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Dr. Daniel Amen

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“An absolutely should be your grandfather. It's to be a loving husband, kind caring, loving, supportive, passionate. It's oh, by the way, when people do our program, their erections are better, just saying, because blood flow is better. When brain health is better. Your brain uses 20% of the blood flow in your body. And so if you're working to have a healthy brain, Everything works better. Just”
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“And now in social media it's very dangerous because you might want what the Kardashians have. And it's like, wait a minute. Relationships work money, physical, emotional, spiritual health. And then if I had tattoos, I don't yet. Wife got one and freaked My daughter's birthday The tattoo would be deserted Know what you want, and then ask yourself every day My behavior get me what I want, and some people go, well, isn't that selfish? It's like absolutely not As if I'm good. I'm good for everyone around me.”
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“No, don't do that because it doesn't fit. Been the best relationship of my life because both of us have the same goals and were pretty good at matching our behavior to the goal. And as the CEO, right? What do you do with companies? We have a business plan. And then you have regular meetings and key performance indicators to let go, how are we doing? And if we're not doing great, we change. But it always starts with plan. And most individuals never have a plan.”
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“So often their hope training courses that can be good. And I, with all of my patients, I do this exercise called the one-page miracle I referred to earlier. It's like write down, what do you want? Relationships work, money, physical, emotional, spiritual health, all these things. Write it down. And so we talked earlier about we're recording this in January. I have all my patients do it when I first see them and then every January for sure. And then you're just ask yourself, does my behavior get me what I want? But it starts with What do you want? You have to write it down like with my wife I'm very clear. Want a kind, caring, loving, supportive, passionate relationship. Always want that. always feel like that. I had these rude thoughts that show up or conflicting ideas that'll just show up in my head. And I'm like, oh no, don't say 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 so it's the prefrontal cortex you bring in to the loss that often determines how you deal with it. And so Your emotional brain fires up if you're drinking and taking the prefernal cortex offline, it can't manage it. So one thing people don't understand is the fibers from the prefernal cortex to the rest of the brain are inhibitory, which means they calm things down. So if this isn't working right, the emotional part can sort of override it and it becomes problematic So protecting this is so important to manage so much of your life. I mean, it's really the human, most human, thoughtful part of us. And what we found within hope? Was the insular cortex was low? Really. interesting to us and hope is Tomorrow can be better, and I have a part in it. When you're hopeless, you don't believe you have agency. make tomorrow better.”
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“No, it's more the insular cortex and the thalamus. And that's what we found with depression. I published a study with scientists from USC and Los Angeles Children's Hospital on depression. And what we found those were the structures that were dramatically overactive compared to people who were not depressed.”
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“I know more about this than I want. It activates the limbic or emotional circuits in the brain. And so when you lose someone important to you or even a pet. Like I had A white shepherd and so beautiful and so sweet. And he got cancer. And when he died, he still lives in my head. And I lost someone important to me about 20 years ago. And for like a year, I was just not okay. And so I scanned myself and my emotional brain was so busy. And it's like when you have someone, they actually become ingrained in every fun place in your brain. So they get stored in multiple places in your brain. And when they're not there anymore, your brain still looks for them. Figuring out ways to sort of calm down your emotional brain can be so helpful.”
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
“Some people, I find that it doesn't have enough plants in it, which means it's probably not going to be awesome for your microbiome. So I'm more a fan of a paleo diet that has healthy fat, healthy protein, and lots of plants.”
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“more likely to break, which means it takes longer for things to heal. And you're more likely to have a stroke, and having a stroke increases your risk of Alzheimer's tenfold.”
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“So there's a study from the Mayo Clinic where They looked at people who had primarily a fat-based diet, so fish. Healthy oils, avocados, nuts and seeds. They had forty two percent less risk of getting Alzheimer's disease. And then they looked at people who had primarily a protein-based diet. So think of a caveman diet, 21%, less risk of getting Alzheimer's disease. And then they looked at people that had a standard American diet, simple carbohydrate-based diet, bread, pasta, potatoes, rice. Fruit juice sugar a four hundred percent increased risk of getting Alzheimer's disease. It's the sugar and the foods that quickly turn to sugar, which goes with the insulin. Diabetes type three hypothesis. You have to manage it. And the reason this is so important to me is Having high blood sugar makes your blood vessels.”
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
“If you're overweight, Or you have high blood sugar. It lowers blood flow to your brain, it prematurely ages your brain, it increases inflammation, fat cells produce something called adipines, which is inflammatory molecules. It changes your genetics, fat stores, toxins, you're more likely to be depressed, it damages your immunity, takes healthy testosterone, turns it into unhealthy cancer promoting forms of estrogen and impairs your sleep. I'm just, and then people go, oh, but you're fetching. And it's like, no, I published a study on 33,000 people as your weight goes up, the size and function of the brain goes down. Somebody's got to, like, say the truth. The truth is being An unhealthy weight is unhealthy for your brain and body.”
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
“If a woman is depressed it doubles her risk of Alzheimer's disease. If a man is depressed it quadruples his risk of Alzheimer's. And then the sleeper in all of these is infections, immunity and infections. Many of us think it's a major, one of the major causes of Alzheimer's disease. In fact, there's a new study out on COVID people who had COVID had significantly increased risk of getting Alzheimer's disease. And then neurones, and we have this epidemic of low testosterone in young males now, diabesity and sleep. Diabesity is you either have high blood sugar. And or you're overweight. And that one risk factor. If you have that one risk factor, now all of a sudden you have ten of the eleven risk factors”
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“I think there are many causes of it, and the going wisdom until recently was excessive beta amyloid plot formation caused Alzheimer's. And there's a lot of questions around that theory. I think I have a mnemonic I like called bright minds. You want to keep your brain healthy or rescue it? You have to prevent or treat the 11 major risk factors. So I think there are, in fact, many roads to Alzheimer's disease, and people go, it's the difference between Alzheimer's and dementia. Dementia is the umbrella category. You start losing your faculties. Alzheimer's is one of the types. But the more you get into it, you realize it's a pretty mixed bag. And so Bright Minds, blood flow, retirement, and aging, inflammation, genetics, head trauma, toxins, mental health, you know.”
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 going to show, although I have a whole group of super brains, people that are eighty, ninety, one, 105, like stunningly beautiful brains. But they're people that had stunningly beautiful brain reserve habits. They didn't smoke, they weren't drinkers, they ate well, they were not overweight.”
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“And I turned 70 this year, and I know 50% of people, 85 and older have Alzheimer's disease. One in two horrifying statistics. And so I know that so between now and fifteen years from now, what are the things I can do to build my reserve so the gravity of age has less impact on 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
“They need to like lower her stress because you are a child. That this has generational consequences. And then when you're born, how did the birth go? And then as a child, what was your nutrition like? What were your stress levels like? Did you play football? Did you fall off the swing? All of those things are either building your brain reserve or stealing your brain reserve. So when you get Get Or let's just take two soldiers in war. They're in the same tank. They go over an IED. So they're both, the tank is blown. One walks away unharmed. The other one's permanently disabled. their brain reserve, the brain they brought into the explosion often determines how they are. So I argue that We should always be building reserve.”
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 there's a concept since I started imaging that I just dearly love so much called Brain Reserve. So brain reserve is the extra tissue you have to deal with whatever stress comes your way. And brain reserve actually starts with Before you were conceived, so you get your brain wrapped around that a little bit, the idea of epigenetics. But if your parents grew up, In trauma and abuse, It changed their genes to make you more vulnerable. If so your genetic history matters The health of your mom while she's carrying you. Your brain starts to develop three weeks after she gets pregnant. Three weeks like about day twenty one. So her stress level, her infectious disease level burden, her nutrition, her sleep, all of these things matter. One of my patients' wife is pregnant. I'm like, you need to be nice to her”
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“Now, in fact, of people who go through something really terrible About 10% of people will develop PTSD. About 10% of people will develop post traumatic growth, and most people sort of land in the middle. I wrote an article. nineteen eighty two when I was a resident at Walter Reed. called post Vietnam stress disorder, a metaphor for current and past life events and a It was when I was resident I got the idea it's the brain you bring into Vietnam that often determines the brain that comes out of Vietnam that if you grew up in an alcoholic home or you grew up with a lot of stress, you are much more likely to become a heroin addict and much more likely to come home and struggle. Obviously not always.”
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“She helped me more than I helped her, just so fascinated by how she could take something that's truly horrifying. Come out of it. And be quite okay”
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 Elizabeth is someone who made really international news many years ago she was kidnapped when she was a teenager and virtually raped every day for nine months, and then she was found that she was actually very smart and she manipulated her kidnappers to bring her back to Utah, Salt Lake City where they kidnapped her from, and she was found by the police called One would think she would have severe lasting post traumatic stress disorder. I was very interested to scan her. helpful to her. She in fact did not have post-traumatic stress disorder. She had post traumatic growth. She took her trauma and made something. Out of it where she actually runs an organization for women who have been abused. And I just remember sitting there and her brain was actually quite healthy.”
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
“You gotta do the process. You gotta do the work. When you love yourself, you do the work. I come from a family of fat people, but I'm not. Why? Because I know it's a risk for me, and so every day of my life I'm on an obesity prevention plan. And I wish I didn't have to be, right? I wish I could just eat anything I want and it would be okay. But it's not the reality of my life.”
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“It's just a pattern, right? It's like getting biceps But it's not, right? It's just repeatedly. Doing the same thing that gives you the desire you want.”
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“I start with his idea that happiness is a moral obligation, and I'm like, so I grew up not too far from here. I went to Catholic school. My mom was very serious about being Catholic. And growing up the idea happiness is a moral obligation was nowhere in my childhood, and I had a good childhood. Why is it a moral obligation? Because of how you impact other people If you were raised by an unhappy parent or married to an unhappy spouse or raised in an unhappy child, and you ask those people, is happiness an ethical issue? They would all say yes. So is it wrong to program your mind to look for what's right?”
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“They were distorting things they were angry, they were making things more negative than they needed to be. We are modeled bad thinking. And the news does it purposefully because they know if they piss you off, if they scare you, you're going to tune in so they can sell you more copper underwear We're in a society that breeds these ants attacks. So you have to be careful. People who watch the news in the morning are 27% less happy in the afternoon. And so you have to guard what goes in. So every day you're programming happiness or sadness. And I believe that Dennis Prager has this great five minute video called Why Be Happy, and I love it so much. I wrote a book called You Happier and”
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“and people who are depressed are infested. negativity But you can train that your brain is healthy, it's easier to do. You can train that. But you imagine there's no second grade class in the world. teachers teach children not to believe every stupid thing they think in fact I was watching one of the confirmation adherence today and The senators were filled with ants.”
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“Because you're more present. And then the fifth question. So the first one is is it true? The second one is is it absolutely true? The third one, how would I? How do I feel, act, and what's the outcome of having this thought? The fourth question is how would I feel, act, and what's the outcome not having the thought? The fifth question is my favorite. Take the thought and turn it to the opposite, and then ask yourself is that true? So Going to be good news Or it's going to be innocuous. Yeah, 99 times out of 100, that's true. And then I would, because I'm also a CEO, I'm like, well, how many of these things can't I handle? Virtually none of them. I can handle all of them. So I'll be okay. And then I meditate on the opposite of the thought that's bothering me. And so I take these thoughts captive. Like that.”
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“How does the thought make me act? So the third question has three parts. How does the thought make me feel tense on edge? How does it make me act?”
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“Yeah, so I think you write it down. This is going to be bad. And then my friend Byron Catie has this process that I've refined a bit. So that's a fortune telling ant. And so, this is going to be bad news. Or I always get bad news, fortune telling, an all or nothing. And so the first question is is it true? The second question is it absolutely true with a hundred percent certainty and if one is now two is automatically no, the third question is how does that thought make me feel?”
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“The automatic negative thoughts The chatter that hurts you. And we talked about How to kill them. So whenever you feel sad or mad or nervous or out of control, what I want you to do is just write it down. And then ask yourself a series of questions. And I have this cute diagram of the different types of ants. And I always ask my patients, so which are your ants? Are they like all or nothing ants? Were you thinking words like always, never everyone every time? Are they less than ants given to us by social media where we compare ourselves to others in a negative way? Guilt beating ants, mind reaving ants, fortune-telling ants, blame ants. So identify the type. Do you have an example of a bad thought that just sort of runs around your head?”
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“And anxiety, and then there are going to be more ants. Then you're going to drink more to shut up the ants. And then when they come back, they come back stronger.”
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“And so, how do I get better phrenalopes? And it's three strategies. Frontal lobe envy, right? Brain envy, got to care about it. Avoid things that hurt damaging my frontal lobes. and do things that strengthen my frontal loop.”
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“taken over so if the automatic negative thoughts which also tend to go up if you haven't slept if you've gone too long without eating if you're at that time of your cycle or you're under chronic stress or you're drinking or using other drugs. So you might suppress them, but then they come back and they attack you. So then you have to suppress them again. And this is how addiction starts.”
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“One, you take care of your brain, and two you know when relapse happens. Relapse happens when you don't sleep. You've gone too without eating. When blood sugar levels go low, relapse happens. You start making bad decisions. When if you're female, when you're in the last week of your cycle because blood flow to your frontal lobe drops for many women, so I have five sisters and five daughters, I completely believe in PMS. Scanned people best time of their cycle, worst time. It's like they're two different people, sort of like they have multiple personality because their brain is just so different. Now, obviously not with all women, but for certain ones, it's a big issue. And if the ants are”
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“Yes, which means it had better frontal lobe function. So why would we ever take these guys, frontal lobes, offline? No, love your frontal lobes. This is why when you have children, don't let them hit soccer balls. Their forehead. It's just not smart. Thing to”
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“When they showed up reliably, consistently they live longer than everyone else. And that just shows they had good frontal function. It's like if I say I'm going to do something I commit to it, I do it. You live”
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“Low levels of anxiety. So I have an older brother who I love. But he's one of the don't worry be happy people and I sort of always wanted to be like him because I'm much more serious, much more driven Like, no, I wanted to be like him until I read the research. The people who live the longest, so there's a study from Stanford. They started in 1921, and they looked at 1548 10-year-old children and they were looking for what goes with success, health, and longevity. And what they found was shocking. The don't worry be happy people died the earliest, from accidents and preventable illnesses. The people who live the longest will be The one theme was they were conscientious if they said they were going to show up.”
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
“Just published this huge study on negativity bias, and it's not good for your frontal lobes. And so I love doing positivity biased training. Like I train all of my patients, start every day. Today is going to be a great day. Somebody asked me today if I believe in manifestation. Sort of, I think you have to tell your brain what you want. And then your brain will figure out how to get it. And so if you go, today is going to be a great day. Your brain starts looking like, why is today going to be a great day? And when you go to bed at night, what went well today? That is so helpful to just start programming your brain to look for what's right, not just for what's wrong. Virtually every depressed patient I said have a high negativity bias, and so training them to be more positive. Now, not irrationally positive.”
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 then it sort of depends if you have issues with your mood, saffron would be great if you tend to be anxious, don't go for the benzoan Oshwaganda, magnesium, gaba, diaphragmatic breathing, hypnosis, so many things to help anxiety before you ever go to something that's addictive that makes your brain look older than you are that increases your risk.”
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 then multiple vitamins. For basic nutrition, know your vitamin D level and optimize it. And most people need to supplement vitamin D. And if you have darker skin, You need five times the level of sun as someone from northern Europe to get a healthy vitamin D level. So you should know your vitamin D level and optimize it. Like I always say can't change what you don't measure and vitamin D is a very important number to know. So multiple vitamin, vitamin D. Omega-3 fatty acid. I did a study 50 consecutive patients name and clinics who are not taking vitamin D. We measured their omega-3 index forty nine were suboptimal. And so I think most people would benefit from an omega-3 fatty acid supplement.”
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, I mean, the first thing I want everyone to do is love their brain, right? The healthier your brain, And before we started, we talked about this idea it's the brain you bring into trauma that often determines how you deal with it. And to get well, you have to get your brain healthy. That's the first thing”
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“And I see the past behind me. My wife sees the past in front of her. And that's often what you see with trauma. And their brain becomes overactive in their emotional brain, which makes him at higher risk for pain syndromes. for anxiety higher risk for depression, higher risk for insomnia, that they're sort of always looking for bad things to happen.”
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 zero always means you have none of those. Hey, Yav If you have four or more You have an increased risk of seven of the top ten leading causes of death. If you have six or more, so my wife's in eight, my nieces are nines, you die twenty years earlier than the general population In our study, what we showed, the more aces you had, the more activation of your limbic structures, especially a very interesting area. called the anterior singular gyrus. I think of this as the brain's gearshifter. Let you go from thought to thought, move from idea to idea. Be flexible goeth the flow. And when this is overactive, people worry. They hold on to things. It's like the trauma is always in front of them. And I often do timeline. I ask people, do you see your life? Going from left to right. Or from front to back.”
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
“childhood trauma, adverse childhood experiences. So it's on a scale of zero to ten. How many bad things happen to you as a child? Physical, emotional, sexual abuse, neglect, being raised with a parent that has a mental illness, that's incarcerated, addiction, watching your mother be abused. So domestic violence. So zero to ten. I'm a one. My wife's an eight. We adopted our two nieces who are both nines. And so I'm very interested in childhood trauma.”
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
“There's a diamond pattern that I've written about. I published in, actually Discover Magazine in 2016, listed my study. So I published a study on 21,000 people showing we could separate post-traumatic stress disorder from traumatic brain injury with high levels of accuracy. And then we repeated the study on soldiers and showed the same thing And this year I just published the world's largest study on childhood trauma. So do you know the A score?”
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 so I have collected every study ever published on saffron and brain and mental health. There's actually five studies showing it enhances memory that it was as good as aerisept in people aeroscept of medicine we use in Alzheimer's disease. And it's as good as Aerosp. So it helps memory. It helps mood. It helps sexual function. I'm like mood memory and sex. I'm going to take it. memory and sex so yeah i love saffron So why weren't we start with exercise and learn to manage your mind rather than start with Lexipro, or even psilocybin or ketamine.”
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 I got interested in saffron about 25 years ago because I saw a study. So there are now 25 randomized controlled trials showing that saffron is as effective. SSRIs and other antidepressants. But the thing that caught my interest, this may speak more about me. They didn't decrease sexual function. In fact, they enhanced it. And so I've been a psychiatrist a long time, and SSRIs for the right brain, they work, but they make it harder to have an orgasm. They decrease your libido. I don't like that. I don't want to separate. If you're depressed, you already separated from your partner. If you're depressed and you can't have an orgasm or you're not interested, that's damaging not only to you, but it damages your partner. And so when I thought saffron can enhance sexual function. And I'm like, okay, I'm paying attention.”
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
“There's no training on how to manage your mind. I was 28 years old in my psychiatric residency when one of my professors said you have to teach your patients not to believe every stupid thing they think. And I'm twenty eight. I'm at my residency, which means I finish college, I finish medical school, and I believe every stupid thing I think, that no one had ever taught me how to manage my own thoughts”
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 don't like that. Like, what kind I do naturally? Head to head against antidepressants, saffron has been shown to be equally effective, the spice saffron. Head to head against antidepressants, walking like your late forty five minutes four times a week, equally effective, head to head against antidepressants taking omega three fatty acids, equally effective in a study from Australia. Head to head against antidepressants learning how to not believe every stupid thing you think has been shown to be equally effective. So why not if you're depressed and you can't get scanned? Start walking. Take omega-3 fatty acids and saffron. and learn how to kill the ants for automatic negative thoughts or thoughts that come into your mind automatically and ruin your day and we grow up i don't know if the same thing is in england”
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 that they do what most doctors would consider good medicine twelve percent of the time. So you go to your family doctor or your nurse practitioner and you go, I'm sad, I'm anxious, I'm not sleeping, you might, and we hear this all the time at Amon Clinics. I have 11 clinics around the United States. We hear it all the time that I went to my doctor and he gave me a prescription for lexapro, Xanax, and Ambian. And it just blows my mind that they would put you on something that changes your brain to need them in order for you to feel normal. See, people don't understand. And I am not opposed to medication. I use it when I think I need to. Let's be clear, they do not heal, fix anything. What they do is they suppress symptoms. But then once they've suppressed the symptoms, they've changed your brain. So you need them in order to feel okay”
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
“Such an interesting graph. Because here in America, we want the fast answer. I don't feel well, fix me What doctors have? Do you know eighty five percent of psychiatric drugs in America are prescribed by non psychiatric physicians in seven minute office visits that do standard of care twelve percent of the time?”
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