Thanks for joining RP today for Part 2 of our conversation with Dr. Matt Bernstein, MD and psychiatrist, whose personal experience with his sons' rapid development of OCD-like symptoms and subsequent failures of traditional psychiatric treatment modalities piqued his curiosity to think outside of the box and explore the high-benefit/low-risk promise of a ketogenic diet (low carb) on mental health.  In Part 2, Dr. Bernstein delves more into his personal and professional experiences with transformative ketogenic diets.  We further discuss the harmful role of sugar and insulin resistance in the gut and brain... It's almost like our entire body is connected to itself and affected by what we fuel it with... What a novel concept!  If you're passionate about what we do here at Renegade Psych, we're now on Patreon! If you’d like to support our work, you can! Or not... I'll continue putting out content as long as my other jobs pay the bills.  Other things you can do: liking, commenting, and sharing our posts also go a long way! https://patreon.com/RenegadePsych. Thanks for listening to the audio podcast... You should check out our posted video podcast on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaZ1bds1MGMM4tSbY7ISqug) as there are graphics overlaying the video to make it all more interactive and educational.  For more social media content, check us out on all social media platforms @RenegadePsych. If you have any comments, questions or challenges to the information we've presented here, if you'd like to be a guest to the show, or if you have general comments, questions, or suggestions, email us at [email protected] and follow the link https://renegade-psych.podcastpage.io/  to our website for source material, transcripts, and additional links for my guests. If you feel passionate about our message and what we're trying to do, and you'd like to donate, you can also follow the link in the show notes to our website. Disclaimer, this podcast is for informational purposes only. The information provided in this podcast and related materials are meant only to educate.  This information is not intended as a substitute for professional medical advice. While I am a medical doctor and many of my guests have extensive medical training and experience, nothing stated in this podcast nor materials related to this podcast, including recommended websites, texts, graphics, images, or any other materials should be treated as a substitute for professional medical or psychological advice, diagnosis or treatment. All listeners should consult with a medical professional, licensed mental health provider or other healthcare provider if seeking medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment

Thanks for joining RP today for a conversation with Dr. Matt Bernstein, MD and psychiatrist, whose personal experience with his sons' rapid development of OCD-like symptoms and subsequent failures of traditional psychiatric treatment modalities piquing his curiosity to think outside of the box and explore the benefits of a ketogenic diet (low carb) on mental health.  His transformative experience changed the way he practices psychiatry and he emphasizes the tremendous potential benefits of ketogenesis balanced against a relatively minimal risk profile.  I really enjoyed this conversation, come back next week for PArt 2!!! If you're passionate about what we do here at Renegade Psych, we're now on Patreon! If you’d like to support our work, you can! Or not... I'll continue putting out content as long as my other jobs pay the bills.  Other things you can do: liking, commenting, and sharing our posts also go a long way! https://patreon.com/RenegadePsych. Thanks for listening to the audio podcast... You should check out our posted video podcast on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaZ1bds1MGMM4tSbY7ISqug) as there are graphics overlaying the video to make it all more interactive and educational.  For more social media content, check us out on all social media platforms @RenegadePsych. If you have any comments, questions or challenges to the information we've presented here, if you'd like to be a guest to the show, or if you have general comments, questions, or suggestions, email us at [email protected] and follow the link https://renegade-psych.podcastpage.io/  to our website for source material, transcripts, and additional links for my guests. If you feel passionate about our message and what we're trying to do, and you'd like to donate, you can also follow the link in the show notes to our website. Disclaimer, this podcast is for informational purposes only. The information provided in this podcast and related materials are meant only to educate.  This information is not intended as a substitute for professional medical advice. While I am a medical doctor and many of my guests have extensive medical training and experience, nothing stated in this podcast nor materials related to this podcast, including recommended websites, texts, graphics, images, or any other materials should be treated as a substitute for professional medical or psychological advice, diagnosis or treatment. All listeners should consult with a medical professional, licensed mental health provider or other healthcare provider if seeking medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment

Thanks for joining RP for a 2025 clinical research update on Lithium.  If you missed it, Harvard just released their findings of a new multi-phase study investigating lithium's potential use in Alzheimer's as a biomarker to predict disease before it becomes clinically obvious, and also its' potential to TREAT ALZHEIMER's (and potentially other forms of dementia as well).  With ongoing trials in Parkinson's, long COVID, post-stroke and brain injuries, and beyond, chronic and low-dose lithium use may be the future answer to optimizing brain health. We'll expand on some of the findings in next week's episode! Hope you enjoy! If you're passionate about what we do here at Renegade Psych, we're now on Patreon! If you’d like to support our work, you can! Or not... I'll continue putting out content as long as my other jobs pay the bills.  Other things you can do: liking, commenting, and sharing our posts also go a long way! https://patreon.com/RenegadePsych. Thanks for listening to the audio podcast... You should check out our posted video podcast on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaZ1bds1MGMM4tSbY7ISqug) as there are graphics overlaying the video to make it all more interactive and educational.  For more social media content, check us out on all social media platforms @RenegadePsych. If you have any comments, questions or challenges to the information we've presented here, if you'd like to be a guest to the show, or if you have general comments, questions, or suggestions, email us at [email protected] and follow the link https://renegade-psych.podcastpage.io/  to our website for source material, transcripts, and additional links for my guests. If you feel passionate about our message and what we're trying to do, and you'd like to donate, you can also follow the link in the show notes to our website. Disclaimer, this podcast is for informational purposes only. The information provided in this podcast and related materials are meant only to educate.  This information is not intended as a substitute for professional medical advice. While I am a medical doctor and many of my guests have extensive medical training and experience, nothing stated in this podcast nor materials related to this podcast, including recommended websites, texts, graphics, images, or any other materials should be treated as a substitute for professional medical or psychological advice, diagnosis or treatment. All listeners should consult with a medical professional, licensed mental health provider or other healthcare provider if seeking medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment

Thanks for joining RP for my series interviewing David Cohen, PhD, MSW, about the state of mental healthcare in the United States today.  In Part 3, David and I argue about lithium's therapeutic window (though he does acknowledge the potential benefits of low doses) and we further discuss the broken healthcare system. While David and I agree on most issues including fundamentally that our healthcare system is broken, our conversation at times was a bit contentious back and forth due to disagreements about where we should be practicing in the space between the full-bore biologic psychiatry movement and the anti-psychiatry movement.  While most psychotropic medications have limited effectiveness and overstated safety, some meds stand out above the rest.  I fear that taking an all-or-nothing approach to the use of medications and/or knowledge about what we're treating has inherent dangers, just as over-medicating the shit out of our entire population also brings negative outcomes.  Hope you enjoy! If you're passionate about what we do here at Renegade Psych, we're now on Patreon! If you’d like to support our work, you can! Or not... I'll continue putting out content as long as my other jobs pay the bills.  Other things you can do: liking, commenting, and sharing our posts also go a long way! https://patreon.com/RenegadePsych. Thanks for listening to the audio podcast... You should check out our posted video podcast on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaZ1bds1MGMM4tSbY7ISqug) as there are graphics overlaying the video to make it all more interactive and educational.  For more social media content, check us out on all social media platforms @RenegadePsych. If you have any comments, questions or challenges to the information we've presented here, if you'd like to be a guest to the show, or if you have general comments, questions, or suggestions, email us at [email protected] and follow the link https://renegade-psych.podcastpage.io/  to our website for source material, transcripts, and additional links for my guests. If you feel passionate about our message and what we're trying to do, and you'd like to donate, you can also follow the link in the show notes to our website. Disclaimer, this podcast is for informational purposes only. The information provided in this podcast and related materials are meant only to educate.  This information is not intended as a substitute for professional medical advice. While I am a medical doctor and many of my guests have extensive medical training and experience, nothing stated in this podcast nor materials related to this podcast, including recommended websites, texts, graphics, images, or any other materials should be treated as a substitute for professional medical or psychological advice, diagnosis or treatment. All listeners should consult with a medical professional, licensed mental health provider or other healthcare provider if seeking medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment

Thanks for joining RP for my series interviewing David Cohen, PhD, MSW, about the state of mental healthcare in the United States today.  In Part 2, David and I discuss the over-diagnosis of ADHD and rapid inflation of diagnosis and medication use over the last 20-30 years (the US utilizes 90+% of the world's amphetamines, and the vast majority of all pharmaceuticals treating ADHD compared to the rest of the world), as well as the invalidity of the DSM, or Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, which is notably NOT AT ALL statistical, and mongers up diagnoses that aren't unique from other mental health diagnoses.  This is a common trick used by big pharma to push an idea about a diagnosis in order to lay the foundation for their drug that is utilized to 'treat' the diagnosis (which, let's be real, usually ends up as a treatment of a couple of the symptoms of the diagnosis and then they call it 'statistically significant' of an effect and obtain FDA approval.  While David and I agree on most issues including fundamentally that our healthcare system is broken, our conversation at times was a bit contentious back and forth due to disagreements about where we should be practicing in the space between the full-bore biologic psychiatry movement and the anti-psychiatry movement.  While most psychotropic medications have limited effectiveness and overstated safety, some meds stand out above the rest.  I fear that taking an all-or-nothing approach to the use of medications and/or knowledge about what we're treating has inherent dangers, just as over-medicating the shit out of our entire population also brings negative outcomes.  If you're passionate about what we do here at Renegade Psych, we're now on Patreon! If you’d like to support our work, you can! Or not... I'll continue putting out content as long as my other jobs pay the bills.  Other things you can do: liking, commenting, and sharing our posts also go a long way! https://patreon.com/RenegadePsych. Thanks for listening to the audio podcast... You should check out our posted video podcast on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaZ1bds1MGMM4tSbY7ISqug) as there are graphics overlaying the video to make it all more interactive and educational.  For more social media content, check us out on all social media platforms @RenegadePsych. If you have any comments, questions or challenges to the information we've presented here, if you'd like to be a guest to the show, or if you have general comments, questions, or suggestions, email us at [email protected] and follow the link https://renegade-psych.podcastpage.io/  to our website for source material, transcripts, and additional links for my guests. If you feel passionate about our message and what we're trying to do, and you'd like to donate, you can also follow the link in the show notes to our website. Disclaimer, this podcast is for informational purposes only. The information provided in this podcast and related materials are meant only to educate.  This information is not intended as a substitute for professional medical advice. While I am a medical doctor and many of my guests have extensive medical training and experience, nothing stated in this podcast nor materials related to this podcast, including recommended websites, texts, graphics, images, or any other materials should be treated as a substitute for professional medical or psychological advice, diagnosis or treatment. All listeners should consult with a medical professional, licensed mental health provider or other healthcare provider if seeking medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment

Thanks for joining RP for my series interviewing David Cohen, PhD, MSW, about the state of mental healthcare in the United States today.  In Part 1, David and I discuss the use of medication assisted treatment and David points out that similar chemical substances are treated drastically different by society and government regulators depending on whether they are labeled as a pharmaceutical versus an illicit drug. While David and I agree on most issues including fundamentally that our healthcare system is broken, our conversation at times was a bit contentious back and forth due to disagreements about where we should be practicing in the space between the full-bore biologic psychiatry movement and the anti-psychiatry movement.  While most psychotropic medications have limited effectiveness and overstated safety, some meds stand out above the rest.  I fear that taking an all-or-nothing approach to the use of medications and/or knowledge about what we're treating has inherent dangers, just as over-medicating the shit out of our entire population also brings negative outcomes.  If you're passionate about what we do here at Renegade Psych, we're now on Patreon! If you’d like to support our work, you can! Or not... I'll continue putting out content as long as my other jobs pay the bills.  Other things you can do: liking, commenting, and sharing our posts also go a long way! https://patreon.com/RenegadePsych. Thanks for listening to the audio podcast... You should check out our posted video podcast on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaZ1bds1MGMM4tSbY7ISqug) as there are graphics overlaying the video to make it all more interactive and educational.  For more social media content, check us out on all social media platforms @RenegadePsych. If you have any comments, questions or challenges to the information we've presented here, if you'd like to be a guest to the show, or if you have general comments, questions, or suggestions, email us at [email protected] and follow the link https://renegade-psych.podcastpage.io/  to our website for source material, transcripts, and additional links for my guests. If you feel passionate about our message and what we're trying to do, and you'd like to donate, you can also follow the link in the show notes to our website. Disclaimer, this podcast is for informational purposes only. The information provided in this podcast and related materials are meant only to educate.  This information is not intended as a substitute for professional medical advice. While I am a medical doctor and many of my guests have extensive medical training and experience, nothing stated in this podcast nor materials related to this podcast, including recommended websites, texts, graphics, images, or any other materials should be treated as a substitute for professional medical or psychological advice, diagnosis or treatment. All listeners should consult with a medical professional, licensed mental health provider or other healthcare provider if seeking medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment

Join us for Part 2 of the conversation with PharmD and PA, Norman Curtiss.  In this episode, we wrap up with Norman's personal journey to becoming a physician's assistant after battling alcohol and Adderall addictions for the better part of a decade.  We also discuss failures in the system of mental health, both in clinical practice, as well as the educational system forcing guidelines and one-size-fits-all approaches to care down our throats.  We appreciate Norman's willingness to outline and describe his trials and tribulations in life, and how it has set him up with an even better understanding of the healthcare system and how he can best help others who are struggling, through a compassionate, thorough, and common-sense approach to care.  If you're passionate about what we do here at Renegade Psych, we're now on Patreon! If you’d like to support our work, you can! Or not... I'll continue putting out content as long as my other jobs pay the bills.  Other things you can do: liking, commenting, and sharing our posts also go a long way! https://patreon.com/RenegadePsych. Thanks for listening to the audio podcast... You should check out our posted video podcast on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaZ1bds1MGMM4tSbY7ISqug) as there are graphics overlaying the video to make it all more interactive and educational.  For more social media content, check us out on all social media platforms @RenegadePsych. If you have any comments, questions or challenges to the information we've presented here, if you'd like to be a guest to the show, or if you have general comments, questions, or suggestions, email us at [email protected] and follow the link https://renegade-psych.podcastpage.io/  to our website for source material, transcripts, and additional links for my guests. If you feel passionate about our message and what we're trying to do, and you'd like to donate, you can also follow the link in the show notes to our website. Disclaimer, this podcast is for informational purposes only. The information provided in this podcast and related materials are meant only to educate.  This information is not intended as a substitute for professional medical advice. While I am a medical doctor and many of my guests have extensive medical training and experience, nothing stated in this podcast nor materials related to this podcast, including recommended websites, texts, graphics, images, or any other materials should be treated as a substitute for professional medical or psychological advice, diagnosis or treatment. All listeners should consult with a medical professional, licensed mental health provider or other healthcare provider if seeking medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment

Join us for this conversation with PharmD and PA, Norman Curtiss, on his journey through alcohol and Adderall addictions as a pharmacist to sobriety and going back to school to pursue a new role as a prescribing Physician's Assistant, or PA.  We appreciate Norman's willingness to outline and describe his trials and tribulations in life, and how it has set him up with an even better understanding of the healthcare system and how he can best help others who are struggling, through a compassionate, thorough, and common-sense approach to care.  Join us for Part 2 of our interview with Norman Curtiss next week! If you're passionate about what we do here at Renegade Psych, we're now on Patreon! If you’d like to support our work, you can! Or not... I'll continue putting out content as long as my other jobs pay the bills.  Other things you can do: liking, commenting, and sharing our posts also go a long way! https://patreon.com/RenegadePsych. Thanks for listening to the audio podcast... You should check out our posted video podcast on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaZ1bds1MGMM4tSbY7ISqug) as there are graphics overlaying the video to make it all more interactive and educational.  For more social media content, check us out on all social media platforms @RenegadePsych. If you have any comments, questions or challenges to the information we've presented here, if you'd like to be a guest to the show, or if you have general comments, questions, or suggestions, email us at [email protected] and follow the link https://renegade-psych.podcastpage.io/  to our website for source material, transcripts, and additional links for my guests. If you feel passionate about our message and what we're trying to do, and you'd like to donate, you can also follow the link in the show notes to our website. Disclaimer, this podcast is for informational purposes only. The information provided in this podcast and related materials are meant only to educate.  This information is not intended as a substitute for professional medical advice. While I am a medical doctor and many of my guests have extensive medical training and experience, nothing stated in this podcast nor materials related to this podcast, including recommended websites, texts, graphics, images, or any other materials should be treated as a substitute for professional medical or psychological advice, diagnosis or treatment. All listeners should consult with a medical professional, licensed mental health provider or other healthcare provider if seeking medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment

Here, I wrap up with Part 2 of my talk with Dr. Steven C. Hayes, PhD, about the embedded history of eugenics in psychiatry and psychology, way before Nazi-era Germany's Holocaust atrocities.  After talking about the history of eugenics in bio-statistics and psychology/psychiatry's origins and legalized sterilization of those deemed 'feeble-minded,' in Part 2, we expand on how we must take precautions to prevent these types of atrocities to occur in a modernized way today.  Steve tells us about better statistical ways of measuring individuals over time, then combining millions of individuals over billions of years-lived to create both population-wide predictive models of behavior, but also individualize our treatments by allowing AI to help us learn which processes (acceptance, defusion, contact with the present moment aka meditation/mindfulness, self-as-context, values, and committed action/goals).  We can't let government or corporate interests to dictate what constitutes good science and medicine, and need to re-distance ourselves from those entities, with government playing an ACTUAL REGULATORY role and business driving safe and effective innovations in medicine.  Please please spread the word about Renegade Psych if you haven't already.  Let's change what we consider to be good science for the sake of our health and our sanity! If you're passionate about what we do here at Renegade Psych, we're now on Patreon! If you’d like to support our work, you can! Or not... I'll continue putting out content as long as my other jobs pay the bills.  Other things you can do: liking, commenting, and sharing our posts also go a long way! https://patreon.com/RenegadePsych. Thanks for listening to the audio podcast... You should check out our posted video podcast on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaZ1bds1MGMM4tSbY7ISqug) as there are graphics overlaying the video to make it all more interactive and educational.  For more social media content, check us out on all social media platforms @RenegadePsych. If you have any comments, questions or challenges to the information we've presented here, if you'd like to be a guest to the show, or if you have general comments, questions, or suggestions, email us at [email protected] and follow the link https://renegade-psych.podcastpage.io/  to our website for source material, transcripts, and additional links for my guests. If you feel passionate about our message and what we're trying to do, and you'd like to donate, you can also follow the link in the show notes to our website. Disclaimer, this podcast is for informational purposes only. The information provided in this podcast and related materials are meant only to educate.  This information is not intended as a substitute for professional medical advice. While I am a medical doctor and many of my guests have extensive medical training and experience, nothing stated in this podcast nor materials related to this podcast, including recommended websites, texts, graphics, images, or any other materials should be treated as a substitute for professional medical or psychological advice, diagnosis or treatment. All listeners should consult with a medical professional, licensed mental health provider or other healthcare provider if seeking medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment

Today, I talk to Dr. Steven C. Hayes, PhD, about the embedded history of eugenics in psychiatry and psychology, way before Nazi-era Germany's Holocaust atrocities.  We discuss the history of eugenics in creating and adhering to some of the fundamental tools in statistics, and how that paved the way for many of the original leaders in psychology and psychiatry (late 1800s, early 1900s) to be prominent eugenicists.  Legalizing mass sterilizations of those deemed 'feeble-minded' in the US was backed by THE SCIENCE of the early 1900s and predated Nazi Germany by a couple of decades.  While this episode is pretty disturbing for those not in the know, it is really important for us to understand our history so we don't repeat the same horrendous mistakes and fall into similar unscientific patterns moving forward.  Steve implores us to expand our statistical methods and repertoire in an effort to prioritize measuring change in individuals over time as a way to tailor treatment to each individual. Join us for Part 2 of our discussion next week, hope you enjoy! If you're passionate about what we do here at Renegade Psych, we're now on Patreon! If you’d like to support our work, you can! Or not... I'll continue putting out content as long as my other jobs pay the bills.  Other things you can do: liking, commenting, and sharing our posts also go a long way! https://patreon.com/RenegadePsych. Thanks for listening to the audio podcast... You should check out our posted video podcast on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaZ1bds1MGMM4tSbY7ISqug) as there are graphics overlaying the video to make it all more interactive and educational.  For more social media content, check us out on all social media platforms @RenegadePsych. If you have any comments, questions or challenges to the information we've presented here, if you'd like to be a guest to the show, or if you have general comments, questions, or suggestions, email us at [email protected] and follow the link https://renegade-psych.podcastpage.io/  to our website for source material, transcripts, and additional links for my guests. If you feel passionate about our message and what we're trying to do, and you'd like to donate, you can also follow the link in the show notes to our website. Disclaimer, this podcast is for informational purposes only. The information provided in this podcast and related materials are meant only to educate.  This information is not intended as a substitute for professional medical advice. While I am a medical doctor and many of my guests have extensive medical training and experience, nothing stated in this podcast nor materials related to this podcast, including recommended websites, texts, graphics, images, or any other materials should be treated as a substitute for professional medical or psychological advice, diagnosis or treatment. All listeners should consult with a medical professional, licensed mental health provider or other healthcare provider if seeking medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment