Metabolic health is mental health

A new study highlights the importance of our mind-body connection. It is increasingly clear that metabolic health is mental health, but what do we mean by that? As this new study shows treating metabolic health can also treat people with the most severe form of bipolar disorder. They used metformin in this study, but the same results will likely occur with lifestyle interventions for insulin resistance. Here are more details.
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[@VyvyanTheGreat]

10 years of medication and therapy for anxiety and depression - cured in under a year after going Keto. I can't say enough about how much keto helped my mental health.

[@DrTonyHampton]

As a general rule, most of my patients who use therapeutic carb restriction to achieve metabolic health find that their mental health improves with this dietary pattern. In fact it’s not unusual for their significant other to thank me. That’s because they are nicer to be around on keto Who knew that metabolic health = healthier relationships 😊

[@HappilyCarnivore]

My bipolar symptoms improve on keto but go away completely on carnivore. If you have any patients that don't find enough relief on keto you might suggest they try a carnivore diet. I've been eating this way for a year, so long enough to know it's not a fluke. And in that year switched back to keto twice (during the winter holidays and my daughter's birthday this July) and both times mild symptoms have returned. Of course I don't know how it helps, so I don't know if there's any kind of healing going on that might allow me to eventually switch to keto without having symptoms, or if I'll have to eat this way the rest of my life. But if I have to eat this way forever I'm fine with that. Bipolar symptoms were just a few of many, many issues that carnivore cured for me. Both mentally AND physically I had been suffering for a good decade and now I'm no longer suffering.

[@DrTonyHampton]

@@HappilyCarnivore Appreciate your feedback Shannon. You had me at hello and I learned exactly what you are saying from Amber O’Hearn and Dr. Georgia Ede both of whom are carnivore. I discussed this topic with both of them on my KZbin channel. Here’s my discussion with Dr. Ede: kzbin.info/www/bejne/oqqzd2qvnNydjrM

[@mrbrightside3771]

@@HappilyCarnivore My experience has been similar to yours. Carnivore pretty much cure my bipolar and anger issue at 90% and keto maybe at 70%. I go back and forth between this 2 diets.

[@johndoudna7055]

Getting a person to realize and accept that within choosing their diet lies their personal power over their own mental and physical well-being rather than perpetual reliance on a drug to modify symptoms presents the opportunity for health and freedom from their condition. Who doesn’t want to be healthy, and drug free.

[@vasquinhodoceu]

well said. and people most of all need to start question the use of substances like caffeine, which plays a tremenndous role in our health and we just shrug it off just because its caffeine.

[@jessicajohnson4087]

I just posted about my brother with severe dementia. He doesn't care and just wants the bad things to eat. I'm trying but it's hard to try to explain for him to understand 😊🙏

[@johndoudna7055]

@@jessicajohnson4087 Best wishes. Healthy eating is like teeth; best handled along the way. Lots we are just learning. Be well.

[@LuciaAronica]

We need to treat the body to heal the mind! Thank you Bret for sharing this study and helping bring about a revolution in the way we think about mental health.

[@btudrus]

We need to treat the metabolism to heal the body to heal the mind...

[@HappilyCarnivore]

I'm bipolar and found improvement on keto, but my symptoms completely go away when I'm eating strict carnivore. And no mania either, which as you said, can happen when you treat depression and anxiety with drugs.

[@Marcus-kz7rw]

Fantastic! Thanks for sharing

[@btudrus]

Yes, meat and animal fat contain everything the brain needs and nothing the brain doesn't need (like sugar/fructose and phytotoxins...)

[@jessicajohnson4087]

I'm caretaker for my brother who has severe dementia from Cerebral Amyloid Angioplasty. All he wants is to eat sugars and carbs, refined carbs, etc. I've been trying to have him eat more keto but it's so hard when someone doesn't understand (or care) why it's so important. I've often asked myself "Can you have a healthy body if you don't have a healthy mind?". Thanks for the explanation 😊👍

[@heidiyamami3884]

Love that you bring up such interesting studies!!!

[@marybraud8718]

Thanks for sharing this important information. Indeed, metabolic health is mental health.

[@henrikmadsen2176]

I love your take on subjects. 1. Critical about the studies (beyond my capability). 2. And always bringing in ‘proportions’ of things! 👌🙏 Wanna be your assistant 🙂

[@BluffMunkey]

The reverse is also true. High levels of chronic stress will destroy physical health.

[@DeviatingVapors]

some very interesting small studies have been done in Canada since 2019 on chronic stress cues linking to physical harm - where [even] verbal abuse has been shown to illicit visible blood loss (gums, nostrils). amazing to see these connections finally being shown (how harmful stress can be on the body, let alone mental health aspects). I think it is very apt to view mental health issues as an early sign that your microbiology has been taking a beating.

[@btudrus]

"chronic stress" Chronic stress is not a psychical/psychological phenomena. It's a metabolical/hormonal one...

[@mthomas1800]

So interesting

[@miamendez2878]

41 years of mental health issues including bipolar. Started keto + IF 4 years ago, no meds, and no more episodes! Please watch my story on BipolarCast here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/h6PNq3t8qLSKntU

[@jan_ellison_baszucki]

Your story was incredible, Mia. Keep on sharing!

[@RebeccaRaven]

Metformin is so much cheaper than most BPD drugs, too. Plus the side effects are so much milder for most.

[@cherylgabriel9551]

Detach

[@cherylgabriel9551]

No

[@ZacksRockingLifestyle]

I’ve been saying for years: “Physical health is mental health is sexual health, and that can be said in any order.”

[@btudrus]

"Physical health". Metabolic health!

[@ZacksRockingLifestyle]

@@btudrus metabolic health is part of physical health, but I wouldn’t say they are completely synonymous because one can be metabolically healthy while still having a physical ailment that causes mental or sexual distress, I’d argue.

[@DarthNoshitam]

Do you think metabolic intervention could serve as a prophylaxis for BPD or just a treatment?

[@btudrus]

Any real treatment is a prophylaxis at the same time...

[@jan_ellison_baszucki]

I believe it could be prophylactic. But that's only speculation. We'd like to fund a study in this in adolescents/young adults.

[@btudrus]

@@jan_ellison_baszucki If you consider that any real treatment means removing the primary cause in the first place than it is highly likely that any real treatment that works will also be a good prophylaxis...

[@rashie]

👍👍

[@btudrus]

"Metabolic health is mental health" It would be more precise to say that mental health is metabolic health. In the sense that mental health is DEPENDAND on metabolic health, not vice versa...

[@jan_ellison_baszucki]

Good point. And likely it is the brain that suffers first given that it has the highest energy needs.

[@JustHereToHear]

@@jan_ellison_baszucki wow i never saw it like that.. Makes perfect sense. Ive been having brain fog but it was just yesterday that i was clued in that the core of the issue could be metabolic health. Now im beginning to see why. And maybe, the body holds on to fat when you have poor metabolic health in an effort to keep you alive to have energy reserves.

[@thereligionofrationality8257]

Just one question: how do you measure "insulin resistance?"

[@NeilReardon]

With a Homa-IR bood test

[@CashMoneyMoore]

Fasting insulin, should be below 5

[@DrTonyHampton]

@@NeilReardon I measure it with nearly all my patients

[@DrTonyHampton]

@Mark Agree Mark. It’s the best predictor compared to the other measures of metabolic syndrome

[@thereligionofrationality8257]

It was a rhetorical question. You cannot measure "insulin resistance." You can measure fasting insulin, fasting glucose, the size of LDL particles and their relative concentrations, HbA1c, etcetera, but there is no measure of insulin resistance. It's a concept, not a physiologically measurable entity, and it is affected by many things, including stress, sleep quality and quantity, physical activity, and diet (of course). Just saying.

[@yianhinsaechao7898]

don't forget THE GUT CONNECTION to all health issues; auto immune disease, sibo. etc.........