by Garrison Grant | Oct 21, 2026 | Brain Energy Podcasts and Articles, Metabolic-Health, Podcasts
Can your diet affect your brain? Experts at McLean Hospital are aiming to answer that question with a new clinical and research center for metabolic psychiatry, an emerging field focused on understanding the connection between nutrition, metabolism, and mental...
by Garrison Grant | Oct 21, 2026 | Brain Energy Podcasts and Articles, Metabolic-Health, Podcasts
McLean Hospital, Mass General Brigham’s psychiatric affiliate, has received a $20 million grant to create a center focused on studying metabolic treatments of mental health disorders — the first center of its kind in the country.
by Garrison Grant | Oct 21, 2026 | Brain Energy Podcasts and Articles, Metabolic-Health, Podcasts
When Chris Palmer, a Harvard psychiatrist, agreed to consult with a patient’s family on mental health treatment, he never expected that changing the patient’s diet would lead to a dramatic recovery — and, five years later, the creation of a center at McLean Hospital...
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,...
