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100th Episode! Revolutionizing Psychiatry and Reversing Schizophrenia with Professor Chris Palmer MD of Harvard, Author of "Brain Energy"

The Plant Free MD with Dr Anthony Chaffee

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Is There a Magic Ingredient of the Ketogenic Diet for Mental Disorders?

The ketogenic diet results in something called mitophagy, which is essentially a process that the body uses to get rid of older defective mitochondria and replace them with new ones. And then it also stimulates a process called mitochondrial biogenesis which basically means the production of new mitochondria. So when people have done a ketogenic diet for months or years. Their cells will actually have more mitochondria and those mitochondria will be healthier.

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