Treating Bipolar with Ketosis: An Interview with Kit Keyser

Can therapeutic ketosis from a keto diet improve mental health and treat bipolar disorder? It did for Kit Keyser who shares how he was diagnosed with bipolar disorder and prescribed medications that caused him to gain weight and develop a movement disorder. Ketogenic therapy helped him get off of his medication, lose weight, feel better, and treat his underlying psychiatric illness. Kit's story is one of many we are sharing at Metabolic Mind to inspire hope and raise awareness of ketogenic treatments for severe mental illness. Consider discussing this treatment option with your healthcare provider to see if it may work for you.
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Kit Keyser
Twitter/X and Instagram: @kitkeyser
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Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction
1:37 How ketogenic therapy improved Kit's life
3:14 How Kit discovered ketogenic therapy as a treatment for bipolar disorder
4:18 The changes Kit noticed from a keto diet
4:59 The reaction from Kit's care team
6:15 Kit's advice for tapering psychiatric medication with ketogenic therapy
7:03 Reflecting on Kit's bipolar one diagnosis and ketogenic therapy experience
9:35 A message of hope for people living with serious mental illness
10:29 Ketogenic therapy as a treatment people want to pursue
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[@dyaneharwood2023]

Kit Keyser is wise and articulate. Kit has a great KZbin channel and I really enjoyed watching his "How I Beat Bipolar Disorder Using the Ketogenic Diet" and the other videos, too. (Some of my other favorites: the keto coffee video and "Coho Dreaming" - so cute!.) Kit is an inspiration, to say the least, and his down-to-earth attitude and his desire to help other people is refreshing and awesome!

[@marybraud8718]

I appreciate Kit's last comment, that the keto diet is a treatment he gets to choose.

[@metabolicmind]

We loved that part!

[@amycreagh3108]

Thanks so much for getting this information out there! I'm so hopeful for the future of mental health therapy. Excellent point at the end about this being an enjoyable treatment. When people tell me they could never do keto I just chuckle because I get to eat the most delicious food at every meal.

[@maryepperson2275]

Very interesting! Thank you for sharing

[@gavinsymes-wizardot]

Thanks for this amazing content. It seems as if the almost constant wave of people reporting positive outcomes is finally being recognised.

[@LyslScentedLife]

That guy is so so so good looking. I hope he's doing well.

[@kathyhebert1651]

I love being part of the carnivore/keto community. There are Endless testimonies of people healing from auto immune diseases, anorexia, bipolar, and a whole host of other mental and physical health issues. Really the list just goes on and on.

[@Eliokd]

Hopefully I'll be a sucess story as well. God bless ❤

[@kathyhebert1651]

@@Eliokd my daughter and husband too. God blew what are you trying to heal from?

[@Eliokd]

@@kathyhebert1651 I believe I have a brain injury from the use of SSRI medications. I have a lot of brain and physical symptoms that are pretty disabling. They are days when I feel better and days just horrible.. hoping fasting and the keto diet will help.. how about your husband and daughter? I wish them a soon recovery, nothing harder than struggling with health issues..

[@kathyhebert1651]

@@Eliokd husband bipolar and daughter bipolar with psychosis. Husband doing great on keto and vitamin’s including store-bought lithium, niacin, and other vitamins as well. Starting my 16-year-old on keto right after the holidays and she’s on vitamin protocol as well.

[@raghu4696]

Please can you interview someone with schizophrenia who has successfully put that into remission with ketogenic diet and is completely off meds.

[@gilrose12345]

A physician must follow guidelines and the "standard practice of care" so they will not recommend any diet especially the Ketogenic diet and entering and staying in ketosis.

[@stefanosazzini3852]

Why don t you specify what type of medications he took,and how he manager ti taper off like Matt did,that would me more credible

[@zaktiburzi]

What is the movement disorder he has ?

[@chelseagow993]

Probably tardiv dyskinesia