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Brain Energy

Chris Palmer ISBN 1637741588

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This book by Chris Palmer has come up 3 times across 2 different shows: Andrew Huberman, Tim Ferriss. The people who brought it up: Andrew Huberman, Tim Ferriss. The earliest mention we indexed is from 2022-11-10 and the most recent from 2025-03-31. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.

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Guest's own workAndrew Huberman

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

“his absolutely spectacular book Brain energy please see the show note captions”— Andrew Huberman

The guest here is Dr. Chris Palmer: A psychiatrist and researcher at Harvard University and McLean Hospital who pioneers 'metabolic psychiatry', using metabolic and mitochondrial health to treat psychiatric disorders. Author of the book Brain Energy. Psychiatrist Chris Palmer makes the case that mitochondrial health is the unifying root of mental and physical illness, with diet, lifestyle, and targeted interventions as treatments.

03:09:222025-03-31
Guest's own workAndrew Huberman

Diet & Nutrition for Mental Health | Dr. Chris Palmer

“Dr. Palmer is also the author of a terrific new book. The title is Brain Energy: A Revolutionary Breakthrough in Understanding Mental Health”— Andrew Huberman

The guest here is Dr. Chris Palmer: A psychiatrist at Harvard Medical School and a world expert on the relationship between metabolic and psychiatric disorders. He pioneered using dietary interventions, especially the ketogenic diet, to treat conditions like depression, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia. Harvard psychiatrist Chris Palmer explains how ketogenic diets and metabolic health, via mitochondria, can treat serious mental illness.

00:02:382022-11-21
Guest's own workTim Ferriss

The Potential of Metabolic Psychiatry — Chris Palmer, MD

“read many fascinating case studies in his new book, Brain Energy, subtitle, A Revolutionary Breakthrough in Understanding Mental Health”— Tim Ferriss

The guest here is Dr. Christopher M. Palmer: Harvard psychiatrist and researcher at McLean Hospital, director of Postgraduate and Continuing Education, and author of Brain Energy; pioneer of metabolic psychiatry and the brain energy theory of mental illness. Harvard psychiatrist Chris Palmer argues mental illnesses are metabolic brain disorders, and the ketogenic diet can treat them.

00:01:022022-11-10