Leading Harvard Doctor: The Shocking Link Between Your Diet ADHD & Autism!

If a woman has obesity and diabetes, she has quadruple the risk of having an autistic child. But I want to go deeper, and most people don't know this. Something horrible has happened. Dr. Chris Palmer- The Harvard psychiatrist-

Whose groundbreaking new research could be the missing piece to cure the mental health epidemic.

Mental disorders are the leading cause of disease and disability worldwide. Governments are actually labeling them as terminal illnesses and to allow people to die by assisted suicide. And they're gonna allow them to die because they know what I'm saying is true. They know that our treatments fail people year after year after year. And what I'm here to say is you can in fact get better.

How?

I struggled with mental illness myself for 20 years. I tried to kill myself several times. There was no hope for me whatsoever. (sighs) And I was furious with the mental health field for being so incompetent, and I wanted to try to help. And the thing that people have not opened their eyes to is the science of metabolic health, and that there's tiny things in our cells that can heal and recover people who have had chronic horrible mental illnesses.

Really?

Yes. And if autism is genetic, it shouldn't quadruple in 20 years. These are facts, and we can do something about it today. But the easiest way to understand it is that-

Quick one. This is really, really fascinating to me. On the backend of our YouTube channel, it says that 69.9% of you that watch this channel frequently over the lifetime of this channel haven't yet hit the subscribe button. I just wanted to ask you a favor. It helps this channel so much if you choose to su- subscribe. Helps us scale the guests, helps us scale the production, and it makes the show bigger. So if I could ask you for one favor, if you've watched the show before and you've enjoyed it and you like this episode that you're currently watching, could you please hit the subscribe button? Thank you so much, and I will repay that gesture by making sure that everything we do here gets better and better and better and better. That is a promise I'm willing to make you. Do we have a deal? (instrumental music plays) Chris, when you speak, before we started recording, you speak with a deep, authentic sense of mission, and that underneath there is a personal driver that is unimitatable and that is getting you out of bed every day, 'cause I could see it in your eyes. I could see it in the way that you said the words that you said to me. Where does that drive begin for you? What was the catalyst moment in your life that inspired you and gave you that fire that seems to be unquenchable to pursue the path that you've pursued?

You know, I struggled with mental illness myself starting in childhood. Nobody recognized it. Nobody diagnosed it. I didn't know what it was. Nobody knew what it was. I just knew I was different and somehow ostracized for who I was, and it just felt like part of who I am. And then a series of horrible tragic events happened in my extended family when I was about 12 years old, and my mother ended up having a nervous breakdown. She called it a nervous breakdown. It started with what we would call major depression, quickly escalated to depression with suicidality, and then she developed psychotic symptoms. She became very delusional. She got mental health treatment, but the treatment didn't work. They basically were just kind of, in my 12-year-old mind, the psychiatrists were just drugging her, and those drugs weren't making her symptoms better. They weren't restoring her health. She went on to live the rest of her life with a chronic psychotic disorder, and that disorder completely ruined and devastated her life in so many ways. She lost everything. She lost custody of her eight kids. She lost all of her money, everything. The courts didn't give her any support or any money. I had my own struggles, uh, uh, e- even worse with mental illness after all of that. I ended up leaving home before I finished high school. I had chronic depression and suicidality and OCD and other things. And the mental health field was worthless for me and probably caused a lot of harm for me. And so at the end of the day, the reason I'm a psychiatrist is because I recognize how horrible and devastating mental illness can be, and I came to the field really angry with the mental health field for being so incompetent, and I wanted to try to help. I wanted to try to maybe contribute to better solutions for people.