what do you think would happen if a psychiatrist learned that in his own family someone that had
treatment resistant autism and epilepsy found Relief by eating a ketogenic diet
well psychiatrist Albert Dannon decided to launch a study to see if the keto diet possibly could
help his clients who had treatment resistant mental health issues I'm excited for this video
because for the first time that I'm seeing this topic is being explored I've been saying for
a long time that everything you eat impacts your body medication and all I'm really curious to see
what this psychiatrist is going to find one of the most frustrating things that we see is that people
that have mental health issues suffer for years and their suffering not because they're not trying
to get help because the things that are offered don't bring relief most medications have minimal
benefits with really severe side effects and those side effects are so severe that the minimal
benefits that people are getting they don't care and they stop taking the medication what we want
is a solution where we can manage and hopefully we can manage without medication which is why
learning about Dr Albert dannon's research made me so happy now what was interesting to me about this
article is that they talked about the fact that a keto diet has already been shown successful in
treating epilepsy and in this study the scientists showed that epilepsy and bipolar disorder share
many of the same underpinning neurological uh functioning and they were able to show this
because the same medication that stabilizes epilepsy also stabilizes mood I love that
these psychiatrists they're doing this research are asking why do we separate these two things
when they clearly impact each other the doctors point out that both neurological and psychiatric
disturbance lead to similar dysregulation in neural networks neural inflammation excessive
oxidative stress impaired neuroplasticity mitochondrial dysfunction and Disturbed
cerebral glucose metabolism all of that to say if you have neurological problems or psychiatric
problems your brain is struggling in very similar ways I want us to think about the fact that when
we eat sugar the thing that our body does to save us from the negatives of sugar is different for
each person within reason some people gain weight some people have inflammation which was my story
some people have heart issues doctors are starting to show us that a lot of these things come back to
overeating sugar and now we have a psychiatrist that's pointing to maybe this is the same thing
happening here so just to go through the study in a very very short short way the link to the study
is in the um description below it was apparently the first study that looks at the impact of
metabolic approach on solving mental illness there are 31 participants in the study they
were Dr dannon's own clients their approached and volunteered of the 31 28 completed the study all
of them so all 31 of them had treatment resistant mental health issues there were three different
groups that the people fell into schizoaffective major depressive disorder and bipolar disorder
their Hospital stay was semi-controlled because they were able to go home on the weekends but
the clients were instructed what to eat when they were at home and while they were in the hospital
for the five days they had very controlled um meals now we have to keep in mind that these
clients were in an actual hospital they still had access to other foods that were in the hospital
because they can still talk to other clients that are patients that were in the hospital
the clients were divided into groups as to how well they were able to stick to the diet which
was three meals a day and one snack and their day was under 20 grams so of the 31 clients
three were not able to maintain the diet at all and they were taken out of the study 11 of them
had excellent adherence to the diet which means that six out of seven days they were under their
20 grams 12 of them had good adherence which meant that five out of the seven days they were
under their 20 grams and five of them had Fair adherence which meant that out of four seven days
four of the days they were under the 20 grams Wellness Warriors the part of this study that
I want to bring to you that I found so amazing was that every single person that completed the study
had improvements every single person their mental health improved and most of them had
those improvements show themselves within three weeks of beginning the diet if you have mental
health issues you should be excited by hearing this information but stay till the end of the
video because there's really important information that you need to know 12 out of the 28 clients
actually achieved clinical remission that means they're better 18 out of the 28 which includes
the 12 had a reduction in their medication seven of the 28 clients that came into the
study already had metabolic issues five of them had a reduction in their metabolic medication so
not the psychiatric ones the regular medication 27 out of the 28 people in the study lost weight
and many of those clients that lost weight had a significant reduction in their metabolic illness
now at the very beginning of the study 27 of the 31 participants actually experienced what
would be described as sugar withdrawal they didn't call that in the study I'm calling it
that because we know what that looks like that negative scenario of sugar withdrawal
um resolved itself within the first two weeks of them starting the study what's interesting to me
is to look at what happened to the people after they left the study because I think that's going
to be the thing that is the most promising for the future 13 out of the 28 people that left the study
maintained their keto lifestyle when they left the study and they did that because they said
they wanted to either maintain the positive Health that they'd achieved and even some of them wanted
to see if they could improve on the positive Health they had achieved five of them reported
a partial continuation of their keto lifestyle six of them actually discontinued their keto
lifestyle altogether and then there was one person who quit for a little while and went back because
the benefits to them was so great now for the people who quit altogether or partially quit the
statement that they made which I think is so sad of why they couldn't continue was either that they
didn't know how to cook what they needed to cook to maintain the situation or they weren't getting
the support of their family which brings you back to what I said at the very beginning of this video
we don't understand the huge negative that people live when they have mental health issues and then
here we have a situation where a solution is found a solution that doesn't really impact the other
people in the house because you can still eat the way you want to eat just help this person out
and they don't get the assistance that they need now one of the things that I
find frustrating about this is that a lot of the time people who have mental health issues
are have been depressed for so long or bipolar meaning you're kind of depressed and thematic
for so long that often they haven't learned to do simple things like take care of themselves I cook
their own food and do things for themselves that the rest of us learned because we don't feel bad
and yet here we are where there's people who are not getting the support they need to stay
off medication this angers me and it frustrates me and it makes me like want to scream because
that shouldn't be the case there was another reason that they gave as to why they weren't
able to do the diet This research took place uh in the UK and apparently in the UK If you
are hospitalized it's absolutely free of charge so when they left the hospital there were Financial
constraints of them being able to buy Quality Meat to be able to eat the way they were eating I would
have liked to see the study done slightly differently I would have loved that while
the people were in the hospital first of all that the keto diet that they gave them would have been
tailored to what they thought they would have been able to eat when they left the hospital
so look at the social economic situation of the people that you're working with and
feed the meals that fell in line with everybody's range rather than what it seems like they used a
diet that more than half of them couldn't afford part two of what I would have loved to see is them
educating them on how to do a keto diet because well at least here in North America I've seen lots
of videos on people doing keto diets five dollars or less per day I can guarantee you that if I
tomorrow had no money well enough to buy food but that's it I could figure out how to eat keto on
five dollars a week if I needed to because if I'm eating an appropriate healthy keto diet
I can do carnivore half the days if I can't afford afford to buy the veg put my money where
it counts by the meat and I could do that by eating hot dogs and hamburger meat and
what I want us all to think about is that is it better for me to eat fast food junk food
like everybody else in my household and then take medication the medication has a cost to
it now maybe again maybe in the UK I don't pay for their medication and maybe that's why this
scenario happened but I want to point out that I think the flaw in this research is that they
didn't think about the the outcome for the clients that they were trying for the patients they were
trying to help they didn't think about what will they do when faced with real purchasing
decisions that they have to make how do we help them to see that this is now your medication
because if it's your medication and it's prescribed and you take it as prescribed
look at how you feel the very important thing I want to tell you and then I've turned around
forgot to treat mental health with a keto diet it is extremely important that you be followed by a
doctor that can monitor your medication the keto diet becomes your new medication and so
therefore if I'm doing a keto diet and I'm still taking my medication I'm double medicating myself
it is so important for you not to do this alone get assistance the other thing I want all of us
thinking about is if we remember let food be thy medicine if we remember that everything we put
in our mouth determines how we feel do we start to look at what happened here in a different way
Wellness Warrior this isn't surprising to me what we eat determines how we feel
if you want to feel good you need to eat a healthy diet if you want your mental health
to be good you need to eat a healthy diet we need to stop eating the garbage we're eating and
put our money that we would put towards cookies chips ice cream towards beef pork chicken fish
put it in the right places please do not wait until your health is failing and you're being
offered medication before you finally decide to do what's better for your health eat better now
you deserve it and I know you can do it if you prioritize health over taste this video is going
to help you to switch to a keto lifestyle click on the link I'm going to meet you over there