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Sounds like a good book.

This is a public service announcement. I'm going to throw another idea in there, for combatting depression, anxiety, and a lot of other disorders that are VERY common now.

A carnivore or low-carb/keto diet

The evidence is really starting to pile up. For me personally, it was great for mental health (as well as physical health and energy, it's been 6 months now). Check out my post:

Can a keto/carnivore diet heal issues like depression, anxiety, OCD, bipolar?

Here's an excerpt from that post:

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Most people go carnivore to lose weight, or to fix an auto-immune disease. But I started listening to a substantial number of podcasts from people who had overcome serious mental issues, just by switching to a carnivore diet.

Then I read the book by Dr. Georgia Ede - Change Your Diet, Change Your Mind. It's an outstanding book, she goes through the science of why the standard diet probably is actually causing the huge increase in mental health issues that we, as a society, have been experiencing. She then goes into the specifics about how a low-carb or keto or carnivore diet can help and in her experience, even cure these issues.

Here's a good quote from the book:

I was genuinely shocked to learn that there is absolutely no science (or logic) behind recommendations to eat plant-based diets, balanced diets, high-fiber diets, low-cholesterol diets, or diets containing whole grains, low-fat dairy products, or rainbows of fruits and vegetables. At best, these ideas represent well-intentioned guesses based on deeply flawed, unscientific food questionnaires; at worst, they are intentional distortions of the facts designed to protect professional reputations or serve political and commercial agendas, not to protect and serve public health.

The truth about nutrition is this: Meat is not dangerous, vegan diets are not healthier, and antioxidants are not the answer. So, where can we look for answers?

The good news is that hiding underneath that mountain of biased, confusing guesswork are clear, elegant, compelling scientific principles about nutrition that make intuitive sense, work in clinical practice, and stand the test of time.

Do we know everything we wish we knew? No. Do we know more than enough for you to substantially improve your brain health starting today? Absolutely.