What is Metabolic Psychiatry?
Metabolic psychiatry is an innovative approach to mental health that explores the powerful connection between your brain and your body’s metabolic processes. By addressing issues such as insulin resistance, chronic inflammation, and mitochondrial function, metabolic psychiatry seeks to optimize both physical and mental well-being. This cutting-edge field offers new ways to understand and treat psychiatric conditions, focusing on the role that diet, energy regulation, and overall metabolic health play in maintaining a balanced mind.
Why Metabolic Health Matters for Mental Well-Being
Did you know that your mental health is closely tied to your body’s ability to process energy? When your metabolism is out of balance, it can affect your brain’s ability to regulate mood, think clearly, and feel energized. Conditions like insulin resistance or chronic inflammation may contribute to symptoms of depression, anxiety, or even severe psychiatric disorders like bipolar disorder and schizophrenia.
By optimizing your metabolic health, we can work towards enhancing both your mental and physical well-being.
How Metabolic Psychiatry Works
Metabolic psychiatry treats mental health conditions by looking at the root causes in your body’s metabolism. Here’s how:
Nutritional Intervention
Research shows that certain diets, like ketogenic or low-carb diets, can help improve mental clarity and stabilize mood by supporting metabolic function.
Insulin Sensitivity
Keeping blood sugar levels balanced is key to avoiding the emotional rollercoaster that comes with blood sugar spikes and crashes.
Inflammation
Chronic inflammation in the body can lead to symptoms of depression and anxiety. Addressing inflammation can alleviate these symptoms and help stabilize mental health.
Mitochondrial Health
Your brain uses a lot of energy. Supporting the health of mitochondria, your cells’ powerhouses, helps ensure your brain has the energy it needs to function optimally.
Conditions Treated with Metabolic Psychiatry
Metabolic psychiatry has shown promise in treating a wide range of psychiatric conditions, including:
- Depression
- Anxiety
- Bipolar Disorder
- Schizophrenia
- Cognitive Decline and Brain Fog
- Fatigue and Low Energy
By focusing on metabolic health, we aim to improve not only your mental health but also your physical vitality and resilience.
Our Approach to Metabolic Psychiatry
At Sigma Health, we believe that mental and physical health are intimately connected. We take an evolutionary, personalized approach to wellness, considering not only your mental state but also the underlying metabolic processes that may be affecting it. Through nutrition, lifestyle modifications, and cutting-edge metabolic interventions, we help our clients achieve optimal mental well-being by addressing the root causes of their symptoms.
At Sigma Health, we believe that mental and physical health are intimately connected. We take an evolutionary, personalized approach to wellness, considering not only your mental state but also the underlying metabolic processes that may be affecting it. Through nutrition, lifestyle modifications, and cutting-edge metabolic interventions, we help our clients achieve optimal mental well-being by addressing the root causes of their symptoms.
The Role of Pharmaceuticals in Metabolic Psychiatry
At Sigma Health, we recognize that psychiatric medications can be essential in managing mental health symptoms, particularly in the early stages of treatment. However, through our metabolic psychiatry approach, many clients find that they are able to reduce their reliance on medications over time—and, in some cases, discontinue them entirely. By addressing the root metabolic imbalances that affect brain function, such as inflammation, insulin resistance, and energy production, we help the brain restore its natural ability to regulate mood and cognitive processes.
That said, some clients may still benefit from medication, and our goal is to optimize your mental health with the least amount of medication necessary, while supporting your overall well-being.
Our Approach to Reducing Medications
Comprehensive Medication Management
At Sigma Health, we handle all aspects of your medication management. You won’t need an outside provider—our team will monitor and adjust your medications as we implement your personalized metabolic treatment plan.
Gradual Reduction
If you are interested in reducing or discontinuing psychiatric medications, we will guide you through a safe and gradual reduction process. This ensures that your brain has time to adapt while we support you with dietary changes, lifestyle interventions, and natural supplements.
Tailored Medication Plans
For clients who still need medication, we work to minimize dosages to the lowest effective amount, reducing potential side effects while maximizing mental and physical well-being.
We prioritize your safety at every stage of the process. Our holistic approach ensures that your medication plan is fully integrated with your metabolic health, helping you achieve balance, mental clarity, and long-term health.
Insurance and Metabolic Psychiatry
At Sigma Health, we do not accept insurance for any of our metabolic psychiatry services. This is because metabolic psychiatry takes a holistic and personalized approach that goes beyond traditional mental health care. Our focus is on addressing the underlying metabolic causes of psychiatric conditions—such as insulin resistance, inflammation, and mitochondrial dysfunction—through interventions like nutrition, lifestyle changes, and advanced metabolic treatments. These services, while highly effective, are often not recognized by insurance providers as they fall outside the scope of conventional medical treatment.
Why Is Metabolic Psychiatry Often Not Covered by Insurance?
Insurance companies tend to cover conventional psychiatric care, which typically includes medication management, psychotherapy, and short-term symptom relief. Metabolic psychiatry, on the other hand, is a more comprehensive approach that seeks to address the root causes of mental health conditions through integrated, long-term solutions. As a result, many insurance providers view these services as preventive or wellness-based, which they typically do not cover.
While we understand this may pose a challenge for some clients, we believe in the value of investing in your health for sustainable, long-term benefits. Our team is committed to offering personalized care that empowers you to achieve true wellness from both a mental and physical perspective.
How much does it cost?
Initial Visit |
Follow Up Visit |
Follow Up Visit |
|---|---|---|
| $435 | $250 | $130 |
| 60 minute appointment | 30 minute appointment | 15 minute appointment |
Please Note: Some lab work may be covered by your insurance provider, but Sigma Health does not bill your health insurance for you.
