The Metabolic Link to Brain Optimization with Dr. Chris Palmer #323
Muscle Intelligence
Ben Pakulski
4.8 • 745 Ratings
🗓️ 11 May 2023
⏱️ 64 minutes
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In this day and age, the majority of us have either experienced first-hand a mental health issue such as depression or anxiety, or known someone who has. While mental health is a less popular topic in the health and fitness world than training or nutrition might be, it has just as much value…
Today’s guest on the Muscle Intelligence Podcast, Dr. Chris Palmer, is working at the interface of metabolism and what we call mental disorders, and is dedicated to improving the lives of people suffering from mental illness.
Dr. Christopher Palmer is a Harvard Medical School Physician, Researcher, Consultant, and Educator. He has extensive experience and expertise in psychopharmacology, psychotherapy, and complementary and alternative treatments for psychiatric disorders.
Dr. Palmer is also pioneering the use of the ketogenic diet and other lifestyle mediations as a treatment for psychiatric disorders, and is working with researchers from around the world to assess the effectiveness of these treatments in real people.
You'll learn:
- How Mitochondrial Malfunction Causes Mental Illness
- The Effects of Stress on Your Human Metabolism
- Adolescent Mental Health: The Risk Factors to be Aware of
- Dietary and Lifestyle Interventions to Treat Metabolic Dysfunction
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| 0:00.0 | Although there's so much shame and stigma with the disability system and everybody thinks it's a bunch of lazy slackers who don't want to work, |
| 0:08.4 | I want to say that I know a lot of people who are desperate to work. They are desperate to pull their own weight, |
| 0:15.2 | but they can't because their brain doesn't work right. Their brain is tormenting them or preventing them from doing things |
| 0:22.1 | that you and I can do normally. And if we can restore their brain function through metabolic treatment, |
| 0:29.1 | it not only reduces their suffering, it not only is going to save a ton of money for the |
| 0:34.9 | healthcare system, it's going to like turn those people |
| 0:38.7 | into productive citizens. |
| 0:49.6 | Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the muscle intelligence podcast. I'm our host Pam Prakowski. |
| 0:53.6 | Today we welcome another incredible guest to the show to talk all about brain health, |
| 0:58.5 | brain optimization, and how, believe it or not, this actually could very well be a metabolic |
| 1:05.0 | disorder. |
| 1:05.9 | Any type of brain disorders may very well be correlated to what you're eating, what goes into your body, |
| 1:11.9 | and how your body processes these things otherwise known as our metabolism. |
| 1:16.8 | Dr. Christopher Palmer joins us today. |
| 1:19.0 | He is a Harvard Medical School physician, a researcher, consultant, and educator. |
| 1:23.2 | He's recently launched a book called Brain Energy, which has literally taken the fitness industry |
| 1:28.1 | by storm. |
| 1:29.2 | He's got incredible insights into the area of what's called psychopharmacology, ultimately |
| 1:34.7 | how our brain is interacting with different types of pharmacological interventions, psychotherapy, |
| 1:39.9 | complementary and alternative treatments for psychiatric disorder. |
| 1:43.4 | He is pioneering the use of a ketogenic |
| 1:45.4 | diet for all psychiatric disorders. Dr. Palmer is working with research all around the world |
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