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Coalition for Metabolic Health Launches as Part of $50 Million Investment to Tackle America’s Health Crisis

Launched with seed funding from the Baszucki family’s $50 million commitment to improve metabolic health, the Coalition for Metabolic Health (CMH) — an independent alliance of leading scientists, clinicians, and advocates — will put the issue at the center of America’s fight against chronic disease. CMH was conceived by Jan Ellison Baszucki, best-selling author and co-founder of Baszucki Group and Metabolic Mind, and her husband, David Baszucki, founder and CEO of Roblox.

Can a Ketogenic Diet Treat Mental Illness?

A growing body of scientific evidence suggests the ketogenic diet, long used to treat epilepsy, could be effective for treating schizophrenia and other psychiatric disorders and reducing the often debilitating side effects of antipsychotics.

RFK Jr. Can Take On America’s Addiction to Carbs

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says he wants to “make America healthy again.” With HHS updating its Dietary Guidelines for Americans this year, now is his chance. Nearly all Americans are at risk for metabolic disease. It’s time to recommend for them the lower-carb diet.

New research from The Lundquist Institute finds ketogenic diet-induced high cholesterol does not predict heart disease

The Lundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovation at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, in collaboration with researchers across multiple institutions, has published a new study that challenges the long-held belief that high cholesterol correlates and even directly causes coronary artery disease, or plaque buildup in the arteries in metabolically healthy individuals.

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