This is an excerpt from our Medium article about Dr. Shebani Sethi, whose integration of metabolic health and psychiatry is creating new healing pathways for those struggling with mental illness.

“Mental health and metabolic health are deeply interconnected. We can’t effectively treat one without addressing the other.” — Shebani Sethi

Similar to two of our other great authorities, Dr Chris Palmer and Dr. Georgia Ede, Dr. Shebani Sethi stands at the crossroads of two specialties rarely combined: psychiatry and metabolic health -- in her case, obesity medicine. As the founder of Stanford University’s Metabolic Psychiatry Clinic — the first of its kind in the nation — she’s pioneering an approach that could fundamentally transform how we understand and treat mental illness.

We couldn’t agree more. We’d go a step further to say the soul of man, his mind, and his body are inextricably integrated, and Dr. Sethi’s work in this field validates that viewpoint powerfully. 

Sethi didn’t just join an existing field — she created one. The term “metabolic psychiatry” itself emerged largely through her efforts to establish this new discipline at the intersection of mental and metabolic health. This makes her one of the absolute most important figures in this space to follow and learn from, whether it’s her latest research and conclusions or her insights into its applications. 

Read more: https://exoduscounselingtn.medium.com/mental-health-heroes-6-heal-holistically-with-shebani-sethis-metabolic-vision-7584069e34d1