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The field of psychiatry is experiencing a rapid evolution for the first time in decades. Clinicians and patients are investigating the role of metabolism in mental health and exploring ketogenic and other metabolic therapies as credible, non-pharmacologic adjunctive or first-line treatment options.
We’ve assembled resources to help clinicians understand how improving metabolic function can target the root cause of mental disorders. Psychotropic medication side effects, like insulin resistance and weight gain, can also be addressed using metabolic therapies.
Baszucki Group is building a community of practice to connect clinicians working at the intersection of metabolic health and psychiatry. A community of practice connects individuals with shared interests to collaborate, exchange knowledge, and drive innovation through ongoing learning and relationship building. If you’re interested in participating, we invite you to sign up and to complete a brief survey to help shape our efforts. We’ll keep you informed as we work toward launching in the coming months.
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Access our free CME courses on key topics at the intersection of metabolic and mental health. Gain free CME credits while deepening your understanding of the science and practice of metabolic psychiatry. Each CME-accredited course is designed to support clinicians in understanding and applying metabolic approaches, including ketogenic therapy, in mental health and beyond.
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Psychiatrists need to start thinking like whole-person doctors, because the brain is part of the body.
Dr. Georgia Ede
Harvard-trained psychiatrist and author of Change Your Diet, Change Your Mind
Decades of scientific evidence suggest that serious mental illness is rooted in metabolic dysfunction affecting the brain. Metabolic psychiatry is an emerging field that examines mental health through the lens of brain energy, mitochondrial function, and cellular health. Rooted in over a century of research on ketogenic therapy for epilepsy, this emerging field explores how metabolic interventions might offer new pathways to healing.
Learn MoreA cohesive cross-diagnostic mechanistic framework.
In this paper, Dr. Chris Palmer and colleagues explore the potential of ketogenic therapy across a range of mental health and neurological conditions. Drawing on both mechanistic insights and clinical data, the authors outline how metabolic dysfunction—expressed as mitochondrial impairment, oxidative stress, inflammation, and glucose hypometabolism—may contribute to psychiatric symptoms. Dr. Palmer has opened a brick-and-mortar clinic, MH2, in the Boston area offering a metabolic approach to mental health.
In this twenty-five-minute video, our Medical Director, Dr. Bret Scher, and Baszucki Group Director of Neuroscience, Dr. Julie Milder, discuss the current state of metabolic psychiatry, the balance between scientific rigor and the immediate need for care, and how clinicians can engage with the latest research.
Ketogenic therapy is the most powerful intervention I’ve seen in my career because everyone who has done it has had benefits. I can’t say that about any medication.
Dr. Matthew Bernstein
Harvard-trained psychiatrist, Chief Medical Officer, Ellenhorn & Founder, Accord
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If you’re considering incorporating ketogenic or other metabolic strategies into your clinical practice, it can be helpful to review how others are implementing these approaches. We’ve compiled a list of specialty clinics, providers, peer communities, and related resources that may serve as useful examples as you explore this work.
Established and emerging evidence demonstrate that ketogenic diets are safe and sustainable. Explore new research, reviews, and myth-busting videos from expert scientists and clinicians.
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When a data-driven engineer reverses his pre-diabetes, his health journey takes an unexpected turn after a routine blood test flags high cholesterol. Caught between feeling his best and standard clinical guidelines for heart disease, he crowdfunds a study to look closer at the data. We invite you to review the evidence with us—is the traditional view of cholesterol the whole story, or is it time to refine how we evaluate cardiovascular risk?
You do not actually know what your brain is capable of if you do not treat underlying factors, including metabolic disorder. There is a treatment option here that could be life-changing for you.
Nicole Laurent, LMHC
