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Dr. Christopher Palmer on Is Mental Illness a Metabolic Disorder of the Brain?

Published: March 6, 2023, 10 a.m.

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Episode Highlights With Dr. Palmer

  • His amazing story of almost not finishing high school and eventually becoming a Harvard professor
  • Why mental health issues are on the rise and what\\u2019s wrong with what we currently understand about mental health
  • Mental health disorders are now the leading cause of disability on the planet
  • Why it isn\\u2019t a coincidence that rates of all these things are on the rise at the same time and how this can be a clue about how to handle serious mental illness
  • How mental health and metabolic health are connected
  • When the brain is malfunctioning, the only way to understand that is to understand the metabolism
  • How mitochondria come into play in understanding mental health
  • We\\u2019ve known for over a century that people with mental disorders have a metabolic issue
  • Mitochondria play a direct role in the production and regulation of neurotransmitters and hormones
  • How trauma and stress come into play and how they're connected as well
  • Why these metabolic and mitochondria dysfunction issues exhibit in different ways in different people
  • Smokers have double the rate of type 2 diabetes even though they're thinner on average than non-smokers and why this is important to understanding mental health
  • Dietary strategies that may help with mental health: biggest one is to get rid of processed food especially highly palatable food
  • How community and social factors come into play for both mental health and metabolic health
  • The dietary factors that can support metabolic and brain health
  • Prevention strategies in children for avoiding mental illness

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