Hey, this is John Gordon with Positive You, and today my guest is Dr. Chris Palmer.

Chris, how you doing?

I'm well done.

Thanks for having me on.

It's great to have you on.

I bought your book, and then I asked you to be on this podcast.

The book is called Brain Energy, incredible book.

Can you explain what brain energy is all about?

So brain energy is, in many ways, a science book.

For better or worse, sorry if you hate science, but it is a science aimed at answering

a fundamental question, what causes mental illness.

And up until now, no one has really been able to definitively answer that.

All we know are some of the factors involved.

We know about biological, psychological, social factors, things like neurotransmitters,

genetics, inflammation, but also trauma, adversity, stress.

All of these things contribute to mental illness, but how do they all fit together and how

do they come together to cause mental illness?

No one has been able to say.

And in this book, I have audaciously attempted to put it all together into one unifying

theory.

To answer this question, give people information, but much more importantly, offer realistic

and practical solutions or novel treatments that people should at least consider and know

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