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Chris Palmer MD - Harvard Psychiatrist on Brain Energy: Metabolic Health to Treat Anxiety, Depression, OCD, PTSD, And More

The Ally Houston Transforms Podcast by Paleo Canteen

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The Effects of the Ketogenic Diet on Depression

Ketogenic diet can have dramatic effects in treatment or resistant depression. I've even seen patients get hypomanic from the diet, which is kind of the opposite of depression. It's doing exactly what antidepressants and even ECT are doing. We know that this diet is changing neurotransmitter systems.

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