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

But in fact, we have decades of neuroscience research looking at serotonin levels in depressed people's brains.

And it turns out they don't have lower levels of serotonin in their brains.

So we actually have really robust, strong evidence that people with depression do not, in fact, have a serotonin imbalance.

Now, so that still begs the question though, then why would these medicines work?

And I actually believe that understanding the science of metabolism and more specifically mitochondria can actually help us understand why they would work.

So serotonin is actually really important to brain metabolism and more specifically to mitochondrial function.

And when you understand that,

you can understand that it's not necessarily an imbalance of serotonin, and yet boosting serotonin for some people can be a really powerful treatment.

Unfortunately, that's actually more of the rule than the exception in the field of medicine.

You know, and this goes back to like the 1800s and before.

It goes back to, you know, really ancient medicine.

You know, ancient healers would find herbs

that had medicinal properties and they would grind these herbs or process them or dry them or do other things and give patients with certain symptoms or conditions these herbs.

And sometimes these herbs actually really did work.

and they really can treat things like heart failure, the people had no clue how or why they were.

They just knew, oh, here's a plant.

If we grind it up in a certain way and give it to people with these different conditions, it can be helpful.

I mean, ancient Chinese medicine is all based on that.

It's based on different things, like even acupuncture.

There are theories about why if we place the needles in these locations, do we see symptom reduction, whereas if we place the needles in other locations, it doesn't seem to work as well.

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