Dr. Chris Palmer
Harvard psychiatrist focused on metabolic psychiatry
Metabolic psychiatry • ketogenic interventions • mitochondrial function in mental health
About the expert
Focus: Metabolic theory of mental health
Psychiatrist focused on the overlap between metabolism, mitochondrial function, and mental illness. Combines mainstream psychiatry with emerging metabolic research and clinical ketogenic therapy. Strong on systems thinking and treatment-resistant cases; some mechanisms remain debated and evidence is still developing.
Why this matters
Harvard psychiatrist focused on metabolic psychiatry, the intersection of metabolism, mitochondrial function, and mental illness. Tends to view some severe mental disorders as partly energy-state disorders responsive to ketogenic and lifestyle interventions. Useful for the emerging metabolic-psychiatry framework and treatment-resistant cases; framing is more directional than fully proven outside epilepsy, where ketogenic diets are established. Always frames metabolic care as complementary to standard psychiatric treatment, not a replacement.