Moment 199: 5 Warning Signs Your Body Needs More Nutrients: Mindy Pelz

What if the key to understanding and treating mental illness isn’t in the brain itself, but in how the brain gets its energy? In Brain Energy, psychiatrist Christopher M. Palmer argues that mental illnesses result from problems with your metabolism—the process that converts food into energy for your body. He writes that when your brain doesn’t get enough energy, it doesn’t function properly and problems arise. But by making lifestyle changes that boost your metabolic efficiency, you can lessen symptoms or even prevent mental disorders from developing in the first place.

In this guide, we’ll explore Palmer’s brain energy theory and how mental health is linked to metabolic health. We'll also discuss factors affecting metabolism, ways to improve metabolic well-being, and tips for creating a personalized treatment plan. Throughout, we’ll compare Palmer’s ideas to other experts’ views and provide additional advice for improving your metabolism.

Most people believe that mental and physical deterioration go hand in hand with aging. They assume that, with every year that passes, they’ll look and feel older, suffer more aches and pains, and become more susceptible to debilitating diseases that nudge them closer to death.

Entrepreneur, Silicon Valley investor, and best-selling author Dave Asprey argues that you can grow older in years and extend your lifespan without suffering these ill effects. In Super Human, he draws on advancements in anti-aging science to explore ways to slow down and reverse the aging process, optimize your mental and physical health, and extend your lifespan.

This guide explores Asprey’s advice for improving your health now while ensuring you live a longer, healthier, and more youthful life in the future. Additionally, we’ll expand on each of his ideas with research, advice, and actionable ideas from health practitioners and longevity specialists.

From the low-carb, high-fat keto diet to whole-foods-based paleo diet, there are countless eating programs promising to help you lose weight and be healthier. The Plant Paradox Program (PPP) is an eating and lifestyle program based on the way foods and products affect your body and immune system; it involves eating lots of the right plants, while avoiding others, in order to reach and maintain a healthy weight and live free of chronic and autoimmune diseases. The program is based on the premise that small things can cause big problems and the key to your health is less about what you add to your diet and more about what you remove.

In this summary, learn why whole grains and mouthwash are making you sick and fat, and why almost everything you think you know about healthy food is wrong.

What if the key to understanding and treating mental illness isn’t in the brain itself, but in how the brain gets its energy? In Brain Energy, psychiatrist Christopher M. Palmer argues that mental illnesses result from problems with your metabolism—the process that converts food into energy for your body. He writes that when your brain doesn’t get enough energy, it doesn’t function properly and problems arise. But by making lifestyle changes that boost your metabolic efficiency, you can lessen symptoms or even prevent mental disorders from developing in the first place.

In this guide, we’ll explore Palmer’s brain energy theory and how mental health is linked to metabolic health. We'll also discuss factors affecting metabolism, ways to improve metabolic well-being, and tips for creating a personalized treatment plan. Throughout, we’ll compare Palmer’s ideas to other experts’ views and provide additional advice for improving your metabolism.

Author Tim Ferriss has spent years studying how to improve the human body—he interviewed and trained with experts, studied scientific literature, and tried out what he learned on himself. In The 4-Hour Body, he distills the most effective 2.5% of what he discovered into programs you can use to improve six aspects of your body: losing fat and gaining muscle, enhancing sex, improving sleep, managing injuries, improving sports performance, and living longer.