Harvard psychiatrist Dr. Chris Palmer joins Chris in this episode of Revolution Health Radio to talk about metabolic psychiatry and his brain energy theory of mental illness. They discuss why classifying mental disorders as “separate” conditions is misleading; the connections between mental illness and disorders linked to metabolism, including diabetes, heart attacks, strokes, pain disorders, obesity, Alzheimer’s disease, and epilepsy; the link between metabolism and factors known to play a role in mental health, including genetics, inflammation, hormones, neurotransmitters, sleep, stress, and trauma; the evidence that current mental health treatments, including both medications and therapies, likely work by affecting metabolism; and new approaches to treatment that people can use to promote long-term health and healing.
In this episode, we discuss:
6:00 What led Dr. Palmer down this path of research and to this theory
9:09 The problems with how we currently treat and understand mental illness
18:28 The connection between metabolic health and the brain
23:35 How mental states differ from mental disorders and why this is crucial to understand
30:16 The evidence that mental disorders are really metabolic disorders of the brain
46:43 Why classifying mental disorders as separate conditions exacerbates misconceptions about them
50:07 Whether some psychiatric medications are causing harm and keeping people ill
55:30 What kinds of new treatments might offer more hope of long-term healing, as opposed to symptom reduction
Show Notes:
-Dr. Chris Palmer’s website
https://www.chrispalmermd.com
-Brain Energy website
http://www.brainenergy.com
-Brain Energy: A Revolutionary Breakthrough in Understanding Mental Health–and Improving Treatment for Anxiety, Depression, OCD, PTSD, and More by Christopher Palmer, MD
-“The Chemical Imbalance Myth of Depression” video by Chris
-“The serotonin theory of depression: a systematic umbrella review of the evidence” study by Dr. Joanna Moncrieff, Ruth E. Cooper, Tom Stockmann, Simone Amendola, Michael P. Hengartner, and Mark A. Horowitz
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41380-022-01661-0
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