"most people will experience tremendous reductions in anxiety within 3 Days To 3 weeks of starting a ketogenic diet in fact we did a study where patients with bipolar disorder major depression or schiz..."

"Dr Georg Eid how do you define what what it is you do I am a psychiatrist specializing in nutritional and metabolic Psychiatry so how food affects the brain and how food affects brain metabolism and h..."

"this is a fairly new phrase metabolic Psychiatry am I right in thinking that yes it's a really it's a very new field and really exciting field uh the the term itself was coined by Dr Shabani Sethi who..."

"talk a lot about the ketogenic diet why is that so prevalent in your work was the ketogenic diet energizes the brain differently so it it really fundamentally changes the brain's operating system so w..."

"and career experience what's that can you run me through that sort of timeline yeah so I uh got a degree an undergraduate degree at Carlton College in Minnesota in biology so I always have loved scien..."

"Psychiatry involve what it usually involves for most psychiatrists is psychotherapy and medications and for some psychiatrists only medications some psychiatrists prefer to focus exclusively on psycho..."

"become part of your career well I I never thought about the relationship between food and the Brain once um during medical school we had maybe two or three hours worth of nutrition lectures in four ye..."

"there's like a significant social component to mental illnesses as well right absolutely I mean the brain the brain is a very responsive organ and it's listening to uh it's not just paying attention t..."

"particular case study that comes to mind when you think about this is there a most prominent case study or a first case study that was a Eureka moment VI I wouldn't say there was a Eureka moment case ..."

"the word explore um as it relates to different diets that you've written about in your book and that you know that are available online I from what I understood there you're not saying that one diet i..."

"goals what are the fundamental principles let's start there so the fundamental principles are nourish protect energize so nourish what does a brain healthy diet look like and by brain healthy uh we ar..."

"possible nourish protect and energize and then beyond there you said there's a level above there so that's the sort of fundamental level Beyond there you go into sort of personalization what's best fo..."

"did a study on the ketogenic diet got the study here the ketogenic diet for refractory mental illness a resp a retrospective analysis of 31 in patients what is the ketogenic diet for someone that migh..."

"brain what's it doing to the brain the ketogenic diet does many many things it's like a multi-purpose tool for brain health so one thing it does because we talked about how uh some of the root causes ..."

"learned in this study and what this study concluded yes so this was the work of my friend and colleague Dr Alber Dena he's a psychiatrist who's been practicing in tulo France for more than 35 years so..."

"these um 31 adults so a certain proportion of them was it 28 that managed to see 28 31 283 had I just restricted their calories for example but kept them on whatever diet they were on would I have see..."

"Mediterranean diet would they have seen the same consequences the medit oh sorry say I imagine they were probably on the western diet that like the American diet which is ultra processed high sugar so..."

"word sustainably that that's kind of always been my challenge with the keto diet is being able to stay on it I mean you saw in this particular study that even trying to get people to do it for two wee..."

"hungry I find what you've said there to be sort of true in my experience especially in the context of the roller coaster analogy so when I'm not on key ketosis I do feel like sometimes I'm in a bit of..."

"most people don't even know what foods are included in a keto diet because most diets are restrictive to the point that you know people think they just make your life miserable but what are the sort o..."

"it like a binary State like now I'm in ketosis and now I'm not so yes but there's there's a yes um let me put it this way that most experts will agree that um in order to be quote in ketosis um your l..."

"again you're not saying the the keto diet you're saying the low levels of glucose um and Insulin exactly in the blood and that can be achieved by calorie restriction potentially fasting I guess you co..."

"about children there one of the big conversations at the moment around children is the the rise in ADHD diagnosis and there's a lot of different sort of thoughts on the causal factors of this and what..."

"to find some stats on this sure diet modification isn't widely prescribed as a way to alleviate ADHD symptoms is it it says as of 2019 major health organizations including the American um Academy of P..."

"all be treated by because you know I I was I guess technically diagnosed with ADHD but I don't take any medication for it I'm it's a personal choice I personally just um don't think that the net impac..."

"studies on the link between the ketogenic diet and ADHD so not yet but I'm I'm very excited to to to be involved in two brand new studies of the ketogenic diet for ADHD so one is a uh ketogenic diet f..."

"establish cause and effect there I was thinking about the the diabetes one where if you've had ADHD maybe your life has been harder again I don't know what I'm talking about here but maybe your life h..."

"food addictions and binge eating problems the ketogenic diet I guess it's knocking you off that roller coaster what well being in a state of ketosis is knocking you off that roller coaster of craving ..."

"that case study a second ago you referred to as Carl which I guess is a cloaked name um he's the one that had the bipolar disorder uh no Carl is a different case ah okay tell me about Co yeah so I ope..."

"a couple of key things people always talk about when they hear the carnival diet the first is they say there's nutritional deficiencies to the diet that aren't like sustainable so if you eliminate cer..."

"carnivore diet without getting some kind of like microbiome issue or some kind of because you need fiber right why thought it was good for like digestion and your microbiome and stuff like that what d..."

"carnivore diet like the extreme version of the carnivore diet for a long time without any supplementation so you we really don't know and we really don't have any long-term data on on any dietary patt..."

"a keto diet do it for very sort of superficial reasons sure you know I think it's probably one of the reasons why I do it once a year um for a couple of weeks um why does it help you to lose weight is..."

"overlays with psychology you know when someone comes to you and they they're experiencing some anxiety or depression or something and they they're describing their life and their life is full of traum..."

"that with your patients so in the first in the first interview with somebody I usually take 90 minutes to two hours when I'm first uh working with a patient and I might do that two or three times befo..."

"does the research say about the role that keto can play in reducing someone's anxiety yes so anxiety uh if you talk to any practitioner who has been using ketogenic diets in their work um whether it's..."

"mental health and those other things but it it makes sense we have a closing tradition on this podcast where the last guest leaves a question for the next guest not knowing who they're leaving it for ..."

"wanted to say about who this book is for yeah I mean I really want people with mental health conditions even if they think they've tried everything if you know if you're willing to try one more thing ..."