The Genius Life 391: The Foods to Avoid If You Want to Be Happier and Improve Your Brain Health | Georgia Ede, MD
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Apr 29, 2024 
Georgia Ede, MD, discusses the impact of refined carbs on mental health, challenges in nutrition studies, biases in epidemiology research, corruption in nutrition science, the importance of meat in diet, complexities of plant-based diets, benefits of a ketogenic diet for brain health, and the detrimental effects of ultra-processed foods on mental health.
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Cut Refined Carbs And Seed Oils
- Avoid refined carbohydrates, sugars, flours, cereals, and fruit juices because they damage metabolic and mental health.
- Minimize refined vegetable seed oils and consider reducing grain intake as they provide no essential benefit.
Epidemiology Drives Weak Nutrition Rules
- Nutrition guidelines rely heavily on nutrition epidemiology, which uses memory-based food frequency questionnaires and cannot prove causation.
- Weak associations from these studies often become policy despite lacking experimental validation.
Questionnaires Produce Guesswork Data
- Food frequency questionnaires produce wild guesses rather than measurable data and often lack precision about actual intake.
- Small effect sizes (well below 100% risk) in these studies are unlikely to indicate real causal relationships.