Nicole Laurent, USA- Ketogenic Diet & Mental Health MHC-2

Guest Speaker Nicole Laurent at MHC - II

The session started by discussing about Mental Healt conditions as Nicole area of therapies is more related with mental health with terms like Bipolar, schizophrenia, depression as these are now most commonly observed in average person spanning all ages. She added on saying that explaining Bipolar or Schizo can be beyond the scope of the session to elaboratively define and describe with causes, but she explains these in brief for the audience of the conference. She went on to describe various type of Bipolar that are witness in people with mental disorders and termed as serious mental illness. There are various range of diagnosis for people suffering from such mental illness. She went on to talk about the current practices used in treatments also if the patient do ever recover completely, as asked by host Ira. She did say there were treatment of Bipolar and schizophrenia with medication and these are regardless of the various side effect of such medication practiced. Such side effects results in low quality of life. Sustained usage of these medicine can result in affecting the metabolic health in patient, on such drugs. She talked about the medication for bipolar that is insufficient and is documented in literature. She had Indepth discussion on diets for curing Bipolar, schizophrenia and thus based on her personal experience, also of other practioners where therapies of Bipolar, schizophrenia was with diet modulation, mainly prescribing KETOGENIC diets among patients suffering from& Bipolar and schizophrenia and other mental illness.

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About Nicole Laurent,

Nicole is Washington State Approved Clinical Supervisor providing supervision and professional consultation. She is a seasoned psychotherapist with an understanding of mental health and neurological disorders who uses counseling to help people like you make lifestyle and nutrition changes to treat their conditions.she teaches NBCC-accredited continuing education to psychotherapists seeking to gain clinical competence in both knowledge and support of patients using the ketogenic diet and other metabolic psychiatry treatments.A Licensed mental health counselors in USA. She advocates Metabolic activities as a psychiatrist for mental health. She has over 15 years of clinical experience as a mental health counsellor she specializes in using ketogenic diets to cure mental illness of her patients. She has been awarded with Metabolic Mind Award in 2022 and contributes globally serving on clinically advisory boards.As a Licensed Mental Health Counselor she helps people use ketogenic dietary therapy as a treatment for mental illness and neurological issues. she uses variety of nutritional and functional methods of treatment as her work and provides evidence-based psychotherapy modalities in adult client populations.