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Download Harvard-trained psychiatrist Dr. Georgia Ede’s evidence-informed guide to managing ketogenic therapy and medications—covering food/med interactions, monitoring, how to find support, and safe tapering principles.
If your goal is to reduce or eliminate psychiatric medications, it’s important to understand three critical components of safety and success:
A Personalized Safe Tapering Plan: An individualized plan approved by your prescriber that emphasizes smaller dose reductions to reduce withdrawal side effects and clear criteria to pause or step back if symptoms become unbearable.
Ketogenic Therapy: A metabolic intervention that can be used to treat mental disorders and improve brain health. Many are reporting that being in ketosis before attempting a reduction in medication can make the process more manageable.
Clinical Support: Work closely with your care team for both tapering and ketogenic therapy.
If you’re already using or plan to use ketogenic therapy while taking medications, it’s essential to understand how they interact.
Combining keto with medications can improve your health outcomes. Ketogenic therapy can support brain health and symptom stability and can ease the metabolic toll of some medications, like weight gain, blood glucose and insulin levels, brain fog, and fatigue.
At the same time, keto can impact the effects of medications in your body:
Medication Levels: Keto can change how your body absorbs and processes medications, altering drug levels in the blood.
How They Feel: Keto can improve energy and sleep, which can make stimulants, sedatives, or mood stabilizers feel too strong.
Metabolic Effects: Keto can lower glucose and blood pressure, making diabetes and blood pressure meds too potent.
These keto-med interactions often call for timely, prescriber-guided dose changes to keep you safe, stable, and on the path to recovery.
Download Harvard-trained psychiatrist Dr. Georgia Ede’s evidence-informed guide to managing ketogenic therapy and medications—covering food/med interactions, monitoring, how to find support, and safe tapering principles.
Medications saved my life—
but ketogenic therapy gave me my mind back.Meds are good and they work in certain cases. They can be okay for some people. But how many people do you know who are on three or four psych meds, polypharmacy, who are thriving and are happy and joyful and fulfilled? Very few. That’s the reality”
Matt BaszuckiRecovered from Bipolar 1
Lauren Kennedy West
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Schizoaffective Disorder
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Neseret Bemient
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Antidepressant Induced Bipolar 2
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