Uploaded March 2023 | Updated September 2026, 3 days ago
Welcome to Bipolarcast, where we explore and share the lived experience of individuals with Bipolar Disorder. Please note that the content provided in this podcast is for informational and lived experience storytelling purposes only. While we aim to foster understanding and empathy through real-life stories, this platform does not offer medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. The experiences and opinions expressed by the hosts and our guests are their own.
We strongly encourage listeners to seek professional medical advice for any mental health concerns. Our podcast is not a substitute for professional care by a doctor or other qualified healthcare professionals. Always consult your healthcare provider for any questions you may have regarding a medical condition, and never disregard professional medical advice or delay in seeking it because of something you have heard on this podcast.
Thank you for joining us on this journey of sharing and learning. Let's continue to support each other with compassion and understanding.
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If you have bipolar and are following a ketogenic diet, please consider contributing your valuable experience to the scientific record through this questionnaire study:
edinburgh.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/ketogenic-diet-questionnaire-study
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Dr. Dominic D’Agostino is a tenured Associate Professor at the University of South Florida (USF) Morsani College of Medicine in the Department of Molecular Pharmacology and Physiology. He mentors medical and graduate students and teaches medical neuroscience, medical physiology, nutrition, and neuropharmacology. He is also a research scientist at the Institute for Human and Machine Cognition (IHMC). His primary research focuses on developing and testing nutritional and metabolic-based therapies for a variety of disease states and advancing the use of these therapies into human clinical applications.
Please check out Dominic's Ketogenic Diet Blog: ketonutrition.org
And the Metabolic Health Summit he co-hosts:
metabolichealthsummit.com
And the new Metabolic Link podcast:
youtu.be/NxxGeoclei8
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For more info on ketogenic diet and mental health please check out: metabolicmind.org
If you live in the UK and would like to join a future ketogenic diet and bipolar disorder study please see the website of the pilot study Dr. Iain Campbell is working on at Edinburgh University funded by The Baszucki Brain Research Fund:
bipolarketostudy.com
Iain's keto and bipolar blog: ketobipolar.com
If you live in the U.S and would like to join a ketogenic diet and bipolar disorder trial please see Dr. Shebani Sethi Dalai's Baszucki Brain Research Fund trial at Stanford here:
https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/N...
Podcast hosts Matt and Iain have of 8 years of combined experience using ketogenic metabolic therapy for bipolar disorder and are working to raise awareness about the evidence of benefits of a ketogenic diet for bipolar disorder.
Welcome to Bipolarcast, where we explore and share the lived experience of individuals with Bipolar Disorder. Please note that the content provided in this podcast is for informational and lived experience storytelling purposes only. While we aim to foster understanding and empathy through real-life stories, this platform does not offer medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. The experiences and opinions expressed by the hosts and our guests are their own.
We strongly encourage listeners to seek professional medical advice for any mental health concerns. Our podcast is not a substitute for professional care by a doctor or other qualified healthcare professionals. Always consult your healthcare provider for any questions you may have regarding a medical condition, and never disregard professional medical advice or delay in seeking it because of something you have heard on this podcast.
Thank you for joining us on this journey of sharing and learning. Let's continue to support each other with compassion and understanding.
-----------------
If you have bipolar and are following a ketogenic diet, please consider contributing your valuable experience to the scientific record through this questionnaire study:
edinburgh.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/ketogenic-diet-questionnaire-study
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Dr. Dominic D’Agostino is a tenured Associate Professor at the University of South Florida (USF) Morsani College of Medicine in the Department of Molecular Pharmacology and Physiology. He mentors medical and graduate students and teaches medical neuroscience, medical physiology, nutrition, and neuropharmacology. He is also a research scientist at the Institute for Human and Machine Cognition (IHMC). His primary research focuses on developing and testing nutritional and metabolic-based therapies for a variety of disease states and advancing the use of these therapies into human clinical applications.
Please check out Dominic's Ketogenic Diet Blog: ketonutrition.org
And the Metabolic Health Summit he co-hosts:
metabolichealthsummit.com
And the new Metabolic Link podcast:
youtu.be/NxxGeoclei8
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For more info on ketogenic diet and mental health please check out: metabolicmind.org
If you live in the UK and would like to join a future ketogenic diet and bipolar disorder study please see the website of the pilot study Dr. Iain Campbell is working on at Edinburgh University funded by The Baszucki Brain Research Fund:
bipolarketostudy.com
Iain's keto and bipolar blog: ketobipolar.com
If you live in the U.S and would like to join a ketogenic diet and bipolar disorder trial please see Dr. Shebani Sethi Dalai's Baszucki Brain Research Fund trial at Stanford here:
https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/N...
Podcast hosts Matt and Iain have of 8 years of combined experience using ketogenic metabolic therapy for bipolar disorder and are working to raise awareness about the evidence of benefits of a ketogenic diet for bipolar disorder.
