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Dr. Chris Palmer

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Huberman Lab
Transform Your Mental Health With Diet & Lifestyle | Dr. Chris Palmer

These electrons need to be flowing to the places they should be flowing. As opposed to oxidative stress, the polar opposite of that is called reductive stress. And that, too, has been found in people with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder and some other disorders. So it's really about dysregulated kind of balance between oxidative and reductive stress.

Huberman Lab
Transform Your Mental Health With Diet & Lifestyle | Dr. Chris Palmer

These electrons need to be flowing to the places they should be flowing. As opposed to oxidative stress, the polar opposite of that is called reductive stress. And that, too, has been found in people with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder and some other disorders. So it's really about dysregulated kind of balance between oxidative and reductive stress.

Huberman Lab
Transform Your Mental Health With Diet & Lifestyle | Dr. Chris Palmer

And methylene blue, if you take it in overdose, could become a reductive stressor. So you don't want too much. So we do have pilot trials. Again, small, not super well done pilot trials in a wide range of neuropsychiatric disorders. Depression, bipolar disorders, schizophrenia, Alzheimer's disease, others. Many of them suggesting a benefit.

Huberman Lab
Transform Your Mental Health With Diet & Lifestyle | Dr. Chris Palmer

And methylene blue, if you take it in overdose, could become a reductive stressor. So you don't want too much. So we do have pilot trials. Again, small, not super well done pilot trials in a wide range of neuropsychiatric disorders. Depression, bipolar disorders, schizophrenia, Alzheimer's disease, others. Many of them suggesting a benefit.

Huberman Lab
Transform Your Mental Health With Diet & Lifestyle | Dr. Chris Palmer

And methylene blue, if you take it in overdose, could become a reductive stressor. So you don't want too much. So we do have pilot trials. Again, small, not super well done pilot trials in a wide range of neuropsychiatric disorders. Depression, bipolar disorders, schizophrenia, Alzheimer's disease, others. Many of them suggesting a benefit.

Huberman Lab
Transform Your Mental Health With Diet & Lifestyle | Dr. Chris Palmer

Well, and that's actually one of the warnings with methylene blue is that if taken to have a dose, you can actually get serotonin syndrome. Could you explain what serotonin syndrome is? So serotonin syndrome is just like really excessive deluge of serotonin in the system. More often than not, it's completely unrecognized. Really?

Huberman Lab
Transform Your Mental Health With Diet & Lifestyle | Dr. Chris Palmer

Well, and that's actually one of the warnings with methylene blue is that if taken to have a dose, you can actually get serotonin syndrome. Could you explain what serotonin syndrome is? So serotonin syndrome is just like really excessive deluge of serotonin in the system. More often than not, it's completely unrecognized. Really?

Huberman Lab
Transform Your Mental Health With Diet & Lifestyle | Dr. Chris Palmer

Well, and that's actually one of the warnings with methylene blue is that if taken to have a dose, you can actually get serotonin syndrome. Could you explain what serotonin syndrome is? So serotonin syndrome is just like really excessive deluge of serotonin in the system. More often than not, it's completely unrecognized. Really?

Huberman Lab
Transform Your Mental Health With Diet & Lifestyle | Dr. Chris Palmer

It gets mistaken for psychiatric symptoms. So people can have anxiety. They can have panic. In extreme cases, you can get nausea. You can get fevers. You can get, I mean, in extreme cases, it can be fatal. So it's a serious thing. But more often than not, it gets dismissed because serotonin syndrome is most commonly experienced by people taking SSRIs.

Huberman Lab
Transform Your Mental Health With Diet & Lifestyle | Dr. Chris Palmer

It gets mistaken for psychiatric symptoms. So people can have anxiety. They can have panic. In extreme cases, you can get nausea. You can get fevers. You can get, I mean, in extreme cases, it can be fatal. So it's a serious thing. But more often than not, it gets dismissed because serotonin syndrome is most commonly experienced by people taking SSRIs.

Huberman Lab
Transform Your Mental Health With Diet & Lifestyle | Dr. Chris Palmer

It gets mistaken for psychiatric symptoms. So people can have anxiety. They can have panic. In extreme cases, you can get nausea. You can get fevers. You can get, I mean, in extreme cases, it can be fatal. So it's a serious thing. But more often than not, it gets dismissed because serotonin syndrome is most commonly experienced by people taking SSRIs.

Huberman Lab
Transform Your Mental Health With Diet & Lifestyle | Dr. Chris Palmer

And by definition, they are psychiatric patients or they have a mental health condition. And so when they come in and say, I'm feeling nauseous, I feel anxious, I feel jittery, I don't feel right, they get written off more often than not. Or given more medication. Yeah, let's say increase your dose or whatever. So it's actually really tragic. I mean, one woman actually reached out to me who

Huberman Lab
Transform Your Mental Health With Diet & Lifestyle | Dr. Chris Palmer

And by definition, they are psychiatric patients or they have a mental health condition. And so when they come in and say, I'm feeling nauseous, I feel anxious, I feel jittery, I don't feel right, they get written off more often than not. Or given more medication. Yeah, let's say increase your dose or whatever. So it's actually really tragic. I mean, one woman actually reached out to me who

Huberman Lab
Transform Your Mental Health With Diet & Lifestyle | Dr. Chris Palmer

And by definition, they are psychiatric patients or they have a mental health condition. And so when they come in and say, I'm feeling nauseous, I feel anxious, I feel jittery, I don't feel right, they get written off more often than not. Or given more medication. Yeah, let's say increase your dose or whatever. So it's actually really tragic. I mean, one woman actually reached out to me who

Huberman Lab
Transform Your Mental Health With Diet & Lifestyle | Dr. Chris Palmer

To both her and her psychiatrist. So the meds were causing the problem. And the meds were causing the problem and nobody really recognized it. Goodness gracious. Again, so it's... So anyway, methylene blue can cause serotonin syndrome. So I think if people are going to... If people want to consider using it, I would... Number one, make sure you get a very reputable source of it.

Huberman Lab
Transform Your Mental Health With Diet & Lifestyle | Dr. Chris Palmer

To both her and her psychiatrist. So the meds were causing the problem. And the meds were causing the problem and nobody really recognized it. Goodness gracious. Again, so it's... So anyway, methylene blue can cause serotonin syndrome. So I think if people are going to... If people want to consider using it, I would... Number one, make sure you get a very reputable source of it.

Huberman Lab
Transform Your Mental Health With Diet & Lifestyle | Dr. Chris Palmer

To both her and her psychiatrist. So the meds were causing the problem. And the meds were causing the problem and nobody really recognized it. Goodness gracious. Again, so it's... So anyway, methylene blue can cause serotonin syndrome. So I think if people are going to... If people want to consider using it, I would... Number one, make sure you get a very reputable source of it.

Huberman Lab
Transform Your Mental Health With Diet & Lifestyle | Dr. Chris Palmer

Make sure you're consuming it in a way that makes sense. I mean, it can stain your teeth blue and all sorts of stuff. I heard it makes your urine blue, your tongue blue. But people will do IV infusions of methylene blue. Whoa. So, yeah, I've seen people kind of hooked up to IVs with a bag of methylene blue. Do they turn blue? I hope not. Smurfily. But it is a medically approved treatment. Mm-hmm.

Huberman Lab
Transform Your Mental Health With Diet & Lifestyle | Dr. Chris Palmer

Make sure you're consuming it in a way that makes sense. I mean, it can stain your teeth blue and all sorts of stuff. I heard it makes your urine blue, your tongue blue. But people will do IV infusions of methylene blue. Whoa. So, yeah, I've seen people kind of hooked up to IVs with a bag of methylene blue. Do they turn blue? I hope not. Smurfily. But it is a medically approved treatment. Mm-hmm.

Huberman Lab
Transform Your Mental Health With Diet & Lifestyle | Dr. Chris Palmer

Make sure you're consuming it in a way that makes sense. I mean, it can stain your teeth blue and all sorts of stuff. I heard it makes your urine blue, your tongue blue. But people will do IV infusions of methylene blue. Whoa. So, yeah, I've seen people kind of hooked up to IVs with a bag of methylene blue. Do they turn blue? I hope not. Smurfily. But it is a medically approved treatment. Mm-hmm.