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Metabolic Health, Metabolic Psychiatry and more | Rachel Frase RD

Podcast: Degrees of Health · Benjamin Hopkins

Opublikowano: 2026-10-20

Can changing what you eat change how you think and feel? In this episode, Ben Hopkins sits down with registered dietitian Rachel Frase to explore metabolic psychiatry, the fast-growing field using ketogenic therapy to support depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder and more. Rachel shares how her own gut health struggles led her into low-carb nutrition, then into a psychiatric practice where she spent three years working with patients using personalised ketogenic diets alongside or instead of medication. Together they unpack why ketones give the brain more energy than glucose, why mental and metabolic conditions...