How a Ketogenic Diet Can Improve Mental Health with Nicole Laurent
Jun 14, 2022Today we are focusing on nutritional and functional psychiatry practices. Did you know you can often prevent and treat mild cognitive impairment and early dementia through diet and nutrition? My guest, Nicole Laurent, applies functional nutrition and specifically therapeutic carbohydrate restriction as a mental health intervention to help improve brain health.
Nicole explains how ketogenic diets work and reassures us that we won't die without dietary carbohydrates. We dive deep into some of the ways ketogenic diets help treat mental illness and neurological disorders. You’ll learn why a ketogenic diet is potentially superior to medication therapy and what kinds of conditions improve on ketogenic diets.
Dietary changes have the power to improve neurotransmitter imbalances, brain energy, and function and even help your brain heal and make new connections. Brain fog be gone! These types of dietary changes have also been seen to improve symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease, depression, PTSD, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and anxiety disorders.
If you, or someone you love, suffers from mental and brain health issues, get in touch with Nicole. She offers free 15-minute consultations if you want to learn more.
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About Nicole Laurent
Nicole Laurent has been a licensed mental health counselor in Washington state for over 15 years. Her current practice focuses on helping clients with anxiety, depression, and other mental health issues transition to a ketogenic diet or other nutritional therapies to treat their symptoms and complement their psychotherapy work.
She holds specialized training allowing her to work with underlying biological factors in mental illness and the implementation of ketogenic diets for psychiatric and neurological disorders.
In 2021, she created MentalHealthKeto.com, a blog devoted to educating people about ketogenic diets for mental health and neurological issues. You can find her all over social media, spreading the good news about keto as a transformative option to achieve a healthy brain.
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About Kendall Hagensen
Kendall is a Somatic Mental Health Therapist, Multidisciplinary Clinic Owner and Business Coach. She specializes in, and is passionate about, working with healthcare professionals to create the businesses of their dreams. Big goals always have a psychological component beneath the surface, so Kendall uses her background in Somatic Psychotherapy and EMDR Therapy mixed with Business Coaching tools to help clients develop a healthy relationship with their business and their strength as a leader. As someone who lives with a chronic illness herself, Kendall feels that health happens best within community, which is why she takes a holistic, integrative, and collaborative wellness approach to her personal and professional life.
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