No. “The only tissues in the body absolutely dependent on glucose are your red blood cells. They feed anaerobically so they can preserve their precious cargo which is oxygen. Everything else in the human body, however, [including the brain] can function just beautifully and consistently on ketones [a byproduct of the metabolism of fat].”
Do low-carb diets / Paleo-style diets cause depression? No.
Read more about both of these notions here, in a post by nutritional therapist and author Nora Gedgaudas. She’s another author we like for her whole-foods, grain-free approach to nutrition. It’s pretty compatible with the Paleo Diet or the Primal Blueprint diet, except for a few things, such as her opinion that we should not eat too much protein (and she talks in her book about what that means).
If you’d like to read her book, buy it on Amazon via our Amazon page and we will get a little kickback. I have linked there to several books we like, and I have more in mind to add soon.
