Dr. Chris Palmer
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first heard Feb 2025
last heard 3 Jul
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By and large, most people in the mental health field believe that those are either genetic biological disorders.
or they are largely due to psychological and social factors, trauma, stress, social adversity, and that those are the causes.
But people leave out what we're putting into our mouth every day that actually becomes our brain, becomes the neurotransmitters, influences the way every cell in our body functions.
And, yeah, I just want to point out because this is really difficult for some people to grasp and they think that I'm like making stuff up or they think that like there's no way that can be or this is highly speculative.
This must be speculative.
And what I'm here to say is that if you actually do a deep dive into the neuroscience literature and the cell biology literature of the mental health field, you know, researchers have been struggling for decades, actually over a century, to figure out what exactly causes mental illness.
But numerous lines of evidence have all converged on this thing called metabolism or metabolic dysfunction in cells appears to come up again and again across a wide range of mental health conditions.
And those same metabolic kind of biomarkers or studies come up for things like obesity and diabetes and cardiovascular disease.
And in fact, people with those metabolic disorders are more likely to have mental health conditions, and people with mental health conditions are more likely to have metabolic disorders.
And so it's really a way to begin to put the science together and more importantly, help people truly heal and recover sometimes.
Most people, when they hear the word metabolism, they usually think about burning calories, and they think that's what it is.
It's just the rate at which we burn calories, and that plays a significant role in whether we are fat or thin.
Athletes have a slightly more sophisticated understanding of metabolism, so they're into VO2 max and some other metrics of metabolism, and that might make them stronger or faster or have greater endurance.
so that they can run a marathon or they can run 100 miles or whatever they want to do.
And all of those things are in fact true.
Metabolism is related to burning calories.
It is related to athletic performance.
But it is so much more than that.
A simple way to think about it is it's this foundational process that living organisms use to convert food into energy or building blocks to maintain or grow our cells.
From a biological stance, it's foundational in the definition of a living organism.
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