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Thanks for joining RP today for a conversation with Dr. Matt Bernstein, MD and psychiatrist, whose personal experience with his sons' rapid development of OCD-like symptoms and subsequent failures of traditional psychiatric treatment modalities piquing his curiosity to think outside of the box and explore the benefits of a ketogenic diet (low carb) on mental health.  His transformative experience...

Thanks for joining RP for a 2025 clinical research update on Lithium.  If you missed it, Harvard just released their findings of a new multi-phase study investigating lithium's potential use in Alzheimer's as a biomarker to predict disease before it becomes clinically obvious, and also its' potential to TREAT ALZHEIMER's (and potentially other forms of dementia as well).  With ongoing trials in Pa...

Thanks for joining RP for my series interviewing David Cohen, PhD, MSW, about the state of mental healthcare in the United States today.  In Part 3, David and I argue about lithium's therapeutic window (though he does acknowledge the potential benefits of low doses) and we further discuss the broken healthcare system. While David and I agree on most issues including fundamentally that our healthca...

Thanks for joining RP for my series interviewing David Cohen, PhD, MSW, about the state of mental healthcare in the United States today.  In Part 2, David and I discuss the over-diagnosis of ADHD and rapid inflation of diagnosis and medication use over the last 20-30 years (the US utilizes 90+% of the world's amphetamines, and the vast majority of all pharmaceuticals treating ADHD compared to the...

Thanks for joining RP for my series interviewing David Cohen, PhD, MSW, about the state of mental healthcare in the United States today.  In Part 1, David and I discuss the use of medication assisted treatment and David points out that similar chemical substances are treated drastically different by society and government regulators depending on whether they are labeled as a pharmaceutical versus...

Join us for Part 2 of the conversation with PharmD and PA, Norman Curtiss.  In this episode, we wrap up with Norman's personal journey to becoming a physician's assistant after battling alcohol and Adderall addictions for the better part of a decade.  We also discuss failures in the system of mental health, both in clinical practice, as well as the educational system forcing guidelines and one-siz...

Join us for this conversation with PharmD and PA, Norman Curtiss, on his journey through alcohol and Adderall addictions as a pharmacist to sobriety and going back to school to pursue a new role as a prescribing Physician's Assistant, or PA.  We appreciate Norman's willingness to outline and describe his trials and tribulations in life, and how it has set him up with an even better understanding o...

Here, I wrap up with Part 2 of my talk with Dr. Steven C. Hayes, PhD, about the embedded history of eugenics in psychiatry and psychology, way before Nazi-era Germany's Holocaust atrocities.  After talking about the history of eugenics in bio-statistics and psychology/psychiatry's origins and legalized sterilization of those deemed 'feeble-minded,' in Part 2, we expand on how we must take precauti...

Today, I talk to Dr. Steven C. Hayes, PhD, about the embedded history of eugenics in psychiatry and psychology, way before Nazi-era Germany's Holocaust atrocities.  We discuss the history of eugenics in creating and adhering to some of the fundamental tools in statistics, and how that paved the way for many of the original leaders in psychology and psychiatry (late 1800s, early 1900s) to be promin...

In Part 2 of my series interviewing Dr. Jill Carnahan, a functional/integrative family/internal medicine physician and breast cancer survivor, we continue in our discussion on the blending of Western medicine with holistic/functional/integrative approaches.  Jill discusses her favorite labs to obtain to further investigate the gut microbiome, with her number one choice being a comprehensive stool...

In this series, I interview Dr. Jill Carnahan, a functional/integrative family/internal medicine physician with an incredible medical origin story.  During medical school, Jill was diagnosed with an aggressive form of breast cancer, and fought through treatment while continuing her medical school journey.  Treatment was effective, but led to severe side effects/consequences in the form of Crohn's...

Thanks for joining us for the first installment of my interview with Chris Aiken, MD, most notable for his position as editor-in-chief of the Carlat Psychiatry Podcast, an invaluable independent podcast providing the most up-to-date and unbiased information on which medications ACTUALLY work for which conditions. In Part 1, Dr. Aiken gives us a crash course in HOW to evaluate data and here in Part...

Thanks for joining us for the first installment of my interview with Chris Aiken, MD, most notable for his position as editor-in-chief of the Carlat Psychiatry Podcast, an invaluable independent podcast providing the most up-to-date and unbiased information on which medications ACTUALLY work for which conditions.  Dr. Aiken gives us a crash course in HOW to evaluate data and how to appreciate unce...

Hope you enjoy this 3rd installment of a series on medication risk during pregnancy (and more) with Dr. Adam Urato, aka THE HAPPY WARRIOR.  Dr. Urato is making his grand visual debut with Renegade Psych, though we discussed similar topics in our previous audio-only interview available on spotify and apple.  In part 1, we discussed medication exposures during pregnancy, and more specifically, the d...

Hope you enjoy this 2nd installment of a series on medication risk during pregnancy (and more) with Dr. Adam Urato, aka THE HAPPY WARRIOR.  Dr. Urato is making his grand visual debut with Renegade Psych, though we discussed similar topics in our previous audio-only interview available on spotify and apple.  In part 1, we discussed medication exposures during pregnancy, and more specifically, the d...

Hope you enjoy this first installment of a series on medication risk during pregnancy (and more) with Dr. Adam Urato, aka THE HAPPY WARRIOR.  Dr. Urato is making his grand visual debut with Renegade Psych, though we discussed similar topics in our previous audio-only interview available on spotify and apple.  In part 1, we discuss medication exposures during pregnancy, and more specifically, the d...

Hope you enjoy this teaser for an upcoming episode with Dr. Adam Urato, MD and OB-GYN, about one of his areas of expertise, the effects of various medication classes on the developing fetus.  Part 1 coming out next week! If you're passionate about what we do here at Renegade Psych, we're now on Patreon! If you'd like to support our work, you can! Or not... I'll continue putting out content as long...

Join me as I sit down with Dr. James Greenblatt, MD, to discuss his work within the field of what's called functional, or integrative psychiatry.  Dr. Greenblatt uses many of the tools he learned in medical school paired with an integrative critical thinking approach.  He tests for mineral and vitamin deficiencies, indirect markers of neurotransmitter abnormalities, AND ensures every patient gets...

Join pediatrician Dr. Nikki Johnson, MD, for part 2 of our conversation as WE TALK ABOUT VACCINES in a nuanced fashion.  Neither of us are for or against ALL vaccines (and both of us have fully vaccinated kids... well, not including COVID or flu...), but rather take them in piecemeal and openly discuss the need for more research on their long-term safety and efficacy.  We also delve into our appre...

Join pediatrician Dr. Nikki Johnson, MD, and I as we discuss the scam of maintenance of certification and her exclusion from the 2024 AAP conference due to her views on the increasing use of hormone treatments, puberty blockers, and surgical interventions in American adolescents.  Listen as Nikki and I discuss how (we believe) big pharma is preying upon a marginalized group of people, then as I pu...

Join Renegade Psych for Part 2 of my conversation with psychologist Roger McFillin, discussing the pitfalls of the American mental health system.  Dr. McFillin created the internationally popular podcast, Radically Genuine, and is the Founder of the Conscious Clinician Collective, working to cultivate a community where individuals and families engage with ethical mental health specialists and all...

Join Renegade Psych today for Part 1 of my conversation with psychologist Roger McFillin, discussing the pitfalls of the American mental health system.  Dr. McFillin created the internationally popular podcast, Radically Genuine, and Founder of the Conscious Clinician Collective, working to cultivate a community where individuals and families engage with ethical mental health specialists and all h...

Join Renegade Psych today for Part 2 of my conversation with psychiatrist Nicholas Rosenlicht, discussing topics relevant to his first (and only) book, 'My Brother's Keeper: The Untold Stories behind the Business of Mental Health -- and How to Stop the Abandonment of the Mentally Ill.'  We talk about how mental health care in the United States has become atrocious, and ways out of our current cris...

Join Renegade Psych today for a conversation with psychiatrist Nicholas Rosenlicht, discussing topics relevant to his first (and only) book, 'My Brother's Keeper: The Untold Stories behind the Business of Mental Health -- and How to Stop the Abandonment of the Mentally Ill.'  We talk about how mental health care in the United States has become atrocious, and ways out of our current crisis. If you'...

Today, we have Kassondra Ola joining the podcast for part 2 of a patient perspective interview on the dangers of psychiatric polypharmacy.  Kassondra is a mental health advocate who was misdiagnosed as bipolar at the age of 10 and put on multiple psychiatric medications over the subsequent decade.  She is here to tell her story and promote a positive message that we, as psychiatric prescribers, ne...