Episode #49: Dr. Chris Palmer: The Brain Energy Model for Mental Health
Thinking Health Podcast
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The Root Causes of Anxiety and Depression
The overarching theory for brain energy is that mental disorders are metabolic disorders of the brain. When cells or a group of cells or a network of cells are metabolically compromised, in a nutshell, it means they aren't going to function properly all of the time. Some of the times during low levels of stress, they may function fine, but then under conditions of sleep deprivation or drug use their metabolism will become compromised and begin to malfunction. And that results in all the different symptoms of mental illness.
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