Thread by @KetoCounselor

Dr. Eric Kossoff was an excellent addition to the Metabolic Psychiatry Retreat put on by @janellison and @metabolic_mind this year! Let me tell you why this was helpful in paving the way towards #metabolicpsychiatry 🧵(1/8)

@janellison @Metabolic_Mind Dr. Eric Kossoff is a Professor of Neurology and Pediatrics at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. (2/8)

@janellison @Metabolic_Mind He is a pediatric epilepsy specialist and is currently the Medical Director of the Pediatric Ketogenic Diet Center at Johns Hopkins. (3/8)

@janellison @Metabolic_Mind He is one of the world experts on ketogenic dietary therapy for neurologic disorders and is dedicated to bringing the use of diet therapies for neurologic disorders to the entire world. (4/8)

@janellison @Metabolic_Mind He is a coauthor of The Ketogenic and Modified Atkins Diets: Treatments for Epilepsy and Other Disorders, now in its 7th edition, and helped organize both the 2008 and 2018 expert consensus guidelines on ketogenic diet management for epilepsy in children. (5/8)

@janellison @Metabolic_Mind Dr. Kossoff is also very involved in teaching and mentorship and is the Director of the Child Neurology Residency Program at Johns Hopkins. (6/8)

@janellison @Metabolic_Mind He is yet another brilliant human who believes you have the right to know all the ways you can feel better. And he brought valuable experience due to his past work in getting the ketogenic diet accepted as an acknowledged and effective treatment for epilepsy! (7/8)

@janellison @Metabolic_Mind I couldn't find him on Twitter, but you can find him and follow his work here! hopkinsmedicine.org/profiles/detai… (8/8)