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Metabolic Psychiatry Labs and its founding team are helping define how metabolism and mental health are understood and treated. Led by Stanford physician-scientist Dr. Shebani Sethi, MPL’s clinical research and care model has shaped national conversations on serious mental illness, nutrition, and brain health.
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Feb. 10, 2025
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The Dr. Hyman Show
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.
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April 1, 2024
Stanford Medicine News Center
Pilot study shows ketogenic diet improves severe mental illness
Ketogenic diet reversed metabolic syndrome and improved psychiatric symptoms (31% improvement) in schizophrenia/bipolar disorder.
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Expert Commentary
January 2024
National Public Radio
Patients say keto helps with their mental illness. Science is racing to understand why.
Focus on rise of ketogenic diet research for mental illness (Summary unavailable in Audio section, available in Print).
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Feb. 15, 2025
Keto made simple - Doctor Westman
Doctors lied: Food can heal your brain! with Dr. Shebani Sethi
Low-carbohydrate and ketogenic interventions for metabolic dysfunction and psychiatric symptoms.
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April 2024
Medscape
Early Evidence Supports Ketogenic Diet for Mental Illness.
Ketogenic diet reduced psychiatric symptoms by 31% and reversed metabolic syndrome in bipolar/schizophrenia.
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Media Mention
Oct. 9, 2024
SwissRe
Metabolic Psychiatry – A new paradigm in the management of Mental Health disorder?
Cautions regarding GLP-1 drugs for binge-eating disorder; need to address underlying metabolic/psychiatric issues.
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