If you are a man and you are obese you have doubled your chances of having an autistic child. The same goes for women. If as a man you are also diabetic and obese then the risk of you having an autistic child quadruples. These statistics are fresh and are brought to you by Chris Palmer, an expert on mental health. The ideas you will read about in my article are distilled thoughts that I had after listening to an interview of Chris Palmer with Steven Bartlett in the Diary of a CEO Podcast.
Do you know that in USA the rates of autism have quadrupled in the last 20 years? The suicide rates for teenagers have also skyrocketed. The real epidemic is mental health issues.
The food that we are eating is one of the main factors identified as a major contributor to the state of our mental health. The high cortisol levels due to stress are also responsible for depression and other mental conditions. The stress that our cells go through because of our inability to process the toxic fast food is really detrimental for our overall health. Studies have shown that people who eat high processed food have a higher chance for developing mental health disorders. If you are curious please do some digging and read about the mitochondrial theory of autism, which was formulated in 1985.
Chris talks about several patients with mental disorders who got better and got off the medication by following a certain nutritional protocol. The ketogenic diet helped one woman with schizophrenia to give up her medications and have a normal life after decades of suffering.
The most amazing idea that I have found in this interview is connected to the science of metabolic health and to the idea that some of the mental illnesses are in fact metabolic disorders affecting the brain. Obesity, pre-diabetes and diabetes are all metabolic conditions and as they all skyrocketed we can see a correlation with the rise in mental issues.
Here is the link to the original interview, I highly recommend you to watch it.
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