Dr. Palmer, I am immensely grateful for your work. My 23yo son took his life in 2015, he suffered from anxiety and depression (diagnosed at 5). When he was 21 he was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes and had to drastically change his diet. That was when we saw improvement with the anxiety and depression, but didn’t have the knowledge to put the puzzle together. I wish I had known back then what you and others have been sharing about the foods we eat. I have so much to say, but will stop there. God Bless you Dr. Palmer!
I’m so sorry to hear about your son. It’s heartbreaking to know that this information might have helped him. I hope and pray that we can help improve the lives of others like him.
@@ChrisPalmerMD AMEN! I feel convicted to share and plant seeds every chance I get. I am so grateful for your videos, you are an awesome teacher! Thank you, again!
“Dr. Palmer, you’re not just an incredible scientist but a truly compassionate human being. Your guidance on the ketogenic diet for my 5-year-old cousin with uncontrolled seizures opened the door to life-changing treatment. Thank you!”
coming from a family of European herbalists, In Canada I worked 30 years as a consultant in a natural products store. I also gave vegetarian cooking classes. I now understand why I could not prevent the suicide of my schizophrenic brother or my husband after repeated depressions. Fortunately my schizophrenic grandson applies the recommendations of a clinic in France which applies the recommendations of Dr G Ede. who spreads like you the message of hope = food is mainly the key. thank you
Hi Dr. Palmer, I came across your work and watched your interview with Andrew Huberman. I’ve had depression and disordered anxiety for about 10 years. I have been doing a ketogenic diet in collaboration with my doctor for about 6 weeks. I’m floating between 0.8 - 1.2mmol and I’ve never felt so good. Thankyou!
Thank you so much for the work you are doing Dr. Palmer! It helps so much to keep an optimistic view for the future, where we can actually do something about this epidemic of despair. Are there any studies looking at OCD and the ketogenic diet in the pipeline ?
I'm thrilled with your new channel, Dr Palmer!. I'm a 71 yo female whose life was ruined by carb addiction. Several decades of low carb/keto helped with the depression tremendously and then I found carnivore. I have only eaten animal products for the last 18 months, mostly beef, and I feel terrific. The jump from keto to carnivore took me to a whole new level. It's really astounding. I'm your biggest fan, thank you.
I always say that I am on my diet.. about 8 years ago I started testing my sugar levels after I ate something.. (I was 180 pounds and 60 units of insulin) I had lost my insurance. No one should have to do this without doctor, but I did. and very slowly brought sugar levels down and insulin was reduced.... NOW was under doctors care when my husband died, and needed to go back on metformin...sugar levels are also triggered by cortisol ( which increases with the stress of grief) Thank you for this video!
i don't know how I stumbled across UA-cam videos where you had been a guest for mental health but I believe it was a Godsend to give me hope from this despair I've been living practically since I was 5 yrs old. Currently tested for depression, anxiety, PTSD, ADHD and have been on numerous meds that either didn't work or terrible side effects. I just want to thank you for your dedication to mental health and your compassion for humans who experience mental illness. Thank you for taking the extra time to research and study different approaches to improve mental health. God bless you, Dr.Palmer
I've been on carnivore for 6 years. When I first started it was incredibly antidepressant, and then I would have "cheat meals" when I was with friends, or my partner, or family. It was all downhill for years, and then I just stopped saying yes. My cravings only happened if I ate carbs- even small amounts of rice or pasta- or drank, so I just stopped all of that. Now, I think I'm one of the happiest people ever. Interesting aside: I got rid of all heart palpitations WHILE I STILL SMOKE CIGARETTES just by eliminating plant foods. Not a recommendation, but a personal anecdote! Ketosis is genuinely crazy. No more depression, no more bipolar, no more insomnia, no more lethargy or anxiety, no more burning joints, no more heart palpitations! God bless!!
Your book, Brain Energy, provided my first ever knowledge that diet had an effect on mental health. I suffered from anxiety and depression for an entire lifetime previously and always had mental health treatment like therapy and drugs available to me. Going on a ketogenic diet, 2 years ago, was the first intervention that made a noticeable difference for the better in my mental health and everyday functioning.
Dr Palmer, if we could sit down with a cup of coffee I would tell you the most astounding story of mental illness manifestations that got me taking my own life in my late teens. Then experiencing very complex neurometabolic challenges as an adult, being treated with a ketogenic diet since 12 years ago, first my own version, then on a 2:1 ratio. Interestingly, in the end it’s been treating my mental health all along, too. Early 2024 I was diagnosed with adhd, autism, and bipolar 2. I’ve stayed alive thanks to the diet, and even better with the addition of a mito cocktail. I’m age 55. Your book brought it around full circle, I’ve even shared with my mental health providers. Thanks for your great work! Hiring anyone like me for your team by any chance? 😊
Thanks for hope, Dr. Palmer. I've had the pleasure of taking your book, Brain Energy to different mental health crisis units in my community in an effort to make the good news travel faster.
Thank you for your interviews, your book is amazing, and all your teaching. Although my wife is still in her schizophrenic world much of the time I have observed incredible improvements by her eating far less carbohydrates. I haven't seen this type of positive behavior...EVER...and I don't think she has actually achieved ketosis... but if she actually commits...oh my goodness. Life changing potential... She might actually laugh again.... now that would be a true miracle
Thank you Chris. As an 83 year old F, who has struggled most of my life with anxiety, depression, and eating disorders, finding Low carb, then Keto, and info from good people like you and Georgia Eade and reading and absorbing the info in your books, I finally feel in control and able to heal. What you do is life changing.🙏
Welcome to UA-cam Dr Palmer! Anecdotally I have reversed 20 years of mental health issues and t2d simply following a Ketogenic diet. Healthier at 50 than at 30. God bless and Godspeed on the crusade to heal humanity!
Of utmost importance the clarification between the mediterranean x keto for mental health Dr. Palmer! I am sending your video to some families that did not join our Nutrition for Mental Health Course (which includes Brain Energy teachings) stating they trusted their cardiologist recommendation on mediterranean diet for their son with schizophrenia. They did not even want to hear about the studies on Keto. Our work at Whole Mind Symphony is to encourage and inspire people to change their eating habits to improve mental illness and this video will certainly help! Thank you for being outspoken and educating doctors too!
Thank you, Dr. Palmer! Excellent video! I am requiring this video and others of yours for my undergraduate honors seminar on Disabilities, Chronic Health, and Mental Well-Being. Your work is critically important to be shared and highlighted as a fundamental understanding of mental health - and what we CAN do to help ourselves! It would be amazing to have you "zoom" in for one of our seminars!
Dr. Chris Palmer, I love you immensely ♥ I came across a Psychology Today featuring you and keto shortly after experiencing my only psychotic episode in my late 30's and being released from the hospital on medication that I swear is so much more harmful than anything my own supposedly broken neuro-anatomy could cause. I started keto and my medication at the exact same time, I don't know which to credit for my relatively high functioning. That said, I am making a commitment. I am getting off this medication as safely and as slowly as need be. Thank you so much for being a person of integrity and authority for the rest of us to lean on when the whole establishment wants nothing more than to just medicate more, and sedate the shit out of patients. Not today - safely, slowly, I'm getting off this medication. Thank you.
Now this is a UA-cam channel I can subscribe to. Palmer is a brilliant human being. A champion for people who are so vastly underrepresented in society.
Thank you for everything you do Dr Palmer and for the invaluable information! I was diagnosed BP II with rapid cycling induced by antidepressants. Thanks to following a ketogenic/carnivore diet I am now able to work parttime and taking care of my kids, all suicidal ideation, rapid mood cycling and most fatigue disappeared! Unfortunately my health care provider would not help me with transitioning to the diet so I was very lucky to read your book back then and listen to your interviews.
Wonderful to see you and your channel. Really enjoyed your book Brain energy and share it with as many as I can. Thanks for all you are doing and keep fighting the good fight
All this information gives me hope for the future in treating SMI. It would be incredible if there were community cafeterias that could cater to the ketogenic metabolic diet for those that need it. Often the people who need this food as medical treatment are not able (initially) to prepare these meals on their own. It requires a robust support system.
Over the last few years, I've often wondered what it is I'm experiencing and more specifically, what's causing the constant need to cry and feeling such hopelessness. I've even found myself picking at my eyebrows 😞. At almost 65 yrs old, I'm unsure what is going on all of a sudden? I'm going to take a closer look at what I'm eating.
Your work is stellar and critical for so many. Can you address how to present your findings to mental health professionals without setting them off? My son has severe mental illness (bipolar with psychotic features) and IDD, so he’s a 30 year old toddler. I can’t switch his diet (it’s only carbs) without a letter from his doctor because of Medicaid rules. He is so manic right now because they are eliminating his main medication (Abilify), due to new research. I need to change his diet!! There are no other meds to try. Depakote, Geodon, and lithium have severe issues (he is CKD stage 3). I need to get the doctors to buy into low carb.
So sorry to hear of your son's difficulties. The CKD is likely from all the toxic medications they've given him, especially lithium. If your son lives at home, can you just change his diet to low-carb, without even bothering to tell the quacks?
@ he lives in a Medicaid home and as an adult, has choice of what he eats. Anything put upon him requires doctor’s orders. Even then, he has the right to refuse.
@@terribarnhart9355 oh, I'm sorry to hear that Terri. Maybe you could give some easy-read literature on Keto to your son's quack, to get him quickly up to speed? It's so frustrating. My quack literally scoffed in my face when I told him I was on Keto. He mocked "keto is just another internet fad diet and it's not sustainable!" He's not worth bothering with any more.
My mental healthy improved greatly when after 5 years of keto I CHANGED to 250 grams of healthy carbs and 200 grams of protein and reduced my fats to under 30 grams. I also reversed high fasting glucose by quoting keto and going higher carbs. My lean muscles has also increased and my sleep is much better. And I enjoy the taste of food again because of the wide variety of foods
Our kid with Autism does better with that too. We learned meat specially bcaa's block transport of catecholamines into brain. Carbs block bcaa's from blocking that letting serotonin and dopamine metabolism occur unobstructed. It's been a major change for us as a result. Hi fat thrashed thyroid without sufficient protein. Too much protein caused behavior and emotional regulation problems. Everybody's Evolutionary Epigenetics is different.
@@tedhu262 Keto messed up my testosterone. It literally tanked and my fasting glucose was high because my liver was producing glucose. Beans lentils potatoes and oats got my pancreas back up and running. It was not working well with high fat. The carbs also keep cortisol down.
Keto helped me but carnivore cured me! 1 year in and blooming! 62 yo female and going back to college! That’s how my mental health and capacity changed and keeps changing 💪❤️
Keto has been a Godsend for my Bipolar II. I am off all medications now. I still have a dip in mood in Spring (I'm in Northern Hemisphere). Any suggestions to help ?
Dear prof.chris Does chronic constipation cause mental disorders and obsessions? What are the minerals and vitamins that can be tested in the laboratory and whose deficiency leads to this?
Is there any way to send you some info about my wife? About a rare mithocondrial condition. There are 3 years since I follow you but never been able to contact. We are from Europe but we are willing to travel to US.
Dr. Palmer, I am immensely grateful for your work. My 23yo son took his life in 2015, he suffered from anxiety and depression (diagnosed at 5). When he was 21 he was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes and had to drastically change his diet. That was when we saw improvement with the anxiety and depression, but didn’t have the knowledge to put the puzzle together. I wish I had known back then what you and others have been sharing about the foods we eat. I have so much to say, but will stop there. God Bless you Dr. Palmer!
I’m so sorry to hear about your son. It’s heartbreaking to know that this information might have helped him. I hope and pray that we can help improve the lives of others like him.
@@ChrisPalmerMD AMEN! I feel convicted to share and plant seeds every chance I get. I am so grateful for your videos, you are an awesome teacher! Thank you, again!
With love of course, it’s a gentle dance. We all have free will.
So sorry for your heartbreak❤
sorry to hear that
“Dr. Palmer, you’re not just an incredible scientist but a truly compassionate human being. Your guidance on the ketogenic diet for my 5-year-old cousin with uncontrolled seizures opened the door to life-changing treatment. Thank you!”
Thank you for this video and channel.
We absolutely need more doctors like dr Palmer ! Thank you for saving the world ❤
I have two family members who took their lives due to mental illness. Thanks for what you do
coming from a family of European herbalists, In Canada I worked 30 years as a consultant in a natural products store. I also gave vegetarian cooking classes. I now understand why I could not prevent the suicide of my schizophrenic brother or my husband after repeated depressions. Fortunately my schizophrenic grandson applies the recommendations of a clinic in France which applies the recommendations of Dr G Ede. who spreads like you the message of hope = food is mainly the key. thank you
Hi Dr. Palmer, I came across your work and watched your interview with Andrew Huberman. I’ve had depression and disordered anxiety for about 10 years. I have been doing a ketogenic diet in collaboration with my doctor for about 6 weeks. I’m floating between 0.8 - 1.2mmol and I’ve never felt so good. Thankyou!
So happy you are getting a UA-cam channel ! You are so wonderful and amazing and so much help! ❤😊
Thank you so much for the work you are doing Dr. Palmer!
It helps so much to keep an optimistic view for the future, where we can actually do something about this epidemic of despair.
Are there any studies looking at OCD and the ketogenic diet in the pipeline ?
So glad you are hear. I can't get my son with scz to read your newsletters ❤❤❤❤
I'm thrilled with your new channel, Dr Palmer!. I'm a 71 yo female whose life was ruined by carb addiction. Several decades of low carb/keto helped with the depression tremendously and then I found carnivore. I have only eaten animal products for the last 18 months, mostly beef, and I feel terrific. The jump from keto to carnivore took me to a whole new level. It's really astounding. I'm your biggest fan, thank you.
This is great! I’m so glad you’ve open this chapter of your life. This, your channel and input, is a great move for the mental health of our country.
Glad you're here, Doc.
I always say that I am on my diet.. about 8 years ago I started testing my sugar levels after I ate something.. (I was 180 pounds and 60 units of insulin) I had lost my insurance. No one should have to do this without doctor, but I did. and very slowly brought sugar levels down and insulin was reduced.... NOW was under doctors care when my husband died, and needed to go back on metformin...sugar levels are also triggered by cortisol ( which increases with the stress of grief) Thank you for this video!
Omg what a gift to the world!! So excited to watch all your future videos!!
i don't know how I stumbled across UA-cam videos where you had been a guest for mental health but I believe it was a Godsend to give me hope from this despair I've been living practically since I was 5 yrs old. Currently tested for depression, anxiety, PTSD, ADHD and have been on numerous meds that either didn't work or terrible side effects. I just want to thank you for your dedication to mental health and your compassion for humans who experience mental illness. Thank you for taking the extra time to research and study different approaches to improve mental health. God bless you, Dr.Palmer
Hurray!!!! Congratulations, and THANK YOU!
I've been on carnivore for 6 years. When I first started it was incredibly antidepressant, and then I would have "cheat meals" when I was with friends, or my partner, or family. It was all downhill for years, and then I just stopped saying yes. My cravings only happened if I ate carbs- even small amounts of rice or pasta- or drank, so I just stopped all of that. Now, I think I'm one of the happiest people ever. Interesting aside: I got rid of all heart palpitations WHILE I STILL SMOKE CIGARETTES just by eliminating plant foods. Not a recommendation, but a personal anecdote! Ketosis is genuinely crazy. No more depression, no more bipolar, no more insomnia, no more lethargy or anxiety, no more burning joints, no more heart palpitations! God bless!!
Your book, Brain Energy, provided my first ever knowledge that diet had an effect on mental health. I suffered from anxiety and depression for an entire lifetime previously and always had mental health treatment like therapy and drugs available to me. Going on a ketogenic diet, 2 years ago, was the first intervention that made a noticeable difference for the better in my mental health and everyday functioning.
🙌🙏🙌
Dr Palmer, if we could sit down with a cup of coffee I would tell you the most astounding story of mental illness manifestations that got me taking my own life in my late teens. Then experiencing very complex neurometabolic challenges as an adult, being treated with a ketogenic diet since 12 years ago, first my own version, then on a 2:1 ratio. Interestingly, in the end it’s been treating my mental health all along, too. Early 2024 I was diagnosed with adhd, autism, and bipolar 2. I’ve stayed alive thanks to the diet, and even better with the addition of a mito cocktail. I’m age 55. Your book brought it around full circle, I’ve even shared with my mental health providers. Thanks for your great work! Hiring anyone like me for your team by any chance? 😊
Thanks for hope, Dr. Palmer. I've had the pleasure of taking your book, Brain Energy to different mental health crisis units in my community in an effort to make the good news travel faster.
Thank you for your interviews, your book is amazing, and all your teaching. Although my wife is still in her schizophrenic world much of the time I have observed incredible improvements by her eating far less carbohydrates. I haven't seen this type of positive behavior...EVER...and I don't think she has actually achieved ketosis... but if she actually commits...oh my goodness. Life changing potential... She might actually laugh again.... now that would be a true miracle
Thank you Chris. As an 83 year old F, who has struggled most of my life with anxiety, depression, and eating disorders, finding Low carb, then Keto, and info from good people like you and Georgia Eade and reading and absorbing the info in your books, I finally feel in control and able to heal.
What you do is life changing.🙏
Excellent video!
I am so happy you have a channel. Cannot wait for your content 🎉
Currently reading Brain Energy and I'm really enjoying it. We need to share it and shout it from the rooftops.
Welcome to UA-cam Dr Palmer! Anecdotally I have reversed 20 years of mental health issues and t2d simply following a Ketogenic diet. Healthier at 50 than at 30. God bless and Godspeed on the crusade to heal humanity!
Of utmost importance the clarification between the mediterranean x keto for mental health Dr. Palmer! I am sending your video to some families that did not join our Nutrition for Mental Health Course (which includes Brain Energy teachings) stating they trusted their cardiologist recommendation on mediterranean diet for their son with schizophrenia. They did not even want to hear about the studies on Keto. Our work at Whole Mind Symphony is to encourage and inspire people to change their eating habits to improve mental illness and this video will certainly help! Thank you for being outspoken and educating doctors too!
Thank you, Dr. Palmer! Excellent video! I am requiring this video and others of yours for my undergraduate honors seminar on Disabilities, Chronic Health, and Mental Well-Being. Your work is critically important to be shared and highlighted as a fundamental understanding of mental health - and what we CAN do to help ourselves! It would be amazing to have you "zoom" in for one of our seminars!
Dr. Chris Palmer, I love you immensely ♥ I came across a Psychology Today featuring you and keto shortly after experiencing my only psychotic episode in my late 30's and being released from the hospital on medication that I swear is so much more harmful than anything my own supposedly broken neuro-anatomy could cause. I started keto and my medication at the exact same time, I don't know which to credit for my relatively high functioning. That said, I am making a commitment. I am getting off this medication as safely and as slowly as need be. Thank you so much for being a person of integrity and authority for the rest of us to lean on when the whole establishment wants nothing more than to just medicate more, and sedate the shit out of patients. Not today - safely, slowly, I'm getting off this medication. Thank you.
Thanks Chris!
Now this is a UA-cam channel I can subscribe to. Palmer is a brilliant human being. A champion for people who are so vastly underrepresented in society.
Thank you for everything you do Dr Palmer and for the invaluable information! I was diagnosed BP II with rapid cycling induced by antidepressants. Thanks to following a ketogenic/carnivore diet I am now able to work parttime and taking care of my kids, all suicidal ideation, rapid mood cycling and most fatigue disappeared! Unfortunately my health care provider would not help me with transitioning to the diet so I was very lucky to read your book back then and listen to your interviews.
Thank you so much for your extremely important work and for sharing your knowledge, Dr Palmer! 🙏
This channel will be fantastic to continue my own learning and to share with others. Let's go! 💓❤🔥
This is a fabulous channel- thanks for taking time to teach!
Thanks dr .
Thank you for everything you do! It would be great to create an episode regarding children and youth mental health.
Wonderful to see you and your channel. Really enjoyed your book Brain energy and share it with as many as I can. Thanks for all you are doing and keep fighting the good fight
Fantastic video as always!
Important information as always.
Thank You for writing Brain Energy!
All this information gives me hope for the future in treating SMI. It would be incredible if there were community cafeterias that could cater to the ketogenic metabolic diet for those that need it. Often the people who need this food as medical treatment are not able (initially) to prepare these meals on their own. It requires a robust support system.
Thank you Dr.Palmer
You are Our Hero💪🌟
Thank you! 🙏
A hero to so many across the globe. 💪
Over the last few years, I've often wondered what it is I'm experiencing and more specifically, what's causing the constant need to cry and feeling such hopelessness. I've even found myself picking at my eyebrows 😞. At almost 65 yrs old, I'm unsure what is going on all of a sudden?
I'm going to take a closer look at what I'm eating.
Thank you Dr. Palmer
Thank you dr. Giving this valueble information to us
An excellent video, thanks Chris.
Glad you enjoyed it
Your work is stellar and critical for so many. Can you address how to present your findings to mental health professionals without setting them off? My son has severe mental illness (bipolar with psychotic features) and IDD, so he’s a 30 year old toddler. I can’t switch his diet (it’s only carbs) without a letter from his doctor because of Medicaid rules. He is so manic right now because they are eliminating his main medication (Abilify), due to new research. I need to change his diet!! There are no other meds to try. Depakote, Geodon, and lithium have severe issues (he is CKD stage 3). I need to get the doctors to buy into low carb.
So sorry to hear of your son's difficulties. The CKD is likely from all the toxic medications they've given him, especially lithium. If your son lives at home, can you just change his diet to low-carb, without even bothering to tell the quacks?
@ he lives in a Medicaid home and as an adult, has choice of what he eats. Anything put upon him requires doctor’s orders. Even then, he has the right to refuse.
@@terribarnhart9355 oh, I'm sorry to hear that Terri. Maybe you could give some easy-read literature on Keto to your son's quack, to get him quickly up to speed? It's so frustrating. My quack literally scoffed in my face when I told him I was on Keto. He mocked "keto is just another internet fad diet and it's not sustainable!" He's not worth bothering with any more.
I watched your video to the end
Perfect explanation🙏❤️
My mental healthy improved greatly when after 5 years of keto I CHANGED to 250 grams of healthy carbs and 200 grams of protein and reduced my fats to under 30 grams. I also reversed high fasting glucose by quoting keto and going higher carbs. My lean muscles has also increased and my sleep is much better. And I enjoy the taste of food again because of the wide variety of foods
Our kid with Autism does better with that too. We learned meat specially bcaa's block transport of catecholamines into brain. Carbs block bcaa's from blocking that letting serotonin and dopamine metabolism occur unobstructed. It's been a major change for us as a result. Hi fat thrashed thyroid without sufficient protein. Too much protein caused behavior and emotional regulation problems. Everybody's Evolutionary Epigenetics is different.
@@tedhu262
Keto messed up my testosterone. It literally tanked and my fasting glucose was high because my liver was producing glucose. Beans lentils potatoes and oats got my pancreas back up and running. It was not working well with high fat. The carbs also keep cortisol down.
David Greene is the disinformationalist with all the duff info!
Keto helped me but carnivore cured me! 1 year in and blooming! 62 yo female and going back to college! That’s how my mental health and capacity changed and keeps changing 💪❤️
Congrats on your new life! 💪❤️🙌
@@ChrisPalmerMD thank you! It’s next to miracle. I listen to all your, dr Chaffee’s, Dr Berry’s, Dr. Bright and Ben Bikman’s lectures. And many more..
Keto has been a Godsend for my Bipolar II. I am off all medications now. I still have a dip in mood in Spring (I'm in Northern Hemisphere). Any suggestions to help ?
Dear prof.chris
Does chronic constipation cause mental disorders and obsessions? What are the minerals and vitamins that can be tested in the laboratory and whose deficiency leads to this?
Please answer 🙏🙏🙏
Danke
Do you have clinic?
Will the book be released in French soon? Thank you (Google translate)
Unfortunately, no. There is no French translation currently planned.
Is there any way to send you some info about my wife? About a rare mithocondrial condition. There are 3 years since I follow you but never been able to contact. We are from Europe but we are willing to travel to US.
I really need help for my son Dr Palmer
I would think fasting would be helpful also. The ketogenic diet was designed to mimic that effect.
Yes but we can’t fast forever obviously. Both are good.
I find low carb leads to difficulty sleeping
Why is that?
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Eat meat, stay healthy🥰
So most of the population on plant based diet should be epileptic ????