Metabolic Psychiatry Blog
Metabolic Psychiatry with Lori Calabrese, MD and Rachel Frase, RD.
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Replace Bipolar Disorder Meds with a Ketogenic Diet for Your Teen
Ethan roared with rage. With one sweep of his arm, he swiped the figurines off the sideboard, and they crashed to the floor with the tinkling of shattered porcelain. Megan rushed to the room, and gasped when she saw the pile of shards on the floor. Her collection was destroyed. She knew better by now…
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A Ketogenic Solution for Anxiety Can Make All the Difference
Brittany tossed and thrashed in bed, restless and unable to get into a deep sleep. She felt panicky that she would have to face the day exhausted. Finally, she sat up in bed to check her clock. 4am. Sighhhhh. Her alarm would blare at 5:30…not much time to sleep left at all. She decided to…
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Ketogenic Diet Kicks Parkinson’s Disease To the Curb
Ben sat sipping his coffee. He set it down on the lamp table and relaxed, then his hand trembled wildly and knocked the mug, spilling coffee all over the table and chair. Groan. His tremors were getting worse. He got up to get a towel, and wobbled a bit. Then as he stepped toward the kitchen…
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How Your Ketogenic Diet Dismantles Panic Attacks
Emily gripped the steering wheel with both hands. Her arms stiffly tried to guide the car as she became more nervous. Rigid. With pressure rising in her head and neck, she reached up to feel her pulse under her jaw. Boom. Boom. Boom…Panic was rising in her throat, and she feared where her emotions were…
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Metabolic Psychiatry’s Secret Weapon: Therapeutic Nutritional Ketosis
The most remarkable, neuroscience-driven advances in psychiatry, are emerging after decades of research and evidence-based experience known as metabolic psychiatry. Metabolic psychiatry is all about understanding the connections between psychiatric symptoms and metabolic dysfunction. We’ve talked often about the reality that the brain is part of the body, and what goes on in the body…
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Binge Eating Disorder Bows to a Ketogenic Diet
Lexie drank the rest of her diet Coke, and belched as she dropped the bottle in the recycle bin. She was full. Not really satisfied, but who knew why? She’d been watching a streaming comedy series on her big screen, and had called out for food delivery. She started with a double cheeseburger with seasoned…
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Ketogenic Metabolic Therapy (KMT) Can Fix Your Mood and Health
Brianna sank into the sofa, and groaned as she leaned over to pull on her shoes. It was hard to reach them, and she grunted repeatedly as she reached down to tie her laces. Uggghhhhh. She just had to lose weight. She was too big around her waist to comfortably reach her feet anymore. How…
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How Mitochondria Can Help Heal Your Brain…And Your Body!
When you’re sick and tired of being sick and tired, you need answers, solutions, and information that leads you to take action to change your health, and your life. Maybe you’re suffering from unrelenting depression that medicines don’t help, and maybe you’ve gained weight – even exorbitant weight – that you feel powerless to lose.…
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Metabolic Psychiatry Can Heal Your Brain AND Your Body
Crystal wobbled, then caught herself with her hand on the table. Whoa…I’m dizzy. She took a breath, then planted her feet and felt steady enough to keep moving. As she dug through her purse, her hands couldn’t find her keys in her purse, so she dug deeper. Sighhh…where are they?? After dropping her purse on…
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Ozempic Risky? Try Touchpoints 180™ For Weight Loss w/o Cancer
If you’re struggling with weight gain that’s causing other health problems like Type II diabetes, cardiovascular disease, depression…maybe social anxiety… and every time you manage to lose weight, you just gain it back… let’s talk. You need an alternative to traditional weight loss diets, rather than weight loss medications, or fads. If you’ve talked to…