Feeding the Brain: Nutrition and Mental Health | Dr. Georgia Ede - E405

Low Carb MD Podcast

Drs. Brian Lenzkes & Tro Kalayjian

Diet, Mental Health, Lowcarb, Nutrition, Keto, Brianlenzkes, Health & Fitness, Jasonfung, Doctortro, Intermittentfasting, Trokalayjian, Medicine, Meganramos

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🗓️ 28 July 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Georgia Ede is an internationally recognized expert in nutritional and metabolic psychiatry. Her twenty-five years of clinical experience include twelve years as a college mental health specialist at Smith College and Harvard University, where she was the first psychiatrist to offer students nutrition-based approaches to mental health conditions.

Dr. Ede co-authored the first inpatient study of the ketogenic diet for serious mental illness, developed the first medically accredited course in ketogenic diets for mental health, and is a recipient of the Baszucki Brain Research Fund’s Metabolic Mind Award. Her bestselling new book Change Your Diet, Change Your Mind was recommended by the New York Times Book Review and is being translated into more than a dozen languages.

In this episode, Drs. Tro, Brian, and Georgia talk about…

(00:00) Intro
(04:31) Why food addiction acceptance is growing
(11:58) Why diet and proper nutrition are simple
(14:25) The harms and benefits of medications like statins
(22:11) The lack of critical thinking going in the medical profession
(28:49) Supplementing
(31:23) Plant-based diets and metabolic health
(34:57) Plant-based diet and brain health
(39:53) How quickly mental health symptoms improve for people on ketogenic and whole food diets
(44:37) Gut health and metabolic health
(47:40) The upcoming International Food Addiction and Comorbidities Conference
(54:02) Hyper-palatable foods and binge eating
(55:57) Dr. Georgia’s book, Change Your Diet, Change Your Mind
(01:01:50) Outro

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Resources Mentioned in this Episode:

International Food Addiction and Comorbidities Conference, IFACC 2025: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/food-addiction-solutions-fas
Jen Unwin’s recent study on food addiction: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychiatry/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2025.1556988/full

Dr. Georgia Ede

X: https://x.com/GeorgiaEdeMD
IG: https://www.instagram.com/georgiaedemd/
Change Your Diet, Change Your Mind (book): https://www.diagnosisdiet.com/resources

Dr. Brian Lenzkes:

Website: https://arizonametabolichealth.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/BrianLenzkes?ref_src=twsrc^google|twcamp^serp|twgr^author

Dr. Tro Kalayjian:

Website: https://www.doctortro.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/DoctorTro
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/doctortro/

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Low Carb MD Podcast. No one is beyond help. No one is beyond hope.
0:07.2	Nothing said on the Low Carb MD podcast is medical advice. Please consult your own doctor before making any
0:13.7	lifestyle changes. Hello and welcome back to the low carb MD podcast.
0:23.6	Trow, we have a smart, smart, smart kid here.
0:27.6	Listen, I got to be honest.
0:30.6	Awesome.
0:31.6	I remember maybe like 10, maybe more, you know, over 10 years ago,
0:36.6	reading her website and thinking to myself,
0:41.6	oh, who is this? And how did she come to these conclusions? And then as every year passed
0:48.4	by 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 16, 17, I'm like, oh, my God, she's more and more right.
0:56.9	And every year that I learned more, I'm like, I was just, you know, in awe of, and it came to a point, I think, you know, she came on our podcast.
1:08.3	She was one of the first 20 guests.
1:10.4	And we talked about mental
1:12.0	health uh largely inspired by you by by dr george ead who were introduced in a bit and we got so
1:19.3	much flack brian for talking about food and mental health oh food addiction mental health
1:26.5	drug addiction we well i think that the thing that
1:29.3	got controversial, because you were mentioning that one of your, several of your patients said they
1:33.3	stopped pornography when they did ketogenic diet. You're like, what? But you look at this, I was there,
1:38.6	and gambling and different things that we saw these risky behaviors. And they say, yeah, I don't need that
1:42.8	anymore. I feel calm and I
1:44.5	feel good and then Dr. Ead here I saw her talking about this I'm like oh my goodness my first conference
1:50.3	my first conference I was looking at diabetes reversal how do we fix diabetes because we know that's a
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