451: The best diet for mental health & how to find the root cause of your anxiety | Psychiatrist Chris Palmer, M.D.

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🗓️ 10 November 2022

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Chris Palmer, M.D.: “More people are unable to go to work or school because of a mental disorder than any other medical condition.” Chris, a Harvard psychiatrist and researcher, joins mbg co-CEO, Jason Wachob, to discuss the metabolic approach to mental health, plus: - The revolutionary breakthrough in brain health (~00:45) - How to get to the root of mental illness (~02:06) - What causes various mental health issues (~06:04) - How to know if medication or talk therapy will work for you (~10:59) - The connection between metabolism & mental health (~16:36) - How to enhance your mitochondrial health (~24:41) - How to know if your mitochondria are functioning properly (~28:08) - How to know if your mental health issue comes from poor metabolism (~31:44) - How going keto can support mental health (~36:49) - How to start a fasting mimicking diet for brain health (~42:15) - The ultimate food list for metabolic & mental health (~48:33) - The foods you should avoid to reduce anxiety (~51:21) - How much exercise you need if you’re concerned about mental health (~54:42) - Why Chris believes we can heal mental illness (~1:00:14) Referenced in the episode: - Chris's book, Brain Energy. - Check out Chris's website. - A study on treatment-resistant depression. - A study showing 88% of Americans are metabolically unhealthy. - A study showing how metformin and exercise therapies can affect each other. We hope you enjoy this episode, and feel free to watch the full video on Youtube! Whether it's an article or podcast, we want to know what we can do to help here at mindbodygreen. Let us know at: [email protected]. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the MyBuddyGreen podcast. I'm Jason Wackeb, founder and co-CEO of MyBuddyGreen and
0:05.6	your host. Dr. Christopher Palmer is a Harvard psychiatrist and researcher working at the
0:11.3	interface of metabolism and mental health. He's developed the first comprehensive theory of
0:16.4	what causes mental illness, integrating existing theories and research into one unifying theory,
0:22.7	the brain energy theory of mental illness, which he goes into great detail in his new book
0:29.2	Brain Energy, a revolutionary breakthrough in understanding mental health and improving
0:34.0	treatment for anxiety, depression, OCD, PTSD and more. Chris, welcome. Thank you Jason for having me.
0:42.3	So I really enjoyed your book. It's fascinating, it's provocative and I'll just start with the big
0:47.6	question, what is the revolutionary breakthrough in brain health? The revolutionary breakthrough
0:55.3	is that based on emerging research that is really developed over the last 20 years,
1:02.8	we can actually now begin to answer the fundamental question, what causes mental illness.
1:09.6	And in brain energy, I lay out all numerous lines of evidence to, in my mind, prove that
1:20.1	mental disorders are, in fact, metabolic disorders of the brain. And once we understand
1:30.4	what's causing mental illness, it opens up entirely new ways to treat mental disorders,
1:38.7	ones that I think come with the long term hope of healing as opposed to just reducing symptoms.
1:44.3	Lots of unpack there. So if we think about what we have wrong about, what do we have wrong in
1:53.1	how we look at mental illness today in terms of root cause versus root causes because there are
2:02.0	numerous causes. So maybe walk us through today how the traditional medical establishment views
2:09.2	all of the root causes and then segue to how you now think about it in this new paradigm, if you will.
2:16.9	So the sad news is that we have a lot wrong in the mental health field. And for some people,
2:24.2	they've had really good experiences with mental health care, and they've done really well,
2:29.2	and I don't at all mean to minimize those experiences or take that away from people.
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