Dr. Chris Palmer MD - Brain Dysfunction is a Metabolic Problem #47

Dr. Chris Palmer is the pioneer in using low carbohydrate ketogenic diets to treat psychiatric patients suffering from treatment-resistant mental disorders.

As a traditionally-trained psychiatrist, it was hard for him to believe the results his psychiatric patients experienced when they "went keto." He knew the ketogenic diet had been used for 100 years to treat epilepsy. He theorized that the therapeutic effects must extend to other mental illnesses.

Dr. Palmer's results - both in the clinic and the lab - gives hope to people who suffer from brain dysfunctions previously thought to be incurable.  

Quick guide:
01:00 Dr. Christ Palmer’s background
03:03 How the Atkins Diet improved his health
07:52 Recommending ketogenic diet to his patients
16:30 Surprise effects of the ketogenic diet on mental disorders
21:09 Rebalancing chemical imbalances
31:22 Changing epigenetics and finding hope
35:09 How mainstream psychiatry is receiving the study on the ketogenic diet
38:51 Brain inflammation and its relation to obesity
45:07 The reception in the Harvard community
51:24 Challenges in psychiatric practice
54:46 Ketosis as a metabolic intervention
59:21 The difference between a regular mental state and mental illness

Get to know our guest:
Dr. Chris Palmer has been a psychiatrist for over 25 years. He is also an educator, an assistant professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, and the director of the Department of Postgraduate and Continuing Education at the McLean Hospital. He has pioneered the use of the ketogenic diet for psychiatric disorders. He is set to release his book “Brain Energy” in November.

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