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I am honored to connect with Dr. Chris Palmer today! He is a psychiatrist and researcher working at the interface of metabolism and mental health.\xa0\nMental illness can devastate lives! Some members of Dr. Palmer\u2019s family struggled with serious mental health issues, and his mother\u2019s experience with the mental health system impacted him deeply. He found the system incompetent and ineffective, and many mental health clinicians were distant, aloof, and snobbish.\xa0\nIn this episode, he shares his background and explains how a patient changed his career trajectory in 2016. We dive into the connection between mental disorders and metabolic disease, the traditional focus of psychiatry, the value of low-carb and ketogenic diets, the role of mitochondria, and mitochondrial dysfunction. We also get into intergenerational transmission of trauma and the importance of sleep, and Dr. Palmer discusses his new definition of mental health.\nLooking at mental health through a metabolic health lens makes so much sense! I believe that Dr. Palmer\u2019s new book will be an incredible resource for clinicians, their patients, and their patient's families. Tune in to hear what he says about the link between metabolic disorders and mental health issues.\xa0\n\nIN THIS EPISODE YOU WILL LEARN:\n\nThe traditional methodology used to address and treat psychiatric illnesses when Dr. Palmer started in the mental health field.\n\nThe serendipitous way in which medications for mental problems got developed.\n\nWhy are most psycho-therapies and treatments ineffective for treating chronic PTSD and depression, and personality disorders?\n\nWhy mental disorders are currently the leading cause of disability on the planet.\n\nHow an experience with a patient-led Dr. Palmer to understand the connection between metabolic health and mental health.\n\nThe connections that contributed to the miraculous changes Dr. Palmer's patient experienced.\n\nHow does the ketogenic diet affect the body and brain?\n\nThe role of the mitochondria in the body and how they contribute to mental health.\xa0\n\nThe impact of intergenerational trauma.\n\n\xa0How intergenerational trauma could show up as mental health issues in future generations.\n\nThe interplay between sleep and mental health.\n\nDr. Palmer gives an overview of his new definition of mental health.\xa0\n\n\nBio: Dr. Chris Palmer\nDr. Chris Palmer is a psychiatrist and researcher working at the interface of metabolism and mental health. He is the Director of the Department of Postgraduate and Continuing Education at McLean Hospital and an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. For over 25 years, he has held leadership roles in psychiatric education, conducted research, and worked with people who have treatment-resistant mental illnesses. He has been pioneering the use of the medical ketogenic diet in the treatment of psychiatric disorders - conducting research in this area, treating patients, writing, and speaking around the world on this topic. More broadly, he is interested in the roles of metabolism and metabolic interventions on brain health.\n\nConnect with Cynthia Thurlow\n\nFollow on Twitter, Instagram & LinkedIn\n\n\nCheck out Cynthia\u2019s website\xa0\n\n\nConnect with Dr. Chris Palmer\n\nOn his website\n\n\nGo to www.brainenergy.com to get involved with Dr. Palmer\u2019s new approach to mental health and learn more about his book.\n\nOn Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter