Ming Gao

The last few years have brought a wave of enthusiasm for the ketogenic diet and mental health, but the field has lacked high-quality evidence from randomized controlled trials.

Ming Gao, a scientist at Oxford University, led the new study, which had patients with treatment-resistant depression follow the keto diet for six weeks.

Gao says most of the patients in the study did not stay on the diet after the trial ended.

The research was published in the medical journal JAMA Psychiatry.

Will Stone, NPR News.

The last few years have brought a wave of enthusiasm for the ketogenic diet and mental health.

But the field has lacked high-quality evidence from randomized controlled trials.

Ming Gao, a scientist at Oxford University, led the new study, which had patients with treatment-resistant depression follow the keto diet for six weeks.

Gao says most of the patients in the study did not stay on the diet after the trial ended.

The research was published in the medical journal JAMA Psychiatry.

Will Stone, NPR News.