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The Genius Life · February 5, 2025 · 68m
Heal Your Mind: The Metabolic Theory of Mental Illness
Christopher Palmer on the Brain Energy thesis: mental illness is fundamentally a metabolic disorder. Depression, schizophrenia, and bipolar all show mitochondrial dysfunction. The ketogenic diet as psychiatric intervention — not diet fad, but metabolic rescue.
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Palmer's research shows that the ketogenic diet can produce remission in treatment-resistant schizophrenia and bipolar disorder by restoring mitochondrial function in the brain.
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Palmer extends the metabolic theory to neurodegeneration: Alzheimer's brains show the same mitochondrial dysfunction as psychiatric conditions, reinforcing the 'type 3 diabetes' model.
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