Managed Healthcare Executive October 10, 2024
One area of interest is whether ketogenic diets, which are high in fat and low in carbohydrates, might be helpful to people with treatment-resistant depression.
Investigators are attempting to broaden their understanding of the connection between diet and treatment resistant depression (TRD). The findings are preliminary. but they could provide useful evidende for how well-managed diets could supplement or even head off the need for pharmacological care of TRD.
An independent study examined nutritionally poor changes in diet apparently induced by or related to treatment with ketamine, which was first authorized for treatment of TRD by the FDA in 2019.
Separately, in a first-time study just getting underway, investigators are exploring the value of a ketogenic diet, which is rich...