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Brain Energy: Keto For Metabolic & Mental Health with Dr. Chris Palmer: Part 1

Optimal Protein Podcast with Vanessa Spina

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The Role of Mitochondria in Mental Illness

It's wild sometimes I think when you look back at the history of how we sort of engulfed these mitochondria and kind of formed this symbiotic relationship with them. And yet we know so little about them. It's like, it's kind of scary just how amazing they are. But once you even understand the different roles that they play in ourselves today, mental illness really starts to make sense. If you want to understand cortisol dysregulation, you must understand mitochondria because cortisol is beginning and ending with mitochondria.

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