by Garrison Grant | Jul 9, 2026 | Brain Energy Podcasts and Articles, Metabolic-Health, Podcasts
What if we’ve been thinking about mental illness all wrong? Harvard psychiatrist Dr. Chris Palmer argues that conditions like anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia may be rooted in metabolic dysfunction, not just genetics or trauma. Drawing on...
by Garrison Grant | Jul 8, 2026 | Brain Energy Podcasts and Articles, Metabolic-Health, Podcasts
The brain is the body’s most energy-intensive organ. Despite making up just 2 percent of the body’s mass, it consumes about 20 percent of its energy. Typically, the brain is mostly fueled by glucose that is produced by the breakdown of carbohydrates. But when there...
by Garrison Grant | May 11, 2026 | Brain Energy Podcasts and Articles, Metabolic-Health, Podcasts
Maya Schumer, 32, a neuroscientist in Belmont, Mass., was living with bipolar disorder for more than a decade. She had tried nearly every treatment — therapy, antipsychotics, mood stabilizers, anticonvulsants — to help control her symptoms. But her panic attacks,...
by Garrison Grant | May 11, 2026 | Brain Energy Podcasts and Articles, Metabolic-Health, Podcasts
A Harvard psychiatrist who studies the link between diet and mental health said on Friday that Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was “not accurate” in claiming he had “cured” schizophrenia using the keto diet, but that he hoped interest from Mr. Kennedy’s “Make...
by Garrison Grant | May 11, 2026 | Brain Energy Podcasts and Articles, Metabolic-Health, Podcasts
In February, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the US secretary of health, made a characteristically bold claim. A doctor at Harvard University, he proclaimed, “has cured schizophrenia using keto diets”. If you happened to be passing Harvard University that day, you might have...
