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The Ultimate Health Podcast

646: Harvard Psychiatrist: The Shocking Link Between Diet and Mental Disorders | Dr. Chris Palmer

The Ultimate Health Podcast

Jesse Chappus

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4.51.5K Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2025

⏱️ 119 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Chris Palmer is a Harvard psychiatrist working at the interface of metabolism and mental health. He's the author of Brain Energy: A Revolutionary Breakthrough in Understanding Mental Health--and Improving Treatment for Anxiety, Depression, OCD, PTSD, and More.

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0:00.0

Coming up on today's show.

0:02.1

There is zero doubt in my mind as a clinician who works with people with treatment

0:06.7

resistant mental illnesses.

0:08.2

The ketogenic diets can be life-changing for some people.

0:11.7

The very first signs of Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease are almost always mental

0:18.9

illness symptoms.

0:25.2

Once they become moderate and severe, psychosis,

0:29.3

hallucinations and delusions are actually common in people with both Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease.

0:33.0

In most psychiatric disorders and most neurodegenerative disorders, we have known for years now

0:40.6

that these disorders are associated with impairment in autophagy.

0:45.0

Ketogenic diet changes neurotransmitters.

0:47.4

Ketogenic diet also improves insulin signaling in glucose regulation and mitochondrial function

0:53.7

within brain cells.

0:55.0

Ketogenic diet results in reduced brain inflammation.

0:58.2

So it is not a lifetime treatment.

1:00.2

It is a two to five year treatment to heal your brain.

1:03.1

Most people can stop it.

1:04.4

And they appear to be recovered.

1:07.0

They remain in remission.

1:10.3

Chris, I feel like a lot of people coming to the conversation today are going to be coming to it from a place to hopelessness.

1:16.6

Having tried different medications, psychotherapies, diets, lifestyle modalities, so things that are natural and within the conventional realm without a whole lot of success.

1:28.8

So given that, let's get people the 30,000 foot view of why what you're bringing to the table

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