664: DR. CHRIS PALMER | Mental health is Metabolic Health

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Rachel Hollis

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🗓️ 22 August 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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In this episode of The Rachel Hollis Podcast, Rachel interviews psychiatrist Dr. Chris Palmer from Harvard Medical School and McLean Hospital about the intersection of metabolism and mental health. They discuss the groundbreaking concept that mental illnesses such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and depression might actually be metabolic disorders affecting the brain. Dr Palmer has been studying the use of the medical ketogenic diet as a path of treatment. Get the Start Today Journal - https://starttoday.com/products/start-today-journal 00:00 Introduction: Finding Personalized Solutions 01:45 Meet Chris Palmer: Psychiatrist and Researcher 02:44 Traditional Psychiatry vs. New Perspectives 08:06 The Metabolic Theory of Mental Disorders 16:09 Global Trends in Mental Health and Metabolic Disorders 20:37 The Ketogenic Diet: A Revolutionary Treatment 28:47 Personal Journey and Early Discoveries 29:50 Personal Mental Health Transformation 30:22 Controversy and Reluctance to Share 30:57 Moral Obligation to Share 31:32 Nutrition and Mental Health Connection 35:38 Impact of Hormones on Mental Health 40:19 Personalized Medicine Approach 45:18 Challenges in Psychiatry and Medication 51:50 Support Systems and Holistic Health 56:01 Conclusion and Resources Have a question you want Rach to answer? An idea for a podcast episode?? Call the podcast hotline and leave a voicemail! Call (737) 400-4626 Sign up for Rachel’s weekly email: https://msrachelhollis.com/insider/ Watch the podcast on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/RachelHollisMotivation/videos Follow along on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/MsRachelHollis/ To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices.

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0:00.0	You're going to try things and you're going to pay attention. What works for me?
0:05.0	What works for Chris Palmer? What works for Rachel Hollis?
0:10.0	May or may not work for you. And you've got to find the solutions that are best suited for your body, your brain,
0:19.0	your genetics, your past history, if it includes a trauma or not. your
0:25.0	microbiome, microbiome, that you're a unique individual.
0:30.0	And so we need to help people find solutions that are tailored to them that optimize their health.
0:36.6	The good news is that it's obvious how to tell.
0:39.8	Like if you try a ketogenic diet and you feel better, yeah, that's great. If you try a ketogenic diet and you feel a lot worse,
0:50.0	stop doing whatever you're doing. Maybe you want to do a different version of a ketogenic diet.
0:56.0	Maybe you want to do a different type of diet. Maybe you just want to do a whole 30 diet.
1:00.0	Like try something different. Hi, I'm Rachel, and in this show, we talk about everything.
1:10.0	Life and work, health and healing, relationships with others and with
1:16.2	ourselves. These are stories for the seekers. These are conversations for
1:22.3	the curious. This for the curious.
1:23.0	This is the Rachel Hollis Podcast. Chris the most relevant piece of information to start with is who you are and what you do because that'll really set us up for the conversation
1:44.1	that we're going to have today.
1:45.1	Yeah, so my name's Chris Palmer. I'm a psychiatrist at McLean Hospital and Harvard Medical
1:51.0	School. I've been there for about almost 30 years now.
1:55.9	I have a lot of different roles.
1:57.0	I've done research, clinical work, education,
2:00.5	and what I'm probably most known for are two things my work with the ketogenic diet as a treatment for mental illness.
2:10.0	And more recently in the last couple of years I have proposed a theory that
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