Welcome to the Dr. Berg's Healthy Keto and Interminate Fasting Podcast, where Dr.

Berg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing healthy weight.

Let's talk about the relationship between ketones on your mood, not just depression,

but anger, irritability, anxiety.

So many people who start the ketogenic diet in periodic prolonged fasting experience

a huge improvement in their mental health.

It really brings their mood up from these lower motions to a much greater emotion.

Now, I want to differentiate two things.

One is your mood being affected by situations and maybe a mental problem.

If you get in an argument with someone and you're angry, okay, that's a direct cause

and effect relationship.

But what about in the situation where you're just depressed, you're irritable, you're

angry without that situation?

What is up with that?

And it'd be really interesting to find out the true percentage of people who are depressed,

angry, irritable, and have anxiety and how much of that is related to just their fuel

for their brain and their overall brain chemistry, especially because when you observe people

going on low carb and fasting, there is a direct and immediate improvement in mood.

Now, there's been 15 studies showing the relationship between the ketogenic diet and mood

and the results were kind of mixed.

The results show there may be improvements in your mental status, okay?

But if you look at these studies, some studies were just observational, which used questionnaires,

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