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Explore the evolving field of metabolic psychiatry through
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Topics By Diagnosis

On our diagnosis topic pages, we’ve consolidated science, strategies, and stories relevant to specific psychiatric conditions. Watch for more diagnoses to come as evidence accumulates.

Bipolar

Explore how metabolic psychiatry is reshaping the approach to bipolar disorder. This hub offers clinical insights, ongoing research, and personal stories highlighting the potential of ketogenic therapy to improve outcomes for individuals living with bipolar disorder.

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Schizophrenia

Discover the connection between brain metabolism and schizophrenia. This page explores how ketogenic metabolic therapy may address core biopathologies, offering a promising adjunctive approach that has shown potential to support symptom reduction and, in some cases, sustained remission.

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Depression

Examine depression through a metabolic lens. This page introduces research suggesting that disruptions in the brain’s ability to use energy may contribute to depressive symptoms, and explores how targeted lifestyle and metabolic strategies, including ketogenic therapy, are being studied as potential additions to conventional care.

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Special Topics

On our special topics pages, we’ve gathered resources for key considerations in metabolic psychiatry. Watch this space as we respond to your important questions with new resources.

Keto & Psych Meds

Download our special guide from Dr. Georgia Ede, exploring how ketogenic and metabolic therapies can be used alongside conventional psychopharmacology. Explore how keto can help mitigate medication side effects, support safe tapering, and even allow some to come off medications over time. Our content emphasizes safety, collaboration, and individualized care.

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Is Keto Safe?

Get clarity on the safety and sustainability of ketogenic diets. This section features expert reviews, research summaries, and myth-busting content to help you make informed decisions about ketogenic therapy for mental health.

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Youth Mental Health

Understand the metabolic factors that influence mental health in young people. This section explores how brain development, nutrition, and metabolic therapies may support emotional and cognitive resilience during critical growth years. You’ll also find practical resources and personal stories from families and clinicians navigating this path.

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Curated Picks

Go deeper and explore a hand-picked selection of books, websites, apps, and video and podcast channels at the intersection of metabolic and mental health.

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In the News

Stay informed on the latest developments in metabolic and mental health. Our news
page includes funded and enrolling trials, clinical insights, news coverage and
recently published scientific papers.

The New York Times: Can the Keto Diet Really Improve Mental Health?
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The New York Times: Can the Keto Diet Really Improve Mental Health?

Alice Callahan and Christina Caron

Maya Schumer, 32, a neuroscientist in Belmont, Mass., was living with bipolar disorder for more than a decade. She had tried nearly every treatment — therapy, antipsychotics, mood stabilizers, anticonvulsants — to help control her symptoms. But her panic attacks, mania, depression and brain fog still lingered.

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New Scientist: Why the keto diet could be a revolutionary way to treat mental illness
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New Scientist: Why the keto diet could be a revolutionary way to treat mental illness

Caroline Williams

In February, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the US secretary of health, made a characteristically bold claim. A doctor at Harvard University, he proclaimed, “has cured schizophrenia using keto diets”. If you happened to be passing Harvard University that day, you might have heard the sound of that doctor’s palm hitting his forehead. “For the record, I have never ever once used the word ‘cure’ in any of my work,” says Christopher Palmer, a psychiatrist at Harvard Medical School. “Nonetheless, I have used the word ‘remission’…”

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Metabolic Psychiatry: A New Era in Bipolar Disorder Treatment?
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Metabolic Psychiatry: A New Era in Bipolar Disorder Treatment?

Michelle Pugle

Years of research link brain health to metabolism. Researchers are now exploring treatments like ketogenic metabolic therapy, which shows early promise for bipolar disorder.

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Metabolic Mind Episodes

A collection of interviews, audience Q&As, and practical insights exploring the evolving scientific understanding of how metabolism shapes our physical and mental health.

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Why Mental Health Care Is Failing & What We Can Do About It with Dr. Chris Palmer

Bret Scher, MD & Chris Palmer, MD

Mental health care is at a critical crossroads. Millions of people are searching for effective treatments, yet conventional options often fall short, leaving many without significant or lasting relief. Compounding this issue is the lack of funding directed toward exploring novel, root-cause therapies. The urgency for change is clear.

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Q&A: Harvard Trained Psychiatrist Answers Your Mental Health and Diet Questions. Ep. 1

Bret Scher, MD & Georgia Ede, MD

What’s the difference between a low-carb diet and a ketogenic diet, especially when it comes to mental health? In this premiere Mailbag episode, Dr. Bret Scher (Medical Director at Metabolic Mind) and Harvard trained psychiatrist Dr. Georgia Ede answer some of the most common questions they receive about ketogenic diets specifically for mental illness.

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Does the Brain Need Carbs?

Bret Scher, MD

The emerging field of metabolic psychiatry is demonstrating that many patients may be able to effectively treat serious psychiatric conditions, like bipolar disorder, major depression and schizophrenia, with ketogenic therapy. However, some individuals object to a medical keto diet claiming that the brain needs carbs. Ketogenic diets usually do, in fact, include some dietary carbs, but even if they didn’t, this is a false assertion.

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Blog

Perspectives on the science and practice of metabolic therapies for mental health.

What is Metabolic Psychiatry?

What is Metabolic Psychiatry?

The world is facing a growing mental health crisis. While standard treatment can be life-changing for some, for others of millions living with conditions like depression, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia, current treatments often fall short—offering limited relief, difficult side effects, or no meaningful improvement at all. In the search for more effective solutions, a growing number of researchers and clinicians are turning their attention to a different approach: the role of metabolism in mental health in a growing field called Metabolic Psychiatry.

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What is Ketogenic Therapy? A Comprehensive Guide

What is Ketogenic Therapy? A Comprehensive Guide

As rates of both mental illness and metabolic disease continue to climb, there’s an urgent need to rethink how we understand the brain-body connection. Rather than treating the brain in isolation, the emerging field of metabolic psychiatry is exploring how disrupted energy metabolism may lie at the root of many psychiatric conditions, and how targeted metabolic interventions might help.

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Can Ketogenic Therapy Help with Bipolar Disorder?

Can Ketogenic Therapy Help with Bipolar Disorder?

Bipolar disorder is a mental health condition marked by extreme shifts in mood, including highs (often referred to as mania), followed by depressive lows. While bipolar can exist on a spectrum, many people find the ups and downs to be significantly life-disrupting.

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