Dr. Chris Palmer

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Young and Profiting (YAP) with Hala Taha: Entrepreneurship and Self-Improvement Podcast · Dr. Chris Palmer: The Mental Health Discovery That Transforms How Entrepreneurs Perform | Mental Health | E402 · 8 Jun 2026 podcast

So, you know, what's long been known is that there are

a kind of myriad different causes of mental illness, and they often fall into three different buckets, biological, psychological, and social.

And so we have this theory, the biopsychosocial theory of mental illness, that there are lots of different things that can happen.

And those include things like neurotransmitters, genetics, hormones,

hormones, inflammation, sleep, drugs, and alcohol, but also psychological and social things like trauma, stress, adverse childhood experiences, those types of things.

But precisely how they all fit together has perplexed people for millennia.

And what I believe, based on the research I've done, is that we can actually begin to connect all of those things through what we call metabolism.

And that actually metabolic dysfunction or dysregulation can actually help us understand what causes mental illness,

So it doesn't replace the biopsychosocial.

It integrates the biopsychosocial.

It puts it together once and for all.

I do think metabolism is key.

So for people who don't know, the serotonin-like hypothesis of depression largely is derived from the observation that medications like Prozac or Zoloft or Paxil, which all...

inhibit the reuptake of serotonin.

In other words, they increase the availability of serotonin in a synapse, that those can work for depression.

There's no doubt they really can work.

As a psychiatrist for over 30 years, I have seen them work time and again in different patients.

And so the theory, that was really just a serendipitous observation that these medications seem to help depression.

And so the assumption was, well, patients with depression must not have enough serotonin.

It's really as simple as that.

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