242: Your Brain Is Starving: The Metabolic Root of Depression, Anxiety, and Chronic Fatigue - Moira Newiss
About this episode
Moira Newiss discusses her journey through mental illness and chronic fatigue, highlighting a framework based on mitochondrial biology.
Moira Newiss spent 20 years running hospitals for the UK's National Health Service before her body and mind staged a slow, invisible collapse that no blood panel could explain — and the system she'd devoted her career to had nothing to offer but a prescription she didn't want to fill. What she found instead was a framework rooted in mitochondrial biology that reframes mental illness, chronic fatigue, and burnout as problems of cellular energy rather than brain chemistry. BIG IDEA "Psyc...
People in this episode
Host: Dr. Philip Ovadia
Guest: Moira Newiss
Topics covered
- mental illness
- chronic fatigue
- burnout
- mitochondrial biology
- cellular energy
Keywords
- depression
- anxiety
- chronic fatigue
- mitochondrial biology
- cellular energy
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: UK's National Health Service
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