303. Metabolic Psychiatry 101: Change Your Diet, Change Your Mind with Dr. Georgia Ede

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Kelly Leveque

Nutrition, Education, Health & Fitness, Alternative Health, Self-improvement

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🗓️ 31 July 2024

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

It may seem like every corner of the wellness space has been researched, everything has been studied and reported ad nauseam, that no new frontiers of modern health remain. Today, Dr. Georgia Ede joins the show to outline her new book – Change Your Diet, Change Your Mind – and to smash that notion to pieces! She is an internationally recognized expert in nutritional and metabolic psychiatry. Having co-authored the first inpatient study of the ketogenic diet for treatment resistant mental illness, she developed the first medically accredited course in ketogenic diets for mental health practitioners. In today’s episode, we talk about how and why our diets and mental health are inextricably linked – but it goes so much deeper than that. She walks us through her own personal journey to healing, discovered through years of frustration and syndrome-related struggles. Be sure to order Dr. Ede’s book for her expanded recommendations and research. And please share this episode with anyone who you think might benefit from the wisdom shared in it. We also cover: (00:00:54) What is Metabolic Psychiatry? (00:12:52) A Breakthrough in Mental Health Understanding (00:28:01) The Most Nourishing & Protective Diet for Us (00:50:20) How Different Diets Support Metabolic Brain Function (00:58:43) Research Covering Potential Risks & Benefits of Dairy (01:03:08) 5 Food Recommendations for Optimal Mental Health Resources: • Click here for full show notes • Read: Change Your Diet, Change Your Mind • Website: diagnosisdiet.com • Instagram: @georgiaedemd • Facebook: @GeorgiaEdeMd Connect with Kelly: • kellyleveque.com • Instagram: @bewellbykelly • Facebook: @bewellbykelly * Content from this podcast is provided for information and education purposes only, and is not intended as a substitute for the advice provided by your physician or other healthcare professional. The use of information from this podcast is at the user’s own risk. Always speak with your healthcare professional before taking any medication, nutritional or herbal supplement. Be Well By Kelly is produced by Crate Media. Mentioned in this episode: AG1 | Get a FREE 1-year supply of Vitamin D3+K2 AND 5 free AG1 Travel Packs with your first subscription at drinkAG1.com/BEWELL. BWBK Protein Powder | Get $10 off your order with PODCAST10 at bewellbykelly.com. Hiya Health | Get 50% off your first order at HiyaHealth.com/Kelly.

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0:00.0	Dr. Georgia Ede is an internationally recognized expert in nutritional and metabolic
0:15.2	psychiatry. She co-authored the first inpatient study of the ketogenic diet
0:19.9	for treatment-resistant mental illness and develop the first medically accredited
0:24.4	course and ketogenic diets for mental health practitioners.
0:28.4	Her new book, Change Your Diet, Change Your Mind was released earlier this year.
0:32.6	And today we talk about how and why our diets and mental health
0:36.6	are inextricably linked.
0:38.6	Dr. Ede, it is an absolute pleasure to have you on the podcast today. I have followed your work and I'm so excited for the audience to get to know you.
0:49.7	We're going to start with a very, very important question because I don't even think that the
0:56.0	majority of people know that metabolic psychiatry is a thing.
1:00.4	So can you tell me what is metabolic psychiatry?
1:04.0	metabolic psychiatry is a really exciting new
1:08.4	subspecialty of psychiatry
1:10.5	and before I define it in case people don't know this, for 75 years, psychiatry, the biology of psychiatry has been standing still.
1:21.0	We have lots of medications, new names of medications
1:24.8	coming out.
1:26.2	They all seem like they're new and different,
1:27.7	but they're really just reinvented versions
1:32.2	of the same old medicines we've been using for 75 years.
1:36.1	So this is a really exciting time to be a psychiatrist because psychiatrist or somebody who has a mental
1:41.9	health problem and needs help,
1:44.2	because psychiatry, after all that time of standing still,
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