WEBVTT - Whine About It: Brain Trust 0:00:01.920 --> 0:00:05.400 Wind Down with Janet Kramer and I'm Heeart Radio podcast. 0:00:07.440 --> 0:00:10.800 I've never been more excited to interview someone today. His 0:00:10.880 --> 0:00:13.960 name is doctor Amen and I've been following him on Instagram, 0:00:14.160 --> 0:00:20.840 stalking him and just liking commenting. He is incredible and 0:00:21.120 --> 0:00:23.439 he has a new book called a new book out 0:00:23.480 --> 0:00:26.159 called Change Your Brain every Day, and we're going to 0:00:26.160 --> 0:00:28.960 talk about all things brain today. But he has helped 0:00:29.080 --> 0:00:31.560 millions of people change their brains and lives. He's a 0:00:31.560 --> 0:00:35.040 founder of Aiming Clinics where you can scan your brain, 0:00:35.120 --> 0:00:38.040 so we'll talk more about that. He's a psychiatrist and 0:00:38.080 --> 0:00:41.519 a clinical neuroscientist, So let's get him on doctor Amen. 0:00:42.159 --> 0:00:44.400 Hey, how are you. 0:00:44.760 --> 0:00:47.720 It's so good to meet you, like in person, because 0:00:47.720 --> 0:00:49.760 we've been emailing. I think that's been you. Has it 0:00:49.840 --> 0:00:54.480 been you or is it your people? I'm so bummed 0:00:54.640 --> 0:00:58.480 that we can't do the scan your brain thing this month. 0:00:58.560 --> 0:01:02.440 But yeah, the movie kind of a little wrench into plans. 0:01:02.480 --> 0:01:06.160 But also I couldn't tell y'all at the time because 0:01:06.160 --> 0:01:08.440 it was still too early. But I'm actually pregnant, so 0:01:08.480 --> 0:01:09.960 I didn't know if you can also scan a brain 0:01:09.959 --> 0:01:10.680 when you're pregnant. 0:01:11.640 --> 0:01:16.720 Well, congratulation, thank you, And we can do a different study. 0:01:17.400 --> 0:01:21.240 We can't do the spec study because of the radiation, 0:01:21.880 --> 0:01:26.160 but we do another study called quantitative EEG that looks 0:01:26.200 --> 0:01:31.720 at electrical activity. Okay, and there's no harm to the baby. 0:01:31.880 --> 0:01:32.240 Okay. 0:01:33.080 --> 0:01:36.880 I'm so fascinated by just everything in the brain because 0:01:37.040 --> 0:01:40.720 to me, when you when you break things down, like 0:01:40.920 --> 0:01:44.160 science does not lie, right, I mean, would you agree 0:01:44.160 --> 0:01:46.920 with that, like DNA that's not me. 0:01:47.280 --> 0:01:50.920 Well, I mean something's right, but scientists lie a lot. 0:01:51.040 --> 0:01:53.480 Well okay, so yes, But like the when you really 0:01:53.480 --> 0:01:56.080 break it down though, like if you were to do 0:01:57.000 --> 0:01:59.560 you know, logic, so like the logic of things like 0:01:59.640 --> 0:02:02.120 I'm like, it's logical some of the things that Like 0:02:02.640 --> 0:02:05.200 when I hear your things, I'm like, well, yes, like absolutely, 0:02:05.280 --> 0:02:08.160 like alcohol probably isn't great for your brain. 0:02:08.520 --> 0:02:09.520 It's definitely not. 0:02:10.320 --> 0:02:10.600 Okay. 0:02:10.639 --> 0:02:12.920 Can I just ask one question though, Like I you know, 0:02:13.080 --> 0:02:15.480 used to have the occasional not occasional, I would have 0:02:15.560 --> 0:02:17.480 like the glass of wine a day, right because that 0:02:17.520 --> 0:02:21.600 would be my chill mommy moment. But now I've heard 0:02:21.600 --> 0:02:23.359 you know, I've been watching your stuff, and I'm like, man, 0:02:23.360 --> 0:02:25.440 I could really see how you know the impact on that. 0:02:25.520 --> 0:02:29.120 And then my fiance he's a football soccer coach, and 0:02:29.160 --> 0:02:31.840 so you know he's he did save all the studies 0:02:31.880 --> 0:02:35.880 about how alcohol affects, you know, just everything. And so 0:02:36.280 --> 0:02:39.040 what is your recommendation? Is it like you go dry 0:02:39.120 --> 0:02:40.880 and you don't drink it all or can you have 0:02:40.960 --> 0:02:43.119 it in moderation? 0:02:44.040 --> 0:02:47.240 So we should actually chat about moderation. I think it's 0:02:47.240 --> 0:02:51.120 a gag way thought to hell because as soon as 0:02:51.120 --> 0:02:54.160 you say moderation, it means you're gonna cheat. I'm just 0:02:54.240 --> 0:02:57.760 not a fan of alcohol. I mean, one, it's a disinfectant, 0:02:57.880 --> 0:03:00.360 so why are you going to drink a distant effect? 0:03:00.360 --> 0:03:03.600 And when you have one hundred trillion bugs in your gut? 0:03:04.360 --> 0:03:08.720 And any alcohol is associated with an increased risk of 0:03:08.800 --> 0:03:15.000 seven different types of cancer. And so if we're bombarded 0:03:15.360 --> 0:03:20.880 with alcohol messages thirty commercials during the Super Bowl and 0:03:23.240 --> 0:03:26.520 no as I've been a psychiatrist for over forty years 0:03:26.560 --> 0:03:32.080 now and it's probably the number one reason people come 0:03:32.120 --> 0:03:36.640 to see me. It's either they're addicted or their behavior 0:03:36.720 --> 0:03:41.680 is bad where they say something when they're drinking that 0:03:41.760 --> 0:03:46.280 they normally wouldn't have said. And then when the American 0:03:46.320 --> 0:03:48.760 Cancer Society comes out against any alcohol. 0:03:48.880 --> 0:03:53.040 I'm like, yes, right right, I mean, I hear you. 0:03:53.240 --> 0:03:58.080 And when you say moderation is cheating, that's again logic 0:03:58.160 --> 0:04:00.200 to me. But I would have never thought of it 0:04:00.240 --> 0:04:03.680 that way or said it that way because it's true 0:04:03.760 --> 0:04:06.160 because I kind of live my life like, well, everything 0:04:06.160 --> 0:04:09.080 in moderation, like I'll have a brownie, you know maybe 0:04:09.280 --> 0:04:10.880 when you know, every once in a while. I'm not 0:04:10.880 --> 0:04:12.760 going to have it every night, but i'll have you know, 0:04:12.960 --> 0:04:15.960 everything in moderation has always been my saying, and now 0:04:16.000 --> 0:04:18.400 I feel like that's a saying to say. 0:04:20.160 --> 0:04:22.280 People come up to me all the time and they go, well, 0:04:22.320 --> 0:04:24.760 what about everything in moderation? And I know as soon 0:04:24.800 --> 0:04:29.960 as they say that, they're gonna cheat. And Drew Carey, 0:04:30.040 --> 0:04:33.560 who the comedian who lost a lot away, he said 0:04:33.600 --> 0:04:40.280 something so profound. He said, eating crappy food isn't a reward, 0:04:41.800 --> 0:04:48.600 it's a punishment. And when you understand that, it's like, well, 0:04:48.640 --> 0:04:50.800 why are you going to have a cheat day? I mean, 0:04:50.839 --> 0:04:53.000 if you are an alcoholic, you're not gonna have a 0:04:53.080 --> 0:04:53.520 cheat day. 0:04:53.680 --> 0:04:54.480 That would be dumb. 0:04:54.600 --> 0:04:56.279 Or you're a sex addict, you're not going to have 0:04:56.320 --> 0:04:59.039 a cheat day, or a smoker you're not gonna have 0:04:59.120 --> 0:05:03.280 a cheat day. You have to ask yourself what do 0:05:03.320 --> 0:05:09.159 you really want? And for me, I want energy, and 0:05:09.200 --> 0:05:12.839 I want memory, and I want focus and I want passion. 0:05:12.960 --> 0:05:16.360 I want connection and purpose. So when I look at 0:05:16.400 --> 0:05:21.200 the things that I might cheat with, I'm like, doesn't 0:05:21.200 --> 0:05:26.560 fit me, doesn't fit what I want. And so too 0:05:26.640 --> 0:05:32.520 often when people are I call them babies and brain help, they're, oh, 0:05:32.560 --> 0:05:34.880 I can't have this and I can't have. 0:05:34.960 --> 0:05:37.120 That, but what are you trading it? 0:05:38.760 --> 0:05:43.400 Like? I only want to love food that loves me back. 0:05:44.839 --> 0:05:47.760 I don't know if you've ever been in a bad relationship. 0:05:48.000 --> 0:05:50.320 I have, and I'm not doing that. 0:05:50.760 --> 0:05:52.080 You didn't google me, have you? 0:05:53.640 --> 0:05:58.560 I am not doing that anymore, and I'm certainly not 0:05:58.600 --> 0:06:01.360 doing it with the things I eat or the things 0:06:01.360 --> 0:06:01.839 I drink. 0:06:02.080 --> 0:06:18.280 Right well, speaking of bad relationships, and I would love 0:06:18.320 --> 0:06:22.520 to kind of switch gears to, you know something brain 0:06:22.560 --> 0:06:24.160 wise stuff I didn't know. So I was in a 0:06:24.200 --> 0:06:28.440 really bad abusive relationship when I was nineteen and she 0:06:28.560 --> 0:06:29.159 tried to kill me. 0:06:29.200 --> 0:06:31.600 He went to jail. It was the whole, the whole thing. 0:06:31.880 --> 0:06:37.320 And from that relationship, I had really, really, really bad PTSD, 0:06:37.680 --> 0:06:39.720 where I just I couldn't even leave my house. I 0:06:39.760 --> 0:06:43.320 was afraid for my life. I even though I knew 0:06:43.360 --> 0:06:45.159 he was in jail, I would still see his face. 0:06:45.279 --> 0:06:47.200 I mean, it was just And I ended up going 0:06:47.240 --> 0:06:49.560 to my therapist. And I'd never been on an anxiety 0:06:49.560 --> 0:06:53.320 medicine and never even had anxiety attack until after this 0:06:53.440 --> 0:06:55.920 incident had happened where you know, he was on top 0:06:55.960 --> 0:06:58.640 of me and you know, beating me up and choking me. 0:06:58.760 --> 0:07:02.440 And so so from that moment, anytime I ever feel 0:07:03.080 --> 0:07:05.720 trapped or claustrophobic, like I will start to have an 0:07:05.720 --> 0:07:08.000 anxiety attack or again being on in person. This was 0:07:08.440 --> 0:07:12.760 back in my early twenties, and I remember going to 0:07:12.760 --> 0:07:15.760 my therapist going, if you don't prescribe me something now, 0:07:15.800 --> 0:07:17.960 like I can't live my life like this anymore. And 0:07:18.040 --> 0:07:20.080 so then he was telling me about like the serotonin 0:07:20.120 --> 0:07:24.080 levels in your brain and do you how do I 0:07:24.080 --> 0:07:24.360 say this? 0:07:24.520 --> 0:07:27.000 Do you think that? Wit? 0:07:27.040 --> 0:07:27.200 Let me? 0:07:27.240 --> 0:07:30.120 I'm separate that. So there's that piece. And then I 0:07:30.160 --> 0:07:35.360 was on medicine for almost nineteen years. I've recently just 0:07:35.440 --> 0:07:37.640 got off my Lexapro a year and a half ago, 0:07:37.720 --> 0:07:41.000 so I've been without anxiety medicine for a year and 0:07:41.040 --> 0:07:43.720 a half and I know now how to deal with 0:07:43.760 --> 0:07:46.640 anxiety and it doesn't take over my life the way 0:07:46.640 --> 0:07:49.760 that it used to. But I've had someone else who 0:07:49.800 --> 0:07:52.720 I was recently had they were having an anxiety we're 0:07:52.760 --> 0:07:55.440 talking about it, and she said she had one anxiety attack. 0:07:55.520 --> 0:07:58.840 The doctor prescribed her medicine. And I'm like, why so soon, Like, 0:07:58.920 --> 0:08:01.000 you just had one anxiety attack, Like why would you 0:08:01.120 --> 0:08:03.520 just She's like, well, they were saying the serotonin levels 0:08:03.520 --> 0:08:06.280 are now going to be messed up. And I'm like, yeah, 0:08:06.280 --> 0:08:07.960 but you only had one, Like maybe your body was 0:08:08.000 --> 0:08:10.520 just not it was fearing something in that moment, and 0:08:10.520 --> 0:08:11.800 like that's what you should look into. 0:08:12.240 --> 0:08:15.960 So I guess my question is, like, how does it? 0:08:16.480 --> 0:08:18.440 Because I was told medicine is the only way to 0:08:18.440 --> 0:08:21.560 fix the serotonin levels late. 0:08:21.360 --> 0:08:22.560 Crap, mm hmm. 0:08:22.960 --> 0:08:27.560 That's just the Yeah, And perhaps if I had been 0:08:27.560 --> 0:08:31.560 treating you, I would have given you medicine, but it 0:08:31.600 --> 0:08:34.400 had never been the first thing I did. 0:08:34.640 --> 0:08:36.800 The only thing I did. 0:08:38.080 --> 0:08:41.319 Have you ever had em DR A specific so EMDR 0:08:41.520 --> 0:08:46.040 is what saved me basically, I mean that was I 0:08:46.080 --> 0:08:49.760 did that for three years, you know, in the therapy 0:08:49.800 --> 0:08:52.360 that I was doing, and that had that helped me 0:08:52.880 --> 0:08:55.120 get back on a car in a freeway, that helped me, 0:08:55.160 --> 0:08:58.760 you know, do all the things that was keeping me 0:08:59.200 --> 0:09:03.880 locked in. So yeah, I mean I'm a huge advocate 0:09:03.920 --> 0:09:05.920 for EMDR because it helped me a ton. And then 0:09:06.120 --> 0:09:09.320 post divorce was when I was like, wait a minute, 0:09:09.360 --> 0:09:12.640 I haven't had an anxiety attack at all. And then 0:09:12.840 --> 0:09:15.280 I think it was my body's way of going, you're safe. 0:09:15.320 --> 0:09:19.360 Now you can get off your medicine. So and I 0:09:19.400 --> 0:09:22.400 don't know if that is in relation to it, or 0:09:22.440 --> 0:09:25.440 maybe my levels just I don't know, like, is there 0:09:26.840 --> 0:09:29.120 That's the thing I wanted. I would love to know, 0:09:29.120 --> 0:09:31.400 because I'm like, is it just the many years I 0:09:31.440 --> 0:09:33.400 was on and my body just kind of stabilized, or 0:09:33.440 --> 0:09:36.040 was it I got out of a toxic situation and 0:09:36.400 --> 0:09:38.600 I felt safe and then I don't fear anymore. 0:09:39.720 --> 0:09:47.480 Well, trauma gets stuck in your brain, and EMDR helps 0:09:47.520 --> 0:09:51.800 to get you unstuck. And then of course, learning how 0:09:51.840 --> 0:09:56.000 to not believe every stupid thing you think, learning how 0:09:56.280 --> 0:10:00.240 to settle your body, either with things like hypnosis or 0:10:00.280 --> 0:10:04.840 meditation or diapframatic breathing, something I like a lot too 0:10:04.920 --> 0:10:11.720 called vaguel nerve stimulation can just help calm your nervous system. 0:10:12.440 --> 0:10:16.120 You see the problem with psychiatric drugs is once you 0:10:16.240 --> 0:10:21.240 start them, they change your brain to need them in 0:10:21.400 --> 0:10:26.160 order for you to feel normal. And having one panic attack, 0:10:26.920 --> 0:10:30.800 often people go to the emergency room. They end up 0:10:30.800 --> 0:10:33.760 an SSRI, or they end up on a benzo for 0:10:33.800 --> 0:10:36.960 God's sakes, which are addictive and increase your risk for 0:10:37.000 --> 0:10:42.040 Alzheimer's disease because it's a short term fix. Helps you 0:10:42.120 --> 0:10:46.400 feel better fast, but clearly doesn't last. And I want 0:10:46.440 --> 0:10:51.959 you to feel better fast, but in ways that lasts 0:10:52.679 --> 0:10:57.760 over time that support the health of your brain rather 0:10:58.559 --> 0:11:02.160 than hurt your brain. Like I'm not a fan of benzo's. 0:11:02.559 --> 0:11:06.880 I mean I rarely prescribed them because once you start them, 0:11:06.920 --> 0:11:08.320 people don't stop them. 0:11:08.559 --> 0:11:09.480 That's the problem. 0:11:09.880 --> 0:11:12.080 And it's like, well, you haven't been anxious your whole life, 0:11:12.200 --> 0:11:14.480 Now you have a panic attack or you have seven 0:11:14.559 --> 0:11:20.760 of them, and then you're not dealing with what's the cause, 0:11:20.840 --> 0:11:25.240 what's the root? And I think for you, given the 0:11:25.280 --> 0:11:30.000 severe abuse, you had to calm down your brain. But 0:11:30.120 --> 0:11:34.160 you know magnesium does that, or Ashua Gandha does that, 0:11:34.559 --> 0:11:42.160 or Fielning does that, and why not start with natural things? 0:11:42.640 --> 0:11:45.760 And then if they don't work. Go stronger and stronger 0:11:45.880 --> 0:11:50.120 until you get something that works. But I found emd 0:11:50.240 --> 0:11:51.600 are so helpful. 0:11:51.720 --> 0:11:52.320 It really is. 0:11:52.360 --> 0:11:55.760 And she did that in brain spotting, so I don't 0:11:55.760 --> 0:11:58.240 know like what the exact difference is, but it was 0:11:58.320 --> 0:12:00.240 she kind of did both at the same time in 0:12:00.280 --> 0:12:03.360 a way, and it was yeah, I mean it's changed 0:12:03.400 --> 0:12:03.960 to each other. 0:12:04.120 --> 0:12:05.640 Yeah, it was. It was incredible. 0:12:05.880 --> 0:12:10.040 And I love another one called Havening. So now when 0:12:10.160 --> 0:12:14.240 you get upset. So they're all based on this bilateral 0:12:14.320 --> 0:12:17.520 hemisphere stimulation. If you stimulate one side of the brain, 0:12:17.600 --> 0:12:20.000 then the other one side, then the other one side 0:12:20.000 --> 0:12:21.960 than the other, and that's what they do with the 0:12:22.000 --> 0:12:25.000 eye movements or the tapping. 0:12:26.320 --> 0:12:26.520 Ron. 0:12:26.640 --> 0:12:29.480 Rudden out of New York found if you just do this, 0:12:30.520 --> 0:12:35.199 go into the thing that's bothering you or I guess 0:12:35.200 --> 0:12:36.240 my favorite. 0:12:35.800 --> 0:12:36.360 One is this. 0:12:39.640 --> 0:12:42.800 It really just seems to calm you down. 0:12:43.040 --> 0:12:46.200 Like how simple is that? 0:12:46.520 --> 0:12:48.800 And you know it's simple to take a medicine, but 0:12:49.080 --> 0:12:52.640 you know, something like lexapro can decrease or libido make 0:12:52.720 --> 0:12:55.360 it harder to have an orgasm. 0:12:55.800 --> 0:12:58.520 You know, it's it's like, well, why are we going 0:12:58.600 --> 0:12:59.720 to do that first? 0:13:00.040 --> 0:13:00.319 Hmm? 0:13:00.720 --> 0:13:03.520 Yeah, Okay, interesting and I'm so curious too when we 0:13:03.520 --> 0:13:05.360 do the scan your brain because you have how many 0:13:05.360 --> 0:13:09.680 different locations do you have? Around eleven eleven? That's amazing 0:13:11.080 --> 0:13:15.160 because I'm so fascinated by your story with your nephew, 0:13:15.280 --> 0:13:18.160 and I really encourage people to go to your page 0:13:18.200 --> 0:13:21.439 and just read everything about you, but just hearing how 0:13:22.480 --> 0:13:24.640 certain things that can you know your brain, I mean 0:13:25.240 --> 0:13:28.280 can just trigger everything with like who you are and 0:13:28.320 --> 0:13:28.880 how you are. 0:13:29.000 --> 0:13:34.000 And I just I'm curious to see like what we 0:13:34.040 --> 0:13:34.720 see when we do that. 0:13:34.760 --> 0:13:35.959 So I feel like we have to have a part 0:13:36.000 --> 0:13:38.760 two to this podcast to be like, all right, let's dissect. 0:13:38.360 --> 0:13:40.040 Now what my brain like. 0:13:40.720 --> 0:13:42.160 And when we look at it, would you be like, 0:13:42.160 --> 0:13:43.880 all right, this is what you need to do or like, 0:13:43.920 --> 0:13:44.720 how does that like? 0:13:45.040 --> 0:13:46.960 Where do we go? Do you give me like a 0:13:46.960 --> 0:13:47.480 game plan? 0:13:48.280 --> 0:13:51.280 So we do a study called brain spectumagaine, and spec 0:13:51.320 --> 0:13:53.200 looks a blood flow and activity. 0:13:53.240 --> 0:13:55.560 It looks at how your brain works. 0:13:55.559 --> 0:14:00.679 And basically tells us three things. Is it healthy, interactive, 0:14:01.120 --> 0:14:05.120 or overactive? And then my job becomes balancing it. But 0:14:05.200 --> 0:14:06.880 when you come to see me, we're going to take 0:14:06.920 --> 0:14:09.920 a really detailed history. I want to know the story 0:14:10.000 --> 0:14:12.080 of your life, because I have to put your scan 0:14:12.720 --> 0:14:17.560 in the context of your life, and then you bet, 0:14:17.640 --> 0:14:20.720 I'll give you a plan and if it's really healthy, 0:14:21.680 --> 0:14:25.600 we'll celebrate. And if it's not well rehabilitated, I mean, 0:14:25.680 --> 0:14:31.040 I love making bad brains better. So that's like my 0:14:31.280 --> 0:14:34.320 favorite thing to do. I did the big NFL study 0:14:34.360 --> 0:14:37.080 when the NFL was sort of lying it had a 0:14:37.160 --> 0:14:40.960 problem with traumatic brain injury and football. 0:14:40.920 --> 0:14:42.280 High levels of damage. 0:14:42.840 --> 0:14:45.840 Stop lying about it. But eighty percent of my players 0:14:45.880 --> 0:14:50.000 get better when we put them on a rehabilitation program, 0:14:50.040 --> 0:14:54.800 which is basically three things. Brain envy. You got to 0:14:54.840 --> 0:14:58.800 start caring about your brain. Freud was wrong, venus envy 0:14:58.880 --> 0:15:01.760 is not the cause of an anybody's problem. Haven't seen 0:15:01.760 --> 0:15:04.760 it once in forty years. He had the wrong organ. 0:15:05.160 --> 0:15:10.200 It's your brain. So that's step one. Care two. So 0:15:10.240 --> 0:15:13.880 you have to start avoiding anything that hurts your brain. 0:15:14.360 --> 0:15:17.520 And just know the list, from going to bed late 0:15:17.720 --> 0:15:23.560 to alcohol, marijuana, to bad food to being overweight. To 0:15:23.640 --> 0:15:27.920 avoid those things and then do regular things that help 0:15:28.000 --> 0:15:33.800 your brain. Multiple vitamin especially B vitamins B six, B twelve, 0:15:33.880 --> 0:15:38.880 and FOL light have been found to enhance memory and 0:15:38.960 --> 0:15:43.440 actually decrease the conversion of this thing we call mild 0:15:43.480 --> 0:15:48.239 cognitive impairment. You have mild memory problems to severe memory problems. 0:15:48.760 --> 0:15:52.000 Vitamin D. People have low vitamin D have smaller brains. 0:15:52.000 --> 0:15:55.240 I mean, how simple is that? Take five thousand units 0:15:55.240 --> 0:16:00.320 of vitamin D a day, Omega three fatty acids. Put 0:16:00.320 --> 0:16:04.840 my players on a special cocktail of supplements that help them. 0:16:05.320 --> 0:16:11.280 Eighty percent of brain damage players got better on our program. 0:16:11.600 --> 0:16:15.560 How exciting is that you're not stuck with what you have. 0:16:16.080 --> 0:16:17.160 You can make it better. 0:16:30.080 --> 0:16:35.440 Do you ever see a world where insurance companies would 0:16:35.720 --> 0:16:41.280 let would have would pay for, not pay for, but 0:16:41.360 --> 0:16:44.920 help pay for brain scans, since the brain basically controls 0:16:44.960 --> 0:16:48.400 our body. And it is with mental health illness on 0:16:48.480 --> 0:16:52.920 the rise and with you know people like this would 0:16:52.960 --> 0:16:54.160 help people so much. 0:16:55.600 --> 0:17:00.680 I think so, but not until we change the pair paradigm. 0:17:01.080 --> 0:17:05.480 The problem is with the words mental illness. 0:17:06.359 --> 0:17:09.040 I hate that okay tummy because. 0:17:08.680 --> 0:17:15.480 It shames people. It stigmatizes people, and it's wrong. Until 0:17:15.760 --> 0:17:20.080 psychiatry stops acting like it did in the eighteenth century, 0:17:20.520 --> 0:17:25.920 making diagnoses based on symptom clusters with no biological data. 0:17:26.040 --> 0:17:31.960 Until we stop this crazy paradigm that makes pharmaceutical companies 0:17:32.800 --> 0:17:39.960 uber wealthy and people poor. See our database is now 0:17:40.040 --> 0:17:43.760 two hundred and thirty thousand scants. And the big lesson 0:17:44.240 --> 0:17:47.960 is most psychiatric illnesses are not mental health issues. 0:17:48.359 --> 0:17:50.480 They are brain health issues. 0:17:50.920 --> 0:17:55.919 And that one idea changes everything. Rather than go to 0:17:55.960 --> 0:17:58.520 a therapist and talk about your mind, should we go 0:17:58.680 --> 0:18:00.880 to a therapists and talk about, well, how's my brain? 0:18:01.520 --> 0:18:06.600 How's the physical functioning of my brain? I'm in Justin 0:18:06.600 --> 0:18:12.240 Bieber's Docusaries seasons because I've been as doctor, and you know, 0:18:12.400 --> 0:18:15.240 like many famous people, he'd come, he'd not come, you'd 0:18:15.240 --> 0:18:17.960 do it, I say, mostly not. And then when it 0:18:18.040 --> 0:18:21.159 was gone through a hard time, he came and he 0:18:21.440 --> 0:18:25.320 said something so profound. He said, I think I get 0:18:25.320 --> 0:18:29.080 what you're trying to tell me. My brain is an organ, 0:18:29.640 --> 0:18:32.560 like my heart is an organ. If you told me 0:18:32.600 --> 0:18:36.000 I had art problems, I'd do everything you said. And 0:18:36.080 --> 0:18:42.000 then as he engaged in brain healthy habits, he lost 0:18:42.080 --> 0:18:46.600 the bipolar disordered diagnosis, and other psychiatrist dave them and 0:18:46.680 --> 0:18:52.960 he did much better. So it completely changes the focus 0:18:53.680 --> 0:18:58.160 away from your mind, which is vague and hard to define, 0:18:58.960 --> 0:19:02.359 to the physical functioning of your brain. 0:19:03.600 --> 0:19:07.479 So fascinating, and again like, yeah, if you look at 0:19:07.480 --> 0:19:08.639 it like that, I mean, if you told me that 0:19:08.720 --> 0:19:10.720 I had That's why I want to go sobout so 0:19:10.720 --> 0:19:12.239 why I want to do all the scans to be right? 0:19:12.240 --> 0:19:14.400 What do I need to like do to make sure 0:19:14.440 --> 0:19:16.600 that I stay healthy? And I love you with your 0:19:16.600 --> 0:19:19.160 book change your brain every day? I mean you give 0:19:19.480 --> 0:19:22.399 every day how to change your brain something for so 0:19:22.520 --> 0:19:24.920 what's a few that the book right now? But also 0:19:24.960 --> 0:19:27.080 what are a few things to help change your brain 0:19:27.160 --> 0:19:27.920 that you write? 0:19:28.960 --> 0:19:29.840 Start every day? 0:19:29.880 --> 0:19:30.840 It'd be a great day. 0:19:31.560 --> 0:19:35.760 I really to train your brain to look for what's 0:19:35.840 --> 0:19:39.399 right rather than what's wrong. My favorite exercise, the one 0:19:39.440 --> 0:19:41.480 I do every day, and I've done it for over 0:19:41.520 --> 0:19:44.120 a decade, is when I go to bed at night, 0:19:44.160 --> 0:19:45.760 I say a prayer and then I. 0:19:45.760 --> 0:19:47.119 Go what went well today? 0:19:47.560 --> 0:19:50.520 And I actually start at the beginning of my day, 0:19:50.640 --> 0:19:55.160 go hour by hour looking for what I liked about 0:19:55.480 --> 0:19:58.800 my day. So talking to you, that'll make the highlight 0:19:58.880 --> 0:20:04.040 real tonight and it's so important. And then before I 0:20:04.119 --> 0:20:09.120 make any decision today, I asked myself this question, it's 0:20:09.160 --> 0:20:12.240 just good for my brain or bad for it? And 0:20:12.320 --> 0:20:17.680 if I can answer that with information and love, love 0:20:17.680 --> 0:20:20.520 of myself, love of my family, love of the reason 0:20:20.880 --> 0:20:25.600 I'm on the earth. Let's make better decisions. I also 0:20:25.880 --> 0:20:31.159 take multiple vitamin I'll take smart mushrooms, not magic mushrooms, 0:20:31.200 --> 0:20:34.680 but I'm a huge fan of Lion's maine and turkey 0:20:34.720 --> 0:20:39.560 tail and Rishi and Cortes EPs mushrooms, So I have 0:20:39.640 --> 0:20:43.840 my supplements. Another one I love is Saffron. Saffron has 0:20:44.040 --> 0:20:50.440 twenty four randomized controlled trials showing it's equally effective antidepressants. 0:20:50.560 --> 0:20:52.679 So when the doctor thought you were depressed, I had 0:20:52.720 --> 0:20:57.840 to put you on happy Saffron rather than lexapro. And 0:20:57.880 --> 0:21:00.119 if it didn't work, I'd go to lexapro. Right, So 0:21:00.160 --> 0:21:04.320 I want to make sure the message is clear. I'll 0:21:04.480 --> 0:21:12.080 eat a very low carbohydrate diet because diabetes, pre diabetes, 0:21:12.359 --> 0:21:18.640 obesity is the enemy of brain health, and so what 0:21:18.800 --> 0:21:24.640 you eat is critical. People have a fat based diet. Avocados, 0:21:24.760 --> 0:21:29.160 nuts and seeds, healthy oils, fatty fish have forty two 0:21:29.160 --> 0:21:33.240 percent less risk of getting Alzheimer's disease, according to a 0:21:33.240 --> 0:21:37.160 study from the Mayo Clinic. People have a simple carbohydrate 0:21:37.200 --> 0:21:43.880 based diet, so think of the standard American diet bread, pasta, potatoes, 0:21:44.080 --> 0:21:50.639 rice fruit, juice, sugar four hundred percent increase risk of 0:21:50.680 --> 0:21:51.760 getting Alzheimer's. 0:21:51.840 --> 0:21:54.000 I'm not okay with that. 0:21:54.400 --> 0:21:57.800 And so the food I eat, and I always want 0:21:57.800 --> 0:22:01.600 you to ask this question, do I love it? And 0:22:01.680 --> 0:22:06.119 does it love me? Because it's a relationship and I 0:22:06.160 --> 0:22:09.520 only like every day. I figured out recently how to 0:22:09.560 --> 0:22:16.800 make my own lemonade slushy. I just take a whole lemon, 0:22:17.000 --> 0:22:22.000 put it in a blender with sparkling water, ice, and 0:22:22.040 --> 0:22:25.959 a little bit of chocolate Stevia. There's a company I 0:22:26.119 --> 0:22:29.639 like called Sweet Leaf. They make like ten different flavors 0:22:30.040 --> 0:22:33.359 of stevia. I blend it and it just like going 0:22:33.400 --> 0:22:35.800 to seven to eleven and getting a slushy, except this 0:22:35.840 --> 0:22:40.679 one's healthy and I love it and it loves me. 0:22:41.160 --> 0:22:44.280 Or I make brain healthy hot chocolate every night for 0:22:44.440 --> 0:22:52.000 my family, unsweetened almond milk, organic almond milk with raw cacao, 0:22:52.359 --> 0:22:59.040 which is just loaded with healthy compounds and increased blood 0:22:59.040 --> 0:23:01.560 float of the brain, little bit of chocolate stevia. 0:23:01.640 --> 0:23:05.320 Put it in a blender. Eighty four calories. I'm happy 0:23:05.320 --> 0:23:06.040 as a clam. 0:23:07.400 --> 0:23:07.680 Wow. 0:23:08.280 --> 0:23:10.280 I mean, do you have that in your book too? 0:23:10.480 --> 0:23:13.360 Like you do you have a I. 0:23:13.280 --> 0:23:15.720 Don't have the lemonade one because I just figured it out. 0:23:15.800 --> 0:23:18.440 Okay, well you'll send me that one. 0:23:19.000 --> 0:23:20.600 And I have a new book coming out next year 0:23:20.720 --> 0:23:23.160 called Raising Mentally Strong Kids. 0:23:23.400 --> 0:23:25.960 Oh see, I really really would love to read that 0:23:26.000 --> 0:23:28.199 one too, because I'm just doing the best that I 0:23:28.200 --> 0:23:30.480 can because you know, obviously I know all about my 0:23:30.520 --> 0:23:32.840 childhood traumas from doing all the therapy, and so I'm 0:23:32.880 --> 0:23:34.320 just i have a seven and a four year old, 0:23:34.960 --> 0:23:38.199 so I'm trying to you know, what I'd love to 0:23:38.200 --> 0:23:40.120 know more like what I can do as a mom 0:23:40.359 --> 0:23:45.440 to just help guide them in better, better directions. 0:23:45.520 --> 0:23:49.280 Yeah, read parenting with love and logic. It is so 0:23:50.000 --> 0:23:54.520