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#633: Chris Palmer, MD, of Harvard Medical School — Optimizing Brain Energy for Mental Health, The Incredible Potential of Metabolic Psychiatry, Extraordinary Case Studies, and Harnessing Mitochondria for Anxiety, Depression, OCD, PTSD, and More

The Huberman Lab Podcast with Andrew Huberman, Ph.D

In this episode, Dr. Palmer discusses the role of diet and nutrition in mental health, specifically the role the ketogenic diet can play in the management of depression, bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. In his ground breaking theory of Brain Energy, Dr. Palmer shows metabolism is how we connect the dots of mental illness and that all mental disorders are metabolic disorders of the brain, thus offering entirely new ways to understand and treat mental disorders.

The Doctor’s Farmacy
with Dr. Mark Hyman, MD:

A Harvard Psychiatrist Rethinks Mental Health As A Metabolic Disease

In this episode, Dr Palmer discusses why the current treatment of symptoms in psychiatric disorders such as anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia are failing patients. The Brain Energy Theory of Mental illness is a unifying theory connecting the bidirectional relationship between mental and metabolic health, offering new ways to treat and manage mental illness using metabolic therapies that include the ketogenic diet, sleep, exercise, and optimized medication management to repair mitochondrial metabolism and restore Brain Energy.

Diet Doctor: 

Ketogenic diets and mental health with Dr. Chris Palmer

In this episode Dr. Palmer discusses the current state of the international mental health crisis, as well as effective lifestyle and metabolic therapies such as the ketogenic diet in the treatment of mental health disorders.