In 2009, medical student <a href="https://med.stanford.edu/profiles/shebani-sethi"target="_blank" >Shebani Sethi</a> watched a patient in a weight loss program make a remarkable recovery. The dietary intervention she underwent alleviated her schizophrenia symptoms, something the woman had tried – and failed – to treat with medication for years. That experience sent Shebani down a medical path that would lead her to treating mental health in a radically different way. Today host <a href="https://www.npr.org/people/767284140/emily-kwong"target="_blank" >Emily Kwong</a> talks to Shebani about the emerging field of metabolic psychiatry and how ketogenic metabolic therapy may treat schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and depression. Read Shebani’s <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s44220-026-00609-5"target="_blank" >article on metabolic psychiatry here</a>. Interested in more lifestyle science? Email us your question at <a href="mailto:shortwave@npr.org"target="_blank" >shortwave@npr.org</a>. Listen to every episode of Short Wave sponsor-free and support our work at NPR by signing up for Short Wave+ at <a href="http://plus.npr.org/"target="_blank" >plus.npr.org</a> See <a href="https://pcm.adswizz.com">pcm.adswizz.com</a> for information about our collection and use of personal data for sponsorship and to manage your podcast sponsorship preferences. <a href="https://www.npr.org/about-npr/179878450/privacy-policy">NPR Privacy Policy</a>

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