The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
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!
16 Jan 2025
Full Episode
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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