Improve Your Mental Health

THINK + SMART

The Power of Community

Our aim with THINK+SMART is to be descriptive, not prescriptive. There is no one right way to employ metabolic strategies to improve mental and physical health, and personalization is key. To help you develop your own program, THINK+SMART consolidates strategies and tactics reported by our community of clinicians and peers as safe and effective.

A Simple Tool for Powerful Results

A Metabolic Framework for Mental Health

THINK+SMART is a community-driven tool that supports a metabolic approach to mental health, encouraging individuals to learn, share, and implement personalized strategies for lasting wellness.

THINK

Therapeutic Integration of Nutritional Ketosis

THINK is Metabolic Mind’s acronym to describe ketogenic therapy in psychiatry. A THINK protocol is a supervised approach to treating mental disorders with therapeutic low carbohydrate nutrition.

THINK puts the body and brain into the metabolic state of ketosis to prevent, reduce or eliminate symptoms of psychiatric illness.

THINK is Metabolic Mind’s acronym to describe ketogenic therapy in psychiatry. A THINK protocol is a supervised approach to treating mental disorders with therapeutic low carbohydrate nutrition.

THINK puts the body and brain into the metabolic state of ketosis to prevent, reduce or eliminate symptoms of psychiatric illness.

THINK is Metabolic Mind’s acronym to describe ketogenic therapy in psychiatry. A THINK protocol is a supervised approach to treating mental disorders with therapeutic low carbohydrate nutrition.

THINK puts the body and brain into the metabolic state of ketosis to prevent, reduce or eliminate symptoms of psychiatric illness.

Personalized

More Than “A Diet”

More Than "A Diet"

What is included in a THINK Protocol?

A well-designed THINK protocol should typically define a personalized approach to ten elements of ketogenic therapy:

Clinical oversight and a plan for monitoring and adjusting prescription medications
Your target minimum duration for ketogenic therapy
Lab work you will use to measure your metabolic function, nutritional status, and medication levels
Nutritional supplements you will take as needed
The specific foods you will or won’t eat
A target macronutrient ratio
A time-restricted feeding/fasting pattern
A target ketone level (in mmol/L - millimoles per liter)
A ketone measurement tool(s)
A set frequency and time of day for measuring ketones

What is Ketogenic Therapy (THINK)?

Ketogenic therapy–or what we call THINK–is a medical nutritional intervention that has been used for over a century to treat refractory epilepsy and that is widely employed in obesity and Type 2 diabetes. Emerging evidence in psychiatry demonstrates that ketogenic therapy can improve overall brain function as well as symptoms of even the most serious mental illnesses.

What is Ketogenic Therapy (THINK)?

What can I eat on a THINK diet?

Unlike the popular “keto” diet for weight loss, a THINK protocol can incorporate many different combinations of animal and/or plant foods that limit carbohydrate intake. THINK can accommodate carnivore, omnivore, Mediterranean, vegetarian, and with the right supplementation and oversight, even vegan dietary patterns.

What can I eat on a THINK diet?

What is THINK otherwise known as?

Other terms used to describe this approach include ketogenic diet, metabolic diet, ketogenic metabolic therapy, medical keto, therapeutic carbohydrate reduction, and therapeutic nutritional intervention.

What is THINK otherwise known as?

TH - Therapeutic

I - Integration

N - Nutritional

K - Ketosis

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SMART

Sleep • Move • Avoid • Rebuild • Track

SMART is Metabolic Mind’s framework for codifying non-dietary strategies to improve your overall well-being. SMART organizes crowd-sourced lifestyle strategies into five categories that conveniently spell out the word SMART–sleep, move, avoid, rebuild and track.

Lifestyle strategies

Community driven

What is the SMART framework?

The SMART framework invites you to adopt specific approaches to sleep, movement, avoidance, rebuilding, and tracking to improve metabolic function. Strategies can include tools, talk therapies, stress reduction techniques, mindfulness, 12-step programs, bedtime routines, tracking apps, and more.

What is the SMART framework?

What beyond diet drives metabolic health?

Although what and when you eat is the primary driver of healthy metabolic function, many other variables are also critical, including but not limited to:

the quality and amount of your sleep
your levels of stress and trauma
your use of alcohol, cannabis, nicotine, caffeine, and other substances
your physical activity
your social interactions
exposure to sunlight and nature

What beyond diet drives metabolic health?

Although what and when you eat is the primary driver of healthy metabolic function, many other variables are also critical, including but not limited to:

the quality and amount of your sleep
your levels of stress and trauma
your use of alcohol, cannabis, nicotine, caffeine, and other substances
your physical activity
your social interactions
exposure to sunlight and nature

What beyond diet drives metabolic health?

Although what and when you eat is the primary driver of healthy metabolic function, many other variables are also critical, including but not limited to:

the quality and amount of your sleep
your levels of stress and trauma
your use of alcohol, cannabis, nicotine, caffeine, and other substances
your physical activity
your social interactions
exposure to sunlight and nature

What beyond diet drives metabolic health?

Although what and when you eat is the primary driver of healthy metabolic function, many other variables are also critical, including but not limited to:

the quality and amount of your sleep
your levels of stress and trauma
your use of alcohol, cannabis, nicotine, caffeine, and other substances
your physical activity
your social interactions
exposure to sunlight and nature

THINK+SMART Community Stories

Different things work for different people, and we certainly don’t have all the answers at Metabolic Mind, nor is that our goal. Instead, we hope that through the generosity of our community, we can harness the power of individual experiences to build an informal collective knowledge base that benefits us all. You will learn about what has worked for others, including useful apps, tracking tools, talk therapies, stress reduction techniques, mindfulness, 12-step programs, and more.

We invite you to use the THINK+SMART worksheet develop your plan. Once you have at least four months of experience using these therapies, we invite you to share your strategies with Metabolic Mind.

THINK+SMART Community Stories

We invite you to use the THINK+SMART worksheet develop your plan. Once you have at least four months of experience using these therapies, we invite you to share your strategies with Metabolic Mind.

THINK+SMART Community Stories

We invite you to use the THINK+SMART worksheet develop your plan. Once you have at least four months of experience using these therapies, we invite you to share your strategies with Metabolic Mind.

THINK+SMART Community Stories

We invite you to use the THINK+SMART worksheet develop your plan. Once you have at least four months of experience using these therapies, we invite you to share your strategies with Metabolic Mind.

S - Sleep

M - Move

A - Avoid

R - Rebuild

T - Track

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