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Keto Diet Specialist: What The Keto Diet Is Really Doing To Your Body! Can It Cure 43% Of Mental Illnesses? The Truth About The Keto Diet!
Thu, 16 Jan 2025
Could the secret to better mental health be on your plate? Dr Georgia Ede explains how the right diet can profoundly impact your mental well-being Dr Georgia Ede is a Harvard trained psychiatrist specialising in nutritional and metabolic psychiatry. She is the author of the book, ‘Change Your Diet, Change Your Mind: A powerful plan to improve mood, overcome anxiety and protect memory for a lifetime of optimal mental health’. In this conversation, Dr Georgia and Steven discuss topics such as, how the keto diet impacts mental health, the importance of balanced insulin levels, the link between keto and weight loss, and the secret to staying on the keto diet. 00:00 Intro 02:12 What Do You Do? 02:31 Is Metabolic Psychiatry a New Term? 03:48 Why Is the Ketogenic Diet at the Heart of Your Work? 04:51 What's Your Academic Experience? 05:48 What Does Practicing Psychiatry Involve? 06:18 When Did Nutrition Become Part of Your Career? 07:49 Social Component of Mental Illnesses 09:57 The Eureka Moment 17:00 Adapting Diet to Personal Needs 19:05 Fundamental Principles of a Healthy Diet: Nourish, Protect, Energize 21:56 Diet Personalization: Trial and Error 25:22 What Is the Ketogenic Diet? 27:15 What Does the Ketogenic Diet Do to the Brain? 29:53 Impact of the Ketogenic Diet on Refractory Mental Illnesses 34:17 Calorie Restriction 35:31 Alternative Ways of Lowering Insulin Levels 37:37 Why Is the Ketogenic Diet Difficult to Sustain? 41:26 Keto-Adaptation or Keto-Flu 45:37 Misconceptions About the Foods Included in the Ketogenic Diet 47:05 Is Ketosis a State? 50:57 Getting Into Ketosis 53:44 Connection Between Food and Neurodivergent Disorders 56:06 Why Are Dietary Modifications Not Commonly Prescribed to Alleviate Symptoms of ADHD? 57:56 Are ADHD Medications Helpful in Some Cases? 1:02:52 Research on the Link Between Ketogenic Diet and ADHD 1:04:04 Could ADHD Lead to Diabetes? 1:09:33 Benefits of Ketogenic Diet for People With Food Addiction 1:13:50 Depression, Anxiety, and ADHD - Case Study 1:21:08 Carnivore Diet 1:22:19 Do We Need Fiber? 1:25:50 Is the Carnivore Diet Sustainable Without Supplementation? 1:29:33 Why Does the Ketogenic Diet Help With Losing Weight? 1:35:09 What Part of Your Work Overlays With Psychology? 1:37:12 How Do You Approach Challenges With Adopting the Ketogenic Diet? 1:40:23 Ketogenic Diet's Role in Reducing Anxiety 1:43:23 Question From the Previous Guest 1:45:29 What Would You Say Someone On Their Death Bed? Follow Dr Georgia: Instagram - https://g2ul0.app.link/g08I8wNVqPb Twitter - https://g2ul0.app.link/g2s0hzPVqPb TikTok - https://bit.ly/41XQofT YouTube - https://bit.ly/40lfrbv Website - https://g2ul0.app.link/3g4HsJvcsPb Website Resources - https://bit.ly/4fOrC4Y Keto Diet for Mental Health Training Program - https://g2ul0.app.link/p5eQeZEcsPb Free Clinician Directory - https://g2ul0.app.link/5lhpZ4zcsPb Spotify: You can purchase Dr Georgia’s book, ‘Change Your Diet, Change Your Mind’, here: https://g2ul0.app.link/yukl31VVqPb Watch the episodes on Youtube - https://g2ul0.app.link/DOACEpisodes My new book! 'The 33 Laws Of Business & Life' is out now - https://g2ul0.app.link/DOACBook You can purchase the The Diary Of A CEO Conversation Cards: Second Edition, here: https://g2ul0.app.link/f31dsUttKKb Follow me: https://g2ul0.app.link/gnGqL4IsKKb Sponsors: Shopify - https://shopify.com/bartlett PerfectTed - https://www.perfectted.com with code DIARY40 for 40% off 1% Diary: Join the waitlist to be the first to hear about the next drop of The 1% Diary! https://bit.ly/1-Diary-Megaphone-ad-reads Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Most people will experience tremendous reductions in anxiety within three days to three weeks of starting a ketogenic diet.
In fact, we did a study where patients with bipolar disorder, major depression, or schizophrenia tried the ketogenic diet and 43% achieved clinical remission from their chronic mental illness and 64% of them left on less psychiatric medication because it improves the balance of chemicals in the brain. But the question is, what's causing those chemical imbalances in the first place?
And so let's start there.
Dr. Georgia Ede is a Harvard-trained psychiatrist who specializes in nutritional science and mental health. She was one of the first psychiatrists to offer nutrition-based approaches as an alternative to psychiatric medications to optimize brain function and enhance performance.
People need to know how powerful nutrition strategies can be for the brain because if you're feeding it the wrong way, things will go wrong. And that's exactly what happened to me. My health was declining in my early 40s in ways that was true for a lot of my patients. Chronic fatigue and IBS, being really anxious and depressed. And so I did all kinds of tests and they said there's nothing wrong.
Of course there was something wrong. So I instinctively started experimenting with my diet. And the diet that I ended up on was backwards from what we're told is healthy for us. It should theoretically kill me, but it resolved every single one of my symptoms.
And so I studied for years learning things about food that most people don't know and which foods contain the nutrients the brain needs or the ingredients that damage the brain and found three principles of nutrition. They can help you in ways no medicine can, as well as improve mood, memory, concentration, stamina, productivity. So let's unpack that.
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