Podcast Episodes

Q&A: Caffeine, Carnivore, Meds, and Ketones—What’s Helping or Hurting Your Mental Health?

Is caffeine sabotaging your mental health progress? Should you try a carnivore diet if keto isn't working? What if your meds lower ketones?

In this new Metabolic Mailbag episode, Dr. Georgia Ede joins…

Published on 5 hours ago

Rethinking Serotonin And Depression: What SSRIs Really Do & What May Work Better

Do SSRIs help your brain?

SSRI medications are among the most widely prescribed antidepressants, but what if we’ve misunderstood how they work? In this interview, Dr. Bret Scher sits down with biochem…

Published on 1 week ago

Q&A: Healthy Fats, Alcohol, Perimenopause, & More

Is carb-cycling okay on a ketogenic diet? What about high histamine foods?

In this episode of Metabolic Mailbag, Dr. Bret Scher and Dr. Georgia Ede answers questions on everything from the best source…

Published on 2 weeks ago

Could Stress Be The Hidden Driver of Mental Illness?

New research links chronic stress, brain energy, and psychiatric conditions, including PTSD, depression, and bipolar disorder.

Stress doesn’t just impact your mood; it affects how your brain allocates…

Published on 3 weeks ago

New Alzheimer’s Trial Reveals Surprising Insight on Brain Health

Novo Nordisk, the pharmaceutical company behind popular GLP-1 medications like Wegovy and Ozempic, recently announced that its phase 3, two-year trial examining GLP-1 medications for Alzheimer's fail…

Published on 3 weeks, 6 days ago

The Data Is In: Reversing Metabolic Disease Is Possible

What if your diagnosis of type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, or fatty liver wasn’t a permanent sentence, but a condition that could improve or even reverse through targeted intervention?

In this ep…

Published on 1 month ago

Metabolic Mailbag: Ketone Plateaus, Sleep Issues, Fat Intake, and More

Ever wonder why your ketone levels dip after a few months on a ketogenic diet? Or how exogenous ketones compare to ketones produced naturally?

In this Metabolic Mailbag episode, Dr. Bret Scher and Dr.…

Published on 1 month, 1 week ago

Why Setbacks Can Happen with Ketogenic Therapy for Mental Illness — and How to Respond

What does it really look like to heal a serious mental illness with ketogenic therapy?

At Metabolic Mind, we often highlight powerful stories of individuals putting serious psychiatric conditions into…

Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago

A UC Davis Scientist on Why Meat Isn’t the Climate Villain

Is the diet being promoted to “save the planet” actually based on environmental data?

In this eye-opening interview, Dr. Frank Mitloehner, air quality specialist and director of the CLEAR Center at UC…

Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago

Why People with Mental Illness Die Younger—and What We Can Do About It

People living with serious mental health conditions face a dramatically higher risk of premature death, not only from psychiatric symptoms, but from the cardiometabolic complications that often accom…

Published on 2 months ago