Dr. Chris Palmer discusses how mitochondria influence mental health, offering new approaches to disorders like bipolar, depression, and schizophrenia. He advocates for metabolic interventions like the ketogenic diet to transform mental health treatment and improve overall well-being.
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Mental Disorders as Metabolic Diseases
Mental disorders are fundamentally metabolic disorders affecting brain function.
This insight opens up new approaches for treating mental illness effectively.
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Clinician Skepticism to Belief
Clinicians skeptical of metabolic treatments often become believers after witnessing patient transformations.
Patients improving dramatically through ketogenic or metabolic therapies convince clinicians to embrace these approaches.
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Ketogenic Diet Validated in Epilepsy
The ketogenic diet is a 100-year-old, evidence-based epilepsy treatment.
Using it off-label for mental illness is promising given the overlap between epilepsy and psychiatric disorders.
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According to Harvard psychiatrist Dr. Chris Palmer and the Brain Energy theory, mitochondria play a crucial role in mental health and in psychiatric conditions like bipolar disorder, depression, anxiety, schizophrenia, and others. But the good news is that recognizing the importance of mitochondria and metabolic health can help us see psychiatric illness in a whole new way and may offer novel, more effective treatments. Dr. Palmer argues this could be the solution to our mental health crisis and not only improve the lives of individuals but also impact our homeless and incarceration problems.
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