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Podcast: The Dr. Hyman Show
Episode: From Chemical Imbalance to Metabolic Breakthrough: A New Path for Mental Health
Description: Many psychiatric labelsâlike bipolar disorder and schizophreniaâcan obscure underlying biology, and symptom checklists often fail to explain or heal whatâs really going on. Emerging evidence reframes mental illness as a problem of brain energy, mitochondria, and inflammationâshaped by insulin signaling, circadian rhythm disruption, the gutâbrain axis, toxins, infections, and nutrient status. Metabolic interventions such as ketogenic nutrition, already established for epilepsy, show promise for rebalancing neurotransmitters, lowering neuroinflammation, and improving overall brain function. With depression now a leading cause of disability, shifting from âmanage the symptomsâ to âfix the biologyâ could dramatically improve outcomes where standard dru...