Fix the Brain, Change the Mind: Root-Cause Psychiatry with Dr. Robert Hedaya

The Dr. Hyman Show

Dr. Mark Hyman

Medicine, Health & Fitness, Nutrition

4.5 • 9.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2026

⏱️ 72 minutes

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On this episode of The Dr. Hyman Show, I sit down with Dr. Robert Hedaya, a psychiatrist who has spent decades working at the intersection of biology, brain function, and mental health. His approach starts with a different question than most psychiatry asks: what’s interfering with the brain’s ability to regulate, adapt, and repair itself? We talk about why many mental health diagnoses describe symptoms without explaining causes—and how measuring brain function, energy, and network activity is opening the door to more precise, individualized care. Watch the full conversation on YouTube or listen wherever you get your podcasts. [YOUTUBE THUMBNAIL] We discuss: • How biological imbalances can drive anxiety, depression, and cognitive symptoms • Why many “treatment-resistant” mental health issues have overlooked root causes • How brain energy and mitochondrial function influence mood and cognition • What advanced brain mapping reveals about how your brain is actually working For far too long, mental health care has focused on managing symptoms in isolation. This discussion looks at what becomes possible when we treat the brain as part of the whole system and support its ability to heal. View Show Notes From This Episode Get Free Weekly Health Tips from Dr. Hyman https://drhyman.com/pages/picks?utm_campaign=shownotes&utm_medium=banner&utm_source=podcast Sign Up for Dr. Hyman’s Weekly Longevity Journal https://drhyman.com/pages/longevity?utm_campaign=shownotes&utm_medium=banner&utm_source=podcast Join the 10-Day Detox to Reset Your Health https://drhyman.com/pages/10-day-detox Join the Hyman Hive for Expert Support and Real Results https://drhyman.com/pages/hyman-hive This episode is brought to you by Seed, Sunlighten, Timeline, Paleovalley, Fatty15 and Pique. Go to seed.com/hyman and use code 20HYMAN to get 20% off your first month. Visit sunlighten.com and use code HYMAN to save up to $1400. Receive 35% off a subscription at timeline.com/drhyman. Head to paleovalley.com and use code HYMAN20 for 20% off your first order. Visit fatty15.com/hyman and use code HYMAN to save an extra 15% on a 90-day subscription. Secure 20% off your order plus a free starter kit at piquelife.com/hyman.

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0:00.0	A woman comes to me and she's having panic attacks.
0:02.5	She has B12 deficiency.
0:04.0	I give her injection.
0:05.2	With the first injection, her panic is gone.
0:08.6	And I'm like, oh my God, what else am I missing?
0:11.7	Today's guest is Dr. Robert Hadea, a true pioneer in functional psychiatry and has been doing this work for more than 46 years, helping people with some of the most complex and treatment-resistant
0:21.3	cases. Now psychiatr are looking at the brain, doing imaging, doing something called Q-E-E-G,
0:26.0	which is like a brain wave test that maps out things that we never saw before and that we're not
0:30.6	making sense of. Talk about some of your more recent work around the whole adoption of this technology
0:35.7	of improving neuropsychiatric treatment with QEGs.
0:39.2	What is it? Why do we use it?
0:40.8	We can follow and detect the information flow patterns in the brain.
0:44.3	So we can see this and study a person's brain and then correlate with the symptoms.
0:48.8	So when you're seeing these patterns, it tells you like which area of the brain is working,
0:51.8	which is not working, when you target, how it correlates with symptoms.
0:55.1	And so you can see almost like diagnostically in a way that you can never see before. Yeah. Oh, it's mind-boggling. Are you the only one doing this? To my knowledge, yeah. So what do you think the most common things that are causing these problems of sort of anxiety, depression, cognitive, fine? I hate that question. If he said to me, what are four things that you could tell a person to do to help themselves?
1:13.7	I would that question. If you said to me, what are poor things that you could tell a person to do to help themselves?
1:13.6	I would say, diet, be careful what comes into your mind.
1:16.6	You need to really communicate with God or the universe, whatever you think this greater thing is.
1:22.6	Some kind of exercise, whatever is appropriate for you, is really critical.
1:26.6	And I would say relationships are
1:29.4	essential. As we head into a new year, a lot of us are thinking about what habits actually move
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