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Dear Reader,
Happy New Year!
I’m Dr. Chris Palmer.
Thank you for signing up to the Brain Energy Newsletter. I’m so happy you’re here to learn more about Brain Energy. You may have subscribed to this newsletter because you or someone you know is experiencing mental distress or mental illness. That’s no surprise. Data suggest that around 50% of the U.S. population will meet the criteria for a mental disorder at some point in their lives. Unfortunately, treatments don’t always work.
Nearly all of us are looking for a better way to understand and treat mental disorders. We need better solutions. I don’t have all the answers, but what I’m offering is a new approach to understanding the root cause of mental illness: metabolism.
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Understanding Brain Energy
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What Is Metabolism?
Metabolism is how our bodies, including our brains, produce and use energy. It’s about so much more than simply burning calories. Metabolism influences every single aspect of the way our bodies function.
Many factors affect our metabolism, including diet, stress, sleep, hormone levels, exercise, light exposure, and inflammation. In a way, of course mental disorders are related to metabolism. In essence, everything is! This is why essentially all risk factors for mental and metabolic disorders are the same. In fact, metabolic abnormalities have consistently been found in people with mental disorders dating back to the 1940’s.
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How is your metabolic health?
While you may already know the status of your mental health, your metabolic health is often much less obvious. Remember, they both revolve around metabolism and are highly interconnected.
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Take The Mental and Metabolic Health Assessment to find out what areas of your life you can address today for long-term healing.
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TAKE the ASSESSMENT
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Mental health and metabolic health are inseparable. All the questions you will answer in this survey represent symptoms or metrics that might be playing a role in BOTH your mental and metabolic health. They are all interconnected.
If you want to reduce or eliminate any specific symptoms, you may need to address the other areas of concern identified in this assessment. These may give you and your healthcare professional ideas about interventions that might prove useful in improving your symptoms and your overall health.
For example, if you’re having trouble losing weight and have areas of concern with mental symptoms, addressing these might be helpful in your weight loss journey. Alternatively, if you are struggling with mental symptoms and have areas of concern with metabolic symptoms (such as insulin resistance), addressing these might help to improve your mental symptoms.
I hope this assessment helps you optimize your health and live your best life possible.
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Inspiring Brain Energy Stories
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Matt Baszucki’s Success Story
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After a bipolar episode at age 19, our son, Matt Baszucki, was seen by more than forty mental health practitioners and prescribed twenty-nine different medications. But it was not until he started on a ketogenic metabolic therapy under the guidance of Dr. Chris Palmer that he got his mind and his life back. Dr. Palmer’s metabolic approach has the potential to radically impact the world's mental health epidemic.
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David Baszucki, founder and CEO of Roblox and cofounder of the Baszucki Group & Jan Ellison Baszucki, author of A Small Indiscretion and cofounder of the Baszucki Group
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Learn more about Matt's story here
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Brain Energy In The Media
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7 Ways That Diet can Affect — and Improve — Your Mental Health
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What we eat, when we eat, and how much we eat have direct effects on metabolism and mitochondria. Everyone knows that diet plays a role in obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease. What most people might not know is that diet also has profound effects on mental health and the brain.
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Read More
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THE TIM FERRISS SHOW - Optimizing Brain Energy for Mental Health
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Dr. Chris Palmer has developed the first comprehensive theory of what causes mental illness, integrating existing theories and research into one unifying theory—the brain energy theory of mental illness.
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Read More
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A New Day For Mental and Metabolic Health
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Do you want to be part of the growing Brain Energy movement?
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We want to change the mental health field and offer hope and new solutions to the millions of people suffering.
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We’re calling for change, and we’d love for you to join us!
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Here’s what you can do right now to help:
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Forward this newsletter to your family and friends.
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Share the Brain Energy book links on social media.
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Use the hashtag #BrainEnergy
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Follow me on
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There is hope for healing.
#BrainEnergy
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The Brain Energy Fund is dedicated to transforming the mental health field and improving the lives of millions of people.
We need:
- education for patients and family members, such as free podcasts and patient support groups
- an ongoing social media campaign
- advocacy efforts
- clinician training programs on metabolic treatment approaches
- provider directories so that people can find appropriate treatment
All of this will take time, people, and resources.
Please help in any way you can!
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DONATE NOW
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Thank you for reading the Brain Energy Newsletter. Stay tuned for more resources designed to educate, inspire, and empower you to take control of your mental health and promote long-term healing.
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The book that will forever change the way we understand and treat mental health
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LEARN MORE
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Praise
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Brain Energy is a dramatic breakthrough in understanding mental illness by a leading Harvard psychiatrist who provides a revolutionary road map for people suffering from depression, anxiety, bipolar disease, in fact, almost any brain disorder.
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Mark Hyman
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MD, senior advisor at the Cleveland Clinic Center for Functional Medicine and 14-time New York Times bestselling author
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Brain Energy provides a long-awaited unifying mechanism underlying a vast spectrum of mental illness conditions. And this new paradigm will undoubtedly usher in potent therapeutic interventions for pervasive psychiatric conditions for which standard pharmaceutical approaches have proven minimally effective.
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David Perlmutter
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MD, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Grain Brain
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Dr. Palmer takes a provocative and insightful look into the origins of mental disorders, which have profound implications for how we treat the disease . . . and for our diet.
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Jason Fung
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MD, nephrologist and New York Times bestselling author of Live Life in the Fasting Lane
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Not since the foundational theories of psychodynamics (Sigmund Freud) and behaviorism (John Watson) has a bold and potentially transformative new proposition emerged to explain the mounting epidemic of mental illness throughout the world and across the age-span. Dr. Palmer’s ground-breaking theory is that abnormalities in brain energy metabolism are likely root causes of psychiatric conditions and that dietary and metabolic approaches can be exploited to benefit patients, and even the general population at large.
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Jong M. Rho
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MD, professor of neurosciences and pediatrics at the University of California San Diegov
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The Brain Energy newsletter and website are for informational purposes only. They are not intended to serve as a substitute for professional medical advice. The authors and publisher specifically disclaim any and all liability arising directly or indirectly from the use of any information contained in this newsletter and/or website. A healthcare professional should be consulted regarding your specific medical situation.
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