GEORGIA EDE, MD on COLE: He had no symptoms, and not just of those recent extreme symptoms that he was experiencing but the symptoms that went back his entire life that had never completely resolved before. "I've never felt this well in my entire life."

How a carnivore diet changed Carl’s life!!

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— Dr Shawn Baker 🥩 (@SBakerMD) May 25, 2025

Tell me about Cole.

Great guy in his mid-60s, had had lifelong depression and anxiety.  Went to a psychiatry specialty clinic and he left the clinic with three diagnoses: depression, anxiety, and ADHD, and three prescriptions.  His depression got a lot better but was becoming manic.  He turned to marijuana, developed marijuana addiction.  Now he's got another problem.  So he took himself off the medications, and said, "You know, medications are not for me."  Started cycling.  Bikes over a 100 miles a week, and didn't completely resolve all of the symptoms but it brought them down to a very manageable level.  He'd never tried any dietary changes before.  As he entered his 60s, the depression and anxiety started to rise in the background.  He would walk sometimes 8, even 25 miles, to try to get rid of this excess energy.  And he said, "I don't have time for this.  I can't exercise enough to keep my symptoms under control."  So he starts searching online for solutions.  Tried the carnivore diet for my anxiety: 3 to 4 lb of fatty meat per day, mostly pork and beef.  This was dairy free, no plants.  He started to prove by Week #3.  By Week #6, his score was zero on all his depression and anxiety scales.  He had no symptoms, and not just of those recent extreme symptoms that he was experiencing but the symptoms that went back his entire life that had never completely resolved before.  "I've never felt this well in my entire life."  This is the power of these strategies is they don't just reduce symptoms a little bit, [they] actually have the power to heal the underlying problem in ways that . . . I mean this is a phrase I've heard so many times," I feel better than I ever felt in my entire life."  You don't hear that when you prescribe medications for people generally. --Georgia Ede.

GEORGIA EDE, MD: A teenage boy with epilepsy and autism . . . switched to a ketogenic diet. Seizures stopped, and autism behaviors improved within weeks.

A teenage boy with epilepsy and autism behaviors switched to a ketogenic diet and saw life-changing results. Seizures stopped, and autism behaviors improved within weeks. Inspired, psychiatrist Dr. Albert Danan offered the diet to 31 patients with chronic, severe,… pic.twitter.com/4blq3zpbOY

— Georgia Ede MD (@GeorgiaEdeMD) November 22, 2024

A teenage boy with epilepsy and autism behaviors switched to a ketogenic diet and saw life-changing results. Seizures stopped, and autism behaviors improved within weeks. Inspired, psychiatrist Dr. Albert Danan offered the diet to 31 patients with chronic, severe, "treatment-resistant" mental illnesses. The results? Extraordinary. 100% of patients who stuck to the plan improved. 43% achieved full remission. 64% discharged on less psychiatric medication. Weight loss and metabolic health improvements across the board, despite antipsychotic medications. These outcomes were so unexpected that Dr. Danan and I collaborated with Duke University obesity medicine researcher

@drericwestman

and University of Michigan behavioral medicine researcher Dr. Laura Saslow to publish them in June of 2022. As a co‑author of this paper, naturally, I view its findings in a positive light, but having practiced psychiatry for more than 25 year,s I can tell you that we never see results like this with standard psychiatric treatments. Clinical remission is rare, most people leave psychiatric hospitals on more medication, and metabolic side effects such as weight gain are common. In this case, the remission rate was high, and instead of side effects, people were enjoying side benefits: healthy reductions in weight, blood pressure, blood sugar, liver enzymes, and triglycerides. This wasn’t a randomized controlled trial, so we can’t be certain that the #ketogenic diet itself was responsible for the unprecedented improvements we reported. However, we believe it contributed considerably to these outcomes, as they would otherwise be difficult to explain. These patients had previously benefited very little from attentive outpatient care, multiple medications, and psychiatric hospitalization— the only difference between this hospitalization and previous hospitalizations was the ketogenic diet. These observations offer tremendous hope, because they suggest that a ketogenic diet could bring significant relief to people with serious mental illnesses, regardless of the nature or duration of their symptoms. Ready to learn more? My new CME course on metabolic #psychiatry is now available for FREE and is accredited for physicians, nurses, and psychologists, all thanks to

@Metabolic_Mind: "Managing Major Mental Illness with Dietary Change: The New Science of Hope."