Depression? Bipolar? Schizophrenia? Your brain isn't broken. It's starving for energy.

I healed my own bipolar disorder with a ketogenic diet. This is episode one of my beginner's series on keto for serious mental illness.

Today we cover the two foundational concepts: what a ketogenic diet actually is, and why it works. We get into the metabolic shift from glucose to ketones, how insulin resistance develops, and why researchers now believe it may be a root driver of conditions like bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and depression.

This is the first of many episodes. Coming up: ketone tracking, what to eat, fat to protein ratios, intermittent fasting, and how to actually implement this diet in real life.

🔥 Overview of metabolic therapies: https://youtu.be/2aCx9cE-rbY?si=r1DrkfWehCcp_sXQ

⏭️ How to do KETO for mental illness: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOuCHUCFeUo&list=PLPt5Z2OIa0VWx2iImGZkteNSTaoB9x1EU

⏭️ What is metabolic mental health? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ywsv1mlsn6U&list=PLPt5Z2OIa0VWFOBAeogKAZC-cmRcw7LgU

📚 Chapters
0:00 Introduction
1:14 Why this series exists
2:37 What is a ketogenic diet?
5:32 Keto is about metabolic shift, not food groups
7:28 Keto food examples
11:17 What is insulin and how does it work?
12:44 Insulin resistance explained
14:34 The metabolic theory of mental illness
19:24 The hybrid car analogy
21:23 How ketones resolve mental illness symptoms
23:10 My personal recovery story
25:16 Series preview and wrap-up

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