Keto Diet Cures Mental Illness? Shocking Patient Stories with Dr. Chris Palmer

Dr. Christopher Palmer shares insights on the benefits of ketogenic therapy for mental health, based on personal and patient experiences. Research highlights improvements in mood, energy, cognition, and metabolic health. Clinical trials for bipolar disorder and schizoaffective disorder are ongoing, focusing on metabolic treatments. The connection between metabolic dysfunction, genetics, and mental illness is explored for innovative therapies. Plans include expanding clinics and collaborating with healthcare professionals in lifestyle and obesity medicine.
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[@chrisedler6758]

I was on depression meds for a couple decades but after going Keto 8 years ago, all of my depression went away as did my type 2 diabetes and gout. On zero meds now going on 9 years and 61 years old. It's amazing how much diet combined with an exercise lifestyle can completely change everything. I also lost 190lbs and have kept it off 8 years. I am a new person and life is great!

[@jimrutherford2773]

Keto cured me of my bouts with depression. Don't rely solely on studies. Just ask people who've been on the keto or carnivore diets. Many will tell you it's improved their mental health.

[@sofiaroman1844]

Dr Chris Palmer is my absolute hero!! He has compleately changed my life - if you have any mental disorders, listen closely and do everything he says! I've been blighted by mental illness my entire life, receiving my first diagnosis in earliest childhood. I've always felt flawed, defective and broken. After implementing his advice earlier this year I am now in full symptomatic remission, for the first time ever my brain feels like it's switched on and working. I feel healthy, whole and balanced, and for the first time I no longer feel broken. Thank you soo much Dr Plamer!

[@patrickmurray279]

We live in Southern Ontario…just outside of Toronto. Last summer our 26 year old son his worst episode ever and was hospitalized. The psychiatrist told us he had brain damage! We knew this wasn’t the case after listening to Dr. Palmer! Thank God! We would have lost all hope. The problem we have is trying to convince our son to do the Medical Ketogenic diet….because the Doctors don’t think it is worth it.

[@timnestor3005]

The carnivore diet ended 30 years of mental illness for me in about 3 days!! And chronic bowel disease!❤💪🔥

[@colleenhaithcock216]

Thank you I went from 180 pounds and 60 units of insulin to now 120 pounds. No insulin and my mental health is amazing. I had been on meds for depression. I cannot tell you how grateful that you are doing this work thank you.

[@lizabethpawlyk1300]

Wow! Retired psych nurse here. I've been carnivore for over a year now with amazing results with depression/anxiety myself. I am so excited to have heard Dr. Palmers interview. So spot on with the description of these tormented people. Having had such remarkable results with my own journey, I can easily see how impactful this way of eating could be to inpatient people. My career was in an institutional setting, and unfortunately, I can't even imagine how difficult it would be to convince the powers that be. (state hospital)

[@TomCarnivore]

My anxiety, depression and brain fog dissapeared on a carnivore diet

[@esterak1564]

I am hoping that Dr Chris will use the carnivore diet for his patients that do not have improvements with Keto.🙏

[@pointshealthcoaching8474]

My 31 y/o nephew took his life with schizoaffective disorder 8 years ago.... he'll never have this opportunity 😔

[@kathleenbarnett8126]

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[@llkoolbean4935]

Dr. Palmer needs a nobel prize.

[@debbiesue4287]

Doctor Palmer is a true HERO. I have worked as a Mental Health Care Coach for over thirty years Both here in the USA and in London with the same type of patients he works with. My job

[@moirawendy2050]

I'm a very angry woman. Luckily I'm keto nowadays so my anger just bounces away and I feel good. But, nevertheless, I know I'm angry. I was a good girl and ate low-fat, rarely ate red meat, cooked lots of veggie meals, and went pre-diabetic and all that. You know the score: high triglycerides, low HDL, A1C 2 points off being declared actually type-2 diabetic. Had ups and downs, snored, was brain-fogged, tired, under-achieved. Suddenly I saw the light (my blood test shone arc-lamps... bit like St Paul on the road to Damascus) and went keto. But where was I for 69 years? I'm now 71 and feel totally with it, alive, sharp. Blood results back to normal. And I never have a day down in the dumps. Miracle! Oh, and I've stopped snoring. Yay! (But why did NO doctor or the bloody government ever tell me I was poisoning myself by adhering to dietary guidelines? Why no test to check for upcoming sneaky insulin resistance? Did they leave me tired and brain-fogged deliberately? The brain-fogged are too tired and confused to complain? Is that it? Well, the powers-that-be are no doubt happy to have a docile braindead population on medications>>>they probably have shares in the drug companies and ultra-processed food mega-corporations. Yay! Win-win for them! (Oh and by the way, my carb cravings crept off into some corner of the back of my mind after 24 hours with no carbs. I admit that they are back there somewhere... one slice of cake and I'd be like an alcoholic after 'just one drinky' ... so no cake for me. I can't handle it. But luckily that voice 'eat me, eat me' is so dim and distant I have no trouble ignoring it. I'm a carbaholic, I admit it, and I'm on the wagon permanently. As I said, with those carby voices mere sickly echoes of themselves, I need no will-power. A little self-control, yes. But no will-power. They are very different things!)

[@staceyloveswill]

Dr Palmer is a hero ❤

[@melissawitherspoon9094]

I see a bright future for many with mental illnesses! Thank you Dr. Westman for highlighting Dr. Palmer's important and life-changing work!

[@dabbog5518]

HealingLoveALL

[@chremis]

What a privilege it is to be able to see/listen to two pioneers in the field get together and discuss the success of therapeutic carbohydrate reduction strategies...great stuff

[@DaveIrish66]

I eliminated severe lifelong depression and anxiety issues by going animal based. Processed foods and carbs were the problem.

[@marilynroper5739]

Can’t get enough of Dr Palmer!