The Harvard Doctor: #1 Food You Need To STOP EATING To Fix Brain Disease (Dr Chris Palmer)

thank you so much

People, who like myself, are suffering the effects of childhood or adult stress and trauma, be it psychological or physical or both, and are wondering what the hell has diet got to do with mental or psychological stress - please know that mental stress takes a heavy physical toll because the body very much responds to mental stress by producing negative hormones like cortisol, which can trigger other hormones. Chronically elevated levels of various hormones cause imbalance of everything, leading to conditions like diabetes, heart disease and autoimmune skin conditions like eczema and psoriasis. Therefore, I would say that at the very fundamental level, we must strengthen our bodies with nutrition, which will enable it to re-balance itself. I have been undergoing chronic stress for six decades now, first with my birth family and then with a bad marital relationship. I fell prey to various immune and heart problems, which I realize, could have been avoided with a proper diet. But ever since I ditched the sugar and carbs and started on a whole foods diet with butter, meat, fish, eggs and veggies, all my conditions have improved. Everything being negative already, reaching for harmful comfort foods like chocolate, ice cream, burgers and fries, only created multiple whammies for me. For better or for worse, I had religiously rejected all the drugs that doctors had prescribed me over the years, as my late mom had repeatedly warned me to never poison my body with them. And I think that has helped my recovery as much as the good foods that i am now eating, instead of the junk. But whatever be anyone's present condition or past history, we all have chances to recover. Never lose hope until you are dead, which everyone must be some time, anyway, so that is also not cause for too much worry. But as long as you have breath, keep fighting. What do you have to lose? I have fallen off the bandwagon hundreds of times, but the important thing is that I always got back up again, even when the worst thing happened, and my mother died, because that's what she would have wanted me to do - keep fighting. You will be mightily surprised at the turnarounds that are possible. I was, and still am.

Wow. Just becoming aware of the influence of alcohol on keto diet. Ben Bikman says it is a problem too. So many pleasures disappearing.

Amazing that someone can go from being homeless (and suicidal)to Harvard medical school; and ,now, being such a valuable teacher in this space.

Love that he points out that just because you are thin or relatively thin does not mean you are metabolically healthy! It takes many years for some to get to where you can see the physical effects in many. I believe this is the case for many kids. Adhd might be the first sign of metabolic dysfunction of the brain.

Another excellent interview! Always lots to learn from Dr Palmer!!

Wow what a story of a fighter in life. Good job Dr Palmer. You can help many people. Thank you.

Thank you for your hard work and dedication to sharing research and truth with us, your doing a good job and so are those who provided research as well, thank you for sharing this important information with us.

I'm a 42 year old man. I had a heart attack last week. Was in the hospital for 4 days. I now have three stents in my heart. After the procedure, a couple of different doctors and a cardiologist spoke with me, and told me to start a low-fat diet. They told me don't eat red meat, eggs, or full fat dairy. Then they wanted to put me on a cholesterol medication and a blood pressure medication for one year. I told them no. Then after I get home from the hospital, my parents are badgering me to also do a low-fat diet. My mother keeps telling me that dairy fat is going to clog my arteries again. You can't make this stuff up.

You are token about me

I think you got a lot of online friends just from this podcast. !

Poignant discussion everyone should hear. Dr. Palmer makes all this so clear and relevant. 👏

Great podcast, one can really relate to Dr Palmer, and he is such a survivor, one can hear the pain of his experience.

Can high fat protein diet kidneys handle .?

What he said about prediabetes and being thin was fascinating. Being an ACEs child I now understand why.

did you or will you ever interview a vegan person who claims to eat vegan since 20+ years and being healthy on this channel?

Dr Palmer should be with UN World Health Organisation... his explanation about our body & health is so clear & easy to absorb.Tqvvm.

I've seen doctor Palmer on other podcasts. The questions you asked here gave me even more important info. Thank you so much!

This was amazing to listen to, thank you so much for your content ❤🎉

Dr Palmer just spoke to Congress a couple weeks ago.🎉

When he started dating, "I grew up in a middle class family..." I laughed a little 🤭

Since childhood I am not fond of meat. Would fatty fish or coconut fat do the trick?

Chris Palmer said that chinese are perfectly healthy on a high carb diet. According to Dr Ken Berry, chinese and indians who eat their traditional carb rich diet are not as slender and healthy as they look. If you take samples on them you often find they have visceral fat, they are TOFI, they often have pre diabetes, high triglycerides and fatty liver. So no, you can't be perfectly healthy on a high carb diet.

I think fats and carbs together is worst! Two energy source together. In Europe a lot of people eat not a lot processed foods, and still a lot of dementia now. I mean germany, polen, austria - I am here i see this. Seed oils and sugar, thats for sure, here a lot of people have insulin resist., what comes also, i think, two energy source eating together.

Black chocolate barely spikes insulin… I don’t know why a picture is shown in the beginning of the video. Get your facts right. Especially when the black chocolate contains hazelnuts or pistachio

This man is a true success story in taking control of your life. What a great person 🙂

Yes, so true that our mental reactions to real causes are reality responses. There is no calm, smiling hungry wolf. Undernourished and malnourished human is anxious, scared and sleepless . Chronic anxiety and depression is so often chronic malnourishment. Thank you Dr Palmer, I am so glad that psychiatry is waking up to physiological reality.

It seems to me that the metabolic theory of mental illness answers that enormously important question, "How?". Standard mental illness treatment can identify that there's a chemical imbalance to a pill can be prescribed, but stops short of asking, "How did this chemical imbalance occur?" Our pharmaceutical driven health system has been content to demand that learning the "what?" was sufficient, but I've yet to encounter a single person on this planet who suffers from a pharmaceutical deficiency. The real healing comes when you look for the actual source of the cumulative problems.

I believe my alopecia totalis may be a result of being a person with a lot of ACES

I personally think humor is very healing

People get attached to there disease. It defines them and they cling to it. But, we do have to take responsibility for our healing. What happened happened, you need to pull yourself out of it. Having a victim mentality doesn’t do anyone any favors❤

This is so refreshing to hear a mental health professional speaking truth. Thank you

Great interview!! I learned a lot!!!😊

I went on the Carnivore diet after being on the whole foods diet didn't rescue me from mitochondrial dysfunction. I've been on Carnivore for 8 months now, and am trying one plant based item at a time to see how they affect my body. Cacao powder in any form, wrecks my body and brain for days. Sauerkraut wrecks my thyroid for a day, avocado sets my nerves in my skin and lower back on fire for a day or two. I'm getting to the point that I may just give up on eating anything plant based. But I don't know why I get such a push back on anything ''plant,'' when others have no problems eating plants. ?

Funny how 99% of our food is processed. Anything the FDA says to eat I just do the opposite. I recommend reading “Health and Beauty Mastery” by Julian Bannet, that book is a real eye opener about shocking stuff health industry is doing! I completely changed my habits

What a crazy crazy story !!! And he came out on the other side!! 🙏

Acetate fuelling the brain when glucose disfunfunction has occurred I'm sure is a thing that keeps people drinking. Another reason ketones are so important.

Fat fasting makes me feel AMAZING

don't you mean acetaldehyde? Not acetoacetate (which is AcAc, a good ketone) - thx

Antoine Bechamp knew about mitochondria. That was before 1900. He named them "God's particle ".

Fantastic interview!

Only god of Moses heals u or helps u find out how to heal u re seld❤

Eat healthy food … not junk. I’ve had two severe bouts of depression … all that anti depressants did was to fog my brain and gain huge amounts of weight. I’ve stopped taking them now and eat better … I’ve put myself on the keto diet, high protein and high fat … and slowly I’m losing weight and feeling better, despite having had cancer, a divorce and leaving my job. A good diet is everything.

Dr Chris Palmer is like a breath of fresh air. Great interview thanks. Enjoyed his book Brain Energy.

Not good. I've had depression since high school

Thanks Chris Palmer. I’m gonna buy your book.