#83 Vegan Keto for Mental Health? The Science & Shocking Results!

🎙️ In This Episode:
Join me as I chat with Dy, a passionate advocate for vegan keto and mental health. Dy shares her incredible journey of using a plant-based ketogenic diet to manage bipolar disorder, improve mental clarity, and even tackle perimenopause symptoms! We dive into the science, the stigma, and the struggles of being both vegan and keto in a world obsessed with meat.

 

🔥 Key Topics Discussed:
✅ How a ketogenic diet can help with bipolar disorder, depression, and anxiety
✅ The mental health benefits of being in ketosis – more energy, better mood, and reduced anxiety
✅ The first-ever study on keto for bipolar disorder and its mind-blowing results
✅ The challenge of being a vegan in the keto space (spoiler: it’s like wearing a scarlet letter!)
✅ The myth of being “cured” – why remission is not the same as a magic fix
✅ How cutting carbs to under 20g a day wiped out Di’s perimenopause symptoms (seriously, no hot flashes!)
✅ The emotional impact of eating animals – are we ingesting their fear and trauma?
✅ The power of metabolic psychiatry and what the experts are saying

 

💬 Memorable Moments
🤣 "Telling people you’re keto is hard enough. Telling people you’re vegan is even harder. But telling people you’re vegan keto? You may as well say you’re an alien!"
💡 "You could have smacked me with a spoon when I found out keto helps bipolar disorder!"
🔥 "I liked my face when it had more meat on it… Not meat! Human flesh! Damn it!"
🇬🇧 "Did you just try to say ‘bunch of bollocks’? No, no, Rachel – it’s a whole load of bollocks!"
🤯 "If you eat animals, you could be ingesting their fear. Think about that next time you sip your latte!"

 

📚 Resources & Studies Mentioned:

1) Dyane's new Metabolic Mind THINK+SMART Vegan Keto for Bipolar video & strategies https://thinksmart.metabolicmind.org/profile/dyane-harwood

2) Our Healing Journey with Metabolic Psychiatry podcast with Dyane and co-host Michael Belanger www.youtube.com/@OHJPodcast

3) Liz MacDowell, Dy's fave vegan keto cookbook author of three bestselling books! https://meatfreeketo.com/my-plant-based-keto-cookbooks/

4) Metabolic Mind's Vegan Keto & Mental Health article by Dy's friend Hannah Warren https://www.metabolicmind.org/blog/is-vegetarian-or-vegan-ketogenic-therapy-possible

5) Virta Health: How to eat low carb as a vegan or vegetarian https://www.virtahealth.com/blog/vegan-vegetarian-low-carb-keto

6) Virta Health: Can I eat keto and follow a vegan diet? https://www.virtahealth.com/faq/vegan-keto

7) Dr. Dominic D’Agostino's KetoNutrition blog: Plant-Based Keto Approach https://ketonutrition.org/2018-4-24-a-plant-based-approach-to-keto/


8) Dr. Dominic D`Agostino discusses the vegan/vegetarian ketogenic diet (brief video)

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LX03nC3fCBc&ab_channel=KetoNutrition-Dom

9) Two Subreddit groups co-moderated by Dyane 

Bipolar Keto https://www.reddit.com/r/bipolarketo/

Metabolic Psychiatry https://www.reddit.com/r/Metabolic_Psychiatry/

10) IKRT (Integrative Ketogenic Research and Therapies) Group & Individual Courses for Metabolic Mental Health   with founder Dr. Erin Bellamy https://www.ikrt.org/metabolic-mental-health-programs

11) Hub for Metabolic Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh https://www.metabolicpsychiatryhub.com/

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Dyane's Instagram: @dyaneharwood

Dyane's blog Vegan Keto for Bipolar  (Dy's blog's taking a break, but the archives are available):  https://dyaneharwood.wordpress.com/

  Dr. Dominic D`Agostino discusses the vegan/vegetarian ketogenic diet

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