When mainstream medicine failed her, Mikhaila Peterson took healing into her own hands—eliminating one food after another until only beef, salt, and water remained. What sounds extreme became her lifeline. In this powerful story of resilience and radical self-experimentation, we explore how the Lion Diet helped Mikhaila overcome severe autoimmune symptoms, reclaim her life, and spark a global conversation on alternative healing.

Meet the ten remarkable individuals honored with the 2024 Fresh Start Award by Metabolic Mind. Each has transformed their mental health through ketogenic therapy, overcoming challenges like bipolar disorder, anorexia nervosa, and schizoaffective disorder. Their stories of resilience and recovery are a testament to the power of metabolic interventions in mental health.

For more than a decade, Laura Delano’s life was defined by diagnoses, prescriptions, and a system that told her she was irreparably broken. By age twenty-seven, she’d been on nineteen different psychiatric drugs and labeled with a half-dozen mental illnesses. And yet, she felt worse than ever—trapped in a cycle of suffering that no pill could fix.

Everything changed the moment she asked herself a radical question: What if I’m not sick despite the meds—but because of them?

Her story is not just about healing. It’s about reclaiming autonomy, challenging a broken system, and lighting the path for others to find their way home to themselves.

Lauren Kennedy West’s journey from living with schizoaffective disorder to thriving medication-free using medical keto is both inspiring and revolutionary. Learn how metabolic therapies changed her life and explore essential resources to kickstart your own mental health transformation.

Discover how Matt Baszucki transformed his battle with treatment-resistant bipolar disorder using a groundbreaking therapeutic ketogenic diet. Explore his inspiring journey, the science of metabolic psychiatry, and the innovative work of the Baszucki Group that offers new hope for mental wellness.