Brain Energy

A Revolutionary Breakthrough in Understanding Mental Health—and Improving Treatment for Anxiety, Depression, OCD, PTSD, and More

De: Christopher M. Palmer MD

Narrado por: Christopher M. Palmer MD

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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Like the author, I’ve been on my own health journey for about the past four or five years. Most of the information that I have experimented with or read and consumed focused on weight loss, and maybe a little longevity. I frequently thought while going through all these different avenues that there was a great deal of overlap and some missing pieces. It’s ironic that in a book about mental health there seems to be a unifying theory that makes sense of all the other stuff that I have read through. Another aspect of this book that I enjoyed were the actual case studies. Being that the author has continued to do clinical work I think this adds a great deal of power and validity to the ideas he’s putting forth. I also really enjoy that he is not a zealot of any one form factor, but very holistic, and willing to try anything that addresses mitochondrial health. His passion is never more apparent than in his closing. While I very much enjoyed the author’s personal reading of the material there were times that he was so soft spoken, that it made it difficult to hear. Another aspect that at times was challenging, is in an effort to lay out the entire theory the book covered a great deal of detail. While I believe, he did a great job of trying to make it as understandable as possible to the most amount of people there were times throughout the book it was easy to get lost in the science. That said, I believe if you stuck through the whole book all the pieces were still understandable enough to follow along with the theory he’s presenting. If you set this book alongside Jason Fung’s cancer code book, along with a number of other health and wellness materials it really seems like we have way more power in our hands to control our health destiny then a general surveying of the health landscape might suggest. I found this book, extremely useful, well presented and very important.

Unifying Theory of Mental & Metabolic Illness

literally everybody should read this book! brain energy provides a comprehensive if complex explanation of the foundations of mental illness through the pathway of metabolic dysfunction and compromise. these issues literally involved every living person on this planet to one extent or another. if you know somebody or love somebody who has severe or even minor mental maladaptive symptoms or if they have diabetes prediabetes etc including such things as dementia this is a must read book!

Must listen

This book is amazing. Everyone should read this book. Life changing materials.

Thank you Dr. Palmer

Watershed moment for psychiatry

Palmer has the passion of someone who knows, personally and professionally, how much suffering can be alleviated if we’ll only channel research into mitochondrial metabolism. He does quote chapter and verse of the supporting molecular and clinical science, though I’m getting the hard copy to have the footnotes to hand. I’m thrilled with this theory — a glimmer of hope in a beleaguered art that’s been trying so hard to be a science, so often at the expense of its patients.

Thoroughly enlightening.

Very well organized and written to explain the most plausible and patient-empowering theory for addressing mental disorders in a real, impactful, and life-changing way. Every dollar of research funding should be diverted to studies examining various treatments proposed under Dr. Palmer’s Brain Energy Theory.

A must read

I love these subjects and i read a lot about mental health, cognitive behavioural therapy, psychology, cognitive neuroscience, ketogenic diet. This book is a must of reading because connects metabolic dysfunctions to mental health issues and credits ketogenic lifestyle, exercise, and sleep as solutions to it.

Ripe Timing for the Brain Energy Model!

I'm not in medical profession but have a big enough circle of family and friends to see them in your story. Your holistic approach makes sense to me. The timing seems especially ripe to spread the word of the Brain Energy model. Tremendous attention is put on gun violence, and one good outcome of that unfortunate violence is attention to mental health.
As a retired elementary school principal, I saw the youngest children with so much baggage and ACES of traumatic events in their young lives that resulted in behavior problems and learning challenges. But the services and optimal settings were not there to offer them. Counselors were limited and already overwhelmed. Too many schools wanted to make the kids conform to the institution, but given the right resources the schools should serve all their needs. Early childhood education is movibg in the right direction. but oh so slowly. And so many have struggled into adulthood and still struggle.
Bless you for your work. More mental health providers are needed and more physicians need to access current information like you have presented. Thank you.
Keep promoting!

Great understanding of metabolic health!

I have learned through this book SO much of our environment, food and sleep has a bigger impact on the ur emotional metabolic health than I originally thought. Super overview, a must read.

Amazing

It is the better way to think about mental illness. The author is clearly passionate and he is the one reading which has a great impact.

 Missed the invisible

What’s interesting about this book written by a male doctor, is that when he’s talking about how prevalent depression is in women, not for a moment, did it occur to him that women live in a culture that devalues women. Estrogen and eating habits and ketone diet is never gonna change the fact that women’s work, having children, being there, for everybody at all times is so undervalued in the society, no wonder women are depressed. But that Factor didn’t even enter his awareness. But it was like asking a fish to describe water. Male entitlement is so invisible to males. Bless their sweethearts.

That being said, because I’m a therapist who encourages all of my clients to get happy, only eat, while they eat, eat, good food, exercise, I will recommend this book so that they can understand why all of these habits are good for them.

Science based approach to mental illness. I worked on the DSM three revised… Back in the 80s. I was a researcher. And I can tell you firsthand what a load of crap it is! But it was under written by big Pharma. And now it is used as a Bible. Poisoning for profit is really what it was/is.