"It's really disheartening when I listen to these anti-aging experts who say, oh, everybody's going to live to 150," he says. "I've never seen an obese 100 year old." On average, people with mental disorders across the board lose 10 years of life, men lose 10 years and women lost 7 in a decade. And so we've got skyrocketing rates of obesity, diabetes, and mental illness".
Christopher Palmer, MD, is the Director of the Department of Postgraduate and Continuing Education at McLean Hospital and an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. For over 27 years he’s held administrative, educational, research, and clinical roles in psychiatry. His new book, Brain Energy: A Revolutionary Breakthrough in Understanding Mental Health—and Improving Treatment for Anxiety, Depression, OCD, PTSD, and More, is out now.