Emily Kwong

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4,795 appearances 100 recordings 11 series first heard Jul 2025 last heard 16 Sep

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Short Wave · How your metabolism could alter your mental health · 26 Aug 2026 podcast

In two thousand nine, when Shibani Sethi was in medical school, she met a patient who changed the rest of her career. voice-verified

At the time, Shibani was working at an obesity clinic in North Carolina, and this patient, who wanted to lose weight, was also taking medication for schizophrenia. voice-verified

was curious. voice-verified

She looked into the patient's charts, previous medications, and whether there were any recent changes that could explain the patient's schizophrenia symptoms improving. voice-verified

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kept digging through historical medical records, she found hints of this basic idea. voice-verified

A century ago, people understood there was a connection between metabolism, which is how the body turns food into energy, and brain health, two specialties that modern medicine largely keeps voice-verified

is deepening that understanding. voice-verified

By formally combining them into a discipline that she calls metabolic psychiatry. voice-verified

metabolism have to do with mental health? voice-verified

We talk about three conditions that may have metabolic connections and uncover what scientists are doing to tease apart the details. voice-verified

I'm Emily Kuang and you're listening to Shortwave, the science podcast from NPR. voice-verified

Okay, Shabani, so I wanna start with research. voice-verified

Studies have started to link an out of balance metabolism to a few different mental health conditions, specifically schizophrenia, depression, and bipolar disorder. voice-verified

And I wanna go through each of them, starting with schizophrenia. voice-verified

Since meeting that patient over fifteen years ago, what have you voice-verified

bipolar disorder? voice-verified

yeah. voice-verified

And insulin resistance, of course, that's the condition where the the cells voice-verified

fail to respond effectively to insulin. voice-verified

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