Fueling a Healthy Mind: Ketones, Fasting & Brain Chemistry with Dr. Georgia Ede

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🗓️ 16 June 2025

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

Dive into the power of ketones with Dr. Georgia Ede! Discover how the ketogenic diet can revolutionize brain health and mental wellness. Dr. Ede, who teaches and writes extensively on ketogenic diets for mental health, discusses the intricate balance of neurotransmitters like GABA and glutamate, and how ketones can stabilize and enhance brain function. This episode dives into the benefits of a ketogenic diet, fasting, and the importance of metabolic health in addressing mental health conditions such as anxiety, depression, and even severe conditions like schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. Perfect for women 40+ looking to enhance their midlife journey.

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Dr. Georgia Ede is an internationally recognized expert in nutritional and metabolic psychiatry. Her 25+ years of clinical experience include 7 years at Harvard University, where she was the first psychiatrist to offer 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 Metabolic Mind Award. She is the author of the bestselling book Change Your Diet, Change Your Mind, recommended by the New York Times Book Review.

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0:00.0	On this episode of The Resetter podcast, I am bringing you Dr. Georgia Edy.
0:09.0	Oh, y'all, this is a good one.
0:12.3	Those of you that are fasting, those of you that are wondering about the power of ketones and how it can affect your brain health, this is the conversation. I think I've been
0:22.7	wanting to bring you all for years. Let me tell you a little bit about Dr. Georgia, because not only
0:29.7	is she fun and smart, but she is a, what she calls herself this, a nutritional and metabolic psychiatrist. Have we not needed one of
0:41.4	these for a very long time? A psychiatrist that understood the power of nutrition, that understood
0:48.7	the power of ketones. She is a trailblazer. So check this out.
0:54.9	She has 25 years of clinical experience, which is so important because a lot of experts
1:00.2	have incredible knowledge, but they don't have clinical experience.
1:04.8	Well, that is not Dr. Georgia's issue.
1:07.7	And she, her clinical experience is at some pretty brilliant university, Smith College and
1:12.8	Harvard University Health Services. She is really trying to bring to the world the message that the
1:21.8	ketogenic diet is the savior. It is this magic bullet for so many of the brain challenges and mental health challenges
1:33.2	that we have today. So what you're going to hear in this interview is you're going to hear
1:39.5	us talk about the ketone. Let's just unpack this ketone. A lot of you are looking for it. A lot of you
1:44.6	are trying to measure it when you fast. But what exactly does it do? And what does it do for your brain?
1:51.5	So we go into that. Then we unpack the ketogenic diet. Okay, do you have to completely let go of
1:58.7	carbs or is a little bit of carbs okay to be able to get these
2:04.2	ketones and if so what kind of carbs do you have to eat high fat?
2:09.7	All of these questions we talk about when we get to the diet.
2:13.6	Then we move into a really cool part of the conversation, which is when you have ketones in your
2:19.8	system, what is that doing to your neurotransmitters?
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