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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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

And we are getting there to the point where if we understand, you know, certain receptors play a role in a disease, we can design medications to target those receptors and get the effects we want.

You know, people are modulating the immune system in complex ways to help cure cancer sometimes.

So medical progress is phenomenal, but still the bulk of medicine is based on these serendipitous findings.

Yeah, both really important questions.

The latest...

Broad-scale epidemiological data that we have across the world suggests that in any given year, about 1 billion people on the planet will be diagnosed with a mental disorder.

That represents about 13% of the world's population.

In Western countries like the United States, the rates are higher and have been higher for decades.

And it's about 20% of people

in any given year will be diagnosed with a mental disorder.

The lifetime statistics are much higher.

So in the United States and other Western countries, about one in two people, 50% of all people, will meet criteria for a mental illness at some point or another during their life.

Now, sometimes the cause of these mental health conditions is really obvious.

It's

You know, a man who's married for 25 years gets a divorce, loses custody of his children, loses like all of his livelihood and everything.

It's obvious why he would develop major depression.

And it would definitely last probably more than two weeks.

And so he would end up meeting criteria for a mental illness, major depression.

And he might get prescribed medications.

He might be going to his primary care doc, and that person would prescribe him an antidepressant or sleeping medicine or other things.

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