Best Diet to Improve Mental Health with Dr. Georgia Ede

My son, 45 had a head injury at work over 7 years ago, he take 13 pills a day for, most are low dose sedatives. I talk to him regularly about getting on less with his dr advice, but he's afraid of the issues he suffered at first, over 7 years ago. Of course his psychiatrist only medicates, sees him 15 minutes every 3 months🤔

This was my favorite interview Dr Berry. Dr Ede seems to have soo much compassion, why wouldn’t you want to try the keto way. Shared with my daughter that suffers depression.

Dr. Ede is a gift 🎁 to humanity. The research and explanations in her book are solid. The writing is fantastic and it’s laid out clearly. I loved it. 🎉

Stop delivering Theory as fact. I know an enormous amount of people who have cured their depression by eating raw. And by the way there is no science to support that bacon will cure depression on long-term studies ❤

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Thank you both so much. Very informative. Dr. Ede, I am reading your book and it is great!

Funny thing us two times i went on a great or even keto diet i got a severe uncontrollable n untreatable condition 😊

Excellent interview! I've followed Dr. Eye, since going Carnivore almost 5yrs ago. I'll be sharing this, along with Dr. Chaffee's interview, as they both have gold nuggets for better brain health.💕

One of your all time best interviews Dr Berry.

I give thanks daily that i found all these terrific docs late 2021 and then plunged into Carnivore on new years day 2022. 25 ½ months ago. Absolutely incredible.

I had a DNA test done that showed I have MHTFR. I am on Lexapro 30 mg daily and Buspar 5 mg AM and PM. I have the heterozygous on the methylfolate and an elevated level of homocysteine.. I've read that L Methylfolate may help. Along with B 12. Do you believe this will help. I also have tried the low glycemic diet. I need to be more diligent with this.

Fabulous interview! Thank Dr Ede and Dr. Berry! I'm in Germany with friends and one of them has mental health issues this is so important right now. Many thanks, Clara Brosnaham

I have lost at least a decade of my life on thinking I've lost myself, the Me I used to be. I used to be funny, social, optimistic, positive, people like being around me. I was blessed with a sense of humor so twisted and unholy you couldn't help but laugh. I turned into a depressed, antisocial introvert who started to hate the world and resent everyone on anything, lost the will to do the stuff I loved, lost the will to do anything pretty much, became bitter, negative... It affected my life, jobs, relationships, friendships that faded away.

Going carnivore literally saved my life, not only physically (got overweigth etc.), but my mind is like... I started to remember the person I used to be! And people noticed. I've had three people in the last 2 month come to me and say I seem like a different person, calm, not bothered, not negative anymore, a female colleague said last week she wished she could be as chill as me. I was shocked.

This has had so many incredible benefits for my life and body it's hard to describe. I sleep 7 hours a night! I don't have headaches 4 times a week. I can wear clothes I like. I have excellent bloodwork. I'm not hungry ALL THE DAMN TIME and don't feel tired and sleepy all the damn time. I can see myself having a future.

And it all started 10 months ago on this channel, by accident. I thought dr. Berry was a sectist crazy man :D But I like to hear what people who I don't agree with at first have to say in order to see their position and if they maybe have some good points. It took me a few weeks to really start to think maybe there's something to this. I searched for some more info, found dr. Chaffee, searched for people who said the complete opposite to see what they have to offer and with time I decided enough is enough, I'll just try. I do have a deep love of science and love to go into something properly.

If you do this - you won't regret it. Ever. I like eating what I eat, I look forward to it when I'm hungry, but I'm not controled by food anymore.

Man, was THIS informative. I've struggled with depression and lack of focus (increasingly) for the past 2 decades. I just thought it was normal, so I just ignored it; but in the last 5-6 years, I was often literally in tears, or verbally abusive, short-fused, sad, frustrated, etc. I had friends and family tell me that I had an issue, and I need professional help. When it gets to a point when those you love are saying this to you, it serves as a wake-up call. I was diagnosed and put on meds for my depression. My doctor was very compassionate, and actually listened and spoke to me for nearly an hour in his office, ending with a hug, and my prescription. I know his heart was in the right place, if not his science. Fast forward 4 years. My wife and I have been oscillating between Keto and Carnivore, and as the primary (only) cook, gardener and grocery shopper in this household, I primarily pursued these dietary lifestyles in order to reverse my wife's pre-diabetes. We've been on this way of eating for several months now (more carnivore-focussed in the last 2 months), and Suzanne will be going in for a blood test prior to her next hypothyroid medication appointment with her doctor. Hopefully those numbers will be down, as that was why we started eating this way. However, in the process, I have since taken myself off my depression medication (without Dr. assistance or advice, despite his warnings that I need to stay on it for at least 1 year, and it can only be reduced incrementally over time — I know you'd recommend against that, but your latest video was not out then, lol). I've been sleeping more soundly and completely; I've dropped some weight, and my high blood pressure issues seem to be on the way down. I am calm, content, more clear-minded and not nearly as 'triggered' as I used to be. I am still struggling with focus, self-flagellation and procrastination, however I am convinced that this will improve and be eliminated over time and prayer due to my recent changes in diet. Thanks to you, Dr. Berry, and to many others that have taken on the banner of how we fuel ourselves affects our metabolic system with disease prevention and healing (thank you also to Dr. Seyfried), but also how it eliminates the mental anguish that I have suffered with over the last two decades. My 88 year old mother-in-law is moving in with us, and she suffers with deep depression (wanting to die) and short term memory issues. My 3 other in-laws have been frustrated with her so it's now our turn to have her live with us for the next few months. I am going to make it my goal to demonstrate to my entire family how she can have her symptoms lessened and possibly eliminated by fuelling her with the Proper Human Diet. I will start her with Keto, then move to Ketovore. I'll try to keep you in the loop as to the outcomes. Wish me luck, and God bless you all.

@GeorgiaEdeMD Am off to buy your book today after this lovely interview. I was wondering if you have any insight into brain tumor recovery? I have a friend whose son is recovering from his 3rd brain surgery (has also done chemo and radiation at times) and is super depressed about life and his loss of ability to organize thoughts, speak, etc. He’s 32 and his mom is taking care of him, but doing plant based foods. She is pretty traumatized herself and very fragile over everything. Would your book be helpful potentially in this situation? Many thanks 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

Thank you both. Excellent Dr. Berry.

Dear Lord, the withdrawal was almost life ending; benzodiazepines, Wellbutrin, Effexor… the brain zaps, the consuming darkness. No one ever told us, we had to learn. Liquifying 1 mg Ativans? Fractions!

I was diagnosed depressed for over 10 years. No mention of diet at all. Only SSRIs. Soon as I started keto, I felt like I got a brand new brain. I've not used a single drug since. I'm now carnivore.

Thank you so much Dr. Ken for this informational Videos…!!! God bless you and your Family..! ❤❤❤

I was in a severe depression and getting sober. My Dr. Had me taking at most 19 pills a day... I got sober on my own and then felt a drastic improvement I wanted to come off meds. He asked why. I told him. He said he felt they were working so he wanted to leave everything as it was. Well I took myself off everything one at a time. And then never went back. Now 41 sober and rx free!!!!!

Hi from the UK . Great listening on mental health and general well being . I am going to Morroco next month . I researched hotel food . On my, most breakfasts are high carbs ,high sugar . I once ate a pastry before getting on a plane that was all the airport sold as it was a small airport .. I was in pain for the 3 hr flight . Never again I may get a boiled egg hopefully . Wish me luck .

At least the tide is beginning to turn thanks to you enlightened people way to go 👏

Me thinks the otherwise astute lady meant to say “hypothesis”

Depression is an epidemic

Thanks to you both for this remarkable interview.

I'm going to buy her book ,she is so very interesting thankyou Dr Ken and Dr Georgia much love 💞

This is what happened to ME. I went to my primary care doctor and ended up telling her how much anxiety, panic attacks and depression episodes I was having. I started taking Effexor, it basically made me steady, I didn't have the deep depression episodes and panic attacks were nearly gone, but I also wasn't happy either, it was like I lost all my joy in order to not have the low lows. I was told I would be on it for the rest of my life and that didn't sit well with me. During that time I was having allergy testing and shots. As they were trying to dial in my allergy shots at one point they said I had to come off ALL my meds, even the effexor. I called my PC doctor and they sort of questioned it but then basically shrugged their shoulders and gave me a half dose for a few weeks and then I needed to come off it completely and I had such withdrawals that I was sick and throwing up and miserable. We just happened to also be away visiting my parents 12 hours away during the worst week of withdrawals so I was also trying to act "normal" because I didn't want my mom to know I was on meds for my depression. Years later I started Keto and after a year or so I started to realize that it was time to come off my meds but I did NOT want to just come off it like they had me do it last time and so I searched for myself. I am not recommending this to anyone but what worked for me and this particular medicine is that my med was the tiny beads in the capsules. So over the next nearly six months I would open the capsule and pull out 5 tiny beads for a week, then I would pull out 10 beads of each of the capsules I took for that week, then 15, etc. When I got down to being nearly done I had to slow it down to 3 additional beads being taken out a week and then for a couple weeks I did just one tiny bead out. Then I just quit and even though it was so extremely slow I still had some light withdrawal effects. I really wish I had learned about Keto way back in the day, unfortunately the closest I heard about it was the Adkins diet and I believed the news about how it was ruining everyone's kidneys and people were dying and going to the hospital. I believed the rumors and never looked into it for real. In fact my husband thought I was going to kill myself going Keto but then he started researching and he's a bigger advocate and vocal about it than I am.

Greetings from Ireland, how do you feel about dairy produce such as milk, cheese, cream ect. Maybe you could do a video on the subject

I have proper human instincts and I can tell Dr Ede is the real deal, extremely knowledgeable and calm in the delivery of that knowledge. Instant trust. Thank you both of you 🙏💙

Plants have feelings too 🙃

let go of sugar and flour

Dr. Berry, my name is James Loveless. I am 34years old, just recently had some lab work done with my PCP and to be honest I'm definitely in panic damage control mode. I'm 5'7" between 195 and 200lbs. I understand BMI is based on height and weight. I'm far from obese. My labs came back with my BUN @ 22 and my Creatinine @ 1.3. My HDL was slightly low @ 37. LDL was within a normal range. However my Triglycerides were 443. I'm sure my PCP is going to want to put me on prescription meds. What can I do, what should I do? Any advice, I would greatly appreciate it. Hope you see my message, thank you.

Sadly, I only found one practitioner in the state of Washington who is in Dr Ede's Directory of Practitioners. 😞

The story about the mom who was hospitalized every year for forty years and recovered in weeks on a Keto diet is testimony to how resilient the human body and mind can be!! Wow !

Awesome interview!! Mental illness in my family goes back generations on my mother’s side. My mother spent 30 years in nursing homes, and died there in 2017 at age 93. Psychiatric medications prescribed for her had horrific effects, both mentally and physically. My grandmother had a lobotomy in 1940 for depression. I’m so thankful for Dr Ede. It’s obvious she truly cares. Many thanks to both of you, Dr Berry.

Hazza! I went keto and now carnivore for my hypoglycemia, IR and prediabetes. All reversing after 40 yrs of dealing with it. It is working very very well. I can have small bouts of depression (not debilatating but measurable), mental stress, anxiety, and hadnt entertained that the diet would impact this in any way. I own and run my own company and assumed this went with that territroy. Well, this way of eating does impact all this. My stress levels are down, anxiet down and amazingly my emotional where with all has got very level, no real highs or lows. My brain fog also alleviated. Keep bringing this info to main stream, much needed.

It’s great to learn more and more about this revolution to restore function in people’s lives. My question looms, I’m wondering how the DIET ALONE truly treats the devastating, debilitating conditions of ipseity and negative “dearth” symptoms in disorders like schizoaffective, schizotypal, schizophrenia conditions. With these conditions there is (often) almost a lack of inflammation and oxidative stress, a lack of mood. I am glad these interventions are getting studied and completely agree that metabolic interventions like Exercise treat negative symptom conditions but wondering about diet specifically! I so far see the diet as more effective for bipolar, epilepsy, and schizophrenia positive symptoms but not the personality deficits, mood issues, isolation and anhedonia issues in SCZ

I use butter as a antidepressant

Doctors don’t learn about deprescribing meds because the pharmaceutical companies are sponsoring their training! They don’t WANT people off of their drugs!!!

Highly recommend this video!

Please mention any effects of environmental toxins on brain health. Live near a oil refinery.

Iron deficiency can also be a parasite issue and an electrolyte/minerals issue. The ectrolytes/minerals are the gate keepers to allow the iron into the cell. So yiu can test high in blood iron..but this usually means the iron is not getting into the cells..add minerals to your water. Great video! Make sure the gall bladder is working well b4 upping the fat. ;-)

I was depressed didn’t wanna do RX tried Tons of supplements they helped very little
Tried carnivore it was a game. Changer!!!!!

What a fantastic interview! I have a couple of family members who could benefit from her knowledge so I will be sharing this with them.

Thanks for the interview. Great info. Unfortunately the Audible version of the book is only available in the US, sadly the author hasn't opened it up for other countries.

When I think of some of the people I've known over the years that could have used this method instead of medications. It's very sad.

In the 40s they were starting to talk about the twenty year shadow effect. Twenty years after seed oils enter a populations diet heart attacks and strokes increase. About that time an unknown charity got millions from the food industry. The American Heart Association

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My parents talked about the sudden increase in depression and other mental health issues in the 70s. When they started pushing the never proven lipid hypothesis.

Thank you Dr. Georgia Ede and of course Dr. Ken Berry. Great show loaded with hopeful instructive information. I sent it to two key people in my life.