Jan Ellison Baszucki
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A landmark Stanford pilot study has shown that
#ketogenic
diet improves severe mental illness.
Stanford Medicine today announced the results of a clinical pilot trial of ketogenic diet for serious mental illness. The 4-month trial showed improvements in
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At 19, our son, Matt Baszucki, was hospitalized for mania and psychosis. A 5 year daily battle with severe bipolar disorder I followed. Full remission for 1.5 yrs on a ketogenic diet. This thread and video tell our story, and neuroscientists weigh in:
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So, say you're on a low-carb diet and your LDL cholesterol marker goes up in your annual blood work. Your doctor tells you to go off your low carb diet because it's not safe, it's raising your cholesterol, you're going to have a heart attack. So you start eating Oreos and your
So, this happened. Thanks
@SBakerMD
for the name-drop on
@joerogan
#2069
--
#OreovsStatin
clip👇
Spotify:
yt:
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I still pinch myself when our son drops by for dinner and TV on the odd Sunday night. Last night it was the new episode of Succession & the world chess tournament. You can't imagine what it's like to fear you've lost a child to mental illness then to have them recover so
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There were years when our son was so unwell with Bipolar I that we couldn't go on a family vacation. There were times he was so sedated from medications he would not leave his room. It's been a miracle to see him in true form again for more than 2 years.
#KetoForMentalHealth
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Dr. Mary Newport's husband showed signs of dementia at age 51. She found out about coconut and MCT oil as ketogenic therapies for Alzheimers. Within days of treatment starting:
- suicidal depression lifted
- tremors stopped
- hope returned
He was able to read again and get a
“It was like a light switch came on in his brain…he started talking about having hope for the future.”
Dr. Mary Newport discusses how
#KetogenicTherapy
w/
#MCTs
improved her husband’s
#Alzheimers
symptoms.
Watch the full video:
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Our son recovered from Bipolar I with help from a ketogenic metabolic intervention with 100 years of evidence in epilepsy. We funded these 5 trials in keto for mental health conditions.
@DavidBaszucki
#KetoForMentalHealth
#MetabolicPsychiatryCommunity
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Evidence is accumulating on the health benefits of ketogenic diet, including a profound reshaping of metabolism in as little as 3 weeks. I will post the actual study when it is final with more details. But the conclusion should whet appetites.
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"A new study involving the entire adult population of Denmark found a clear link between cannabis abuse and mental illness," writes Susan Pinker.
Our son has been saying for years that cannabis will be his generation's cigarettes--thought to be safe at any dose until it was
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Eight years ago, our son was hospitalized for mania with psychosis. Matt struggled with symptoms for 5 years & was given a diagnosis of treatment resistant
#bipolar
disorder. Now he's sharing his story on the
@TODAYshow
of how
@ChrisPalmerMD
&
#keto
helped him get his life back.
There is scientific evidence that the keto can help Type 2 diabetes and epilepsy. Now, some doctors suggest it can even be used as a tool to treat mental health.
@tvkatesnow
reports.
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Sometimes I wonder whether the effort of trying to build this movement is worth it. Then I get an email like this one titled "You saved my life" and I know it is. The credit actually goes to my son for taking on ketogenic therapy and sticking with it and for pioneers like
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The
@SFChronicle
has kindly published my essay about our family's journey in
#KetoForMentalHealth
.
"Prescription pharmaceuticals are commonplace and widely accepted by patients, physicians and insurers. A dietary prescription should also be on the table."
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My son recovered from "treatment resistant" bipolar I with a ketogenic diet. This is hope. This is the future.
I'm honored to help raise awareness regarding the potential of ketogenic diets for mental health. Keep your eye on the emerging field of "metabolic psychiatry" -- fascinating and life-changing work is being done by many of my colleagues.
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Is keto good for the brain?
Our son was diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder I at age 19
5 hospitalizations
41 clinicians
prescribed 29 meds
After 5 yrs, he started a keto diet & his bipolar went into remission
2 yrs later he has zero symptoms & is thriving
#KetoForMentalHealth
1/3 Ketogenic diets can have profound effects on your brain’s health and function. Hear from experts how
#keto
affects your brain - Keto’s not just for weight loss anymore!
#ketoformentalhealth
#metabolicmind
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I was like this mother--helpless and frustrated as I watched my son cycle in and out of psych wards and trial 29 different psych medications. Then we learned about nutritional ketosis as a treatment for psychosis. Our son has been symptom free for 2 years.
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I'm on a United flight with my son, who recovered from
#bipolar
using ketogenic therapy and is devoted to a keto/low-carb lifestyle. They were all out of the frittata breakfast and tried to serve him french toast, which he politely declined. We got a snack box instead and inside
🚨
#OreoVsStatin
- PUBLISHED!🚨
@Oreo
cookies were 💥2X as potent💥 at lowering my LDL cholesterol (LDL-C) compared to high-intensity statin therapy!
What you NEED to know...
👉This was a metabolic demonstration, a 'do not do this at home' experiment
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My son reports that along with a ketogenic diet, a helpful intervention for
#TreatingBipolar
is waking up at the same time every day (7:30am) and getting outside immediately for 30 minutes of sunlight. Anybody else doing something like this?
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My son has been in remission from a very serious case of
#bipolar
I for nearly 3 years. He credits his turn-around to adding ketogenic therapy (aka
#keto
diet) to the things he was already doing when he started keto: taking meds, meditating, exercising daily, staying substance
🎉 Breaking News from McLean Hospital & Harvard Medical School 🎉
🧠 Introducing the Metabolic and Mental Health Program 🧠
I am so thrilled and proud to announce the launch of the Metabolic and Mental Health Program at McLean Hospital, the flagship mental health hospital of
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@bigfatsurprise
The people who suffer as a result of this idealogically driven "science" are pregnant women who have been bullied into believing that vegan diets are better for the planet and can support the development of a human brain (and their children). They aren't, and they can't.
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This should come as no surprise.
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When our son sent his
#bipolar
symptoms into remission after 4 months on a ketogenic diet, there was not a single published clinical trial demonstrating this was possible.
Now there is.
Stanford's study, led by
#MetabolicPsychiatry
pioneer Dr. Shebani Sethi
@ShebaniMD
,
I’m proud to share the results of my pilot trial investigating the therapeutic effects of a
#ketogenicdiet
on bipolar and schizophrenia, published in
@PsychiatryResJ
.
📈 We found promising improvements in BOTH metabolic and psychiatric outcomes:
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It's makes a mom proud to watch her son go from "treatment resistant"
#bipolar
patient to mental health advocate. That speaker badge was hard-won.
Register to tune in online at 8am PST tomorrow, Friday, Jan 26 to hear
@BaszuckiMatt
@IainCampbellPhD
&
@ChrisPalmerMD
talk about
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Will everyone forgive me if I pause for a minute to just be happy at the results of a google search for "keto" news?
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Not to be petty, but maybe all the readers who posted nasty comments on my essay in the San Francisco Chronicle about keto sending my son's bipolar into remission will swallow their words.
N of 1 is still evidence. Now we have more.
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Is it my imagination or are we seeing a paper almost every single day demonstrating that ketosis is good for the brain?
"Together, these findings demonstrate the KETO diet improves hippocampal mitochondrial efficiency. They add to a growing body of evidence that suggests
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What does diet have to do with panic attacks?
When our son first went into remission from bipolar disorder after a radical change in diet, and therefore metabolism, we almost couldn't believe it.
But when you consider that food is the most important molecular information you
Gisele went on The View and told the world changing her diet cured her depression!🙌🙌
“She was told that she needed to change her diet, get eight hours of sleep, and exercise daily. Once she did that, she said she became a different person…And poof! There goes the depression.”
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Many of you know our son's story of full recovery from
#bipolar
with the help of a ketogenic diet / metabolic therapy we learned about from
@ChrisPalmerMD
,
@GeorgiaEdeMD
&
@ShebaniMD
. Help us spread the word to those struggling with
#MentalHealth
.
Matt Baszucki saw dozens of psychiatrists, attended multiple treatment centers & tried 29 meds for his
#Bipolar
I, but he was never "well." That all changed with
#KetogenicTherapy
; he's been in remission for 2.5 years.
Full interview with
@BaszuckiMatt
:
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I can attest to the truth of the message in this video:
@ChrisPalmerMD
helped our son recover from
#bipolar
with
#KetogenicTherapy
. Our son transformed before our eyes--not back to the person he had been before he got diagnosed at age 19--but into someone even more balanced and
Countless psychiatrists have approached Harvard psychiatrist
@ChrisPalmerMD
to share how the
#BrainEnergy
theory is helping their patients take back their lives as psychiatric symptoms resolve.
#MetabolicTherapy
#MentalIllness
Watch our full interview:
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Mitochondria are critical to brain repair. And what is critical to healthy mitochondria? Not eating all the time. And what is a good way to not eat all the time? In my own experience: Reduce refined carbohydrates that promote hunger. Increase fat and protein.
Powering Brain Repair: Mitochondria Key to Neurogenesis
A new study delves into the crucial phase of neuronal maturation, revealing the pivotal role of mitochondrial fusion in the dendrites of adult-born neurons.
This research uncovers that as neurons mature, enhanced
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Dear research funding bodies around the world: Please join us in funding clinical trials of
#KetogenicDiet
for brain-based disorders. We have enough pre-clinical evidence. Humans are in need. Reach out to Baszucki
Group / Metabolic Mind to learn more.
Interest in the ketogenic diet for neuropsychiatric disorders continues to grow among researchers.
This scoping review looks at some of the evidence that supports its use for brain health.
I applaud the call for large, long-term, controlled trials.
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We are so grateful to investigative journalist Will Stone
@WStoneReports
and
@NPR
for this ground-breaking piece of reporting on the promise of
#keto
to treat mental illness.
We were thrilled to see so many of our collaborators and friends interviewed with depth and accuracy in
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Biggest misconception about bipolar is that it is a mood disorder. It is a malfunction in brain energy metabolism that may be reversible. Mood issues are downstream of the root cause. At least that was true for our son and many others who are recovering with metabolic ketogenic
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Dear psychiatry: Why not test for insulin resistance at first sign of psychiatric illness? Dear payers: Serious mental illnesses cost you more than almost any other conditions. Please consider reimbursing readily available, inexpensive blood work looking at insulin resistance.
#Insulin
,
#glucose
, and
#thyroid
hormone may all play a role in the
#schizophrenia
,
#bipolar
disorder, and
#depression
.
This article suggests screening at the onset of illness.
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Okay people, watch this clip, watch it again, then share it with every single
#psychiatrist
or clinician you know who treats mental illness, & anyone who struggles--or knows someone who struggles--with a mental disorder. That's pretty much all of us.
#MetabolicPsychiatry
Ketogenic Therapy is "the most powerful intervention I've seen in my career because everyone who has done it has had benefits. I can’t say that about any medication."
- Harvard-trained psychiatrist Dr. Matthew Bernstein, Chief Medical Officer of
@EllenhornPACT
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Schizophrenia is a lifelong chronic genetic mental illness that will require heavy doses of meds forever, right?
Wrong.
If this video doesn't give you goose bumps and/or bring tears and/or give you hope for humanity, then I don't know what will.
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We hope our son
@BaszuckiMatt
's story of recovery from
#BipolarDisorder
with a
#KetoDiet
will help others. We are indebted to
@ShebaniMD
@IainCampbellPhD
@GeorgiaEdeMD
&
@ChrisPalmerMD
for driving this work forward. Learn more at .
Can the Keto diet help mental illness? US tech billionaire's Matt Baszucki found diet helped bipolar
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My husband
@DavidBaszucki
and I were in the audience together watching our son
@BaszuckiMatt
give this talk about his recovery from
#bipolar
disorder at the
#CoSci
conference in Las Vegas--hosted by the most awesome
@realDaveFeldman
.
It was the first time Dave and I were
Our first
#CitizenScience
Speaker drop of
#CoSci
is the powerful and very personal story of
@BaszuckiMatt
connecting the root cause of his
#bipolar
w/
#metabolism
.
This is easily one of the most requested talks of
#CoSci
, and you'll see why.
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Three years ago, we hired our first team member to help
@DavidBaszucki
and me form
@baszuckigroup
to work toward the greater good in mental health, democracy and regenerative agriculture. Today, I walked into our conference room for our monthly philanthropy all hands to find the
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During the 5 yrs my son battled
#bipolar
, he'd get manic after just 2 nights of short sleep.
This past weekend with us in Las Vegas at F1:
-clubbing 'til 3am Friday (him, not us)
-F1 race past midnight Saturday
He returned symptom-free & crashed for 8.5 hrs
#Keto4Bipolar
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On a low-carb or paleo diet, dramatic weight loss was achieved, but the brain benefits that allowed Suzy to say a 3-syllable word for the first time in her 40 yrs did not occur until carbs were dropped to 20g and
#NutritionalKetosis
was achieved.
#downsyndrome
#dementia
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It's exciting to be here at the first ever Metabolic Psychiatry conference with continuing education credits. People are suffering needlesslly. We need to train an army of clinicians in metabolic therapies for mental illness. This is the beginning!
#EllenhornMetPsy
Here we go!
@ChrisPalmerMD
kicking off the 1st ever conference dedicated to
#MetabolicPsychiatry
This field has grown so much and is only going to grow more!
#EllenhornMetPsy
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I just listened to
@CaseyMeansMD
, co-founder of
@Levels
, on
@hubermanlab
. Casey does nearly all the talking, so whether you're a fan of Huberman or not, this one is a must watch/listen.
I typically listen to podcasts on double speed, but I kept having to stop to slow this one
Transform Your Health by Improving Metabolism, Hormone & Blood Sugar Regulation
Can't wait to listen to this episode of
@hubermanlab
podcast with
@CaseyMeansMD
!
I already know it's going to be unbelievably good!!
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Incredible stories from families of improvement in ADHD symptoms, autism and Tourettes on keto. "“People say keto is so hard. But it is not. And I would fly to the moon to help my children, so why wouldn’t I try feeding Brandon a special diet?”
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See the word “science” in the title? This book os no joke. Can’t wait to dive in.
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If you take one thing away from this video, I hope it is that citizen scientist
@realDaveFeldman
is considering lipid metabolism as deeply as anyone on the planet (literally). Sometimes it takes someone outside the mainstream to see clearly what those inside are too close to see.
🚨High
#LDL
on
#Keto
– Simplified🚨
Here's a streamlined, 8 minute video that discusses why
#LMHRs
are likely so different from those w/ dysfunctions in lipid metabolism ie
#MetabolicSyndrome
.
Our
#LEM
posits: It's Successful vs Failing lipid delivery.
@SBakerMD
@nicknorwitz
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Less than two years ago, we convened 50 stakeholders interested in the new field of metabolic psychiatry for the first ever MetPsy roadmap retreat in San Diego.
My husband
@DavidBaszucki
and I talked about our family's story to open the meeting. This was
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After 4 months of
#TherapeuticNutritionalKetosis
, our son's bipolar symptoms were gone. Now it's been almost 2.5 years, and it really is like he doesn't have a mental illness any more. He's dropped his meds by half, and continues to carefully taper. He is thriving.
"It's like he doesn't have a mental illness at all, now".
Research underway into Keto therapy for mental ill health could change the face of mental health treatment.
Watch:
Listen:
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I'm super excited about this RCT of ketogenic therapy for bipolar. As these top neuroscience researchers point out, the field has often focused on mechanism at the expense of evaluating treatments that might actually help patients live better lives. This study provides the
Harvard's
@McLeanHospital
has launched a $2M clinical trial funded by
@BaszuckiGroup
to test ketogenic therapy for early phase bipolar and schizoaffective disorder.
Chief of McLean's Division of Psychotic Disorders Dr.
@dost_ongur
, and the lead investigator, Dr. Virginie-Anne
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Two questions:
If high LDL cholesterol leads to cardiovascular disease, then shouldn't high LDL resulting from a diet lead to scary plaque accumulation?
Is high LDL cholesterol resulting from a ketogenic diet dangerous in typically lean, metabolically healthy individuals?
🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨
BREAKING:
@BudoffMd
has now presented the matched analysis for:
KETO (
#LMHRstudy
) vs Control (
#MiHeart
)
-🙏Please RT🙏-
METHODS – 80 Participants of
#LMHRstudy
fell within
#MiHeart
age range and were then matched 1:1 for age, gender, race, diabetes mellitus,
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This is the first case series in the published literature of which I am aware demonstrating complete remission of depression and anxiety on a ketogenic diet. This is the future.
Our 'Complete remission of
#depression
and
#anxiety
using a
#ketogenic
diet' case series is published! 3 adults achieved complete remission of major depression and generalized anxiety using a
#keto
diet. Read the full report in Frontiers in Nutrition
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When our son was diagnosed with bipolar disorder, I began to understand that the diagnosis was simply a description of his symptoms. Now we know that what he actually had was a metabolic dysfunction. All symptoms have resolved on a ketogenic diet.
In
#psychiatry
, every diagnosis is a syndrome.
Listen in to learn what this means and why understanding the root cause of illness matters.
Learn more:
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Our son, Matt, was told he had a highly heritable treatment resistant mental illness, which he battled daily for 5 years.
It's been more than three years since he started
#ketogenic
therapy. He has tapered off 75% of his medications and has NO symptoms of the
#bipolar
disorder
Your DNA is not your destiny! Your diet & lifestyle turn genes on & off, helping determine which conditions you will develop.
Even in the case of serious mental illnesses, changing your
#diet
can significantly improve symptoms and even lead to complete recovery in some cases.
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Symptoms of obesity, Type 2 diabetes and Alzheimer's have been shown to be reversible with low carbohydrate and ketogenic nutritional interventions.
T2D patients can often get off insulin within weeks of beginning low carb therapies. Low carb nutrition works as well as GLP1s
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Here's my son Matt and me as Matt gives a brief toast to our
#MetabolicMind
awardees at our "Future of Keto Diet Trials for Serious Mental Illness" conference in Miami in March. Changing the world of mental health one ketone at a time.
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Dr. Martin Picard, one of my scientific heroes, describes how mitochondria take food and oxygen and transform them into energy for life. If you ever doubted that what you put in your mouth determines how your brain functions, this podcast might just change your mind. (Pun
Healthy
#Mitochondria
are critical for a healthy body and mind. Mitochondrial expert Dr. Martin Picard explains how mitochondria drive the energy transformation needed for life.
More from
@MitoPsychoBio
about mitochondria &
#MentalHealth
:
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Two weeks ago, my dad left this life. He died in the hospital surrounded by his family. He was a giant of a human being and the imprint he left is deep and wide. I will be forever grateful to have known him so well, and also that my kids got to know him during these last five
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Imagine if the head of every medical school read, absorbed and acted on the information in these two books...
But that's not going to happen so we have to arm ourselves.
Brain Energy is available now.
@GeorgiaEdeMD
's book is coming Jan 30th.
@ChrisPalmerMD
One more thought. If like me you’ve tried everything your providers suggested and nothing is really working. You may be losing hope. It’s highly likely you have not tried what’s often the most powerful mental illness treatment. Fixing your diet. That’s what fixed me.
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I was honored to share 's philanthropic aims w/
@BarackObama
. He was intrigued by the connection b/t metabolic & mental health. I gave him a copy of
@ChrisPalmerMD
's Brain Energy, cause what did I have to lose?
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@bigfatsurprise
Let's use the common sense method of science: When I eat 16 hours a day, my lowest heart rate is about 65. When I eat 8 hours a day, it rests at about 56. Hmm.....I wonder which is better for my heart.
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Big thanks to the many recommendations for keto powders and shake recipes. They're keeping my dad fueled & his spirits up during what we hope will be a brief hospital stay. Here's a flashback of us from healthier days--which we are determined will return.
#KetoForCancer
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We started
@Metabolic_Mind
because we needed a channel for sharing videos we'd made at the first ever Metabolic Psychiatry conference (in Santa Barbara in May 2022). With
@bschermd
's leadership, our youtube channel has now garnered 2M views in 20 months--and we're just getting
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It was a proud moment watching my son
@BaszuckiMatt
present his story of healing from
#biopolar
at the
@MetabolicSummit
in Tampa last week, right after
@IainCampbellPhD
presented his, and right before
@ChrisPalmerMD
, who helped Matt recover, talked about his impactful work.
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I am 100% convinced that without the dedication, passion and courage of these brilliant psychiatrists, our son would still be locked in a daily battle with bipolar illness. We are humbled and honored to be able to award $100,000 prizes to each of these incredible humans
Did you know psychiatrists are treating mental illness w/ nutritional ketosis? 7 Metabolic Mind awardees each received $100k for their innovative work. Hear from recipients
@ChrisPalmerMD
,
@GeorgiaEdeMD
, Dr. Albert Danan, &
@IgnacioCuaranta
in this vid. ⬇️
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I'm thrilled that Columbia University's Dr. Martin Picard
@MitoPsychoBio
is the inaugural recipient of
@BaszuckiGroup
's brand new $1.5 Million Baszucki Prize in Science.
Dr. Picard is in the vanguard of neuroscience.
Our son's journey from illness to
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In Our Time - Mitochondria - BBC Sounds. This might just be the most interesting podcast I have listened to in years. These creatures that live inside our cells are a key to life, health and disease.
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How did I miss the work of
@drmatthewphillips
?
Keto and fasting are strategies for altering the metabolic state and restoring healthy mitochondria. Watch this video for gods' sake. Share it with everyone you know. A new era of medicine begins.
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I can't overstate the extent to which I oppose the proposal in this recent op-ed in
@statnews
. This author appears never to have heard of metabolic psychiatry and is positioning the only alternative to pharmaceutical interventions for depression to be
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My son shares his story of recovering from a five-year battle with bipolar I, including 5 hospitalizations. He discusses the lifestyle program he put in place, with ketogenic diet at the center, that has helped him to live a full, vibrant life again.
@ChrisPalmerMD
is the man.
Bipolar disorder- a potentially devastating mental health condition affects up to 5% aged 18-29. Lifestyle therapies & a keto diet can be a powerful yet underused treatment modality. Matt Baszucki,
@IainCampbellPhD
&
@ChrisPalmerMD
want to change that.
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Today is
#WorldBipolarDay
and hope is on the way. New research is exploding, and next week, Stanford will be formally announcing the results of a clinical trial of keto for bipolar, the first of its kind in the U.S.
But as the evidence builds, families deserve to know about
"Long story short, this last ditch effort saved my life."
-- Mia Mendez,
#WorldBipolarDay
Ketogenic Therapy (medical keto) is helping people around the world with even severe bipolar illness reclaim their mental and physical health. On World Bipolar Day 2024, all of us at our
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"Prescription pharmaceuticals are commonplace and widely accepted by patients, physicians and insurers. A dietary prescription should also be on the table."
We at Baszucki Group agree.
Our plan is as follows:
1) fund 5 pilot trials of nutritional interventions for serious
The food we eat determines the energetic substrates that reach our mitochondria and power the mind-body unit
@Metabolic_Mind
@janellison
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When our son Matt's
#bipolar
illness was declared "treatment resistant" five years ago, I could never have imagined that we'd have a non-profit launching a new website to share his and other's stories of healing, as well as to amplify advances in research and clinical care in the
Metabolic Mind is thrilled to announce our brand-new website!
Learn more about the power of metabolic therapies for
#MentalHealth
, find
#KetogenicTherapy
clinical trials, dive into stories of lived experience & download helpful handouts all on our site.
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I pride myself on knowing a fair bit about nutrition and mental health. Yet when I was lucky enough to read an advance copy of
@GeorgiaEdeMD
's new book, "Change Your Diet, Change Your Mind," I found out that I still had a lot to learn. Don't miss this!
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This is the first published prospective pilot study of ketogenic diet for serious mental illness--in this case bipolar--since 1965. A ketogenic intervention is now established as a feasible intervention in a population living with bipolar disorder, opening the way to larger
New preprint: Pilot study of a ketogenic diet in bipolar disorder By
@NicoleNeedham15
@IainCampbellPhD
and colleagues
@EdinUniMentalH
An exciting new treatment approach for
#bipolardisorder
Hear more at
@ISBD4
Chicago 2023
@janellison
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Take 9 minutes to watch
@GeorgiaEdeMD
explain how insulin resistance impacts mental health & the promise of
#KetogenicTherapy
to reverse it.
Then why not consider who in your life needs this information? Then share it with them.
#KetoForMentalHealth
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Is keto a viable treatment for depression and anxiety?
Or perhaps a better way of putting it: Would it be worth trying low-risk ketogenic metabolic therapy for a few months if you are battling depression and anxiety to see if it might help?
Let's
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@ChrisPalmerMD
Our son was prescribed gabapentin at super high doses for bipolar disorder. It did nothing. Zilch. Nada. He was prescribed a cocktail of five different meds that I'm absolutely certain have never been tested together in any population. Poly-pharmacy is the norm in psychiatry and
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Cancer: A Food-Borne Illness ?
What's it going to take for the world to wake up and remember what has been known since the 1940's--that cancer is not a genetic but a metabolic disease?
Maybe, just maybe, it's going to take the incredible effort of a 17-year-old who has a thing
This is a huge day for
@X
.
My documentary, Cancer: A Food-Borne Illness, is finally here.
It is only on this platform that I am able to release a film that challenges big food conglomerates and mainstream health claims without fear of censorship.
Here is the story of how I, an
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@ChrisPalmerMD
In all the years I have (with his permission) been sharing our son's story, there has not been a single time that the person I was sharing with did not offer a story of suffering from mental illness in their own family or close circle of friends. It's time to change the paradigm.
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1/2 Our son battled
#bipolar
symptoms for 5 yrs:
- irritability
- anxiety
- hypomania
- mania
- depression
2 yrs on a keto diet and he is symptom free and thriving.
Fixing his brain's metabolic dysfunction healed him and gave him his life back.
#MetabolicMind
Mental health is metabolic health. This concept may revolutionize psychiatry. Hear from
@ChrisPalmerMD
@GeorgiaEdeMD
as we explore the metabolic/mental health connection.
#MetabolicMind
#MetabolicPsychiatry
#KetoForMentalHealth
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What an incredible story of healing with help from a dairy free ketogenic mostly vegetarian diet. Inspiration was taken from Dr. Chris Palmer’s incredible work, which also helped our son.
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People with diabetes have been given bad advice for decades. Eating carbohydrates than taking insulin to "cover" it is not good medicine.
I can't wait for
@garytaubes
new book, Rethinking Diabetes, which takes us through the history of how we got here.
⚡️⚡️⚡️LOW CARB DEBATE. 60 second clip of Dr. Richard Bernstein making the case for normal blood sugars for people with diabetes.
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There were no studies of ketogenic diet for serious mental illness between 1965 and the launch of
#MetabolicPsychiatry
pioneer
@ShebaniMD
at Stanford. Excited to hear Dr. Sethi speak this afternoon about the results of her trial of keto for bipolar and schizophrenia at
A different fact for today - A 'Did you know?' series! This was the one research paper that changed my life and led me down the
#ketogenicdiet
for
#mentalhealth
rabbit hole! As far back as 1965!
#metabolicpsychiatry
#ketoformentalhealth
#Schizophrenia
#ketodiet
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We met a Danish researcher who tried to launch a trial of healthy low carb diets in prisons after he witnessed aggressive behavior diminish in animals on such a diet. He couldn't get funding. This was 30 years ago. It's high time.
Here’s what prison food looks like around the country…low protein and nutritionally inadequate. Could this be contributing to the mental health problems we have amongst inmate populations?
@ChrisPalmerMD
#brainenergy
#mentalhealth
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What It Really Feels like to have Bipolar I Disorder
Our son, now age 27, shared the nitty-gritty of his
#bipolar
journey in this article for
@healthcentral
, including battling symptoms like mania and psychosis, then finding full remission (for nearly 3
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The trailer for our regenerative agriculture documentary, Common Ground, is out. Look for it in select theaters!
Jason Momoa, Laura Dern and More Call for a Regenerative Food System in 'Common Ground' Trailer (Exclusive) via
@people
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This video from
@nicknorwitz
on the Stanford keto study for serious mental illness has cruised past 70,000 views. People are clearly interested in new ways to improve mental health.
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A clinical trial of ketogenic therapy for Anorexia will begin in August at UCSD. Given that current treatment paradigms lead to a 50 percent relapse rate, it’s high time the field tried something new. This case series, and the 5-person trial of keto plus ketamine recently
🤔Should we "medicalize" eating disorders?
I think the answer is "Yes, Absolutely!" Here's why:
The brain and mind have long been (and largely remain) a block-box in medicine. The tools we have the explore them are limited.
This fact, combined with the fact that the "mind" is
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Migraine case study:
Crippling migraines went to near zero by limiting carbohydrates and seed oils.
Our
@ClinicaPero
#migraine
patient went on an ad lib <30g carbs/day, eliminating all refined carbs (flour products, candy, fruit juice...) and high omega-6 linoleic acid seed oils
who needs
#keto
and a low LA
#diet
for
#brainhealth
?
@ChrisPalmerMD
@GeorgiaEdeMD
@DrElenaGross
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A friend shared her story: prediabetic for many years, fatty liver, low hdl. Now all in normal range after keto. HDL now nat 58. "My doctor told me for years the only way to raise HDL was through exercise; clearly he was wrong." Mentally, she is better than ever.
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My son is mentally well today because of this intervention. Huge gratitude for Dr. Danan for having the courage to treat his patients with keto and to keep the meticulous records that led to this paper by the brilliant
@GeorgiaEdeMD
.
#KetoForMentalHealth
Excited to share the groundbreaking work of my colleague Dr. Albert Danan and his patients, who demonstrate that a
#ketodiet
is safe, feasible, and effective in serious
#mentalillness
, improving mental & physical health in all and reducing medication in most.
#KetoForMentalHealth
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I could not have been more proud of our son
@BaszuckiMatt
for sharing his
#KetoForMentalHealth
story and his tips for wellness in bipolar disorder on stage at Metabolic Psychiatry reception at
#APAAM23
@bschermd
and Dr. Mark Frye of Mayo Clinic were also terrific.
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Since I'm so often sharing photos of me with our son, Matt, I thought it'd be nice to post one with our three daughters.
#Selfies
#Blessings
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It is heartbreaking to read the comments from suffering families on our Metabolic Mind youtube videos. Desperate to try ketogenic interventions, they can't find providers who can help. I call on all medical schools to introduce Metabolic Psychiatry training now.
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Shout out to
@IainCampbellPhD
and my son, Matt, for turning the lemons of their bipolar experience into lemonade. Their channel, BipolarCast: Keto+Bipolar, now has 19 videos interviewing others who have used keto to treat
#Bipolar
+ expert clinicians.
#ProudMom
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Another case study of ketogenic diet for bipolar disorder. How many more do we need before we redefine bipolar disorder not as lifetime chronic condition but as a treatable metabolic disorder of metabolism?
~Case Study: Ketogenic Diet for Bipolar Disorder~
Michael Saraga, MD, PHD published in the journal Bipolar Disorders.
"We contribute to this limited literature with the personal case of the second author, who suffers from type 1 bipolar disorder. She spontaneously initiated KD
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I hear from many mitochondrial scientists that the most important habit for good mito health is to fast 3 hours before bed. Makes sense given this study showed that eating a late meal led to metabolic impairments during sleep:
- higher blood glucose
- delayed fat processing
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It’s that time of the year where the clocks change in many countries, which can throw our timings off.
There’s a lot of debate around the health implications of changing the clocks. It’s increasingly recognized that when we do things (e.g. eat, sleep, exercise) – and not just
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Keto is not only good for your brain, it’s good for your heart. Which makes perfect sense, because would our bodies really prefer different diets for different organs? Evolution is smarter than that.
📢 Contrary to alarmist headlines & fearmongering straight out of the 1980s, keto diets do NOT “clog your arteries" and bacon & eggs are NOT “a heart attack on a plate.” The truth is, keto diets are quite *beneficial* for your heart and blood vessels. 🍳🥓
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