Chris Palmer - Brain Energy: The Metabolic Theory of Mental Disorders and New Treatment Strategies

[@CraigTWood]

More people need to hear Palmer speak! Thanks for sharing this.

[@dragonzbay]

Walking in a natural environment is the best thing we can do to enhance mitochondrial function, immune response and overall health. Walking regulates appetite, balances brain chemicals, stimulates mitochondria activity, reduces sugar cravings and maintains cortisol and anxiety at low levels.

[@kirstinstrand6292]

All true, yet, low mitochondrial function does not create mental health disorders. The way each of us were raised during our childhoods creates dysfunctional adults or functional adults. Why such a simple reality is ignored decade after decade is troubling. Are there reasons that mental health has been complicated for reasons of profit?

[@dr.samierasadoonalhassani2669]

I read his book and listen to his lectures many times almost memorised it.

[@stephenn3727]

I love this man!

[@TrishTheDish2024]

9:53 The resounding thread through so many of these lectures is “It is time for an overhaul of diagnoses”.

[@kassrripples3659]

What choices do individuals who are currently under psychiatric care and attend outpatient treatment services or have social workers welfare services come to visit them at their homes or places where they stay, if the mental health care services aren’t open to supporting individuals to try something different… like ketogenic nutrition or something that’s not pharmaceutical.

[@JJmikra]

I hope it will be a normal thing to try, at least try ketogenic diet to cure diseases

[@michaelayalaathotmai]

Chris, if you see this, correlation does not equal causation, however it's a safe bet that there's no causation without correlation.

[@drkzilla]

Crazy

[@AndreasFroehlich1985]

💯‼️

[@joecephus4151]

Come on doc, when it comes to ASD, please "go there" and talk about the elephant in the living room - childhood vaccinations.

[@Poecilia1963]

I don't know enough about the vaccination issue to have an opinion, but I'm in my 60s, absolutely everyone was vaccinated when I was a kid, but there were only maybe 3 kids I knew in all my school years who probably had Asbergers or were in that area of the "spectrum". So, even if vaccinations play a role, they can't be the whole story, or more kids would have had it back then. Frankly diet & lifestyle factors make more sense to me, since so many other metabolic conditions which were uncommon when I was a kid are very common now.

[@M-i-k-a-e-l]

Indeed.

[@Cat-ht7ki]

Ditto to my experience. Born in 1961.

[@joecephus4151]

@@Poecilia1963 MUCH has changed about childhood vax since you and I were kids. Read "Turtles All The Way Down" and you will become enlightened.

[@neslihanbaykal9199]

⁠@@Poecilia1963in your 60s the kids were not getting as many vaccines as they do now.

[@M-i-k-a-e-l]

This is very important and apt. As a piece of the cake. We must also recognize all other pieces. Especially the energetic, etheric and spiritual pieces. There are people who instantly, in a second, shifts out of long standing severe depression and anxieties. So it cannot be ascribed to metabolic or biological explanations. Healers from all over the world can attest to this. There is also the excorcist level , which is utterly real. People all over the world experience instant reliefs of suicidal and psychotic states. Moreover, this speakers voice displays unhealed trauma.

[@swingtag1041]

My friend said she has OCD. But when I looked at the enormous size of her I said no, I think it's OBCD.