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Metabolic Psychiatry Labs and our founding team are defining how mental health is understood and treated through a metabolic lens. Led by Stanford physician-scientist Dr. Shebani Sethi, MPL’s clinical research and care model have shaped national conversations on serious mental illness, nutrition, and brain health.
How To Use Metabolic Psychiatry To Heal Your Anxiety & Depression
On this revealing episode of The Dr. Hyman Show, we explore how shifts in metabolism affect the brain and why this whole-body lens could transform how we prevent, understand, and treat mental health.

Diet as a Driver to Accelerate and Break From Insulin Resistance and Bipolar Depression
Diet's role in insulin resistance and bipolar depression (Summary unavailable).
America’s Food Supply Is Rigged-Here’s How to Opt Out
Ultra-processed foods (UPFs) as a metabolic and public health crisis linked to brain dysfunction.
Five things to know about keto therapy and serious mental illness
Dr. Sethi's pilot study on ketogenic therapy for bipolar disorder and schizophrenia; upcoming larger trial.
Fentanyl is their drug, candy is their vice. Users explain their desperate need for candy.
Poor diets worsen psychiatric symptoms; dietary improvements can enhance brain health in fentanyl users.
Stanford Medicine's top scientific advancements of 2024
Dr. Sethi's research on dietary interventions (ketogenic diet) treating severe mental illnesses.
Is America’s Trillion-Dollar Obesity Problem Here To Stay?
Holistic, lifestyle-based solutions like metabolic treatments (ketogenic therapy) for obesity and mental health.
Stanford Medicine expert shares five key insights on keto therapy and mental illness
Ketogenic therapy for psychiatric symptoms, weight, and metabolic disorders in serious mental illness.
Metabolic Psychiatry: A New Era in Bipolar Disorder Treatment
Ketogenic therapy for bipolar disorder; Dr. Sethi's pioneering clinical studies.
An Optimist’s Guide to a Chaotic World
Dr. Sethi's view on reducing ultraprocessed foods to improve U.S. life expectancy.