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I'm on keto for over 15 months. Still irritable and angry and have perimenopausal rage, so feel I have to stay on the meds. So grateful for the weightloss though.

Thank you so much for sharing your story.

Great episode, thanks for sharing! Navigated here from a shared link on a bipolar keto board on Reddit. I had the opportunity to take part in Dr Iain Campbell's keto study, but at the time it was not possible to make it vegan. I used a combination of sleep deprivation & fasting to force myself out of a depression cycle. My belief now is that I've been putting myself into ketosis. Now, with the emergence of metabolic psychiatry, I'm looking forward to being able to tap into this in some way.

Anyone employed in Mental Health must love the development of human potential!

Dear Lauren, I am bipolar. Type 2. After 17 years of taking medications, I am now only on keto. Vitamin D and Omega 3 make me nervous and manic. I can't even eat oily fish (salmon, mackerel, herring, carp). Do you notice this problem? Greetings from Poland! 

Thanks for your work. It is helping so many people who struggle with mental health problems. It would be great if you can talk about anhedonia and if keto helps with this condition.

Such a great interview. I love Dr. Iain's insightful questions and Matt's honest, clear answers. This is a real resource for anyone wanting to know more about bipolar and potential solutions to it 🙂Thank you.

This episode is a cracker! Your guest is so clear, inspiring and fills me with hope. It's great to hear how she went from the depths to a life that she's loving. Thank goodness for those who share information about the ketogenic diet with the world. It's been a life saver for me. Completely transformed my standard of living and allowed me to reduce my medication (with the help of my doctor and a nutritionist) by over 50%. Thanks for making these podcasts Dr. Campbell, they are invaluable 🙂

Where may I get advice or support to go on a keto or high meat carnivore diet for bipolar ? Please help or advise where I may be able to get assistance living in New Zealand

I find the seasons affect my bipolar.

Love chia seeds soaked.

Yes. I'm 15 months on keto. Still moody and cranky. So happy with weight loss and do feel better mentally.

I'm honestly surprised why keto isn't widely used yet. It doesn't hurt. It works after just a 10 days. After month you are a different wo/man. Boom, like that. Medications can be stopped, but very slowly and carefully. The worst may be akathisia. Greetings from Poland

It's ground breaking ❤

15 months on keto.

40 and tired. Have wandered the web for decades looking for something to help me. Just found this keto thing. Pantry cleaned out and new groceries bought today. Wish me luck.

You guys are 👏

Hi all! Any keto specialists for mental health in Sydney Australia? Thanks

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I’ve been following Lauren for 9 months now. I am on the keto diet and decided to get off medication and I’ve felt great. Thanks for this podcast

This is a cracking episode! I love the honesty, the sharing, the great questions and inspiring answers. It is great to hear real people talk about real stuff. These podcasts keep me inspired to be on the keto diet. It helps me a great deal 🙂

hi Iain! how can i contact you regarding your podcast and potential participation in it? cannot find any relevant emails

This podcast interview is fabulous! So honest and helpful, covering topics that are so useful for me. I think you guys are making a really positive difference. Thank you so much 🙂

Been following everything keto for the past month and I'm 25 days into my new keto lifestyle. Massive changes to my mental health that I've never experienced before. I've tapered off Mirtazapine successfully in this time. Been battling with disabling chronic mental health problems with a strong hereditary origin for the last 25 years. 43 now. I'm an advocate for pushing this to become mainstream. By the way sucralose damages DNA, I can't tolerate it at all. Ruins the gut and gut signals between the brain and GI system.

I’m trying to find in your videos if you have reached the point of tapering off all your medications? What struggles have you encountered when attempting to get off the lowest dose even on the ketogenic diet? I’m about to try to do this but the withdrawal is such a beast to get thru.

Thank you ❤

I would love to be part of a study, if anyone sees this and has information, please reply. I'm overjoyed that this science is coming out of the shadows.

Sorry, but the medical system definitely wasn't doing the best they could with what they had at the time. They've known about Keto for over 100 years and hid it for profits.

You're so strong Neseret. Thanks for sharing your story. Your message so resonates with me. When one is not healthy, nothing is worth it.

what a beautiful person the girl is

80 pounds! I gained 80 pounds on my antipsychotics, Matt. It took 1.5 years, and medical keto, but I’m back to my premeds weight. Great podcast, gentlemen! Can’t wait for the next one.

Thank you. It really helped encapsulate the mental illness as like a hangover, albeit much more complex and sustaining, requiring many life adjustments and healthier choices. Its very comforting to know that there’s such caring people in the world after seeing this, thanks again.

it is great to know there is alternative to just taking drugs. Thank You and I am happy for your recovery, It gives people hope.

Great episode! Thanks for all your work

Who is Nicole? She is mentioned on the podcast as the ketogenic expert?

Hannah's story is absolutely wonderous. Wishing you both the best

My wife also has Schizoaffective Disorder and at the time we started keto (5 months ago) she was signed off work unable to function, unable to get out of bed. 3 days into keto we watched her brain go in and out of functioning as her body was learning to produce Ketones consistently. I remember going downstairs and finding her hoovering mid morning, after lunch she was crippled by fatigue back in bed but two hours later back up doing cleaning. I remember so clearly saying to her that her life will never be the same again. 5 months on she is going from strength to strength, sure a few blips along the way but a bit of analysis to resolve low ketones and she always gets back on track We are in England and none of her medical team understands what we are doing so it's a lonely journey, so I hope the work you are all doing will soon change the industry. We discovered keto through Laurens channel and I thank her, metabolic mind and Dr Chris Palmer for giving me my wife back.

You trip so hard that you don’t even realize you took Datura. You forget, because your memories are imaginary. On Datura, you can have conversations with friends you knew from high school. You might sit there for two hours having a conversation with this good friend of yours, only to realize later that you never knew this person, and they were never in your room. You were just talking to the wall, hallucinating an entire human being with whom you believed you had an intelligent conversation. Now, people might say, "Oh, Leo, that’s crazy, that’s pretty far out there." But all that shows is hallucinations, right? No, you misunderstand. I am that hallucination. Right now, you are hallucinating my entire body and voice. I am just your mind talking to you. You’re hallucinating me right now. You hallucinated all my videos. You know, I warned you at the beginning. Do you really want to know what reality is? This is the highest teaching. I’m giving you my highest teaching. It took me over 15 years of reading, studying, thousands of hours of contemplation, meditation, going to retreats, doing powerful psychedelics, racking my mind to understand all of this, to figure it out. Here it is: my highest teaching. Number one, you are God, and there is nothing but God, and you are all alone. That’s number one. Number two, everything is imaginary. There is nothing but imagination. God is infinite consciousness-infinitely intelligent, infinitely powerful, unlimited. It is also infinitely good and infinitely loving.

I've been told the placebo thing as well. I'm using ketogenic therapy myself

Outstanding. Our young adult child is pursuing this as well and was doing incredibly well, but unfortunately decided to celebrate a birthday using THC and magic mushrooms, and ended up having a break with reality and a short hospital stay. Less self care afterward led to chronic lack of sleep (combined with several weeks of continued cannabis use) all combined to quite the loss of progress, though continuing the keto status (blood work verified) seems to at least be preventing full blown relapse/hospitalization. No medication as well. Hopefull still...maturity/another decade may help greatly.

Great interview. All three of you seem to be thriving and still improving your health. I seem to be able to see it just comparing this video to others from the past. Little things like your mannerisms and such. It's great to have this documentation online, hopefully forever for people to see. I wish you all good health and great success in the future.

Thank you 🙏

I’m now 4 months into medical ketogenic therapy for my rapid cycling bipolar 1 with mixed episodes. I used to have 4-5 episodes a year which was really debilitating and now as my psychotherapist says I am thriving. My antipsychotic medication has been reduced from 400mg to 150mg (and my psychiatrist told me if all is well in two weeks I will go down to 100mg). I’m getting projects finished, something I could never do before. I have lost 11kg, my training is now regular and I am now a healthy body weight. Your research along with doctor Palmer’s kept me motivated in the early days of my transformation as did Hannah and Lauren Kennedy’s stories. I also have to say pre-keto I was extremely skeptical, even as far as feeling offended that this would work and even the concept that something so simple as food could balance me out. If you are reading this and are feeling in such a way I would encourage you to read more and trust the process, of course under the supervision of your doctor.

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Thank you both for sharing your story. The lifestyle changes are so interesting - Diet, Sleep, and Exercise. Adherence is hard. I love the fact that your goal is to keep your life stable and help others. I'm a Mum who is obsessed with research on the ketogenic diet attempting to help my 19-year-old son. He has definitely had some scary adventures! We are just beginning the keto journey and I am hoping this will be a helpful treatment. Hope that he too can enjoy "normal simple". Love this channel. So helpful for someone like me.