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Mood

one is your mood being affected by situations and maybe a mental problem if you get an argument with someone and you're angry. That's a direct cause and effect relationship but what about the situation where you're just depressed, irritable and angry without that situation.

What is up with that? It'd be interesting to find out 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.

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There is a direct and immediate improvement in the mood. Now studies are showing the relationship between the ketogenic diet and mood. The results were kind of mixed results show there may be improvements in your mental status. Then yet other studies were using ketones exogenous ketones not to change the diet.

So these studies don't reflect the actual healthy version of the ketogenic diet that it would recommend for someone 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 are not just ketones.

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Brain Insulin Resistance

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 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 a direct effect on having that condition in being depressed or having a lowered mood.

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We also know that diabetics are three times more likely to get depression. 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.

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So when you fix this insulin resistance thing you improve your mood. We also know that when you do fasting you have increased absorption of tryptophan which is a precursor to serotonin which is like the happy hormone that makes you happier. So all this additional data supports doing the ketogenic diet and fasting to increase your mood.

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What happens when you diagnose someone with the wrong problem and 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. The consequences of that you can 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.

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Then you're going to notice a huge shift in how you feel here's a man that had seriously high blood sugars. He was going into a coma. He was rushed to the hospital. He was overweight depressed on medication and so he decided to do himself in and stop eating for four days. It backfired. He started feeling better and happier which is fascinating so, he accidentally did fasting and found out surprisingly that his depression went away.

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When he started doing fasting and 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.

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So, number one you have the relationship between brain insulin resistance and your mood you also have something called the HPA axis. Hypothalamus pituitary adrenal pathway what happens if that pathway is altered and you have higher amounts of cortisol you're gonna have anxiety.

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Dopamine

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.

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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.

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Effect on the Hippocampus

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 atrophied in this part of the brain. People get depressed you to try this diet and fasting at the same time to see if it can pull you out of some of these lower emotions to a much higher emotional state c.

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