Insulin resistance is one of the most undiagnosed problems affecting Americans. Dr. Shabani Sethi Dalai joins me on The Doctor’s Farmacy to discuss the importance of testing for insulin resistance, what tests to request from your doctor, and much more.

Dr. Sethi Dalai and I discuss metabolic psychiatry, a term she coined, which looks at the connection between psychiatry and overall metabolic health. Metabolic psychiatry considers how nutrition affects the brain, specifically focusing on reducing sugar, processed foods, and refined carbohydrates as a mechanism to improve mind and body health. Dr. Sethi Dalai discusses how highly refined carbohydrates and ultra-processed foods can alter brain signaling, appetite-satiety mechanisms, and reward signaling, and how the use of a ketogenic diet can be an effective intervention to address mental illness, including binge eating and food addiction.