WEBVTT - What’s on your Mind?? 0:00:01.040 --> 0:00:06.000 This is the most dramatic podcast ever and iHeartRadio podcast. 0:00:07.720 --> 0:00:09.440 Chris Harrison and Lauren z e mc comedy from the 0:00:09.480 --> 0:00:12.680 home office in Austin, Texas. I am unbelievably excited for 0:00:12.760 --> 0:00:15.320 this show today. If there is a show you should 0:00:15.320 --> 0:00:17.720 sit down and listen to and take in, it is 0:00:18.000 --> 0:00:24.160 this one. I think this will be moving important, inspirational, educational. 0:00:24.600 --> 0:00:30.000 We're talking to doctor Amen, doctor Daniel Amen, who is 0:00:30.640 --> 0:00:37.880 really the foremost educator, philosopher on brain, on mental health, 0:00:38.000 --> 0:00:42.640 on mental education, on brain scans. His aim in clinics 0:00:42.720 --> 0:00:46.120 have seen more brain scans than any in the world, 0:00:47.040 --> 0:00:50.640 and he's also doing TV shows and social stuff. With 0:00:50.680 --> 0:00:53.680 all the brain scans that he's done, he is so 0:00:53.960 --> 0:00:56.920 fascinating and I have a thousand questions for this guy. 0:00:57.040 --> 0:00:58.880 Yeah, I've been following him on Instagram for a while, 0:00:58.960 --> 0:01:01.520 so I'm super excited to get to talk to him. 0:01:01.520 --> 0:01:03.720 And if you don't follow him on Instagram, do it 0:01:03.800 --> 0:01:07.160 because he does constant videos onlike you know, just quick 0:01:07.200 --> 0:01:10.240 tips on your mental health things, the way that certain 0:01:10.280 --> 0:01:13.399 food affects your brain, that kind of thing. He's the 0:01:13.520 --> 0:01:16.720 advisor to major celebrities like Miley Cyrus and a bunch 0:01:16.720 --> 0:01:19.160 of other people and kind of also trains them on 0:01:19.319 --> 0:01:22.679 like how to focus into their success, how to change 0:01:22.720 --> 0:01:25.759 their outlook, like to give yourself an outlook of positivity, 0:01:25.800 --> 0:01:29.959 to create what you want through training your brain to 0:01:30.040 --> 0:01:33.240 look for those things. So he does this incredible combination 0:01:33.400 --> 0:01:36.080 of he's got the real data he's scanning your brain, 0:01:36.560 --> 0:01:39.760 combined with like how you can use that and the 0:01:39.800 --> 0:01:42.600 way you literally talk to and in your own brain 0:01:42.880 --> 0:01:44.040 to create the life you want. 0:01:44.080 --> 0:01:45.800 So he is fascinating. 0:01:46.480 --> 0:01:51.680 Physician, but also an adult and child psychiatrist as well 0:01:51.720 --> 0:01:54.480 as the founder of the ABE and Clinics. So, as 0:01:54.560 --> 0:01:57.280 Lauren was just alluding to, has both sides cover as 0:01:57.360 --> 0:01:59.560 far as you know, the clinical side of being an 0:01:59.600 --> 0:02:03.400 actual but then the psychiatry part as well. So fascinating 0:02:03.440 --> 0:02:08.120 topic today with a very fascinating man. We are excited 0:02:08.160 --> 0:02:13.000 to welcome doctor Amen into the show today. Doctor Amen, 0:02:13.040 --> 0:02:13.600 how are you, sir? 0:02:14.240 --> 0:02:16.000 I am really great, Chris, how are you? 0:02:16.320 --> 0:02:18.320 I'm terrific. Thank you so much for the time. This 0:02:18.400 --> 0:02:20.000 is my wife, Lauren. 0:02:20.080 --> 0:02:21.600 Doctor Aman. I'm fangirling. 0:02:21.639 --> 0:02:23.600 I followed you on Instagram for a couple of years, 0:02:23.639 --> 0:02:26.200 so I'm so excited that you're here on our podcast. 0:02:27.720 --> 0:02:29.240 Thank you so much for having me. 0:02:29.240 --> 0:02:32.480 And did you just do something with our coworker slash boss, 0:02:32.560 --> 0:02:33.120 doctor Phil. 0:02:33.240 --> 0:02:34.639 I feel like I saw you with him. 0:02:35.760 --> 0:02:39.520 I did what did you guys do in the studio? 0:02:39.760 --> 0:02:42.840 We went after diet coke together. 0:02:43.240 --> 0:02:46.040 Oh, he's a big iced tea drinker. 0:02:46.840 --> 0:02:50.600 Well, I'm looking forward to scanning his brain. 0:02:51.000 --> 0:02:54.000 Okay, I'm sorry we missed you. We're there probably a 0:02:54.000 --> 0:02:56.919 couple times a month we do. We're we're in a 0:02:56.960 --> 0:02:59.239 deal with Merritt Street, so we're here in Austin, Texas, 0:02:59.240 --> 0:03:01.280 and we drive to Dalla and we're working on some 0:03:01.320 --> 0:03:02.360 shows with them. 0:03:03.560 --> 0:03:06.760 Well, how fun. I'm hoping to be there more. I'm 0:03:06.760 --> 0:03:08.720 going to be there again in a couple of weeks. 0:03:09.320 --> 0:03:13.120 On another showed to I need to be up there 0:03:13.160 --> 0:03:17.359 whenever he's scanning brain. I want my brain. I kind 0:03:17.360 --> 0:03:19.519 of want my brain scan, but also scared to find 0:03:19.560 --> 0:03:21.040 out what that might reveal about me. 0:03:21.200 --> 0:03:24.600 Well, let's launch into the podcast with that, Doctor Amon, welcome. 0:03:24.880 --> 0:03:27.640 Let me ask you right off the bat, should Chris 0:03:27.639 --> 0:03:29.040 Harrison get his brain scanned? 0:03:29.080 --> 0:03:30.640 Are you scared about that idea? Of Babe? 0:03:31.120 --> 0:03:33.359 No, I would relish the opportunity. 0:03:33.919 --> 0:03:35.480 What do you think what would he learn For the 0:03:35.520 --> 0:03:38.200 people out there who are just finding out about you, 0:03:38.200 --> 0:03:41.360 you are the forefather of brain scans and all they 0:03:41.360 --> 0:03:44.200 can reveal. What are some of the basic takeaways people 0:03:44.240 --> 0:03:46.040 will get from having their brain scanned? 0:03:47.200 --> 0:03:50.200 Well, it's only good news because you have what you 0:03:50.400 --> 0:03:54.200 have and if I can make it better, well then 0:03:54.400 --> 0:03:59.360 you're better. When I met my wife Goodness, almost twenty 0:03:59.440 --> 0:04:04.440 years ago, I like fell hard for her, But the 0:04:04.480 --> 0:04:08.040 first naked part of her I wanted to see was 0:04:08.080 --> 0:04:16.799 her brain because ultimately, it's your brain that creates chaos 0:04:16.839 --> 0:04:20.120 in your life, or it's your brain that creates happiness 0:04:20.320 --> 0:04:25.920 and consistency and reliability and passion and purpose. And one 0:04:25.960 --> 0:04:29.839 of my friends, doctor Earl Henslen, who refers to me, 0:04:30.040 --> 0:04:36.160 he said, you know, if there's no forethought brain function, 0:04:36.480 --> 0:04:37.920 there's no for play. 0:04:39.760 --> 0:04:42.599 So how quickly into dating did you scan her brain? 0:04:44.000 --> 0:04:50.359 It was three weeks. In my family is if you 0:04:50.560 --> 0:04:55.000 date any of my children. I have six children, and 0:04:55.120 --> 0:04:58.080 I think second round, you got to get scammed? 0:04:59.000 --> 0:04:59.200 Right? 0:04:59.480 --> 0:05:02.000 What type of scan? Just so everyone listening understands, this 0:05:02.080 --> 0:05:03.600 a CT scan? What kind of scan? 0:05:04.680 --> 0:05:10.080 Now? We do a study called brain spacked spect imaging 0:05:10.720 --> 0:05:15.839 stands for single photon emission computed tomography. It's a nuclear 0:05:15.960 --> 0:05:20.119 medicine study that looks at blood flow and activity, looks 0:05:20.160 --> 0:05:24.960 at how your brain works and basically shows us good activity, 0:05:25.480 --> 0:05:27.799 too little or too. 0:05:27.720 --> 0:05:31.920 Much, and then my job is to balance it. 0:05:32.920 --> 0:05:35.320 And so you can take that scan. Like you said, 0:05:35.320 --> 0:05:37.400 it's only good news because it is what it is. 0:05:37.960 --> 0:05:40.800 And then you said, you can make that better and better. 0:05:41.040 --> 0:05:46.200 So what are some things where you see for the 0:05:46.360 --> 0:05:49.320 average human being that you can give them the advice 0:05:49.360 --> 0:05:50.719 to better it? And what is that advice? 0:05:52.440 --> 0:05:57.080 Well, brain health is three things. It's brain envy. You've 0:05:57.080 --> 0:06:01.400 got to care about it. Nobody cares about brain because 0:06:01.440 --> 0:06:04.719 you can't see it right. You can see the wrinkles 0:06:04.760 --> 0:06:06.960 in your skin, of the fat around your belly, and 0:06:07.000 --> 0:06:10.240 you can do something when you're unhappy with it. But 0:06:10.320 --> 0:06:15.599 because nobody looks at their brain, very few people actually care. 0:06:16.320 --> 0:06:20.800 Even though, if you're blessed to lift eighty five or beyond, 0:06:20.960 --> 0:06:24.440 you have a one and two chance of being diagnosed 0:06:24.480 --> 0:06:26.680 with dementia, you have a one and two chance of 0:06:26.720 --> 0:06:31.920 having lost your mind. And so I think, like colonoscopies, 0:06:33.160 --> 0:06:38.400 you should evaluate your brain on a regular basis. So 0:06:38.520 --> 0:06:40.560 that's the first thing brain. Then you got to care 0:06:41.440 --> 0:06:44.760 avoid things that hurt it. You just have to know 0:06:44.880 --> 0:06:48.479 the lists. And quite frankly, both seven year olds know 0:06:48.720 --> 0:06:51.920 the list right right as you do tackle football, they'll 0:06:51.920 --> 0:06:54.000 probably go No, probably not good for your. 0:06:53.880 --> 0:06:56.720 Brain, professor, boxing not great. 0:06:56.880 --> 0:07:07.080 Boxing's not good, not sleeping, alcohol, nicotine, ultra processed foods. 0:07:07.800 --> 0:07:09.800 In fact, I went to my when my daughter was 0:07:09.840 --> 0:07:11.680 in second grade. I went to her class and I 0:07:11.720 --> 0:07:14.640 wrote down twenty things on the board and I went 0:07:14.920 --> 0:07:17.760 separate these good for the brain or bad for it, 0:07:17.800 --> 0:07:20.280 and they got nineteen right. 0:07:20.520 --> 0:07:21.520 The only thing. 0:07:21.360 --> 0:07:24.920 They missed was orange juice, which they put in the 0:07:24.920 --> 0:07:29.280 good category, but ultimately is way too much sugar because 0:07:29.360 --> 0:07:33.640 when you unwrap fruit sugar from its fiber source, it 0:07:33.680 --> 0:07:36.920 actually turns toxic in the body. 0:07:37.040 --> 0:07:39.720 That's it. I want to, just before we move on, 0:07:39.960 --> 0:07:42.360 go back to something that I know a lot of 0:07:42.360 --> 0:07:46.200 our listeners are going to say alcohol. When you say alcohol, 0:07:46.360 --> 0:07:49.840 is it a zero sum game or is it a 0:07:49.920 --> 0:07:52.680 moderate sum game? Where do you lie on this? 0:07:53.000 --> 0:07:55.760 You don't drink I think I don't drink. 0:07:55.880 --> 0:07:58.640 No, it's poison. It's like, why would you drink poison? 0:08:00.200 --> 0:08:05.040 And the American Cancer Society actually said it best. I've 0:08:05.080 --> 0:08:08.200 been railing against alcohol for thirty years just because I 0:08:08.280 --> 0:08:12.600 look at the brains of people who are regular drinkers. 0:08:12.880 --> 0:08:14.440 Their brain is smaller. 0:08:14.800 --> 0:08:19.280 And when it comes to the brain, size matters, right, 0:08:19.320 --> 0:08:24.640 it's the only organ wear size matters. And so the 0:08:24.640 --> 0:08:27.440 American Cancer Society a couple of years ago came out 0:08:27.440 --> 0:08:32.640 against any alcohol because any alcohol is associated with an 0:08:32.640 --> 0:08:37.920 increased risk of seven different types of cancer. Cancer is 0:08:38.160 --> 0:08:42.440 clearly bad for your brain. Right, the stress, chemotherapy and 0:08:42.640 --> 0:08:45.360 so on, and if you just think about it, and 0:08:45.520 --> 0:08:51.640 the pandemic was so instructive. Jim Beam, the whiskey company, 0:08:51.920 --> 0:08:56.680 turned its whiskey plants into hand sanitizer plants. Why because 0:08:56.720 --> 0:09:01.960 alcohols are disinfectant. Well, in your mouth and in your gut, 0:09:02.080 --> 0:09:10.720 you have a hundred trillion bugs, bacteria, viruses, fungi. You 0:09:10.880 --> 0:09:17.719 need them. They're important. They support you. They make nerve transmitters, 0:09:17.800 --> 0:09:22.480 they digest your food, they detoxify your body, they support 0:09:22.520 --> 0:09:27.959 your immune system. Let's not pour a disinfectant down our throats. 0:09:28.080 --> 0:09:31.240 It's just's not a good idea. On top of which, 0:09:31.280 --> 0:09:37.000 as a psychiatrist, every week, every week, one of my 0:09:37.320 --> 0:09:41.920 patients is talking to me about something bad that happened 0:09:42.240 --> 0:09:46.120 with alcohol. Whenever I go to a party, my father 0:09:46.160 --> 0:09:49.200 in law gets drunk and then they start telling all 0:09:49.280 --> 0:09:54.199 the things I told him, you know, in confidence. And 0:09:54.280 --> 0:10:00.600 I mean it's just people's level of decision making drops 0:10:01.200 --> 0:10:02.560 when alcohol is around. 0:10:03.559 --> 0:10:07.040 And it's very normalized, you know. I mean it's yeah, 0:10:07.120 --> 0:10:09.760 I know you're here. Yeah, there's nothing for me to say. 0:10:09.800 --> 0:10:10.319 It's hard. 0:10:10.480 --> 0:10:11.920 I know all this is true, and yet I do 0:10:11.960 --> 0:10:17.120 want a glass of wine. It's so hard. Is wine 0:10:17.120 --> 0:10:17.880 better than alcohol? 0:10:18.800 --> 0:10:18.839 No? 0:10:19.200 --> 0:10:21.839 Okay, it's just. 0:10:22.000 --> 0:10:23.560 Don't tell the Italians of the Greeks. 0:10:24.480 --> 0:10:27.840 It's a habit that. And you know, if you go 0:10:27.880 --> 0:10:31.199 to the Bible, the first story of somebody drunk in 0:10:31.280 --> 0:10:36.800 the Bible caused generations of problems. It was Noah after 0:10:36.920 --> 0:10:41.160 the Arc, you know, found some grapes after the flood 0:10:41.200 --> 0:10:44.360 and got drunk, and his child found him and then 0:10:44.360 --> 0:10:45.480 he cursed his child. 0:10:45.640 --> 0:10:48.079 Yeah, but Jesus never turned wine into water. 0:10:48.480 --> 0:10:49.200 Okay. 0:10:49.760 --> 0:10:51.280 Can I ask one question though, I don't know if 0:10:51.320 --> 0:10:54.920 you've seen that docuseries The Blue Zone on Netflix that 0:10:55.000 --> 0:10:59.880 got pretty popular. And when that gentleman went to Greece 0:11:00.480 --> 0:11:02.280 to the Blue Zone and grease where people were living 0:11:02.320 --> 0:11:05.040 well into their hundreds and in Italy they were drinking 0:11:05.120 --> 0:11:06.400 wine every day. 0:11:06.960 --> 0:11:10.840 So what is the why is that working in those environments? 0:11:10.880 --> 0:11:12.840 Yeah, well it's a very small amount. 0:11:13.000 --> 0:11:17.200 Okay, Plus they're doing other things right, got it right? 0:11:17.320 --> 0:11:21.720 And so if like I did the big NFL study 0:11:21.800 --> 0:11:23.920 when the NFL was sort of lying and had a 0:11:23.920 --> 0:11:29.160 problem about traumatic brain injury and football, and still I 0:11:29.240 --> 0:11:32.880 have active NFL players that I adore, and I'm like, look, 0:11:32.880 --> 0:11:35.080 if you're going to do something bad, you better do 0:11:35.160 --> 0:11:39.800 everything else right, Yeah, because that's clearly bad. 0:11:39.520 --> 0:11:42.960 And there before we jump on there's a major subject 0:11:43.000 --> 0:11:47.240 I want to get to eventually. But in the realm 0:11:47.280 --> 0:11:52.120 of super foods, things that we can do right, because Lauren. 0:11:51.840 --> 0:11:54.280 Has met and walnuts. 0:11:54.320 --> 0:11:57.640 Every day I'm eating tuper zil nuts and some walnuts 0:11:57.840 --> 0:12:01.600 and you know, asa ebowl because that's a what are 0:12:01.600 --> 0:12:04.760 the what are the real superfoods where you're like, this 0:12:04.840 --> 0:12:07.440 is great brain food, take this daily. 0:12:08.800 --> 0:12:13.440 Well, I think nuts, of course, without sugar on them. 0:12:16.040 --> 0:12:20.040 I think nuts are superfood. Berries are a super food, 0:12:20.280 --> 0:12:23.760 but they have to be organic. So just a little 0:12:23.840 --> 0:12:28.559 asterisk because non organic berries hold more pesticides. 0:12:28.080 --> 0:12:30.520 Than almost any fruit. I think green. 0:12:30.360 --> 0:12:39.400 Leafy vegetables, wild salmon eggs are a superfood. 0:12:38.800 --> 0:12:41.240 In my mind, as long as you know they're raised 0:12:41.240 --> 0:12:42.120 in a healthy way. 0:12:43.480 --> 0:12:49.640 And ultimately we are all creatures of habit and you 0:12:49.800 --> 0:12:53.960 just have to find twenty foods you love that love 0:12:54.040 --> 0:12:58.080 you back. And so if you think about the relationship, 0:12:58.120 --> 0:13:00.800 I was going to say that about alcohol, you love it. 0:13:01.440 --> 0:13:03.679 I don't know, Lauren, if you've ever been in a 0:13:03.800 --> 0:13:07.920 bad relationship in the past, I know I have. I'm 0:13:07.920 --> 0:13:10.960 not doing that anymore. I'm like married to my best friend, 0:13:11.040 --> 0:13:15.240 and I protect that relationship. I love her, she loves me. 0:13:16.960 --> 0:13:19.120 I'm not going to love stuff that hates. 0:13:18.840 --> 0:13:23.080 Me, that beats me out, But so I love that 0:13:23.160 --> 0:13:24.880 I love I protect her, she protects me. 0:13:25.160 --> 0:13:26.440 I'm gonna that's just sweet. 0:13:38.720 --> 0:13:41.040 Okay, what we interrupted you it was brain. The three 0:13:41.080 --> 0:13:45.880 things were brain envy, you got to care and the things. 0:13:46.679 --> 0:13:47.880 That hurt it. And what's the third one? 0:13:48.640 --> 0:13:51.679 Do things that help it on a regular basis. You're 0:13:51.679 --> 0:13:53.960 on a better memory tomorrow, go to better half an 0:13:54.000 --> 0:13:59.160 hour early tonight without your gadgets. And I have a 0:13:59.280 --> 0:14:01.920 mnemonic that I write about in all my books called 0:14:01.960 --> 0:14:05.079 bright minds. You want to keep your brain healthy or 0:14:05.360 --> 0:14:09.440 rescue it. You have to prevent or treat the eleven 0:14:09.600 --> 0:14:13.720 major risk factors that steal your mind. And we know 0:14:13.760 --> 0:14:17.240 what they are, so bright minds. B is for blood flow. 0:14:17.520 --> 0:14:21.320 Low blood flows the number one brain imaging predictor of 0:14:21.360 --> 0:14:24.400 Alzheimer's disease. Well, how do you know if you have 0:14:24.480 --> 0:14:26.640 low blood float, Well you can come get a scan, 0:14:26.840 --> 0:14:32.160 we would tell you. Or if you're smoking, if you're 0:14:32.280 --> 0:14:38.040 using marijuana, alcohol, low blood flow, if you're sedentary, if 0:14:38.080 --> 0:14:42.600 you have high blood pressure or rectial dysfunction, if you 0:14:42.640 --> 0:14:46.880 have blood flow problems anywhere, they're everywhere. And so a 0:14:47.000 --> 0:14:52.600 brain health program people's love, love lives get better. And 0:14:52.680 --> 0:14:58.240 so to increase blood floats, exercise and beats and regano 0:14:58.280 --> 0:15:03.200 and rosemary and cinema and Genko. One of my favorite 0:15:03.200 --> 0:15:09.640 supplements is Genko. The R is for retirement and aging. 0:15:09.760 --> 0:15:13.560 When you stop learning, your brain starts dying. So always 0:15:13.640 --> 0:15:20.080 be engaged with something interesting. Eyes for inflammation, and you 0:15:20.120 --> 0:15:23.520 know ultra processed foods low may get three fatty acids. 0:15:23.840 --> 0:15:28.320 But the sleeper with inflammation is gum disease. If you 0:15:28.360 --> 0:15:32.000 have gum disease, you have brain disease. And so just 0:15:32.160 --> 0:15:37.560 getting into the dentis getting your teeth claimed. Flossing regularly 0:15:38.120 --> 0:15:41.440 absolutely critical to brain health. 0:15:42.680 --> 0:15:45.160 The geusgenetics know what's. 0:15:44.960 --> 0:15:47.800 In your family. So do either of you have stuff 0:15:48.360 --> 0:15:51.440 in your family? I have obesity and heart disease, but 0:15:51.760 --> 0:15:52.360 either of you. 0:15:52.640 --> 0:15:54.240 I have heart disease on my dad's side. 0:15:54.320 --> 0:15:57.480 Yeah, yeah, So you and I should be in a 0:15:57.600 --> 0:16:03.760 heart disease prevention program every day of our lives. And 0:16:04.000 --> 0:16:08.360 I adopted my two nieces and both their parents. Both 0:16:08.400 --> 0:16:12.239 of their parents are drug addicts. And you know, I'm hammering. 0:16:12.440 --> 0:16:15.920 They're fourteen and nineteen, Like you should be on an 0:16:15.920 --> 0:16:20.040 addiction prevention program every day of your life. 0:16:20.440 --> 0:16:23.920 And you know, people go, but what about moderation. That 0:16:24.280 --> 0:16:25.280 thought is. 0:16:25.200 --> 0:16:29.720 The gateway to hell because it's like, oh, I'm about 0:16:29.760 --> 0:16:33.320 to cheat. Whenever you say, well, everything in moderation just 0:16:33.400 --> 0:16:34.840 means you're about to do a bad thing. 0:16:37.000 --> 0:16:43.880 That into everything in moderation is a gateway to hell. Okay, yes, okay. 0:16:44.480 --> 0:16:48.760 The age has had trauma, major cause of psychiatric problems. 0:16:50.040 --> 0:16:54.840 Protect your head. Stop texting while you're driving or walking 0:16:54.920 --> 0:16:55.880 for goodness sakes. 0:16:56.920 --> 0:17:00.640 Tea is talks, and so we talked about alcohol and drugs. 0:17:01.120 --> 0:17:06.280 But it's also the toxins in your products that you 0:17:06.359 --> 0:17:07.359 put on your body. 0:17:07.640 --> 0:17:10.320 I don't know if you've seen this app called Think Dirty. 0:17:10.880 --> 0:17:14.120 It allows you to scan your personal products and I'll 0:17:14.119 --> 0:17:16.720 tell you, on a scale of one to ten how 0:17:16.840 --> 0:17:18.320 quickly they're killing you. 0:17:18.960 --> 0:17:19.840 Wow ssha. 0:17:21.640 --> 0:17:25.040 I'm not a big fan of detoxes. I think your 0:17:25.320 --> 0:17:27.000 life should be a detox. 0:17:27.200 --> 0:17:31.359 I use the Yuka app. Yuka It's similar. You scan 0:17:31.480 --> 0:17:34.199 everything and it tells you if they're hazardous. Everything's in it. 0:17:35.080 --> 0:17:38.000 I love that right. So there's also one by I 0:17:38.000 --> 0:17:43.240 Think EWG and it just is information for people to 0:17:43.520 --> 0:17:50.240 actually read the labels. And then the amin Bright Minds 0:17:50.320 --> 0:17:52.760 is mental health stuff, and I teach people to kill 0:17:52.800 --> 0:17:55.639 the ants, the automatic negative thoughts. 0:17:55.720 --> 0:17:59.959 Its steel your happiness. There's nowhere in school where they 0:18:00.119 --> 0:18:02.879 taught us not to believe every stupid thing we think. 0:18:03.240 --> 0:18:06.960 So it's learning how to direct your mind. The second 0:18:07.040 --> 0:18:13.520 eye is for immunity and infections. COVID unleashed a mental 0:18:13.560 --> 0:18:17.959 health pandemic, not only because of the isolation, fear, and 0:18:18.080 --> 0:18:19.440 poor public policy. 0:18:21.119 --> 0:18:23.639 The virus itself. 0:18:23.200 --> 0:18:27.800 Causes inflammation in the brain and increases anxiety and depression. 0:18:28.040 --> 0:18:32.000 So you've seen gen z go. You know skyrocketing mental 0:18:32.040 --> 0:18:34.880 health problems. Well, part of that is just inflammation from 0:18:34.920 --> 0:18:40.800 the virus itself. That N is neuro hormone changes. Your 0:18:40.880 --> 0:18:43.840 hormones are so important you should get them tested and 0:18:43.920 --> 0:18:49.600 optimized yearly. D is diabesity. We all know not eighty 0:18:49.680 --> 0:18:53.880 percent of Americans or overweight or obese. I published three 0:18:53.960 --> 0:18:57.120 studies that say, is your weight goes up, the size 0:18:57.240 --> 0:19:01.760 and function of the brain goes down. And now we're 0:19:01.800 --> 0:19:06.280 in this body positivity movement where you can't say anything. 0:19:07.200 --> 0:19:11.000 I'm like, no, no, no, know the truth and the 0:19:11.040 --> 0:19:13.879 truth will set you free. Are we need to do 0:19:13.920 --> 0:19:17.240 a much better job at getting people to a healthy 0:19:17.280 --> 0:19:22.360 weight underweight. It's clearly bad for you being overweight. If 0:19:22.400 --> 0:19:27.520 you're overweight, you have seven of these eleven risk factors. Well, 0:19:27.800 --> 0:19:32.760 just you know, the fat on your body increases inflammation, storage, 0:19:32.840 --> 0:19:36.320 talks and changes your hormones and so on. And then 0:19:36.359 --> 0:19:39.520 the S is for sleep, which just needs to be 0:19:39.560 --> 0:19:41.040 a priority for all of us. 0:19:42.560 --> 0:19:44.920 Wow, the COVID thing is blowing my mind. I didn't 0:19:44.920 --> 0:19:45.280 know that. 0:19:45.320 --> 0:19:46.960 I had never heard that about the virus, that it 0:19:47.000 --> 0:19:49.280 creates that much brain inflammation. 0:19:49.520 --> 0:19:50.560 Is that so? 0:19:50.720 --> 0:19:53.120 Is that just using everything else you've just talked about 0:19:53.160 --> 0:19:54.880 to try to get that down. Or is there one 0:19:54.920 --> 0:19:57.440 thing to fight the inflammation COVID's causing that you think 0:19:57.480 --> 0:19:58.400 people need to be doing. 0:19:59.440 --> 0:20:06.080 So I really like hercumans and quercetin and omega three 0:20:06.160 --> 0:20:10.040 fatty acids and vitamin D to sort of help put 0:20:10.080 --> 0:20:14.720 out the fire inflammation. And then of course you want 0:20:14.720 --> 0:20:18.360 to be on a story diet. You want to kill 0:20:18.440 --> 0:20:23.439 sugar and foods that quickly turn to sugar and people 0:20:23.520 --> 0:20:26.439 go co carbs are not the enemy, and they're not. 0:20:26.920 --> 0:20:34.119 It's high glycemic, low fiber carbs they're the enemy. There's 0:20:34.200 --> 0:20:37.479 the study from the Male Clinic where people who are 0:20:37.520 --> 0:20:41.240 on a fat based diet at forty two percent less 0:20:41.320 --> 0:20:44.439 risk of getting Alzheimer's disease, but people who are on 0:20:44.480 --> 0:20:51.399 a simple carbohydrate diet thing bread, pasta, potatoes, rice, fruit, juice, 0:20:51.680 --> 0:20:58.080 sugar had a four hundred percent increase risk of getting 0:20:58.119 --> 0:21:04.160 Alzheimer's disease. All this continuous glucose monitoring craze that we're 0:21:04.200 --> 0:21:08.280 in now, I like it because it's just telling people 0:21:09.560 --> 0:21:13.080 blood sugar is important, and you know it's one of 0:21:13.119 --> 0:21:17.439 the eleven diabesity. It's being overweight or having hot blood sugar. 0:21:17.920 --> 0:21:23.960 You don't want that because diabetes and pre diabetes delay 0:21:24.240 --> 0:21:29.600 healing and reacavoc on every organ in your body, especially 0:21:29.640 --> 0:21:30.119 your brain. 0:21:31.040 --> 0:21:33.479 Where do you fall on some of the carbs that 0:21:33.480 --> 0:21:36.679 I've that you've just mentioned, but I've hurt, like like 0:21:36.720 --> 0:21:37.800 sometimes I hear people. 0:21:37.600 --> 0:21:40.119 Really advocate for sourdough bread like this is. 0:21:40.119 --> 0:21:43.040 A great bread to eat, or like the much better 0:21:43.119 --> 0:21:46.000 quality pasta you'd find in Italy that we don't have 0:21:46.040 --> 0:21:46.600 in America. 0:21:47.400 --> 0:21:49.840 Well, Italy, it's so funny. 0:21:50.000 --> 0:21:53.000 So many of my patients, I think, even myself when 0:21:53.040 --> 0:21:56.600 I go over there, because of the walking and because 0:21:57.040 --> 0:22:02.400 it's not genetically modified and are raised with all the 0:22:02.680 --> 0:22:06.040 chemicals ours, is it just it seems to be better. 0:22:06.600 --> 0:22:11.520 But you still, you know, America has exported our obesity crisis. 0:22:11.600 --> 0:22:12.480 It's everywhere. 0:22:12.720 --> 0:22:13.280 And when you. 0:22:13.200 --> 0:22:17.880 Think of the Mediterranean diet, it's not pasta and pizza. 0:22:18.000 --> 0:22:20.399 So, doctor, one thing I really wanted to dive in 0:22:20.480 --> 0:22:25.159 with you is something that is so big today, and 0:22:25.200 --> 0:22:32.080 that is depression and the prescription of antidepressants. It is 0:22:33.280 --> 0:22:35.240 Laura and I were talking before you came on. I said, 0:22:35.280 --> 0:22:38.520 you know, to me, the math isn't mathing. We are 0:22:38.560 --> 0:22:44.600 prescribing these kids so much medication, and yet mental health 0:22:45.400 --> 0:22:50.600 is off the charts, meaning bad problems. Suicide rates are skyrocketing. 0:22:50.880 --> 0:22:53.600 So the more we are prescribing all this stuff, I 0:22:53.640 --> 0:22:57.000 don't see the end result and that this thing is 0:22:57.040 --> 0:22:59.320 being measured and weighed out. 0:23:01.119 --> 0:23:05.480 No, you're absolutely correct. Prozac was released in nineteen eighty 0:23:05.560 --> 0:23:10.480 eight and since then depression has gone up five hundred percent. 0:23:11.320 --> 0:23:16.639 So yeah, it's a mess. We're in a mental mess. 0:23:16.720 --> 0:23:21.639 Gen Z in particular, of fifty seven percent of teenage 0:23:21.640 --> 0:23:26.800 girls report being persistently sad, thirty two percent have thought 0:23:26.840 --> 0:23:30.040 of killing themselves. Think of that, twenty four percent of 0:23:30.160 --> 0:23:35.560 planned and thirteen percent of actually attempted suicide. These are 0:23:35.680 --> 0:23:41.600 numbers we have never seen before. And last year there 0:23:41.600 --> 0:23:47.000 were three hundred and thirty seven million prescriptions for antidepressants. 0:23:47.160 --> 0:23:50.080 Twenty five percent of women in the United States are 0:23:50.160 --> 0:23:54.600 taking them. I mean, these are really insane numbers. And 0:23:55.280 --> 0:23:59.800 most people get prescribed psychiatric drugs without anybody ever looking 0:24:00.400 --> 0:24:01.240 at their brain. 0:24:01.359 --> 0:24:04.000 And I noticed this like thirty five years ago. 0:24:04.119 --> 0:24:08.360 I'm like, why are psychiatrists the only medical doctors who 0:24:08.480 --> 0:24:11.760 never look at the organ? They treat If you just 0:24:11.840 --> 0:24:18.000 think about that, then you diagnoses based on symptom clusters 0:24:18.119 --> 0:24:20.080 with no biological data. 0:24:20.160 --> 0:24:21.160 So you don't have. 0:24:21.119 --> 0:24:23.639 To go, oh, you know, your brain's not really very healthy. 0:24:23.720 --> 0:24:25.960 Let's get your brain healthy and see if your mood 0:24:26.000 --> 0:24:30.679 would be healthy or your thought patterns are really not 0:24:30.880 --> 0:24:36.400 helping you. Let's work to train your brain to be 0:24:36.760 --> 0:24:42.320 more positive. I'm doing a study now on negativity bias. 0:24:42.760 --> 0:24:45.760 So if your brain tends to go to what's wrong 0:24:46.160 --> 0:24:50.000 much faster than to what's right, it puts you at 0:24:50.080 --> 0:24:55.199 risk for virtually every psychiatric illness. So I start my 0:24:55.440 --> 0:24:58.520 days today is going to be a great day, and 0:24:58.560 --> 0:25:00.239 when I go to bed at night, I go what 0:25:00.359 --> 0:25:05.879 went well today? And I'm very serious about noticing even 0:25:06.040 --> 0:25:10.560