Brain Energy: A Revolutionary Breakthrough in Understanding Mental Health--and Improving Treatment for Anxiety, Depression, OCD, PTSD, and More

I absolutely loved and enjoyed reading this book! So much sense , logic, empathy.

I have finally discovered someone with lived experiences and clinical success. There is nothing redundant or borrowed here in Dr Palmer's book. It's well beyond anything I've read before. His illustrations are helpful, artfully rendered and accessible while simultaneously offering a high degree of pragmatism. Nothing dreamy can be found here. Along with illuminating the science of healing, he's also serving up hope. Hope I have not known before, especially given my own three generations of families mental illness. With a careful reading anyone can connect the dots. Take your time with it, please. With Palmer's ability to sort out and explain the brain/body science and psychiatric clinical history, his perspective is fresh, pioneering, and challenging. No doubt that he's hot on the trail to finding the long lost keys to recovering mental health, potentially at many levels of complexity. Palmer is smart, experienced, measured, and a much needed compassionate voice.

This book is incredible! I have been recommending it to everyone after our family was confronted by an occurrence of mental illness.The insights in the book are simple, yet profound:1) The brain makes up around 2% of a typical human's body weight yet uses 20% of a typical human's caloric intake. It makes sense that something related to dysfunction of energy processing might throw off the proper functioning of the brain.2) Mental illnesses tend to be co-morbid with one another (e.g., different presentations of mental illness morphing unexpectedly into other presentations... depression >> anxiety >> OCD >> BDD >> etc.) and co-morbid with other metabolic diseases. The book discusses studies showing that diabetes patients start to demonstrate depressive symptoms months before being diagnosed with diabetes, for instance, and that people diagnosed with metabolic diseases are more likely to show symptoms of mental illness.3) Incidents of metabolic diseases such as diabetes and heart disease have been on an upward trajectory as rapid and notable as the trajectory of serious mental illnesses.4) Psychiatrists have a very hard time explaining how the drugs they prescribe actually act on a patient to make them better. Drugs tend to "work" on some people and have no effect on others. Once on medication, it is hard to ever get off, no matter what the side-effects are.Dr. Palmer discusses these issues, provides references to solid academic studies showing the linkage between metabolic dysfunction and mental disease, and makes a strong case for treating mental illnesses with protocols that improve metabolic functioning. He also provides some inspirational stories of severely mentally ill patients that were able to live fulfilling, sensible lives after making changes to lifestyle that impacted their metabolic function.This book has been my family's North Star over the past year. It is the one resource to which we keep turning time after time. We have become Dr. Palmer groupies as well--listening to every podcast he is on and every presentation he does.If you or someone you love is suffering from mental illness, I invite you to read this book and seek out a support team that will help you start to implement the suggestions.

Intuitively, I think, most of us recognize that “we are what we eat” and Dr Palmer does a fantastic job or explaining how energy resources effect our physical and mental health.The S.A.D. is sad, and there’s billions of dollars targeted at us to keep us addicted to sugar, carbs and gluten.I only wish he had taken a stronger position promoting ketogenic diets for general health.

Dr. Palmer’s Book explains how mitochondria is responsible for every cell in our body and how the brain is affected by diet, stress and factors from our environment. It is based on research and hard data. If you read this book, you will definitely want to change the way you live! If you don’t have a scientific background you can opt to read the summaries and back of each chapter. I believe this book will not only will help people with mental but also those who want to be healthier.

Express illness fully

I was intrigued by this book because like many other people with behavioral health issues, I was not diagnosed with one mental health problem but a dozen or more of them over the years. My diagnosis was always a shifting target but it seemed to begin with bulimia and end out with schizophrenia.This book unifies all of those diagnoses and states they are in fact the same thing with the same root cause. The issue is poor diet, which causes mitochondrial malfunction which causes mental health disorders. Palmer's argument is well-written ad well-supported. He says the ketogenic (keto) diet heals. I have not been able to put a fill keto diet on the menu because of time and of the time and expense. I am working on it. I believe in what Palmer is pitching, it only needs to be tested on a wider scale.The book maybe a bit of a tough row to hoe for someone who did not take say grade 10 science in high school. Otherwise it is friendly and approachable and I found it sucked me along as a read it.I highly recommend this book for medical professionals along with Anna Lembke's Dopamine Nation which reminds you to enumerate and ameliorate alllllll of your addictions at once when battling addiction instead of trying to pick off additions one by one while seemingly benign addictions gnaw on parts of your brain.

Very instructive and with a lot of insights about mental health. Highly recommendable to every health practicioner despite the area

Interesante contenido, bien explicado.

El paradigma psiquiátrico de «tómese usted esta pastillita y vuelva a verme dentro de un mes» está cambiando. El mundo necesita más valientes como el doctor Palmer. Gracias.

der glaubt, seine mentalen Maden und Entgleisungen seien erworben und nun unberührbar in Stein gemeißelt. Es gibt nicht ein menschliches Gehirn, dem Ketose abträglich wäre. So unterschiedlich sind wir in unserer Materie und in den Stoffwechselvorgängen nicht, auch wenn sich die krankhaften Ausartungen bei jedem Menschen auf seine Weise ausdrücken.Jedes Gehirn weiß was mit Ketose anzufangen.Jedes Gehirn besteht aus den gleichen essentiellen Stoffen.Hört auf zu warten, bis der Dealer im weißen Kittel euch über seine Verdienstmöglichkeiten stellt. Das Gesundheitswesen ist bereits im Studium der einzelnen Wissenschaften von Konzernen infiltriert und geformt.Es gibt mittlerweile so viel gute, zugängliche Sachliteratur, die wichtige Themen auch für Laien greifbar macht. Dieses Buch gehört dazu.Aber kauft das Buch lieber im Buchlädchen umme Ecke. Fck Amazon