Welcome back to the Diet Doctor Podcast.

I'm your host, Dr. Brett Schur.

Today I'm joined by Dr. Christopher Palmer.

Now, Dr. Palmer is a board-certified psychiatrist,

and he's an associate professor of psychiatry

at Harvard Medical School,

and he's the director of the Department

of Postgraduate and Continuing Education at McLean Hospital. You can find him at Chris Palmer

MD.com and on Twitter at Chris Palmer MD. Now, what we're going to hear today is really a wonderful

run-through of mental health disorders and the role of nutrition and lifestyle in general, but also

ketogenic diet specifically

for mental health disorders.

And Dr. Palmer is really on the forefront of this field, having practiced it for well over

a decade and having contributed to the scientific literature by publishing reviews and publishing

case reports and has some exciting things coming down the

pike in the future as well on this. So stay tuned for that. He's going to give us a little teaser

during this interview. But we talk about mental health disorders, sort of why nutrition would

work, specifically why ketogenic diets would work, and what that means for the type of ketogenic diet

or low-carb diet that somebody might need to follow. And also, importantly, where it fits

into the treatment paradigm for evidence-based medicine, for mild, moderate or severe mental

health disorders. And he has some interesting takes on that, which, you know, provides some caution.

But interestingly, about using seizure

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