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  • Brain Energy

  • A Revolutionary Breakthrough in Understanding Mental Health—and Improving Treatment for Anxiety, Depression, OCD, PTSD, and More
  • By: Christopher M. Palmer MD
  • Narrated by: Christopher M. Palmer MD
  • Length: 12 hrs and 18 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (1,095 ratings)

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This is the book that will forever change the way we understand and treat mental health. If you or someone you love is affected by mental illness, it might change your life.

We are in the midst of a global mental health crisis, and mental illnesses are on the rise. But what causes mental illness? And why are mental health problems so hard to treat? Drawing on decades of research, Harvard psychiatrist Dr. Chris Palmer outlines a revolutionary new understanding that for the first time unites our existing knowledge about mental illness within a single framework: mental disorders are metabolic disorders of the brain.

Brain Energy explains this new understanding of mental illness in detail, from symptoms and risk factors to what is happening in brain cells. Palmer also sheds light on the new treatment pathways this theory opens up—which apply to all mental disorders, including anxiety, depression, ADHD, alcoholism, eating disorders, bipolar disorder, autism, and even schizophrenia. Brain Energy pairs cutting-edge science with practical advice and strategies to help people reclaim their mental health.

This groundbreaking book reveals:

  • why classifying mental disorders as “separate” conditions is misleading;
  • the clear connections between mental illness and disorders linked to metabolism, including diabetes, heart attacks, strokes, pain disorders, obesity, Alzheimer’s disease, and epilepsy;
  • the link between metabolism and every factor known to play a role in mental health, including genetics, inflammation, hormones, neurotransmitters, sleep, stress, and trauma;
  • the evidence that current mental health treatments, including both medications and therapies, likely work by affecting metabolism; and
  • new treatments available today that listeners can use to promote long-term healing.

Palmer puts together the pieces of the mental illness puzzle to provide answers and offer hope. Brain Energy will transform the field of mental health, and the lives of countless people around the world.

©2022 Christopher Palmer (P)2022 Blackstone Publishing

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Life-changing

Dr. Palmer should win the Nobel Prize for this. And I’m so glad he didn’t re-record the final 3 minutes, during which he becomes quite emotional. This theory is simply huge… for all humans.

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Truly cutting edge insights

Mental healing will results from this work, thank you to Christopher Palmer for bringing your life energy into focusing on deeper understanding of how the mind and body work!

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Already changed my behavior because of this book

And results are great so far. Depressive symptoms have almost disappeared. The amount of time I spend kn the couch feeling drained of energy has reduced by almost half...

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Transformational

There are a few times within our lifetimes that we get to witness, learn and understand that we are complex beings with much deeper levels of interconnection between our mind, body, brain, consciousness and spiritual dimensions. It is more of a bio, psycho, social, spiritual model of existence. Those that understand it, and the clinicians and visionaries, who teach it will help humanity, in innumerable ways to live much HAPPŸŸer and healthier lives.

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Life changing read

I am a mental health therapist but also a person with a lot of metabolic disorders in my family. This book provided so much incredible info about how all these disorders are connected. I feel more equipped to support my clients dealing with mental illness. The author is so knowledgeable, provides relevant case studies and cares so deeply about this topic. If you or someone you love is dealing with any behavior, mental, or emotional disorders, you must read this book!

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Love this book

Thank you Dr Plamer courage to write this book.
My family members have psychiatric problems.In the past , it's seems no way out except taking medication and watching deteriorated overtime.Now you shine new hope to this deblilate patients.

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Captivated.

Dr. Palmer’s findings are nothing short of incredible. As someone who struggles with ADHD, this book gives me the hope of taking back control of my life through nutrition. I have recommended this book to several friends and family. Keep going Dr. Palmer!

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More people need to read this

Very well done performance and case made for Dr. Palmer’s revamped theory on a framework for mental illness. It fills in so many of the gaps that exist in the current hodgepodge of different overlapping theories.

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Brilliant and convincing

An amazing theory to explain most or all psychiatric illnesses from a biological / metabolic viewpoint. Why should the brain not suffer from the same processes that are making the body sick in todays world? If metabolic syndrome is caused by the food we ingest and what our body does with it, isn’t it logical that the brain is affected as well? For a respected doctor, scientist and professor in one of our leading medical institutions to suggest this theory speaks to it’s likelyhood of being correct. That he is performing the clinical trials to prove it is exciting beyond words. Go Chris Palmer!!!

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Dense but worth it

It was dense but it was worth it, now I’m going to listen to podcasts.

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