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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 thi…
8 months 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 an…
8 months, 1 week 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 imp…
8 months, 2 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 tria…
8 months, 3 weeks 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 eve…
9 months 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…
9 months, 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 indiv…
9 months, 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…
9 months, 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 …
9 months, 4 weeks ago
Can a Ketogenic Diet Help Treat Cancer?
In this episode of the Metabolic Mind podcast, Dr. Bret Scher speaks with L.J. Amaral, a registered dietitian, certified in nutrition oncology, and P…
10 months ago