🚨New Free TFP_ Substack Article! 🥳 We give a shoutout to Dr. Tom Dayspring (@drlipid), who recently launched a Substack (thomasdayspring.substack.com…). We then return to the metabolic milieu to analyze a position held by Tom and many others in the lipid world. 🗣️"Low HDL-C is just high ApoB in disguise!" We dive into a new paper from Dr. Allan Sniderman (we crowned him the King of ApoB👑), which had some very interesting findings regarding ApoB and HDL-C. The paper argues for...wait for it...NUANCE when interpreting ApoB... "...this observation does raise the possibility that the atherogenic risk associated with apoB might not be constant...this might explain the apparent immunity of some individuals to the clinical consequences of very high levels of LDL-C/apoB." We emailed Dr. Sniderman, and he graciously accepted our AI crown and provided us permission to use this photo below in the article.🤣For being such a giant in the lipid and cardiovascular space, his unmatched humility is certainly admirable. If ApoB is the ballgame...HDL-C may be the one calling balls and strikes... We hope you read it. Feedback welcome! Enjoy! 🫡 feldmanprotocol.substack.com…

The thing is, they are and always have been just unsophistocated true believers. Lesson is: it's hard to let go...

I’m thrilled to announce that a big project I’ve been working on has just gone live! 🧠 My popular Ketogenic Diets for Mental Health clinician training program is now available for FREE on MyCME to everyone. This comprehensive, newly updated CME course consists of 5 modules: Science, Assessment & Engagement, Implementation, Medication Management, and Troubleshooting If you’re curious about how metabolic approaches could improve the mental health and total health of your patients, this program is for you. Start here: mycme.com/pages/ketogenic-di… and please share this link with colleagues who may also be interested.

This is incredibly EMBARRASSING … for Thomas Dayspring @Drlipid   Setting aside his repeated mischaracterizations of lean mass hyper-responders, his consistent refusal to engage substantively with the topic, and his assertions that lack supporting evidence (such as the claim that ketosis reduces LDL receptor expression) he seems completely unaware of a fundamental fact:   (1) We, the authors, requested the retraction ourselves, AND this was   (2) Due to many issue with the Cleerly AI analysis and their refusal to perform a fully blinded Quality Control check on their dataset after many issues came to light (post April 7). To be ‘Cleer,’ the reason for our request to retract was clarified to JACC Advances (and Retraction Watch), and there has been NO OBJECTION to that being the SOLE cited reason we provided for retraction.   I would be more than happy to have a conversation with @Drlipid and walk him through the facts.   But this kind of flag-waving rhetoric, delivered with a obvious and persistent ignorance of the critical circumstances surrounding the retraction, only serves to illustrate how poorly informed even prominent voices in cardiology and lipidology can be about developments in this field. TL;DR: If you want evidence of the profound dogmatism that’s corroding public trust in “the experts” this is an excellent example. — With all respect due —

It's a big day for the field of Metabolic Psychiatry! Many of you know our origin story--how our son @matthewbaszucki recovered from a five year battle with bipolar disorder using ketogenic and other metabolic therapies. Since then, we've launched @BaszuckiGroup and have backed more than twenty clinical trials of ketogenic therapy for serious mental illness, the first of which are now being published with promising results. We started @Metabolic_Mind to share science, strategies and stories from the field with families like ours. We launched the Coalition for Metabolic Health @metcoalition to advance policy. But there was still a gap. Fourteen months ago, Harvard-trained psychiatrist @GeorgiaEdeMD--one of the founders of the field and a close collaborator of @BaszuckiGroup--came to us with a problem and an opportunity. Her inbox was flooded with messages from practitioners around the world who wanted to be part of the metabolic psychiatry movement. They longed for community and training; they wanted to share what they were learning about using ketogenic and other metabolic therapies to treat and even reverse mental illness and to improve overall well-being in their patients; they wanted to both help and learn from other doctors, nurse practitioners, dieticians, therapists, social workers, health coaches and scientists. Dr. Ede barely had time to reply to all the inquiries; would Baszucki Group step up to help? The answer was a resounding yes. Our dedicated team of scientists, clinicians, program managers, and lived experience experts got right to work. Today, just over a year later, I am thrilled to share that our new initiative--the Global Network for the Advancement of Metabolic Psychiatry (MetPsy) @met_psy--is live! MetPsy is a community of scientists and practitioners dedicated to scaling research, education, and clinical care in metabolic psychiatry worldwide. We launch at a pivotal time. As the field expands, demand for resources has grown among researchers and clinicians, as well as the patients they serve. MetPsy addresses this need by providing a centralized network for professional collaboration, shared resources, access to accredited courses, and tools for advancing clinical practice. Alongside this launch, we've also announced a grant from our family foundation to establish the new McLean Center for Metabolic Psychiatry, a flagship clinical care, research and medical education and training center at @McLeanHospital, a member of Mass General Brigham. Medical education and training initiatives will be co-led by @ChrisPalmerMD's MH² , a clinical practice, training, and education hub. Our prior five years of investments in science, education and clinical care form the foundation for the MetPsy community. It is fitting that this center finds its home in Boston. Along with Stanford, where @ShebaniMD ran the first clinical trial of keto for serious mental illness, Boston has been a birthplace of the field. It was there that pioneering physicians like @GeorgiaEdeMD, @ChrisPalmerMD and @MattBernstein6 (Accord), along with @loricalabresemd in nearby Connecticut, first advanced a new way of understanding and treating mental disorders. Their commitment to the field has helped make this day possible, as has scientific leadership from Harvard and McLean's Dost Unger and Virginie-Anne Chouinard, along with so many others. I want to extend my deepest thanks to the staff at Baszucki Group--especially the MetPsy team led by Executive Director @KirkNylen in close partnership with @julie_milder, Karen Romans and Soly Lee--for the passion and dedication that led to launching this program in record time. As a family, we were blessed with our son's full recovery from what was supposed to be a chronic, lifelong mental illness. Our investment in MetPsy and the new center at McLean is @DavidBaszucki and my way of giving back and offering hope to families like ours. Join the network today!

Higher LDL correlated with better cardiovascular outcomes? In this case, yes. But the bigger story is why this is hidden in the paper despite other lipid markers prominently displayed. People are afraid to talk about it. It's off limits. Why?

The Cholesterol Code is now streaming on Amazon Prime, free to watch for Prime members. Check it out! amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B… @realdavefeldman @metabolicmind

Natasha Smikles: "You will never know the impact, but that's part of it." She’s talking about the moment she knew she had the ability to make a difference in someone’s life. Watch: youtu.be/-hgUaW2oYvo @NatashaSmikles #psychiatricnursing #metabolicpsychiatry #mentalhealth #ketobiography

Out now: Keto for ADHD and Anxiety with my friend Natasha Smikles. Even though she's a psychiatric nurse, she missed the signs in herself. One podcast episode about metabolism and mental health was the green light she needed to make a change. Now she's creating a ripple effect to help others. pod.link/1747219177 @NatashaSmikles #ketoforADHD #ADHD #metabolicpsychiatry #ketobiography

🚨 Free 20 Page Metabolic Health Guide Do you have friends or family you want to get interested in metabolic health? I know I do. That’s why I just released a 20-page Beginner’s Guide to metabolic health. You can download the completely free PDF here: nicknorwitz.com/guide It introduces topics like inflammation and insulin resistance, puts key concepts into context, and even includes activities like family quizzes and a grocery store scavenger hunt. Feedback welcome. This is a V1.0 And if you want to spread metabolic health, do a solid and click repost. And repost with constructive feedback if you feel like it :) Let's plant the seeds of metabolic health.

Why do some people get better while others keep struggling, even with the best care? That question is why I founded MH². The brain is part of the body, and metabolic factors like sleep, nutrition, and hormones can shape mental illness. Learn more: mh2.health

What I’m saying is the white coat influencers who promote diet only treatments need to get out more and enjoy life. Observe how no normal patient cares about diet. People want to live and eat what they want. I will prescribe meds to allow them to be happy and lower their risk better than any orthorexic advice from an X influencer.

"[...] when the ketogenic diet can stop that kind of suffering, and help people lose weight, and help them improve so many other biomarkers, I really honestly just don't give a shit about LDL cholesterol - I just don't!" - @ChrisPalmerMD youtu.be/9mLPJBv3lNk?si=QhDn… Integrity Courage