Ketosis as a Mental Health Therapy
Therapeutic ketosis is not just a diet, but a powerful treatment tool for some of the most challenging mental illnesses. The Ketogenic Diet and Ketosis Changing the foods we eat can have a profound...
View ArticlePractical Training & Mentoring to Advance Patient Care
Functional and integrative medicine for mental health can profoundly improve outcomes. And we should know, as we’ve been using and educating on these methods for years, and we see the differences with...
View ArticleA Tale of Two Conferences
I was at a mental health conference in Chicago two weeks ago. At the conference, there was a wide variety of specialists touting innovations in mental health care. Many of these ideas revolved around...
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Expand Your Practice with Metabolic & Nutritional Psychiatry!
Metabolic Psychiatry Research has clearly linked mental health with physical health. And the latest findings in metabolic psychiatry help highlight the connection. Improving metabolism by balancing...
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Identify Root Causes of Mental Illness with Lab Diagnostics
Laboratory Diagnostics and Functional Psychiatry If you are frustrated from leaning on the same toolbox of medications and therapies that mostly just provide symptom management, you will want to learn...
View ArticleVitamin D and Alzheimer’s Disease
One of the more important—and often overlooked—nutrients for brain health is vitamin D. In my own experience with thousands of patients, optimizing vitamin D levels is a critical component for...
View ArticleUnraveling the Causes of Long COVID
Long COVD can be devastating for those it affects. Symptoms typically include fatigue, brain fog and memory problems that worsen after physical or mental exertion. Due to a poor understanding of the...
View ArticleHeal the GI Microbiome to Improve Mental Health
The Gastrointestinal Microbiome Should be a Consideration in any Mental Health Treatment Plan Have you noticed how many patients with depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder and other mental health...
View ArticleChecklist Medicine: Has Psychiatry Gone Too Far?
Psychiatry Redefined was founded on the understanding that numerous quantifiable genetic and biochemical components underlie mental illness. For many years, research has been building that shows this...
View ArticleLow-Dose Lithium, Genetic Markers and Precision Medicine
Precision medicine is the future of modern psychiatry. At Psychiatry Redefined, we’ve already been training health-care providers in a precision, whole-person treatment approach – far more effective...
View ArticleNew Study Finds Rates of ADHD Increased in US: Why Do Rates Keep Rising?
A new report from the National Center for Health Statistics outlines the latest survey data around attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) diagnoses in the United States (Reuben 2024). The...
View ArticleBorderline Personality Disorder and Omega-3 Fatty Acids
Want to learn a more effective approach for treating borderline personality disorder? Attend our upcoming FREE webinar, Borderline Personality Disorder Redefined, led by Dr. James Greenblatt!...
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Finding My Footing in Functional Psychiatry
Josh Habansky, MSN, PMHNP-BC Article by Josh Habansky, MSN, PMHNP-BC Even before completing my graduate psychiatric nurse practitioner program, I knew I wanted to move beyond the conventional...
View ArticleAntidepressant Withdrawal
A Functional Medicine Approach to Antidepressant Withdrawal Second generation antidepressant medications, including fluoxetine (Prozac), citalopram (Celexa), paroxetine (Paxil), sertraline (Zoloft)...
View ArticleSuicide Prevention Redefined: New Opportunities for Saving Lives
By the time you finish reading this article, a person somewhere in America will have committed suicide. If you read this article again a year from now, nearly 50,000 people will have died by their own...
View ArticleAre We Gender-Biased When Diagnosing and Treating ADHD?
Who do you picture when you think of someone with ADHD? If you’re like most of us, your first thought is probably of a hyperactive, impulsive boy. A boy whose behavior is much more noticeable than...
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Low Hanging Fruit: Addressing Nutrient Deficiencies in Functional Psychiatry
Josh Habansky, MSN, PMHNP-BC Article by Josh Habansky, MSN, PMHNP-BC Participating in the Psychiatry Redefined Fellowship has been a transformative experience, not only in terms of my professional...
View ArticleN-Acetylcysteine (NAC) for OCD: A Functional Approach
Article by Josh Habansky, MSN, PMHNP-BC Introduction to NAC and OCD Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is a challenging mental health condition that affects millions of people worldwide. Individuals...
View Article5-HTP, Appetite and Binge Eating
With all the excitement over weight-loss medications like Ozempic and Mounjaro, it’s become increasingly obvious that there are important biochemical mechanisms that influence appetite. These...
View ArticleThe Links Between Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder & Binge Eating
While it doesn’t often receive a lot of attention, obesity is a common comorbidity of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). An analysis from 2024 found that having ADHD increased the risk...
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