Dr. Georgia Ede - 'Nutritional & Metabolic Psychiatry: The New Science of Hope'
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- Опубліковано 10 лют 2025
- Dr. Georgia Ede received her B.A. in Biology from Carleton College in Minnesota, then spent seven years as a research assistant in the fields of biochemistry, wound healing and diabetes before going on to earn an M.D. from the University of Vermont College Of Medicine.
Dr. Ede then completed her residency in general adult psychiatry at Harvard's Cambridge Hospital in 2002 and was a staff psychopharmacologist at Harvard University Health Services from 2007 to 2013. In 2013 she left Harvard to become the psychiatrist for Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts where she provides nutrition consults as well as psychiatric services to Smith students.
Dr. Ede was the first and only psychiatrist at Harvard University Health Services to offer nutrition consultation as an alternative to medication management to students, faculty and staff. Her areas of expertise include ketogenic and pre-agricultural diets, food sensitivity syndromes, and college mental health. She explores food’s powerful effects on brain chemistry, hormonal balance and metabolism for Psychology Today and on her website www.DiagnosisDiet.com.
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Dr Ead saved my life! 28 years of misery with bipolar. Suicidal. Now following Dr Ead for 7 years and no symptoms in that time. Thank you so much! 🌹
What did you eat?
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Thank you for bringing these important messages again and again in a world that wants us to eat carbohydrates and vegetable oils.
Georgia Ede is one of the best - possibly THE best - in psychiatry. Why don't we hear from others in that field? Because helping people get healthy outside of drugging them is harder and less profitable?
Chris Palmer is another person in the field. Metabolic Mind is a whole UA-cam channel dedicated to the field.
You may be interested in Dr. Chris Palmer work, also in psychiatry, and his new book "Brain Energy".
Daniel Amen. Robert Lustig seems to have moved to this realm.
The hardest part about the ketogenic diet is, going out anywhere. You can't even find anything in a hospital cafeteria that's worth eating unless you bring it with you. Everywhere you go, if you need something to eat, it's going to be very hard to find.
Thank you Dr. Ede for the lecture, I've been keto/carnivore for now, nearly thirty two years and have managed to survive it well.
To me, it's easy going out to restaurants, but what I found difficult is being invited to someone else house...it can be tough to decline something they have been lovelingly cooking!
To avoid being a victim of iatricide, stay away from hospitals and their cafeterias.
Yes,traveling or going out to dinner is sort of like trying to stay hydrated int he middle of the Pacific Ocean with to potable water. Road kill is more healthy than any food in restaurants.I just take a big bag of beef suet in a cooler and some home made beef jerky made with no sugar when I travel. I am mostly ketogenic for the last 40 years but have gone 98% carnivore the last 2 years. We have to keep pushing the information because the craziness of the guidelines for food or human nutrition isn't getting better and they keep doubling down to keep as many sick in order to keep up the profits.We are reminded of the wide spread of mental illness constantly such as the latest Olympics opening ceremony and vastly increasing amount of homeless around the country who are all not just addicted to drugs or alcohol but certified crazy.Our formally institutions of higher learning are now teaching anti science curriculum and are now mostly characterized as institutionalized insanity.
Pocket stake,(or home made beef partys, Sardines in the olive oil, prepared meals from the freezer.
It's not a restriction!
It's a liberation!
Im carnivore for the last year (started also as a keto).
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Certainly. I have adopted intermittent fasting precisely because obtaining good food outside of my own kitchen is so inconvenient.
Such an excellent human being. we are fortunate to have her intelligence and persistence in this realm of helping people with psychiatric conditions
Wow! a beautiful, funny, thorough scientific summary of a difficult topic. Please share Georgia Ede with everyone you know 🙏🏻 this information needs to be more prominently understood in the world 💛💛💛
Fantastic, I always enjoy learning from low carb down under and Dr. Georgia Ede thank you.
Georgia Ede is the best!
Very good presentation from Dr. Ede, she has a nice calm demeanour which lets you absorb all the information
I'm of course used to a quite bad western diet in Europe and changed mine some years ago to a LCHF natural food diet with good effect on a couple of health issues. Recently I went to a scientific conference taking place in a state capital in the US. The conference venue was the big hotel group starting with H, I myself stayed in a close-by hotel of a side‐branch of the same hotel group. Both hotels are up-market 5 star hotels.
Due to the nature of my trip, I had to eat nearly the whole week in that hotels. The food was so BAD: ultra processed, plastic packed, bad tasting, wrong texture, low fat heart healty declared stuff. Fruit only with added sugar, meat barely distinguishable, veggies violated in the kitchen. If this is the food people eat that can afford 200+ $ per person and night in a fancy hotel, I must not imagine the stuff poorer people eat.
The good thing: it helped me a lot not to eat and do OMAD...
When traveling, I bring along a few Carnivore Bars, which can be good meal replacements. Also, I usually feel good in America after eating most cheeseburgers with no buns, fries, ketchup, or mayo. Sadly, the less I pay for a burger, the more likely I will feel less than 100% afterward. In Switzerland, I felt great after eating at a wider variety of restaurants.
Just read her book. It will become a reference book in the field. She did her homework as well as that of both kids either side of her. A book everyone needs to own and read.
This is so amazing. Thank you!!❤🎉
Thank you so much!!!! You are brave and wonderful!
Nice presentation. I found it quite informative. Having type 2 diabetes along with a father grandfather great grandfather and great grand mother who were victims of Alzheimer's I am of course quite interested in how diet relates to dementia. It gives me hope that the diet that I am following will help me avoid Alzheimer's as well as control my sugar. Thank you.
Go to cafe in a hospital and all you find is sandwiches, cakes and cookies. Not to mention soft drinks in machines everywhere. What a life. You'd think of all the places on earth a hospital would have more sense.
Thank you, Dr. Ede!!
Psychiatrists would be in less demand if all this is true...maybe THAT'S why they never recommend it as a treatment. Thank you Dr. Edes, for bringing this information forward to us in an easy to understand format.
great talk DR. thank you. your the best
As a teacher I've noticed how the children with the most psychiatric issues such as autism and adhd are far more often from families who are eating a poor diet.
One could argue that a possibility dysfunctional family is causing traumatic issues for the children. But frequently when you speak to the parents they are kind and caring and want to do their best for the child.
I gave up bread/grains and almost all sweetened foods and I honestly don’t miss them
This was enlightening, and I appreciate it! Thank you!
As an educator I worry how much the diet is really affecting students ability to learn, and use self control.
I stopped years of almost nightly nightmares by cutting all caffeine. It was like a switch was thrown. Haven't had a nightmare since.
Love Dr Georgia Ede. 💜😃
"No one is going to do it, it's too hard", I speak from experience when I say it's way easier than living with sever mental illness. People should at least be given the option.
Based on an N=1 experiment, I expect that Central Sleep Apnea should be on the list of neurological conditions that can be treated with a ketogenic diet.
Very good info. 👍
Thank you so much. I’ve been working with people with disabilities for a long time.!
But is there a way to get the transcript and footnotes? As this is so well structured and gives all the greatest references, including credit !
Dr Ede,
I’m an MD and I have two grandchildren with PKU. Therefore their developing brains have necessarily been deprived of animal meat because of their inability to metabolize phenylalanine.
What can we do to help their brains.
Thank you so much
Larry Coryell
Thanks for pulling back the curtain part way.
The Mediterranean diet really only works with a low stress Mediterranean lifestyle which is the real source of its effect on longevity and health.
The real Mediterranean diet was actually a Ketogenic diet before modern times. This is why Italians reached 100 years and even more. Now its filled with garbage.
Every diet that is rumored to be healthy, is an opportunity for crocks to make money, so they will make all kind of shits to sell. Tell them what diet has most adepts, and they will make filthy substances for that diet.
Good food doesn't have labels.
Hello Dr.Ede. When will psychiatry incorporate bioidentical hormones for women’s mental health. Replacing the anti-inflammatory hormone estradiol is shown to help improve many women’s mental health.
Brilliant work for sure, BUT don’t communicate the ketogenic as something abnormal. I prefer Dr. Ken Berry’s message that keto is the Proper Human Diet. Roll back the clock 12,000 years, pre-agriculture, what did humans eat? Meat, fish, eggs, nuts, seeds, and a few wild berries. I’ve been eating this way for two years. I don’t crave sugar at all.
Dr. Seyfried for cancer. Dr Ede for altzheimer. The best of best !
When clinicians say no one will try it, it's too hard, do they have the very conditions they're treating? Do they know how hard it is to go through life with those conditions? If it doesn't affect them, then they have no business saying "it's too hard".
you make a valid point. When people make the switch and regain their health, which can be in as little as 2-3 weeks, then there is no issue with following the diet - the price to pay for eating badly just isn't worth it. Sometimes the pain does have to be so bad that you are willing to try anything.....but if there isn't that desperate need, then people continue on as they are (easier to take a pill than take responsibility). I say this as someone who went on keto as part of my own healing journey and as someone who worked with people as a Nutritional Therapist for several years.
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Can postprandial somnolence (sleepiness after lunch) be a predicter of brain disfunction in later life?
On keto/carnivore, I'm thinking it's normal to be a bit sleepy after a big meal. I'm admittedly a crazy cat lady, and it's definitely nap time after the little carnivores eat a nice meaty meal--I think it's normal for lions, too. Nothing wrong with a break after a big meal--your body is using it's energy on digestion!
Hi, nutritional practitioner here from the UK. I can't say if it is a predictor of brain dysfunction years later, but what it implies to me is insulin resistance. When people go on keto such symptoms typically disappear and energy is stable and strong throughout the day.
The nutritional professional is spot on. You should MOVE, especially your leg muscles, after meals. The high insulin is the true danger to your brain and body.
Please address the elephant in the room. How does one actually consume 200+ grams of fat in a day in meeting caloric requirements. If I needed 2600 calories in a day, 120 grams of protein would constitue 480 of those leaving 2120 calories to be acquired from fat which is 235grams of fat. This could easily be achieved by consuming dairy e.g, heavy cream, but if dairy is not tolerated, I am short of understanding how this is realistically obtainable.
If you are keto you can increase protein after a while and it won’t increase insulin like some say. Your body can’t stop gluconeogenesis in a low sugar environment because your blood cells have to have sugar.
2600 cal and 120g protein don’t seem to match.
I aim for 85g-100g and only 1600cal per day.
Aim for 1.2 -2g of protein per kg of lean mass (calculators online) and after 40 years old aim for the higher end.
Carnivore lifestyle cured my depression 100%! In just couple months.
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