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Dr. Daniel Amen

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“You're going to respond to psilocybin or lexapro or ketamine or lamyctal, right? I mean, it's great we have all these treatments, but let's not fly blind. When we don't have 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
“You have no idea. So for example, I was on the Kardashians. And so it's public that I saw Kendall and I saw her for post-COVID anxiety. Her brain was on fire from COVID. And a lot of people don't understand that COVID and other infections can cause inflammation in the brain. Well, that's not a psilocybin thing. It's an anti inflammatory cocktail to help post COVID anxiety or post COVID depression. If you don't look, you don't know you end up flying blind. And that's what I'm in fighting with my colleagues for the last thirty three years. It's how do you know unless you look and what other medical specialists never look at the organ they treat? So we could talk about, oh, I've seen these amazing results. And I think we should see what's this scan pattern.”
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 whole bunch of things that can cause depression, like loss, negative thinking, low thyroid, having a head injury, being exposed to mold or mercury, blad. It's like if you don't look, if you just give everybody, you're depressed based on these nine symptoms. And now we go give everybody an SSRI, which is ludicrous because that's assuming everybody with, it's sort of like giving everybody with chest pain, nitroglycerin, which Right? You would never give everybody who has chest pain one treatment, you'd go I have to target the treatment of To the cause, but if you never lock, you”
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
“Ketamine can do it, but then ketamine can also be addictive. Can be problematic. So I'm like, why wouldn't we scan them first? and then try to figure out why you're depressed. Because if you think about it. Depression is like chest pain. And nobody gets a diagnosis of chest pain. Why? It doesn't tell you what's cause of it, and it doesn't tell you what to do for it. All sorts of things can cause chest pain, right? From a heart attack, a heart arrhythmia, a heart infection, gas, an ulcer, grief. All of those can cause chest pain.”
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 just now. So there was a two year waiting period. And they were training people to do psilocybin assisted psychotherapy.”
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
“Yeah, everybody's so excited about microdosing and it's a treatment for depression and I think I've seen this story before. So in the early eighties, benzos, you know, like Xanax and and Ataban they were mommy's little helper and this will really help your anxiety the problem is they make your brain look older than you are and they're addictive as hell then there was alcohol as a health food marijuana is innocuous pain is the fifth vital sign which led to the opiate epidemic and now we're into mushrooms psilocybin associated psychosis has gone up three hundred percent in the last couple of years that not for everybody but for some vulnerable people and we don't know who they are it can flip them into a psychotic episode i'm like we need to be careful we need to be thoughtful”
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 feel like I'm living in this insane world where we're not talking about you should eat better and exercise and learn not to believe every stupid thing you think and meditation could calm your mind probably more effectively than alcohol or marijuana and it's not hard to learn”
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 called Brand Thrive by 25. And we actually studied it in 16 schools, decreases drug, alcohol, and tobacco use, decreases depression and improves self-esteem. Why? We teach kids to love and care for their brain. You got your brain scan and now you love your brain more. You want it to be better. That's the answer. It's not scanning everybody. It's educating everybody. Your brain controls everything you do. And when it works right, you work right. And when it doesn't, you don't. So let's love it and let's learn together how to optimize it. But the big innovation, Stephen, for twenty twenty five in psychiatry, for marijuana psilocybin, and ketamine. The street drugs of the sixties are coming back and I'm like”
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 please don't put people who use marijuana in jail. That's just a bad use of money. That's not smart. But the problem becomes we're not educating kids on the potential damage to brain development, which nobody really argues about Nobody's really nobody reputable I know of is going yeah give it to teenagers and let them smoke all they want no it's just dumb so it's a bigger question and I think the answer I have a high school course”
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 let's not say it's innocuous because that's a lie. And we are now, so many states have legalized marijuana for recreational use, including here in California, and the mental health crisis is not better if anything, it's dramatically worse.”
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 science is actually really clear. Marijuana is bad for the brain. I published a study on a thousand marijuana users every area of their brain is lower in activity. And just today, a study came out in the Journal of the American Medical Association on a thousand twenty-one thousand twenty seven marijuana users. It decreased activity in the hippocampus that affected their memory centers. If you're a teenager and you use marijuana, in your twenties you have a higher incidence of anxiety, depression, and suicide. This is not innocuous. And we've been advertised this load of crap, which is, oh, it's just good medicine. And for some people, it is 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
“It's a lie. Yeah. And I was actually really upset. So President Biden, During the time he was running for president. So this is 2019 He's on debate stage with a lot of other people, and they ask him if he would federally legalize marijuana. And he said, I don't think the science is decided. And no, I don't think I would. And Corey Booker, the senator from New Jersey, shamed Biden on national television. He said, man, are you high? Which is just horrifying, and I'm watching this going.”
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 now they're adding mushroom parties to it. So it's alcohol and psilocybin and marijuana because everybody thinks marijuana is innocuous, which is a lie. And”
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 worse. If you do it before your brain is finished developing. And so if you think of fraternities and sororities like I'm not a fan of sending children away to college and is because you have all these underdeveloped brains or not fully developed brains and you put them all together without appropriate adult supervision and a lot of bad things happen fraternity parties and sorority parties.”
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
“Of course, but there are lots of things that are like you see you're married, but you're at a conference and you see this really cute person. And you're like, oh, well, in the short run, that could be awesome. in the long run you lose half your net worth and visit your children on the weekends it's like That's not a good thing. And, you know, in the short run, you feel more relaxed. With alcohol, you feel more relaxed. And in the long run, it increases your risk of Alzheimer's. Disease, that's not a good trade off.”
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
“Isn't that what you want? You wake up a hundred percent every day. Why would you ever do anything that damages? Stomicell production in 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 Issues and judgment and impulse control. But it impacts the brain globally. So the cerebellum, so they're not going to process as quickly. Their decisions are not going to be as good. I worked with my friend BJ Fogg, who wrote a wonderful book called Tiny Habits, and he's the director of Stanford's Persuasive Technology Lab, which is really on how people change. And he and I work together because I'm always interested in how I can help my patients better. And I met him at a conference like eighteen months after we worked together and he said, I just want to thank you. I'm like, why? Said I wake up a hundred percent every day. I'm like, why? I stopped drinking. people and they're around me enough they either drink more I suspect or they stop and”
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 often say the only organ where size really does matter is your brain. Because you don't want to lose. Brain tissue. There is a part of your brain called the hippocampus, which is on the inside of your temporal lobes right here. And it's really important. It makes new stem cells every day, about 700. And if you're drinking... It's not allowing those new stem cells to take hold, to take root. You want to strengthen them so they will continue to support mood, memory, spatial orientation, spatial processing.”
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 again, we do a study called SPCT, and SPC looks at blood flow and activity. It looks at how the brain works. And For people who know the mitochondria, those are the little powerhouse energy plants in your cells. The spectra, forty nine percent of it, is taken up by the mitochondria in the brain. So we're also looking at energy metabolism. And what we see with alcoholic brains is something we call scalloping, which is this global decrease in activity. So a healthy brain, full, even symmetrical activity. It sort of looked big, fat, and round with alcohol or other drugs too. You see the brain begin to shrivel. And you see it gets this wavy appearance. And I'm like, the real reason not to drink is it damages 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
“I think there's always sort of a dose response. There was a study in Spain that looked at people who had mild, moderate, and severe drinking. And they compared them to people who didn't drink at wool. Even the people who only drank a little had disruptions in the white matter of their brain. Now, most people have heard about gray matter and white matter. Gray matter is nerve cell bodies. White matter is nerve cell tracts. So if you think of gray matter as where the computation is happening in the brain and white matter are like the highways. And so even a little bit of alcohol is creating potholes. Disrupting the highways in the brain. And if you're drinking a lot, you are prematurely aging 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
“Depends One drank will decrease in a mild way your decision making when it becomes chronic your life begins to get out of control”
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 number one problem I see is someone drinks and they make a bad decision. Someone drinks and they say something to their partner that they just shouldn't have said or they drink and they go to work or they drink and they drive or they drink and it just causes so much trouble. And in 1999, I did a show called The Truth About Drinking. And we took a young adult who had trouble with alcohol, got him sober, scanned him, and then on national television, we got him drunk, just like he got drunk. And it just crashed his frontal lobes. And you just, it's so clear that alcohol takes the break off your brain. And so people use it. To calm the brain down, but there's certain parts of your brain you really don't want to go offline. The part that says don't say that don't do 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
“Well, the third US Surgeon General just came out wanting to put cancer warning labels on all alcohol. That's sort of big evidence. I mean, three years ago, the American Cancer Society came out against any alcohol because drinking any alcohol increases your risk of seven different cancers. And that's a big deal. And then the evidence I have, and my first clinic was outside of the Napa Valley in Northern California. So alcohol is a big thing. And as I was looking at scans, I'm like, your brain's older than you are. That alcohol is not a health food. It is detrimental to brain function. And then, of course, you know, so I've been a psychiatrist. Now I decided to be a psychiatrist 46 years ago.”
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
“Now usually they come because they're in pain, that they're anxious, they're depressed, Marriage was falling apart or Their wife says Come or I'm going to divorce you. It's not an uncommon thing or they're struggling in school. They're not Living up to their potential in one way or another. Now about 10% of the people come to us go, I'm fine, but I want to see and I want to be better. And I don't want Alzheimer's. So a lot of people come because they love a parent or grandparent that has Alzheimer's. They realize there's a genetic component to it and they don't want to have that. But that's really someone who is forward thinking. More people come because they're hurting.”
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
“Of course not. I mean what I shall is let's just take the NFL work. High big damage, right? Let's stop lying about this. Football is a brain damaging sport. And soccer as well is a brain damaging sport. So high levels of damage. eighty percent of my NFL players got better when we put them on a rehabilitation program. So if you've been bad to your brain, like non-stop gaming, lots of pornography, terrible food, Then all of a sudden you go Oh I can have a better brain Your brain can be better in as little as a couple of months where you just feel better, think better, your mood is better. But it has to start with this concept. I think we've talked about brain envy. You have to want to have a better 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
“For a developing brain, especially for a developing brain, if there's any message, protect your brain until you're 25. And then your brain will protect you. But until then, your prefrontal cortex at from third of your brain is not fully developed, which is sort of why God gave you parents. So you supervise. It's like, oh, my teenagers hate it if I supervise them. And yeah, they hate it more if you don't.”
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 this. And the science is really clear. It decreases activity in your prefrontal cortex, which impacts your motivation, focus, or mood. It is detrimental to your brain. So how can you kill the negative thoughts? Well, there's a whole bunch of things. One is saffron. Head to head has been shown to be equally effective. There's antidepressants. And then whenever you feel sad or mad or nervous, what I want you to do is it's 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
“This is so important because this is one thing a lot of parents do without knowing the consequences for their children. And we'll talk about 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
“There are in fact many roads to Alzheimer's disease, and it's things like marijuana, alcohol, and football. And then a study found that people that had a simple carbohydrate-based diet had a 400% increased risk of getting Alzheimer's. But one of the major causes is”
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