ScienceAlert on MSN: This Week in Science: A Keto Surprise, a New Particle, and Much More! This week in science: A study finds a surprising bonus benefit of the keto diet; CERN discovers a new particle; a worrying trend uncovered in US life expectancy data; and much more! Keto Diet May Have ...

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This Week in Science: A Keto Surprise, a New Particle, and Much More! Researchers from the United Kingdom recently studied whether a ketogenic (keto) diet, low in carbs, could help adults with treatment-resistant depression. Depression is common in the United States, ... Psychology Today: What We Do and Don't Know About the Keto Diet Despite being touted as a "cure" by some, evidence that the keto diet has a therapeutic benefit for psychiatric disorders is lacking.

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Here's what we do and don't know so far. Researchers in the burgeoning field known as metabolic psychiatry (which treats mental illness by targeting underlying metabolic dysfunctions) are beginning to see early signs that ketogenic diets ...