Keto Bipolar: Episode 27. Lauren Kennedy

[@MichaelWalden-o4d]

My wife also has Schizoaffective Disorder and at the time we started keto (5 months ago) she was signed off work unable to function, unable to get out of bed. 3 days into keto we watched her brain go in and out of functioning as her body was learning to produce Ketones consistently. I remember going downstairs and finding her hoovering mid morning, after lunch she was crippled by fatigue back in bed but two hours later back up doing cleaning. I remember so clearly saying to her that her life will never be the same again. 5 months on she is going from strength to strength, sure a few blips along the way but a bit of analysis to resolve low ketones and she always gets back on track We are in England and none of her medical team understands what we are doing so it's a lonely journey, so I hope the work you are all doing will soon change the industry. We discovered keto through Laurens channel and I thank her, metabolic mind and Dr Chris Palmer for giving me my wife back.

[@suzannejohnson3335]

wow. that is great results for your wife in a short time.

[@MichaelWalden-o4d]

@@suzannejohnson3335 Thank you, it was a eye opening few weeks. My wife experience with schizoaffective disorder over the past decade has been very heavily weighted towards cognitive dysfunction and fatigue as the predominant symptoms. The positive symptoms of schizophrenia for her only come when cognitively she is in a bad place so coming from such a low point at that time the first few weeks were incredible. Just to clarify I suppose I'm not saying 3 days in she was in remission. We don't yet feel 5 months in she is in remission. She appears very sensitive to blood glucose Vs Ketones. If we get the diet remotely wrong and ketones end up at 1 mmol/ltr or lower then most certainly her mood dips until we get them back up. Some others appear to find ketones stabilise over a few days just gently going up or down, hers appears to move more dramatically through the day. We are hoping when we get to see her psychiatrist next she will be able to lower her antipsychotic a touch which gradually might improve her liver function etc to improve ketone production etc. It's a slow journey, we wouldn't go back. The benefits even with the learning curve and constant monitoring far exceed the previous.

[@naomi8097]

What does your wife eat daily

[@MichaelWalden-o4d]

@@naomi8097 typically, breakfast is two eggs (fried in coconut oil) one chipolata sausage, half avocado. Lunch very small salad, spoon of sauerkraut, some cheese and then it varies, extra accompaniments can include, nuts, olive's, bacon, chicken strips (Cajon, BBQ spices if required) mayonnaise goes well with any of it. Dinner varies typically chilli mince on greens or kale or mixed Mediterranean veg or with asparagus. Meat obviously changes so roast anything or steak, salmon etc. we are always conscious of too much protein. One mistake we have made is going to carnivore and glucose went through the roof. Likewise too much veg is a problem. We've found double cream, clotted cream and mayonnaise as the best additions to up fat with minimal additional protein. We don't get it right all the time and have had weeks of thinking what's gone wrong before realising as the weight came off all the quantities needed to come down to get the ketones back up. We've also noticed that other people seem to achieve a fairly long term stable ketone level. She hasn't, they can vary a lot during the day but we think that might still be associated to the drugs so hopefully as they come down she might achieve more stable ketone levels. Might also be we are learning as we go so a lot of guess work. Definitely higher ketones make her feel a lot better but I took us 2 months to achieve her first above 2mmol/ltr reading!

[@MichaelWalden-o4d]

@@suzannejohnson3335 whilst the first couple of weeks were amazing it was from such a low base when she was desperate that made it so staggering. Undoubtedly everyday since has been better than before keto. But it's a huge learning curve and we don't always get it right. I wouldn't say she has achieved remission yet so it's still work in progress and lots of drugs to reduce in time too. My wifes symptoms have been predominantly cognitive dysfunction and only the typical positive symptoms come when things are bad. my wife seems to have been particularly affected by her brains ability to be energised by glucose so keto seems a tremendous treatment for her

[@SpiceyLowell]

40 and tired. Have wandered the web for decades looking for something to help me. Just found this keto thing. Pantry cleaned out and new groceries bought today. Wish me luck.

[@naenae9064]

Wishing you success. I’ve been looking for info to help my sibling. Hoping this might work. God speed.

[@brotherjoll1802]

god bless

[@newsdropz5361]

You can do it! Keep the fat high!

[@melissamontgomery3070]

I’ve been following Lauren for 9 months now. I am on the keto diet and decided to get off medication and I’ve felt great. Thanks for this podcast

[@reinerschafer1708]

Great interview. All three of you seem to be thriving and still improving your health. I seem to be able to see it just comparing this video to others from the past. Little things like your mannerisms and such. It's great to have this documentation online, hopefully forever for people to see. I wish you all good health and great success in the future.

[@yvonneoshea6748]

It's ground breaking ❤

[@jesseherbert2585]

Outstanding. Our young adult child is pursuing this as well and was doing incredibly well, but unfortunately decided to celebrate a birthday using THC and magic mushrooms, and ended up having a break with reality and a short hospital stay. Less self care afterward led to chronic lack of sleep (combined with several weeks of continued cannabis use) all combined to quite the loss of progress, though continuing the keto status (blood work verified) seems to at least be preventing full blown relapse/hospitalization. No medication as well. Hopefull still...maturity/another decade may help greatly.

[@TulipP-t1t]

I have watched many KZbin videos regarding cannabis use and even Harvard scientists podcast says , cannabis gives psychosis and after few years of cannabis use , it changes brain chemistry forever and few people gets schizophrenia after that.

[@tomwong917]

it is great to know there is alternative to just taking drugs. Thank You and I am happy for your recovery, It gives people hope.

[@PavanMehta]

I've been told the placebo thing as well. I'm using ketogenic therapy myself

[@CallejonParaGuitarra]

Thank you. It really helped encapsulate the mental illness as like a hangover, albeit much more complex and sustaining, requiring many life adjustments and healthier choices. Its very comforting to know that there’s such caring people in the world after seeing this, thanks again.

[@painterj100]

Been following everything keto for the past month and I'm 25 days into my new keto lifestyle. Massive changes to my mental health that I've never experienced before. I've tapered off Mirtazapine successfully in this time. Been battling with disabling chronic mental health problems with a strong hereditary origin for the last 25 years. 43 now. I'm an advocate for pushing this to become mainstream. By the way sucralose damages DNA, I can't tolerate it at all. Ruins the gut and gut signals between the brain and GI system.

[@ketobipolar]

Great to hear you are doing well! Thanks for sharing this. As we always mention, please work closely with your psychiatrist :)

[@DAMIAN_SVHETS]

what a beautiful person the girl is

[@jaroslawkuczer3169]

I'm honestly surprised why keto isn't widely used yet. It doesn't hurt. It works after just a 10 days. After month you are a different wo/man. Boom, like that. Medications can be stopped, but very slowly and carefully. The worst may be akathisia. Greetings from Poland

[@Fröhlich1985]

Thank you 🙏

[@BN-yb6wr]

Great episode! Thanks for all your work

[@yvonneoshea6748]

15 months on keto.

[@jaroslawkuczer3169]

Dear Lauren, I am bipolar. Type 2. After 17 years of taking medications, I am now only on keto. Vitamin D and Omega 3 make me nervous and manic. I can't even eat oily fish (salmon, mackerel, herring, carp). Do you notice this problem? Greetings from Poland! 

[@ElizabethLip]

hi Iain! how can i contact you regarding your podcast and potential participation in it? cannot find any relevant emails

[@ketobipolar]

Hi Elizabeth! Please email me at [e-mail]

[@caitlinhoey841]

80 pounds! I gained 80 pounds on my antipsychotics, Matt. It took 1.5 years, and medical keto, but I’m back to my premeds weight. Great podcast, gentlemen! Can’t wait for the next one.

[@lauraartuso3188]

Who is Nicole? She is mentioned on the podcast as the ketogenic expert?

[@ketobipolar]

Check out episode 13 of the podcast!

[@lauraartuso3188]

@@ketobipolar thank you!

[@dmtdreamz7706]

You trip so hard that you don’t even realize you took Datura. You forget, because your memories are imaginary. On Datura, you can have conversations with friends you knew from high school. You might sit there for two hours having a conversation with this good friend of yours, only to realize later that you never knew this person, and they were never in your room. You were just talking to the wall, hallucinating an entire human being with whom you believed you had an intelligent conversation. Now, people might say, "Oh, Leo, that’s crazy, that’s pretty far out there." But all that shows is hallucinations, right? No, you misunderstand. I am that hallucination. Right now, you are hallucinating my entire body and voice. I am just your mind talking to you. You’re hallucinating me right now. You hallucinated all my videos. You know, I warned you at the beginning. Do you really want to know what reality is? This is the highest teaching. I’m giving you my highest teaching. It took me over 15 years of reading, studying, thousands of hours of contemplation, meditation, going to retreats, doing powerful psychedelics, racking my mind to understand all of this, to figure it out. Here it is: my highest teaching. Number one, you are God, and there is nothing but God, and you are all alone. That’s number one. Number two, everything is imaginary. There is nothing but imagination. God is infinite consciousness-infinitely intelligent, infinitely powerful, unlimited. It is also infinitely good and infinitely loving.

[@AZ-kr6ff]

It took all that for you to realize something that comes naturally during manic psychosis?

[@machinotaur]

Drug person discovers gnostic monism, tale as old as time.

[@dmtdreamz7706]

@@AZ-kr6ff Even memory doesn't have to transfer. Psychedelics states can be so radical that they do not store well in human memory. What you gotta keep in mind is that time is imaginary, so yeah, on salvia you could dream some crazy stuff, like spending 55 years in another life. That's not a mistake, that's how consciousness works at the deepest levels. The whole point of taking salvia is to erase the distinction between 55 years being objectively real vs imaginary. If you take enough psychedelics that distinction will disappear because it is dreamed up by consciousness in the first place.

[@dmtdreamz7706]

@@machinotaur Everything is imaginary, but some things are more imaginary than others. A horse and a unicorn are both imaginary, but a horse is more imaginary than a unicorn. YES! MORE imaginary than a unicorn. The only reason you cannot sit on a unicorn and ride off into the sunset is because you don’t know how to imagine a unicorn as deeply as you imagine a horse. Sounds crazy, but that’s how it is.

[@KmusikOne]

Sorry, but the medical system definitely wasn't doing the best they could with what they had at the time. They've known about Keto for over 100 years and hid it for profits.

[@KmusikOne]

And most of the naysayers on her personal channel are bots.

[@jeanpaultongeren125]

yes I was thinking the same

[@cdcollins9226]

Keto has been used since 1920’s for epilepsy. So, not true. Only recently has the medical community started looking at this for other neurological problems.

[@KmusikOne]

@@cdcollins9226 Epilepsy was the most common cause of hospitalization in mental institutions at that time. They knew it worked on other mental illnesses.

[@KmusikOne]

@@cdcollins9226 The asylums were full of epileptics and others, where the testing was done. They knew.