He was released from Hospital 10 September, been doing keto for 16 days now. His blood levels were mostly over 0.5 for two weeks and now finally got a reading of 1.6. Still has delusions but said a few things that gave me hope.
Today it has been 3 weeks and 3 days. His ketones were 0.4 yesterday but actually had measured 1.9 a few days previous. Blood glucose (non-fasting) running between 90 and 110. Having him busy assisting me in little projects seems to distract him out of some of the autodiadactical conversations and praying he has. Delusions still present but not as central these days. Violence is greatly reduced. I’m not sure how much is progress or me learning the schizo dance, when to set limits, his recognition of limits and consequences (for which enforcement can be conflict ) . Less destructive this week. Not having a good day today. He is cooperating with the diet which is mostly beef, pork, fish, eggs, pork rinds, cheese, heavy cream, salad with light dressings.
5 weeks of keto today. Still has had delusions a four days ago he was yelling at the nieghbors house. Three days ago ketones were 2.4 highest yet but yesterday dropped to 1.0 when measured with keto mojo blood tester. The hydrazine poamate (vistril) makes him sleep alot which is helpful to me getting a break and perhaps the extra sleep might aid brain healing. I sure hopes this starts working and can get Risperdal reduced. I question how much it helps but he was much out of control without it so it does seem necessary. Been drinking straight heavy cream with a little stevia, tastes like a milk shake.
I had an emergency surgery and are 9n the mend. My bother, and son in law had to step in to watch him. They say he’s still eating keto food but eats to much. I’ll take it. I will be bak to feeding and testing him in a few days.
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I’m glad you are on the mend from your surgery and had someone to step in and help. Take care and have a good recovery.
Tested his blood today 3 Nov 2025. Ketones 0.9 Blood glucose 97. According to Google this is a glucose ketone index of (97/18)÷0.9=5.95 which is just inside the “moderate" level of ketosis, with a level of 3 or less being desirable for epilepsy therapy. So I need to try to limit his overall consumption and get the blood glucose lower and maybe more fat . His behavior has been a peculiar but the outbursts were mininimal the last few days. Only a few yelling at night incidents, which is a big improvement from busting holes in the wall and him taking off not knowing where he’s going (under a delusion). Really better.
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Well, the science behind the keto diet has been around since the 1920’s but before the diet called the Keto was the Atkins. The Keto diet is similar to the Atkins and I went on the Atkins in 2004 and it worked for me. I don’t think anyone was saying the Atkins diet could improve schizophrenia but I mainly write about it here to show it’s possible to lose weight even if you’re on medication. As you probably all know, anti-psychotic medication can cause weight gain but I lost 55 lbs on the Atkins while on prolixen. I was living by myself when I went on it and I remember I used to shop for a months worth of groceries at a time and every month I would fill my freezer with beef, pork and chicken. I bought a lot of low carb diet recipe books and that helped. It took me about 9 months to lose all the weight. I didn’t notice any difference in my symptoms.