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#171 The Link Between Food and Mental Health, How We Are Changing the Mental Health Space at the Interface of Metabolism and Psychiatric Disorders with Harvard Psychiatrist Dr. Chris Palmer

The Gabby Reece Show

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The Ketogenic Diet for Depression - What Is It and How Does It Work?

The ketogenic diet is a treatment for serious mental disorders, mild mental disorders too but I tend to get the serious treatments and the ones with treatment resistant mental illness. One of my long standing patients was because of a fact of disorder asked for my help to lose weight. The most shocking thing was that six to eight weeks into the diet he spontaneously reported that his longstanding hallucinations were going away. And it is paranoid delusions were also going away. He began to realize they weren't true and probably never had been. This man went on to lose over 160 pounds and keep it off to this day.

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