Harvard-trained, board-certified psychiatrist specializing in college mental health and nutritional psychiatry.

An official diagnosis from a doctor doesn’t usually tell you anything about root causes of your illness. Instead of simply accepting your diagnosis, following the medication or surgical treatment plan and living with it for the rest of your life, get curious. WHY is your body malfunctioning? Is there anything you can do beyond medications and operations to help restore it to good health?

10 Nutritional Changes to Improve Mental Health

1. Eliminate processed foods.

2. Test for insulin resistance.

3. Test for nutrient deficiencies.

4. Eat a paleo diet.

5. Test for immune and autoimmune issues.

6. Do a gut check.

7. If you have insulin resistance, try a low-carb high-fat diet.

8. If a low-carb high-fat diet does not get you the results you hoped for, try a simple ketogenic diet.

9. Explore possible food sensitivities.

10. If nothing else works, consider the carnivore diet.

From VIRGIL STUCKER AND ASSOCIATES LLC, Full article here.

Dr. Georgia Ede

Dr. Georgia Ede received her B.A. in Biology from Carleton College in Minnesota, then spent seven years as a research assistant in the fields of biochemistry, wound healing and diabetes before going on to earn an M.D. from the University of Vermont College Of Medicine.

Dr. Ede then completed her residency in general adult psychiatry at Harvard's Cambridge Hospital in 2002 and was a staff psychopharmacologist at Harvard University Health Services from 2007 to 2013. In 2013 she left Harvard to become the psychiatrist for Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, where she provided nutrition consultation as well as psychiatric services to Smith students.

'Our Descent into Madness: Modern Diets and the Global Mental Health Crisis'

Dr. Ede was the first and only psychiatrist at Harvard University Health Services to offer nutrition consultation as an alternative to medication management to students, faculty and staff. (33 minutes)

Low Carb Downunder - April, 2018

The Real Game Changer

Georgia Ede challenges seven half-truths promoted in the popular film The Game Changers and reveals what the real dietary game changer is. (26 minutes)

Published by: Cross Fit - April 2020

Diet Doctor Podcast #22 — Dr. Georgia Ede

It turns out that the brain and the body aren't that different when it comes to the risk of toxicity from too much glucose and carbohydrates. As a practicing psychiatrist, Dr. Georgia Ede has seen the benefits of reducing carbohydrate intake on the mental health of her patients. (49 minutes)

Published by: Diet Doctor: - June 2019

'EAT-Lancet's Plant-Based Planet: Food in the (Mis)Anthropocene'

Dr Ede's areas of expertise include ketogenic and pre-agricultural diets, food sensitivity syndromes, and college mental health. She explores food’s powerful effects on brain chemistry, hormonal balance and metabolism. (31 minutes)

Published by: Low Carb Downunder - June, 2019

Vegan Diet Blues

Public Comment: Veganism nearly killed me. I've been vegetarian nearly all my life, I had eaten meat occasionally, although I wasn't vegetarian for ethical reasons I just hate raw meat it makes me feel sick. I did blood tests last year for a new job and my triglycerides were slightly above at 190, and glucose/A1C was OK but somewhat on the high side. I then became vegan and did not eat any vegan junk food, just organic fruit and veg and lots of brown rice and brown pasta, sweet potatoes and normal potatoes. I should also say I do not drink alcohol or soft drinks but I did have an occasional bar of chocolate maybe once or twice a week, I used nutritional yeast and took some supplements. After a year I had my yearly check up and my triglycerides had more than doubled to 419 and my good cholesterol had dropped to 36. I was insulin resistant, with metabolic syndrome and with blood sugars A1C of 5.9 so pre-diabetic and about to be diabetic.

I started the keto diet and did it strictly for the last 3 months, max 20 total carbs a day without breaking once and at 2.5 months I just did blood tests as I was terrified that keto was too good to be true and didn't want it running too long unchecked and found that my triglycerides had dropped more than half to 123 which is the lowest they've been in over 15 years in just 2.5 months and my A1C sugar was 5.1 which is normal!! I'm no longer pre-diabetic and my triglycerides are perfect and just in 2.5 months.

I've continued and am now reaching the 3 month mark. My glucose is perfect too, absolutely normal. I'm loving eating dairy and meat (I bought an air fryer. Now I freeze the meat so i don't have to deal with raw meat. I just throw it directly from the bag into the air fryer and it comes out as food, hahaha, so there's that problem fixed too).

Healthy Vegan Diet?

Public Comment: 35 years ago I decided to be "healthy" and followed the diet advice of the day - that is, high fibre, high grain, little meat and NO fats. I went a step further and cut out meats as well. 18 months later, I was sick as a dog and had developed Fibromyalgia. I wish a had never heard of the vegetarian/vegan diet. Although I ate them all before, I developed allergies to all grains, all fermented foods, all "healthy foods" like soy is supposed to be. I basically destroyed my body.