Dr. Chris Palmer: Your Diet Could Be Causing Anxiety, Depression & Brain Fog (6 Simple Changes to Make Today)
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Most psychiatrists or neuroscientists will say there's no way that what we eat would play a role in something like depression, bipolar disorder, or schizophrenia.
What is the connection between diet and mental health?
When you actually start to pull back the curtain, it's horrifying.
How do we know if our metabolism is healthy or unhealthy?
How's my mood? How's my anxiety? How's my ability to sleep? Any of those things should be at least warning signs that you may have impaired metabolism somehow or another impacting your brain.
Chris, it is so great to have you here today and I'm so excited to ask you so many questions. Thank you for making the time and thanks for being here.
Thank you so much for having me on.
Chris, I wanna start with something that I watched a part of recently. You recently addressed the Senate And I thought it was a really powerful speech you gave. And I just wanted the audience to get context. What was the thesis or what was the main approach for that presentation and speech?
The overarching theme of that roundtable discussion was that here in the United States, and actually throughout the world, we have an ever-increasing chronic disease epidemic. And so many people focus on the epidemics of obesity and diabetes, and there's no doubt that those are skyrocketing in prevalence. And I was there to represent the mental health epidemic that is occurring concurrently, that we really can't separate physical health and mental health, although many people want to. But I think that as we have these escalating rates of obesity and diabetes, we have escalating rates of a broad range of mental illnesses, neurodevelopmental conditions, mental health conditions, mental disorders, whatever term you like, even though those things mean very different things to a lot of people.
We have escalating rates of things like autism, ADHD, anxiety disorders, depression, bipolar disorders, substance use disorders, eating disorders. It's across the board, across a wide range of diagnoses.
How can self-care improve brain functioning?
And the bottom line is that what we're doing to address these chronic diseases isn't working, and we need a paradigm shift.
And what are some of the surprising sources of what's happening in the world? I think we all know that social media and the advancement of technology has some responsibility. We all know that our lack of movement and lack of connection and isolation has partly a responsibility. But what are some of the more surprising or some of the ones that you think we need to take more serious note of?
I think probably for a lot of people, one of the more surprising things for mental health is that the same factors that can play a role in obesity, for example, can also play a role in mental health.
What are the warning signs of metabolic dysfunction?
And the one that gets overlooked most often is the role of diet or nutrition. You know, if you talk to most psychiatrists or neuroscientists and ask them, does diet play a role in mental health?
What are the six steps for healing your metabolism?
Most of them will say, probably not.
What are the effects of alcohol, weed, and vaping on mental health?
That the brain is just a really complicated organ, and there's no way that what we eat, nutrition, would play a role in something like ADHD, or even depression, and certainly not something like bipolar disorder or schizophrenia. By and large, most people in the mental health field believe that those are either genetic biological disorders. or they are largely due to psychological and social factors, trauma, stress, social adversity, and that those are the causes. But people leave out what we're putting into our mouth every day that actually becomes our brain, becomes the neurotransmitters, influences the way every cell in our body functions. And, yeah, I just want to point out because this is really difficult for some people to grasp and they think that I'm like making stuff up or they think that like there's no way that can be or this is highly speculative.
This must be speculative. And what I'm here to say is that if you actually do a deep dive into the neuroscience literature and the cell biology literature of the mental health field, you know, researchers have been struggling for decades, actually over a century, to figure out what exactly causes mental illness.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–0:15
2
What is the connection between diet and mental health?
0:15–2:25
3
How can self-care improve brain functioning?
2:25–3:14
4
What are the warning signs of metabolic dysfunction?
3:14–3:32
5
What are the six steps for healing your metabolism?
3:32–3:36
6
What are the effects of alcohol, weed, and vaping on mental health?
3:36–6:03
7
How does fasting impact mental health?
6:03–7:18
8
How do we talk to kids about nutrition and brain health?
7:18–1:22:06