"The effects of metabolic therapies on my symptoms have been more profound than psychiatric medications."
Lauren Kennedy West
THINK+SMART codifies metabolic strategies to help you adopt a personalized approach to mental and physical health. It was developed to encourage learning, sharing and planning key components of metabolic mental wellness, including therapeutic low carbohydrate nutrition, circadian rhythm management, movement and exercise, substance use management, medication monitoring, stress reduction, rebuilding, and tracking.
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Human health is built upon a well-functioning metabolism that transforms oxygen and nutrients into energy that fuels life. Human metabolism is extraordinarily complex, involving countless biological pathways and dependencies in the body and brain, especially the actions of mitochondria–the processors of the cell. A comprehensive approach to mental and physical well-being must by definition include optimization of metabolic and mitochondrial health.
Conventional psychiatric treatment typically relies almost entirely on medications to keep symptoms under control. Talk therapy is often prescribed as an adjunctive treatment, but the root causes of mental illness, as well as the lifestyle changes that can lead to healing, are often left out of treatment paradigms. Metabolic psychiatry seeks to flip treatment for mental illness on its head, putting therapeutic nutrition and smart metabolic therapies as the foundation of recovery and wellness.
Chris Palmer
MD
"There are concrete things that people with mental disorders can do today with diet, exercise, sleep, stress reduction, managing your substance use, and even addressing prescription medicines that can actually heal the brain and reduce suffering."
Shebani Sethi
MD, ABOM
"The approach at my Stanford clinic integrates non-pharmacological metabolic methods - nutritional and lifestyle therapies - with medication. We are seeing encouraging improvements in mental health after treating metabolic conditions this way."
Georgia Ede
MD
"Changing your diet can bring substantial relief from even very serious, longstanding psychiatric conditions, but you have to know which changes are most worth making and why—and they're not the ones we’re used to hearing about."
