Thread by @KetoCounselor

Is the field of Metabolic Psychiatry new and emerging? Actually no. There has been a long history of metabolism being known to play a role in mental illness. #metabolicpsychiatry #mentalillness (1/12)

@ChrisPalmerMD provides an excellent outline of what we knew and when in this talk on the @Metabolic_Mind YouTube Channel (2/12)

@ChrisPalmerMD @Metabolic_Mind Sir Henry Modsley said in 1879 that diabetes is a disease that runs in families with insanity. #metabolism #metabolicpsychiatry (3/12)

@ChrisPalmerMD @Metabolic_Mind In the 1930s-1950s, insulin coma therapy was the most widely used treatment for mood and psychotic disorders. #metabolism #metabolicpsychiatry #mood (4/12)

@ChrisPalmerMD @Metabolic_Mind Abnormalities in metabolic markers were first identified in patients with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia in the 1950s. #metabolicpsychiatry #bipolar #schizophrenia (5/12)

@ChrisPalmerMD @Metabolic_Mind Functional neuroimaging studies in the 1990s led to the mitochondrial hypothesis of bipolar disorder. #mitochondria #neurotwitter #bipolardisorder (6/12)

@ChrisPalmerMD @Metabolic_Mind Researchers have identified mitochondrial gene differences in patients with bipolar disorder compared to healthy controls. #metabolicpsychiatry #bipolar #genetics #mitochondria (7/12)

@ChrisPalmerMD @Metabolic_Mind There has been an explosion of research on the mitochondrial and metabolic hypothesis of bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. #mitochondria #bipolar #schizophrenia #metabolicpsychiatry (8/12)

@ChrisPalmerMD @Metabolic_Mind And as if all that wasn't evidence enough, we now have this beautiful study using Metformin for even more evidence that mental illness is a metabolic disorder. (9/12) psychiatrist.com/jcp/bipolar/tr…

@ChrisPalmerMD @Metabolic_Mind And another great study was done discussing the role of insulin signaling that lithium plays for people with bipolar disorder (10/12)

@ChrisPalmerMD @Metabolic_Mind You can find it here! @IainCampbellPhD was a coauthor. nature.com/articles/s4139… (11/12)

@ChrisPalmerMD @Metabolic_Mind @IainCampbellPhD I want you to know all the ways you can feel better! If you identify as a mental health advocate please retweet this thread! (11/12) #ketoformentalhealth #metabolicpsychiatry #brainhealthmatters