Ketogenic diets have neurotransmitter-balancing effects. Let's do a short thread on one of my fav NTs called GABA. 🧵
GABA makes you chill out. It relaxes your mind and reduces your sense of being overwhelmed. It reduces anxiety. It helps you digest your food and actually improves gut motility and, thus, gut health because it's used to keep your parasympathetic nervous system humming along.
It also helps reduce a little something called #neuroinflammation, which, if you have any kind of mood disorder, might very likely be an issue for you.
Low GABA doesn't just lead to mental health issues such as anxiety, depression, anger, panic, or addiction problems. It's also been implicated in headaches, digestive issues, insomnia, inflammation, and chronic pain.
Anyone who has a mood disorder or has been to a doc for chronic pain has been handed an Rx for gabapentin to try to increase GABA. But you know what? There are side effects with that, and it doesn't work that great.
Luckily, a #ketogenic diet upregulates your GABA production. And this is one of the brain-healing effects of this important intervention for brain health. Tell your friends! They deserve to know all the ways they can feel better! #realtalk
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