Resources
We believe that understanding is the first step toward change. This page brings together articles, videos, research papers, and other trusted materials to help you learn more about metabolic psychiatry and the role of ketogenic therapies in mental health treatment. Whether you’re a clinician, a client, or simply curious, these resources are here to deepen your knowledge and spark new possibilities for care.
Metabolic Mind
A nonprofit transforming the study and treatment of mental disorders by exploring the connection between metabolism and brain health.
Brain Energy
Drawing on decades of research, Harvard psychiatrist Dr. Chris Palmer outlines a revolutionary new understanding that for the first time unites our existing knowledge about mental illness within a single framework: Mental disorders are metabolic disorders of the brain.
Diagnosis Diet
Nutrition science meets common sense.
Mental Health Keto
Assist with the emotional and behavioral changes involved in the healing process and work with individuals wishing to use ketogenic diets in conjunction with lifestyle changes to improve symptoms.
Ketogenic Therapies
Coaching medical professionals, patients and families through safe and effective use of nutritional ketosis for neurological and psychiatric disorders, certain cancers and other metabolic based conditions that require careful formulation and laboratory surveillance.
AKT
Advanced Ketogenic Therapies is a team of expert registered dietitians trained in ketogenic metabolic therapy.
Mass General Brigham
Uma Naidoo, MD: The Food-Mind Connection
Stanford Medicine
We aim to inform the public about the connection between nutrition, metabolism, and mental health. Psychiatric illnesses include major depression, generalized anxiety, bipolar illness, schizophrenia, and more.
LWWS
A platform dedicated to transforming the conversation around mental health. Originally created to raise awareness about schizophrenia and psychosis spectrum disorders, the channel has evolved following Lauren’s groundbreaking recovery journey.
Keto and mental illness
Patients say keto helps with their mental illness. Science is racing to understand why.
Keto & bipolar disorder
Three years after starting a keto diet with the help of Dr. Chris Palmer, Matt Baszucki needs fewer medications to manage his bipolar disorder.
Healing bipolar disorder with diet
Jan Ellison Baszucki: Doctors said my son’s bipolar disorder couldn’t be healed by diet. They were wrong.