Your Diet is Making You Depressed: Here's Why

Did you know that what you eat can either harm or help your mental health? Watch this interview with Dr. Georgia Ede, a nutritional/metabolic psychiatrist and author of Change Your Diet, Change Your Mind. We discuss the results of multiple research studies indicating that a ketogenic diet can greatly improve-and sometimes eradicate-mental health issues. 00:00:00 Compassionate Conversations Intro 00:00:24 Introducing Dr. Georgia Ede 00:02:35 Why mental health practitioners aren't educated on the relationship between nutrition and mental health 00:04:58 How much food choices impact our mental health and what a powerful intervention foods can be in improving our mental health 00:05:30 The "me-search" that led Dr. Ede to explore the effects that nutrition can have on physical and mental health 00:09:23 How mainstream psychiatry fails most people and why we need new approaches 00:13:33 Why depression and anxiety have reached epidemic proportions in recent years 00:15:02 Why the Standard American Diet or SAD, is contributing to poor mental health 00:18:02 Why food is one of the most powerful pillars of better mental health 00:18:50 Why we are so confused about what to eat 00:19:34 Debunking popular nutrition headlines which are based on ideology, not biology 00:23:00 Why plant-based and mediterranean diets outperform the Standard American Diet (SAD) 00:28:21 Why meat is the original “superfood” for brain health 00:32:54 The three ways of eating (WOEs) that Dr. Ede recommends to improve mental health (i.e.,#lowcarb #ketogenicdiet #carnivore) 00:43:20 How ridding one's diet of ultra processed foods alleviates food addiction 00:50:25 How people can reduce or eliminate the need for psychiatric medications using dietary strategies 00:55:42 Why the ketogenic diet is so good for people struggling with mental health issues 00:57:02 The importance of emphasizing HOPE and exciting developments in the area of metabolic health 01:04:07 Wind-up and what Dr. Ede is looking forward to Show notes: Where to find Dr. Ede, buy her book, find a clinician or check out her clinical training course: https://www.diagnosisdiet.com Resource mentioned in interview: Baszucki Foundation: links the ketogenic diet with resolution of mental health challenges: https://www.metabolicmind.org/ 🎙 I'm Esther Kane, MSW, RCC — a psychotherapist and highly sensitive person with 30 years of experience helping HSPs heal, grow, and thrive. 📺 Find more HSP resources at @ThrivingHSP 💜 SUPPORT THIS CHANNEL My mission is to help HSPs stop self-abandoning, heal from emotional wounds, and create lives that truly fit who they are. If this work has been meaningful to you and you'd like to help me continue creating free videos, resources, and education for the HSP community, you can support the channel below: ☕ Buy Me a Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/estherkanemsw You can also support this channel at no cost by: ✓ Subscribing to the channel ✓ Liking and commenting on videos ✓ Sharing videos with fellow HSPs ✓ Watching videos all the way through ✓'Hyping' my videos to help me grow the channel and help more HSPs Your support helps me continue creating free resources for highly sensitive people around the world. 🙏 🔔 Subscribe for new videos every other Wednesday Sign up for my newsletter and receive my FREE guide: Why Your High Sensitivity Is Your Superpower https://www.estherkane.com/#newsletter #ketodiet #ketogenicdiet #georgiaede