Can FOOD and the KETO DIET Affect Your MENTAL HEALTH? | Brain Energy with Dr. Chris Palmer

[@katherineleflufy7693]

I have in recent years come to loathe the psychiatric profession as a whole, to the point that I find it difficult, to my shame, to remain open to individuals in that profession, but the more I hear Chris Palmer talk the more I see him as one of the most wonderful humans imaginable. The compassion with which he tells his stories is so utterly palpable, and the broad minded nature of the curiosity that led him to research this is so opposite to the attitude I've ever found amongst those educated into that profession, what an amazing guy!

[@valeriegriner5644]

I feel exactly the same. My experience with Psychiatrists has all been negative, but I'm feeling differently about Dr. Palmer. He cares.

[@insertmyidentityhere]

I agree & feel the same. I have tremendous respect for this man. He has courage & wisdom to speak the truth.

[@eddyimpanis]

I don’t restrict my loathing to just the psychiatric field but to the whole of the medical profession! The Hippocratic Oath is dead. I’m now off all of 10 different prescription drugs since I started paying attention to my nutrition.

[@Eliokd]

Same

[@TheresaTay-j3s]

Thank you Dr Chris. Wonderful video. I am very touched and thankful that you exist. I suffer from bipolar for more than 45 years. I was diagnosed with cirrhosis in 2021. No doctors was able to treat me for that. I had portal bleeding and vomitted blood. The procedures to rescue me was scary. I cried to God, why me again? I have suffered enough with my mental illness and now another untreatable condition. The condition was due to high sugar diet, stress, depression and drugs. I asked my psychiatrist which should is more important my liver or my head. He couldn’t answer me. I tossed a coin and turned out liver. So I stopped my medication and eliminated sugar. It was a tough fight with the withdrawal symptoms from the long term medicines and the sugar addiction. Thank God, I pulled through. I did keto diet and intermittent fasting shortly after that and even did a 3 days water fast. Gosh, was terrible. Giddiness, stomach cramps, back pains, chilling and many. I even admitted myself into hospital for the pains. Doctor did detail blood test and result turned out well in fact all normal. My liver enzymes went down. He discharged me after giving me some painkiller on the same day. I think those pains must be the healing crisis. Now I m no more in pain not on any painkillers and my mind is very clear and I feel good. I hope my story could change the life of people suffering from mental illness. By the way, I lost my sister suffered from szhophenia in 2019. She committed suicide, let’s help the helpless ones together.

[@avwel3827]

😱😭Wow what a great recovery!!! And what an awful loss!!😭😭

[@snuder9832]

There is another positive element regarding the keto diet, and that is realizing you have the ability to totally quit an addiction that you may have had for your entire life up until the point of the diet. It’s a wonderful feeling!

[@theburrow1thomas]

As a nurse and nutritionist, I campaign for this with all my metabolic pts. Your insights in this could also explain why we see more mental health issues with underprivileged pts in generational poverty. 🤯 Modern poverty doesn't mean no food, it means the poorest quality food. We need to fix this.

[@billysheehan5565]

Hi - Just wanted to say Good on you for having the foresight and I think you are absolutely right about the Modern poverty and just crap quality food! I have Treatment-Resistant Depression and anxiety, which has destroyed my life (my psychiatrist's words - not mine, but I DO agree!) and I would do anything to change this! Please could you let me know where I should start to find a "medically qualified" nurse /nutritionist - like yourself to help me get the Ketogenic Diet right!? I have started with my GP'S but it looks like it is going to be a hard slog - Just to get people to actually read Brain Energy - or even just try to get them to read reviews etc about the book - Just to open the eyes of the people who just don't give Depression and MH illness any kind of priority! Thanks for any help you can give! Jon

[@vaska1999]

There's no "fixing" this. It's baked into the system we live in.

[@helenlawson3203]

@@billysheehan5565 Most in the medical profession (industry) are closed minded - the very thing they shouldn't be. They keep pumping useless drugs into people and don't have the intelligence to see they don't work. I see them considering MY mental health when I even mention Keto for my schizophrenic son - and after 22 years and every drug known to man that doesn't work - they STILL refuse to consider alternatives.

[@connyhaden3035]

​@@billysheehan5565😊😅

[@georgechoquette5735]

Dr. Chris Palmer needs to be on the Joe Rogan show. Make it happen if you can.

[@lovelypeaches4807]

Agree!!

[@BB2Utoo]

Yes Joe Rogan would get the word out. That would be so helpful. We need more doctors and practioners to be aware of this!

[@CashMoneyMoore]

Great interview. And such an intense call to action. Anything to relieve the suffering of the mentally ill should be given full attention

[@suzanbak1]

Bless you Dr Palmer. Your profound love for your Mother is reflected in your life. What a phenomenal son!

[@thewatcher633]

What a fantastic interview! Dr Palmer's genuine care and concern for people with mental illness - especially schizophrenia - is palpable. People like him give me hope for all those who suffer from this terrible illness.

[@catjoo4485]

Thank you, Dr. Chris Palmer for connecting the dots and doing the research and leading the movement to help this underserved population. As a caretaker of a family member affected by chronic mental disorder and metabolic disease, your research makes perfect sense. The whole experience to find the correct treatment has been frustrating to say the least. A medication should not be the first or only solution offered to these patients. A new paradigm and approach to care and treatment is extremely important Also as a primary healthcare provider I thank you from the bottom of my heart for leading such an important movement and plan to help share your important work with my colleagues and all my patients.

[@thecklagarcia6800]

I know you are right. I feel so much better when I eat clean and no sugar etc.

[@sashak441]

I appreciate Dr. Palmer so much for his knowledge and his true interest in people's wellbeing. I ordered Brain Energy a few weeks ago and hope it will help my daughter, 22, who has been struggling with anxiety and unstable mood since a very young age. The problem I see is that there are too few of Dr. Palmer in this society and too many money hungry big institutions and industries that push products, unethical guidelines, and ideas to young people... when I see obese models, old and young, appear on TV commercials and large billboards as if this is normal, I am furious!

[@JoanneWhitlock]

I’m just past four months in to a change of diet, and 40 pounds down. Two things have made it easier to stick to. First my own fears about how ill I feel (I am undiagnosed but following recommendations for chronic fatigue syndrome that I found online whilst undergoing many tests with my doctor) and second the urine strip tests to determine if I am in ketosis or not. This means a secondary way of knowing if the work I am doing is working. I’ve been surprised by how valuable this was and it has really helped remove some confusion and doubt about what I am doing re which foods etc to eat. I’m either in ketosis or I’m not.

[@KLF-1057]

Dr. Palmer, thank you for your remarkable work. Your intent to help us shines through. God bless you. Just happily ordered your new book, "Brain Energy" and I look forward to reading it!

[@aujax1]

my experience is keto improves mood, improves steady energy throughout the day, lowers irritability and improves my cognitive function.

[@kevinchurchyard]

my help came from 5-6 days of fasting mimicking diet, One Meal a Day, early in the day. followed by a couple of days of non fasting mimicking diet, One Meal a Day, early in the day. repeat the cycle. which helped to re-set my insulin sensitivity and activate production of hormone sensitive lipase. which took about 5-6 weeks. all of which to say, the number of consecutive hours a day we rely on our body to feed us the appropriate levels of glucose, ketones, etc... the better. and, if we go to sleep > 10 hours fasted, we're much more likely to experience autophagy daily while sleeping, i.e. resting low blood glucose, resting low blood insulin, resting low blood uric acid.

[@levels]

Amazing! There are so many factors that play a role in our metabolic health 🙏

[@alvexok5523]

@@levels It is now looking like metabolism has been what's most likely been responsible for so many people's mental illnesses. "Brain Energy" makes alot of sense. If it really does turn out to be a huge universal breakthrough and greatly improves the mental health of so many millions of people, than this is going to be such a nicer world. So many people will be in better moods, and since moods can definitely be contagious, this will greatly improve the way people everywhere get along with each other. I hope that this really will make a difference like that. The book has gotten alot of 5 star reviews already so that is very hopeful right there

[@lala8596]

Thank you so much, Dr Palmer, for this information, for so many years of work and for your book, which is amazing!!! I'm from Argentina, so here the psychiatric approaches are old and medication related. Psychiatrists, most of them, are just prescription machines. I've struggled with mental problems for many years and right now I'm on a ketogenic diet (almost four months) and it's changed my life. Thank god I never wanted to take antidepressants.

[@saharroshan8834]

You are amazing Dr Palmer I really believe in you ❤

[@johanncoetzee7287]

This message should be spread quicker and enjoy more publication than the fire of the COVID viruses to heal the human nervous system

[@kevinchurchyard]

We have all lived with bacteria, viruses, and cancer cells, etc... all the time, since the moment we were born. And I don't see how that's going to change any time soon. But we know that a healthy body metabolism is the foundation of a healthy immune system. And that a healthy brain metabolism is the foundation of possible clear perception, thinking, and behavioural choice making. So, ensure optimal metabolic function and flexibility in both fed and unfed states. And ensure optimal autophagy to recycle and remove metabolic waste, and also to repair and replace mitochondria, etc.

[@katherineleflufy7693]

Couldn't agree with you more, it needs spreading pronto, and getting trialled so that it can be accepted enough to be universally adopted by mainstream medical systems, so that everyone even the most vulnerable that have fallen through the cracks can be helped by this. Of course though from my experience of the British System - and by all accounts there are many others like this - they need to work on how to get people to follow it compassionately - you can't pin people down and jab them in the arse with a diet, sadly.

[@helenlawson3203]

My son has had schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder for 22 years, and is 44 this year. All medications have been tried and failed. I have lost all hope that psychiatry can help him. Wondering if the keto diet and orthomolecular medicine 'niacin' treatments have ever been used in conjunction. Both can help individually.

[@lilytea3]

0:00: 🧠 The ketogenic diet has shown promising results in improving mental health and reducing symptoms of mental disorders. 11:17: 📚 Mental disorders are a growing crisis and the leading cause of disability globally, with depression being the most disabling diagnosis. 19:04: 💡 The biopsychosocial risk factors confer risk for all mental disorders, including schizophrenia and depression, and metabolic problems have strong connections with mental illness. 34:57: 🔑 Mitochondria play a crucial role in mental health and are involved in various functions such as neurotransmitter production, hormone regulation, inflammation control, and metabolism. 38:37: ⚖ The use of certain psychiatric medications can lead to mitochondrial impairment, which can have long-term negative effects on metabolism and overall health. 48:40: 💡 The speaker discusses the brain energy theory of mental illness and its implications for treatment and prevention. 59:13: 👦🏻‍🎓 Caleb, a young boy with a family history of mental disorders, experienced significant improvement in his mood and concentration by reducing sugar intake during the school week and using a lightbox for morning light therapy. 1:08:37: 🍭 Highly processed food and sugar can have negative effects on children's mental health and metabolic function. 1:18:35: 👩‍⚕ The story of a woman diagnosed with schizophrenia at 17 who tried various medications without success. 1:28:00: 📚 A woman with schizophrenia experienced significant improvement in her symptoms and quality of life after adopting a ketogenic diet. 1:39:35: 📚 The author's goal is not to sell books, but to sell a theory that can transform human mental health for millions of people. Recap by Tammy AI

[@avwel3827]

Thank you!!❤❤

[@highlander666]

Very helpful 💕 my parents used to let me eat a ton of sugar when I was a kid, I never knew how harmful that was. I don't hold it against my parents anymore, but this is very enlightening. I wish I'd know all of this years ago

[@kathygritzmacher90]

Your Amazing, I live in WI I would love you as my Dr. You really care and do the best you can for your patients. Very Compassionate and Empathies

[@allseasoncleaningcompany9439]

I believe what dr Chris Palmer says. I truly believe what dr says.

[@Cookson66]

Love Dr Chris Palmer ! ❤

[@evachalupa6459]

I wish I could somehow overcome my GI issues with keto diet, I've tried so many times and never got it to work. Have you had experience with this, or experience if / how people overcame constant extreme nausea when switching to keto diet?

[@sherimotevosian145]

You are one big inspiration to the world Thank you for sharing your personal story on another show I pray your given a huge public platform. I’ve learned so much from your videos. I have Diabetes for 22 years now 64 years of age and 50 pounds over weight Do you recommend A cleaner ketogenic diet ? I’m going to purchase your book hopefully I’ll be able to learn more of the foods you ate and learn more from your book So happy I stumbled onto your video

[@diamondcover]

In addition check out Dr. Jason Fung youtubes. A Cdn doctor who treats diabetes.

[@rosyloveslearning3013]

Thank you so much. I have already started to spread the word. 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

[@janapeony8561]

Dr. Chris is the best, will get his book as well.

[@zonderbaar]

Great interview, have read the book, it's very interesting and convincing . Even better with more comprehensive view and more science cited to back up the arguments is "Metabolic Madness" by Dr. Rachel Brown, a British psychiatrist

[@jasonhewett9070]

Dr..Palmer and Dr. Daniel Amen should collaborate on some research papers and in terms of personalised precision medicine for those who need it! Both are changing the paradigm of brain heakth/mental health for good!... Thank the heavens,, but with almost comoletely different approaches! Do you know each other Dr. Palmer?

[@theskyehiker]

The pandemic was kinda nice for me. I didn’t have to go out into the world or attend social events. I did have a small group of friends (3) and we kept each other company, helped each other with negotiating the logistics of getting life necessities and, because we live in a temperate climate, we were able to be outside year around, therefore limiting the spreading any germs to each other. I know it was horrible for others but for me, it was less stressful.

[@MichaelSalo]

Keto is the future of treatment for the chronic conditions of society; and the medical establishment will drag their feet every step of the way there.

[@zzc8505]

Not really, the way things are going according to TOTB the future is an even worse diet of lab meat, insects, and whatever other slow-acting-disease-inducing substances they’ll impose on the masses. Keto diet requires animal protein and good animal fats. But they’re destroying meat industry/animal agriculture and everything related.

[@MaryBeauchampRN]

Such a fantastic interview!

[@chaz6399]

Powerful!

[@KerrieFoleyBates]

Count me in Coach Palmer! Kerrie Bates in Ipswich, Massachusetts

[@susanswinny588]

When we want attention from another, it's our human nature to offer food and other rewards to get that attention. I give our cat salmon or steak off my plate. Afterward, I pet him really well. He's my husband's cat really, but that cat will follow me anywhere until I ignore him, which I do because he's my husband's major beloved companion. BTW, I agree wholeheartedly with Chris's approach to preparing a client to transition to full-out keto diet. In the first week of carb reduction, my sleep, clarity of mind, mood were all incredible...way beyond my expectations. Then I ate a can of organic lentil soup. It seemed like the best possible carb because low-sodium, high nutrient content, but awful results the next day mood-wise and belly-wise. So I went to the store as soon as I could (noon), afraid to have anything except electrolytes and water. At 4pm, I had a 10 oz NY strip steak cooked in a pan and 3 oz steamed fresh asparagus, electrolytes and water. I did my best to keep myself from scarfing it down all at once. Slept like baby. I fasted the following day and had the exact same meal and nothing else but electrolytes and water. Amazing mood, belly, outlook on life! So for me, this is my diet now. It never fails to make me feel like a million bucks. I may not be doing this right. I only know what makes me feel great without fail. I also tried a ribeye or salmon plus spinach or broccoli. This works quite well too. I add fresh squeezed lemon and salt without any problems.

[@Angie-fn8op]

Would like to order the book but it's not available at the moment on Amazon, when will it become available again?

[@bellakrinkle9381]

You summarize many points very well; it's all very complicated. Yet 90% (guessing at %) originates in childhood and the Industrial Food, Pharma, Chemical and Medical Profit Centers. My personal research is extensive. Basically, we have all been misled our entire lives, and so few have take the time to research anything! Consciousness comes at a price; the majority of Humanity is low on the Consciousness Spectrum; this will not change because life as we have known it is quickly running out of time.

[@loris7964]

Again why do I now at 57 having developed TD1 after cancer and using Keytruda? No Family of type TD1

[@h32xyg97]

Wish I had time to watch this entire video...

[@PaulHigginbothamSr]

20 years ago not as much was known by the medical association, (or at least some of them), had any idea how mental health is so subject to what we eat. You put a full blown schizophrenic on a keytonic diet having astounding results. What I would wish is what proportion of these poor disabled people could possibly have a resolution as great as this. My guess is a spectrum of disorder will remain with the worst cases needing a dieticians care to get the keytones below 2.00 with a lab measurement of ketosis. Thus one bite of the wrong food for that patient, whether schizophrenic, or diabetic needing such a strict diet. The American medical association needs this information and cancer treating poste haste in our medical schools. The insurance companies need to cover these dieticians, and the dieticians need to learn massive amounts about ketosis, how to measure it, how their patients need treated individually. This to me is as much of a change medically as old saw bones during the Civil War to the advent of antibiotics and breathing gas for surgery. Just the advances in anesthesiology in the last 15 years is awesome. 20 years ago waking from surgery coming out of a tunnel to now feeling instantly normal is awesomely better.

[@Rene-uz3eb]

My working theory is that any positive drastic effects from switching to a keto diet are related to dropping wheat from the diet. Indeed, this has been known for 50 years Wheat gluten as a pathogenic factor in schizophrenia,1976 More direct evidence: “There was a significant positive correlation between percentage change in mean annual admissions for schizophrenia in each country from the pre-war mean and the percentage change in consumption of wheat or wheat and rye.” Wheat" consumption" and hospital admissions for schizophrenia during World War II. A preliminary report, 1966 Gluten increases dopamine and other neurotransmitters: Changes in serum amino acid content and dopamine-β-hydroxylase activity and brain neurotransmitter interaction in cats fed casein with or without gluten or gliadin More recent summary: Gluten-Free Intervention for Schizophrenia, 2020 Regarding keto for epilepsy, same reason: “Gluten-free diet (GFD) is effective in the management of epilepsy in 53% of cases” Gluten sensitivity and epilepsy: a systematic review, 2019 1:08:54 kid who got better after giving up sweets, I’m guessing you mean cookies? I mean so yes from the above and the talk we can conclude keto works for mental health, and if that’s how you get people to stop eating wheat, I guess. Personally I feel you’d make more progress putting actual research/ science behind it which you can find around wheat/gluten, as in the citations above. What bothers me is when it’s not true that the cause is carbohydrates.

[@johannas.l.brushane2518]

Nej, it's the lowering of carbs as a whole, thus not providing to have high continuos high insulin levels. Ketons are not present when insulin is there. And insulin will be high if you fed a kid or adult a lot of unprocessed fruits as well (unless you're a type 1 diabetic).

[@philwyss42]

Hey Dr. Palmer, are you the same Chris Palmer who did their undergraduate studies at Purdue? You look so familiar!!!

[@goeziemoemoe9238]

Chronic stress is the killer, survival stress, we know that😏. Reversing that is the question😏😐

[@helenlawson3203]

I suffered from severe depression for a year. Eventually I realized that my brain was trying to tell me something. Changed my life - no more depression. The pandemic did not cause depression - lockdowns did. How do we estimate an increase, when we weren't going door to door to ask people previous to that?

[@helenlawson3203]

No gene for mental illness yet the first question is always about family! Abuse and neglect can cause these disorders yet it doesn't happen to everyone who is abused or neglected. They're missing something but aren't looking for it. Psychiatry is mostly quackery. Wish I'd known all this 20 years ago.

[@bonniemiller4041]

What about the use of adderall?

[@nancyking7133]

Sure do need your help...Chris Palmer.😢

[@rossentownsend4936]

Pop the top till you can't stop!

[@springlilly9672]

❤️🙏🏽

[@proudchristian77]

Child abuse does , loosing your mommy to soon , watching them get beat up & siblings getting offended, i smoke stuff for that ! but it does .

[@proudchristian77]

It's when people's cross over lines that get their souls in troubles, Almighty God doesn't hurt people's, peoples do , u don't die as soon as u mess up , victims of abuse suffer with understanding & their offenders get ulgy bad issues, but we all live through it , y we we smoke stuff , & exercise 💝🚴‍♀️

[@HabilUddine-u4i]

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[@ThePojengsidur]

Genes are most influenced by environment, genes “open” doors and info only in some certain environments. Bio-psycho-social view does not account for environmental inputs. Or the bio-psycho-social IS all the environmental factors.

[@cody3504]

If you watch at 2x speed Chris talks normal. Yw

[@Gemtiger279]

My integrative GP says ketogenic diet isn't good for your overall health if followed long term. It is ideally a short term weight loss diet.

[@luchiayoung]

did you ask why? And, do they talk mitacondria??

[@RLightmark]

If you have epilepsy, it’s lifelong, ditto some kinds of mental illness.

[@Gemtiger279]

@@RLightmark What if the ketogenic diet damages your health in other ways?

[@thewholevashonproject]

@@Gemtiger279 It's been around since the 1920s, so the research is there to determine where the risks are. But as I wrote, and glean from listening to Dr Palmer in multiple videos, for certain conditions, it is the only way to control epilepsy and serious mental illness. And has otherwise no adverse effects. It was not designed to be a weight loss diet, although it's effective for sure. I lost 25 pounds, then hit a plateau, which is typical, and now am monitoring what my body needs more specifically at times to feel great. As I've heard, some people do no carbs until the evening meal. This works for me.

[@Gemtiger279]

@@luchiayoung Because there are potential long term health risks and side effects from the keto diet. Would post you two medically reviewed articles I found but they were censored on here for some reason. But will learn more from my integrative GP too.

[@Mr-hn2bp]

Too much moisture and not enough substance. Straight to the point, then expend on the point.

[@aclearday4961]

The SHUTDOWN, not the pandemic, exacerbated mental health issues. Please use appropriate terminology. Otherwise I agree with you.

[@Jean-yn6ef]

💚🏜 amazing, powerful, and hopeful