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#186 - Does food affect mental health? | Dr. Chris Palmer (Brain Energy)

LEVELS – A Whole New Level

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The Metabolic Theory of Mental Illness

The metabolic theory of mental illness gives us so many opportunities to intervene and prevent potentially lifelong chronic mental disorders. The kids with the highest levels of insulin resistance beginning age nine, or five times more likely that's 500% more likely to be at risk for a psychos for a psychotic disorder by the time they turn 24. They were three times more likely to already be diagnosed with bipolar disorder or schizophrenia. Insulin resistance is a biomarker of extraordinarily complicated metabolic and mitochondrial things happening in the human body.

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