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127. Dr. Christopher Palmer: The Brain Energy Theory of Mental Illness


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Dr. Palmer is a Harvard Medical School Physician, researcher, author, assistant professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, and consultant working at the interface of metabolism, metabolic disorders, and what we call mental disorders.

In today's episode, we talk about...

- Why Dr. Palmer believes mental health disorders are metabolic disorders of the brain 

- What one of the biggest flaws in our current mental health field is

- What role mitochondria and metabolism play in mental health

- How our current approaches to mental health treatment are failing people

- Why Dr. Palmer is so excited about the brain energy theory

- What causes metabolic and mitochondrial dysfunction

- How mental health disorders share one common pathway

- The two things you can do today to begin restoring mitochondrial health

 

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