Psychiatry Redefined

Overview

Low-dose nutritional lithium is one of the most misunderstood—and potentially important—nutrients in modern mental healthcare. Long clouded by stigma and confusion, lithium is often viewed only through the lens of pharmaceutical dosing, rather than understood as an essential trace mineral with relevance to emotional regulation, cognitive resilience, neuroprotection, and long-term brain health.

In this deeper-dive clinical webinar, James Greenblatt, MD, will explore the science and clinical application of nutritional lithium through the lens of his newly updated book, The Lithium Revolution: Optimizing Mood, Memory, and Lifelong Brain Health With Nutritional Lithium. Building on decades of clinical experience and emerging research, Dr. Greenblatt will help clinicians better understand what nutritional lithium is, what it is not, and how to think about its responsible use within a functional psychiatry model.

This is not a conversation about replacing medication, oversimplifying treatment, or promoting a “miracle cure.” It is a balanced, evidence-informed discussion about restorative biology, personalized care, and the clinical judgment required to support the brain with the nutrients it needs to function optimally.

Dr. Greenblatt will address growing interest in nutritional lithium among clinicians and patients, while also clarifying the questions that remain. What does the research actually show? What are the limitations of the evidence? What do we know about safety, dosing, and monitoring? And how can clinicians integrate nutritional lithium thoughtfully into conventional psychiatric or mental health practice? Responsible innovation in psychiatry requires curiosity, humility, and clinical rigor. This session is designed to help clinicians approach nutritional lithium with all three.

This webinar will explore:

• The biological role of lithium in mood, memory, and brain health
• Key updates from Dr. Greenblatt’s new book and recent research
• Clinical experience and emerging data on nutritional lithium
• Safety considerations, dosing questions, and monitoring strategies
• Common misconceptions and online claims
• How nutritional lithium fits within a personalized functional psychiatry framework
• How functional psychiatry tools can be woven into a conventional clinical practice
  
  

Learning Objectives

After this webinar, participants will be able to:

• Describe the biological role of lithium and its relevance to mental health and brain function.
• Review current research and clinical observations related to nutritional lithium.
• Identify safety considerations, precautions, dosing questions, and monitoring strategies.
• Recognize common misconceptions and limitations in the current evidence base.
• Apply balanced clinical reasoning when considering nutritional lithium in practice.
• Explain how nutritional strategies can be integrated into conventional care through a functional psychiatry model.

This webinar will also introduce the broader Psychiatry Redefined model of functional psychiatry education, including how clinicians can incorporate root-cause, biologically informed strategies into their current practice through the Psychiatry Redefined Fellowship.