Shebani Sethi is a psychiatrist and researcher affiliated with Stanford University. Her work focuses on metabolic psychiatry, specifically the relationship between metabolic health and psychiatric conditions. Her published research examines the use of ketogenic and low-carbohydrate dietary interventions to treat serious mental illnesses, including schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, psychosis, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and binge eating disorders.
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"and that doubles your risk of developing depression even if you have had no psychiatric history." (said at 0:00:04)
No published record matching the claim that insulin resistance doubles the risk of developing depression in individuals with no psychiatric history was located; this does not prove the claim false.
"the Senate Appropriations Committee came out with a recommendation for the NIMH to put more money and funding into—guess what—nutritional science or nutritional ketosis work in serious mental illness specifically." (said at 0:46:22)
No published record matching the claim that the United States Senate Appropriations Committee issued a recommendation directing the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) to fund research on nutritional science or nutritional ketosis in serious mental illness was located; this does not prove the claim false.
"I remember this little girl I had who was a beautiful 9-year-old little girl who was just a terror, and she was kicked out of her class like routinely in school, on the bus ride home they'd have to stop the bus 15 times to deal with her disruptive behavior and violence, aggression. I did a urine test which looked at metabolites of bacteria and yeast in the gut, and she just was off the chart with fungal metabolites and bacterial metabolites. And so like, "I'm just going to go back to first principles and reset her gut and give her an antibiotic and an antifungal and give her some probiotics." It was like the lights just came on in this girl overnight. She went from like this terror to being this sweet little girl." (said at 1:08:44)
No published record matching this clinical case report—of a 9-year-old child presenting with severe behavioral disruption and aggression who was evaluated via urinary microbial metabolites and treated with an antibiotic, antifungal, and probiotics—was located; this does not prove the claim false.