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Metabolic Psychiatry Labs
Mental health care with metabolic therapy.
Founded
2024
Employees*
5
Funding to Date*
$1,500,000
* Data source: Crunchbase
Shebani Sethi, MD, CEO & Founder
Mental health isn’t just about the (CNS) brain—it’s also about the (Periphery) body - they are connected. In medicine, we are so focused on certain organs, we oftentimes forget the relationships. Metabolism fuels and shapes brain function, resilience, and recovery, redefining how we approach psychiatric care.
Coined the term "metabolic psychiatry" and opened the first dedicated clinic for metabolic psychiatry

Dr. Sethi’s approach rewrites the entire treatment playbook. Her protocol deftly navigates the complex interactions between diet and psychiatric medications, optimizing treatment while minimizing side effects. She’s currently working with 30 lucky clients, who got ahead of the long waitlist, but she wants to scale her practice 1000-fold. 

Four major insurers have credentialed MPL, and are now reimbursing her protocol. MPL does not replace existing providers, it supplements them: Providers can implement her system to improve patient outcomes and increase revenue streams for the clinic. Per patient, up to $5000 of annual reimbursements is left on the table by ignoring the nutritional and metabolic aspects of mental health. Multiply that by 10 million adults with SMI in the US already receiving care. 

Last year, we invested in MPL because we saw a vision for an integrated AI approach to take MPL to scale, to democratize access to Dr. Sethi’s protocol, and to leverage large datasets to improve our understanding of drug-diet-ketosis interactions and to push the new frontier in mental health care.