Name: Keto for Mental Health- with Fresh Start Award Winner Oliver Seligman
Start: 2025-08-02T11:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-08-02T12:00:00-04:00

Join us for an inspiring and informative event with **Oliver Seligman**, Metabolic Mind Fresh Start Award winner and powerful voice in lived experience advocacy. Hospitalized at 17 after a manic episode, Oliver has spent over 30 years navigating the highs and lows of bipolar disorder. Today, he draws from his journey to offer invaluable insights into holistic, root-cause approaches to mental health—including the ketogenic metabolic therapy, meditation, and more. To learn more about about Oliver and his approach to life and bipolar, watch this 8min video: https://youtu.be/IUFxruPyHzE?si=UCjt4rzRy6uc6pxQ

Looking forward to seeing you there!

Donika 

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At seventeen, an unexpected manic episode blindsided Oliver, and he ended up in the Royal Edinburgh Mental Hospital, diagnosed with bipolar disorder. So began a journey that took him to some of the darkest and most painful of places. A journey characterized by heavenly highs, hellish lows and the pure madness of psychosis. Over the last thirty years, Oliver has denied, fought, hated, resented, regretted, but finally befriended bipolar.

In his book, Befriending Bipolar: a patient's perspective, Oliver shares the strategies and approaches that have worked for him, those that haven’t, and what he's learned from living with bipolar for over thirty years.

In his book, The Broker who Broke Free, Oliver shares his journey from stressed-out, equities sales-trader in a top investment bank to finding peace as a modern-day meditating Ishaya monk.

Oliver currently works part time as a coach, a lived experience consultant for Edinburgh University's Metabolic Psychiatry Hub, and a meditation teacher. In managing his bipolar illness, he is a proponent of various strategies, most notably the ketogenic diet, Ascension meditation and therapy, as ways he lives better with bipolar. He likes the simple pleasures, to laugh out loud, and does his best not to take himself too seriously.

He makes lots of videos for his Youtube channel @thrivingwithbipolar

Keto for Mental Health- with Fresh Start Award Winner Oliver Seligman

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