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🗓️ 11 April 2025
⏱️ 100 minutes
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Explore the transformative potential of the ketogenic diet for mental health with expert Dr. Matt Bernstein, a pioneer in metabolic psychiatry. Learn how targeting metabolic dysfunction can profoundly improve psychiatric outcomes in bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, depression, and epilepsy, with fewer side effects than traditional treatments. Discover actionable insights on diet, metabolism, and brain health backed by the latest scientific research.
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0:00.0 | All right, welcome back to the podcast. I am joined today with Dr. Matt Bernstein. He is a psychiatrist in, let's see, multiple roles at this point, but you were mostly private practice for most of your career. |
0:27.5 | Actually, I started off as an inpatient doctor |
0:30.2 | at McLean Hospital on the schizophrenia and bipolar |
0:33.4 | inpatient unit for about eight years. |
0:35.5 | And I've always thought my career taken care of people |
0:38.0 | with serious illness. |
0:39.0 | It's a real passion of mine. |
0:40.8 | Okay. |
0:41.6 | So you did inpatient for eight years, |
0:43.9 | then you went outpatient. I work at this program |
0:46.9 | that is a team based approach with people with complex illness called Ellenhorn, and I'm the |
0:52.4 | chief medical officer there, and I also have a private practice. And I also now have opened a |
0:57.9 | program called Accord, which is focused on metabolic treatments for mental health. Okay, and so |
1:04.0 | conflicts of interest, we're talking about this. |
1:05.8 | Is it a conflict of interest that you're part of metabolic mind as an advisory board? |
1:10.7 | I think I want to mention that. |
1:12.0 | I think you've been given that position because you are bringing patients into ketosis in |
1:17.8 | your practice and you have some expertise on this. |
1:20.5 | But you're not like there's no drug companies. There's no supplements that you sell if you don't have any |
1:27.2 | Other than your private practice and your roles there |
1:30.3 | That's right. You're a metabolic mind is a nonprofit focused on education |
1:35.6 | Around metabolic and mental health. Okay |
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