Research suggests that metabolic health may play an essential role in mental well-being.

After years of therapies, medications, retreats, and self-exploration, Michael, a former nutrition client of mine, had resigned himself to a familiar low-grade depression and anxiety he’d carried since childhood. He accepted it as part of who he was. However, following Michael’s debilitating autoimmune diagnosis, a friend mentioned that changing her own diet had put her condition into remission.

ACCORD is proud to announce that the Baszucki Group has awarded more than $600,000 in research funding to support a groundbreaking study on metabolic psychiatry in partnership with McLean Hospital. This three-year project, led by Dr. Virginie-Anne Chouinard and Dr. Matthew Bernstein, along with a dedicated research assistant and biostatistician, will explore how ketogenic and other metabolic interventions influence psychiatric symptoms, metabolic health and overall functioning.