Advancing Psychiatry / CB / Metabolic-Health
by Christie Barnett, APN · Published November 18, 2019 · Last modified December 2, 2019
This dietary treatment, the ketogenic diet, based on ancient medicine is making a comeback as a treatment for epilepsy. The ketogenic diet controversy The keto diet is one of today’s most controversial diets, so...
Advancing Psychiatry / CB / Metabolic-Health
by Christie Barnett, APN · Published November 11, 2019 · Last modified December 2, 2019
New research paves the way for possible prevention of Alzheimer’s Disease. Brain health suffers when toxic proteins build up. These toxic proteins in the brain can lead to Alzheimer’s Disease, Parkinson’s Disease, Lou Gehrig’s...
Advancing Psychiatry / CB / Metabolic-Health
by Christie Barnett, APN · Published July 15, 2019 · Last modified November 3, 2019
Chris just published Diets and Disorders: Can Foods or Fasting Be Considered Psychopharmacologic Therapies? It is in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry(1) and you’ll find an executive summary further in this post. First I...
“Americans Can’t Afford to Wait Any Longer. It’s Time to Overhaul the U.S. Dietary Guidelines.” Atkins Nutritionals, Inc. spearheaded an open letter to the USDA this morning in the New York Times and the...
CS / Metabolic-Health / Start Here
by Cecile Seth · Published May 7, 2019 · Last modified October 31, 2019
Millions of people are living with mental illness throughout the world. The psychiatric labels for their diagnoses include clinical depression, anxiety disorders, bipolar disorder, schizoaffective disorder, schizophrenia, and obsessive-compulsive disorder, among others. Symptoms include:...
Low carb diets have been well described since the 1800’s. William Banting promoted the most popularized version at that time. In fact, his last name went on the become a verb, “banting,” as a...
Advancing Psychiatry / CB / Metabolic-Health
by Christie Barnett, APN · Published March 25, 2019 · Last modified November 3, 2019
My colleague, Chris Palmer, MD, recently posted to his Psychology Today blog. And then thist happened… So I was at my Friday HIIT boot camp. The topic of “Exercise and Fasting Linked to Brain...
