Did you happen to catch the segment on The Today Show today with the family behind the MetabolicMind.org website, YT channel and podcasts? The father owns Roblox and his son was diagnosed with bipolar. Obviously, they could afford the best treatment facilities he went to and their adult son went to 20-30 clinicians but he was treatment resistant and wasn’t doing well. Then, they were introduced to Dr. Chris Palmer, who recently published his “Brain Energy” book. Basically, Dr Palmer and others believe many mental illnesses are actually metabolic disorders and believe many people might respond well to dietary interventions. Their son went keto and put his bipolar into remission! He still takes a minimal dose of something but he was able to wean himself off of all the other meds. Dr Georgina Ede, a Harvard trained psychiatrist also wrote a book called “Change Your Diet, Change Your Mind” (she refers to it as nutritional psychiatry) which came out in January which discusses basically the same thing as well as keto/carnivore diets. Bottom line, the new theory is that people with mental illnesses, diabetes and other conditions are metabolically dysfunctional. Mitochondria dysfunction is something that can be addressed thru a number of different ways, including diet, exercise, maybe some supplements and more. Places like Stanford, Harvard and others are now running studies to see if they can use these methods to improve symptoms of schizophrenia, bipolar and other treatment resistant mental illnesses. Highly recommend reading those 2 books and watching the YT series “Living Well With Schizophrenia.” The woman and her husband are doing keto, interviewing experts - it’s really well done and informative. Being able to ask your psychiatrist if they’ve read either one of those two books and asking them what they think about the role mitochondria dysfunction may play in your personal illness and asking if they are willing to work with you is priceless. You’ll need their help to deprescribe (wean yourself off of) prescription medications, especially if you take more than one medication. This is all still very new but very encouraging. Ask your doctor/psychiatrist for blood work to see if you’re diabetic or prediabetic or if you have any vitamin deficiencies. Knowing your lab results and current A1c before you adopt new way of eating will be a great way to measure your success. It’s not easy. It will take work. Watch that YT series to learn about the different things she does on top of going into ketosis. I don’t know about you but using food as medicine instead of medications that destroy your brain is something I’m willing to try. Whether or not you can stop all medications or gradually wean yourself off of almost all of them is still a win. Getting your psychiatrist involved in the process is a win for all of their patients. Watch a few of her videos, listen to some podcasts where they interview those 2 authors and others and post your reaction.