Fasting or the short-term consumption of a ketogenic diet protects against antipsychotic-induced hyperglycaemia in mice

Fecal transplants from ketogenic diet-fed mice into a validated schizophrenia mouse model improved behavioral deficits. This suggests gut microbiome changes may help drive the ketogenic diet’s beneficial effects.

This pre-clinical study found that combining a ketogenic diet with regular voluntary exercise significantly reduced anxiety and depression-like behaviors in an animal model.

This pre-clinical study hypothesizes that chronic administration of BHB (beta-hydroxybutyrate) replicates the therapeutic effects of ketogenic diet for schizophrenia in mice.