Do you believe that eating sugar and snacks will make you happy and improve your mood?
A study found that eating more meat and good fat and eating less sugar can improve your mood. Although the principle behind it is complicated, it is very convincing.
There are more and more people with depression, and you may be the next one.
The social development is getting faster and faster, the living standard is getting higher and higher, and it is becoming more and more convenient, but there seem to be fewer and fewer happy people.
More than 250 million people worldwide suffer from depression. In the past 30 years, the number of people suffering from depression has soared 10 times.
In China, nearly 300,000 people die of suicide every year, of which more than 60% suffer from mental disorders of different degrees and 40% suffer from depression.
More and more experts have found that depression is not only a brain chemical imbalance disease, but also a multi-system disease involving multiple systems (nervous system, immune system, metabolism, etc.). ).
Today, I want to share with you a new study, which was published in the foreign journal Neuroscience Review.
Ketogenic Diet: Feeling Better?
Ketogenic diet is a popular diet in recent years, which is a low-carbon and high-fat diet, mainly eating less rice flour sugar and more meat, good fat and vegetables.
In 192 1, Dr. Russell Wilder of Mayo Clinic found that ketone bodies are produced during fasting.
He also found that besides fasting, a diet high in fat and low in water can also make the liver synthesize ketone bodies.
So he named this diet "ketogenic diet".
Studies have found that ketone bodies can reduce the levels of neurotransmitters (such as dopamine, serotonin and glutamic acid) that excite the brain, making people less excited.
In addition, a human study showed that the excitatory neurotransmitter in ketogenic diet decreased, but the GABA level increased. GABA is an inhibitory neurotransmitter, which helps to relieve stress and anxiety.
Therefore, the mechanism of ketogenic diet may be to balance neurotransmitters, relax the brain and make the neural network work normally.
Ketogenic diet mainly obtains energy by decomposing fat, and ketone bodies, the products of fat metabolism, can affect mitochondria to produce energy.
Ketone can increase the level of glutathione (an important antioxidant) and reduce the level of free radicals. In this way, cells are promoted, the overall health of mitochondria is improved, and the symptoms caused by chronic oxidative stress will be alleviated.
We know that eating habits will affect the intestinal flora, but scientists have found that the intestinal flora of patients with long-term depression is different from that of ordinary people.
If you have emotional problems, you can try a low-carbon ketogenic diet.
Of course, not everyone is suitable for low-carbon ketogenesis. Some people are not as happy as before after reflecting low carbon.
Because the brain stimulates dopamine for a long time and suddenly eats less sugar, the dopamine stimulation decreases, which may have a short-term impact, but in the long run, it has a good effect on stabilizing emotions.