Essentials: Diet & Nutrition for Mental Health | Dr. Chris Palmer
In this Huberman Lab Essentials episode, my guest is Dr. Chris Palmer, MD, a board-certified psychiatrist and Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. We explain how nutrition and metabolism directly affect mental health, including the biological mechanisms underlying these effects. We also discuss how carbohydrate restriction, ketogenic diets and fasting can improve mood, energy, and, in some cases, treatment-resistant psychiatric conditions.
Articles
- Ketogenic diet in the treatment of schizoaffective disorder: Two case studies (Schizophrenia Research)
- The effect of ketonemia on the course of epilepsy (Mayo Clinic Bulletin)
- Fasting as a method for treating epilepsy (Medical Record)
- Mitochondrial functions modulate neuroendocrine, metabolic, inflammatory, and transcriptional responses to acute psychological stress (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America)
- Mitochondrial and metabolic dysfunction in ageing and age-related diseases (Nature Reviews Endocrinology)
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Dr. Chris Palmer: Diet & Nutrition for Mental Health
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