Episode #60 : Dr. Bret Scher: The Role of Metabolism in Psychiatric Health

This episode of the Thinking Health Podcast features Dr. Bret Scher, a board-certified cardiologist, lipidologist, and leading expert in therapeutic uses of metabolic therapies, including a ketogenic diet. He has practiced for over 20 years as a preventive cardiologist and was the medical director for dietdoctor.com for over three years.

Now Dr. Scher is the Director of Metabolic Mind, a non-profit initiative providing education and resources in the emerging field of metabolic psychiatry. Metabolic mind’s goal is to help revolutionize treatment of mental disorders through the adoption of metabolic therapies. Metabolic Mind explores science and lived experience to highlight the connection between metabolic and mental health.

In this episode, Dr. Scher discusses his journey from becoming a board certified cardiologist focusing on cardiovascular health to now being the director of a mental health initiative. Along the way, I get to pick Dr. Scher’s brain on the role metabolic health plays in various psychiatric disorders and how nutrition interventions like the keto diet are providing benefit to individuals suffering from these psychiatric conditions.

It is important to point out that much of the research that we discuss in this podcast is still in its infancy and there is a lot to learn but the truth is that many people are already using the strategies discussed in this episode to improve their own quality of life which is why it is so important that an initiative like Metabolic Mind exists to push this research forward!