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🧵Dr. Maya Schumer’s Story: A Neuroscientist’s Journey from Suicidality to Stability After 11 years of hospitalizations, suicidality, and treatment-resistant bipolar disorder, Dr. Maya Schumer, who holds a PhD in neuroscience, experienced something she never thought possible: Lasting stability. Here’s how she got there 👇 @SchumerMaya

1/ Today, @alicegcallahan from the New York Times @nytimes published an article on ketogenic diets and serious mental illness. It feels fitting. (link below) It was exactly ten years ago today that our son @matthewbaszucki, at age 19, was involuntarily admitted to Stanford's psychiatric hospital for manic psychosis. After a diagnosis of Bipolar I and a five year battle with debilitating symptoms, he found @ChrisPalmerMD and started ketogenic and metabolic therapies. His symptoms have been in remission since early 2021, and today, he is still in ketosis and is thriving. I just had the pleasure of watching Matthew present his story on stage at @realCSF's #CoSci26 conference in Las Vegas. His health, vitality, confidence and insight brought me to tears. He also participated on a panel about his experience with other inspiring individuals @DrEricRodgers @robynrdobbins who appear in our upcoming film from @wideeyetv @jenisenhart @realDaveFeldman, The Cholesterol Code, which premiered last Saturday and received a well-deserved standing ovation. (link below) The Times article highlighted three of our family foundation @BaszuckiGroup's funded published studies (Stanford, The Ohio State University, and U. Edinburgh) and the stories of two individuals who, like our son, found hope in ketogenic therapy and who have generously shared their stories and strategies with @Metabolic_Mind's THINK+SMART program (links below). My fifth decade started as the hardest of my life and ended as the most rewarding. I am deeply grateful to the work of metabolic psychiatry pioneers @ChrisPalmerMD @GeorgiaEdeMD @SethiSheba74345 and others who made my son's healing possible, to the researchers around the world studying the connection between metabolic and mental health, and to our entire team at Baszucki Group and Metabolic Mind for their dedication to this cause. We're on the brink of a new era in the treatment of mental illness. Godspeed to the ongoing research, clinical adoption, and sharing of personal stories that could help tens of millions of people around the world.

Can a keto diet "cure" serious mental illness? Here's my piece published today in @sfchronicle. "OPINION: Diagnosed with bipolar disorder, my son began a medically supervised ketogenic regimen — and it sent his symptoms into lasting remission, Jan Ellison Baszucki writes." To read the full oped, just enter your email when prompted for the gift link: tinyurl.com/3kwrcxyu In response to comments from HHS Secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., I share our family's story about how after half a decade of illness, ketogenic therapy has kept my son's bipolar I disorder symptoms in remission since 2021. I include the latest on the emerging science and practice of this therapeutic approach. "Has my son been 'cured'? It’s not a term we use in our work, and it’s also not the most important question. The more pressing concern is whether we are willing to rigorously test promising new treatment approaches when conventional care has failed far too many." @Metabolic_Mind @ChrisPalmerMD @BaszuckiGroup @matthewbaszucki @DavidBaszucki @metcoalition @LWSchizophrenia

How can doctors, psychiatrists, and other health practitioners implement keto for serious mental illnesses like schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and depression? In this short interview, @bschermd sits down with Dr. Georgia Ede to discuss a newly published Delphi consensus paper in Frontiers in Nutrition, authored by eight experienced clinicians and researchers to establish best practices for the use of ketogenic metabolic therapy (KMT) in serious mental illnesses. 📚 Read the Paper: Published in Frontiers in Nutrition: doi.org/10.3389/fnut.2… Special shoutout to the 8 authors of this paper which include: @georgiaedemd, Dr. Matthew Bernstein, @loricalabresemd, @iaincampbellphd, @ketocounselor, @chrispalmermd, @shebanimd, and @kaniazupec