Episode 265: Matt and Jan Baszucki
Low Carb MD Podcast
Drs. Brian Lenzkes & Tro Kalayjian
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 27 February 2023
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Thank you for joining us for another episode of the Low Carb MD Podcast. Matt Baszucki had a psychotic break in the spring of 2016—sleeplessness and delusions of grandeur. He was diagnosed as bi-polar with psychotic features by a psychiatrist. Over the next two years, Matt experienced many hospitalizations, bi-polar episodes, and psychotic episodes. Even when he began changing his lifestyle habits for the better, his mental health was still a huge issue to say the least. It was not until he had an encounter with the keto diet that he found a lasting solution.
Jan Baszucki, Matt's mother, is a former marketing executive, a best-selling author and essay-writer, and is the current president of the Baszucki Group. Jan is also a mental health advocate and aspiring citizen scientist. She is currently at work on a memoir about her son's recovery from bipolar disorder with a 100-year-old metabolic treatment for epilepsy.
In this episode Dr. Tro, Matt, and Jan talk about Matt's mental health story up to this point, Matt's health protocol, the tragic lack of available treatment protocols for bi-polar that use diet as a therapy, how to safely and effectively come off of a medication, empowering patients with knowledge to be their own advocate and take their health into their own hands, the role that music played in Matt's recovery, and the founding of Metabolic Mind.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Low-Carb MD Podcast. |
| 0:03.8 | No one is beyond help. |
| 0:05.8 | No one is beyond hope. |
| 0:08.5 | As we have always said, we are bringing you medical information and cutting-edge science, |
| 0:12.7 | but none of this is medical advice. |
| 0:15.7 | Please seek out input from your own doctor. |
| 0:25.1 | Welcome to the Low-Carb MD Podcast. |
| 0:27.9 | Today we have two very special guests, and the topic is going to be about bipolar disorder |
| 0:33.9 | and mental health and metabolic health and their relationship. |
| 0:37.8 | You guys know on the podcast, we've talked about this for years, about the relationship |
| 0:42.3 | between diet and mental health, and we are bringing another testimony that exposes |
| 0:47.7 | that. |
| 0:48.7 | And not only are we bringing a testimony, we now have an organization with whose mission |
| 0:55.4 | is to basically, well, you'll find out more about that mission. |
| 1:01.7 | About five years ago, Brian and I started this podcast, and one of our first episodes |
| 1:06.8 | was about somebody who recorded bipolar disorder, alcohol use, and going on a ketogenic diet |
| 1:15.1 | helped them get off of their alcohol addiction or help them with their alcohol addiction, |
| 1:20.1 | help them address their mental health, and help them actually self-stated use a porn |
| 1:25.4 | addict, and he stopped using pornography. |
| 1:29.0 | And he came on this podcast and we talked about it on social media about five years ago. |
| 1:35.8 | And we had doctors asking that our license be taken away because we were talking about |
| 1:41.0 | the effects of diet on mental health. |
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