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2) Mental disorders are comorbid with metabolic dysfunction. If you have heart disease or diabetes, you’re likely to get depressed. If you’re depressed you might get heart disease or diabetes. Who cares about the direction of causality here!? Both are bad! “Metabolic syndrome” has become a good explanation for obesity, diabetes, and CVD. We should take its associations with mental symptoms seriously, too.
3) If we frame mental disorders as metabolic dysfunction of the brain, there are pretty good explanations for why existing treatments work via metabolic pathways. And things that improve metabolic health (exercise, diet, sleep, avoiding drugs, reducing stress) all probably improve mental health. Almost banal, but true! 3 replies
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