Podcast Episodes

Upcoming Research Study: Ketogenic diet for Anorexia Nervosa

A new study of Ketogenic Diet for treating Anorexia Nervosa will launch at UC San Diego in late summer 2023. Leading psychiatrist and researcher Dr. Guido Frank joins The Metabolic Mind Podcast to di…

Published on 2 years, 6 months ago

Psychiatrist Transforms His Practice with Keto and Metabolic Treatments

Dr. Matthew Bernstein is a Harvard-trained psychiatrist with over two decades of clinical experience. Yet, despite his extensive training and experience, he wasn’t helping his patients thrive as he h…

Published on 2 years, 6 months ago

Dietitian Cures Her Anorexia With Keto

Michelle Hurn put her anorexia into remission using nutritional ketosis through a ketogenic diet. That meant going against everything she was taught as a patient and as a dietitian. Now she wants to …

Published on 2 years, 7 months ago

Does Keto Cause Heart Disease?

There’s a common belief that being in nutritional ketosis or following a ketogenic diet increases your risk of developing heart disease. But the reality is there is no such evidence. Instead, the inc…

Published on 2 years, 7 months ago

Metabolic Therapies for Psychiatry: State of the Evidence

Metabolic health is strongly connected to mental health, and metabolic therapies, like nutritional ketosis, or the insulin-sensitizing medication metformin, can improve psychiatric symptoms or even p…

Published on 2 years, 7 months ago

Adjusting Psychiatric Medications on a Keto Diet

Can a keto diet help with tapering psychiatric medications in conditions like bipolar disorder, depression, schizophrenia, anxiety, or other psychiatric illness? Can you decrease or even stop taking …

Published on 2 years, 8 months ago

Ketosis and Ketamine for Anorexia

A newly published pilot study indicates a keto diet combined with ketamine infusions can dramatically improve anorexia nervosa eating disorder. But it may not be right for everyone. Hear from the stu…

Published on 2 years, 8 months ago

The Link between Insulin Resistance and Depression – An interview with Dr. Natalie Rasgon

Metabolic dysfunction, such as insulin resistance and pre-diabetes, is closely associated with symptoms of depression. But how do we know if metabolic dysfunction causes depression? Or if metabolic t…

Published on 2 years, 8 months ago

Keto for Brain Health – A Dramatic Personal Journey

Here's an inspiring story of one family using nutritional ketosis to treat dementia and eventually regain their lives. While everyone may not have as dramatic benefits from a keto diet, Mary and her …

Published on 2 years, 8 months ago

Metformin, Insulin Resistance and Bipolar depression: From research to clinical care

Season 1 Episode 2

Dr. Cynthia Calkin's study using Metformin in treatment-resistant Bipolar Disorder showed that improving insulin resistance dramatically improved depression outcomes. This research is helping shift t…

Published on 2 years, 9 months ago