What up family, welcome to episode 269 of the Genius Life.

Let's go.

What's going on everybody, welcome back to another episode of the show.

I'm your host Max Lugovier, a filmmaker, health and science journalist in New York Times

best-selling author.

I've dedicated my life to unraveling the science behind our choices, including what we eat,

and how we live, affect our cognitive and physical performance, how we feel, and our health

span and risk for disease.

This podcast is all about how to live in that optimal state, which I call living like a genius.

On this episode of the show, I'm super excited to introduce you to Dr. Christopher Palmer.

Dr. Palmer is the director of the Department of Postgraduate and Continuing Education at

McLean Hospital, and he is an assistant professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.

For over 27 years, he's held administrative, educational, research, and clinical roles

in the field of psychiatry.

His new book, which is out now, is called Brain Energy, and it presents the first comprehensive

theory of what causes mental illness, integrating decades of clinical, neuroscience, and metabolic

research into one unifying theory.

For the next two hours, you're going to hear Dr. Palmer make his case that mental disorders

are metabolic disorders of the brain, and present a lifestyle medicine-centric road map

for healing.

We discuss anxiety, depression, dementia, Parkinson's disease, all through the lens of metabolism,

and discover how the rampant rates of metabolic illness affecting the majority of people today

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