Metabolism, Brain Energy, and Mental Health with Dr. Chris Palmer

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Being Well

Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement, Mental Health

4.8 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2023

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Chris Palmer, assistant professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, joins Forrest to discuss the relationship between metabolic function and mental illness. They discuss Dr. Palmer’s work with patients suffering from severe conditions like schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder, psychiatry’s current challenges with treatment-resistant conditions, and the important distinction between difficult psychological states and brain-based disorders. They then explore the relationship between mental illness and metabolic function, the key role mitochondria play in the process, and how current treatments impact our metabolism. Forrest and Dr. Palmer close the episode by discussing a number of practical interventions to improve metabolic function, including the ketogenic diet, sleep, exercise, stress management techniques like mindfulness practice, and even love, connection, and sense of purpose.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Being Well, I'm Forest Hanson.
0:10.5	If you're new to the show, thanks for joining us today, and if you've listened before,
0:14.3	welcome back.
0:15.8	My guest today is Dr. Chris Palmer.
0:18.0	Dr. Palmer is a board-certified psychiatrist and assistant professor of psychiatry at Harvard
0:22.8	Medical School.
0:24.1	His clinical practice focuses on helping people suffering from treatment-resistant mental
0:28.2	illnesses, including mood disorders, psychotic disorders, and personality disorders, and
0:34.1	he's been involved in psychiatric research for well over 20 years.
0:37.8	He's focused his research on the areas of metabolism, metabolic disorders, and their
0:42.3	connection to mental disorders, and this work led to his book Brain Energy, A Revolutionary
0:47.4	Breakthrough in Understanding Mental Health, An Improving Treatment for Anxiety, Depression,
0:52.8	OCD, PTSD, and more.
0:55.6	I've been looking forward to this conversation for a while, I've been doing a lot of prep
0:59.7	for it, and Chris was kind enough to change the date and time of the conversation when
1:04.2	I got a little sick before we were last supposed to record.
1:07.3	So Chris, thanks for joining me today.
1:08.7	How are you doing?
1:09.7	I'm doing great.
1:10.7	Thank you for having me on the show, Forest.
1:13.0	I've been really looking forward to this one, including because I've had to learn a lot.
1:16.2	I've had to learn a lot about the bodies, about the body, about the body, about the
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