From 1% to 20%: The Mental Health Crisis No One Talks About with Dr. Bonnie Kaplan

The Energy Blueprint Podcast

Ari Whitten

Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

4.6 • 781 Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Dr. Bonnie Kaplan shares a statistic that should stop everyone in their tracks: 50% of people will be diagnosed with a mental disorder at some point in their lifetime. When she was a kid in the 1950s, that rate was 1% or less.

As a professor emeritus at the University of Calgary and co-author of The Better Brain, Dr. Kaplan has spent decades researching what went wrong. She shares the case of "Andrew," a 10-year-old with childhood psychosis who recovered on micronutrients when six months of psychiatric care failed…yet his doctor refused to try it with other patients because "it's not part of clinical practice guidelines."

This episode was initially released in July 2022

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0:00.0	We've lost so many years by people looking for magic bullets.
0:05.9	People thinking there's a silver bullet out there.
0:09.2	Welcome back to the show.
0:10.6	I am very excited to introduce you to today's guest.
0:13.5	Her name is Dr. Bonnie Kaplan, and she is a research scientist.
0:18.6	She's a PhD.
0:19.7	She's a professor emeritus in the coming school of medicine
0:23.4	at the University of Calgary in Canada. And she has published widely on the biological basis
0:30.6	of developmental disorders and mental health, particularly the contribution of nutrition
0:36.2	to mental health problems, poor nutrition to mental health problems, poor nutrition
0:39.2	to mental health problems, and good nutrition to resolving mental health problems.
0:44.7	And she's also the author with her co-author professor Julia Rucledge of the book, The
0:50.0	Better Brain, which I highly recommend, and that's going to be what we're talking about in this
0:55.0	episode. So this is a wonderful episode, great, very, very important content. And for a very
1:03.1	important topic that is affecting so many hundreds of millions of people, particularly in the
1:09.2	Western world. It really is an epidemic as
1:12.5	far as how poor nutrition is creating brain health and psychological health, mental health
1:18.5	problems. So I'm really grateful for her work and shedding light in this area. And she's also just
1:24.8	a lovely, brilliant person. So I hope you enjoy this episode and get a lot of value from it.
1:30.6	So welcome to the show, Dr. Kaplan.
1:32.2	Such a pleasure to have you on.
1:34.0	Thank you.
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