Baszucki Group Announces Two Research Initiatives for Bipolar Youth

Baszucki Group today announced the launch of two new initiatives across multiple sites exploring the effectiveness of ketogenic therapy for children and adolescents with bipolar disorder. The participating groups include a family resource center and four academic research institutions offering specialty programs devoted to treating serious mental illness in children and adolescents. These projects aim to develop ketogenic therapy programs and establish pilot data to fuel future randomized control trials and support programs in a youth population.

Precision Nutrition Takes Center Stage in New Ketogenic Therapy Trial and Service

$3.3 million gift from Baszucki Group fuels transformative bipolar disorder research and precision nutrition clinical service.

Baszucki Group announces a collaboration with Mayo Clinic to support a clinical trial investigating ketogenic therapy for bipolar disorder. This important study will further explore the intersection of metabolic and mental health along with cardio-metabolic implications, with the goal of informing the development of an interdisciplinary precision nutrition clinical service.

New Bipolar Disorder Study Shows that a Ketogenic Diet Leads to Mental and Physical Health Benefits

“For the first time in years, I felt like my brain was finally running on the right fuel,” said one of the participants in a new pilot study on a ketogenic diet in bipolar disorder. Published today in BJPsych Open, the study is the first to use neuroimaging to demonstrate that a ketogenic diet may improve brain metabolism in individuals with a bipolar disorder diagnosis.

Researchers explore ketogenic diet’s effects on bipolar disorder among teenagers, young adults

UCLA Health is set to begin a multi-site pilot study to explore whether a ketogenic diet, when combined with mood stabilizing medications, helps stabilize mood symptoms in teenagers and young adults who have bipolar disorder.