Coming up on the Mark Devine show, more people are disabled from depression than any other

medical diagnosis.

That includes heart failure, cancer, heart attacks, Alzheimer's, whatever you want, more

people are disabled by depression.

We have a crisis in the world and in the United States and we need new ideas and new approaches.

Hi, I'm Mark Devine and this is the Mark Devine show where I explore what it means to be

fearless through the lens of the world's most inspirational, compassionate, resilient leaders.

Talk to folks from all walks of life, meditation, experts, blockchain wizards, extreme athletes,

and brain health experts like my guest today, Dr. Christopher Palmer.

Dr. Palmer is a Harvard psychiatrist and researcher who was working at the interface of metabolism

and mental health.

Currently the director of the Department of Postgraduate and Continuing Education at McLean

Hospital and he is an assistant professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.

For over 25 years, Dr. Palmer has held administrative educational research in other clinical

roles at Harvard and has been pioneering the use of a medical ketogenic diet in the treatment

of psychiatric disorders.

Most recently, he has developed the first comprehensive theory on what causes mental

illness, integrating existing theories in research into one unifying theory, which he calls

the brain energy theory of mental illness.

Christopher, thanks so much for joining me on the Mark Devine show.

I'm super stoked to have you here.

I'm really interested in hearing some of your research and the work that you're doing

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