76: BRAIN ENERGY: Mental health is metabolic health, how obesity affects mood, and quitting sugar. | Chris Palmer, MD
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The Relationship Between Mitochondria and Mental Health
Mental disorders are also diseases of affluence. We've known since 1800s that diabetes tends to run in the exact same families as insanity is what they called it then. And vice versa. Insanity runs in families that have high rates of diabetes, so we know it from population. They had very low rates of diabetes and mental illness prior to maybe 30 years ago. I don't know when the inflection point was, but as China began to westernize rates of everything, including mental illness, started skyrocketing. So at the same time that rates of Diabetes and obesity skyrocket, rates of mental disorders start skyrocking.
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