Ketogenic Diets and Psychiatric Disorders | Dr. Erin Bellamy - E400
Low Carb MD Podcast
Drs. Brian Lenzkes & Tro Kalayjian
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 16 June 2025
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Dr Erin Louise Bellamy founded Integrative Ketogenic Research and Therapies which uses principles of Metabolic Psychiatry to provide remote, highly personalized 1:1 Metabolic Therapy for both psychiatric conditions and overall metabolic health.
Dr. Erin Bellamy has a PhD in Psychology, specializing in Ketogenic Diets & Depression from the University of East London. She also has an MSc in Psychiatric Research from the Institute of Psychiatry at King's College London. She is a Chartered Psychologist, an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society and an accredited member of the Society of Metabolic Health Practitioners.
In this episode, Drs. Brian and Erin talk about…
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(00:00) Intro
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(01:36) How Dr. Erin became interested in Metabolic Psychiatry
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(05:38) Ketogenic diets and psychiatric conditions
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(15:39) Fasting and mental clarity
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(18:12) The areas in which clinical psychology is deficient in helping patients
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(23:46) Adverse childhood events, PTSD, and metabolic health
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(28:24) Binge eating, stress, and support groups
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(40:00) Food addiction and ketosis
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(43:59) Schizophrenia, autism, and ketosis
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(01:00:46) Outro/plugs
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Resources Mentioned in this Episode:
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Dr. Erin Bellamy on the Life's Best Medicine Podcast: https://lifesbestmedicine.com/podcast/episode-248-dr-erin-bellamy/
Dr. Erin Bellamy:
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Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/erinlouisebellamy/
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Integrative Ketogenic Research & Therapies: https://www.ikrt.org
Dr. Brian Lenzkes:
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Website: https://arizonametabolichealth.com/
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the low-carb MD podcast. |
| 0:03.5 | No one is beyond help. |
| 0:05.3 | No one is beyond hope. |
| 0:07.5 | Nothing said on the low-carb-m-D podcast is medical advice. |
| 0:11.6 | Please consult your own doctor before making any lifestyle changes. |
| 0:20.7 | Hello and welcome back to the low carb MD podcast. |
| 0:24.5 | Unfortunately, everyone, don't be disappointed, but Trow had a conflict on his schedule, |
| 0:29.7 | so you're stuck with me for an hour. |
| 0:32.0 | But luckily, I have a great guess and it may make things a little bit more fun and entertaining. |
| 0:37.3 | And this is a really, this topic, and hopefully we can get into it. We'll talk about personal stuff. And so Aaron Bellamy, welcome, doctor, I should say, psychologist and metabolic health practitioner. And so this is awesome. I'm an MHP also. So we kind of went through the same training. So that's |
| 0:56.9 | awesome. So tell people your story. Yeah, absolutely. First of all, thank you for having me. And yeah, |
| 1:03.7 | unfortunately, we don't have Trow, but we're going to have a great time chit chatting for the next hour, |
| 1:07.5 | as you said. It's actually lovely to be hanging out with somebody who is an |
| 1:12.7 | MHP. You know, there's, it's a growing, it's a growing society. But I feel like I have a special bond |
| 1:19.8 | with other people that are MHPs. So yeah. Yeah. So for people who don't know, that's metabolic health |
| 1:24.7 | practitioner. We go through training and kind of learn all the science. And so one of the biggest science, the biggest, I think one of the biggest really good outcomes is on the mental health front. We're at a major crisis in mental health in the United States and the UK where Dr. Bellamy is coming from. And to say, what else can we do rather than just |
| 1:44.7 | throwing drugs and maybe some counseling? How do we really help that person who's struggling? |
| 1:49.7 | So yeah, I would love to hear your story of how did you get into MHP and understand the benefits |
| 1:56.3 | of mental health with lifestyle change. Yeah, absolutely. So I'm going to try not to repeat myself if people |
| 2:03.4 | have heard me on another podcast, but it goes back a while. So back in 2014, I was working in the |
| 2:12.0 | National Health Service here in the UK. I was working on the inpatient psychiatric wards. So, you know, where people go when |
| 2:19.6 | they're, they're not feeling very well. Maybe they need to go in under like a mental health |
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