Why people recommend it
Brain Train by Richard Palmer and Chris Pope explores the intersection of nutrition, metabolism, and mental health through the lens of metabolic psychiatry. On The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett, Steven Bartlett praised the book as a remarkable and revolutionary breakthrough for understanding and treating anxiety, depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and post-traumatic stress disorder, and later cited specific statistics regarding ADHD and obesity from chapter four. Andrew Huberman recommended the book during the outro of the Huberman Lab, directing listeners to explore Dr. Chris Palmer's clinical practice and research. Dr. Shawn Baker discussed the book on The Joe Rogan Experience, explaining how nutrition and metabolism significantly affect mental health disorders. Casey Means also referenced the book on the same podcast to explain the neuroenergetic theory of brain metabolism and mental health. Dr. Mark Hyman brought up the work on Honestly with Bari Weiss to support the growing field of metabolic psychiatry, detailing how dietary changes have cured severe mental illnesses. Additionally, Calley Means discussed the book on Modern Wisdom, highlighting the author's groundbreaking research over the past two decades regarding the radical concept of food and environmental toxins impacting mental health.
Who recommended it
- Calley Means Discussed
- Steven Bartlett Recommended
- Dr. Mark Hyman Recommended
- Andrew Huberman Recommended
- Casey Means Recommended
- Dr. Shawn Baker Recommended
Calley Means — 2 mentions
“Chris Palmer Brain energy I don't know if you've had him on he's a Harvard Psych atrist who has done groundbreaking research over the past 20 years on a radical concept of food”
“Chris Palmer Brain energy I don't know if you've had him on he's a Harvard Psych atrist who has done groundbreaking research over the past 20 years”
Steven Bartlett — 2 mentions
“though because I was reading your book and in chapter 4 you say people with ADHD are more likely to develop obesity”
“revolutionary breakthrough and understanding mental health and improving treatment for anxiety depression OCD PTSD and much more brain energy really really remarkable book”
Dr. Mark Hyman — 1 mention
“You got Chris Palmer who wrote a book called Brain Energy talking about how he cured schizophrenics by changing their diet and bipolar disease.”
Andrew Huberman — 1 mention
“to learn more about Dr Palmer's work including his research and his clinical practice and his absolutely spectacular book Brain energy please see the show note captions”
Casey Means — 1 mention
“Chris Palmer talks about this in such an amazing way in his book brain energy”
Dr. Shawn Baker — 1 mention
“he's like an Indiana country boy but he's at Harvard and he just wrote a book called brain energy where he talks about how nutrition metabolism significantly affect mental health disorders”
Also mentioned in the same episodes
- Consilience
- Desolation Angels
- Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
- Drop Acid
- Food Fix
- Good Energy
Other mentions (3: passing, ad reads, own books)
“I have one he's not even a patient, just a somebody who read my book. He chronic anxiety, was trying meditation, was trying all sorts of things. He was ready to go on prescription medicine. He read an early copy of the book.”
“when you know when I was doing research on mitochondria for the book it I there was an over there were over 10,000 published research articles of alcohol and mitochondria”
“one woman actually reached out to me who after learning about my work reading my book she talked to her psychiatrist tapered off all her meds and it became clear that she probably had serotonin syndrome for a long time”