Sold separately from the guidebook.
Metabolic psychiatry has had a great deal of attention, much of it from people with something to sell. The underlying idea — that some mental illness may involve how brain cells produce and use energy — is being taken seriously by serious researchers.
The course is being built to let you judge the evidence yourself: who was studied, how many, for how long, and against what comparison.
Knowing what is actually known makes the conversation with your doctor a better one.
A practical question, the evidence set out honestly, and what to do with it.
Illustrative draft content created for this preview. These are not pages or lessons from a finished product, and they are general education rather than advice about your own health or treatment.
It is the first question to ask of any headline about diet and mental health, and it is the one that most reporting skips. A result in bipolar disorder is not a result in depression, however similar the two sound in a summary.
What to do with it: take the actual papers to your clinician rather than the headline, and ask what they make of them.
Each proposed stage answers a practical question. The final curriculum, running time and access arrangements will be confirmed before enrolment opens. The course has not been clinically reviewed.
Understand the idea itself — that some mental illness may involve how brain cells produce and use energy, and why ketones have become interesting to researchers. Presented as a hypothesis under investigation, which is what it is.
Work through the actual studies: who was in them, what was measured, how big the differences were, and which conditions they were studying. Learning to spot when a bipolar finding is being passed off as a depression finding.
See plainly what is on the plate and what is not: meat, fish, eggs and animal fats, with very little or no carbohydrate, and in the strictest version no plant foods at all.
Cover the nutrient shortfalls and the cholesterol question, the medicines that need attention when carbohydrate drops, and the people for whom this is a bad idea.
Prepare for a real conversation: what to ask, what to monitor, and how to raise an emerging research area with a clinician without it going badly.
There is no claim here that this way of eating will change how you feel, because the evidence does not support one. What there is: an accurate account of the studies, a plain description of the food, and the risks set out rather than skipped.
DepressionDiet.co.uk is an independent UK website publishing general education about food, metabolic psychiatry and mental health. It is not a clinic, it does not offer consultations, it carries no advertising or affiliate links, and it has no commercial relationship with any food, supplement or treatment company.
The material is written from named, cited research and from published guidance including the NHS and NICE. It has not been independently clinically reviewed, and that is stated plainly rather than implied otherwise. There are no testimonials anywhere on this site, invented or real.
General health education. No diagnosis, no personal coaching, no treatment and no promised outcome.
A good fit if you would rather learn to read the evidence than be told what it says.
Proposed contents. The final format, lessons and access will be confirmed before launch. This is general education, not medical treatment, and it is not a substitute for seeing your GP. Do not change prescribed medication on the strength of it.
£47
Planned price. The £27 guidebook is a separate product, bought separately, and is not included.
Coming soon
In development. No confirmed launch date and no checkout. No payments are being taken and there is nothing to sign up to.
Revisit the sample lessonAvailability, suitability, and the limits of what something like this can do.
No. The course is in preparation and there is no confirmed launch date. No orders, enrolments or payments are being taken, and there is no checkout on this site.
No. They are two separate products: the guidebook is £27 and the course is £47, and each is bought on its own. Neither is on sale yet.
The lesson list and total running time are still being developed. Those details, along with the platform and access arrangements, will be published before enrolment opens.
No. It is general education about an emerging research area and about food. It does not diagnose, does not treat, and does not replace care from your GP or specialist. It should sit alongside medical advice rather than instead of it.
No personal coaching, individual dietary advice or prescribed plan is part of this. Personalised advice needs a clinician or a registered dietitian who knows your history — particularly for a way of eating this restrictive.
Please speak to your care team first. A course describing a diet that removes entire food groups is a poor fit for anybody with that history, and this is said plainly rather than left for you to work out. Beat offers free, confidential support in the UK.
Delivery, access and purchase terms, including any refund policy, will be confirmed before payments open. No lifetime-access claim or money-back guarantee is being made now.
