It was an honor to share my journey putting bipolar 1 disorder into remission with @dhrupurohit. I am grateful that he is using his incredible platform to raise awareness of metabolic therapies! I am also excited to make my passion my profession and join the @Metabolic_Mind team!
Listen to Hannah Warren’s story of recovery from #bipolar on the @dhrupurohit top 50 global health podcast today!
We’re thrilled to share that Hannah Warren @Radiantbeasting, whom you’ve met before on this channel, has joined Metabolic Mind as our new Mental Health Communications & Advocacy Manager.
Hear Hannah’s story of putting Bipolar 1 into remission with #keto and metabolic therapies in her fascinating, emotional conversation with @dhrupurohit.
Hannah’s experience using @ChrisPalmerMD’s brain energy theory to put bipolar behind her offers hope to others battling mental illness.
Could we create an AA for metabolic therapies? At Metabolic Collective, we’ve been exploring what a grassroots, peer-led movement like this could look like and how we might build it together. My latest article on my free Substack takes a closer look at this idea. The link is in the comments.
🧵 “I no longer have hallucinations, paranoia, or delusions.” ♥️🧠
Diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia in 2016, Caitlin Hoey (@CaitlinHoe62870) never thought she’d return to meaningful work.
Sometimes, you can totally rewrite the past.
In my previous article, Why My Future Self Had New Handwriting, I wrote about the conscious decision to alter my handwriting style, something that required ongoing practice.
While writing that article, I had the idea to try something I had never done before. What would happen if, now, two years after beginning to craft and write in this new style, I tried to form letters the way I once had?
Turns out, I absolutely cannot “turn off” my new style and return to my former handwriting. That version seems to have been deleted from my neurocircuitry, overwritten by the conscious style I chose, practiced, and gradually automated.
I put bipolar I disorder into remission by implementing metabolic therapies that improved my brain and body’s ability to transform and utilize energy. Since then, I have spoken with many others whose experiences mirror my own, people who have recovered from serious mental illnesses. Many of us had to rebound from a prolonged loss of cognitive capacity. We clung to the concept of neuroplasticity as a lifeline, trusting that even after years of blunted cognition, our brains could be restored, that executive function, memory, and creative and intellectual vitality might return. Neural pathways shaped by years of mistreated symptoms, impaired metabolic function, medication side effects, and harmful coping strategies are not fixed. We rewired them and proved to ourselves that healing is possible.
One of the reasons I launched Radiant Beast: The Open Workbook was a desire to connect with others who understand the steep trenches and ecstatic peaks of this adventure of remission and reinvention, and to offer those just beginning this journey a vision of empowering possibilities.
Steve Wolf has been a consistent and thoughtful presence in the comments on the workbook, often making me reflect, sparking new article ideas, and pointing me toward resources worth exploring. He is clearly intelligent, inquisitive, and well-read. Recently, he shared in a comment the persistence it took to restore his cognitive faculties after years of impairment. He described how his ability to read had been “vaporized” for nearly a decade by olanzapine, the same antipsychotic I took for a similar length of time. I asked him what it felt like to regain that ability and whether he had any guidance for others on a similar path.
(Read the rest of the article on my free Substack, Radiant Beast: The Open Workbook, generously sponsored by Baszucki Group and Metabolic Mind. The link is in the comments.)
@IainCampbellPhD@wellcometrust@janellison Congratulations, Iain & team! This such an incredible accomplishment & will be a vital contribution to the metabolic psychiatry field!
“Somehow, I have always felt that there isn’t much time left. I could die next decade, or next year. I might not have that much time left. We desperately need a more accurate, holistic model of human health. So I have to move fast.”
If you haven’t already, I highly recommend subscribing to Martin Picard's (@MitoPsychoBio) Substack and watching Healing Science, grounded in energetics, unfold in real time. Carried forward by Martin’s momentum and a growing interdisciplinary movement exploring our capacity to heal, systems change will happen more rapidly than you might expect.
(Link in the comments.)
@DoctorTro@janellison@Metabolic_Mind@metcoalition I have had the privilege of working closely with Jan for more than two years in my role at Metabolic Mind. Her tireless, day-in and day-out dedication to advancing metabolic health & changing lives is extraordinary. She is one of the most hardworking people I have ever met. ❤️
@janellison@ChrisPalmerMD @BaszuckiMatt @BaszuckiGroup@Metabolic_Mind I’ve never met a group of more passionate humans ready to dive in and help this movement grow. @ChrisPalmerMD has changed our lives, and we are all eager to spread the message of hope and help in any way we can. It’s a beautiful thing to be a part of!