For people living with serious mental illness like schizophrenia or bipolar disorder, standard treatment with antipsychotic medications can be a double-edged sword.
Apr 1 2024Stanford Medicine While these drugs help regulate brain chemistry, they often cause metabolic side effects such as insulin resistance and obesity, which are distressing enough that many patients stop taking the medications.
The senior author of the paper is Laura Saslow, PhD, associate professor of health behavior and biological sciences at the University of Michigan. A few years later, Sethi coined the term metabolic psychiatry, a new field that approaches mental health from an energy conversion perspective. Feeling better The participants underwent a variety of psychiatric and metabolic assessments throughout the trial.
The psychiatric benefits were also striking. On average, the participants improved 31% on a psychiatrist rating of mental illness known as the clinical global impressions scale, with three-quarters of the group showing clinically meaningful improvement. Overall, the participants also reported better sleep and greater life satisfaction.
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