How nutrition affects the brain by Georgia Ede

How do your food choices affect your mental health? *Georgia Ede, a Harvard-trained psychiatrist specializing in nutrition science, brain metabolism, and mental health,* talks about what we should eat for good brain health. She addresses the root causes of poor mental health, which include inflammation, oxidative stress and insulin resistance, covers brain healthy diet principles, and takes a look at the Mediterranean, paleo and ketogenic diets in light of brain health. Watch the video to learn how to nourish, protect and energize your brain.

Dr. Ede speaks internationally about dietary approaches to psychiatric disorders, nutrition science, and nutrition policy reform. Through her virtual consultation practice, she uses nutrition and metabolic interventions including paleo diets, ketogenic diets, intermittent fasting, and elimination diets to help people around the world address root causes of mental health conditions, improving their metabolic health and often reducing the need for psychiatric medications.

0:00 Introduction
2:02 The Neurotransmitter Theory
2:24 Psychopharmacology
4:31 Nutritional Psychiatry: Mediterranean Diet
6:04 Metabolic Psychiatry: Ketogenic Diet
7:49 Brain-Healthy Diet Principles
10:02 The Brain Needs Animal Foods
12:23 Mind Minerals
13:16 The Standard "American" Diet
17:42 Neurotransmitter Imbalances
20:00 Glutamate Excitotoxicity
22:20 The Blood-Brain Paradox
23:37 Prevention Is Best
24:53 Brain Food Rules
25:51 Dietary Recommendations Not (Bio)Logical
28:14 Healthy Human Diet: Draw the Line at Paleo

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[gabymalembe]

Since I quit eating sugar and flour twenty years ago I haven’t had any bi-polar episodes. Of course it’s still early in the day.

[dawnelder]

I spent decades starving myself fat and sick on 1200 low fat, high fibre calories a day for decades. Weighed and measured everything. Had an active job. Went to the gym daily. Barely fit a size Canadian 18.
Then my husband had 3 strokes and we found out he was diabetic. 180 pounds. I put him on the diet they gave me at the hospital. Every 3 weeks he had bloodwork. Always worse as was he. This went on for 8 months. By then he was 210 pounds.
I read Good Calories, Bad Calories. Watched The Oiling of America.
Changed both of our diets to the old 1950s British diet in the prologue. His next bloodwork improved and kept getting better. Several months later a stranger understood him. His weight returned to 180 pounds.
I dropped from an 18 to a 6/8. Healed so many health issues, including depression. All without starving.
If you look up the Korean Cholesterol Mortality Study published in 2019. Over 12 million subjects.
People who have levels between 200 and 240 live the longest. After that the death rate increases is barely noticeable until 300. Still not impressive.
Under 200 the death rate for everything increases hard and fast. That includes suicide and violence.

[itzakpoelzig]

Dr. Ede is always brilliant. She and Amber O'Hearn are my mental health heroes. The more animal fats I include in my diet, the better my mental health gets - and it sure doesn't hurt that every other aspect of my health improves as well!

[wolfpaul]

Always insightful, thank you Georgia Ede and SwissRe

[DrkBlde]

I read her book, its freaking amazing. I've never been one with mental issues, but I did have insomnia since my 30s and following a near zero carbs diet fixed that.

[Angel_Dinev]

Very informative and useful presentation! Thanks for that! Keep the great work! 🎉🙏

[MarioSanchez-zewq]

Following the carnivore diet has been beneficial for me. My mind has never been so calm. Fish and eggs have been so good also. Cutting out excessive carbs and sugar have kept my weight under control.

[chrisbrown]

Amazing presentation thank you! Looking forward to your book!

[CahalanTennis]

Does Dr Ede have her own YouTube Channel to provide nutrition for mental health?

[OrasSelection]

AMEN HooRay I came across a YouTube Video that thinks the way I do. It took me becoming a Type 1 with many headaches before be Diagnosed w/ Diabetes. I learned headaches were coming from junk foods - foods - I can eat a Doughnut and feel the garbage going through my neck veins to my head CAUSING a Headache/Brain Fog. Always wish I could be watch by a Dr. to see this happing. Love knowing this is REAL and not my imagination. I knew that my Headaches and Diabetes was coming from something and always suspected foods. I think it all started with Swanson's TV Dinners and Wonder Bread. Thanks for this Video, Will share with people who think like I do.

[eugeniebreida]

I appreciate Ede’s reminding us of the anti uteiemts housed in legumes/beans. Soak/SPROUT! and still consume only intermittantly

[jordanwilliamson]

My best friend's dad was a hardcore Atkins/Keto follower. His cholesterol got out of control. His doctors begged him to stop the diet, but he wouldn't listen. Eventually, it killed him. He was 59.

[Amber]

It depends on what you are sensitive to. Someone who cant tolerate amines will feel better on a vegetarian diet. Someone who is sensitive to anti-nutrients like salicylates will feel so much better if they eat meat and a small selection of vegetables and fruit.

[ramieskola]

Paleolithic man didn't have any of the vegetables in the picture @28:47
Starchy 'vegetables'? They didn't really exist in Eurasia back then. Some fibrous roots? I'm sure nobody bothered to eat them when real food (meat, fish, ..) was available.

[starnejme]

Absolutely the carnivore protocol helps my deep clinical depression, unfortunately like an acoholic might do, I fall off the wagon into the quagmire of processed carbohydrates.
These talks motivate me to hop on the wagon again.

[txc]

Seems almost criminal that the fda does not recognize this simple way of dealing with these diseases..

[Manda-bm]

I have a question - we're in the middle of the 6th mass extinction and have broken 6 of the 9 planetary boundaries. It seems to me that at every level, we need to abandon industrial/chemical farming practices and move to regenerative agriculture (the real thing, not the 'no till plus glyphosate idiocy' and eat local diets with some meat, but not as much as we're eating now. And I wonder how this is compatible with the concept that we need ketogenic diets for our mental health? In other words, how do we heal both the ecosphere and ourselves?

[treich]

@ 11:23 The question "Does cooking destroy phytic acid in legumes" was posted on Chat GPT The following was its response:
Yes, cooking does destroy phytic acid in legumes. Phytic acid is an anti-nutrient found in many plant foods, including legumes, grains, nuts, and seeds. It binds to minerals like calcium, magnesium, iron, and zinc, making them less available for absorption by the body. Cooking legumes breaks down phytic acid, which increases the availability of these important minerals for absorption. Additionally, soaking legumes before cooking can further reduce phytic acid content, enhancing the nutritional value of the food.

[Archangel]

Whew! That list of what vegetarians are deficient in -- sure EXPLAINS a lot of what's going wrong and NUTS with our society today!

[helenl]

How do I share this with the world? Great presentation and hopefully gives people food for thought....and change.