Author: Christie Barnett

April 29, 2020

Lifestyle Medicine, the key to metabolic healing

What is lifestyle medicine? Lifestyle medicine can be the central vehicle for metabolic intervention and metabolic optimization. Generally speaking, metabolisms are improved with behaviors rather than with the stuff of conventional health care, i.e.,...

March 8, 2020

Ketogenic diet helps twins improve schizophrenic symptoms

Chris Palmer, MD was a co-author of this 2018 case study which showed an improvement in schizophrenic symptoms in young Ecuadorian twins on a ketogenic diet. They were a male and a female, diagnosed with...

November 18, 2019

Chris Palmer, MD: Ketogenic therapy may help stop seizures

This dietary treatment, the ketogenic diet, based on ancient medicine, is making a comeback as a treatment for epilepsy. The ketogenic diet controversy The keto diet is one of today’s most controversial diets, so...

July 15, 2019

Why evaluate dietary interventions? Are they just food?

Chris Palmer. MD just published Diets and Disorders: Can Foods or Fasting Be Considered Psychopharmacologic Therapies? It is in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry(1) and you’ll find an executive summary in this post. First...

July 1, 2019

How we got a Harvard Business School MBA to work with us for free

Who is Cecile Seth? Cecile Seth, alumna of Harvard Business School, got her graduate degree as a “… a license to have fun.” What is “fun” for Cecile? She tells us that creative projects...

May 17, 2019

Doris’s chronic schizophrenia remission brings hope

Starting at the end, Doris is ok. She lived happily ever after. But it wasn’t always so. She gave us permission to share her story of schizophrenia in remission. Why? Doris wants to further...

May 14, 2018

My mother’s suffering spurred me to find keto

Christie Barnett’s keto journey: Sitting in a nursing home with my dying mother is where it all began for me, Christie Barnett. There she was, a 71-year-old formerly dignified college instructor, stuck in a...