Resources
Can a Ketogenic Diet Treat Mental Illness? Exploring the Research
The idea that changing your diet could have a profound impact on your mental health is gaining powerful momentum. While we've long know...
How Nutrition Impacts Mood: Metabolic Health’s Role
We've all experienced how a good meal can make us feel happy and a long period without food can make us irritable. But the connection b...
Root Cause Psychiatry: Moving Beyond Symptom Management
If you live with a mental health condition, you might feel like you're stuck on a treadmill. You visit your doctor, describe your sympt...
Holistic Psychiatry vs Traditional Psychiatry
Mental health care is often compartmentalized. You talk about your thoughts and feelings with a therapist, and you might discuss medica...
Psychiatry and Metabolic Health: Why Blood Sugar and Brain Chemistry Are Connected
You’ve likely heard that what you eat affects how you feel, but this connection goes far deeper than a temporary "sugar rush." The link...
The Science Behind Metabolic Psychiatry: How Mitochondria, Inflammation, and Insulin Resistance Affect the Brain
For decades, we’ve viewed mental health through a narrow lens, focusing almost exclusively on brain chemistry and life experiences. Whi...
What Is Metabolic Mental Health? Understanding the Body-Mind Connection
For years, we've been taught to see mental health and physical health as two separate domains. If you felt depressed, you saw a psychia...
Why Psychiatry Needs to Address Metabolic Health
For decades, psychiatry has largely operated on the principle that mental illness is a disorder of the mind, separate from the body. Tr...
Labs to Ask For: A Psychiatrist’s Metabolic Checklist
If you've ever felt that your mental health struggles might be tied to something physical, you're not just imagining it. The connection...
Blood Sugar and Anxiety: A Psychiatrist’s Guide
That feeling of dread, the racing heart, the inner shakiness—anxiety can feel overwhelming and unpredictable. You might track your trig...