How Regular Marijuana Use, Ultra-Processed Food, and Lack of Sleep Are Poisoning Our Mitochondria and What We Can Do To Reclaim Our Energy and Brain Health With Dr. Chris Palmer

Dhru Purohit Show

Dhru Purohit

Medicine, Health & Fitness, Alternative Health

4.7 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2024

⏱️ 103 minutes

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This episode is brought to you by Maui Nui, BON CHARGE, and Aqua Tru. Mental health disorders are on the rise at alarming rates. Although access to therapy and medications has increased, the rates continue to grow, leaving millions to suffer. There has to be another approach to treatment, and today’s guest is here to show us what traditional medicine often misses. Today on The Dhru Purohit Show, Dhru sits down with Dr. Chris Palmer to discuss the rise in mental health disorders and how we need to change our approach to treatment. Dr. Palmer dives into the science behind his Brain Energy theory and shares the research surrounding mitochondrial and mental health. He also sounds the alarm about how alcohol and marijuana use can increase the risk of severe mental health disorders in vulnerable individuals. Dr. Palmer shares inspiring stories of his patients who have overcome mental illness and regained their independence by addressing functional imbalances at their roots. Dr. Chris Palmer is a psychiatrist and researcher at the metabolism and mental health interface. He is the Director of the Department of Postgraduate and Continuing Education at McLean Hospital and an assistant professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. For over 25 years, Dr. Palmer has held leadership roles in psychiatric education, conducted research, and worked with people who have treatment-resistant mental illnesses. He has pioneered the use of the medical ketogenic diet in the treatment of psychiatric disorders through research, patient treatment, writing, and speaking around the world on this topic. More broadly, he is interested in the roles of metabolism and metabolic interventions on brain health. In this episode, Dhru and Dr. Palmer dive into (audio version / Apple Subscriber version): What's at stake if we don't rethink our approach to mental health? (00:00:51 / 00:00:51) The impact of alcohol and marijuana on mental health (9:40 / 5:20) How marijuana impacts brain and mitochondrial function (12:40 / 8:20) Using the Brain Energy theory to help individuals who are vulnerable to the effects of marijuana (22:00 / 17:30) Lifestyle treatment options and the ketogenic diet (27:40 / 23:10) Optimal exercise and how to start implementing it in your life (39:20 / 34:00) Ozempic: the impact on mental health and studies on other addictions (48:00 / 42:50) Ultra-processed foods and the impact on hormones and appetite signals (1:01:00 / 56:20) The common sense truth behind what we eat affects the brain (1:11:20 / 1:06:10) Euthanasia in Europe for younger individuals suffering from mental illness (1:21:40 / 1:15:10) Hope in Dr. Palmer’s work, Brain Energy theory, and final thoughts (1:37:30 / 1:32:00) Also mentioned in this episode: Dr. Palmer’s Twitter Jackson Fyfe, PhD X/Twitter post about weight training reducing all-cause mortality Study on weight training reducing all-cause mortality Magic Pill by Johann Hari Brain Energy For more on Dr. Palmer, follow him on Instagram and Twitter or via his websites, chrispalmermd.com and brainenergy.com. Right now, Maui Nui Venison is offering my community 20% off your first purchase. Just go to mauinuivenison.com/DHRU or enter the code DHRU at check out to get 20% off and up your high-quality protein today. Right now, BON CHARGE is offering my community 15% off; just go to boncharge.com/DHRU and use coupon code DHRU to save 15%. AquaTru is a countertop reverse osmosis purifier with a four-stage filtration system that removes 15x more contaminants than the bestselling water filters out there. Go to dhrupurohit.com/filter/ and get $100 off when you try AquaTru for yourself. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Dr. Chris Palmer, welcome back to the podcast.
0:04.2	You know, a year ago, you came on our podcast and shared your groundbreaking
0:09.2	brain energy theory that argued that the vast majority of mental disorders are actually metabolic disorders of the brain.
0:17.0	That many various mental issues that we all know very well and have heard of and unfortunately many people have had a family
0:23.9	member or a friend that suffered from them things like depression anxiety
0:28.6	bipolar disorder schizophrenia even they're not distinct individual diseases or entities
0:36.4	necessarily, but they're all related to metabolic disfunctions within the
0:41.9	brain and of course the poisoning of our mitochondria.
0:45.9	Just as a reminder as we start off today's episode, can you tell our audience why
0:52.4	this conversation matters so much and what's at stake if we don't fix our mental health challenges that we're experiencing worldwide.
1:05.0	The tragic reality is that mental disorders are skyrocketing in prevalence.
1:15.0	You know, over the last 25 years,
1:21.0	rates of autism spectrum disorder have quadrupled in the United States, rates of ADHD
1:29.7	are up threefold, so I've tripled, rates of overdose deaths and deaths of
1:40.0	of despair. So overdose deaths are up exponentially deaths of despair, so overdose deaths are up exponentially, deaths of despair have more than doubled.
1:47.1	That includes statistics on suicide and substance related deaths.
1:55.1	rates of bipolar disorder, largely thought to be a genetic disorder,
1:59.6	have doubled in adults and are up exponentially among children and
2:03.4	adolescents.
2:04.6	Rates of eating disorders, anorexia,
2:10.0	the kind where people are starving themselves to death,
2:14.3	those are up exponentially over the last 25 years.
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