Articles & Research Studies.
This section provides educational materials to include peer reviewed studies to support the foundations of our evidence based plan of care using diet and supplements to manage disease processes to include: High blood pressure, Diabetes type 1 and 11, Arthritis, Obesity, Hyperthyroidism, Hypothyroidism, Autoimmune diseases (psoriasis, lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, MS etc.), Dementia/ Alzheimer's and many other disease processes.
1. COVID19: Impact on patients in Skill Rehabilitation Unit with and without Metabolic Syndrome by Ernest Maina DNP, APRN, FNP-C
2. Ketogenic diet shown to improve kidney function in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD). Clinical Kidney Journal, Volume 17, Issue 1, January 2024, sfad273, https://doi.org/10.1093/ckj/sfad273.
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3. Ketogenic diet shows beneficial effects in improving blood pressure and cardiovascular diseases. (Dyńka D, Kowalcze K, Charuta A, Paziewska A. The Ketogenic Diet and Cardiovascular Diseases. Nutrients. 2023 Jul 28;15(15):3368. doi: 10.3390/nu15153368. PMID: 37571305; PMCID: PMC10421332)
https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/15/15/3368
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4. Ketogenic diet beneficial effects in controlling diabetes in diabetic patients. (Alarim RA, Alasmre FA, Alotaibi HA, Alshehri MA, Hussain SA. Effects of the Ketogenic Diet on Glycemic Control in Diabetic Patients: Meta-Analysis of Clinical Trials. Cureus. 2020 Oct 5;12(10):e10796. doi: 10.7759/cureus.10796. PMID: 33163300; PMCID: PMC7641470.)
5. Ketogenic and carnivore diets hold promise for the treatment of irritable bowel disease (IBD) including ulcerative colitis (UC) and Crohn’s disease. ( Norwitz NG and Soto-Mota A (2024) Case report: Carnivore–ketogenic diet for the treatment of inflammatory bowel disease: a case series of 10 patients. Front. Nutr. 11:1467475. doi: 10.3389/fnut.2024.1467475).
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/nutrition/articles/10.3389/fnut.2024.1467475/full
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6. Pilot study shows ketogenic diet improves severe mental illness. (ref: https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2024/04/keto-diet-mental-illness.html).
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7. Complete remission of depression and anxiety using a ketogenic diet: case series (Calabrese L, Frase R and Ghaloo M (2024) Complete remission of depression and anxiety using a ketogenic diet: case series. Front. Nutr. 11:1396685. doi: 10.3389/fnut.2024.1396685)
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/nutrition/articles/10.3389/fnut.2024.1396685/full
8. The benefits of Long-term effects of a ketogenic diet in obese patients (Dashti HM, Mathew TC, Hussein T, Asfar SK, Behbahani A, Khoursheed MA, Al-Sayer HM, Bo-Abbas YY, Al-Zaid NS. Long-term effects of a ketogenic diet in obese patients. Exp Clin Cardiol. 2004 Fall;9(3):200-5. PMID: 19641727; PMCID: PMC2716748).
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2716748/
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