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Speaker 1: What is marijuana doing to your brain? And what about alcohol?

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Speaker 1: How can you prevent Alzheimer's. Renowned brain specialist, doctor Daniel

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Speaker 1: Aman joins me with brain hacks we can all use

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Speaker 1: on this edition of the Royal Grande Show.

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Speaker 2: Come on, I'm raiming an arroyo.

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Speaker 1: on YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts and turn

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Speaker 1: those notifications off. Did you see this disturbing story? Young

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Speaker 1: adults are turning to pacifiers?

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Speaker 2: Are you newborn?

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Speaker 1: Not only will this destroy your teeth that I'm sure

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Speaker 1: your parents paid thousands to fix, but you look like

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Speaker 1: a fool. One of these passi addicts said quote. When

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Speaker 1: I'm under pressure at work, I feel a sense of

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Speaker 1: safety from childhood. Well, are you going to start wearing

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Speaker 1: diapers again? For that childhood all underfeel? We send a

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Speaker 1: bouncy seat and a playpen to your dorm or your cubicle.

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Speaker 1: Just stop. Psychologists have a term for this. It's called regression.

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Speaker 1: Leave the stuff of your childhood behind and act like

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Speaker 1: an adult. You need to develop adult coping skills. Move

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Speaker 1: along now, someone who could help these folks. Doctor Daniel

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Speaker 1: Amin is a neuroscientist and psychiatrist who spent his life

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Speaker 1: teaching people how to heal their brains. We've been told

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Speaker 1: marijuana use is fine, it's harmless. Studies say it is not,

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Speaker 1: and what's causing the dementia epidemic. Doctor Daniel Aman has

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Speaker 1: lots of answers. Tell me about marijuana use. We talked

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Speaker 1: about this in passing. But you see all of these

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Speaker 1: states legalizing this. So many young people, so many young

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Speaker 1: men use it just the way you would smoke a

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Speaker 1: cigar or have a drink. In fact, it's a daily

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Speaker 1: in fact, multiple practice a day. And I'm often told

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Speaker 1: you know, by people who you do it regularly. Look,

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Speaker 1: it just mellows me out. It has no long term effect.

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Speaker 1: You studied this, what did you find and how does

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Speaker 1: it affect the brain?

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Speaker 3: So I studied it. I mean, I've been studying it

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Speaker 3: for thirty four years now with image and their brains

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Speaker 3: look older than they are. It's not good for the brain.

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Speaker 3: And then I published a study on a thousand marijuana users.

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Speaker 3: Every area of their brain is lower in blood flow

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Speaker 3: and activity. And then just a couple of weeks ago

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Speaker 3: in Jamas Psychiatry, there's an article not from my group,

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Speaker 3: from a completely separate group. On a thousand marijuana users,

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Speaker 3: the learning and memory centers of their brain significantly lower

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Speaker 3: in activity. And it's common knowledge among psychiatrists, and studies

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Speaker 3: show that teenagers who use, and teenagers in massive numbers

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Speaker 3: I mean, this is the insanity that's happening in our society.

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Speaker 3: And teenagers who use in their twenties increase anxiety, depression, suicide,

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Speaker 3: and psychosis. This is not okay. Now, I'm not a fan.

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Speaker 3: If you're smoking pot for them to arrest you and

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Speaker 3: send you to jail, I don't think that's a good

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Speaker 3: use of our resources. But we need and President Trump

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Speaker 3: talked about this when he was at the Department of Justice.

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Speaker 3: It's we need a serious brain health education, a drug

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Speaker 3: prevention education program. And I don't know if you know,

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Speaker 3: but after I listened to him, all how much does

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Speaker 3: Anheuser Bush spend a year in marketing? Because the President

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Speaker 3: said he raised like fifty million this campaign. Heyser Busch

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Speaker 3: spends six point eight billion dollars a year on sales

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Speaker 3: and marketing. I'm like, we spend what almost a trillion

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Speaker 3: dollars on our defense budget. You're much more likely to

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Speaker 3: die from depression, suicide, obesity, dementia than you are from

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Speaker 3: a nuclear warhead. And shouldn't we be serious about having prevention?

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Speaker 3: A Department of Defense for brain health and my big goal,

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Speaker 3: maybe you can help me with it. I would create

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Speaker 1: Does marijuana use Does it make you more susceptible to Alzheimer's?

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Speaker 1: Imagine it does because you're constricting blood flow.

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Speaker 3: Yes, because it is not It does not give you

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Speaker 3: a healthy brain over time. That the studies. Because it's

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Speaker 3: only been legal for a very short time, there are

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Speaker 3: no great long term studies. But if I wanted to

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Speaker 1: You know, I've always been and long fascinated by your work.

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Speaker 1: The center of it seems to my eye, at least

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Speaker 1: the taking of these three despect images of the brain.

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Speaker 1: How did you come upon spect imaging? Why do you

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Speaker 3: Well, you know, psychiatrists are the only medical doctors who

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Speaker 3: nineteen seventy nine. I knew that was wrong, and I

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Speaker 3: be part of it. Nineteen ninety one, I went to

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Speaker 3: a lecturer on brain spect imaging. It's a new clear

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Speaker 3: And you've heard it. Set of pictures worth a thousand words,

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Speaker 3: And that's exactly what I saw with spec you would

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Speaker 3: the world on depression. And what we showed is when

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Speaker 3: pretty severe low activity in the brain. But having treated

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Speaker 3: have no idea what's going on in their brain. And

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Speaker 3: And then the other big benefit is people fell in

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Speaker 3: So they're smoking less pot, they're drinking less alcohol, they're

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Speaker 1: Doctor Raymond, how does dementia present, for instance, when you

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Speaker 1: look at these scans, and how early can you see it?

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Speaker 3: So Alzheimer's disease actually starts in the brain decades before

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Speaker 3: you have any symptoms. But Alzheimer's is only one of

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Speaker 3: ten different dementia categories, and spec actually helps to distinguish

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Speaker 3: dementia Bruce Willis has is Alzheimer's disease? Is it vascular dementia?

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Speaker 3: Is it alcoholic dementia's Louis body dementia, what Robin Williams had.

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Speaker 3: And I wrote a book in two thousand and five

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Speaker 3: writing it. It's like, no, you can't do that. Don't

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Speaker 3: give people false hope. And last year in the Lancet

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Speaker 3: disease is preventable, and I think everybody should be scanned

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Speaker 1: But doctor, I want to just stop you one second.

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Speaker 1: Why not use a PET scan or an MRI, which

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Speaker 1: I'm told is more advanced and gives you clearer imaging.

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Speaker 3: Well, it's not true. And MRI is a structural study.

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Speaker 3: And the problem is functional study. Functional problems always start

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Speaker 3: before you see structural problems. And SPECT and PAT are

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Speaker 3: better resolution, but no one in the world has the

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Speaker 3: experience we have at Amen Clinics, where we've done over

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Speaker 3: two hundred and sixty thousand scans on people from one

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Speaker 3: And I believe that we can prevent much of dementia

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Speaker 3: if and here's the plan. You want to keep your

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Speaker 3: treat the eleven major risk factors that steal your mind.

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Speaker 3: And we know what they are. That for example, if

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Speaker 3: that increases your risk. If you're depressed, that increases your risk.

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Speaker 3: But a brand new study out I'm actually going to

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Speaker 3: one of those medications, it accelerates memory loss. Really, those

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Speaker 3: medications are inhibitory. They increase serotonin. Serotonin calms things down

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Speaker 3: But again, how would you know if you didn't look.

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Speaker 3: I often feel like Galileo, who was imprisoned at the

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you got it all wrong. And of course look,

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Speaker 1: But look, doctor am Alzheimer's and this is something that

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Speaker 3: The pandemic did so many bad things for our society

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Speaker 1: Well, doctor Imutt, what are the primary early indicators you

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Speaker 3: If your memory is worse than it was ten years ago,

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Speaker 3: pattern for Alzheimer's disease. So it's by lab prietalone decreased activity.

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Speaker 3: That's why people get lost, and it's why people get

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Speaker 3: of things like names and places and Raymond, we're diagnosing

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Speaker 3: this later than ever before because of smartphones. Because before

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Speaker 3: you know, of all my books, I think that's the

432
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Speaker 3: one to read because it's three hundred and sixty six

433
00:30:47,840 --> 00:30:51,720
Speaker 3: short essays on the most important things I've ever said.

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Speaker 1: And very practical you can do them every day, and

435
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Speaker 1: you encourage people to read them day by day because

436
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Speaker 1: I've read them. How do you start your day? Doctor?

437
00:31:00,080 --> 00:31:03,120
Speaker 1: What's your routine? What do you eat when you begin

438
00:31:03,200 --> 00:31:05,640
Speaker 1: the day, and do you have coffee?

439
00:31:06,240 --> 00:31:08,960
Speaker 3: So I start every day with today is going to

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Speaker 3: be a great day. I push my mind to look

441
00:31:13,240 --> 00:31:17,720
Speaker 3: for what I'm excited about. I end every day with

442
00:31:17,840 --> 00:31:23,400
Speaker 3: what went well today? And it's actually a pretty detailed practice.

443
00:31:23,480 --> 00:31:26,040
Speaker 3: I say a prayer and then I go hour by

444
00:31:26,200 --> 00:31:29,720
Speaker 3: hour looking for what I loved about the day until

445
00:31:29,760 --> 00:31:35,080
Speaker 3: I'm asleep. I start with a decaf cappuccino that I

446
00:31:35,160 --> 00:31:40,600
Speaker 3: make for my wife and I with unsweetened almond milk

447
00:31:40,680 --> 00:31:45,840
Speaker 3: and a little bit of stevia put in creatine and

448
00:31:46,840 --> 00:31:51,520
Speaker 3: something we make called smart mushrooms. So it's just delicious.

449
00:31:51,560 --> 00:31:54,040
Speaker 3: Brand new study out on creatine. Not only does it

450
00:31:54,080 --> 00:31:58,240
Speaker 3: give you bigger muscles, it also helps to treat depression

451
00:31:58,760 --> 00:32:04,120
Speaker 3: and help my be sharper. Five grams of creatine. Very

452
00:32:04,160 --> 00:32:08,160
Speaker 3: excited about that, and then usually for me, I have

453
00:32:08,480 --> 00:32:11,280
Speaker 3: a couple of eggs and then later on I'll make

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Speaker 3: a shake for myself with a healthy protein powder and

455
00:32:18,000 --> 00:32:23,040
Speaker 3: nutrients in it and half a couple of blueberries. I'll

456
00:32:23,080 --> 00:32:26,440
Speaker 3: generally have a salad in the middle of the day,

457
00:32:26,880 --> 00:32:31,000
Speaker 3: and almost always in the morning, I go on a

458
00:32:31,000 --> 00:32:34,880
Speaker 3: long walk with our two dogs and my wife and

459
00:32:35,120 --> 00:32:41,800
Speaker 3: we sort of start the day connecting with exercise, and

460
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Speaker 3: then I look for what I love about the day,

461
00:32:43,720 --> 00:32:47,680
Speaker 3: to sort of the micro miracles. What are the littlest

462
00:32:47,760 --> 00:32:52,880
Speaker 3: things that I can find that make me happy and

463
00:32:53,320 --> 00:32:57,800
Speaker 3: like a butterfly or a hummingbird, or that first taste

464
00:32:58,000 --> 00:33:01,600
Speaker 3: of brain healthy hot chocolate I make at night, virtually

465
00:33:01,680 --> 00:33:04,200
Speaker 3: every night because my wife looks at me and goes

466
00:33:04,480 --> 00:33:06,480
Speaker 3: and this is like, do you love me? Will you

467
00:33:06,520 --> 00:33:09,400
Speaker 3: make me brain healthy hot chocolate?

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Speaker 1: Okay, now I want to go back to the beginning.

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Speaker 1: You did your psychiatric training at Walter Reed, which you mentioned.

470
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Speaker 1: What did that place and that particular cohort of clients

471
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Speaker 1: teach you that you've carried with you into this part

472
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Speaker 1: of your life and work.

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Speaker 3: So I was out of high school, I went into

474
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Speaker 3: the army because Vietnam was going on, and I became

475
00:33:32,320 --> 00:33:35,480
Speaker 3: an infantry medic where my love of medicine was born.

476
00:33:35,880 --> 00:33:39,120
Speaker 3: So after I finished got out of the army then

477
00:33:39,200 --> 00:33:43,760
Speaker 3: and finished college and medical school, I went back in

478
00:33:44,160 --> 00:33:51,680
Speaker 3: as an Army captain and served the military and their

479
00:33:51,960 --> 00:33:57,360
Speaker 3: dependence and just loved it because it was familiar to me.

480
00:33:58,480 --> 00:34:01,920
Speaker 3: I felt at home at Walter Reed. We saw all

481
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Speaker 3: the really unusual things in psychiatry that you typically don't

482
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Speaker 3: see in sort of a day to day outpatient clinic.

483
00:34:10,440 --> 00:34:15,920
Speaker 3: It was fun and fascinating and yeah, I learned so

484
00:34:16,040 --> 00:34:19,120
Speaker 3: much and loved my experience there. And then I'm also

485
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Speaker 3: a child psychiatrist. I did that in Triple Or Army

486
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Speaker 3: Medical Center in Hawaii. Completely loved Honolulu and my experience there,

487
00:34:30,120 --> 00:34:33,680
Speaker 3: But where I grew the most is a little place

488
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Speaker 3: in the middle of the Mahave Desert called Fort Irwin,

489
00:34:38,640 --> 00:34:41,960
Speaker 3: where I was the only psychiatrist for ten thousand people,

490
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Speaker 3: and I just loved it so much. And I brought

491
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Speaker 3: brain imaging technology too, because I'm the boss, and so

492
00:34:52,440 --> 00:34:55,279
Speaker 3: I just had to get my boss to approve it.

493
00:34:55,400 --> 00:34:58,719
Speaker 3: Where we started doing neuro feedback, where we could put

494
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Speaker 3: electrodes on your skale, start measuring brain activity, and then

495
00:35:04,040 --> 00:35:08,359
Speaker 3: based on what we saw, teach you to change it.

496
00:35:08,880 --> 00:35:12,080
Speaker 3: And that's where I got the idea, change your brain,

497
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Speaker 3: change your life, and that has really been foundational for

498
00:35:18,080 --> 00:35:20,200
Speaker 3: the rest of my career. So when I went to

499
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Speaker 3: the lecture in nineteen ninety one on brain spect imaging,

500
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Speaker 3: I'd already been thinking about it. I'd already primed. It's like,

501
00:35:28,080 --> 00:35:30,960
Speaker 3: if you don't look, you don't know. But you can

502
00:35:31,000 --> 00:35:33,520
Speaker 3: take bad brains and make them better. You can take

503
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Speaker 3: good brains and make them great.

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Speaker 1: Incredible, And the diversity of people I imagine that you

505
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Speaker 1: meet in the military, especially people coming back from from

506
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Speaker 1: war or hostile situations. I'm sure that's a very specialized

507
00:35:48,680 --> 00:35:52,120
Speaker 1: type of medicine as opposed to the generic folks that

508
00:35:52,200 --> 00:35:53,320
Speaker 1: walk through the door today.

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Speaker 3: I don't know. You know, a aman. Clinics, we see

510
00:35:58,360 --> 00:36:03,520
Speaker 3: a lot who have on average six medicines three point

511
00:36:03,600 --> 00:36:08,240
Speaker 3: three providers, and we've seen a whole bunch a very

512
00:36:08,280 --> 00:36:13,359
Speaker 3: interesting things. And we have a nonprofit foundation, Change Your

513
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Speaker 3: Brain Foundation, actually doing a special project now for firefighters.

514
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Speaker 3: Because I did the big NFL study when the NFL

515
00:36:23,360 --> 00:36:25,680
Speaker 3: was sort of lying it had a problem with traumatic

516
00:36:25,719 --> 00:36:28,920
Speaker 3: brain injury in football. It's like, stop lying about it.

517
00:36:29,120 --> 00:36:33,360
Speaker 3: Bad for the brain. But eighty percent of our players

518
00:36:33,400 --> 00:36:37,920
Speaker 3: got better. But what I realized afterwards, as much as

519
00:36:37,960 --> 00:36:42,200
Speaker 3: I love our football players, they're not heroes. They're entertainers.

520
00:36:42,840 --> 00:36:47,279
Speaker 3: Firefighters are heroes. And what we saw recently with the

521
00:36:47,320 --> 00:36:54,840
Speaker 3: devastation in California. In Los Angeles, our foundation raising money

522
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Speaker 3: specifically for firefighters to scan them treat them so that

523
00:37:02,000 --> 00:37:07,400
Speaker 3: they did You know firefighters have a forty percent increased

524
00:37:07,960 --> 00:37:09,759
Speaker 3: risk of suicide.

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Speaker 1: I did not know that about that time.

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Speaker 3: Why Why is that because of the toxic exposure? Wow,

527
00:37:18,080 --> 00:37:23,839
Speaker 3: the trauma. I talk about emotional trauma. Every day. They

528
00:37:23,880 --> 00:37:28,840
Speaker 3: spend time with people on the worst day of their lives,

529
00:37:29,280 --> 00:37:34,960
Speaker 3: and so you end up being retraumatized over and over again.

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Speaker 3: And often because of the machismo, it's like, oh, there's

531
00:37:39,800 --> 00:37:42,879
Speaker 3: nothing the matter with me, I don't need hell. They

532
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Speaker 3: end up medicating the trauma with alcohol.

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Speaker 1: You know, you mentioned in passing I don't want to

534
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Speaker 1: let this go before I move on, you said eighty

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Speaker 1: percent of the NFL players you worked with who had

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Speaker 1: experienced had trauma that they improved. How what did you

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00:37:58,000 --> 00:38:00,000
Speaker 1: What did you give them to do? Was a medicaid?

538
00:38:00,360 --> 00:38:01,799
Speaker 1: Was it practice?

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00:38:02,800 --> 00:38:06,799
Speaker 3: Now? It's actually a multiple vitamin high dose B vitamins

540
00:38:06,920 --> 00:38:09,840
Speaker 3: because there are a number of studies that say B six,

541
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Speaker 3: B twelve and foliated in these particular dosages decrease the

542
00:38:15,960 --> 00:38:22,160
Speaker 3: conversion of mild cognitive impairment to Alzheimer's disease, and it

543
00:38:22,280 --> 00:38:27,040
Speaker 3: grew their hippocampus, major memory structure of the brain. I'm like, okay,

544
00:38:27,440 --> 00:38:32,319
Speaker 3: multiple vitamin with those doses of bees, high dose of

545
00:38:32,320 --> 00:38:40,280
Speaker 3: Omega three, fatty acids and nutrients found to increase blood

546
00:38:40,280 --> 00:38:43,359
Speaker 3: flow and activity like genko. So we put them on

547
00:38:43,400 --> 00:38:47,560
Speaker 3: this supplement protocol that and then told them to stop

548
00:38:47,600 --> 00:38:51,000
Speaker 3: doing things that hurt their brain, alcohol, marijuana, and so on.

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Speaker 3: That was it. Eighty percent of them is better now.

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Speaker 1: Incredible.

551
00:38:55,880 --> 00:39:02,799
Speaker 3: Also added later hyperbaric oxygen, which we found helpful, and

552
00:39:03,320 --> 00:39:07,840
Speaker 3: if they were depressed, we would add either supplements like

553
00:39:07,920 --> 00:39:14,200
Speaker 3: saffron or medication if needed. But eighty percent was just

554
00:39:14,480 --> 00:39:20,360
Speaker 3: on the nutrient programing a little bit of brain health education.

555
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Speaker 1: Doctor. I find, particularly when you talk to young people today,

556
00:39:26,400 --> 00:39:30,640
Speaker 1: they're wanderers, people who are just they're just wandering waiting

557
00:39:30,680 --> 00:39:34,719
Speaker 1: for the next experience, waiting for something to happen. You

558
00:39:34,800 --> 00:39:38,000
Speaker 1: developed something that has intrigued me for a long time.

559
00:39:38,239 --> 00:39:41,640
Speaker 1: It's called the one page miracle. Tell people what that

560
00:39:41,840 --> 00:39:43,320
Speaker 1: is and the power it has.

561
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Speaker 3: I love this exercise so much. It's actually the first

562
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Speaker 3: thing I do with all of my patients, on one

563
00:39:50,880 --> 00:40:01,280
Speaker 3: piece of paper, write down what you want relationships, work, money, physical, emotional,

564
00:40:01,920 --> 00:40:07,080
Speaker 3: spiritual health. What do you want? And then you ask yourself,

565
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Speaker 3: is my behavior getting me what I want? In one

566
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Speaker 3: of my books, I rewrote the twelve Step program, you

567
00:40:16,840 --> 00:40:19,160
Speaker 3: know that was actually written eighty five years ago to

568
00:40:19,160 --> 00:40:23,000
Speaker 3: help people with alcoholism and addiction. And you know, step

569
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Speaker 3: one in the twelve step program is my life is

570
00:40:25,600 --> 00:40:28,919
Speaker 3: out of control. And I'm like, no, that's not step one,

571
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Speaker 3: that's step two. Step one is, well, what the heck

572
00:40:32,040 --> 00:40:34,719
Speaker 3: do you want? What kind of relationship do you want

573
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Speaker 3: to have? What do you want to do at work?

574
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Speaker 3: What do you want with your money? What do you

575
00:40:39,239 --> 00:40:43,720
Speaker 3: want with your physical, emotional, spiritual health? Because then step

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Speaker 3: two becomes really easy. Is my behavior getting me what

577
00:40:47,800 --> 00:40:50,520
Speaker 3: I want? Or has in fact my life been hijacked

578
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Speaker 3: by a substance or a practice?

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Speaker 1: And what does it tell us that exercise about the

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Speaker 1: power of what we tell ourselves. I think we were

581
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Speaker 1: repeating our own heads.

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Speaker 3: Well, it's intention. You have to tell your brain. Your

583
00:41:07,600 --> 00:41:14,600
Speaker 3: brain is the most complicated, beautiful, elegant organ in the universe.

584
00:41:16,320 --> 00:41:22,160
Speaker 3: But like any computer, you have to tell it what

585
00:41:22,320 --> 00:41:26,319
Speaker 3: to do. And if you tell it, oh, I want

586
00:41:26,320 --> 00:41:32,279
Speaker 3: a kind, caring, loving, supportive relationship with my wife, well

587
00:41:32,320 --> 00:41:35,960
Speaker 3: then when you get that thought that's rude. You just

588
00:41:36,120 --> 00:41:40,799
Speaker 3: don't say it because it doesn't help you get what

589
00:41:40,920 --> 00:41:43,760
Speaker 3: you want. I don't have any tattoos, and I actually

590
00:41:43,760 --> 00:41:46,960
Speaker 3: don't recommend them because there's new research coming out on

591
00:41:47,080 --> 00:41:51,400
Speaker 3: lymphomas and tattoos. But if I had, it would be

592
00:41:51,640 --> 00:41:58,840
Speaker 3: does it fit? Does my behavior today fit the goals

593
00:41:59,040 --> 00:42:02,960
Speaker 3: I have for my life? But you have to know

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00:42:03,239 --> 00:42:06,760
Speaker 3: what you want and Freemond, I find so many people,

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Speaker 3: like ninety five percent of my patients, when I do

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00:42:10,880 --> 00:42:14,399
Speaker 3: this exercise with them, they hadn't really thought about it.

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00:42:15,000 --> 00:42:20,759
Speaker 3: They spent more time thinking about their vacation than what

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Speaker 3: they really want in their lives.

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Speaker 1: No, No, we plan, we plan our meals and we

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00:42:26,239 --> 00:42:28,680
Speaker 1: plan our vacations more than we plan our lives. And

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Speaker 1: sometimes you got to invert that in one of your books, doctor,

602
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Speaker 1: and I'm you know, I'm a perpetual hummer.

603
00:42:35,200 --> 00:42:36,239
Speaker 2: I'm humming all day long.

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Speaker 1: When you know, when I walk out the door in

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Speaker 1: the morning, I'm humming or singing something. You talk about

606
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Speaker 1: the power of toning or humming share that with people.

607
00:42:46,600 --> 00:42:48,799
Speaker 1: That was kind of fascinating to me. How it can

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Speaker 1: change your spirits and really rejuvenate you in some ways.

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00:42:52,280 --> 00:42:56,080
Speaker 3: Well in a number of really important ways. It actually

610
00:42:56,280 --> 00:43:02,520
Speaker 3: increases your breath and increases your lung capacity by doing

611
00:43:02,560 --> 00:43:09,840
Speaker 3: that on a regular basis. Also, the tunes are activating

612
00:43:10,120 --> 00:43:15,560
Speaker 3: your cerebellum and your temporal lobe. So the cerebellum is

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00:43:15,600 --> 00:43:18,839
Speaker 3: the Rodney Dangerfield part of the brain. Now I hate

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00:43:19,040 --> 00:43:21,080
Speaker 3: a lot of young people have no idea who Rodney

615
00:43:21,160 --> 00:43:24,520
Speaker 3: Dangerfield is, which just ages me. But he is a

616
00:43:24,920 --> 00:43:29,960
Speaker 3: very famous comedian, hilarious, I get no respect. So the

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00:43:30,040 --> 00:43:34,320
Speaker 3: cerebellum is ten percent of the brain's volume, but fifty

618
00:43:34,440 --> 00:43:38,879
Speaker 3: percent of the brain's neurons, and it is like the

619
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Speaker 3: master controller in your brain, and humming activates it, which

620
00:43:47,480 --> 00:43:51,360
Speaker 3: just will then turn on the rest of your brain.

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Speaker 3: And during the pandemic, we released a supplement I love

622
00:43:57,760 --> 00:44:02,640
Speaker 3: called Happy Saffron, and my assistant took it and the

623
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Speaker 3: next day she's humming at work. We're working from my house,

624
00:44:06,719 --> 00:44:09,520
Speaker 3: and I'm like, why are you humming? And she said,

625
00:44:09,600 --> 00:44:11,680
Speaker 3: I don't know, I'm just happy.

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Speaker 1: You see, it's a symptom. It's a good thing. Well,

627
00:44:15,560 --> 00:44:18,160
Speaker 1: music is you know, it's the it's the it makes

628
00:44:18,200 --> 00:44:20,279
Speaker 1: the soul buoyant, and I guess the mind as well.

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Speaker 1: You wrote a book recently called Raising Mentally Strong Kids,

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00:44:25,960 --> 00:44:28,719
Speaker 1: and it seems to me the major key here is

631
00:44:29,280 --> 00:44:34,120
Speaker 1: building of those relationships, bonding with that child. What is

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Speaker 1: the thing that parents often miss doctor? What do they

633
00:44:37,960 --> 00:44:39,759
Speaker 1: miss out on? I get? I know one of the

634
00:44:39,760 --> 00:44:44,279
Speaker 1: big ones is just authority, making themselves the authority there,

635
00:44:44,400 --> 00:44:45,359
Speaker 1: but doing it with love.

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00:44:47,719 --> 00:44:53,239
Speaker 3: It's the relationship that too often devices are getting in

637
00:44:53,280 --> 00:44:58,720
Speaker 3: the middle of relationships and parents aren't spending the time

638
00:44:59,160 --> 00:45:03,160
Speaker 3: and they're not listening, and because of that, they often

639
00:45:03,239 --> 00:45:10,719
Speaker 3: feel guilty. So they overdo and they solve their children's problems.

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00:45:11,200 --> 00:45:15,880
Speaker 3: And when you do that, you are building your self

641
00:45:16,080 --> 00:45:23,320
Speaker 3: esteem by stealing theirs, because self esteem actually comes from

642
00:45:23,560 --> 00:45:29,960
Speaker 3: feeling and acting in competent ways. I can deal with

643
00:45:29,320 --> 00:45:32,719
Speaker 3: this with this challenge. So when your child comes to

644
00:45:32,760 --> 00:45:37,719
Speaker 3: you and says I'm bored, rather than go well you

645
00:45:37,760 --> 00:45:40,520
Speaker 3: could do this, or we could do that, or have

646
00:45:40,560 --> 00:45:46,920
Speaker 3: you thought about this, go oh you're born. It's just

647
00:45:47,080 --> 00:45:53,719
Speaker 3: active listening. Repeat back what you're hearing and then let

648
00:45:53,760 --> 00:45:57,760
Speaker 3: them fill figure it out. Then go, well, I wonder

649
00:45:57,760 --> 00:46:01,400
Speaker 3: what you're going to do about it, and you know,

650
00:46:01,600 --> 00:46:04,279
Speaker 3: and if you've been solving all of their problems up

651
00:46:04,400 --> 00:46:07,200
Speaker 3: till now, they might have a meltdown. It's like I

652
00:46:07,239 --> 00:46:10,880
Speaker 3: don't know, I don't know, and it's like you figure

653
00:46:10,880 --> 00:46:11,200
Speaker 3: it out.

654
00:46:11,440 --> 00:46:14,280
Speaker 1: Yeah, let them figure it out. I guess we're afraid though,

655
00:46:14,360 --> 00:46:18,040
Speaker 1: of giving kids too much responsibility. And I see a

656
00:46:18,040 --> 00:46:20,400
Speaker 1: lot of parents they never want to let their kids fail.

657
00:46:20,840 --> 00:46:23,680
Speaker 1: And I guess the flip side is the drill sergeant parent.

658
00:46:23,800 --> 00:46:27,120
Speaker 1: You know you're not good at anything, you'll never amount

659
00:46:27,160 --> 00:46:29,000
Speaker 1: to anything. What's the balance there?

660
00:46:29,760 --> 00:46:35,000
Speaker 3: Furmin kind? Whenever you don't know what to do, go

661
00:46:35,120 --> 00:46:40,520
Speaker 3: to those two words. The best parents are firm. When

662
00:46:40,560 --> 00:46:43,640
Speaker 3: they say something, they mean at and they expect it

663
00:46:43,680 --> 00:46:47,319
Speaker 3: to be complied with. But they're kind. I always say,

664
00:46:47,320 --> 00:46:50,720
Speaker 3: think of the best coach you ever had. The best

665
00:46:50,760 --> 00:46:55,120
Speaker 3: coaches notice what you do right, and they teach you

666
00:46:55,160 --> 00:46:59,320
Speaker 3: so you can be better. The worst coaches, the worst

667
00:46:59,480 --> 00:47:04,719
Speaker 3: parent notice what you do wrong, and they never let

668
00:47:04,800 --> 00:47:11,959
Speaker 3: you forget it. And so bonding requires time, actual physical time.

669
00:47:11,960 --> 00:47:15,160
Speaker 3: There's an exercise in the book I Love it's called

670
00:47:15,200 --> 00:47:18,120
Speaker 3: special time. Twenty minutes a day, do something with your

671
00:47:18,200 --> 00:47:20,920
Speaker 3: child your child wants to do, and during that time,

672
00:47:21,040 --> 00:47:24,640
Speaker 3: no commands, no questions, no directions, It's just time to

673
00:47:24,680 --> 00:47:27,359
Speaker 3: be together. If you're like, my child will never talk

674
00:47:27,400 --> 00:47:29,919
Speaker 3: to me, it's probably because you're not spending enough time

675
00:47:29,960 --> 00:47:35,920
Speaker 3: with them and you're not listening and then active listening.

676
00:47:36,320 --> 00:47:39,759
Speaker 3: Stop talking over them, stop trying to cram. You know,

677
00:47:40,040 --> 00:47:43,040
Speaker 3: the thirty or forty to fifty years of experience you

678
00:47:43,160 --> 00:47:46,400
Speaker 3: have in their heads, they're going to pick up just

679
00:47:46,440 --> 00:47:51,319
Speaker 3: by living with you, let you think and what you know.

680
00:47:53,320 --> 00:47:56,720
Speaker 3: Your job is to help them learn how to think,

681
00:47:57,280 --> 00:48:03,120
Speaker 3: and you do that through name asking thoughtful questions and

682
00:48:03,200 --> 00:48:04,720
Speaker 3: not giving them the answer.

683
00:48:06,040 --> 00:48:11,040
Speaker 1: Doctor, ADD and ADHD is exploding in kids. Do you

684
00:48:11,160 --> 00:48:15,640
Speaker 1: believe in the medical approach of medication giving them medicines

685
00:48:15,680 --> 00:48:18,040
Speaker 1: to cope or is there another approach? Is there another

686
00:48:18,080 --> 00:48:19,359
Speaker 1: way that perhaps we're missing here.

687
00:48:21,520 --> 00:48:25,400
Speaker 3: So Ever, since I've been a psychiatrist, every year they

688
00:48:25,480 --> 00:48:29,400
Speaker 3: say add is exploding, and so it's been exploding for

689
00:48:29,440 --> 00:48:32,640
Speaker 3: a long time. In fact, it is increasing in the

690
00:48:32,680 --> 00:48:40,640
Speaker 3: population in part because kids aren't exercising, kids aren't out

691
00:48:40,760 --> 00:48:44,920
Speaker 3: in the sunlight as much. As they were before. Their

692
00:48:44,960 --> 00:48:54,359
Speaker 3: devices are draining their dopamine availability, and we're feeding them

693
00:48:54,440 --> 00:48:57,719
Speaker 3: bad food. So if you take all of those things, yeah,

694
00:48:57,760 --> 00:49:01,279
Speaker 3: I can't. It's just a play for one of my grandkids.

695
00:49:01,719 --> 00:49:08,040
Speaker 3: And the number of overweight kids it's shocking. And if

696
00:49:08,160 --> 00:49:11,279
Speaker 3: you're overweight, you're not getting the exercise, You're getting a

697
00:49:11,280 --> 00:49:14,840
Speaker 3: lot of bad food that is going to cause your

698
00:49:14,880 --> 00:49:20,480
Speaker 3: brain to be more sluggish. Now, so first thing I

699
00:49:20,560 --> 00:49:25,399
Speaker 3: do brain healthy habits, exercise, and I like to put

700
00:49:25,440 --> 00:49:29,279
Speaker 3: people on an elimination diet for a month. Let's just

701
00:49:29,360 --> 00:49:34,560
Speaker 3: get rid of gluten, dairy corns, artificial dyes and sweeteners.

702
00:49:34,840 --> 00:49:39,440
Speaker 3: Two studies published in the Lancet kids who went on

703
00:49:39,800 --> 00:49:43,200
Speaker 3: eighty d kids went on an elimination diet, seventy two

704
00:49:43,239 --> 00:49:50,080
Speaker 3: percent lost their add and so let's start there. But

705
00:49:51,040 --> 00:49:56,920
Speaker 3: doesn't work, Omega three fatty acids can help zinc magnesium.

706
00:49:57,120 --> 00:50:01,400
Speaker 3: So then we'll go to a supplement men And then

707
00:50:01,440 --> 00:50:03,719
Speaker 3: if it doesn't work, I'm going to go to medicine.

708
00:50:03,880 --> 00:50:09,120
Speaker 3: Why because add is real and when left untreated, right,

709
00:50:09,200 --> 00:50:13,759
Speaker 3: if it's not because of devices or a low quality diet,

710
00:50:14,080 --> 00:50:18,480
Speaker 3: left untreated kids don't finish high school. Thirty three percent

711
00:50:18,680 --> 00:50:23,080
Speaker 3: of untreated add kids don't finish high school for incidence

712
00:50:23,320 --> 00:50:30,240
Speaker 3: of drug abuse, divorce, incarceration, and the medicine can change

713
00:50:30,360 --> 00:50:32,800
Speaker 3: their lives. And I write about it in my books

714
00:50:32,920 --> 00:50:37,440
Speaker 3: that several of my kids have add and the medicine

715
00:50:37,680 --> 00:50:43,520
Speaker 3: took them from being mediocre to straight A students. And

716
00:50:43,560 --> 00:50:48,839
Speaker 3: I just it's never about medicine or not, It's about

717
00:50:49,520 --> 00:50:51,200
Speaker 3: what's best for your brain.

718
00:50:51,680 --> 00:50:55,040
Speaker 1: Yeah. Somewhere in one of the books, or maybe a

719
00:50:55,120 --> 00:50:58,680
Speaker 1: mutual friend told me that you have collected, doctor Amon,

720
00:50:59,280 --> 00:51:03,279
Speaker 1: hundreds of penguins. Why do you collect penguins? They're in

721
00:51:03,320 --> 00:51:04,680
Speaker 1: your office, they're everywhere.

722
00:51:07,480 --> 00:51:12,600
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a little bit of an obsession. When my

723
00:51:12,840 --> 00:51:17,440
Speaker 3: oldest who I adopted, was seven, he was really hard

724
00:51:17,520 --> 00:51:22,520
Speaker 3: for me, and I was talking to my supervisor, So

725
00:51:22,560 --> 00:51:25,200
Speaker 3: I'm in Hawaii at the time, talking to my child

726
00:51:25,239 --> 00:51:28,600
Speaker 3: psychiatry supervisor, and she said, oh, you should probably spend

727
00:51:28,600 --> 00:51:31,279
Speaker 3: more alone time with him, which was sort of the

728
00:51:31,360 --> 00:51:34,560
Speaker 3: last thing I wanted to do because he was argumentative

729
00:51:34,680 --> 00:51:38,240
Speaker 3: and oppositional. And I took him to a place called

730
00:51:38,360 --> 00:51:42,640
Speaker 3: Sea Life Park, which is in Hawaii and it's like

731
00:51:42,760 --> 00:51:45,880
Speaker 3: Marine World or SeaWorld, and we went to the Killer

732
00:51:45,920 --> 00:51:48,760
Speaker 3: whale show and that was great, and the dolphin show,

733
00:51:48,840 --> 00:51:52,239
Speaker 3: which was fun, and the Sea Lion show, which was hysterical.

734
00:51:52,680 --> 00:51:54,440
Speaker 3: And at the end of the day grabs my shirt

735
00:51:54,480 --> 00:51:57,120
Speaker 3: and he goes, I want to see Fat Freddy, and

736
00:51:57,160 --> 00:52:00,480
Speaker 3: I'm like, who's Fat Freddy? He said the penguin, Dad,

737
00:52:00,520 --> 00:52:04,080
Speaker 3: don't you know anything, which is sort of our relationship.

738
00:52:05,360 --> 00:52:08,160
Speaker 3: And we went to that is the last show of

739
00:52:08,200 --> 00:52:14,279
Speaker 3: the day in this beautiful stadium on Oahu, and this

740
00:52:14,520 --> 00:52:22,719
Speaker 3: little fat Humboldt penguin comes on the stage, climb the

741
00:52:22,840 --> 00:52:25,040
Speaker 3: ladder to a high dive, goes to the end of

742
00:52:25,080 --> 00:52:28,239
Speaker 3: the board, balances on it, and then jumps in the

743
00:52:28,280 --> 00:52:31,560
Speaker 3: water and I'm like, holl of smokes. And then he

744
00:52:31,600 --> 00:52:35,200
Speaker 3: gets out of the water bowls with his nose, counts

745
00:52:35,239 --> 00:52:38,799
Speaker 3: with this flipper, jumps through a fire and I'm like

746
00:52:38,920 --> 00:52:41,520
Speaker 3: blown away with this little bird. And then at the

747
00:52:41,600 --> 00:52:44,920
Speaker 3: end of the show, the trainer asked Freddy to go

748
00:52:45,040 --> 00:52:48,440
Speaker 3: get something, and Freddy went and got it and he

749
00:52:48,560 --> 00:52:52,640
Speaker 3: brought it right back, and in my mind like time

750
00:52:52,680 --> 00:52:58,080
Speaker 3: stood still. I'm like, damn, I asked this kid to

751
00:52:58,120 --> 00:53:00,799
Speaker 3: get something for me, and he wants to have a

752
00:53:00,840 --> 00:53:05,160
Speaker 3: discussion for like twenty minutes, and I knew my son

753
00:53:05,680 --> 00:53:09,839
Speaker 3: was smarter than the penguin, And so I went up

754
00:53:09,880 --> 00:53:12,759
Speaker 3: to the trainer afterwards, because you know, I'm a child

755
00:53:12,800 --> 00:53:15,880
Speaker 3: pskyiatry trainee. I don't know anything. I'm like, how'd you

756
00:53:15,920 --> 00:53:18,400
Speaker 3: get the penguin to do all these really cool things?

757
00:53:18,880 --> 00:53:21,320
Speaker 3: And she looked at my son, and then she looked

758
00:53:21,360 --> 00:53:27,760
Speaker 3: at me and said, unlike parents, whenever Freddy does anything

759
00:53:27,880 --> 00:53:30,520
Speaker 3: like what I want him to do, I notice him.

760
00:53:30,840 --> 00:53:34,080
Speaker 3: I give him a hug, and I give him a fish.

761
00:53:34,680 --> 00:53:38,560
Speaker 3: And the light went on in my head that even

762
00:53:38,600 --> 00:53:42,040
Speaker 3: though my son didn't like raw fish, that whenever he

763
00:53:42,120 --> 00:53:44,600
Speaker 3: did what I wanted him to do, I wasn't paying

764
00:53:44,640 --> 00:53:47,520
Speaker 3: any attention to him because I was like my dad.

765
00:53:47,600 --> 00:53:52,320
Speaker 3: I was too busy. And I realized I was teaching

766
00:53:52,440 --> 00:53:55,800
Speaker 3: him to be bad as a way to get my attention.

767
00:53:56,280 --> 00:54:00,920
Speaker 3: So I collect penguins to remind me to notice what

768
00:54:01,040 --> 00:54:04,880
Speaker 3: I like about other people way more than what I

769
00:54:05,160 --> 00:54:10,759
Speaker 3: don't like, because ultimately, every day you are shaping the

770
00:54:10,880 --> 00:54:14,000
Speaker 3: people in your life by what you notice.

771
00:54:15,280 --> 00:54:18,760
Speaker 1: That is fascinating, such that may be the most brilliant

772
00:54:18,760 --> 00:54:24,040
Speaker 1: and smart, insightful, practical thing for me that I think

773
00:54:24,160 --> 00:54:28,360
Speaker 1: I've gotten out of today's conversation. Your constant refrain, doctor

774
00:54:28,560 --> 00:54:32,399
Speaker 1: is we are not stuck with the brain we have.

775
00:54:33,239 --> 00:54:36,880
Speaker 1: We can do something practically to improve it, to reverse

776
00:54:36,920 --> 00:54:40,600
Speaker 1: the damage. What advice would you give people? What are

777
00:54:40,640 --> 00:54:42,359
Speaker 1: a few practical things they can do?

778
00:54:43,480 --> 00:54:47,160
Speaker 3: Every day? You are making your brain better or you're

779
00:54:47,280 --> 00:54:50,399
Speaker 3: making your brain worse by what you do with it.

780
00:54:51,040 --> 00:54:54,680
Speaker 3: And if you want a better memory tomorrow, go to

781
00:54:54,719 --> 00:54:59,600
Speaker 3: better half an hour early tonight. When you ego to

782
00:54:59,680 --> 00:55:06,160
Speaker 3: eat something, ask yourself, do I love this? And does

783
00:55:06,200 --> 00:55:09,840
Speaker 3: it love me back? Because you're in a relationship. I

784
00:55:09,840 --> 00:55:13,000
Speaker 3: don't know if you've ever been in a bad relationship,

785
00:55:13,080 --> 00:55:17,400
Speaker 3: but I have and I'm not doing it anymore. I

786
00:55:17,719 --> 00:55:23,480
Speaker 3: married my best friend and no, and I'm for certain

787
00:55:23,600 --> 00:55:25,359
Speaker 3: not doing it with food or that.

788
00:55:26,440 --> 00:55:29,120
Speaker 1: Well, doctor, I live in New Orleans. Everything I love

789
00:55:29,400 --> 00:55:31,359
Speaker 1: is probably not good for me. So I just stay

790
00:55:31,360 --> 00:55:33,840
Speaker 1: away from the restaurants. It's the only way I can survive.

791
00:55:33,960 --> 00:55:37,920
Speaker 1: Because everything you want that big sloppy pole boy, you

792
00:55:37,960 --> 00:55:40,560
Speaker 1: want that extra gumbo, but it will kill you.

793
00:55:40,600 --> 00:55:44,240
Speaker 3: Do you just have to stop like wanting that woman?

794
00:55:44,360 --> 00:55:47,880
Speaker 3: You know that is just going to break your heart. No,

795
00:55:48,280 --> 00:55:50,359
Speaker 3: you want to look at it and go Oh that's

796
00:55:50,400 --> 00:55:56,000
Speaker 3: so nice. But I'm not consuming that because ultimately I'm

797
00:55:56,040 --> 00:55:58,200
Speaker 3: going to die. And you know, you got to ask

798
00:55:58,239 --> 00:56:03,400
Speaker 3: yourself what do you really want? And I know what

799
00:56:03,600 --> 00:56:08,799
Speaker 3: I want. I want energy, I want memory, I want clarity,

800
00:56:08,880 --> 00:56:13,120
Speaker 3: I want focus, I want passion. I want to fulfill

801
00:56:14,040 --> 00:56:17,120
Speaker 3: the mission I'm on earth to do. That's what I

802
00:56:17,200 --> 00:56:20,120
Speaker 3: want in the moment. You know, I might want that

803
00:56:20,320 --> 00:56:25,520
Speaker 3: brownie with you know, vanilla ice cream and chocolates, so I'm.

804
00:56:25,360 --> 00:56:28,799
Speaker 1: Not tempting me, but really what.

805
00:56:28,800 --> 00:56:32,719
Speaker 3: I want, right, that's the urge of the moment. But

806
00:56:32,840 --> 00:56:36,080
Speaker 3: if you've been giving into the urges of the moment,

807
00:56:36,320 --> 00:56:37,640
Speaker 3: you're not going to live as long.

808
00:56:38,040 --> 00:56:38,520
Speaker 2: Yeah.

809
00:56:38,800 --> 00:56:41,719
Speaker 1: I've been watching the president for many years, covering him,

810
00:56:41,800 --> 00:56:44,120
Speaker 1: and you know, I've been near him enough to see

811
00:56:44,160 --> 00:56:47,920
Speaker 1: how he operates. Now, he violates some of the very

812
00:56:47,920 --> 00:56:51,960
Speaker 1: things that you advocate. I mean, he's drinking diet coke,

813
00:56:53,080 --> 00:56:56,400
Speaker 1: he doesn't eat particularly well. He only sleeps three hours

814
00:56:56,400 --> 00:56:59,520
Speaker 1: a night. He told me this two weeks ago. But

815
00:56:59,719 --> 00:57:02,440
Speaker 1: he is very engaged. He's got a break next schedule.

816
00:57:03,040 --> 00:57:06,360
Speaker 1: Give me a sense of the habits his brain habits

817
00:57:06,960 --> 00:57:10,960
Speaker 1: and how are they affecting his brain? Do you think so?

818
00:57:11,000 --> 00:57:14,880
Speaker 3: I don't think they're good for him, But yet I

819
00:57:14,920 --> 00:57:20,680
Speaker 3: want his brain so badly as anyone who was literally

820
00:57:20,680 --> 00:57:23,080
Speaker 3: one of the most famous people in the world and

821
00:57:23,280 --> 00:57:29,280
Speaker 3: beloved to then run for president, to be hated, to

822
00:57:29,400 --> 00:57:40,240
Speaker 3: be lied about, maligned, impeached, indicted, almost assassinated, and yet

823
00:57:40,560 --> 00:57:48,680
Speaker 3: to show up every day consistently working hard for us.

824
00:57:48,960 --> 00:57:52,760
Speaker 3: I mean, that's a brain. I'm so interested. And because

825
00:57:52,760 --> 00:57:55,680
Speaker 3: you're right, he doesn't sleep. It's bad for your brain.

826
00:57:57,080 --> 00:58:02,400
Speaker 3: He eats lousy out I hear with RFK on board.

827
00:58:02,440 --> 00:58:04,520
Speaker 3: He's trying to do better, which.

828
00:58:04,320 --> 00:58:06,800
Speaker 1: Is great McDonald's.

829
00:58:07,120 --> 00:58:09,040
Speaker 3: But you know, one of the things I think that

830
00:58:09,200 --> 00:58:12,960
Speaker 3: helps him so much is when he was a kid,

831
00:58:13,120 --> 00:58:18,320
Speaker 3: he went to Norman Vincent Peel's church, and Norman Vincent

832
00:58:18,400 --> 00:58:23,400
Speaker 3: Peel preached a long time, and he showed up a

833
00:58:23,480 --> 00:58:28,320
Speaker 3: lot to that church about how you think and our

834
00:58:29,720 --> 00:58:38,320
Speaker 3: resilience and positive thinking was there at a formative age

835
00:58:39,000 --> 00:58:44,680
Speaker 3: for him, and he's just the most resilient person.

836
00:58:45,640 --> 00:58:49,240
Speaker 1: That I'm amazed at his memory. Though, Doctor, you would

837
00:58:49,240 --> 00:58:52,400
Speaker 1: think somebody who's eating that way, drinking diet coke, for

838
00:58:52,440 --> 00:58:56,840
Speaker 1: God's sake, that they would have no recall. This man

839
00:58:56,960 --> 00:59:00,040
Speaker 1: can recall things from five months ago down to the

840
00:59:00,120 --> 00:59:04,960
Speaker 1: last detail. He sees hundreds of people a day, and

841
00:59:05,040 --> 00:59:07,200
Speaker 1: that it blew my mind. I mean this was just

842
00:59:07,440 --> 00:59:10,760
Speaker 1: very recently and he recalled not only where we were,

843
00:59:11,240 --> 00:59:14,919
Speaker 1: but what was said and his reaction to it. That's

844
00:59:15,000 --> 00:59:17,160
Speaker 1: pretty astounding for a seventy eight year old.

845
00:59:18,640 --> 00:59:23,760
Speaker 3: It's incredible and he's a very unique person for sure.

846
00:59:24,760 --> 00:59:27,520
Speaker 1: Doctor. I want to move on to something that I've

847
00:59:27,520 --> 00:59:29,840
Speaker 1: been meaning to ask you. What is the thing you're

848
00:59:29,960 --> 00:59:35,000
Speaker 1: encountering most in your practice now that you didn't see, say,

849
00:59:35,080 --> 00:59:35,919
Speaker 1: five years ago.

850
00:59:36,920 --> 00:59:41,480
Speaker 3: Well, long COVID for sure. Well we see with COVID

851
00:59:42,560 --> 00:59:47,240
Speaker 3: and some with the vaccine is it activates the limbic

852
00:59:47,400 --> 00:59:52,480
Speaker 3: system in the brain and over time, so initially we

853
00:59:52,560 --> 00:59:56,640
Speaker 3: see what looks like an inflammatory bomb go off in

854
00:59:56,680 --> 01:00:02,520
Speaker 3: the brain, and then over time it'll actually decrease blood

855
01:00:02,560 --> 01:00:08,720
Speaker 3: flow and activity. Oh my god, caring COVID is very important.

856
01:00:09,720 --> 01:00:12,960
Speaker 1: Wow. Who would have thought that a vaccine could have

857
01:00:13,040 --> 01:00:16,120
Speaker 1: that kind of impact on your brain, not only in

858
01:00:16,160 --> 01:00:18,720
Speaker 1: the moment, but long term. So you're still seeing effects

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Speaker 1: of this, Yes, it's amazing. Doctor. What's the final word?

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Speaker 1: What would you advise people given the stressors that we

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Speaker 1: invite into our own lives with these devices, constant the

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Speaker 1: world coming in on you because of media. What would

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Speaker 1: be your final word to them to keep not only

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Speaker 1: your brain healthy but your soul healthy.

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Speaker 3: Well, I love the idea that you're not stuck with

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Speaker 3: the brain you have. You can make it better. I

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Speaker 3: can prove it. And it starts by caring about your brain.

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Speaker 3: You know, very few people actually care about it. Nineteen

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Speaker 3: ninety one, when I started imaging, I didn't care about

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Speaker 3: my own brain. And I'm a double board certified psychiatrist

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Speaker 3: and was the top neuroscience student in medical school. But

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Speaker 3: when I saw it and it wasn't as healthy as

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Speaker 3: it could have been, I'm like, oh no, we have

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Speaker 3: to make this better. Because your brain is involved in

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Speaker 3: everything you do, how you think, how you feel, how

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Speaker 3: you acting and get along with other people. So it

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Speaker 3: starts with caring, and then every day you just ask yourself,

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Speaker 3: is as good for my brain or bad for it?

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Speaker 3: And if you can answer that with information and law

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Speaker 3: of love of yourself, love of your mission, love of

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Speaker 3: the reason God puts you on earth, you just start

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Speaker 3: treating it better and then you reap the benefits of that.

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Speaker 1: Well, doctor Aman, I'm so thankful for the way you've

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Speaker 1: refocused us on not only our brain health. It's really

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Speaker 1: about our lives and living a full life with purpose,

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Speaker 1: with clarity, and to be as vibrant as you can

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Speaker 1: in it at every stage. I thank you for that

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Speaker 1: and hope to see you in person soon, Doctor Daniel

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Speaker 1: Aman and the Aiman clinics. You've got how many now?

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Speaker 1: Twelve twelve clinics.

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Speaker 3: I have eleven clinics from New York to Seattle, Los Angeles, Dallas, Atlanta, Florida.

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Speaker 1: Theay. Wow. I don't know how you do it all,

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Speaker 1: but you do it, and you do it in good

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Speaker 1: spirits and so well. Thank you, Doctor Daniel Aman. Will

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Speaker 1: check in with you in the days ahead. Thanks Raymond,

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Speaker 1: thank you. Okay, here's the hole. I know some of

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Speaker 1: you don't want to hear it, but the marijuana and

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Speaker 1: the even limited drinking is hurting your brain. That's my takeaway.

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Speaker 1: I also started walking regularly than I had in years

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Speaker 1: after talking to doctor Aiman. You know he's right. I

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Speaker 1: feel more energized, more mentally present. So get out there,

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Speaker 1: start walking, and not to a bar or a dispensary.

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Speaker 1: I hope you'll come back to Royal Grande soon, while

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Speaker 1: love a dry, narrow, constricted life, when if you it

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Speaker 1: with good things that can flow into a broad driving

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