Brain Energy

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

By: Christopher M. Palmer MD

Narrated by: 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

Excellent information

Grateful for this excellent update on treatments for mental illness and metabolic interventions for those suffering with mental and physical diseases. Dr. Palmer has documented successful outcomes of patients who at first were “seemingly hopeless”, but after engaging in “the brain energy” program
found themselves on the road to full recovery and healing.

This is a GAME CHANGER!

The information found in this book is so valuable to anybody and everyone who suffers from mental illness. The science behind what causes mental illness is incredibly interesting and well explained. I am hopeful for the first time in a long time that i may be able to not only treat my mental illness but maybe reverse it entirely. READ THIS BOOK and give it to everyone, this information needs to be absorbed by our society and we need it now.

Priceless information in Brain Energy

Information presented in the book is priceless.
Detailed oriented and terms explained in details.
Recommend to all.

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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.

Incredible Give it a read and the diet a try!

Changed my life for the better in innumerable ways. I healed my lifelong depression and daily anxiety with a low carbohydrate and nutritionally dense diet. It saved my life - literally.

Must read! (Or listen)

Very well written, thought out and referenced. First part is definitely science heavy but is presented in a very clear easy to understand format. Really paints an excellent picture of where we stand with treatments, diagnosis and understanding of the issues and then his hypothesis beautifully ties it together.

Outstanding breakthrough work

Armed with clinical trial data, case studies, and a well reasoned integrative theory, Dr Palmer makes a compelling argument that mental health issues are metabolic problems at the root. This is a godsend to those people who are suffering and trying to hold on despite crippling symptoms and fading hope that there’s any cure. Chris Palmer’s book delivers real hope. Everyone who is suffering, or has a loved one suffering, or is a clinician trying to provide hope and care, needs to read this book!

Illuminating, loved every bit of information

A must read for Everyone and specially all medical and mental health professionals, parents, athletes, and anyone that care for themselves and a loved one. Beautifully read and easily understood

Turns out it really is a brain-gut thing

This book offers answers to questions I did not realize were so common. Everyone I know has some level of dis-ease that corresponds to Dr. Palmer’s findings.

just....WOW!

Just exactly what the world needs to understand right now! I am praying the every doctor in the country reads this book.