How Do Metabolic Processes Affect Mental Disorders?

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In this episode of The MindHealth360 Show in conjunction with the How To Academy, distinguished Harvard psychiatrist and prolific researcher Dr Chris Palmer unveils his pioneering insights into how metabolic processes underpin mental disorders, challenging traditional psychiatric paradigms.
Dr Palmer leads the Metabolic and Mental Health Program and directs the Department of Postgraduate and Continuing Education at McLean Hospital. He is also an assistant professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. His revolutionary work advocates for the medical ketogenic diet and a metabolic approach as a treatment for psychiatric disorders, proposing significant shifts in how we understand and treat mental illness.
Learn about:
- Dr Palmer's evidence-based theory that mental disorders - whether psychiatric or neurological - are metabolic diseases affecting the brain and involving dysfunctional metabolic processes which can be fixed
- The role of inflammation in metabolic dysfunction and its impact on mental health
- How mitochondria in the brain are not only the power houses of cells and mental energy production but also regulate neurotransmitter production, immune response and inflammation
- How enhancing mitochondrial function can dramatically improve mental and neurological health
- How trauma and stress affect mental health via their effects on metabolic health
- How ADHD and the phenomena of hyper-focus and distractibility can be explained in terms of metabolic activity in the brain
- How diet, and in particular low glycemic and ketogenic diets, can affect metabolism and mitochondria and dramatically improve outcomes in psychiatric and neurological patients, when traditional therapies often fall short
- The comprehensive strategies Dr Palmer recommends, encompassing dietary changes, lifestyle adjustments, sleep hygiene, and nutritional supplementation to improve mitochondrial health, and therefore mental health
Find out more at MindHealth360, your free guide to head to toe mental health: www.mindhealth360.com/

[@lauriedeering4725]

My hero. Thank you dr. Palmer your book should win a reward. As a retired rn i have helped people with brain chemistry. Thank you so much.

[@ginalibrizzi5204]

Thank you sooo much, Dr. Palmer, and thank you to everyone who helped make this video available. I’m so filled with gratitude that I even want to thank the YT algorithm that put this in my feed.
This courageous and powerful exploration will improve many lives.

[@soscruffy]

Great talk. B12 though - this is so essential to mitochondrial function and I feel it should be highlighted

[@dragonfly1810]

Absolutely the best video filled with hopeful information !
Chris Palmer is God sent.
Thank you.

[@jennbruer2615]

What groundbreaking work Dr Palmer is doing.

[@stephenn3727]

Thank you Dr Palmer!

[@stric10]

41:08 ketones are butyrate

[@Sky10811]

let the guest speak more and host speak less pls