For many years, conventional medical science has concluded that mental disorders were genetic only partially manageable via pharmaceuticals. But Harvard psychiatrist Chris Palmer MD discovered a whole new paradigm of treating mental disorders through metabolic treatment: getting patients to do a carefully monitored ketogenic diet.

Patients are treating depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and other conditions through this paradigm shifting breakthrough.

This is an episode of A Neighbor's Choice, the radio program of David Gornoski. Co-host physicist Dr. Yu joins as well.