Thanks. Hopefully some time next year I’ll have finished my book Living Well with Bipolar Disorder and I’ll be doing a lecture/book tour in the UK and the USA.

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Fantastic! Thank you for all your work.

Glad you liked it I'll be doing a series on depression and bipolar after anxiety.

Great thanks. I’m gonna be rewriting and updating most of it over the next year. Good luck with your healing journey

Sorry to hear this, I faced a similar situation myself, I have bipolar which before I learned how to control it would hit me with multiple waves of high glutamate; but I have fully recovered from that damage. The brain is incredibly repairable when the physiological conditions are set just right and plasticity is boosted with the right treatment.

That’s great to hear, I’m glad it helped. There’s research showing low birth weight and several other health complications associated with elevated cortisol levels during pregnancy. With relaxation brain training we can train our stress responses to lower elevated cortisol. Thanks for sharing. If anyone else wants the basic relaxation brain training you can get a free copy by emailing me at Hello@petersmithuk.com

I do 1-2-1 consultations on line, details on my site www.balancingbrainchemistry.co.uk/peter-smith/32/Skype-Self-Help-Coaching.html

You are very welcome, I’m glad it helped. I’m determined to finish the course I’m preparing on how to do the meditations to combat depression and anxiety; if you’re interested, it should be available from at least mid 2024. To get an announcement you could subscribe to my KZfaq channel or send me an email so I have your address. Anyway, good luck on your recovery…

I may talk about methylation later. Experimenting with various doses of B vits from low to high is something I recommend people try to see if they have therapeutic effects and what’s the best dose. Good luck…

I do private consultations by video call, to setup a call email me letting me know where you are located/what time zone you are in. My email address is hello@petersmithuk.com

J C I do understand your question. This treatment approach is so new the truth is no one in the world can say with certainty weather taking precursors makes a significant difference to the treatment outcome and if it does make a difference does it help or hinder. I’ve sometimes included/excluded precursors and cannot say I’v seen a difference. You must not forget the incredible ability of the body to figure out the right thing to do. The way to work this out for your case would be do 3 months on the precursors and see what results you get if you’re not totally happy with the results try 3 months without. I built my practice on real world testing. If you’d like me to look into your case I’m available for private consultations.

@@NaturalMentalHealthTreatments have you noticed the link between HGH and BDNF? I've heard from a few people that BDNF requires HGH increase. and everything ive seen that boosts BDNF also increases HGH. fasting and exercise boost BDNF a considerable amount.... and also increase HGH a considerable amount. so do you think there is a link?

@@JC-ko1bp You always should include HIIT exercise and intermittent fasting when brain building, they make a significant contribution.

@@NaturalMentalHealthTreatments yes i understand. but would hgh alone boost BDNF ? so anything hgh stimulating boosts bdnf. this is the link I'm finding

@@JC-ko1bp it's possible there's a common or response by the body and brain to things like exercise and fasting to increase hgh and BDNF production. In my practice, the big picture or goal is what do we have to combine to grow brain, BDNF is only one part of it. One thing I don't recommend is taking hgh unless you have to there are risks.

www.thebestbrainpossible.com/how-neuroplasticity-causes-mental-health-conditions-brain-depression/ here is an article titled ... How Neuroplasticity Hurts and Helps Your Mental Health I'm just concerned that boosting my BDNF will worsen my condition if im stuck in depression, anxiety and constant stress. and id need to find ways of stimulating my good synapses (serotonin, dopamine etc) and reducing the stimulation on my bad synapses (norepinephrine, epinephrine... stress hormones) while im taking the BDNF boosters for it to work and not make things worse. i have tried many things like relaxation techniques, exercise, meditation etc but nothing seems powerful enough to shut off my stress from being stimulated. the only thing that seems to help are herbs and precursors for calming neurotransmitters (serotonin and gaba). i would imagine id need to take these precursors along with BDNF boosters in order for it to work and heal me as opposed to making things worse.

J C Thanks for your comments. You are absolutely right that neuroplasticity can hardwire desirable and undesirable qualities and abilities into your brain and boosting BDNF will enhance neuroplastic hardwiring. Hypothetically you may in some circumstances involving anxiety disorders you be able to worsen a mental health problem by boosting BDNF. For depression however BDNF levels are low and the increased inflammation causes a loss of synapses and function in the cortex, hippocampus and other areas, and boosting BDNF is protective and therapeutic. A big part of the job with depression is regrowing these structures. Damaged body parts know what they need to regenerate and the lost serotonin pathways will grow rather than well-functioning systems. I always combine positive brain rewiring exercises at the same time as boosting BDNF to direct the desirable neuroplastic changes we want, and brain training to dampen down overactivity in the HPA-axis reducing stress at the same time. The latter not only reduces the infammation but also stimulates the development of pathways in the brain that switch off the HPA axis and shift our nervous system from a sympathetic to parasympathetic state. Elevated stress physiological responses don't just ramp up inflammation but they also alter neurotransmitter formation, so much so that reducing stress levels may be necessary BEFORE you are able to properly metabolise neurotransmitter precursors to produce the desirable neurotransmitters such as serotonin. In this article: www.balancingbrainchemistry.co.uk/peter-smith/154/Don't-Take-Tryptophan-until-You-Read-This.html I discuss how taking serotonin precursors before dampening down elevated inflammation levels from stress and other sources may result in the formation of quinolinic acid which is neurotoxic rather than serotonin and melatonin. I do not actually agree with everything that you have been told, you haven't referenced who was telling you this. It is not necessarily the case that taking a neurotransmitter precursors whilst boosting BDNF will necessarily favour the development of the related synapses, it just doesn't work like that, that's not the type of stimulation referred to in the expression neurons that fire together wire together. I also caution you most strongly against the use of L glutamine, whilst it is true that L glutamine can be converted into GABA it can also be converted into glutamate and you have no way of predicting whether your particular brain is going to favour the production of GABA as opposed to glutamate. Supplementing L glutamine may result in glutamate cytotoxicity, if somebody advised you to take that they should update their understanding with regard to the risk of glutamate cytotoxicity. See: www.balancingbrainchemistry.co.uk/peter-smith/166/Anxiety-Treatment-Naturally-Without-Drugs/Why-You-Shouldn't-Take-L-Glutamine-for-Anxiety.html I also hope you're not actually taking GABA as a supplement because that may be harmful. The way that neurotransmitter precursors and herbs is quite different, the way herbs actually work is complicated, not properly researched or understood and you absolutely cannot just predict what they're going to do by using your linear logic; biological systems behave with what is sometimes described as fuzzy logic resulting in unexpected and paradoxical apparently paradoxical effects. Everything on my site is based upon my 30 years of clinical experience, none of it is based on hypothetical conjecture nor pulling down bits of information from the Internet. The point I'm making here is that in the way that I combine BDNF boosting remedies with brain training, diet and amino acid precursors has never so far resulted in reinforcing negative undesirable neuroplasticity as opposed to regrowing lost desirable functionality in the brain. I can see how you may have felt I was recommending to just boost BDNF on its own but that is not at all what I'm actually recommending or do in my practice. In all conditions where there is a loss of function from depression through bipolar, OCD to schizophrenia boosting BDNF regrows damaged dysfunctional tissues more significantly than it supports or maintains already developed stress pathways. Having said that I am very mindful of the concerns you are expressing in particular with regard to some anxiety conditions and just to be ultra cautious I start certain individual patients on positive rewiring brain training exercises and herbs/precursors to bring a reduction in the anxiety condition before utilising anything that boosts BDNF. As soon as there are clear indications that positive rewiring has begun then it is safe to boost BDNF, another feature of neuroplasticity is that the brain favours novelty, so new and novel activities or stimulation results in significant new growth, whereas the re-use of already established (stress) pathways does not attract significant new growth even when you would boost BDNF. The stress pathways are already well grown and developed, there neuro plastic state is somewhat static. Introducing novel positive meditative, relaxation and psychological brain training techniques stimulate regeneration in these networks at a disproportionate rate to the already well established undesirable networks. There The human brain is not just complex it's actually the most complex structure known in our universe and being a biological system it behaves with fuzzy logic. The important points are to reduce inflammation first before using neurotransmitter precursors, that one of the key ways to do this is brain training to dampen down overactivity in the HPA axis and stimulate activity in the pollyvagal nervous system. Furthermore many I would say most mental health problems involve a loss of function and efficient functioning in key pathways in structures and boosting BDNF will tend to favour this growth and development as opposed to growing and developing already well established systems although it will contribute to their maintenance. We can compensate against the maintenance of undesirable systems with further brain training exercises and all of these measures are well established procedures in my practice. I have no disagreement with the understanding that neuroplasticity can cut both ways, this is a well known phenomenon; some people however particularly people with anxiety (hyperactive fear circuits) turn this into a scary prospect but in practice it's not. We can put practices in place to avoid the possibility of the theoretical notion that boosting BDNF will only enhance norepinephrine and adrenergic pathways, furthermore we must not forget that when you stimulate healing growth in all but highly unusual circumstances the body direct the healing towards damaged and deficient systems first and foremost.

@@NaturalMentalHealthTreatments is it not true that "what fires together wires together" and all neuroplasticity/growth is "activity dependant". i have been told that without stimulating a particular synapse/system... a synapse for that transmitter won't grow. i have been told this is why exercise is so good, not only does it increase BDNF.. but together it releases serotonin, gaba and dopamine.... causing these synapses to grow. also have you seen the latest on Ketamine as an anti depressant, it seems to rapidly reverse depression, most think by restoring synapses. who knew it could restore synapses so quickly, apparently it does it in a matter of hours. however the affects seem to wear off after a week or 2 and repeated treatment is needed... if the synapses are restored, why would it keep wearing off after a week or 2?

@@NaturalMentalHealthTreatments sorry i replied before you edited your post with further information. I've been advised this by many people ive asked over the months... i couldn't reference them as i forget which individuals they are, i always ask this question to anyone who writes blogs on neuroplasticity. ive also seen BDNF be responsible for some negative things as well.... like drug dependancy. it seems BDNF is what is responsible for a particular drug causing a dependency, which is certainly a negative adaption in the brain caused by BDNF... dmm.biologists.org/content/2/7-8/314.3 www.jneurosci.org/content/34/23/7899 it was my understanding that BDNF is just fertiliser and offers the brain a chance to change... and this change could be positive and negative depending on what is being stimulated to grow. promote relaxation, happiness and joy in a person and BDNF will hardwire this state into a person by growing the synapses that are being stimulated during the time. promote unhappiness, fear and misery in a person and BDNF will hardwire this state into a person by growing synapses that are being stimulated.... not only this... this state creates horrific inflammation that destroys other good synapses too (something you mention yourself).

Novelty or newness, i.e. stimulating hardly used as opposed to regularly used systems is also a significant stimulant of neuro plastic change. Furthermore, even without stimulation the brain will heal damaged systems that have lost function albeit nothing like as well as when those systems are simultaneously stimulated with brain training. I am watching the ketamine research closely. I'm not surprised that substances (ketamine) with powerful neuroplasticity boosting effects can produce rapid antidepressant effects, nor am I surprised that this single technique produces such short-lived benefits. If you don't combat the route functional causes that resulted in loss of plasticity in the first place I would predict the effect to be only temporary. The powerful and rapid antidepressant effects of ketamine are actually a good illustration of how just boosting neuroplasticity safely favours the growth and development of desirable pathways rather than the already well-established less desirable pathways i.e. I'm referring back to our previous discussion. I actually want to make a video about why you cannot expect the ketamine approach to lead to long-lasting benefits without eliminating the underlying causes that created the problem in the first place.

I always get my patients to perform deep relaxation brain training exercises to correct over activity in the HPA axis, I also always simultaneously include magnesium, B complex and D3. I usually try tryptophan first, if it causes paradoxical effects I usually just back off for a while to give the above more time to work and maybe add additional remedies to work on neuroplasticity of serotonergic systems in the brain such lithium orotate, saffron, zembrin and then retry the tryptophan. I want to see that tryptophan can be taken without producing quinolinic acid as a test of imbalance. Then I may test to see which works better tryptophan or 5 HTP. My practice is based much more on real world testing and experimentation than scientific explanation, the science is important of cause, but individual brain so often respond in individual ways that are not predictable from the current state of scientific knowledge of the brain. Good question and research :-) Good luck with your healing journey

@@NaturalMentalHealthTreatments Thanks for your response. Zembrin sounds very interesting, I am definitely going to experiment with that. Have you also used Inositol in a similar manner to the other remedies to restore the serotonergic system?

Hi, that's a really good question! There isn't a one size fits all simple answer when it comes to the best diet. There are 2 essential components of the best diet. Firstly, it has to achieve the therapeutic goal you want without producing additional health problems (I’ll come back to that). Secondly and this point really matters: it has to be a diet that the person doing it will stick with, honestly there's no point advocating a particular diet if the person can't stand it because they just won't stick to. Now in terms of brain health and neuroplasticity, a key component is that the diet reduces inflammation; excessive inflammation will strip of synapses more quickly then you can regrow them and put you into negative neuroplasticity. A super high intake of coloured plant foods to deliver a large diverse intake of polyphenols reduces inflammation and is a component of both the plant-based vegan diet and the high need to ketogenic diet; there is also abundant evidence from many sources that humans are omnivorous (designed to eat meat and veg). The all-meat total carnivore diet may work for some people at a certain point in their treatment program, particularly for people with a lot of allergies, autoimmunity but there's no getting away from the fact that it is missing out on brain-friendly foods. Not only do coloured plant foods contain polyphenols which are anti-inflammatory and promote neuroplasticity, but they also feed and develop a diverse and robust healthy intestinal microbiota (healthy bacteria in the colon); and as a whole new emerging science that specific species of bacteria in our intestines affect not only our brain health but our mood and psychology. The bacteria species L-Reuteri, for example, produces GABA controlling anxious thoughts and the ruminating on traumatic events the traumatic memories; other species produce antidepressant effects such as actobacillus acidophilus Rosell-52, Bifidobacterium, longum Rosell-175 Lactobacillus helveticus. I'm beginning to see real specific therapeutic benefits in combating mental health problems by cultivating these bacteria in individual patients. Another superfood the all-meat diet omits are beans and lentils, there is evidence that shows that people that eat beans and lentils live longer than people that don't, they stabilise blood sugar lower cholesterol feed friendly bacteria and more. The Internet is awash with not just disinformation on the effect of lectins in beans but I would say even fraudulent information on the effects of lectins. False and fraudulent exaggerations of the lectins in beans causing harm is used by some people to sell books and promote their websites, look carefully at their information and you'll see they're talking about RAW BEANS AND LENTILS! Apart from poor laboratory rats who the hell is eating raw beans. There's even some evidence that the ingestion of small amounts of lectins is cancer-preventing. But here's the massive caveat with a high-vegetable and high been/lentils diet, if you have bacterial overgrowth in your small intestines (SIBO) you must stay away from it until you resolve the SIBO. If you eat plant fibre and it lingers in your small intestines growing bacteria in the small intestinal wall becomes thin and leaky and this can produce widespread inflammation throughout your body and brain; if this is the case then a meat-only diet or at least a low FODMAPS diet is the place to start your health recovery. When meat and fish are well chewed and you have sufficient hydrochloric acid in the stomach these foods should leave behind minimalistic practically zero residue in the small intestines for bacteria to ferment. So whilst this is a great place to start if you have SIBO in the long run you are missing out on all the potential benefits of the high plant food diet. There may be other reasons why the all-meat diet produces such wonderful effects in the beginning, it may induce autophagy in the brain (autophagy is the process whereby the body eats itself destroying old and worn out cells/mitochondrial making room to be replaced with healthy new ones). The all-meat diet also pushes the body into a ketogenic state which has positive effects on neuroplasticity. In 2012 I put myself onto a ketogenic diet as part of the neuroplasticity treatment protocol I was developing and certainly the overall results I obtained from the diet, supplements and other exercises was phenomenal so I stayed on the high-meat, high-fat, high-vegetable ketogenic diet and I have to say I absolutely loved it :-) But unfortunately this diet eventually by 2017 produced prediabetic stating with high blood sugar and insulin resistance :-( This occurred because the high level of saturated fat eventually caused the buildup of fat droplets inside my muscle cells (intramyocellular lipid) despite being slim and engaging in lots of physical exercise. Excess fat in the muscle cells blocks the insulin receptor sites. I switched overnight from a high-meat ketogenic diet to a vegan plant-based diet (virtually no saturated fat, protein from beans and lentils and with appropriate supplementation including B12, omega-3 fish oils, iodine and creatin) and in this diet the insulin resistance went away within one week! (In someone with more visceral fat than me it would probably take longer). The big worry was would continue to support my brain-my health/neuroplasticity and the good news is it absolutely did, I now have the best brain health I've ever had. Not everyone on the ketogenic diet develops insulin resistance, this is just what it did to me, long-term I think the high meat ketogenic diets can produce issues with the high level of saturated fat and they are not as anti-inflammatory as a more plant-based diet; nevertheless they do suit some individuals for long-term use and some individuals had a certain phase of their health recovery programme. Here are the key take on points: a diet has to be maintainable, different diets are suitable for different individual metabolic types and different diets are appropriate at different phases; do not make the mistake of thinking that a shortish tone therapeutic diet is necessarily a long-term maintenance diet. Nutritional medicine is complicated there is no one size fits all diet, keep learning.

@Better Mental Health with Natural Remedies - Hi, I suffer from severe anxiety. When I was young, I was introduced to Klonopin. I was hooked on it by age 21 or 22. I was later diagnosed with Graves Disease, hyperthyroidism. They knocked the thyroid gland out with radioactive Iodine. I am now hypo. I take Levothyroxine to get the appropriate amount of hormones. I later experienced a trauma that my have caused me PTSD. I have fear of change, the future, I have a what-if brain 🧠 cycle. I constantly worry about events yet to come (racing thoughts), they get me stressed, drained and I feel at a constant state of hyper awareness (fight or flight state). I tried to get of the benzo, klonopin but it somehow backfired. The anxiety became overwhelming. I returned to its original dose, but I remained at a heightened state of anxiety. For that

@Better Mental Health with Natural Remedies - they gave me lamictal, a mood stabilizer. I diagnosed with a mood disorder. But anxiety has always been the number symptom. The lamictal helped a lot. I notice though that I must keep my mind constantly busy. Go to work, keep distracted. If not, the racing thoughts run wild (constant worry), which severely increase the anxiety. There’s only so much, lamictal can do. I’m currently going thru a divorce and I’m fighting custody of my child. My anxiety is at it’s peak, uncharted levels of anxiety. I also became severely depressed. I rarely get depression. But when I do, it hits me hard. I become suicidal. They have prescribed me, Propranolol and Cymbalta. So, I’m taking Levothyroxine, Klonopin, propranolol and cymbalta. They help me sleep, but I feel constant fatigue. I believe this are good medications for me, but the stress of divorce feels like too much, and if I’m not constantly at work, the racing thoughts begin to increase my anxiety. I feel stuck in a never ending cycle. I’m very concerned. What do you recommend? I need urgent help...thank you!

@@NaturalMentalHealthTreatments You werent doing a keto diet if you were consuming high % of meat as protein can be changed into glucose by the body. A keto diet to be sure you are always in ketosis is 75% fat (good fats only no vegtable oils), 20% protein (meat, fish, nuts, legumes), and 5% carbs. If you limit the carb intake to 20 carbs/day you will be assured of a being in ketosis and that results in approx 1500 total calories/day as carbs are 4 calories per gram and a 20 carb gram would be 80 calories and extrapolating the rest of the calories from the % allowed gives you about 1500 calories total. Insulin is a response to glucose in the diet and you would have a very low insulin response (or none) on 20 g/day of carbs. Keto can be full of crap processed foods or only cooked or raw veggies, good oils, and pature fed beef and wild caught fish, etc. and the difference is are you getting GMO veggies or carbs or not? GMO with high glyphosate kills off the good gut bacteria but is still validly keto but the effects will be quite different. Water fasting eliminates inflammation and resets the body to function as it should and is a very powerful remedy for metabolic diseases.

@@gamersanonymous4me131 GamersAnonymous4me Hi, I was actually doing a ketogenic diet, in the video I may have just said “a high-protein high-fat diet”, but that was just a brief turn of phrase because I was only briefly mentioning it, and not going into the specifics of a keto diet. My protein intake on the plant-based protein diet that I’m currently on is a lot less than on an animal-based ketogenic diet. An interesting phenomenon with diet is just how passionately people believe and want to believe in the diet system that they have settled on; unfortunately this often turns into closed mindedness and an inability to take on board information and research that disagrees with the health benefits of the diet and shows negative health consequences from the diet. I first trained in nutritional medicine in the mid-1980s and continued to study and practice dietary therapy since then. Over the years I’ve been forced to learn that diets I once believed in hand big flaws and negative health consequences along with the positive; this is happened to me so many times that I now believe pretty much every diet comes with a package of health benefits and negative health consequences. When it comes to diet you pick and choose the diet with the most benefits from the particular health concerns and problems you have to deal with. For example there is a diet system developed by Dr Caldwell Esselstyn which prevents and actually reverses heart disease but his diet is so low in brain friendly fats that it would plunge me into bipolar depression that would not just ruin my life it could end it. My battle is brain health and mental illness so I need to pick a diet practice that is optimum for these health concerns I just hope I don’t develop heart disease that requires the Esselstyn diet; luckily I have found a dietary system that both maintains optimum brain and mental health also is associated with a lower risk of developing heart disease. We all have bias in our thinking, if your bias is that the ketogenic diet is good it can end up making you reject research that challenges the notion that the ketogenic diet is good, so-called inconvenient truths, truths and facts that are uncomfortable. But if your concern is truly health based and you make this your sole concern without any attachment to any one particular diet and maintaining an open mind and when you look at the ketogenic diet there is ample solid evidence that challenge whether or not a ketogenic diet is a healthy choice. One way to overcome this is train yourself to notice when you see some research that makes you feel uncomfortable because it challenges what you believe, and then force yourself to entertain the possibility that this research is right and that you were wrong with an open mind. This technique will keep you open-minded and up-to-date, we have to be able to admit that we were wrong to stay up-to-date. With regard to the brain and mental health the reason I only cautiously advocate the ketogenic diet as least as a long-term strategy because of its effects on insulin and inflammation. A big misunderstanding is between diets that increase glucose or sugar levels in the blood and diets that increase insulin. It has become an entrenched way of thinking to say that insulin is produced in response to increased blood sugar and blood sugar is increased by carbohydrates therefore if we reduce carbohydrates we will reduce insulin production, that this is not how it works; let me say that again this is not the only way it works. Firstly animal protein particularly fish produce rapid rises in blood glucose levels equivalent to a meal containing a lot of quick release high GI carbohydrates; we need to reassess and update our understanding of what causes spikes in blood sugar. But this is not the main problem, the main problem is the high fat intake on a ketogenic diet can result, at least in some people, in elevated levels of fat inside muscle and liver cells and this blocks the receptor site that insulin attaches to. The result is that insulin can no longer open up muscle cells to receive glucose sugar from the blood, the muscles then ask for more insulin and more and more but no matter how much is made it is blocked by the high-fat (called intramyocellular lipids) and insulin levels go up. So we end up with high insulin, insulin spikes and these are harmful, they cause inflammation in the brain which is my area and this is why I do not recommend the ketogenic diet. Let me say that again the mistake that many people make is to confuse blood glucose/sugar levels with insulin levels and to think if you control blood glucose/sugar you will control and avoid high insulin levels. Do not confuse the two things, high insulin i.e. insulin resistance can be derived from a low carbohydrate high-fat diet, this is what happened to me and it’s borne out in the scientific literature. It can take some rethinking to understand this, this does not overturn the understanding that high blood glucose/sugar spikes in glucose/sugar can cause elevated insulin BUT there are other mechanisms whereby you can get harmful elevated insulin levels. Elevated intramyocellular lipids causes insulin resistance and animal proteins cause spikes in insulin and blood glucose/sugar. It’s known that you cannot perform a blood sugar diabetic test when you are on a ketogenic or ultra low carbohydrate diet and that have an accurate blood sugar/diabetic test you have to come out of ketosis and consume carbohydrates for several days to regain sensitivity to insulin before performing the test. This is another piece of evidence showing that ketogenic diet causes insulin resistance. This phenomenon causes serious harmful effects for people on a ketogenic diet that regularly have cheat days and eat increased carbohydrates. At one point I turned to the ketogenic diet to improve my neuroplasticity and initially it seems to help, both from my own personal experience, my clinical experience and scientific literature suggest this. It is not entirely clear how or why the ketogenic diet does this, there is some suggestion that it takes the body a while to adjust to the ketogenic state and during this time you lose weight which implies that the body is being fasted and it’s possible that the fasting effect of beginning a ketogenic diet is what boosts neuroplasticity. I often encourage some of my patients to switch to a ketogenic diet from the junk food diet they are one and continue on it for 2 to 4 months; however in the long run insulin and inflammation levels can go up at least in some people in the ketogenic diet and this is harmful to the brain so I recommend a low carbohydrate Paleo style diet for people that want to continue eating animal protein. Another thing to say which I’m sure you are in agreement with is that there is considerable metabolic and biochemical variations between different individuals, is also quite a lot of psychology involved in what we eat and the diet has to suit an individual’s metabolism/biochemistry, the psychology of what they are prepared to eat and last but not least have therapeutic effects for the specific health problems/concerns they have. Talking about the psychology many people I have met following a ketogenic diet are unable or unwilling to do it seven days a week and a permit themselves to have one ‘cheat day’ a week; but this is terrible because when you are on a ketogenic diet in a state of ketosis the insulin insensitivity causes means that when you reintroduce carbohydrates it causes horrendous harmful really damaging spikes in blood sugar. Below I’ve included several videos where Dr Gregor a plant-based diet advocate discusses the research I’m drawing on. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/q9akeLeVqdyoqoU.html kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qpOWbLSQktq4Zmw.html kzfaq.info/get/bejne/d91om9iXza-opWQ.html kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hNuarMyXnLPPfXU.html kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jKenmNyi2cibdGw.html I see huge amounts of time and energy spent by people arguing about which is the best diet, especially the ketogenic diet versus the plant-based diet in forums, and KZfaq videos et cetera. The science of healthy eating and diets is complicated and a minefield of contradictions, it is not my goal or intention to have a long drawn out discussion about the pros and cons of the ketogenic diet, like I said I sometimes recommend it but with the proviso that people monitor their insulin sensitivity and inflammation levels. I wish you every success in achieving and maintaining your health goals :-)

Yes absolutely, I’m in practice. Today I see patients online via video consultations. You can see my fees on the following link: www.balancingbrainchemistry.co.uk/peter-smith/32/Skype-Self-Help-Coaching.html To book an appointment send me an email letting me know where you are located/what time zone you are located in so I can work out when we could meet.

Maybe your belief is right and it wouldn’t, maybe your belief is not it would improve your type of anxiety. Anxiety and depression distort our perception of our situation and what might help, one of the big problems is that in anxiety and mood disorders we feel our thinking is still rational, but these conditions ARE distorting our perceptions, this is what they do. So maybe your belief that nothing helps is the anxiety (and depression if that’s part of your condition) talking. Anxiety and depression will ‘tell’ your mind that nothing can help. Something I see all the time is people rejecting these techniques as ineffective after only performing a few hours of a couple of weeks, there’s a massive difference in the therapeutic effect in performing 50+ hours of intensive focus on the right neuro-circuits. I hope you find something that helps…

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@@OyJaPinoy Peter's contribution is far greater than correct spelling 100% of the hundreds of thousands of published words. You should try to extract the meaning of such.

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