Chris Palmer (Harvard psychiatrist on brain energy)
Chris Palmer (Harvard psychiatrist on brain energy)  
Podcast: Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Rating: Explicit Published On: Thu Feb 02 2023
Description: Chris Palmer (Brain Energy) is a psychiatrist, professor, and author. Chris joins the Armchair Expert to discuss how he believes mitochondria can be the key to treating mental disorders, how his mother's condition motivated him to become a psychiatrist, and what psychosis is. Chris and Dax talk about how diet plays a role in treating metabolic disorders, their experiences with father figures from their childhood, and the different reasons people experience anxiety or depression. Chris explains how he accidentally cut off two of his fingers, how he went from being homeless in high school to a professor at Harvard, and why he had to learn to accept himself. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.