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Metabolic Psychiatry Labs and our founding team are defining how mental health is understood and treated through a metabolic lens. Led by Stanford physician-scientist Dr. Shebani Sethi, MPL’s clinical research and care model have shaped national conversations on serious mental illness, nutrition, and brain health.

Recent Coverage

March 30, 2026
STAT News

Why this Stanford psychiatrist thinks diet can influence serious mental health disorders

Coverage examining metabolic psychiatry and highlighting a gap in psychiatric care: metabolic health is rarely evaluated in assessment or treatment

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MARCH 30, 2026
BusinessWire

New Nature-published research examines metabolic dysfunction in psychiatric illness

A press release summarizing a peer-reviewed Nature Mental Health paper examining how metabolic dysfunction relates to psychiatric illness and recommending routine metabolic screening in care.

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March 17, 2026
The New York Times

Can the Keto Diet Really Improve Mental Health?

Coverage of emerging research on ketogenic therapies in mental health and the growing recognition of metabolism’s role in psychiatric illness.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2025
The Dr. Hyman Show

How To Use Metabolic Psychiatry To Heal Your Anxiety & Depression

On this revealing episode of The Dr. Hyman Show, we explore how shifts in metabolism affect the brain and why this whole-body lens could transform how we prevent, understand, and treat mental health.

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Listen to the conversation
May 8, 2024
American Psychiatric Association

Diet as a Driver to Accelerate and Break From Insulin Resistance and Bipolar Depression

Diet's role in insulin resistance and bipolar depression (Summary unavailable).

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Feb. 10, 2025
The Dr. Hyman Show

America’s Food Supply Is Rigged-Here’s How to Opt Out

Ultra-processed foods (UPFs) as a metabolic and public health crisis linked to brain dysfunction.

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Listen to the conversation
April 23, 2025
Scope

Five things to know about keto therapy and serious mental illness

Dr. Sethi's pilot study on ketogenic therapy for bipolar disorder and schizophrenia; upcoming larger trial.

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March 2024
The San Francisco Standard

Fentanyl is their drug, candy is their vice. Users explain their desperate need for candy.

Poor diets worsen psychiatric symptoms; dietary improvements can enhance brain health in fentanyl users.

Expert Commentary
Expert Commentary
Dec. 13, 2024
Stanford Medicine News Center

Stanford Medicine's top scientific advancements of 2024

Dr. Sethi's research on dietary interventions (ketogenic diet) treating severe mental illnesses.

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