
Mental Health: The Metabolic Angle Nobody Screens For
The brain uses a fifth of the body's energy. When energy metabolism falters, the symptoms are psychiatric — and psychiatry has begun to notice.
The brain is metabolically the most expensive organ in the body, and it fails first when fuel supply, inflammation or micronutrients are compromised. That does not make psychiatry wrong; it makes physiology part of the picture. These pages cover the metabolic and nutritional research relevant to mood and cognition — as an addition to care, never a replacement for it.
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