LDL, ApoB & More: What Really Shapes Heart Disease Risk?
How should we think about LDL and ApoB, and how much metabolic health changes the cardiovascular risk picture?
In this episode of Metabolic Mind, Dr. Bret Scher speaks with vascular surgeon Dr. Lily Johnston about cholesterol and plaque formation, along with the need to personalize cardiovascular...
How Experiential Training Builds Clinician Confidence in Ketogenic Therapy
How can clinicians become more comfortable using ketogenic therapy in mental health care? In this episode of Metabolic Mind, Dr. Bret Scher speaks with Dr. Deanna Kelly about Live It, Launch It!, a training program designed to help clinicians learn ketogenic therapy by experiencing it themselves....
How Ketogenic Therapy Helped Donika Hristova Quiet Binge Eating and Reclaim Her Mental Health
Donika Hristova is a certified Keto for Mental Health coach trained by psychiatrist Dr. Georgia Ede. She is also the co-author of three publications on ketogenic therapy for psychiatric conditions and brings lived experience of achieving remission from bipolar II depression and binge eating disor...
How to Build a Vegetarian Ketogenic Diet for Mental Health
Hannah Warren spent years living with severe bipolar I disorder before discovering metabolic therapies in 2021. Today, Hannah has been in remission for more than five years, is no longer taking psychiatric medication, and works as Metabolic Mind’s Community Engagement & Advocacy Manager, helping ...
Cynthia Thurlow: Nutrition, Fasting, and Exercise for Perimenopause
For many women, the wellness strategies that carried them through their 20s and 30s can start to backfire in perimenopause. Changes in hormones, muscle mass, insulin sensitivity, sleep, and stress can make midlife feel like a completely different metabolic landscape.
In this episode of Metabolic ...
BITESIZE: Keto Outperformed Mediterranean and Low-Fat Diets in New RCT for Fatty Liver and Prediabetes
Does reducing carbohydrates improve metabolic health beyond what can be explained by weight loss alone?
Dr. Bret Scher breaks down a new randomized controlled trial published in Cell Metabolism that compared three diets in people with prediabetes and fatty liver disease: a ketogenic diet, a highe...
BITESIZE: Dr. Georgia Ede’s Guide to Better Mental Health in College
College can be one of the most exciting times of your life, but it can also put enormous pressure on a brain that's still developing.
Psychiatrist Dr. Georgia Ede spent 12 years working as an on-campus psychiatrist at Harvard University and Smith College. In this video, she explains why college c...
Dementia Prevention Through a Metabolic Lens
Alzheimer’s disease is usually discussed in terms of plaques, tangles, and genetics. Dr. Stephen Cunnane has spent years studying another piece of the puzzle: what happens when the aging brain can no longer use glucose efficiently, and whether ketones can help fill that energy gap.
In this interv...
Q&A: Food Noise, Aging on Low-Carb, Carnivore Microbiome & Keto Snacks
Can ketosis change symptoms of bulimia? Is low-carb eating safe in your 80s? And what really happens to digestion on a carnivore diet?
In this episode of Metabolic Mailbag, Dr. Bret Scher answers questions about ketogenic therapy for eating disorders, low-carb diets in older adults, carnivore die...
BITESIZE: Ketogenic Diet Dangerous? Breaking Down the New Study
A new study claims ketogenic diets cause liver damage and early death. Here’s what you need to know.
A 2025 mouse study recently made headlines, warning that ketogenic diets may lead to fatty liver, high triglycerides, and a shortened lifespan.
But here’s the catch:
These findings were in geneti...
