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let’s talk about the relationship between  ketones on your mood not just depression  

but anger irritability anxiety so many people who  start the ketogenic diet in periodic prolonged  

fasting experience a huge improvement in their  mental health it really brings their mood  

up from these lower emotions to a much greater  emotion now i want to differentiate two things  

one is your mood being affected by situations and  maybe a mental problem if you get an argument with  

someone and you’re angry okay that’s a direct  cause and effect relationship but what about  

the situation where you’re just depressed you’re  irritable you’re angry without that situation what  

is up with that and it’d be really interesting to  find out um the true percentage of people who are  

depressed angry irritable and have anxiety and  how much of that is related to just their fuel  

for their brain and their overall brain chemistry  especially because when you observe people going  

on low carb and fasting there is a direct and  immediate improvement in mood now there’s been 15  

studies showing the relationship between the  ketogenic diet and mood and the results were  

kind of mixed the results show there may be  improvements in your mental status okay but if  

you look at these studies some studies were just  observational which use questionnaires which um  

they’re not very credible a lot of other studies  were done in mice and how are you going to show  

results with emotion on mice and also if you dig  into the studies you’re going to find out that  

a lot of these studies weren’t even using the  ketogenic diet they weren’t low carb and also a  

human would never consume the diet that these mice  were on so i don’t know how valid those studies  

would be and then yet other studies were just  using ketones exogenous ketones not changing the  

diet and so these studies don’t really reflect  the actual healthy version of the ketogenic  

diet that i would recommend for someone and also  they’re not including fasting because the way you  

get into ketosis is a low-carb diet or fasting  or a combination of both but the benefits on  

your emotional state is not just ketones but when  you’re doing fasting there’s a lot of other things  

that can occur with additional brain chemicals  being increased like brain derived neurotrophic  

factor which i’m going to do a video on but  here’s what we know there’s a condition called  

brain insulin resistance where the brain is not  getting enough insulin and so we have a decreased  

insulin sensitivity and there’s definitely  a direct effect on having that condition in  

being depressed or having a lowered mood we also  know that diabetics are three times more likely  

to get depression we also know that metformin  which directly addresses insulin resistance has  

been shown to decrease depression nasal insulin  sprays when you spray insulin right up into  

the sinuses and it can go directly into the brain  has been shown to decrease depression as well so  

when you fix this insulin resistance thing you  definitely improve the mood we also know that when  

you do fasting you have an increased absorption of  tryptophan which is a precursor to serotonin which  

is like the happy hormone that actually makes you  happier so there’s all this additional data that  

supports doing the ketogenic diet and fasting  to increase your mood so my question is this  

what happens when you diagnose someone with the  wrong problem what are the consequences of that  

if a person has a physically caused depression  coming from their diet and you diagnose them with  

some mental illness or mental disease and worse  yet treat them with a drug that has side effects  

what are the consequences of that i mean you can  really mess someone up if you give them the wrong  

diagnosis telling them your problem is this when  in actuality it’s to sing completely over here  

and so if you are new to my channel and you have  some lowered emotional state and you haven’t tried  

the ketogenic diet yet or fasting i challenge  you to try it out because i think you’re going  

to notice a huge shift in how you feel now i  recently interviewed a guy a fascinating success  

story which i’m going to put the link down below  if you haven’t seen this you have to watch this  

here’s a man that had seriously high blood  sugars i’m talking in the 700s okay he was going  

into a coma he was rushed to the hospital he was  overweight depressed on a medication um and so he  

decided to do himself in and stop eating for four  days and it backfired he started feeling better  

he started feeling happier which is fascinating  so he accidentally did fasting and found out  

surprisingly that his depression went  away when he started doing fasting  

he stumbled on one of my videos he started  the ketogenic diet he started doing fasting  

and you have to watch the success story because  he pulled himself completely right out of that  

deep dark state of depression and now not only  has he lost weight and had health benefits  

but he’s happy he no longer has depression his  willpower is excellent so number one you have the  

relationship between brain insulin resistance and  your mood you also have something called the hpa  

axis okay hypothalamus pituitary adrenal pathway  what happens if that pathway is altered and you  

have higher amounts of cortisol you’re gonna have  anxiety so the ketogenic diet and doing fasting  

can improve that situation as well and then you  have the direct effect on dopamine which is like  

the pleasure hormone and the more sugar someone  has and the more carbohydrates the more problem  

they’re going to have with dopamine and the  more dopamine resistance they’re going to have  

and you’re not going to be able to experience  pleasure if you have a problem with dopamine  

so that would equate to depression and apathy  and then you have the direct effect on serotonin  

if you’re on a high carb diet that’s going  to directly inhibit the ability to express  

serotonin and when you do fasting you increase the  absorption of tryptophan which is a precursor to  

serotonin you increase the absorption of serotonin  and you become happier and lastly you have the  

effect on the hippocampus it’s a known fact that  diabetics have atrophy of the hippocampus and  

that’s the structure in the brain that affects  memory learning and when you have atrophy of  

this part of the brain people get depressed so in  conclusion i challenge you to try this diet and  

fasting at the same time to see if it can actually  pull you out of some of these lower emotions  

to a much higher emotional state click down  below for more information on how to do that  

hey before you go if you’re benefiting  from any of my content i would love  

to hear about your success story  please share it in the link down below