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Vitamodo Press Room

Materials for journalists, editors and podcasters about Andris Saulitis, M.D., and the Vitamodo project. Everything here may be quoted freely; the facts are verifiable. Provocative phrasings are the physician's own position.

40+ years
in medicine
20,000+
clinical examinations
Thousands
of successful treatment cases
Riga, Latvia
Riga Centre of Psychiatry and Narcology

Biography

Andris Saulitis, M.D. — a psychiatrist with 40+ years of experience, author of the VitaModo method and system.

Andris Saulitis is a psychiatrist with more than forty years in medicine and over 20,000 clinical examinations. Founder of the Vitamodo project and the Institute for the Prevention of Mental Disorders and Addictions. Author of a clinical method uniting psychiatry, neurophysiology and metabolism into a single, testable model of mental health, and author of the “Psychiatry of One Life” series. One of the first in psychoneurology to address mental health in the era after artificial intelligence.

Ready story angles

You can't treat the mind with a chatbot
The “sick query → sick answer” phenomenon: why naive AI mental-health use harms — and what the physician proposes instead.
Money begins in the brain
A psychiatrist vs. financial gurus: why money is a consequence of how the brain works, not of willpower or a diploma.
Allergy begins in the brain, not the nose
How the stress axis, cortisol, sugar and inflammation connect to allergy and other illnesses. Vivid and debatable.
A diagnosis is for a person, not a nation
A firm ethical stance against pinning psychiatric labels on groups and society.
A method of thought: Stoics, Machiavelli, Nietzsche — and the clinic
How to think soberly: not via Socrates, but through Stoic distinction, realism and depth — in the mirror of psychiatry.
Psychiatry of the post-AI era
A claim to a new field: why clarity of mind becomes, for the first time, a question of the person's survival.

Quotes for direct use

«You won't catch tuna in a puddle: money is a consequence of how the brain works, not of willpower or a diploma.»
«Allergy begins not in the nose. But in the brain.»
«A sick query yields a sick answer. A person in disorder cannot understand what is happening to them — and an AI trained by non-professionals only amplifies the distortion.»
«A diagnosis is made for a person — face to face. And never for a nation.»
«Standard therapy silences the shots. The method repairs the shooter.»
«I write loudly and provocatively on purpose — so that people abler than me turn to the problem in time.»

Interview questions

  1. What does “money begins in the brain” mean?
  2. Why is it dangerous to use AI for mental health?
  3. What is the “psychiatry of the post-AI era”?
  4. How are stress, sugar and allergy connected?
  5. Why are you against “psychologisation” and motivational training?
  6. Forty years in acute wards — what did that give you that a textbook cannot?

Terms of use

Materials may be quoted freely with attribution to Andris Saulitis, M.D. / Vitamodo. High-resolution photos, book covers and the logo are available on request. The full press kit — with three-length bios, a ready press release and an asset list — is in the PDF above.

Press contacts

Organisation: Vitamodo · Institute for the Prevention of Mental Disorders and Addictions. Location: Riga, Latvia. Interviews in Russian and Latvian. Requests for comment, interview or assets — via the website.

The materials are educational and set out the author's clinical method. They do not replace an in-person consultation, diagnosis or a doctor's prescriptions. A diagnosis is made for a person individually, face to face — never for a group.

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