Sincere thanks and gratitude to Bret Scher, MD and Metabolic Mind for this opportunity to bring to light some little known perspectives from the bipolar community. With an attempted suicide rate of 30%-60% in our condition, I'm so grateful that hugely influential people like Bret

I think a lot about the stigma associated with mental health conditions. If more people realised that mental health is intimately connected with metabolic health, where would that stigma go? It should be gone! 👋

Important interview with Ally Houston (Paleo Canteen) & Dr Rachel Brown on the topics of metabolic psychiatry, sugar addiction, the mechanistic & emotional aspects behind a poor diet, & much more! lifesbestmedicine.com/podcast/episod…

British doctor pioneers low-carb diet as cure for obesity and type 2 diabetes | Obesity | The Guardian HURRAH that’ll be me and ⁦David Oliver, Freshwell⁩ Simon Tobin⁩ Our latest paper is featured too 😊nutrition.bmj.com/content/early/… theguardian.com/society/2023/a…

Is this why so many people find it easy to overeat #carbs? "Participants are able to estimate energy density from fat, but not carbohydrate." I.e., our brain can "sense" the calories we eat from fat, but the "sensor" fails when it comes to carbs. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Interesting study showing that the ketogenic diet can be protective for mitochondria in the context of stroke. The other take-home is that part of the benefit may come from the gut-brain axis. So many things come back to the gut!

~Case Study: Ketogenic Diet for Bipolar Disorder~ Michael Saraga, MD, PHD published in the journal Bipolar Disorders. "We contribute to this limited literature with the personal case of the second author, who suffers from type 1 bipolar disorder. She spontaneously initiated KD

Ally Houston is a former physicist who fixed his brain with food. Dr Rachel Brown is a Consultant Psychiatrist and certified functional medicine practitioner. fabulouslyketo.com/podcast/139

Thank you to all 400 attendees, speakers and online participants, the PHCuk.org health confrence was truly groundbreaking. The outcome to “how to SAVE the NHS” was clear, “TO AVOID MOST DISEASES , EAT REAL FOOD”

Doctors said my son’s bipolar disorder couldn’t be healed by diet. They were wrong sfchronicle.com/opinion/articl… via San Francisco Chronicle

Psychiatrist Dr Rachel Brown and I are running our 🧠 Metabolic mental health small group coaching cohort ✨️ 8 weeks every Monday at 7pm UK time starting on Monday June the 5th. Limited places, please share! 👉 metpsy.com/coaching/ for details

Georgia Ede MD, a leader in #MetabolicPsychiatry: What you see when ketogenic diets works for serious mental illness is: REMISSION Let that sink in. People who have been ill for decades saying not just that symptoms are under better control, but that they feel better than they

Post-SSRI Sexual Dysfunction is commonly misunderstood, even by people who experience it. The following infograph should help explain #PSSD to those who are not familiar with it.

It was a privilege to present our ketogenic diet for bipolar disorder pilot findings at Daniel Smith’s symposium at the ISBD conference alongside Shebani Sethi, MD and Georgia Ede MD’s amazing work. This was a wonderful opportunity to present our work to the world’s top bipolar

Antidepressants can lead to physical changes in the genitals. Dr. Ahad Waraich, through the use of ultrasounds, has detected penile scarring (fibrosis) in young men experiencing #PSSD. The penile tissue of young PSSD patients usually resembles that of an 80-year-old person.

Looking forward to chairing a very important panel today at the #PHC2024. 'Can you fix mental health through food?' - Yes - and we are doing it! Iain Campbell, Ph.D. Dr Rachel Brown Bennett Integrative Ketogenic Research & Therapies (IKRT) #metabolicpsychiatry Public Health Collaboration

Final slides of Prof Dr Joanna Moncrieff presentation “Antidepressants are not antidepressants and they don’t work anyway” at #RCPsychIC 2024

Brilliant victory for Dr Zoe Harcombe, PhD and Dr Malcolm Kendrick. Well done.

🚨BREAKING: Our new study just published—could a ketogenic diet help people with bipolar disorder?🚨 🧵