TMHS 852: The #1 Absolute WORST Mental Health Advice Your Doctor Gives You – with Dr. Christopher Palmer
The Model Health Show
Shawn Stevenson
4.8 • 7.2K Ratings
🗓️ 16 December 2024
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Summary
Today, millions of people are suffering from depression worldwide. Major depression can negatively impact your relationships, deteriorate your health, and cause problems in all aspects of your life. And when it comes to treating depression, the most common course of action tends to be antidepressant medications. Today, you’re going to learn the truth about antidepressant efficacy, and the worst mental health advice coming from doctors’ offices today.
Our guest is psychiatrist Dr. Christopher Palmer. His research encompasses the fascinating intersection of mental health and metabolic health. Dr. Palmer is back on The Model Health Show for another powerful discussion on what causes mental health symptoms, how our current treatment plans are actually me
You’re going to learn why there is little evidence to support the serotonin theory of depression, and the important link between serotonin, metabolic health, and mental health. You’ll also hear about the important role that nutrition plays in supporting your mental well-being, how our culture can exacerbate depression and other disorders, and how to move the needle for better mental health.
In this episode you’ll discover:
- The truth about SSRI efficacy.
- What the difference between response and remission is.
- The percentage of patients who experience total remission from antidepressants.
- What the science says about chemical imbalances.
- The role serotonin plays in metabolism.
- Why the rates of depression are at an all-time high.
- The connection between metabolic health and mental health.
- How factors like trauma and stress can impact your metabolism.
- The main components of healing from trauma.
- Signs that you’re getting normal, restorative sleep.
- Why ultra-processed food can damage your microbiome and metabolism.
- How our culture perpetuates habits that cause mental health symptoms.
- The major problems with the US healthcare system.
- How to differentiate between normal feelings and mental health disorders.
- The importance of getting to the root cause of mental health issues.
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| 0:00.0 | You are now listening to The Model Health Show with Sean Stevenson. For more, visit themodelhealthshow.com. |
| 0:11.3 | On today's episode, we're going to be talking to a Harvard psychiatrist who's sharing why mental health problems keep getting worse. |
| 0:20.9 | Month after month, year after year, things are getting worse, but there is a solution. |
| 0:26.5 | He's also going to share the number one absolute worst mental health advice that the typical |
| 0:32.9 | doctor gives their patients. |
| 0:35.0 | He's going to be sharing the six things that control your mental health |
| 0:38.8 | for better or for worse and so much more. Now before we get to this powerful and transformative |
| 0:46.5 | conversation, I just want to remind you of one important nutrient input when it comes to our |
| 0:52.5 | brain health. And today we know that brain health and mental |
| 0:56.0 | health are synonymous. They are deeply, intimately connected. And also we're going to be talking |
| 1:01.8 | about today how metabolic health is so impactful on our mental health. But the very fuel |
| 1:08.6 | that's running the human brain that enables signal transduction, that enables the very electrical impulses that allow all of your cells to communicate and to store data, the list goes on and on, so much of that activity is driven by very specific minerals that carry an electric charge. These minerals are called |
| 1:30.6 | electrolytes. Of course we want to eat a diet that's rich in electrolytes, but today more than ever, |
| 1:36.4 | because electrolytes get used often on demand. The more demand that's placed on the body, the more that electrolytes get utilized in our system. |
| 1:47.3 | This is why one key electrolyte being magnesium is the number one mineral deficiency in our world today. |
| 1:54.6 | It's responsible for hundreds of biochemical processes in the body. |
| 1:59.1 | And when we're deficient, what happens? Many of these processes |
| 2:02.4 | simply cannot be done in our bodies or our bodies will be forced to downregulate a lot of |
| 2:07.6 | activity and take away, basically steal our energy. Magnesium and other electrolytes are key |
| 2:14.5 | energy components as well. A fascinating recent study published in the journal |
| 2:19.0 | Neuron found that magnesium is able to restore critical brain plasticity and improve cognitive |
| 2:26.2 | function. While another critical electrolyte, sodium, was found by researchers at McGill University |
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