Effects of Diet and Mental Health with Georgia Ede
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Most people hear about keto or carnivore for weight loss or energy, not mental health. This podcast episode takes things in a different direction. Dr. Georgia Ede joins us to share how diet became the missing piece in her own struggle with migraines, chronic pain, and fatigue, and how it reshaped her understanding of psychiatric care.
Her story starts the same way many do. She was following the standard advice. Lots of whole grains, salads, soy milk, yogurt, and low-fat everything. Then her health began to slip. Doctors told her nothing was wrong, yet she was dealing with migraines, IBS, and exhaustion. When she finally experimented with her diet, everything shifted. A high meat, low plant approach turned her symptoms around, including things she didn’t expect, like anxiety and mild depression. That transformation sent her down the path of nutrition research and changed the way she practiced psychiatry.
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Meet the Guest
Dr. Georgia Ede is a psychiatrist and researcher known for exploring how nutrition affects the brain. After years of conventional training at places like Harvard, she discovered firsthand that diet can influence mood, cognition, and long-term mental wellness in ways medication often falls short. She now helps others understand how food interacts with inflammation, metabolism, and brain function.
Connect with Georgia on Instagram, on her official website, or Twitter @GeorgiaEdeMD.
Episode Highlights
There is a growing mental health crisis, especially among young adults. Dr. Ede explains why she believes much of it comes back to diet. Years working on university campuses gave her a front row seat. Students are flooded with refined carbohydrates, seed oils, sugar, and cafeteria food that never supports stable energy or mood. Then come the prescriptions. Many are handed medications before anyone asks what they are eating.
Dr. Ede shares how the brain mirrors the body. If the foods we rely on create inflammation, blood sugar swings, or gut issues, the brain struggles too. Psychiatric medications can help, but they often bring side effects, and many people end up stacking multiple prescriptions without ever feeling fully well. Nutrition becomes a tool that addresses the roots rather than only the symptoms.
In this episode:
- How Dr. Ede discovered diet’s impact on her own mental and physical health
- Why high meat, low plant eating helped symptoms she never expected
- The gap in medical training around nutrition
- How campus food culture fuels anxiety, depression, and fatigue
- Why the brain responds to diet just like the rest of the body
- The limits of medication when diet remains unchanged
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