientists disagree with the Health and Human Services Secretary, emerging research suggests the diets could help improve psychiatric symptoms.
Preliminary small studies have suggested that following a ketogenic diet, a high-fat, low-carb diet that induces ketosis in the body, can benefit people living with mental health illnesses such as depression, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.
