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Dr. Daniel Amen

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“Well, Stephen, thank you. The last time I was on we got calls from all over the world. I mean, obviously you're doing amazing, purposeful work.”
2025-02-10 · The Diary of a CEO · The No.1 Brain Doctor: "This Parenting Mistake Ruins Your Kids Brain!", "Alcohol or Marijuana Will Destroy Your Brain!", "A Stagnant Career Can Increase Your Chance Of Alzheimers!" - Dr Daniel Amen · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So you want to go What I'm eating, what I'm thinking, the stress I'm under is going to impact the next generation. What are the right brain and body habits that we both can do? Get our bodies in the best shape. Is as good for my brain and body or is it bad for it and really focus on good? You know a lot of people who are drinking, they actually stop drinking when they find out they're pregnant. Remember the brain develops at day 21. You may not even know you're pregnant at day 21. Just let that roll around your head a little bit. So I love this question is, oh, I can start to get my brain and my ovaries and my sperm ready Connect, to be healthy. So I think that's the advice I would give them.”
2025-02-10 · The Diary of a CEO · The No.1 Brain Doctor: "This Parenting Mistake Ruins Your Kids Brain!", "Alcohol or Marijuana Will Destroy Your Brain!", "A Stagnant Career Can Increase Your Chance Of Alzheimers!" - Dr Daniel Amen · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I love that question so much If you want to start a family. You have to get your bodies ready She was born with all the eggs she'll ever have. You want to give them time, like a year or more, of good nutrition. No, no, the moment.”
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“Just thinking of what happened. One of my close friends lost his hope. And then he went to work and did a consult for me. I'm just blown away by him. You know, we're so close to this sadness of what happened. and I have a clinic that we had to evacuate and I have doctors that they had to evacuate. The group trauma is so high. And yet the people who care for us. You're not doing a good job of caring for them. And I think I have parted the answer And I just wish I could do more.”
2025-02-10 · The Diary of a CEO · The No.1 Brain Doctor: "This Parenting Mistake Ruins Your Kids Brain!", "Alcohol or Marijuana Will Destroy Your Brain!", "A Stagnant Career Can Increase Your Chance Of Alzheimers!" - Dr Daniel Amen · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Firefighters or heroes, first responders are heroes. And what I've seen with firefighters This makes me so sad because they have damaged brains, often because of the toxins that they're exposed to. The emotional trauma that goes with that job? In the head trauma that also goes with us with things falling on them and They have a higher suicide rate than the general population significantly higher. I think it's like 25% higher. And shouldn't we be teaching them about brain health and go hey look, this is a brain damaging job, but we need you to do it. So all the way along. Let's see and repair your brain. Let's make sure your reserve is something special rather than we had a really bad crisis. Work, let's go get drunk together. Let's elevate. Who saith us?”
2025-02-10 · The Diary of a CEO · The No.1 Brain Doctor: "This Parenting Mistake Ruins Your Kids Brain!", "Alcohol or Marijuana Will Destroy Your Brain!", "A Stagnant Career Can Increase Your Chance Of Alzheimers!" - Dr Daniel Amen · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Um... I believed in God since I was since I can remember. There's not been one thing in my life that's caused me to not believe. So I always thought Going back to the second law of physics that if it's random chance It just doesn't make sense that randomly we would get. A brain cell that has DNA and a mitochondria it's like it's statistically impossible. And I'm just like, we are so beautifully made. I just don't get the whole thing One thing we haven't talked about. the LA fires. and the impact of disaster on the brain, and I grew up in Los Angeles and I'm just horrified by Hauman. And we talked my foundation is actually going to give away 100 evaluations for firefighters. And I almost feel bad. I did the big NFL study and it was really cool and it was a lot of fun for me. But NFL players aren't heroes. They're entertainers.”
2025-02-10 · The Diary of a CEO · The No.1 Brain Doctor: "This Parenting Mistake Ruins Your Kids Brain!", "Alcohol or Marijuana Will Destroy Your Brain!", "A Stagnant Career Can Increase Your Chance Of Alzheimers!" - Dr Daniel Amen · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I think it depends. On is it a healthy tradition or is it an unhealthy tradition? And I've seen both. I've seen some religions. Being very rigid and shaming. I've seen others know be more open and seeking”
2025-02-10 · The Diary of a CEO · The No.1 Brain Doctor: "This Parenting Mistake Ruins Your Kids Brain!", "Alcohol or Marijuana Will Destroy Your Brain!", "A Stagnant Career Can Increase Your Chance Of Alzheimers!" - Dr Daniel Amen · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“The Holy Spirit in Christian tradition and it was so interesting and there's actually been other studies, Andrew Newberg, who studied channelers in Brazil. They would channel the dead. And the idea is if you're going to channel an outside spirit, you have to turn down the noise in your brain so that you can sort of hear the other frequencies. And that was our hypothesis. And 60% of our subjects dropped their brain activity when they were speaking in tongues, which found so interesting. One, completely activated the dopamine centers. And so I'm looking at him like, I bet you do this a lot. Prayer can change the brain. I mean, we talked about meditation changing the brain. Dr. Newberg again studied Tibetan monks while they meditated and Franciscan nuns while they prayed and they found very similar changes.”
2025-02-10 · The Diary of a CEO · The No.1 Brain Doctor: "This Parenting Mistake Ruins Your Kids Brain!", "Alcohol or Marijuana Will Destroy Your Brain!", "A Stagnant Career Can Increase Your Chance Of Alzheimers!" - Dr Daniel Amen · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I think it's an interesting question. I actually did a study on prayer. We have a foundation called the Change Your Brain Foundation. And we raise money for research, education, service. And I did a prayer study of conversational prayer, I pray for you. And speaking in tongues, which is channeling.”
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“there to right temporal lobe tends to be bigger. There was another study with that. And if there is a god. And we communicate with God. There's got to be a neuroscience mechanism for that. And Michael Persen's researcher out of the University of Laurentian University in Canada, he would put helmets on people and give them low volt electrical activity. And whenever he would stimulate the right temporal low, people would get a sensed presence. They would actually feel the presence of God in the room. I think that's so interesting. That means that the brain makes up God or that the brain has pathways to experience God”
2025-02-10 · The Diary of a CEO · The No.1 Brain Doctor: "This Parenting Mistake Ruins Your Kids Brain!", "Alcohol or Marijuana Will Destroy Your Brain!", "A Stagnant Career Can Increase Your Chance Of Alzheimers!" - Dr Daniel Amen · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I encourage all of my patients to seek. live with purpose. It's one of the reasons the one page miracle is so important to me. What do I want? Relationships work, money, physical, emotional, spiritual health, which is really the why question. And a lot of my colleagues go. How can you believe in God if you're a scientist and unlike? Do you know anything about physics that the second law of physics is entropy? Things go from order to disorder. I'm like I think there's an order. this and that I'm here talking to you And there's a purpose behind it that's greater than me.”
2025-02-10 · The Diary of a CEO · The No.1 Brain Doctor: "This Parenting Mistake Ruins Your Kids Brain!", "Alcohol or Marijuana Will Destroy Your Brain!", "A Stagnant Career Can Increase Your Chance Of Alzheimers!" - Dr Daniel Amen · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Connection to higher power I always think when I assess patience of them in four big circles. It's like what's the biology? We talked a lot about the brain. What's the psychology? We talked about development a little bit and trauma and ants. What's the social circle? Like what's going on in your life now and who you're connected with? And we talked about love. But we didn't really talk about the spiritual circle, which is, so what's the point? Why am I here? Am I here because of random chance, because of an explosion that happened billions of years ago? Do I believe in creative design where I'm really created for a purpose that is to make the world a better place? And I find people who live without Purpose of a higher incidence of depression, have a higher incidence of loneliness, have a higher incidence of dementia. And so”
2025-02-10 · The Diary of a CEO · The No.1 Brain Doctor: "This Parenting Mistake Ruins Your Kids Brain!", "Alcohol or Marijuana Will Destroy Your Brain!", "A Stagnant Career Can Increase Your Chance Of Alzheimers!" - Dr Daniel Amen · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It's probably not great for the brain. Because your brain doesn't have to work as hard with an artificial, especially when you created it. Right, your brain is when you're with another real person, your brain has to do a lot more calculations to make that work than with someone you can just trash it anymore.”
2025-02-10 · The Diary of a CEO · The No.1 Brain Doctor: "This Parenting Mistake Ruins Your Kids Brain!", "Alcohol or Marijuana Will Destroy Your Brain!", "A Stagnant Career Can Increase Your Chance Of Alzheimers!" - Dr Daniel Amen · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Although one caution with ChatGPT, it sucks if you ask it for medical advice. It often will make mistakes. And so there are other sites I like better that I trust more.”
2025-02-10 · The Diary of a CEO · The No.1 Brain Doctor: "This Parenting Mistake Ruins Your Kids Brain!", "Alcohol or Marijuana Will Destroy Your Brain!", "A Stagnant Career Can Increase Your Chance Of Alzheimers!" - Dr Daniel Amen · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“thrilling his brain to death, deadening the docoming structures. And then I've watched this whole group of kids grow up with very cool video games that are, I think, damaging their brain. So unleash technology without any neuroscience study on the impact of brain development. It's a bad idea.”
2025-02-10 · The Diary of a CEO · The No.1 Brain Doctor: "This Parenting Mistake Ruins Your Kids Brain!", "Alcohol or Marijuana Will Destroy Your Brain!", "A Stagnant Career Can Increase Your Chance Of Alzheimers!" - Dr Daniel Amen · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I think in the short run, it's going to be bad because your brain is going to do less. And that's bad for the brain. I think it's fascinating to watch what's going to happen. And ultimately, in the words of my friend Byron Katie, argue with reality welcome to hell. We need to figure out how to use it to enhance our lives rather than to steal brain development. And so much of technology, we haven't talked about this, has stolen brain development. When video games came into my house was actually nineteen eighty seven, I remember, my son was eleven. He was a straight A student. And then he wasn't. And then we started fighting about it's like you can play for half an hour and then like I took it out of the house because I saw it as an agent of”
2025-02-10 · The Diary of a CEO · The No.1 Brain Doctor: "This Parenting Mistake Ruins Your Kids Brain!", "Alcohol or Marijuana Will Destroy Your Brain!", "A Stagnant Career Can Increase Your Chance Of Alzheimers!" - Dr Daniel Amen · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Because you're not getting input. And if you're not getting appropriate input, Your brain starts to atrophy. If you don't hear what other people are saying and you have a lot of ants, you have a high negativity bias is you can actually begin to get a bit paranoid and fill in the empty spaces with negativity.”
2025-02-10 · The Diary of a CEO · The No.1 Brain Doctor: "This Parenting Mistake Ruins Your Kids Brain!", "Alcohol or Marijuana Will Destroy Your Brain!", "A Stagnant Career Can Increase Your Chance Of Alzheimers!" - Dr Daniel Amen · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Awful for the brain. One of the major causes of hormone disruption and cancer. Thank you for not giving me a plastic water bottle.”
2025-02-10 · The Diary of a CEO · The No.1 Brain Doctor: "This Parenting Mistake Ruins Your Kids Brain!", "Alcohol or Marijuana Will Destroy Your Brain!", "A Stagnant Career Can Increase Your Chance Of Alzheimers!" - Dr Daniel Amen · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I love my work. Am I addicted to it? I don't know, but I love it. When they say people are workaholics and it's bad for the brain, it's their working with assholes. Doing something they don't like or doing it for the money but without”
2025-02-10 · The Diary of a CEO · The No.1 Brain Doctor: "This Parenting Mistake Ruins Your Kids Brain!", "Alcohol or Marijuana Will Destroy Your Brain!", "A Stagnant Career Can Increase Your Chance Of Alzheimers!" - Dr Daniel Amen · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Excellent. Excellent. You want to break a panic attack? Fifteen second breath. Four seconds in. Hold it for a second and a half, eight seconds out, hold it for a second and a half. You just do that four or five times your whole nervous system will calm down. And the research shows take twice as long to breathe out as you breathe in. That's why four seconds in eight seconds out.”
2025-02-10 · The Diary of a CEO · The No.1 Brain Doctor: "This Parenting Mistake Ruins Your Kids Brain!", "Alcohol or Marijuana Will Destroy Your Brain!", "A Stagnant Career Can Increase Your Chance Of Alzheimers!" - Dr Daniel Amen · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Bad for your brain. Chronic stress is Increases cortisol, and I think everybody should sort of know their baseline cortisol level And cortisol shrinks the hippocampus. and puts fat on your belly, so that's two very bad things for your brain.”
2025-02-10 · The Diary of a CEO · The No.1 Brain Doctor: "This Parenting Mistake Ruins Your Kids Brain!", "Alcohol or Marijuana Will Destroy Your Brain!", "A Stagnant Career Can Increase Your Chance Of Alzheimers!" - Dr Daniel Amen · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And like if I just read brain scans all day, well, I know how to do it. I'm not learning anything new. So I do that But I also am writing about something I don't know about Or I'm learning something new.”
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“Absolutely great for your brain. You're learning new things. People who are in a job that does not require new learning have a higher incidence of Alzheimer's disease.”
2025-02-10 · The Diary of a CEO · The No.1 Brain Doctor: "This Parenting Mistake Ruins Your Kids Brain!", "Alcohol or Marijuana Will Destroy Your Brain!", "A Stagnant Career Can Increase Your Chance Of Alzheimers!" - Dr Daniel Amen · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I think you have to be careful with it because it can trigger atrial fibrillation. I think taking a cold shower is probably good for your brain because it's going to short-term increase dopamine and sort of give you a joke.”
2025-02-10 · The Diary of a CEO · The No.1 Brain Doctor: "This Parenting Mistake Ruins Your Kids Brain!", "Alcohol or Marijuana Will Destroy Your Brain!", "A Stagnant Career Can Increase Your Chance Of Alzheimers!" - Dr Daniel Amen · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Great. I published three studies on a Kundalini yoga form of meditation called Kirtan Kri. It's a twelve minute meditation. I always say it's the perfect ADD meditation because it's only 12 minutes. And for 12 minutes, you do this. Sa-ta-na-saw-ta-na-saw ta. It's two minutes out loud, two minutes whispering, four minutes silently to yourself. Two minutes whispering, two minutes out loud, you're done. Sa ta na ma birth, life, death, reborn, worth life, death reborn. But the one we studied is Sa Ta Na. And so if they look it up, Kirtan Kria Activates your cerebellum, activates your frontal lobes, calms down your emotional brain. People who did that for twelve minutes for eight weeks, their resting frontal lobe function was stronger. So simple”
2025-02-10 · The Diary of a CEO · The No.1 Brain Doctor: "This Parenting Mistake Ruins Your Kids Brain!", "Alcohol or Marijuana Will Destroy Your Brain!", "A Stagnant Career Can Increase Your Chance Of Alzheimers!" - Dr Daniel Amen · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And if you're so, for example, if you're doing memorization games, do them while you're on the bike. Now, not in the street, but if you're on a stationary bike And you're doing those games, it's been found that exercise increases blood flow to the hippocampus, meaning you're more likely to remember it and your strengthening your brain in the process. So exercise with new learning.”
2025-02-10 · The Diary of a CEO · The No.1 Brain Doctor: "This Parenting Mistake Ruins Your Kids Brain!", "Alcohol or Marijuana Will Destroy Your Brain!", "A Stagnant Career Can Increase Your Chance Of Alzheimers!" - Dr Daniel Amen · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And the more you do it, the better coordination you develop. And that's why coordination exercises for kids. So we talked about kids, is you want to do that with them early. Play sports, but not sports where they're going to get a head injury, right? I mean, we have to be smarter than we are. But when I was young, my mother, who's now 93, was the ping pong champion in the neighborhood and she was really good and she never let us beat her until we could. But she was always encouraging.”
2025-02-10 · The Diary of a CEO · The No.1 Brain Doctor: "This Parenting Mistake Ruins Your Kids Brain!", "Alcohol or Marijuana Will Destroy Your Brain!", "A Stagnant Career Can Increase Your Chance Of Alzheimers!" - Dr Daniel Amen · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And here in the US too. And it's so good for your brain because It's working your cerebellum, and I told you that because yours was sleepy. And as you activate this and you do that with coordination exercises, it then activates your frontal lobes.”
2025-02-10 · The Diary of a CEO · The No.1 Brain Doctor: "This Parenting Mistake Ruins Your Kids Brain!", "Alcohol or Marijuana Will Destroy Your Brain!", "A Stagnant Career Can Increase Your Chance Of Alzheimers!" - Dr Daniel Amen · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I'm going to love my brain, so I'm not pouring crap in my body with what I eat or what I drink because it's bad for my brain. When I'm sixty An amstred because my football team's not winning. I'm not going for an extra beer because I love my brain, and I'm going to get to a healthy weight because I love my spring. That's the change. That's why I think God put me on the earth.”
2025-02-10 · The Diary of a CEO · The No.1 Brain Doctor: "This Parenting Mistake Ruins Your Kids Brain!", "Alcohol or Marijuana Will Destroy Your Brain!", "A Stagnant Career Can Increase Your Chance Of Alzheimers!" - Dr Daniel Amen · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I'm actually working on it. I want everybody. To just ask this one question. We mention my work with BJ Fogg and how people change, and he talks about tiny habits. What's the smallest thing? I can do that will make the biggest difference. And if I Could impact the world, it would be through one question. Whatever I'm doing right now, is it good for my brain or bad for it? I want to teach people to love their brains and to just make better decisions for the health of their brain because then everything follows that is a good for my brain or bad for it. I'm fifteen. I have a developing brain. My brain is myelinating itself, which means it's wrapping all my nerves, all my brain cells with the white fatty substance called myelin, and my frontal lobes are not done until I'm twenty five.”
2025-02-10 · The Diary of a CEO · The No.1 Brain Doctor: "This Parenting Mistake Ruins Your Kids Brain!", "Alcohol or Marijuana Will Destroy Your Brain!", "A Stagnant Career Can Increase Your Chance Of Alzheimers!" - Dr Daniel Amen · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Can't stop, think that their brain gets into Anxiety, sadness, and That person just lives in every fun place in their brain and they can get over it, and it can be quite messy for them.”
2025-02-10 · The Diary of a CEO · The No.1 Brain Doctor: "This Parenting Mistake Ruins Your Kids Brain!", "Alcohol or Marijuana Will Destroy Your Brain!", "A Stagnant Career Can Increase Your Chance Of Alzheimers!" - Dr Daniel Amen · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Helen Fisher, who's a neuroscientist in New Jersey, has actually studied love. And new love shows up as increased activity in the dopamine centers of the brain. And it makes you just a bit obsessive. I think of new love as dopamine, but lasting love more. So new love when you break up is sort of like getting off cocaine. Hard, but not that bad. Lasting love, If it goes away, and we talked about grief earlier. It's like it's ripping your skin off. It's really hard, sort of like getting off a heroin.”
2025-02-10 · The Diary of a CEO · The No.1 Brain Doctor: "This Parenting Mistake Ruins Your Kids Brain!", "Alcohol or Marijuana Will Destroy Your Brain!", "A Stagnant Career Can Increase Your Chance Of Alzheimers!" - Dr Daniel Amen · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It should be, it's like love is a drug. If you love something, well, you can do it. But the problem is most of life you don't love. And so you end up with this really sort of erratic attention disorder. And they tend to gravitate towards Things, you know, I see here the story a lot, unfortunately, is they experiment in college and they take a little bit of methamphetamine. And it helps them. And they're more focused. But then they don't know how to manage it and they end up taking more and more and they end up getting addicted and it steals their soul.”
2025-02-10 · The Diary of a CEO · The No.1 Brain Doctor: "This Parenting Mistake Ruins Your Kids Brain!", "Alcohol or Marijuana Will Destroy Your Brain!", "A Stagnant Career Can Increase Your Chance Of Alzheimers!" - Dr Daniel Amen · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, for things that are new, novel, highly interesting, stimulating, or frightening. People with ADD can pay attention just fine. That's why a lot of people who have it go I don't have it like if I loved my history teacher I'm like focused Then when I go to geometry, I can't do it at all.”
2025-02-10 · The Diary of a CEO · The No.1 Brain Doctor: "This Parenting Mistake Ruins Your Kids Brain!", "Alcohol or Marijuana Will Destroy Your Brain!", "A Stagnant Career Can Increase Your Chance Of Alzheimers!" - Dr Daniel Amen · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Optimizing your brain. And medicine's never the first thing I think about, but it's one of the things I think about because I just want to use all the tools in my toolbox to optimize your brain. Because if I optimize your brain, I optimize your life.”
2025-02-10 · The Diary of a CEO · The No.1 Brain Doctor: "This Parenting Mistake Ruins Your Kids Brain!", "Alcohol or Marijuana Will Destroy Your Brain!", "A Stagnant Career Can Increase Your Chance Of Alzheimers!" - Dr Daniel Amen · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I was praying to God that the teacher wouldn't call on me because I was lost. She said now that same class goes by in about twenty minutes, and my hands up because I track what's going on. And that child, who had always gotten B's and C's but with great effort. Her first rapport was straight A's. The next ten years straight A's. She actually got into the University of Edinburgh's veterinarian school, one of the best vet schools in the world where they cloned Dolly the sheep. If I wouldn't have figured that out, she would have been condemned to a lifetime of mediocrity. Hating herself, working so hard to get a mediocre result.”
2025-02-10 · The Diary of a CEO · The No.1 Brain Doctor: "This Parenting Mistake Ruins Your Kids Brain!", "Alcohol or Marijuana Will Destroy Your Brain!", "A Stagnant Career Can Increase Your Chance Of Alzheimers!" - Dr Daniel Amen · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Have a daughter. And the truth is, and this is going to sound awful, I never thought she was very smart. And I'm ashamed of myself for thinking that. She's staying up every night till one or two o'clock in the morning to get her homework done. And one night she came just crying to me. And she said, Dad, Don't think I can ever be as smart as my friends. And it just broke my heart. And I scanned her the next day, and I'd actually scanned her originally, but I had no experience in scans. This was like 1991. Child psychiatrist and an expert in ADD, and I didn't see it in my own child. The next day, I put her on a tiny dose of ritalin and scanned her again in her brain normalized. A week later I had dinner with her, and I'm like d'ye notice any difference. And she said, Oh my God She said a class seemed like it always was.”
2025-02-10 · The Diary of a CEO · The No.1 Brain Doctor: "This Parenting Mistake Ruins Your Kids Brain!", "Alcohol or Marijuana Will Destroy Your Brain!", "A Stagnant Career Can Increase Your Chance Of Alzheimers!" - Dr Daniel Amen · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I have this an example of a fourteen year old who was literally failing in school. Conflict driven with everyone around him so people didn't really want to be near him. I diagnosed him. I started with natural things and they help but not enough put them on concerta, a form of methylphenidate riddle. And he went from failing. Ollies and B's, and he got into the high school he wanted to get into which was very competitive. And he's easy to be around. That's a win because it's going to change the trajectory of his life. And I like that.”
2025-02-10 · The Diary of a CEO · The No.1 Brain Doctor: "This Parenting Mistake Ruins Your Kids Brain!", "Alcohol or Marijuana Will Destroy Your Brain!", "A Stagnant Career Can Increase Your Chance Of Alzheimers!" - Dr Daniel Amen · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“that it's real and left untreated they're all sorts of consequences. So people always ask you, if you think of medicine like Ridolin or Adderall, people go, what are the side effects? And it has side effects. Sometimes it can increase ticks. Sometimes it'll cause sleep problems. Sometimes you'll lose some weight or decrease your appetite. But they don't ask me the other question. And I always want to make sure they do is what are the side effects of not treating. And they're things like school failure. Incarceration Bankruptcy Divorce It's serious. Now for someone like you who's really driven and very bright to For you the consequences And this is going to sound crazy, but it's underachievement. Or it takes more. For you to be at your best. Then if you had it treat”
2025-02-10 · The Diary of a CEO · The No.1 Brain Doctor: "This Parenting Mistake Ruins Your Kids Brain!", "Alcohol or Marijuana Will Destroy Your Brain!", "A Stagnant Career Can Increase Your Chance Of Alzheimers!" - Dr Daniel Amen · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“ADHD is real, there's a significant genetic component to it, but we're also living in a society that promotes its expression. More sugary cereals with red dye number 40. increases hyperactivity. The more gadgets you give them so they can't pay attention The las there outside in the sun, the more they're playing video games, all of those things increase the express ADHD. Again something I know more about than I want to. I have a book called Helen ADD, and I write about my own personal experience being married to someone who has ADHD and having several of my kids who have it.”
2025-02-10 · The Diary of a CEO · The No.1 Brain Doctor: "This Parenting Mistake Ruins Your Kids Brain!", "Alcohol or Marijuana Will Destroy Your Brain!", "A Stagnant Career Can Increase Your Chance Of Alzheimers!" - Dr Daniel Amen · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“But if you do it in the context of special time, an active listening, and I think rules are important. Like, tell the truth, put away things that you take out, we treat each other with respect. Do what I ask the first time. It's one of my favorite rules It prevents the kids from like going on and on about. There is no way they're going to feel like you're not listening and you're ignoring them. But if they're acting inappropriately Do you want to one not get into it and to have a significant conversation and consequence”
2025-02-10 · The Diary of a CEO · The No.1 Brain Doctor: "This Parenting Mistake Ruins Your Kids Brain!", "Alcohol or Marijuana Will Destroy Your Brain!", "A Stagnant Career Can Increase Your Chance Of Alzheimers!" - Dr Daniel Amen · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It's like I'm not giving in. Like have fun with it. I am not giving in were at a friend's house? And you have a fit? Well, one there's going to be a consequence when you come home. I don't know what it is, but I'm going to think about it. It's such a great line that in my book Raising Mentally Strong Kids, we have lots of great lines for parents. And it's, I don't know what the consequence is, but I'm going to think about it just to increase their anxiety about it. Because we want them thinking. about their behavior and like in life their consequences to bad behavior. We want him to think about what that might be.”
2025-02-10 · The Diary of a CEO · The No.1 Brain Doctor: "This Parenting Mistake Ruins Your Kids Brain!", "Alcohol or Marijuana Will Destroy Your Brain!", "A Stagnant Career Can Increase Your Chance Of Alzheimers!" - Dr Daniel Amen · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Like you want long-term pain or short-term pain. Short term pain is not given into the tantrum, and there will probably be a consequence when you come home for acting like that.”
2025-02-10 · The Diary of a CEO · The No.1 Brain Doctor: "This Parenting Mistake Ruins Your Kids Brain!", "Alcohol or Marijuana Will Destroy Your Brain!", "A Stagnant Career Can Increase Your Chance Of Alzheimers!" - Dr Daniel Amen · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And there's a reason that all of the... or on the bottom to aisles. The bottom two rows because that's where children can see them. And they're like, mommy, I want this. I always want you to remember this rule, and I want you to consider sharing it with your children. If you have a tantrum to get your way, the answer is no. It's always going to be no. Go for I'm dead serious. We Teach people how to treat us by what we tolerate. We train children to be bad by what we pay attention to. So I think that's always been a very effective rule for me. If you have a fet? The answers no, it's always going to be known. I'm not going to be phased if you do But what if they do it in a store”
2025-02-10 · The Diary of a CEO · The No.1 Brain Doctor: "This Parenting Mistake Ruins Your Kids Brain!", "Alcohol or Marijuana Will Destroy Your Brain!", "A Stagnant Career Can Increase Your Chance Of Alzheimers!" - Dr Daniel Amen · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“My mother would have said Of course you fit in, you're a good boy, you're a good looking boy. And that's not helpful either. It's just helpful to listen. If you have time and you have listening, you bond. And then the kids tend to pick your values because they're bonded. And then when they make a mistake, don't rescue them. Today, parents do way too much for their children. They steal their self esteem. I often say If you do too much for your kids, you build your self esteem by stealing the hearse. And you're going to be tempted Because you're going to have such love for them. You don't want them to hurt. And that's a mistake Because character is built through struggle. Character and self esteem are built by feeling competent, you can solve problems. So when a child says I'm bored”
2025-02-10 · The Diary of a CEO · The No.1 Brain Doctor: "This Parenting Mistake Ruins Your Kids Brain!", "Alcohol or Marijuana Will Destroy Your Brain!", "A Stagnant Career Can Increase Your Chance Of Alzheimers!" - Dr Daniel Amen · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“want to have blue hair. I know what my dad would have said. I want to have blue hair. No way in hell as long as you live in my house you can have blue hair. What does that do? It just shuts down the conversation or starts a fight. Oh, you want to have blue hair? And then just be quiet. And then the child might say everyone's doing that. My dad would say I don't care what anyone else is doing as long as you live in this house. You're not going to have blue hair if they're going to jump off a cliff or you're going to go with them. Helpful. Sounds like you want to be like the other kids. Then he might say sometimes I feel like I don't fit in. which is really the conversation you want to”
2025-02-10 · The Diary of a CEO · The No.1 Brain Doctor: "This Parenting Mistake Ruins Your Kids Brain!", "Alcohol or Marijuana Will Destroy Your Brain!", "A Stagnant Career Can Increase Your Chance Of Alzheimers!" - Dr Daniel Amen · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I'm like, oh, great. You represent an idiot. You represent me, and you're telling me it won't work. I said, do this. It works. And I'm going to call you in three weeks. So I wrote them in my appointment book. We had appointment books on. And three weeks later, I called him. Carlt Daniel, she won't leave me alone. All she wants to do is be with me. As soon as I get home, she grabs my leg and wants her time. I told you it works. Time actual physical time and then shut up listen. This is so important. Parents are awful at listening. You've heard of active listening. So activist, it's like so simple Child says something. Before you give your two cents, just repeat it back and sort of listen to the feelings behind the words.”
2025-02-10 · The Diary of a CEO · The No.1 Brain Doctor: "This Parenting Mistake Ruins Your Kids Brain!", "Alcohol or Marijuana Will Destroy Your Brain!", "A Stagnant Career Can Increase Your Chance Of Alzheimers!" - Dr Daniel Amen · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Doesn't have to be a lot, but if you do that twenty minutes a day? It's money in the relational bank So, my first literary agent. I think it was 42 when he had his first child. And he's like. Daughter's two Far never once to be with me. I come home, she completely ignores me. She just wants her mother, she wants nothing to do with me. That's because she's a girl, right? Mike, absolutely not. Carl, you're ignoring her. What do you mean I'm ignoring her? I said, you're ignoring her. Do this and I told him about special time. And he's like, that won't work. I'm like negativity bars.”
2025-02-10 · The Diary of a CEO · The No.1 Brain Doctor: "This Parenting Mistake Ruins Your Kids Brain!", "Alcohol or Marijuana Will Destroy Your Brain!", "A Stagnant Career Can Increase Your Chance Of Alzheimers!" - Dr Daniel Amen · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“One, you get rid of the idea that you're going to raise a perfect brain. A little OCD in there. Um... The first thing you do is you have goals for yourself. What kind of parent do you want to be? And what kind of child do you want to raise? And for me, I want to be present, kind and effective. And for my kids, I want them to be mentally strong and resilient. And I want them to feel good about themselves. And then you bond with them. You want to be a good dad? Bonding requires two things time actual physical time. So time of an exercise I love so much called special time. 20 minutes a day, do something with your child that your child wants to do, and during that time no commands, no questions, no directions, just time to bond. The most important thing to children is time with their parents, and people are busy”
2025-02-10 · The Diary of a CEO · The No.1 Brain Doctor: "This Parenting Mistake Ruins Your Kids Brain!", "Alcohol or Marijuana Will Destroy Your Brain!", "A Stagnant Career Can Increase Your Chance Of Alzheimers!" - Dr Daniel Amen · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Have to be clear. And or even think about work, you know, what's the goal with work? It's to do meaningful work. It's to make a difference.”
2025-02-10 · The Diary of a CEO · The No.1 Brain Doctor: "This Parenting Mistake Ruins Your Kids Brain!", "Alcohol or Marijuana Will Destroy Your Brain!", "A Stagnant Career Can Increase Your Chance Of Alzheimers!" - Dr Daniel Amen · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT