Fitness Confidential BEST OF: Better Mental Health with Dr. Georgia Ede - Episode 2747
Jan 9, 2026
Dr. Georgia Ede, a psychiatrist and expert in nutritional psychiatry, shares her insights on how diet affects mental health. She discusses the alarming rise in psychological issues among youth and emphasizes that many suffer from misinformation about nutrition. Georgia recounts her journey to discover the mental health benefits of a low-carb, mostly animal-food diet. They also delve into the dangers of sugar and refined carbs, advocating for dietary changes over medications to improve mental wellness.
01:11:24
Diet Can Rapidly Improve Mental Health
- Many mental health problems respond rapidly to dietary changes when guided properly.
- Dr. Georgia Ede reports meaningful improvement within weeks and sometimes complete recovery for willing patients.
Doctor's Personal Recovery Through Diet
- Georgia Ede reversed her own chronic fatigue, migraines, IBS, and fibromyalgia with diet changes.
- Her recovery followed a mostly animal-food, very-low-carb, high-fat ketogenic-like diet.
Refined Carbs Damage The Brain
- Sugar and refined flours cause oxidative stress, inflammation, and insulin resistance in the brain.
- These metabolic insults accumulate silently and impair brain energy and function over decades.
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Intro
00:00 • 1min
Rising youth mental-health concerns
01:15 • 2min
Ad break
03:15 • 2min
Nutrition as treatment for mental illness
04:51 • 2min
Georgia's personal path to dietary psychiatry
06:50 • 6min
Typical diets then versus her change
12:21 • 4min
Artificial sweeteners and individual effects
16:03 • 5min
Sugar's addictive and developmental harms
21:30 • 4min
Refined carbs, insulin, and brain damage
25:33 • 3min
Carbohydrates are optional macronutrients
28:11 • 5min
Ad break
33:13 • 3min
Personalizing diets and plant tolerances
36:28 • 3min
Change Your Diet, Change Your Mind book
39:17 • 2min
Diet as first-line intervention for kids
40:50 • 6min
Societal factors and youth fragility
47:14 • 9min
Clinical evidence: severe mental illness diet study
56:44 • 3min
Ketogenic diets for neurodegeneration
59:53 • 3min
How to test diet personally (N=1)
01:02:55 • 5min
Safe implementation and clinician resources
01:07:28 • 4min
Outro
01:11:29 • 12sec
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Banting documented his personal experience of losing weight by drastically reducing his consumption of bread, pasta, and processed foods.
His approach emphasized a diet rich in meat and vegetables, a departure from the conventional high-carbohydrate diets of the time.
This letter, detailing Banting's successful self-experiment, became widely popular, marking an early endorsement of low-carbohydrate eating as a weight-loss strategy.
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Fats, Carbs, and the Controversial Science of Diet and Health
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He argues that the last few decades of dietary advice promoting low-fat diets have been consistently incorrect.
Taubes posits that carbohydrates, particularly refined ones like white flour, sugar, and starches, are the primary cause of obesity, diabetes, heart disease, and other ailments.
He supports his assertions with biological, epidemiological, and anthropological evidence, highlighting the role of insulin in fat storage and the flaws in the scientific literature that have led to the current dietary guidelines.
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In 'Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It', Gary Taubes argues against the widely accepted 'calories-in, calories-out' model of weight gain.
He presents evidence that certain types of carbohydrates are the primary cause of obesity, rather than overeating or lack of exercise.
The book delves into the biological and biochemical processes involved in fat storage and metabolism, highlighting the role of insulin and genetic predispositions.
Taubes also provides practical advice on how to manage weight through a low-carbohydrate diet and challenges the conventional nutritional advice that has contributed to the obesity epidemic.
Episode 2747 - BEST OF: Vinnie Tortorich welcomes psychiatrist Dr. Georgia Ede to discuss how nutrition can create better mental health, and more. https://vinnietortorich.com/2026/01/better-mental-health-dr-georgia-ede-episode-2747 PLEASE SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS Pure Vitamin Club Pure Coffee Club NSNG® Foods VILLA CAPPELLI EAT HAPPY KITCHEN YOU CAN WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE - @FitnessConfidential Podcast Vinnie's NSNG® VIP Group was opened on January 2, 2026! Vinnie's workout videos, group calls, and supportive community are waiting for you, FREE to all members who join! Go to https://vinnietortorich.com/vip to sign up! Sugars and Oxidative Stress More kids than ever are presenting with psychological problems. (2:00) Vinnie mentions Robyn Dobbins, who openly shares how diet has improved her mental health symptoms. People are feeding their brains improperly. (4:30) There have been decades of misinformation, so treatment has been off. Everyone deserves the correct information upfront rather than having to go through multiple medications. (7:00) Georgia goes through her personal history and how she stumbled onto dietary health changes. Sweeteners have many side effects. (16:00) Sugar is the only addictive substance that society sanctions for children. (20:00) It is not only addictive, but it is also physically damaging to the brain because it creates oxidative stress in the brain. (24:00) Refined flours do the same by causing a glycogen load; as a result, your insulin is raised longer. (25:00) Most people are metabolically broken, so sugars and carbs are even more harmful. If your body "needs" sugar, your body will make it. Fats and proteins are essential, but carbs are not. (31:00) The FDA recommends a bunch of nonsense. And now our gut health is a topic that needs to be paid attention to. Better Mental Health Vinnie knows people whose adult kids are still having issues, but refuse to believe that diet can help. (38:00) Georgia always uses dietary interventions first, and she has found them to be the most effective for her clients (41:00) There are certain foods the brain needs. It's not just junk food that hurts, but also foods we've been told are healthy that aren't (like whole grains). Dr. Ede's book Change Your Diet, Change Your Mind addresses dietary therapy as a first step. (45:00) They discuss many different things that have been happening in the news, which are examples of declining mental health. (48:00) Vinnie asks how you get more N=1 cases on the books to demonstrate the advantages of diet and mental health. Changing your diet is a change for the better. You can find Dr. Ede at https://diagnosisdiet.com. You can also find a clinician's directory on her website. Another resource is the Charlie Foundation: https://charliefoundation.org The keto diet is safe, but there is still a transition, especially if you are on medication. 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