Dr. Chris Palmer

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2,040 appearances 6 recordings 6 series first heard Feb 2025 last heard 3 Jul

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On Purpose with Jay Shetty · Dr. Chris Palmer: Your Diet Could Be Causing Anxiety, Depression & Brain Fog (6 Simple Changes to Make Today) · 3 Jul 2026 podcast

So it's not about plant sourced versus animal sourced foods.

It's not about eating bacon all the time.

Some people make it that and that can be ketogenic for them, but it doesn't have to be all bacon if you don't want it to be all bacon.

And all bacon probably is not a healthy diet, I'll just say for the record.

You probably need a little more nutrition than that.

Usually the first thing that I say for the skeptics who are like that, there's no way that can be true.

This sounds unbelievable or crazy or it sounds like he's a quacker.

He's selling something.

A lot of people think that.

You're selling something.

I'm like, well, actually, I don't get paid any royalties for people who do ketogenic diets.

I wish I did.

I wish there was a ketogenic society that would give me a 10 cent royalty or something for everybody who tries it, but no such luck.

I think one of the really important things to just point out for any skeptics right off the bat is that although a lot of people know the keto diet is this fad weight loss diet.

In fact, it was developed 100 years ago by a physician for one and only one purpose, and that is to stop seizures.

The ketogenic diet is an epilepsy treatment.

And it is actually now an evidence-based epilepsy treatment.

We have many controlled trials.

We have two kind of gold standard medical reviews called the Cochrane Reviews that support that the ketogenic diet is a very effective treatment for epilepsy, especially childhood epilepsy, even when medications fail to stop the seizures.

And the reason that's so important to point out is that it turns out that we use epilepsy treatments for a wide range of mental health conditions,

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