Snapshot · On Purpose with Jay Shetty
People with metabolic disorders are more likely to have mental health conditions, and vice versa — converging evidence links metabolism to the full spectrum of mental illness.
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Jay Shetty opens by referencing Dr. Chris Palmer's recent Senate appearance, prompting Palmer to lay out the episode's overarching thesis: the United States is experiencing a chronic disease epidemic that encompasses not just obesity and diabetes but a parallel surge in mental health conditions — autism, ADHD, anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, eating disorders, and substance use disorders. Palmer insists these trends are not coincidental, arguing that the mental health epidemic and the physical metabolic epidemic share the same root causes and cannot be treated as separate problems. He frames the core problem: current approaches are failing, and a fundamental paradigm shift in how we think about both physical and mental health is urgently overdue.
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