Restriction, and when this is a bad idea
The article this site would be dishonest without: who should not try a restrictive diet, and why restriction and low mood are a difficult combination.
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The idea, the evidence, the food, the risks, and how to get the most out of medical care.
Talking to your doctor about it
How to raise an emerging research area with a clinician, which medicines need attention first, what to ask for, and what to do if it goes badly.
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Doing it as safely as possible
If you are going to try it: variety, offal and fish, salt and fluid, what to watch for week by week, and the signs that mean stop and see a doctor.
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The risks, and what to have checked
Nutrient shortfalls, raised cholesterol, the difficult first fortnight, and the blood tests worth having before and after you change how you eat.
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Why a bipolar finding is not a depression finding
The distinction nearly every article about metabolic psychiatry gets wrong, why it matters on a site like this one, and how to spot it being got wrong.
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What this way of eating involves
Exactly what is on the plate and what is not: meat, fish, eggs and animal fats, very little carbohydrate, and in the strictest version no plant foods at all.
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What metabolic psychiatry is
The idea that brain energy metabolism may matter in mental illness, explained plainly — and marked clearly as a hypothesis still being investigated.
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