How To Use Metabolic Psychiatry To Heal Your Anxiety & Depression | Stanford Psychiatrist

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Stanford psychiatrist Dr. Shebani Sethi reveals how to fix your brain and heal mental illness by fixing your body first. Learn the secrets of metabolic psychiatry, a revolutionary approach to treating depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, and more by addressing the root metabolic causes. For too long, psychiatry has treated mental illness as if it lives only in the brain. But what if the real story begins in the body? My guest today, Dr. Shebani Sethi, is the founding director of Stanford's Metabolic Psychiatry Program , the first of its kind to unite nutrition, metabolism, and mental health care. She explains that poor metabolic health, like insulin resistance (which affects 1 in 3 people in the US), can double your risk of developing depression. On this revealing episode, we explore how shifts in your body’s metabolism directly affect your brain and why this whole-body approach could transform how we prevent and treat mental health conditions. In this episode, we discuss: - What metabolic psychiatry is and how it connects body dysfunction to mental illness. - The shocking link between insulin resistance and your risk for depression and other psychiatric conditions. - How poor metabolism creates energy deficits in the brain (cerebral glucose hypometabolism) that drive symptoms. - The four key mechanisms of metabolic disease: inflammation, mitochondrial dysfunction, oxidative stress, and impaired plasticity. - Practical, evidence-based tools like the ketogenic diet to reverse severe mental illness in just months. - The most important biomarkers and lab tests to ask for to uncover the hidden drivers of your mental health. - The future of mental health and how to get started on a metabolic approach to heal your mind. Dr. Shebani Sethi is a Clinical Associate Professor at Stanford and the founding director of its Metabolic Psychiatry Program. She is a leader in the field, exploring how nutrition and metabolism can be used to treat mental illness #MetabolicPsychiatry #MentalHealth #Depression #Anxiety #DrMarkHyman ⁠View Show Notes From This Episode⁠ ⁠Get Free Weekly Health Tips from Dr. Hyman⁠ ⁠https://drhyman.com/pages/picks?utm_campaign=shownotes&utm_medium=banner&utm_source=podcast⁠ ⁠Sign Up for Dr. Hyman’s Weekly Longevity Journal⁠ ⁠https://drhyman.com/pages/longevity?utm_campaign=shownotes&utm_medium=banner&utm_source=podcast⁠ ⁠Join the 10-Day Detox to Reset Your Health⁠ ⁠https://drhyman.com/pages/10-day-detox⁠ ⁠ Join the Hyman Hive - https://drhyman.com/pages/hyman-hive?utm_source=dr_hyman_show&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=episode1065&utm_content=link This episode is brought to you by Big Bold Health, Sunlighten, Function Health, Paleovalley, Timeline and AirDoctor. Get 30% off HTB Immune Energy Chews at ⁠bigboldhealth.com⁠ and use code DRMARK30. Visit ⁠sunlighten.com⁠ and save up to $1400 on your purchase with code HYMAN. Join today at ⁠FunctionHealth.com/Mark⁠ and use code HYMAN100 to get $100 toward your membership. Get nutrient-dense, whole foods. Head to ⁠paleovalley.com/hyman⁠ for 15% off your first purchase. Support essential mitochondrial health and save 10% on Mitopure. Visit ⁠timeline.com/drhyman⁠ to get 10% off today. Get cleaner air. Right now, you can get up to $300 off at ⁠airdoctorpro.com/drhyman⁠. (0:00) Understanding the prevalence of insulin resistance and its impact on mental health (0:20) Introduction of Dr. Shebani Sethi and Stanford's metabolic psychiatry program (1:29) The connection between the body and mind in psychiatry (3:12) Historical context of metabolism and mental health (4:31) Defining metabolic psychiatry and its holistic approach (7:25) Rethinking mental illness through the lens of metabolic psychiatry (10:06) Dr. Sethi's journey into metabolic psychiatry and obesity medicine (13:24) Overlap between metabolic conditions and psychiatric symptoms (15:18) Insulin resistance in the brain's impact on mental health (20:26) Mechanisms of metabolic disease affecting psychiatric conditions (21:16) Addressing inflammation in mental health treatments (25:16) Exercise, mental health, and mitochondrial function (27:12) Importance of nutrients in psychiatric conditions (29:46) Evaluating biomarkers in mental health treatment (34:41) Gluten antibodies' relationship with schizophrenia (40:12) Lifestyle changes for mental health and positive outcomes (45:48) Nutritional therapy and government funding in psychiatry (49:18) Introduction to Hyman Hive membership community (50:19) Chronic illnesses' connection to psychiatric improvements (54:16) Metabolic psychiatry's convergence with psychedelic medicine (57:55) Success with obesity drug Qsymia for eating disorders (1:01:38) Precision and personalized metabolic psychiatry (1:03:56) Microbiome's importance in mental health treatment (1:06:01) Drug mechanisms and integrating tools in metabolic psychiatry (1:07:20) Advances in diagnostic technology and potential of biomarkers