How do you counsel patients who are interested in dietary approaches for managing major depressive disorder?
Do you ever recommend specific diets, such as the ketogenic diet? If so, in what clinical contexts?
Answer from: at Community Practice
In integrative medicine literature, there is some evidence that following an anti-inflammatory diet can improve mood symptoms, including MDD. I imagine this would be a good place to start, and certainly, keto diets are considerably less inflammatory than sugar-based diets with high levels of simple ...