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Chris Palmer
Personal blog · chrispalmermd.comhealthscience
Chris Palmer's personal blog at chrispalmermd.com covers health and science. Since 2021, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-21, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Chris Palmer's site for his argument that mental disorders such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder are metabolic problems of the brain, tied to his book Brain Energy and ketogenic diet advocacy.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Dedicated to improving the lives of people suffering from mental and metabolic illness. Harvard Medical School Physician. Researcher. Consultant. Educator.
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- /3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-12-17
What Hacker News says?
This is a shot in the dark, but there is a lot of excitement right now about treating schizophrenia and bipolar disorder as a metabolic issue. Some people are seeing complete remission, without medication. This isn’t a quick easy recommendation to just go off meds and go keto, but for some people that apparently has worked. Chris Palmer M.D.[0] is one of the main people driving it. [0] https://www.chrispalmermd.com/…
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on “Schizophrenia is the price we pay for minds poised near the edge of a cliff”Submitted Ketogenic Diet as a Metabolic Treatment for Mental Illness as a story · 14 points
HN discussionIn 2022 psychiatrist Chris Palmer MD [0] published Brain Energy [1], which shares his discovery of the 70+ years of science establishing that the behavioral/mental symptoms traditionally given 'psychiatric' labels are caused by metabolic problems. When you fix the body's metabolism the symptoms go away. Dr. Palmer recommends the ketogenic diet, but not all people need this specific intervention to improve their meta…
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on “DSM Disorders Disappear in Statistical Clustering of Psychiatric Symptoms (2024)”It's accurate to say I used to struggle with wild energy swings. It turned out to be caused by wild blood glucose swings and lack of ketones. A year ago I switched to a ketogenic diet and do finger prick ketone tests to ensure my ketone levels are high (aka, that my "liver is on"). Absolute life changer, and I have these people to thank: https://www.metabolicmind.org and https://www.youtube.com/@ketobipolar/videos I…
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on “Microprogramming: A New Way to Program”This seems consistent with Chris Palmer's hypothesis, that mental disorders are metabolic disorders of the brain, discussed in his new book Brain Energy[0]. He's done lots of podcast interviews[1], if you don't want to read the book. [0] https://www.chrispalmermd.com/ [1] https://www.listennotes.com/search/?q=chris%20palmer%20md&so...
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on “Schizophrenia: The new etiological synthesis”
