# Harvard Psychiatrist: I Stopped Prescribing Pills

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Podcast: [Side Effects with Dr. Josef](https://stenobird.com/podcast/side-effects-with-dr-josef-6454703)
Published: 2025-10-03T12:28:14+00:00
Episode link: https://taperclinic.podbean.com/e/harvard-psychiatrist-i-stopped-prescribing-pills/
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## Resource

In this episode, psychiatrist Dr. Matt Bernstein (founder of ACCORD) explains why metabolic therapies—ketogenic nutrition, circadian alignment, exercise, and mind-body work—often improve energy, mood, sleep, focus, and even psychosis, while enabling safer deprescribing. We dig into why standard care so often fails to restore function; what ketogenic diets can do in severe illness; why incentives from Big Food, Big Pharma, and insurers sideline foundational lifestyle care; and what families can start doing right now—because real change is likely to be grassroots.

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