Thread by @KetoCounselor

So what's the difference between nutritional psychiatry and metabolic psychiatry?🧵(1/6)

#Metabolicpsychiatry is a subfield that focuses on the assessment and treatment of metabolic dysfunction as a means to improve #mentalhealth. (2/6)

There is a complex but crucial relationship between #metabolic dysfunction, food, and mental health. (3/6)

The idea of food as medicine is not new, and the field of nutritional psychiatry has grown significantly over the past few decades thanks to the work of prominent #psychiatrists and #researchers. (4/6)

However, much of the focus in nutritional psychiatry has been on specific foods, elimination of certain elements from the diet, studying the microbiome, and examining how diet affects #depression symptoms. (5/6)

While these are all important questions, metabolic psychiatry distinguishes itself by concentrating on how the treatment of metabolic dysfunction can impact #psychiatric symptoms. (6/6)