Nutrition, Metabolism, and Mental Health: Exciting New Root Cause Treatments for Psychiatric Conditions
Learning Objectives:
- Understand which foods are the best sources of essential brain nutrients, and which foods interfere with the brain’s access to these nutrients.
- Understand how insulin resistance contributes to symptoms of depression, bipolar disorder, psychotic disorders, and dementia.
- Understand how ketogenic diets target multiple root causes of mood, psychotic, and cognitive disorders, potentially reducing the need for psychiatric medications.
Thursday, March 9, 2023
3:30-5 pm CST
Registration is closed for this event. Please email us at info@mdfoundation.org if you are interested in the recording of the webinar. Zoom information will be sent closer to the event. (If you use Gmail, please watch your “Promotions” folder, as our emails tend to land in there.)
* This event will be geared toward clinicians.
Dr. Georgia Ede is a Harvard-trained psychiatrist specializing in nutritional and metabolic psychiatry. Her two decades of clinical experience include twelve years at Smith College and Harvard University Health Services, where she was the first to offer nutrition-based therapies as an adjunct or alternative to psychiatric medication. In 2020, Dr. Ede developed the first CME-accredited clinician training program in ketogenic diets for mental health, In 2022, she co-authored the first inpatient study of the ketogenic diet for serious mental illness and was named a recipient of the Baszucki Brain Research Fund’s first annual Metabolic Mind Award.
Dr. Ede speaks internationally about nutrition science, nutrition policy reform, and dietary approaches to psychiatric conditions, and she writes about food and the brain for Psychology Today and for her own website DiagnosisDiet. Her forthcoming book Change Your Diet, Change Your Mind will be published in January 2024.
Dr. Georgia Ede is a Harvard-trained psychiatrist specializing in nutritional and metabolic psychiatry. Her two decades of clinical experience include twelve years at Smith College and Harvard University Health Services, where she was the first to offer nutrition-based therapies as an adjunct or alternative to psychiatric medication. In 2020, Dr. Ede developed the first CME-accredited clinician training program in ketogenic diets for mental health, In 2022, she co-authored the first inpatient study of the ketogenic diet for serious mental illness and was named a recipient of the Baszucki Brain Research Fund’s first annual Metabolic Mind Award.