Oliver Seligman

@IainCampbellPhD @janbaszucki @ChrisPalmerMD I just learned that ceasarian section may weaken a baby's mitochondria, and that ceasarian births can be a marker (predictor) for future mental problems. There seems a logical connection here that may be worth investigating.

Oliver’s Story: From Bipolar Struggles to Vibrant Mental Health youtube.com/shorts/QhVrgzv… via @YouTube

Can a therapeutic ketogenic diet help someone living with bipolar disorder regain stability—and hope? In this video, @OliverSeligman, author of Befriending Bipolar: A Patient’s Perspective, shares his personal journey through decades of mental health challenges and explores the remarkable transformation he experienced after adopting a ketogenic lifestyle. Diagnosed with #bipolardisorder at 17, Oliver faced years of battling symptoms, including migraines, exhaustion, irritability, and intense mood swings. When he discovered the ketogenic diet as a metabolic intervention, something shifted: "When I first started implementing ketogenic therapy, very quickly I noticed a change. And I noticed this kind of calmness descending over my mind and my body. It was like breathing a huge sigh of relief. It's like, "Oh, that's nice!" And that was that was a very, very cool experience. And that immediately gave me hope, there's something to this." Oliver’s journey is a reminder that healing isn’t always linear. His path has included discovering ketogenic therapy, stepping away from it, and ultimately returning with a deeper understanding of what works for him. His story reminds us that, sometimes, the most meaningful part of healing is not just finding what works, but who you become along the way. 🧠 Learn more about Oliver’s experience and the strategies that have supported his progress by visiting his THINK+SMART profile. 👉 thinksmart.metabolicmind.org/profile/oliver… THINK+SMART is a free, community-inspired framework that helps individuals employ metabolic therapies to improve mental health. It was developed to encourage learning, sharing, and planning key components of metabolic mental wellness, including therapeutic low carbohydrate nutrition, circadian rhythm management, movement and exercise, substance use management, medication monitoring, stress reduction, rebuilding, and tracking. Get started today at metabolicmind.org/think-smart Expert By Experience Featured Oliver Seligman Instagram: instagram.com/oliver.seligma… Book: amazon.com/Befriending-Bi… Learn more about metabolic psychiatry and find helpful resources at metabolicmind.org

“It was like I’d gotten my mind back.” “This lovely calm kind of came into me and it sort of stayed.” These are real quotes from participants in @IainCampbellPhD's newly published study in BJPsych Open looking at ketogenic therapy for bipolar disorder that just dropped today! 📃 Read it here: doi.org/10.1192/bjo.20… This new study is one of the first to use advanced brain imaging to evaluate the impact ketosis has on bipolar disorder. Combined with blood biomarker data, this study demonstrated that ketosis can lead to favorable brain and metabolite changes which translated to impressive quality of life improvements in the study participants. The participant stories in this video and in the study as a whole are moving and reinforce the urgent need to fight for new treatments for each individual living with bipolar disorder. This new study contributes to the growing body of research supporting the use of ketogenic therapy as a #newbipolartreatment.

Very much enjoyed this conversation with @bschermd about the findings of our pilot study released this week. I share my personal experience with ketogenic diet and bipolar, and why our brain imaging findings may shed some light on a central question in metabolic psychiatry: "Why does ketosis, an anti-seizure treatment in epilepsy, show early signs of efficacy in bipolar, a condition often treated by anti-seizure medications?"

🚨BREAKING: Our new study just published—could a ketogenic diet help people with bipolar disorder?🚨 🧵