Are we just are we poisoning ourselves? Are we like collectively as a society mindlessly poisoning ourselves with processed food with sugar with carbohydrates because it kind of seems like that's what's going on

It kind of seems like the one of the primary catalysts or primary contributors to this mental health crisis that we have going on

It really seems like you're showing some compelling evidence that a huge part of it is because we are essentially poisoning ourselves

with processed sugary food. I actually do believe that we are poisoning the human species

Food is the obvious unequivocal culprit

Obesity rates are skyrocketing around the globe type 2 diabetes and prediabetes is skyrocketing around the globe

And mental disorders which I consider metabolic disorders of the brain are also skyrocketing around the globe

So anybody who says I'm being alarmist

You just have to look at the statistics and ask a basic commonsense question what the hell's going on

Welcome back to the transmission my friends and as you may know there are a few things that fascinate me and motivate me more than the mind and mental health

And well being in general because if we don't have those things we really don't have anything so I'm always on the lookout for developments in this topic

And especially novel approaches to this topic novel approaches to improving our mental health and our mental performance

So when I came across the work of Dr. Chris Palmer I knew immediately after even doing a cursory deep dive that I needed to have this man in the mind meld

Dr. Palmer's thesis is nuanced it's technical so it's a bit intimidating to try to nutshell it briefly but I'm going to do it anyway

Hopefully well committing minimal violence to his work

It's essentially this that our mental health our metabolic health and even our cellular health are not separate

They're intimately interwoven and that we actually have a modicum of power some agency over all of the above

And we can influence it a lot more than the traditional medical and psychological establishment would have us believe

Much of Chris Palmer's work revolves around the surprising power of diet but there are several other highly important vectors that we talk about in this mind meld as well in great detail and on that note

Dr. Chris Palmer is a psychiatrist and assistant professor at Harvard medical school

He's the author of brain energy a revolutionary breakthrough in understanding mental health and improving treatment for anxiety, depression, OCD, PTSD and more

We get into so much in this mind meld Dr. Chris Palmer's own experience dealing with mental health issues and physical health challenges

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