Georgia Ede MD

Georgia Ede MD

Psychiatrist, Nutrition Consultant, Nutrition Science Writer, and Speaker.

15/02/2024

Is your brain sluggish due to insulin resistance? For brains that have lost some of their ability to use glucose, ketones are a godsend, because they can bridge that energy gap.

Thank you for having me, Metabolic Health Summit.

14/02/2024

When I advise patients to include some meat in their diets to nourish the brain, their most common concern is that it will be bad for the heart.

Rest assured that what is good for the brain is good for the heart, and vice versa. It wouldn't make sense for each of your organs to require a different diet; all of your cells require the same basic nutritional care.

Happy Valentine's Day! ❤️

Can Food Actually Lift Your Mood When You're Feeling Down? 14/02/2024

Can comfort foods fight loneliness? Do foods high in tryptophan boost your mood? What is your definition of a comfort food?

Thank you HuffPost reporter Anna Rahmanan for exploring these questions with me and Raj Dasgupta MD, FACP, FCCP, FAASM.

Can Food Actually Lift Your Mood When You're Feeling Down? Some ingredients can regulate your hormones, while others only provide temporary relief before sending you crashing.

13/02/2024

The Yin and Yang of Healthy Brain Metabolism ☯

Scientists at the National Institute on Aging and Johns Hopkins University refer to the shift from carbohydrate-​based metabolism to fat-​based metabolism as the glucose‑to‑ketone switch or the G‑to‑K switch.

They have documented numerous brain benefits to spending time in ketosis, whether that state is achieved through vigorous exercise, caloric restriction, intermittent fasting, or a ketogenic diet.

(Excerpt from Chapter 5, The Magic of Brain Metabolism. Change Your Diet, Change Your Mind is available now!)

‎Boundless Body Radio: Change Your Diet, Change Your Mind with Dr. Georgia Ede! 584 on Apple Podcasts 12/02/2024

Tune in to Boundless Body Radio for a spirited conversation about brain food with Casey Ruff! How nutrition therapy changes the psychiatrist-patient relationship, why vital minerals inside grains/beans/nuts/seeds are so hard to access, how insulin resistance lays the groundwork for Alzheimer's dementia, and more.

‎Boundless Body Radio: Change Your Diet, Change Your Mind with Dr. Georgia Ede! 584 on Apple Podcasts ‎Show Boundless Body Radio, Ep Change Your Diet, Change Your Mind with Dr. Georgia Ede! 584 - Jan 31, 2024

08/02/2024

My heart is full of gratitude! ❤️ Seeing the book in your hands and homes and reading your words of enthusiasm and support has meant so much to me. My best hope is that this project helps you or someone you care about to improve their mental health—as that will be the real test of the book's mettle.

And if it also happened to spark more constructive conversations about nutrition? I would be over the moon.

Thank you all for embracing this work and sharing my passion for better nutrition and better mental health.

Photos from Georgia Ede MD's post 07/02/2024

Just because a plant food contains a nutrient doesn’t mean you can access it. 🥦 Swipe to see what I call the “ifs, ands, and buts” of a vegan diet.

Harvard-trained nutrition expert: If I could only prioritize one food in my diet, it'd be this 06/02/2024

Can you guess which food it is?
Thank you CNBC and journalist Stav Ziv for sharing this adapted excerpt from my book Change Your Diet, Change Your Mind.

Harvard-trained nutrition expert: If I could only prioritize one food in my diet, it'd be this Meat is good for you, according to Harvard nutritional psychiatrist Georgia Ede. Here's why it's the No. 1 food she'd prioritize in her diet.

05/02/2024
🔴 #1 Harvard Psychiatrist: This Is The WORST Food For Mental Health! | Dr. Georgia Ede 05/02/2024

Just posted on YouTube: my conversation with Plant-free MD Dr Anthony Chaffee about the dietary roots of our mental health crisis and the dietary changes most worth trying to help yourself feel better.

🔴 #1 Harvard Psychiatrist: This Is The WORST Food For Mental Health! | Dr. Georgia Ede ✅Join my PATREON for early releases, bonus content, and weekly Zoom meetings! https://www.patreon.com/AnthonyChaffeeMDGeorgia Ede M.D. is a Harvard-trained p...

Learn How To Avoid An Alzheimer's Diagnosis w/Dr. Georgia Ede - Francene Marie 04/02/2024

Preventing Alzheimer's and calming chronic anxiety could be easier than you thought! Fabulous veteran syndicated radio host Francene Marie Morris invited me on to the North Carolina airwaves to discuss the deep dietary roots of these common conditions and what you can do to avoid them. This interview is one of my personal favorites ⭐

Learn How To Avoid An Alzheimer's Diagnosis w/Dr. Georgia Ede - Francene Marie Dr. Georgia Ede is a Harvard-trained nutritional and metabolic psychiatrist specializing in nutrition science, brain metabolism, and mental health. Now she is on a mission to share her knowledge with the world, especially during a time when the increase in mental health disorders is skyrocketing wor...

02/02/2024

I’m back for Round 2! 🧠 Join me for a bonus 'Ask Me Anything' Livestream, happening tomorrow at a new time to welcome more of my international friends. Bring your curiosity, and I'll answer as many questions as I can!

Why A Mediterranean Diet Isn't The Best For Brain Health, From A Psychiatrist 02/02/2024

Thank you mindbodygreen for publishing this excerpt from my new book Change Your Diet, Change Your Mind. Yes, the Mediterranean Diet IS BETTER for your brain than the "SAD" (Standard American) diet, but that doesn't necessarily mean it's the BEST diet for your brain. If it's optimal brain health you seek, I'm convinced you can do even better. Do you agree with my reasoning?

Why A Mediterranean Diet Isn't The Best For Brain Health, From A Psychiatrist Here's why I don't think it's all it's cracked up to be.

Dr. Georgia Ede's 'Ask Me Anything' Livestream Part Two 02/02/2024

'Ask Me Anything' Livestream: Part Two is going live in just ONE HOUR! ⏰ Join me on Facebook, Twitter, or LinkedIn for an interactive Q&A session.

Your questions are the stars of the show, so come prepared to engage. Looking forward to connecting with you soon! 🥳

Dr. Georgia Ede's 'Ask Me Anything' Livestream Part Two Back by popular demand! Live Q&A with Dr. Georgia Ede, Nutritional & Metabolic Psychiatrist & Author of Change Your Diet, Change Your Mind.

02/02/2024

Back by popular demand! 📣 ‘Ask Me Anything’ Livestream Q&A round 2 is taking place at a new time to accommodate more of my friends overseas.

⏰ February 2, 2024, 1pm ET / 6 pm GMT

Curious about my new book, seeking clinical advice, interested in nutrition science, or wondering what my favorite food is? It’s all fair game. Come prepared with your questions, and I will answer as many as I can live!! 🎥

RSVP to get a reminder ➡️ https://bit.ly/cydcympt2

Change Your Diet, Change Your Mind! Dr. Ede, Dr. Chaffee, Dr. Hampton LIVESTREAM! 31/01/2024

Tonight 8 pm - 11 pm ET: Join our very special nutrition for mental health LIVESTREAM w/ special focus on diets!
*Lived experience testimonials!
*Live Q&A with me, Dr Anthony Chaffee & !
*Learn about Kerry's documentary Healing Humanity!
Help spread hope!

Change Your Diet, Change Your Mind! Dr. Ede, Dr. Chaffee, Dr. Hampton LIVESTREAM! Join us for a special live stream event as we delve into the powerful connection between nutrition and mental health featuring Dr. Gerogia Ede, Dr. Tony Hamp...

30/01/2024

Come celebrate the launch of my new book with me at a special LIVESTREAM gathering Tuesday, January 30th at 5 pm ET! 📚

I’ll be hosting an interactive Q&A session, sharing exclusive sneak peeks into the book’s chapters, and even giving away signed copies to a few lucky attendees. 🎁

Got a burning brain food question? Drop it in the comments below, and I might just answer it live! 🎥

30/01/2024

It's publication day! 📚 If you have a mental health issue of any kind, changing your diet could help you in ways that no medicine can—the secret is knowing which dietary changes are most worth making and why.

Take direct aim at the dietary root causes of mental health problems by combining the surprising truth about brain food with the cutting-edge science of brain metabolism. 🧠

Feel like you've tried everything already? Don't give up. Hope is on the menu!

Order from your favorite bookseller or ask your library to stock a copy.

➡️ https://www.diagnosisdiet.com/change-your-diet-change-your-mind

Change Your Diet, Change Your Mind! Dr. Ede, Dr. Chaffee, Dr. Hampton LIVESTREAM! 30/01/2024

Help spread the hope! Join us at 8 pm ET Tues Jan 30 for our special nutrition for mental health LIVESTREAM
*Hear lived experience testimonials
*Learn about Kerry's new documentary Healing Humanity!
*Explore my book Change Your Diet, Change Your Mind
* Live Q&A w/ me, Dr Anthony Chaffee, Dr. Tony Hampton

Change Your Diet, Change Your Mind! Dr. Ede, Dr. Chaffee, Dr. Hampton LIVESTREAM! Join us for a special live stream event as we delve into the powerful connection between nutrition and mental health featuring Dr. Gerogia Ede, Dr. Tony Hamp...

29/01/2024

Please join me tomorrow Jan 30th at 5 pm ET / 2 pm PT on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn for my first-ever livestream Q&A and launch day celebration for my new book Change Your Diet, Change Your Mind! 🎥

Have a burning brain food question? 🧠 Drop it in the comments below, and I'll try my best to answer when we are together!

RSVP to get a reminder: https://bit.ly/cydcymlive

Change Your Diet, Change Your Mind! Dr. Ede, Dr. Chaffee, Dr. Hampton LIVESTREAM! 28/01/2024

Let the brain healing begin! Get ready for a livestream double feature this Tuesday, Jan 30th! 🎥 First up, my virtual 'Ask Me Anything' session/book giveaway at 5pm ET.

Then at 8pm ET, my friend Kerry Mann of Homesteadhow.com hosts a very special nutrition for mental health book launch/Healing Humanity documentary awareness gathering with me, Dr. Tony Hampton, Dr Anthony Chaffee, and lived experience expert guests.

Bring your burning brain food questions and be part of the conversation. Hope to see you there!

➡️ https://youtu.be/-aF6WUvUjs8
➡️ https://bit.ly/cydcymlive

Change Your Diet, Change Your Mind! Dr. Ede, Dr. Chaffee, Dr. Hampton LIVESTREAM! Join us for a special live stream event as we delve into the powerful connection between nutrition and mental health featuring Dr. Gerogia Ede, Dr. Tony Hamp...

Patients say keto helps with their mental illness. Science is racing to understand why 27/01/2024

Thank you NPR and science journalist Will Stone for calling the nation's attention to ketogenic diets for mental health (aka metabolic psychiatry), and for highlighting the pioneering research of my friend and colleague Dr. Iain Campbell, who put his own bipolar disorder into remission more than 7 years ago using a ketogenic diet. "I realized it was actually the ketone level that was making this shift in my symptoms in a way that nothing else ever had," he says. "It struck me as really significant, like life-changing."

Patients say keto helps with their mental illness. Science is racing to understand why It's not just for weight loss. Patients and doctors alike are having success using the diet for illnesses like bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. And research is taking off.

24/01/2024

Join me for a thoughtful conversation with Dr. Ronald Hoffman on the Intelligent Medicine podcast to explore the promising world of nutrition-based alternatives to psychiatric medications.

And consider subscribing to his program ➡️ https://drhoffman.com/podcast/nutrition-based-approaches-as-an-alternative-to-psychiatric-medications-part-1/

#1 Harvard Psychiatrist: The Most Harmful Foods People Keep Eating! - Avoid This To Live Longer 23/01/2024

Join me and Dhru Purohit for a lively, in-depth conversation about brain food on his globally recognized top 50 health podcast, The Dhru Purohit Show.

Optimal mental health begins by choosing foods capable of properly nourishing, protecting, and energizing the brain.

Discover how your food choices profoundly influence your brain's development, neurotransmitter balance, stress response, energy production, and overall well-being.

#1 Harvard Psychiatrist: The Most Harmful Foods People Keep Eating! - Avoid This To Live Longer It’s undeniable that food can nourish our body or put it in a state of dis-ease. With mental health conditions and disorders on the rise, we often overlook h...

Change Your Diet, Change Your Mind, Dr. Georgia Ede 22/01/2024

It's not just the ABSENCE of symptoms; it's the PRESENCE of well-being. 📣

I chat with Kerry Mann Jr. of Homesteadhow.com about the critical importance of a "Proper Human Diet" (Hat Tip Ken D Berry, MD) to robust mental health.

If you're interested in the intersection of nutrition and psychiatry or seeking alternative approaches to mental health care, this episode is worth a watch. Hope is on the menu!

Change Your Diet, Change Your Mind, Dr. Georgia Ede Join us as we explore the groundbreaking insights of Dr. Georgia Ede, a Harvard-trained psychiatrist and author of the upcoming book "Change Your Diet, Chang...

22/01/2024

Thank you Gayle Guyardo for inviting me on Bloom Tampa Bay to talk about brain superfood myths (and which dietary changes to make instead that actually work).

Watch now ➡️ https://www.wfla.com/bloom-tampa-bay/how-diet-affects-brain-health/

Role of Nutrition for BRAIN Health & How to Modify Your Diet | Drs. Georgia Ede & Dom D’Agostino 19/01/2024

Raise your hand if you'll be joining Dominic D'Agostino and me at the Metabolic Health Summit in Clearwater Beach Florida on January 25-28! 🙋‍♀️

This world class event brings you the very latest scientific advances in all things metabolic health.

I'll be holding my first-ever book signing for Change Your Diet, Change Your Mind on Thursday evening from 6:30 to 8:30 pm in the Dunes Ballroom Foyer, so please come say hello. 🙂

Use code MHSFRIEND to get 10% off registration: metabolichealthsummit.com

Role of Nutrition for BRAIN Health & How to Modify Your Diet | Drs. Georgia Ede & Dom D’Agostino The ketogenic diet is a low-carbohydrate, high-fat diet that has proven benefits for brain health. Research shows that the keto diet helps ease symptoms of ...

Book Review: Change Your Diet, Change Your Mood by Georgia Ede, MD | DR. RONALD HOFFMAN 18/01/2024

I am grateful for this thoughtful review of my new book, Change Your Diet, Change Your Mind, penned by one of the country's pioneers in complementary medicine and medical nutrition, Dr. Ronald Hoffman, host of Intelligent Medicine, the longest-running MD-hosted health show on syndicated radio.

Book Review: Change Your Diet, Change Your Mood by Georgia Ede, MD | DR. RONALD HOFFMAN The notion of a food-mood connection is not new; it’s come to be accepted as a pop culture verity. Pioneers like psychiatrist E.M. Abrahamson who wrote Body, Mind and Sugar in 1955, and William Dufty who wrote Sugar Blues in 1975, highlighted the role that hypoglycemia plays in mental disorders. L...

Nutrition Consultations for Mental Health and More

Would you like to work towards reducing or eliminating your need for psychiatric medications by optimizing your diet using fresh new science-based strategies? Then you’ve come to the right place. I am pleased to be able to offer online video and phone nutrition consultation sessions to people around the world who need some help achieving their health goals. Perhaps you would agree with me that the most powerful way to change brain chemistry is through food--because that’s where brain chemicals come from in the first place! The question is: which dietary changes are worth making, and why?

I am a Harvard-trained, board-certified psychiatrist specializing in nutrition science and have special knowledge and expertise in the emerging field of metabolic psychiatry. I study, write, and speak internationally about exciting, provocative, hopeful new ways to think about how what we eat affects how we think and feel. I have twenty years of general clinical experience and ten years of experience in nutritional psychiatry. I’m passionate about educating and empowering people to achieve their health goals through special diets--elimination diets, paleo-style diets, keto diets, carnivore diets, low-histamine diets, carefully-supplemented plant-based diets and more. I have studied food and nutrition science in depth for many years and understand how food works not just in the brain, but in the rest of the body as well. I can help you tell the difference between the myths and the facts so you can base your dietary decisions on the best information available instead of wasting your time and money on superfoods and supplements that don’t work.

Over the years, I have invested a great deal of time and energy in creating a large body of free resources (>95% self-funded) for people around the world--posts on my website, articles on Psychology Today, and videos on YouTube. But if you need a little extra help or have personal questions about your diet, symptoms, or medications, you can always schedule an online video or phone consultation with me. You’ll find all the information you need about this service, including a self-scheduling button, by clicking on the announcement on the top of my page, or going to the Consultations page on my DiagnosisDiet website. I look forward to seeing how I can help you!

Videos (show all)

The Yin and Yang of Healthy Brain Metabolism
My heart is full of gratitude! ❤️ Seeing the book in your hands and homes and reading your words of enthusiasm and suppo...
'Ask Me Anything' Livestream Part Two
Dr. Georgia Ede's 'Ask Me Anything' Livestream: Part Two
Please join me tomorrow Jan 30th at 5 pm ET / 2 pm PT on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn for my first-ever livestream Q&...
Meat is good for you. 🥩 These five words are a simple statement of biological fact. Meat provides all of the macronutrie...
Nutrition-Based Approaches as an Alternative to Psychiatric Medications
Dr. Georgia Ede's Book Virtual Launch Party: Change Your Diet, Change Your Mind
The Truth About Nutrition
We're officially one month away from the launch of my new book, Change Your Diet, Change Your Mind! 📚🍽️🧠Do you believe a...
If you choose to indulge in brain-risky ingredients on special occasions, be sure to return to your healthy plan the ver...
Chapter 9: The Promise of Ketogenic Diets for Mental Health