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Welcome to the Dr. Berg Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast.

Now your host, the man taking your health to a whole new level.

Dr. Eric Berg.

Hey guys, in this video, we're going to talk about the relationship between low-fat diets,

low-calestral diets, and depression.

I'm going to put a couple links down below with some very interesting research and research

studies that show the connection between these two things.

Here's why a low fat diet or a low cholesterol

diet can cause your mood to drop because cholesterol is needed as a precursor or the building blocks

to make hormones. Estrogen is a big one. If a woman goes through their menstrual period, or they just

had a baby, or menopause, a lot of times they get depressed because of the low estrogen. So,

low estrogen can affect your mood big time. Then we have testosterone. If you're low in testosterone,

you're going to lose your vitality.

It can definitely bring your mood way down. And then we get to cortisol. Cortisol is a stress hormone.

If you don't have enough cholesterol to make enough cortisol, you cannot fight off stress effectively.

And it's going to definitely bring you down into states of anxiety and even depression.

You need cholesterol to keep your serotonin levels high.

So serotonin is also connected to overall well-being and mood.

Cholesterol is needed to help make vitamin D.

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