WEBVTT - Dr. Amen Answers: Do We Have Adult ADHD? 0:00:03.400 --> 0:00:06.440 Welcome to Bill and Juliana the podcast. 0:00:10.760 --> 0:00:14.800 All Right, you guys, this is the reason I wanted 0:00:15.120 --> 0:00:17.800 to have a podcast is to interview doctor Aimon. I'm 0:00:17.840 --> 0:00:20.520 not kidding you right now. This was literally the reason 0:00:20.600 --> 0:00:23.520 I was like, Bill, we need a podcast. Doctor Amen 0:00:23.680 --> 0:00:28.120 is a psychiatrist. He's a brain health expert. He specializes 0:00:28.200 --> 0:00:32.720 in all sorts of things including ADHD, anxiety, and depression. 0:00:32.840 --> 0:00:36.000 And he literally, especially now that we're talking about it, 0:00:36.080 --> 0:00:38.159 your phone will hear this and he will pop up 0:00:38.159 --> 0:00:42.600 on your feed and give you the most incredible information 0:00:43.159 --> 0:00:45.640 that you will share with your friends, share with your family. 0:00:46.360 --> 0:00:49.440 And also it gives you a lot of insight into yourself. 0:00:49.440 --> 0:00:51.320 You're gonna be like, wait a second, that's me that 0:00:51.320 --> 0:00:51.920 he's talking. 0:00:51.920 --> 0:00:55.320 And if you're not on Instagram. He's also written forty books. Yeah, 0:00:55.360 --> 0:00:58.400 so you can just search doctor Aimon and I'm sure 0:00:58.400 --> 0:01:00.680 there's a book that will fit any need. 0:01:00.520 --> 0:01:00.959 That you have. 0:01:01.320 --> 0:01:04.000 And he is the pioneer of the specked brain imaging 0:01:04.080 --> 0:01:07.920 for mental health. As Bill mentioned, Yeah, forty plus books, 0:01:07.920 --> 0:01:12.160 you guys on brain optimization. So this is the man 0:01:12.400 --> 0:01:15.560 with the answer a lot of questions, a lot of questions, 0:01:15.800 --> 0:01:17.800 and a lot of our questions are probably very similar 0:01:17.800 --> 0:01:21.039 to all of yours out there. So let's welcome doctor Amen. 0:01:21.360 --> 0:01:22.600 Doctor is so good to see you. 0:01:23.800 --> 0:01:25.480 Well, thank you so much for having me. 0:01:25.560 --> 0:01:29.400 I'm so excited to talk about brain health and your brains. 0:01:29.800 --> 0:01:32.199 Oh my gosh, Well we already so, so you guys 0:01:32.280 --> 0:01:34.800 know listening. We already did scans Bill and I, so 0:01:35.120 --> 0:01:36.959 we're going to get into those in a second, because 0:01:36.959 --> 0:01:39.400 we have no idea what the results of those scans are. 0:01:39.640 --> 0:01:42.319 We did them at doctor Aman's clinic. He has clinics 0:01:42.319 --> 0:01:45.800 all around the country. We did the one here in Chicago. 0:01:46.440 --> 0:01:48.960 It was very easy. We'll get into our process in 0:01:49.000 --> 0:01:50.640 a little bit because I think a lot of people 0:01:50.680 --> 0:01:54.320 are really interested in what these brain scans are and 0:01:54.480 --> 0:01:56.400 how to get them done and what it's like getting 0:01:56.440 --> 0:01:58.160 them done. So we'll talk about that. We're going to 0:01:58.200 --> 0:01:59.840 get our results in a second. But Bill, you know 0:02:00.280 --> 0:02:01.920 doctor Aman from back in the day and then you 0:02:02.080 --> 0:02:02.880 met him years ago. 0:02:03.160 --> 0:02:05.560 I met doctor Aman, I guess eighteen years ago. Seventeen 0:02:05.640 --> 0:02:08.360 years ago, Lisa Gibbons and I had a show that 0:02:08.440 --> 0:02:12.120 was syndicated called America Now, and it was one of 0:02:12.120 --> 0:02:14.480 the segments we did and it was really fascinating, and 0:02:15.160 --> 0:02:17.040 he was able to determine that I had a concussion 0:02:17.080 --> 0:02:19.519 as a young child. Wow, just from the brain scan, 0:02:19.600 --> 0:02:21.799 I had a concussion when I was five years old. 0:02:21.840 --> 0:02:24.760 I was I decided I want to dunk a basketball 0:02:25.000 --> 0:02:27.560 and there was a station wagon parked in the driveway 0:02:27.560 --> 0:02:29.359 by the basketball hoop. So I climbed on the roof 0:02:29.360 --> 0:02:32.840 of the station wagon, grabbed the basketball, ran off, hooked 0:02:32.840 --> 0:02:34.799 my leg on the luggage rack, and landed on my head. 0:02:34.840 --> 0:02:35.280 Oh my god. 0:02:35.360 --> 0:02:36.880 I was in the hospital for two weeks as a 0:02:36.919 --> 0:02:38.519 result of that at five years old. 0:02:38.600 --> 0:02:40.240 And you never even told him that, I don't tell 0:02:40.320 --> 0:02:44.560 him no. Isn't that interesting? We wanted to narrow this 0:02:44.680 --> 0:02:50.840 episode down. Do I have adult ADHD? Because we are 0:02:50.919 --> 0:02:53.760 seeing a lot of our children are being diagnosed with it, 0:02:53.840 --> 0:02:55.680 and then a lot of people are seeing in their 0:02:55.760 --> 0:02:59.040 adult years that wait a second, my kid has it. 0:02:59.080 --> 0:03:01.920 I think I might have too. I was just never diagnosed. 0:03:02.520 --> 0:03:07.280 So let's dive into adult ADHD. What's the story there? 0:03:07.280 --> 0:03:10.000 Are you feeling like you're seeing more and more people 0:03:10.280 --> 0:03:13.519 talking about this and curious about this? 0:03:14.480 --> 0:03:17.120 So you know, I'm also a child psychiatrist and I 0:03:17.240 --> 0:03:23.320 trained in the middle nineteen eighties, and half the patient's 0:03:23.760 --> 0:03:26.840 child pschiatricy have ADD of one. 0:03:27.080 --> 0:03:28.000 Form or another. 0:03:28.720 --> 0:03:33.440 And if you see enough of these kids, you realize 0:03:34.160 --> 0:03:38.200 it's a genetic disorder. You get it from your mom 0:03:38.320 --> 0:03:41.040 or dad. And if you can't see it in mom 0:03:41.160 --> 0:03:44.160 or dad, well one you worry if they had a concussion, 0:03:44.440 --> 0:03:49.160 because that's one of the things that will mimic ADD 0:03:50.160 --> 0:03:55.040 or ADHD. It's just two acronyms for the same thing. 0:03:55.880 --> 0:03:58.480 But if you're an adult and you think you might 0:03:58.640 --> 0:04:04.880 have it, are the five symptoms that needed really to 0:04:04.960 --> 0:04:08.400 be part of your life ever since you were a child. 0:04:08.640 --> 0:04:13.440 So ADD doesn't just show up when you're forty. 0:04:14.120 --> 0:04:16.000 That could be perimenopause. 0:04:16.520 --> 0:04:19.599 It doesn't show up when you're sixty that could have 0:04:19.640 --> 0:04:24.919 been a car accident. It's something you have your whole life. 0:04:25.360 --> 0:04:32.280 So short attention span attention deficit disorder attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. 0:04:32.360 --> 0:04:35.840 Actually hate the term ADHD because half of the people 0:04:35.880 --> 0:04:40.160 who have it are never hyperactive, especially females. 0:04:41.400 --> 0:04:44.080 So short attention span but not for everything. 0:04:44.560 --> 0:04:52.160 Short attention span for regular routine, everyday things, school work, paperwork, chores, 0:04:52.640 --> 0:04:57.840 sort of the things that make life work. Distractability you 0:04:57.920 --> 0:05:01.240 see too much, you hear too much, you sense too much, 0:05:01.279 --> 0:05:05.040 you taste too much. It's like the world comes at 0:05:05.160 --> 0:05:09.120 you too quickly. And as little kids, you like hated 0:05:09.200 --> 0:05:12.640 socks or you hated tags. 0:05:12.560 --> 0:05:14.039 In your shirt. 0:05:14.160 --> 0:05:18.040 My first wife had add and right after we got married, 0:05:18.640 --> 0:05:22.440 I walked into my closet and someone had cut the 0:05:22.680 --> 0:05:26.320 tags out of all of my shirts. And I actually 0:05:26.360 --> 0:05:30.080 felt violated. And I brought one of the shirts into 0:05:30.160 --> 0:05:33.200 the little living room in our apartment. I said, do 0:05:33.240 --> 0:05:36.360 you know what happened to my shirt? And she goes, oh, 0:05:36.520 --> 0:05:40.080 you had tags. I hate tags. Don't you hate tags? 0:05:40.480 --> 0:05:43.840 And I'm like, never felt a tag in my life. 0:05:44.160 --> 0:05:48.799 So they get easily distracted, and their bodies are often 0:05:48.920 --> 0:05:52.080 very sensitive. They often have to sleep with white noise 0:05:52.640 --> 0:05:55.640 at night because their brain is just bouncing around and 0:05:55.680 --> 0:05:59.520 they need something to sort of settle it down. They 0:05:59.520 --> 0:06:05.479 have problems with organization, either time, actual physical time, or 0:06:06.080 --> 0:06:10.760 their space. They organized by what I call the pile system, 0:06:10.800 --> 0:06:17.640 pile here, pile there, pile pile everywhere, and just hard 0:06:17.680 --> 0:06:20.479 for them to sort of focus and put things away. 0:06:21.080 --> 0:06:24.240 They tend to procrastinate, like things don't really get done 0:06:24.320 --> 0:06:28.960 until the last minute. They actually need stress in order 0:06:29.440 --> 0:06:33.640 to accomplish things. My book Preventing Alzheimer's I wrote with 0:06:33.839 --> 0:06:37.839 Rod Schenkel, who had ADD and every one of my 0:06:37.920 --> 0:06:41.479 books I turned in early, like I hate being late. 0:06:42.040 --> 0:06:46.400 And I was at his house at like eleven o'clock 0:06:46.440 --> 0:06:49.160 at night, going, I need the chapter. And I looked 0:06:49.160 --> 0:06:51.359 at his wife because she answered the dorm like, no 0:06:51.520 --> 0:06:53.000 sex till I get the chapter. 0:06:56.320 --> 0:06:57.520 He's like, you're getting the chapter. 0:06:59.160 --> 0:07:03.120 And then him pulsivity that they say things that perhaps 0:07:03.160 --> 0:07:06.120 they shouldn't say, or do things perhaps it's not in 0:07:06.200 --> 0:07:10.760 their best interests. And they tend to interrupt in conversations 0:07:10.840 --> 0:07:14.800 because it's like we'll forget and it can be stressful. 0:07:15.240 --> 0:07:21.200 And so those five things short attention span, distractability, disorganization, procrastination, 0:07:21.960 --> 0:07:27.560 some impulsivity, and it's the story of your life. People 0:07:27.640 --> 0:07:31.000 have bipolar disorder because sometimes they get confused for each other. 0:07:31.400 --> 0:07:34.160 You know, they have periods where they're just fine, periods 0:07:34.160 --> 0:07:38.880 where they're manic, periods where they're sad and add it's 0:07:40.120 --> 0:07:42.160 like that most of. 0:07:42.120 --> 0:07:46.240 The time, four out of the five boxes you check. 0:07:46.400 --> 0:07:48.480 I mean not to throw you under the bus, but no, 0:07:48.640 --> 0:07:50.320 you can throw me under this No I'm being honest, 0:07:50.320 --> 0:07:51.160 like that's why we're here. 0:07:51.400 --> 0:07:54.000 Yes. Well, first of all, those sound like our sun 0:07:54.360 --> 0:07:56.800 oh for sure, to a t all five, sound like 0:07:56.840 --> 0:08:00.480 our son Duke, who's thirteen, and so I thought, I thought, 0:08:00.480 --> 0:08:02.280 did maybe do get it from me? Because I did 0:08:02.360 --> 0:08:05.960 hear it was genetic? And I'm most of those things, 0:08:06.000 --> 0:08:07.840 but I'm not all. I don't have any sort of 0:08:07.840 --> 0:08:12.840 the sensitivity. I don't need white noise. I definitely I 0:08:12.880 --> 0:08:18.800 am a huge procrastinator, like I cannot do anything unless 0:08:19.200 --> 0:08:21.360 there's like a fire under me. 0:08:21.440 --> 0:08:23.680 You're late for everything you relate to our wedding. 0:08:24.760 --> 0:08:27.560 Oh, I mean if the way I grew up, if 0:08:27.560 --> 0:08:30.160 you weren't five minutes early, you were late, and I was. 0:08:30.360 --> 0:08:32.720 I was always early for things until I got married 0:08:33.320 --> 0:08:35.280 and you were an hour and twenty minutes late for 0:08:35.320 --> 0:08:37.200 the rehearsal at the church. 0:08:37.240 --> 0:08:40.000 Are you sure? Yes? Sure, my god, that could be fake. 0:08:40.800 --> 0:08:42.679 No, no, no, that's that's the honesty. 0:08:42.880 --> 0:08:45.840 Okay, so yeah, yeah, no, but he's right, I am 0:08:45.920 --> 0:08:48.520 late to everything. No, I own it. I definitely own this. 0:08:49.000 --> 0:08:52.240 I am and I you know what, honestly, I hate 0:08:52.240 --> 0:08:54.520 this about myself because I think I'm good at a 0:08:54.559 --> 0:08:57.040 lot of things, you know, like I take pride in 0:08:57.120 --> 0:08:59.319 things that I'm good at, and I get like very 0:09:00.360 --> 0:09:01.480 passionate about things. 0:09:01.559 --> 0:09:01.719 You know. 0:09:01.760 --> 0:09:04.480 I'm a hard worker and I get the job done 0:09:04.520 --> 0:09:09.000 one way or another. But it's like always like stressful, right, 0:09:09.080 --> 0:09:12.920 It's like always something fire drill. Yeah, so that I 0:09:12.960 --> 0:09:16.400 think for sure, But I'm not like I don't interrupt 0:09:16.440 --> 0:09:18.520 conversations or feel like that's our sons. 0:09:18.600 --> 0:09:19.400 Oh my gosh. 0:09:19.640 --> 0:09:23.520 But you're saying so generally. So those are the things. Now. 0:09:23.600 --> 0:09:26.520 The other thing is, you know, I'm fifty one, and 0:09:26.559 --> 0:09:29.000 so that's another thing is like I think a lot 0:09:29.000 --> 0:09:33.240 of women, especially struggle with is this an attention thing 0:09:33.640 --> 0:09:35.840 that I'm getting as an adult or is it? Is 0:09:35.880 --> 0:09:38.600 it like add or is it Harry menopause? Is at menopause? 0:09:39.120 --> 0:09:42.760 But you know, so it's like very confusing, right, doctor Amon, 0:09:42.800 --> 0:09:44.040 Like it's so it has to. 0:09:43.960 --> 0:09:45.440 Be a story of your life. 0:09:46.200 --> 0:09:51.160 And when you were a little girl, where did you 0:09:51.200 --> 0:09:51.600 grow up? 0:09:52.360 --> 0:09:52.480 So? 0:09:52.520 --> 0:09:54.480 I was born in Italy in Naples, Italy, and I 0:09:54.520 --> 0:09:57.040 moved to America when I was about seven, and I 0:09:57.080 --> 0:09:59.959 grew up on the East Coast in the DC, Maryland area. 0:10:01.080 --> 0:10:03.280 And what did teachers say about you? 0:10:06.040 --> 0:10:10.600 I was not a great student. And yeah, I just 0:10:10.720 --> 0:10:15.520 wasn't a very good student. So I wasn't like a 0:10:15.559 --> 0:10:19.120 disruptive student all just academically, I was never interested in 0:10:19.160 --> 0:10:22.400 anything I was studying, so therefore I got lousy grades. 0:10:22.400 --> 0:10:25.040 And then when I went to college and then went 0:10:25.080 --> 0:10:27.480 on to graduate school and I studied journalism, I got 0:10:27.559 --> 0:10:28.240 all a's. 0:10:28.600 --> 0:10:32.240 So if you were interested, you did well, very much. 0:10:32.080 --> 0:10:37.080 So very similar to my life too, a similar situation. 0:10:36.840 --> 0:10:40.400 Because on your testing, you actually your focus was fine. 0:10:41.120 --> 0:10:41.560 Yeah. 0:10:42.000 --> 0:10:47.640 Actually I think Bill's was more problematic than yours. And 0:10:47.960 --> 0:10:50.200 I don't think we got Bill to complete the total 0:10:50.440 --> 0:10:50.760 I had. 0:10:50.640 --> 0:10:54.120 A technical air on the on the last segment of it. 0:10:54.120 --> 0:10:55.240 It wouldn't let me log in. 0:10:55.440 --> 0:10:57.319 So does Bill have adult ADHD? 0:10:59.040 --> 0:10:59.920 I know I'm messed up? 0:11:00.200 --> 0:11:03.000 I agree, Yeah, I think I feel like I was 0:11:03.080 --> 0:11:06.959 laser focused on his. On the testing, you. 0:11:06.960 --> 0:11:08.800 Were you actually scored really well. 0:11:10.360 --> 0:11:11.240 Shall I show you. 0:11:11.600 --> 0:11:12.000 Yeah. 0:11:12.559 --> 0:11:15.280 One of the things we did with you is this 0:11:16.679 --> 0:11:21.320 study called total Brain. Yeah, and it's a forty minute 0:11:21.679 --> 0:11:22.640 test of attention. 0:11:23.600 --> 0:11:28.600 And what it says is you're. 0:11:28.400 --> 0:11:33.680 Not depressed, you're not anxious, you're not abusing substances. There 0:11:33.720 --> 0:11:36.520 is some issue with past trauma. Maybe we could chat 0:11:36.559 --> 0:11:41.960 about and you're really good at reading faces. You don't 0:11:42.000 --> 0:11:46.120 read positive or negative faces faster. That usually happens in 0:11:46.400 --> 0:11:49.880 trauma under a fair amount of stress. 0:11:51.800 --> 0:11:54.040 Not anxious. It could be better. 0:11:55.080 --> 0:12:00.800 Memories great, you're focused, So this is often the add 0:12:01.720 --> 0:12:06.320 it's great. Planning could be a little better. Maybe that's 0:12:06.360 --> 0:12:12.520 the lateness. The processing speed is Okay, you're flexible. This 0:12:12.600 --> 0:12:17.000 gets people into so much trouble. Short term memories fine, 0:12:18.200 --> 0:12:23.440 you're positive, but could be more so resilient and social. 0:12:23.840 --> 0:12:28.760 So when I look at this, like, it's not screaming, 0:12:28.960 --> 0:12:32.560 add to me. And then we did a test, a 0:12:32.640 --> 0:12:39.120 specific test of attention called the Connors continuous performance test, 0:12:39.280 --> 0:12:43.120 where every time you see a letter, you hit the spacebar. 0:12:44.000 --> 0:12:44.600 It's sad. 0:12:45.080 --> 0:12:48.760 When you see the letter X, you inhibit it. You're like, 0:12:49.080 --> 0:12:52.760 don't hit the space bar. And it's fourteen minutes and 0:12:52.800 --> 0:12:56.120 it's fairly boring, but you did phenomenal. 0:12:57.040 --> 0:12:58.000 Yeah. 0:12:58.360 --> 0:13:02.680 So SPECK basically tells you three things good activity, too little, 0:13:02.880 --> 0:13:09.439 or too much, And here's a super healthy brain. The 0:13:09.480 --> 0:13:12.320 four images on the left we're looking at the outside surface. 0:13:12.840 --> 0:13:15.840 Images. On the right, we're looking at the most active 0:13:15.960 --> 0:13:17.040 parts of the brain. 0:13:18.800 --> 0:13:23.160 Blue is average, red is the top fifteen percent, White 0:13:23.280 --> 0:13:26.800 is the top eight percent, and it should be here 0:13:27.559 --> 0:13:31.160 in the back. When we look at your brain, do 0:13:31.200 --> 0:13:35.120 you actually have a stunningly beautiful brain. And that's not 0:13:35.240 --> 0:13:41.360 a line, but it actually looks really healthy. You're not 0:13:41.520 --> 0:13:48.080 getting Alzheimer's disease. It's not a classic add brain, which 0:13:48.120 --> 0:13:52.720 I'll show you in a little bit. Your emotional brain's busy. 0:13:54.120 --> 0:13:56.960 You know, I had said your mood could be better. 0:13:57.040 --> 0:13:58.520 This one of the mood. 0:13:58.400 --> 0:14:04.360 Centers here, and I'm like, I think we. 0:14:04.240 --> 0:14:05.400 Calm this down. 0:14:06.800 --> 0:14:10.560 You're going to be more organized and perhaps even more 0:14:10.600 --> 0:14:15.199 on time. I make something called Happy Saffron. It's made 0:14:15.280 --> 0:14:21.520 with Saffron zinc and Kirkcumins, and Saffron has thirty five 0:14:21.640 --> 0:14:28.760 randomized controlled trials showing it's equally effective to medications for mood. 0:14:29.160 --> 0:14:32.800 And there are five studies showing it helps memory and 0:14:32.960 --> 0:14:36.520 five studies showing it helps ADEDD. 0:14:37.400 --> 0:14:38.880 And so I'm like. 0:14:39.040 --> 0:14:43.000 Okay, three capsules a day, that would be the first 0:14:43.040 --> 0:14:46.480 thing I think we should try. But what I want 0:14:46.520 --> 0:14:51.280 you to hear from me is you have a beautiful brain, 0:14:52.440 --> 0:14:56.720 and I think I can balance it a little bit 0:14:56.760 --> 0:15:02.120 better and that's going to help your li life. But 0:15:02.160 --> 0:15:07.120 it's not a terribly add bray. Okay, I've seen I 0:15:07.120 --> 0:15:12.920 don't know, fifty thousand of these, and if I was you, 0:15:13.040 --> 0:15:15.880 I would celebrate. And that's what I always say, is, 0:15:16.720 --> 0:15:20.720 you know, getting a scam is only good news because 0:15:21.840 --> 0:15:25.760 if it's great, we celebrate. Yeah, and if it's not, 0:15:25.880 --> 0:15:26.920 we rehabilitate. 0:15:27.240 --> 0:15:42.000 Wow, let's talk about Bill. 0:15:42.200 --> 0:15:43.920 Oh boy, this is not going to be good. 0:15:44.000 --> 0:15:44.160 Wait. 0:15:44.200 --> 0:15:45.720 Can I just as before we go on the bell? 0:15:45.960 --> 0:15:48.560 I'm scared he always gives the good news first. 0:15:48.640 --> 0:15:50.480 No, No, can I just because I just want this 0:15:50.560 --> 0:15:53.280 to be fresh. So, doctor Iman, can I ask you 0:15:53.280 --> 0:15:55.160 a question? Do you think as you were giving me 0:15:55.240 --> 0:15:58.040 my results? I think I had like a little epiphany 0:15:58.080 --> 0:16:03.480 and I definitely want to get the afron zach Effron pills, 0:16:05.200 --> 0:16:06.400 zach Saffron. 0:16:05.960 --> 0:16:10.000 Pills, Saffron. I'm just kidding, O. 0:16:10.240 --> 0:16:12.880 No, I know what saffron is. Okay, I definitely want 0:16:12.920 --> 0:16:16.520 to get the saffron capsules you're talking about. But while 0:16:16.600 --> 0:16:18.960 you were giving me the results, I actually just thought 0:16:18.960 --> 0:16:22.240 of something. Could it be? Could it be? Could I 0:16:22.280 --> 0:16:26.520 be feeling this way because I'm taking on so much 0:16:26.600 --> 0:16:30.040 right now in my life. So my whole life, I 0:16:30.080 --> 0:16:34.720 had like a very specific job, granted many jobs within 0:16:34.760 --> 0:16:36.840 one job, but it was like, I don't know, I 0:16:36.840 --> 0:16:39.040 felt like I was on this train on the track, 0:16:39.160 --> 0:16:40.760 and it was like I always kind of knew what 0:16:40.800 --> 0:16:42.720 I was doing day and day out, even though balls 0:16:42.720 --> 0:16:44.000 were being fed all the time. 0:16:44.120 --> 0:16:45.680 But I was like a TV structure. 0:16:45.880 --> 0:16:47.880 Yeah, I was TV host forever at E and like 0:16:47.880 --> 0:16:49.000 I would do the Red Card, but I would do 0:16:49.040 --> 0:16:50.800 fashion plas. But it was like always like I knew 0:16:50.800 --> 0:16:53.840 what I was doing. Now, it's like I'm not kidding. 0:16:53.920 --> 0:16:56.960 I'm as busy, if not busier, than I was before, 0:16:57.120 --> 0:16:58.760 but so much of what I'm doing now is like 0:16:59.560 --> 0:17:03.640 real passion projects that are like kind of like life saving. 0:17:03.680 --> 0:17:05.919 I'm doing a lot with rescue animals and just like 0:17:06.160 --> 0:17:10.800 very like high stakes things. And I think that sometimes, 0:17:11.280 --> 0:17:13.080 you know, Bill will say like did you remember to 0:17:13.119 --> 0:17:14.960 do this? Did you remember? I'm like no, And I 0:17:15.000 --> 0:17:16.840 think it's like, oh my god, do I have ADHD. 0:17:16.880 --> 0:17:19.680 But maybe it's because this whole like I have all 0:17:19.680 --> 0:17:23.560 these like very high stakes passion projects that have now 0:17:23.720 --> 0:17:25.919 entered my life that I maybe am just like putting 0:17:25.960 --> 0:17:28.280 all the day to day stuff on the back burner 0:17:28.280 --> 0:17:31.160 and I can't focus on that stuff. Does that make sense? 0:17:33.200 --> 0:17:37.280 And we are in a world that makes all of 0:17:37.359 --> 0:17:45.160 us add from our phones, from social media. And one 0:17:45.160 --> 0:17:48.960 of the things I teach all my patients is an 0:17:49.000 --> 0:17:52.320 exercise called the one page Miracle. On one piece of paper, 0:17:52.359 --> 0:17:59.840 write down what do you want? Relationships, work, money, physical, emotional, 0:18:00.200 --> 0:18:04.120 spiritual health, what do I want? And then whenever you're 0:18:04.160 --> 0:18:06.920 about to say yes to something, go. 0:18:07.440 --> 0:18:08.240 Does it fit? 0:18:09.200 --> 0:18:13.480 And whenever someone asks you to do something, I always 0:18:13.520 --> 0:18:14.280 want you to go. 0:18:14.560 --> 0:18:16.720 I have to think about it. Now. 0:18:16.880 --> 0:18:21.720 My ADD patients they impulsively say yes and they take 0:18:21.840 --> 0:18:26.760 on too much and then they're chronically stressed. So I 0:18:26.800 --> 0:18:33.040 always want you to know what you want relationships, work, money, physical, emotional, 0:18:33.320 --> 0:18:38.240 spiritual hell, and then just go, well does it fit? 0:18:38.600 --> 0:18:41.280 And if it fits, of course say yes. 0:18:41.720 --> 0:18:44.960 But when it doesn't, it's okay to say, oh I 0:18:45.000 --> 0:18:49.400 can't do that, thank you. So, especially for my ADD patients, 0:18:49.400 --> 0:18:52.480 I haven't practice in the mirror. I have to think 0:18:52.520 --> 0:18:56.080 about it just so they stop taking on more than 0:18:56.119 --> 0:18:59.240 they can. And at fifty one, I think it's really 0:18:59.320 --> 0:19:04.360 important to have your hormones checked. And I'm very happy 0:19:04.920 --> 0:19:08.240 with doctor McCarey at the FDA who came out and 0:19:08.280 --> 0:19:12.720 said they lied to us about female hormone replacement, that 0:19:13.760 --> 0:19:20.240 it's essential. You know, the reason your hormones drop with age, 0:19:20.760 --> 0:19:25.360 it's the planet's way of eliminating you. And I don't 0:19:25.400 --> 0:19:28.639 know about you, but I'm sort of not okay with 0:19:29.080 --> 0:19:33.399 being eliminated, and so I want my hormones to be 0:19:33.520 --> 0:19:34.720 healthy forever. 0:19:35.400 --> 0:19:37.560 Do you feel the same about testosterone and men? 0:19:38.400 --> 0:19:40.960 I do, okay, good, but you have to be careful 0:19:40.960 --> 0:19:43.880 because some men think of you know, a little is good, 0:19:44.000 --> 0:19:47.960 a lot is better, and if you go over like 0:19:48.880 --> 0:19:54.960 a thousand, your libido goes up and your empathy goes down, 0:19:55.560 --> 0:19:58.800 and it's a prescription to lose half your net worth 0:19:58.840 --> 0:20:01.399 in being visiting your children on the weekend. 0:20:02.520 --> 0:20:07.119 That's good, right, No, no, no, my testosterone was a little low. 0:20:07.160 --> 0:20:08.720 I mean, I'll say it. I just had to check. 0:20:08.800 --> 0:20:11.600 It was like I think it was sub three hundred. 0:20:12.680 --> 0:20:14.200 Yeah, no, that's not good for you. 0:20:14.520 --> 0:20:17.840 I make something also called brain Team Max to help 0:20:17.880 --> 0:20:19.600 support testosterone. 0:20:20.080 --> 0:20:23.520 But yeah, that's at a level. 0:20:23.320 --> 0:20:26.240 You want to talk to, you know, maybe one of 0:20:26.280 --> 0:20:31.679 our integrative doctors and get it to a healthy level, 0:20:32.119 --> 0:20:35.520 because it helps you with energy, it helps you with 0:20:35.920 --> 0:20:38.560 muscle tone, it helps you with memory, it helps you 0:20:38.640 --> 0:20:39.600 with mood. 0:20:40.000 --> 0:20:41.680 Yeah, I get fatigued during the day. 0:20:41.800 --> 0:20:43.720 I mean, yeah, I got to I've got to address 0:20:43.760 --> 0:20:47.000 this one last thing regarding Julian and we'll move on 0:20:47.560 --> 0:20:48.720 the Instagram. 0:20:49.320 --> 0:20:52.200 What you spend a lot of time on social media? 0:20:52.359 --> 0:20:54.159 Can I be honest with you, It's part of my 0:20:54.800 --> 0:20:58.240 job what I'm doing right now with my life, like 0:20:58.640 --> 0:21:01.560 the dogs that I'm rescuing, our Los Angeles dogs. We 0:21:01.560 --> 0:21:04.280 live in Chicago, so I'm constantly looking at a million 0:21:04.400 --> 0:21:05.080 videos at all that. 0:21:05.320 --> 0:21:08.199 It's healthy at night. She'll stay up till one in 0:21:08.240 --> 0:21:09.360 the morning watching these. 0:21:09.560 --> 0:21:09.760 Yeah. 0:21:09.800 --> 0:21:12.320 No, it's after videos crying, and it will make you 0:21:12.840 --> 0:21:13.800 more aded. 0:21:15.160 --> 0:21:17.200 You just and I understand. I hear what you're. 0:21:17.000 --> 0:21:20.240 Saying that you do it for work, but I think 0:21:20.240 --> 0:21:21.840 if you don't limit. 0:21:21.560 --> 0:21:23.200 It, it's. 0:21:24.760 --> 0:21:27.879 We just saw what happened in Los Angeles, right that 0:21:28.000 --> 0:21:32.560 both Meta and YouTube got whacked for six million dollars. 0:21:33.000 --> 0:21:39.160 Because it's harmful and more harmful for children, for sure, 0:21:39.840 --> 0:21:42.040 but it's not great for us. 0:21:42.520 --> 0:21:44.119 Yeah, that's true. 0:21:44.200 --> 0:21:45.760 All right, let's get to the bad news. 0:21:46.280 --> 0:21:50.680 Oh well, it's just news, right, it's all good news. Yes, 0:21:50.760 --> 0:21:53.760 if it's great, we'll celebrate, and if it's not. 0:21:54.440 --> 0:21:55.440 We'll rehabilitate. 0:21:55.680 --> 0:21:56.840 Okay, love it. 0:21:57.600 --> 0:21:59.760 So I had showed you healthy. 0:21:59.720 --> 0:22:00.800 Yeah, Now I have. 0:22:00.880 --> 0:22:07.480 The one we did from twenty eleven here on the left, 0:22:07.520 --> 0:22:10.639 and you see this hole. That's why I knew you 0:22:10.640 --> 0:22:15.040 had a concussion because the back part of your brain 0:22:15.520 --> 0:22:23.960 it got whapped. And I probably said, then, I wonder 0:22:24.000 --> 0:22:27.280 if you have add You can see these holes here, 0:22:29.160 --> 0:22:31.960 So I probably said that, I mean, I don't remember 0:22:32.520 --> 0:22:35.000 we see them here. So this is the one that 0:22:35.040 --> 0:22:40.280 we just did. And your exciple lobes are better here, 0:22:40.920 --> 0:22:44.600 but your temporal lobes here, and some of that could 0:22:44.640 --> 0:22:48.200 just be aging because they're fifteen years apart. 0:22:49.000 --> 0:22:50.639 But this could be better. 0:22:51.280 --> 0:22:58.920 And I get really excited about making brains better. So 0:22:59.640 --> 0:23:05.320 for you, I would I did the big NFL study 0:23:05.400 --> 0:23:08.480 when the NFL was sort of lying about traumatic brain 0:23:08.560 --> 0:23:14.120 injury and football, and I developed a multiple vitamin Omega 0:23:14.160 --> 0:23:17.199 three fatty acid and a brain boost that works in 0:23:17.280 --> 0:23:22.400 six different ways and it helped eighty percent of our players. 0:23:22.960 --> 0:23:27.360