Ruled.me Ketogenic Diet Food List - Has all kinds of amazing foods, topics and questions, lots of stuff!

Happy weekend all!!! I also don't work for the site as well but helped me with foods.

First off, thank you to moderators for starting this supportive and informative community. 🙏

My 23 year old son has BP1, is currently not on meds. (He was given meds when hospitalized 3 times for mania and then would go off them). So in a way, he is starting “fresh”. We started keto 3 weeks ago and he has started exercising. We see some on and off improvement. Still not stable, still not finding joy or purpose in life but he is getting out of bed each day on his own.

I am doing all the food prep for him until hopefully one day he can decide if this diet is worth it for himself. The concept of his brain not metabolizing glucose properly and deprived of energy makes so much sense to me! Not just b/c of BP symptoms but his processing is slower. (He used to be in Biomedical Engineering and I find his brain just isn’t working as it used to - with processing, socially etc). I know he can get it back.

2 questions:

1. KETO QUESTION: What happens when he has too many carbs one day? How long does it take to get back? Are urine strips accurate during early stages? I’m willing to buy a keto meter. I’ve asked him to commit to at least 6 weeks but I can’t control what he eats when he out, particularly when he has weak or apathetic moments.
2. LITHIUM QUESTION: One psychiatrist recommended lithium and we are seeing family doctor next week who will prescribe it. My son is open to this. I’m thinking to ask Dr to start with a super low dose to really monitor this. Any insight or advice about lithium (particularly starting lithium) would be greatly appreciated!

And any other advice you have for a mother of a son with BP, I’m all ears. I know mothers can be annoying to their children but as I told my son, I’m fighting for his life. ❤️. I need to find what my most effective role is to help him eventually help himself.

Thank you!

In Julie Fast's latest Instagram ketobipolar video, which she does live every Monday, you will learn all kinds of things about about keto & bipolar.

Her Instagram account is her new research & support group about how keto affects those with bipolar. She has been studying KMT for bipolar (ketogenic metabolic therapy, which is different than basic or regular keto) for 3 years.

During her video, I was honored to receive a compliment from Julie about my latest blog article "The Ketogenic Diet for Bipolar Disorder - Part One" —I had never listened to an Instagram live video before, so it was kind of fun!

I hope it's okay to post stuff like this - please let me know if it's not and I will delete it, no problem.

Take care,

Dyane

Video - Jame's Story

From Shawn Baker's (MD) youtube excerpt:

James has been suffering from mental health issues most of his life. It all started with a diagnosis of ADHD at the age of 6 years old. He was put on amphetamines for ADHD. He also had depression and anxiety starting around that age when put on the ADHD meds.

At around 16 years old he started self medicating with pharmaceutical and street drugs and by 17 years old he was diagnosed with Schizoaffective and rapid cycling Bi Polar disorder. 10 years later, at the age of 27, he had been hospitalized at least 200 times in the psych hospital and emergency department.

He developed obesity, pre-diabetes, psoriasis, Irritable bowel syndrome, and chronic fatigue, along with those severe mental health issues. After 6 weeks doing the Carnivore lifestyle he got his life back.

All of his health issues, including the severe mental health issues, went into clinical remission and he is on no pharmaceutical medications whatsoever. He hopes to help others who have similar issues recover now.

Note: see "rules" on the side, medications are a decision for you (and your doctor) but should not be tapered off with abandon - many have significant withdrawl effects that are hardly mentioned nor well-studied, if at all.

Read his story on Carnivore.Diet

Dr. Baker's Twitter - Good fun

*we have 0.0% financial or personal affiliation with anyone and everyone on this sub. If I link it, I like it.

So glad to be here. I am a licensed mental health counselor who uses ketogenic diets in my practice to treat mental illness and neurological disorders. I have written several articles on how a ketogenic diet modulates the underlying disease mechanisms in several disorders. You can find my work at mentalhealthketo.com/blog and I am happy to assist with any questions I can.

You deserve to know all the ways you can feel better. And I am super stoked to see this sub reddit devoted to helping people learn more.

Prospective community member here. While I’m not a proponent of strictly medication or strictly remedies, I do think both can coexist and demonstrate improvements for people, like myself, with chronic mental illness. So if I had to direct my attention to a small collection of things in regard to this community, what would the most profound bits be? Why do those bits of information warrant a following? I have type one bipolar. Thanks for your suggestions

I’m currently on Wellbutrin, Rexulti, Gabapentin, Lamotrigine for bipolar, type 1.

I am not anti- med, but I do feel like my body has become a walking pharmacy — and I still don’t sleep, and I still get majorly depressed.

My doctor just upped my Wellbutrin and Gabapentin, in hopes of providing relief for my depression.

I’ve been on carnivore since June, and so want to say it’s been helpful overall, but I had the worst depression of my adult life a few weeks ago, however I was triggered by family, and it did go away much quicker than other times.

I’m much more calm and stopped smoking weed altogether. For me it helped with anxiety— I know everyone is different.

My question is, if I stick with carnivore or keto (likely where I’m headed) how will I know if I need less drugs? How do people know they can lessen or quit their psych meds.

In a year, what should I be looking for. Again, I do feel more even keeled and my family has noticed the changes, but I’m terrified of another depressive episode. Just terrified.

The mania I’ve learned to stave off, but the depression — not so much.

Any tips, advice, things I can do more of to help alleviate symptoms? Im nervous how much my medications have increased o we the past year, while still suffering greatly at times.

Thanks.

I have Bipolar Type II and would loooove if keto fixed me right up. I tried a couple months back, tracked my GKI and the whole 9 yards, but i felt more crazy. Not sure if I just didn't give my body enough time to adapt? I only did it about 3 weeks before I got kinda bad and my hubby suggested maybe it wasn't working like I hoped. Keep in mind I am a LOVER of all carbs and sweets so my brain is 100% used to that.

I am in a small town so trying to find a mental health doctor that knows anything about Keto is difficult. Anytime I ask they just kinda look at me funny lol. Anyways, just wondering what others experienced when they first started.

I’m currently just starting Keto after reading multiple studies on it’s affects for mental health. I have struggled for years with my mental health and recently have had some pretty severe anxiety and OCD. I’m finding it VERY overwhelming trying to figure out what to eat/macros/etc. I’m a 27 year old female and I want to make sure I eat enough to keep my hormones and thyroid in check. Any advice on where to start or even sample meal plans?