The Dr. Hyman Show · 2025-07-30 · 87 min · 18,018 words

Is Bipolar Disorder Really a Diet Problem w/ Dr. Iain Campbell

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Coming up on this episode of the Dr. Hyman Show. I live with bipolar disorder type 2, so I started to have for the first time suicidalidation. The treatments can be helpful in mitigating some of the symptoms, but they're rarely 100% effective, and they're often barely effective, and they're definitely don't ever cause a cure. Dr.

E. Ain Campbell is a neuroscientist and researcher exploring the radical idea that bipolar disorder might begin not in the brain, but in the body. I didn't realize it was a kind of form of ketogenic diet. Essentially, that's what it is.

I felt like I'm thinking clearly about my life for the first time. I'm not depressed, I'm not manic. If your brain can change like that and it changes who you are as a person, what does this mean about who we are? Are we just a bunch of chemicals that if they're disrupted you become a different person? What's really interesting is unifying a lot of these mental health issues and chronic disease in general is

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