The evidence is convergent. Multiple independent sources reach the same conclusion, the underlying mechanism is well-characterized, and even the field's most cautious voices treat it as worth doing.
insulin resistance, in particular, and insulin signaling in the brain is impaired in people with chronic mental disorders kind of across the board-- all the way from chronic anxiety, depression, to bipolar, to schizophrenia, and even Alzheimer's disease.
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And so metabolic psychiatry is about the role of insulin resistance and inflammation in the brain as causing depression and causing anxiety and more severe things like bipolar disease and schizophrenia.
and how insulin resistance is probably at the root of so many of these issues and yes what I'm saying here is that if you're depressed if you're anxious psychotic schizophrenic bipolar know if you have insulin resistance get a fasting insulin check these things understand what's causing insulin resistance and metabolic dysfunction this I believe is at the root of so many of these issues and is so often overlooked
we know that their brains are quote unquote insulin resistant meaning that insulin action in the brain doesn't work like it should in these individuals
is it possible that treating their metabolic dysfunction could lead to improvements i would say yes and i think this is where western medicine needs to go in the treatment of these disorders