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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.

Psychological effects of weight loss drugs underexplored
Cautions on GLP-1 drugs; careful, individualized prescribing; complex mind-body relationship.
Q&A: keto diet may improve symptoms of severe mental illness
Dr. Sethi's pilot study results: ketogenic diet reversed metabolic syndrome and improved psychiatric symptoms (31% improvement).
Mental Health's: Emerging Frontline Intervention: Metabolic Psychiatry
Metabolic psychiatry and ketogenic therapies for severe mental illness.
Can Drugs Like Ozempic Treat the Most Common Eating Disorder?
Cautions regarding GLP-1 drugs for binge-eating disorder; need to address underlying metabolic/psychiatric issues.
Patients say keto helps with their mental illness. Science is racing to understand why
Rise of ketogenic diet research for serious mental illness; Dr. Sethi's pioneering role in metabolic psychiatry.
Could the Keto Diet Help Ease Psychiatric Conditions?
Significant metabolic and psychiatric improvements on ketogenic diet (31% boost in CGI scores) as adjunct therapy.
Ketogenic Diet Shows Promise in Treating Serious Mental Illness in Stanford Medicine Study
First U.S. pilot study in decades on ketogenic diet for bipolar disorder/schizophrenia showed dual metabolic and psychiatric improvements.
High-Fat Keto Diet Helped 69% of Bipolar Patients in New Study.
Ketogenic diet improved symptoms for most participants with bipolar disorder or schizophrenia.
Rethinking Bipolar Treatment: Dietary Interventions
Dr. Sethi's pilot ketogenic diet trial showing psychiatric and metabolic improvements in bipolar disorder.