The Metabolic Link The Emerging Field of Metabolic Psychiatry | Dr. Shebani Sethi | Metabolic Link Ep. 24
In this week’s episode of The Metabolic Link, double board certified psychiatrist and obesity medicine physician, Dr. Shebani Sethi, takes us on a deep dive into the emerging field of metabolic psychiatry.
Dr. Shebani Sethi is a psychiatrist and obesity medicine physician at Stanford University School of Medicine. She is the founding director of the Stanford Metabolic Psychiatry Clinic, where she researches dietary and pharmacological interventions to improve metabolic health and mental illness. Her background and expertise in integrating low carbohydrate nutrition with psychiatric care has created the foundation for Dr. Sethi to effectively treat patients based on the link between metabolism and brain function.
In this episode filmed in May 2022, we cover:
- How Dr. Sethi implements metabolic therapy like ketogenic diets to improve psychiatric symptoms in patients
- Details on her clinical research, including a pilot study on ketogenic diets for schizophrenia and bipolar disorder
- Using ketosis for 15+ years to treat conditions like depression
- Hopes for metabolic psychiatry concepts to spread and integrated care to become more accessible
- Future studies examining fMRI brain imaging on ketogenic diets
If you’re interested in learning more about the body-brain connection and how metabolic dysfunction relates to mental illness, you won’t want to miss this episode!
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