Toward the greater good
Launched in 2021 by Roblox founder and CEO David Baszucki and best-selling author Jan Ellison Baszucki, Baszucki Group leverages grantmaking, impact investing, advocacy, storytelling and community building to drive foundational change.
Baszucki Group’s key initiatives aim to make metabolic health mainstream, transform farming and food systems, and advance non-partisan voting reforms that make government leaders accountable to a majority of constituents. Our work in science, medicine, food, farming, and politics advances straightforward but transformative approaches to drive systemic change.
We drive toward our mission and vision through progress in our three interdependent impact areas:
Fueling a New Frontier in Mental Health
Jan, David, and Matt Baszucki share their powerful and personal story of Matt’s recovery from a severe mental illness through ketogenic therapy—a journey that inspired their mission to bring metabolic approaches into mainstream mental health treatment. Alongside their story, experts in metabolic psychiatry and neuroscience discuss innovative approaches that are reshaping how we understand and treat mental disorders.
Highlights of Our Work
NPR: Patients say keto helps with their mental illness. Science is racing to understand why
January 27, 2024 — Iain Campbell, Baszucki Brain Research Fund Fellow, has lived with bipolar disorder since he was young. After trying the ketogenic diet, he discovered profound improvements in his symptoms — and now wants to learn if it can do the same for others. He shared his recent findings at the Metabolic Health Summit in Clearwater, Florida, on Jan. 25, 2024.
San Francisco Chronicle: Doctors said my son’s bipolar disorder couldn’t be healed by diet. They were wrong.
May 23, 2023 — Jan Ellison Baszucki penned an op-ed in the San Francisco Chronicle to share her family's journey of using a ketogenic diet to treat her son's bipolar disorder.