11 Steps to Better Brain Health and Success in Life with Dr. Daniel Amen

the front of my brain had flattened and six months later I had regained that shape how is that even possible hey so welcome back to the podcast I am so excited to share with you my friend dr. Daniel Amen you've probably seen him on one of his 14 or 15 PBS shows he's written numerous books that basically have the basic premise of change your brain and you can absolutely change your life a few years back 2015 I was out snowboarding with my brother make shout out to Patrick Ferry and experienced my fifth concussion in about three seasons and you know it's early in the year and it wasn't I wasn't you know like a incredible snowboarder doing all these like crazy jumps I just slipped backwards and hit my head for the final time and as they the phrase you know my bell was rung was happening to me I literally said to myself this just isn't good I'm really hurting my brain and you know two months later I'm back out on the road I'm doing my thing I'm out doing seminars and all of a sudden I found myself in a conversation that I would have you know every day on the road doing an event every day coaching with someone and I was talking about something that I had trained on you know hundreds of times and literally forgot my points it literally forgot it's like it's like forgetting your address it's like forgetting you know your spouse's name I was finding myself losing it and wondering what is going on I ended up calling a buddy of mine he's a brain surgeon fascinating guy longtime friend Chris hey man what what's going on here I'm really having these problems where like I took my memories going away I feel like I'm losing a step and I said I'm a young guy like this isn't supposed to be happening what do I do and he said have you met dr. Daniel Eamon I said no and of course as soon as he said the name something I'm online I'm looking at you know videos I saw this TED talk watched some of his early work and I thought okay I need to meet this guy Chris invites me to an event that he happened to be doing with Daniel where they're talking about the brain and Chris talking about it from a surgical standpoint and Daniel talking about it from your brain standpoint so I'm sitting there watching this this event and I'm taking more notes than anybody else how am I going to fix my brain I got the chance to meet Daniel afterwards and then he invited me to come do this thing called a brain spec which he had talked about and today I'm actually gonna have Daniel talk about that experience along with everything from near a hormone deficiencies Mindstorms toxins head trauma genetics like you know is it a death sentence or is it just simply something you need to be aware of inflammations impact on the brain blood flows impact on the plane on the brain excuse me ageing diabesity which is a word that I had not heard prior to today and so much more so whether you're riding your bike or you're walking your dog or you are driving in the car or you're just casually listen to this know this the time you're about to spend with daniel amon and i is going to change your life forever when you adopt some of the basic principles that he discusses so you can change your brain and ultimately change your life so enjoy the podcast have you ever had that moment where you just felt like you were skipping a beat where you were missing something you were you know you had memory loss you you just were in the middle of a presentation and you forgot what you were talking about who you're with and what you were doing well what a chalky to hear that after five concussions out snowboarding with my little brother Patrick Ferry I finally realized they I may have a brain problem and fortunately enough I had a really good friend of mine dr. Chris Duma who I reached out to him now he's a surgeon and he's a brain surgeon I said Chris I'm having these issues what do you recommend he said well I'm doing an event with this guy dr. Daniel Nieman down at the Balboa Bay Club why don't you come by and take a listen he said this guy is a genius he can help you heal your brain so obviously I was interested my wife and I show up for the charity function and I'm probably the only person when Daniel was talking that was taking rigorous notes on what I could actually do cuz I was I was not just in a funk I think there was even moments where I was getting slightly depressed that I was thinking something was really wrong can I recover from this am I gonna be like this to the rest of my life how could I as a an author a coach speaker someone that's you know standing in front of audiences every single day presenting these ideas and strategies and I was literally forgetting some of my most fundamental points after spending just a little bit of time with Daniel I very quickly signed up for his spec where I actually went in spent some time with him did all the brain all the brain work and he put me on a plan and I can proudly say that eighteen months later he really wasn't even probably eighteen months it was probably nine months later I was back to being a hundred percent normal and I thought to myself my goodness you can actually change your brain so today if you have not watched this guy where there's on PBS or read one of his amazing books or seeing his legendary YouTube performances I am super excited to introduce you to my friend dr. Daniel Amon Daniel you so much thank you my friend so so obviously I'm telling my story and these are you know people that I get to talk to all the time tell-tell but people that are listening who is Daniel lame and giving a little background on who you are I mean I think back to you know getting into the military to the beginning of you know psychology and being a psychiatrist but tell the whole story Wow so I'm one of seven children that's very important yes I've gotten a lot of criticism in my life and I have five sisters so I got used to it early yes yes yes yes my father's the American dream is he came from very poor immigrant parents who worked in a foundry in Flint Michigan and he decided thankfully he didn't like Michigan it was too cold in the winter and he came to Southern California when he was 17 and married my mom when she was 20 and being good Roman Catholics had a lot of children and third which is completely not special I have an older brother and an older sister and four younger sisters so growing up there was a lot of monkey in the middle basically I was yeah yeah I was sort of unseen and my dad his favorite word was his second favorite word was no yes and he worked all the time so really the only time I ever saw him is when I went to work so I learned when I was 10 years old to work yeah and so that sort of stayed with me but I had an awesome mother and an awesome grandfather who really sort of put the nurturing part of me into me yes and when I was 18 it was 1972 which meant the government still had a draft exactly the UNAM was still going on and I had a really low draft number which meant by and I became an infantry medic and that's where my love of medicine was born but about a year into it I realized two important things about myself I hate being shot at it's just not me I'm just like no there's bullets in there gonna rip your shoulder off and I'm like no and I didn't really like sleeping in the mud that was just not my thing yes and you know tan and my wife wants to go camping and I'm like I've done that I've done that once I don't know again so my god we trained as an x-ray technician and developed a passion for imaging was that was that your choice or was a non-military hey Daniel we're gonna throw you over here because that's such an amide chase I had to yeah so I was in Germany at the time thankfully I didn't go to Vietnam I was stationed in West Germany's it was actually called West Germany at the time where our job was to protect the West Germans from the Russians and I was working in a dispensary and I'm like I need to change my job and so I learned to be like the best I could so they would put me into this open slot to be an x-ray technician just la I love taking pictures and I had my own little x-ray department in the dispensary and Friedberg Germany and I just fell in love with imaging and our teachers used to always say how do you know unless you look yeah how do you know unless you look and that's that just stalk and so and went get out of the Army in 1975 and went to college actually for a year at Orange Coast College here in Orange County I hang in there Hall of Fame which is fun for me I would be in their Hall of Shame I was there for one semester but I was on this speech team my Rianna I just have to take a speech class sure and my speech teacher said you should be on the team and 1976 I won the California state championship for peace oratory I actually had speech I did arguing for a two-state solution in Israel and Palestine because my grandparents my grandmother yes was raised in Bethlehem and so anyways that's where the speech stuff got started and so and becomes very important speaking keep going and then I decide to go to medical school even though my speech to each other totally I wasn't smart enough apparently she had a brother who went to Michigan State and he didn't get in and she's like you know you should do something else yeah and I talked to my dad who said don't spend any more time around that woman yeah because it's like you shed time around was weddy say and anyways I ended up going to medical school at Oral Roberts University in Tulsa Oklahoma loved and I went back in the army so I could do my psychiatric residency at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center it's this world-class huge institution and but the reason I became a psychiatrist is my childhood sweetheart I married her when I was a second year medical student and three months later she tried to kill herself and I'm completely freaked out because I have no idea what to do because mental illness was actually not part of my family sorry nope I mean I had a dad who's you know he's larger than life personality but it was just um part of my experience and so I took her to the chairman of the department of psychiatry at oru and I fell in love with him I mean not sexually but I fell in love with him because I realized if he helped it wouldn't just help her that it would help me which it would help her son when we got married she had a two-year-old who I adopted and I just saw psychiatry has the ability to change generations of people and it was personal yes me yeah I have loved it every single day for the last 40 years except I joined the only medical specialty that never looks at the organ at treated and I inherited the word from my father yeah because I'm like why aren't you looking obviously these are brain related problems it's not because this person just wants to be an ass and actually recently did a vlog which I just learned about is a video blog that Logan Paul is one of the famous YouTube oh yeah bloggers that and Logan had all sorts of problems and he came to our clinic in Encino of a new clinic there and his chief complaint was I want to know why I'm an is love adding I love you I love the insight yeah and it turned out he had a significant brain injury a trampoline accident when he was 12 years old and it's easy to call him bad it's much harder to go why and so I knew that so when I became a psychiatrist I'm looking for imaging how do you know unless you look and then I did my residency at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center was there for three years and then I'm also a child psychiatrist I did that in Hawaii which thought was awesome smart but and then the army sent me to a little place in the Mojave Desert called Fort Irwin where they trained the American soldiers to fight the Russians in the desert and you know later it's the Iraqis and so on and while I'm there I'm still searching and I come across neurofeedback which is a treatment where we put electrodes on your skull monitor the activity in your brain and teach you to change it and now I'm like almond Wow yes and were there were they doing early like what we have done the early imaging of that or was it just reading it on a monitor it was hooking your brain up to a computer and actually being able to look at the electrical yeah activity and I still do that yeah so it's a study now we do call quantitative yes G it looks at the electrical activity in your brain but I did that in 1987 1988 and and I'm so excited but in 1991 so in 1989 I got out of the army cuz I realized they had more places like Fort Irwin right I mean I'm 40 miles north of Barstow is not your idea now and I set up the first Amen Clinics so we just had our 30th birthday and in 1991 I started doing a study called brain SPECT imaging inspect looks at blood flow and activity it looks at how your brain works and I was the director of a substance abuse treatment program at the local hospital where I was living in Northern California and I just walked into this Grand Rounds at my hospital and the doctor who was head of medicine at the local hospital said SPECT is a tool to give psychiatrists more information to help your patient and my first 10 cases it dramatically changed what I did with my patients and I was hooked one patient her name was Mathilde she'd been admitted to my service because she'd been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease and she almost burned the house down she had five girls so I bonded with the family how old was she she's 69 ok so again when you look at her she looks like she had Alzheimer's disease she couldn't remember anything a fact was flat you know it looks were flat but I'm like how the heck do I know so I looked and in 1991 there was already imaging studies on Alzheimer's disease is the back half of your brain is dying so that's what we see in Alzheimer's she didn't have that her emotional brain was working way too hard oh my god she has this thing called pseudo dementia where she looks like she's demented but she's really depressed and on wellbutrin a really good antidepressant within three weeks she's teaching cooking classes on the ward and it was like the movie awakenings with Robin Williams and except what's different than awakenings is she stayed that way and I'm like a little kid because I went into this not for the money I went into it to help people because that's my reward is when you get better that's my reward yeah and I'm just like a little kid so excited and another 12 year old boy who was variant and aggressive took a pencil at school put it in the neck of one of his friends and he'd seen psychiatrist and I'm like why is he just awful you know what why and when I scanned him he had damage to his temporal lobe and his frontal lobes were sleepy so what I learned damage to your temporal lobe can go with mood instability irritability temper problems memory and learning problems and frontal lobes he can't supervise himself so when I targeted his medicine he literally became one of the sweetest people on the planet and not just drugged out dummy doubt no yeah because when people do that it means did not die don't know how to use medicine because that's not the goal yeah that's right never maybe you know we all see that I mean it's I'm I'm I'm interjecting interrupting because we have my brain specs in front of us and I think it'd be really interesting because you could you could talk cases for days but I want to make it personal I literally text Daniel last night at like 10:30 at night and said could you bring it right before and after right let's show them because I guarantee that people that are listening us right now they've experienced what we're talking about whether it's being angry getting upset I actually wrote down one of the questions was you know how do we help people eliminate some of the emotional highs and lows right which so we're gonna get into all of that but take a second and show them and obviously we'll be putting this up on the screens if you're if you're watching this and if you're just listening to the audio you might want to jump over to Tom Perry comm and actually take a look at this take take a minute and show the people maybe to that camera what what my brain looked like when I first came into you and then let's talk about what we did to get it back on track or maybe you know you just described it you're the doctor say no respect look said blood flow and activity it's different than a cat scan or an MRI they show what the brain actually physically looks like this looks at function yes and so it's the difference between popping the engine of a car and seeing what the engine actually physically looks like versus SPECT is turning the car on ya and seeing how it works yes and if you have an anatomical problem this is likely to show it to me but this is a functional problem and so here SPECT basically tells us three things good activity too little or too much and then my job is to balance and this is looking at the outside surface of the brain so this view we're looking up from the bottom the top is the front part of the brain the bottom is the back and what we want is full even symmetrical activity this is from one side the other side and this is looking down from the top and a little bumpy but the one I'm really worried about is your left temporal lobe in your right temporal lobe or clearly hurt in a pattern consistent with multiple concussions because the temporal lobe should be full and fat and it looked like somebody pinched them in yes and you know I always say I was God's consultant I would have put bumper guards around the sentir temporal love because they're very sharp you are never meant to snowboard no you were never meant to play football you were never meant to hit soccer balls with your hat and call to my producer ever he was a soccer player so it's troubled and I could see why you were having trouble because there's actually a very interesting part of the temporal lobes called the hippocampus we should talk about that because the hippocampus is the brains major mood memory and learning center ok mood memory and learning and learning but outside of that what does it really do hippocampus come out from the Greek and it actually means seahorse and because it's shaped like a seahorse actually in my living room I have a big painting of the pajamas because it's so important yes and every day you make about 700 new stem cell seahorses so the hippocampus is one of the few areas of the brain that continues to renew itself by the stem cell production but what's interesting I just turned 65 my seahorses are not likely to stick around where mice 15 almost 16 year-old daughter hers are yeah why because it's blood flow that did you know that neurons brain cells don't age it's our blood vessels that age so whatever you can do to take care of your vasculature your blood vessels that is the secret to anti-aging it's which means it's exercise and not smoking not drinking much caffeine not drinking much alcohol because all of those things decrease blood flow and I'll say the controversial thing everybody asked me marijuana is not good medicine for your brain right now if you're dying of cancer yeah that's different use it to eat if it's Tuesday and you're having an edible because you're just gonna have with your friends yeah it's prematurely aging your brain now so in your scan bilateral both sides temporal lobes not healthy and you were feeling what I represent the other image so here in this one blue is I want this one young blue is average activity red and white are the most active parts of the brain and in a healthy scan for a man your age the back part is really active and everything else is sort of quiet but they remind us what is the back part because this is this this is like the supercomputer so the back bottom part of our brain we have an organ called the cerebellum just 10% of the brain's volume but 50% of the brains neurons half of your neurons are in the cerebellum yep so cerebellum is Latin for little brain but it's way more important than most people think and most gayatri's never even think about the cerebellum because they never look at the brain which has been something I've been trying to change right it's one of the missions of my life I want you to love your brain and look at it anyways yours are blowing up your head just in case you're wondering your cerebellum is sleepy but your anxiety centers are up and if you look here it almost looks like a diamond in there and that can go with past emotional trauma now it doesn't mean it has to but whenever I see it I'm like you know any significant trauma now remember we taught you that you were asking me all these questions like before you even showed me this you were saying now did something happen in the early days and I'm thinking wow I was kicked out of five high schools get up both parents homes sure right I mean but but that was 30 years ago and it like it's the lasting imprint exactly in your brain and your basal ganglia which are here they're white-hot mine are too yeah these are people who can't stop yeah they're just always okay go on vacation they walk on the beach for like ten minutes and then they write a bug let's go do something relaxing and the beautiful thing and why I'm showing you this is this is clearly a brain headed for trouble mm-hmm and your follow-up scan and so this was two twelve sixteen and this is six months later is your cerebellum is so much healthier this is what a healthy cell phone looks like and it's involved in processing and being able to think quickly and if you're a speaker you have to do that for skinny questions all the time the top part of the diamond is comma the basal ganglia the anxiety center on the other side's comma so we're making progress and then in the outside you have better temporal lobe activity especially here on the left side yeah so it's like six months and we're making serious progress so I know people don't want to know how but I want a frame we're gonna cover that but I want to just acknowledge this too when when I first looked at this and saw basically the front of my brain had flattened in six months later I had regained that shape how is that even possible first of all how is that possible did I bang my head in the back so hard that my brain actually smooshed back into my head right it's a frightening thought well but your brain is in a closed space so this is why you should never let a childhood a soccer ball with their head your brain is in a very hard skull that has multiple sharp bony ridges so if I'd brought my model yeah you look inside and you're like oh my god because if you damage your brain you damage your ability to do everything in your life as being married which is hard enough with the good brain - doing well at work - managing your money - managing your health you know 70% of us in America are overweight and I published two studies that shows your weight goes up the size and function of your brain goes down and if we heard it it's so hard to make a good decision about food anyways yes now you're much more likely to make a bad decision which has long-term negative consequences I think this is so important for people you you might even have room wine that because it's it's basically success but gets success but damaged baguettes more pain more suffering which makes bad decisions poor decisions that massively impact your life that's why that his work is so important for me so talk about how because when people ask me you know I mean yeah I was literally I was travelling around the country after I got this and every similar I do I'd go if you saw me speak eight months ago this was my brain this is my brain now and they're like what did you do now I can I can give the answer but you know I'm gonna hear it from the doctors orders here what was the program you put me on so before I started imaging mm-hmm I didn't care about my own brain it's crazy right I was the top neuroscience student yes in my medical school and I just I'd never seen mine and I didn't know it was really part of the program to get people well I'm so embarrassed when I say that but when I scan myself in 1991 so when I started skin I scanned everybody I knew yeah I scanned my mom was a perfect brain but it fits the quality of her life she's 88 and has 50 grandchildren great-grandchildren she knows everybody's name she's everybody's best friend she's the most consistent reliable loving human on the planet yeah and and then I scan mine it wasn't good because I played football in high school and I had meningitis when I was a young soldier and I had a lot of bad habits so here I am helping people with psychiatric problems I don't care at all about my own brain I'm chubby I'm not sleeping I'm eating bad food I see mine I develop a I call brain Envy I wanted my mother's pray yes and you know I always say fried was wrong penis envy is not the cause of anybody's problems and forty years I've never seen it once but you know the thing you really want is a better brain yes and so so brain health is ultimately three things brain envy you got to care about it avoid anything that hurts it you have to know the list and we've already talked about head trauma and marijuana and alcohol and nicotine and caffeine avoid things that hurt it do things that help you have to know the less yes and ultimately in my new book the end of mental illness that I'm working on I came up with a mnemonic called bright minds and it tells you what to avoid and what to do and so it's if you want to keep your brain healthy or rescue it which we did with you rescue it if it's headed to the dark place you have to prevent or treat the eleven major risk factors that steal your mind and we know what they are and so suffice give us come on give us a few examples don't don't is yeah mnemonic and Abby in bright minds is for blood flow right low blood flow is number one brain imaging predictor of Alzheimer's disease it's also seen in ADHD in depression and schizophrenia you don't want to ever do anything that damages your blood vessels so my grandfather who I love dearly had his first heart attack he developed a major depression a year later and that's very common because any blood vessel disorder is likely to increase your risk the psychiatric disorders and it I learned that firsthand because I loved him and it was so sad for me see so blood flow so anything that hurts it caffeine nicotine not exercising hypertension as blood pressure goes own blood flow to the brain goes down hypertension has in stress hypertension as and high blood pressure okay and any form of heart disease heart arrhythmia heart attack heart infection those things so if you love your brain you have to love your heart yeah and do the right thing yeah and this is gonna sound bizarre but did you know 40 percent of 40 year old men have erectile dysfunction what's really it's a blood flow problem of course 70% of 70 year old men have erectile dysfunction and so if you love your brain which means you'll love your heart your sexual performance will be better and that's actually one of the things my patients often tell me my sex life is so much better since I started working with you it's about blood flow ladies and gentlemen bonuses and listen to this podcast pay attention to the blood flow so now our is retirement and aging when you stop him learning yes your brain starts dying yes and you know I just turned 65 I've seen thousands of 65 year old and older brains it's not good news no but it doesn't have to be bad news yeah if you get serious you can guide this whole group of 90 year old men and women that have stunning looking brains my grandmother was when I got her brain at 92 was gorgeous and her secret was knitting because knitting is a cerebellar exercise because the cerebellum is involved in coordination and it's this fine motor coordination among ping pong it's awesome yeah and people who play racquet sports yes live longer than everybody else did you know that I'm not shocked and people have played football and soccer live less long than anybody else unfortunately keep seeing that in the news no question yeah so ours retirement and aging you want to make new learning part of everything you do which is why this podcast is good and her training programs what you're doing is you're stretching yes people's brains and helping them make money which decreases their stress at the same time I is inflam which is a major cause of depression and dementia and I did a study on omega-3 fatty acid levels cuz when they're low inflammation goes up ninety seven percent of the population had suboptimal levels of omega-3 fatty acid don't we just talking about fish oils here fish oil fish yeah and not eating yeah processed foods filled with pro-inflammatory foods like corn soy wheat and dairy and people go ah that's everything I eat well there's 10,000 other choices you know God gave you a big brain for a reason yes and also I go back and say yeah but you're overweight you're depressed you're upset most of the time and you're eating stuff that's actually creating it I think that's what that's the connection that people aren't making they know it's bad for them right but it's a gym quick when we add them in here Jim cook would always say it's common sense too common practice people understand it they just don't do it and so you have to give him a reason yeah why yes and so as I try to go around the world and create brainmd it's like I love my brain and I worked with BJ Fogg do you know BJ no it's a really interesting guy he works at the Stanford persuasive tech lab and it's about how people change yes and so we worked with him for six months and we created 50 tiny habits so tiny habits is this thing what is the smallest thing I can do today that will make the biggest difference in your life and so our number one tiny habit is before you do anything before you say anything before you eat anything just ask yourself is this good for my brain or bad for and if you can answer that question with love because doing the right thing is never about you should do it because if you think you should do it you won't do it now God said you shouldn't go to the tree the next scene in the book of Genesis there at the tree now God said to Adam what is your goal yeah and my goal is for her not to wear clothes yeah and she goes let's go to the trees like no it doesn't fit the goals I have from my life they're gonna you're gonna wear clothes and they're gonna kick us out of the Garden of Eden bad idea but because people don't make decisions yeah based on their calls yeah they make impulsive decisions but I love sugar I love ya alcohol I love and it's like I think a bad relations the one I hear all the time but I just need a glass of wine to mellow out or I need to you know I just need to eat something you know that's just gonna mellow me out you actually live that will kill them Yeah right because ultimately you need a healthy brain yes because without it everything in your life is harder and so also under inflammation is the gut brain connection because when your gut is not right you're more likely to be inflamed because you develop this thing called leaky gut where stuff gets inside your body but you don't want and it can cause autoimmune disorders can cause pain can cause arthritis so sorry probiotics can be really helpful say probiotics this is where Brad Davidson changed my life when I was 40 he's like you have to kill all inflammation in your body and we gotta get your gut healthy and you know I'd heard this before like how many times should go to the bathroom every day my old nutritionist would say well how many meals did you have today and I was like three she's like well there's your number I'm like holy crow that I would just go around ask people how many times to go to the bathroom or day Oh fairy why yes and such a weird question I'm like well it sounds like maybe once and I'm like oh my god you're full of so do you have any stats on that like like I'm obviously sharing things that I was told early on inflammation the impact of the lack of digestion right we lack of gut health if your guts not right you're more likely to have brain fog more likely to be anxious and have trouble sleeping you have a hundred trillion bugs in your gut ten times the number of cells in your body so it's almost like the body is the host for the bugs we're talking parasites right now other parasites hiria there Oh Kyra some parasite and you should have about eighty five percent healthy bugs to about 15% of the troublemakers you know people have heard of e.coli yeah and so everybody has e.coli in them it's when you damage the healthy ones and how do you do that well what does alcohol kill bugs you know my wife's a nurse and why does she put alcohol on your skin before she gives you a shot because it's killing the bugs yeah so drinking a lot of alcohol is murdering a lot of the bugs antibiotics what antibiotics kill bugs yeah pesticides what a pesticides kill bugs it's like well I don't need pesticides well every time you're eating something that's not organic and some of the times when you are even organic yeah you're ingesting pesticides artificial sweeteners like Splenda have been shown to damage the microbiome or the bugs you know that there's a whole bunch of people listening right now like oh well there's nothing I can to thin I mean he's taken all the fun no caffeine no nicotine I don't like exercise you know I got to eat fish oil every day or eat fish every day I can't drink I can't smoke I think that's not a man song what do you do so I have a course called brain thrive by 25 and actually people want to learn more about our online courses ayman University but this is my favorite course and we've taught it for 10 years it's in all 50 states seven countries and we teach kids this information we teach them to fall in love with their brain yeah and invariably a nine-year-old a ninth grade boy never girl yeah will raise his hand and go how can you have any fun just like you technically and we play this game with them called who has more fun mm-hmm the kid with the good brain or the kid with the bad brain who gets the girl and gets to keep her because he's not an ass yeah the kid with the good brain or the kid with the bad brain who has the most independence because their parents trust them yeah the most kid with the good brain or the kid with the bad brain who gets into the college they want to get into who ultimately makes and keeps the most money because of the decisions they make who lives the longest who has the most meaning and purpose so I don't want to hear I can't have any fun yeah that means your mindset is screwed up because without a healthy brain nothing in your life is as good as it can be mm-hmm take that take that everybody all right so now with my last name I could have been a preacher I know you but when I heard cuz growing up Catholic I'm like father amen nobody would believe yes so blood for a blood flow retirement in aging inflammation what's the next one genetics G is for genetics and people get genetics all backwards because genes are not a death sentence mm-hmm they should be away yes yeah I have heart disease in my family I have obesity in my family I have a brother that's 150 pounds overweight while his sister that's the same and it horrifies me so when I tested my genome he said I should be fat but I'm not yeah why because I know it's a risk and I'm gonna do everything I can to protect myself from the rest so I have this great scan of Leeza Gibbons so Lisa's a well-known celebrity whose mother and grandmother died with Alzheimer's disease and she came to see me when she was 51 because she is stressed and going through some personal stuff and she lets me tell this story and her brain looks like she was headed for Alzheimer's disease because we can actually see if you are headed for Alzheimer's disease decades before you have any symptoms whether or not you're headed for the dark place okay before you tell me where do you see that the spec so what you see so if we go to your first scan what you see is the back half of your brain is dying so I would see low activity here but I would also see this area it's called the post posterior cingulate and it's visual memory integration and yours is sort of sleepy but six months later it's phenomenal yes yeah and so what we're doing is preventing it in you well how exciting is that absolutely because you're not an in-the-moment person where I just couldn't make a decision from now you are thinking mm-hmm about five years from now about 10 years I've got a 20-year vision for my life and it ray it has a healthy brain in it and a healthy brain in it so the impulse to drink or the impulse to have the banana split it doesn't fit mm-hmm right I use those words with my patients all the time yeah so then what if I do this then what happens and does it fit and does it fit with the goals I have for my life so genes and their I have some genetic interventions blueberries green tea curcumin all help the and and the genes story so interesting because it's like oh I have heart disease in my family there's nothing I can do everyone thinks it's detsen and yeah it's complete nonsense because of the thing we learned about 20 years ago called epigenetics that my habits turn on or off certain genes that make illness more or less likely in my babies and grandbabies yeah and so it's not about you it's about generations of you and in my new book the end of mental illness actually dedicated to my two nieces they were raised in chaos they have a huge genetic risk factor for mental illness schizophrenia bipolar disorder OCD depression addictions criminal behavior so and they were raised by parents who had domestic violence depression drug abuse they went to multiple schools and about three years ago this Tania's family or Hannah's family sorry her half-sister she was estranged from her half-sister but when we got a call from CPS that they had taken the children we knew we must act yes and so we wrapped services around there mother who was an addict at the time she just had her one-year chip I'm so proud of the rats and we know these girls are loaded for mental illness and so the end of mental illness how do I prevent it in them and their babies and grand babies and they're doing phenomenally Wow yes by you know they're no longer addicted to hot cheetos you know my first grocery trip with them grocery store trip was so painful for them because I said look before we go in I'm just gonna tell you I don't spend money on things that are gonna hurt you and so so now it's hard for they're like what does that even mean that means is half of what they wanted they didn't dad yeah but now and we made the turn about four months into this thing when we're at summer house in Corona del Mar yeah and Alize ordered a salmon salad and finished it and liked it and now that's it for my brain we're bad for it yeah so genes are not a death sentence yes I think that to be a wake-up call so important for everybody listeners cuz I mean we've all heard that story I mean you you hear millions of times I've heard it you know thousands of times from people say well you know my family the way we were raised who we are my parents in might you know like in my blood I have a bad back I'm like well the fact that you're 25 pounds overweight doesn't help and you don't exercising you never stretch well no no it's my genetics that's the lie how do you get people like what's your best hack to actually get people to create awareness that they can take control and do something about it I scan them that's why I love dementia yeah because you see it and you go oh my god this is terrible I want it better so you like me yes when I saw my terrible skin I develop brain envy you did the same thing and then you acted on it yes and within six months you got benefit I did the big NFL study so that H is head trauma yes brain is soft about the consistency of soft butter skull is really hard skull has sharp bony ridges head trauma he's a male you're cause of psychiatric illness and nobody knows about it because most psychiatrists never look at the brain yes it's just not part of what they were taught to do and it's not part of you know they go what does this can gonna tell you the underlying physiology of the patient in front of you you you're gonna really guess at that are you insane and one of the things I learned is 40% of the patients who come Damon Clinics had a significant brain injury interesting before they came to see us and it's a major cause of homelessness of suicide of alcohol abuse of drug abuse of depression of panic attacks and you know I mean that's why you and I are sitting here and standing there talking yeah head trauma damages people's why tell the story about Andrew I just wanted your TED talk again and I and I feel the same way but it's it's this is an important story so when I first started doing imagery you know so excited I was a little kid I mean it's like my life was meant to do this I got no end of grief from my colleagues but like my dad I'm good at saying yeah and I just kept doing it but I have two personal flaws that I don't like is one I'd like being liked and two as I hate conflict and so now I'm being hated by my golly yes and I'm in a war yeah and and I was being worn out by it emotionally and then in April 1995 I got a call from my sister-in-law sherry 10:30 one night that my 9 year old nephew who's also my godson attacked a little girl on the baseball field that day for no reason and he hurt her I'm horrified and I'm like what else is going on with her with him and she said Danny he's different he's mean he doesn't smile anymore I went into his room today and found two pictures he had drawn one of them he was hanging from a tree and a suicide the other one he was shooting other children I'm talking to nine-year-old oh boy nine-year-old boy who's callin boy yeah or Sandy Hook or roar waiting to happen waiting to happen and now I'd already been scanning people for four years so my first thought is you have to scan him my next thought is you want to scan everybody you know baby it's a family problem yes except I knew his family his mom and dad are great people and so they brought him to see me and I held his hand while he held his teddy bear got scan yeah and he had a cyst the size of a golf ball occupy in the space of his talk about last morning and I called his pediatrician I said find somebody to take this out and he called three neurologists all of them said they didn't think the cyst was related to his behavior problem and they wouldn't operate on him until he had real symptoms and I wrote a physical attack of the child or writing you know suicide notes essentially an in color is not and I'm like I have a homicidal suicidal boy what do you mean by real symptoms and he got anxious cuz I'm really pissed off yeah and he's like well I think they mean seizures or he loses consciousness I'm like you're really gonna wait until he has seizures or losing conscience I hung up and then I called the neurosurgeon at UCLA the pediatric neurosurgeon Jorge Lucero and said he said dr. Raymond when kids with cysts are symptomatic we drain them he's obviously symptomatic and I got two calls after surgery one from his mother saying that when Andrew woke up from surgery he smiled at her he hadn't smiled for a year the second call was from dr. lazaar who said oh my god dr. Raymond that cyst was so aggressive and had put so much pressure on his brain that actually thin the bone over his temporal lobe that is now eggshells thin he said if he would have been hit in the head with the ball would have killed him instantly either way he would have been dead in six months if that was the moment I don't care if you like communion yeah and now Andrew goodness he's 33 and he's married he got married last year I cried through the whole thing he owns his own home he's got a job he's a normal wonderful human the easy thing when people do bad things is to call them bad that's easy the hard thing is to go why and we need to create a new paradigm where we look at the brain on a regular basis and to not do that is insane yes because to think you I could just guess at what was wrong with him most 999 psychiatrist out of a thousand child psychiatrist would have put him on meds yeah but I'm in therapy yep but that wouldn't that work yeah that that is the norm of our society it's the norm remaining of depression is a prozac deficiency exact when it's not it's a symptom of a troubled brain yeah so we're going through this list but I want to bounce I want to bounce your minute cuz I have all these questions and a lot of people are asking questions on Instagram that I want to hit you with and we're gonna come back to to get to tee on bright but one of the questions that was brought up is tell me how to eliminate the lows and depression well the first thing you do is you start loving your brain it's the first thing you do you know I always think of people in four big circles you know there's a biological part to us so that's the bright lens and brain there's a psychological part to us where I teach people to kill the ants the automatic negative thoughts yes still their happiness there's a social part of us you know maybe the highs and lows are because you're around really difficult people who have bad brains by the way we're talking about all my entrepreneurial crazy rock star salespeople real estate agents lenders you know etc that that's exactly there in the stress all day long keep going and then there's a spiritual part to all of us which is why are you on the planet why do you care if you're Purpose Driven like you are and like I am you tend to be happier yes but it's all four of those circles working together to make you who you are and so you want better moods well the first thing you need is a better diet yes there's this great study from Australia where they measured people from two of their outer islands one of them had fast-food restaurants on the island the other one did not the one who had fast-food restaurants significantly lower levels of omega-3 fatty acids so they had more inflammation yep and five five times the level of depression just because of the food they we're eating yes and so I think know better do better and if you just increase the number of green leafy vegetables and colorful vegetables your mood is better they found it to actually be a treatment for depression yes so someone else asked and kind of staying in this this same line was hold on I want to find it really fast here but the five must supplements for a healthy brain so and the five may just be a random number so the supplements for a healthy brain so part of it depends on your brain yeah but I think everybody should take multiple vitamin because it you know according to the CDC we have nutrient deficiencies in this country magnesium zinc vitamin C vitamin D and a multiple vitamin just helps jumper ban omega-3 fatty acids fish oil and if you're vegetarian you can get Omega threes from algae they make algae based EPA and DHA the problem is it's really expensive and it's really hard so the fish oil for example that we make at brainmd it doesn't have fish proteins in it it's just really loaded with healthy omega-3 fatty acids vitamin D you should know and measure yes item in D level and then you should optimize it I live in Southern California where it's sunny 330 days a year but my level was terrible me too I just did my most recent blood work and so may I take 7,000 units of vitamin D every day and my levels a B which is good so normals between thirty and a hundred but people who are over 40 compared to people who are under 20 have half the risk of cancer and when you have low vitamin D you're hungry all the time yep because leptin the hormone that tells you not to eat doesn't work in your brain yeah and so as soon as I increase my vitamin D intake my appetite went away and that helped me because you know I told you I have fat people in my family yes and I've struggled with it my whole life and and now I don't because I'm not hungry all the time yeah and I make better decisions right because I'm conscious and purposeful about that another supplement said depending on your type I was just gonna say it's a Donnell armor I think she should get her blood work done what do you think everyone - actually no people teach this principle yes you can't change what you don't measure you can't change what you don't measure so everybody every year should get a blood work panel with CBC chemistry panel testosterone e if you're a woman you know your vitamin D C reactive protein for inflammation and hemoglobin a1c a blood sugar which we'll talk about every year you should do you should do that and and then the supplement should be based on your type yeah and I based on the imaging I realized a long time ago not everybody can get a scan so based on thousands of scans we developed our free brain health assessment to go to brain health assessment comm tell you which of the sixteen brain types you have give it that one more time brain health assessment let's put that up on the screen brain health assessment comm and it'll tell you which of the sixteen types you have are you impulsive are you compulsive or you sad are you anxious and then it'll recommend supplements targeted to your type good and that's how I think that's elements I really appreciate you having that answer me there's obviously that we all know the basics right you gotta have omegas but I think at the end that everyone listening you've got to get your blood work done I do it I do it every six months just to see the changes in you know we live on the road traveling airplanes hotels stress onstage for 10 12 hours a day you know grinding the way we do I don't even use word grinding like I'm aligned with my values in my vision of my mission right so not grinding but adrenals right my adrenals was just shot after after months of traveling on the road so now I'm taking a massive number of adrenals based upon my blood work to keep me more balanced they got to do it got to do it all right you want to keep doing what you do mm-hmm all right so I'm gonna keep I'm gonna keep bouncing and we're gonna come back to two bright minds can one of his brain scans detect a brain aneurysm no Ellen Emerson not the right study for that so MRA is the right study for that that's an mr angiogram got it we're looking at activity and blood flow but not individual blood vessels yes yes all right how to detox mercury exposure well one stop exposure always one stop yeah Bayside restaurant on Sunday with my kids and my son-in-law ordered swordfish and he does that a lot I'm like don't do that yeah Tony Robbins came to see me because he had mercury poisoning from yes insane amount of swordfish he was eating yes and so decrease exposure and then I'm a fan of supporting your four organs of detoxification so talk about decrease exposure to mercury so I don't eat tuna and I don't eat swordfish and I had my mercury fillings out of my head yeah so but the four organs of detoxification or your kidneys so drink more water be purposeful about that your God eat more fiber because your gut in the microbiome they're great at detoxifying you if you feed them right your liver stop the alcohol and eat brassicas so brassicas are detoxifying vegetables brussel sprouts cauliflower broccoli kale yeah cabbage I love all those I love right there's no suffering I'm getting well you just have to have you know you either need to know how to make them or have somebody's you know be nice to the person who does know how to make them and and then your skin is you'd the biggest detox organ in your body yes and so we're totally into T now with toxins but take saunas infrared saunas yes people who take the most saunas have the lowest risk of Alzheimer's disease so there's a study from Finland on people who took zero to one a week two to three a week and five to seven a week and the two to three saunas a week had a 30% drop in their risk of Alzheimer's disease resting the people who did five to seven had a 60% drop in their risk of Alzheimer's disease so like saunas yes and it's not just sweating it's also increasing something called heat shock proteins that actually help your blood vessels and help detoxify your system what about cold plunge what about cryo I'm not doing cryo just about every day and what benefit do you get from it removes a lot of the aches and pains especially post a workout and absolutely when I'm traveling in LA New York you know LA to London I'll get off do a cryo and it just feels like it just strips away 12 hours on an airplane so I just I just feel better the aches and pains being probably the main thing so inflammation being this you're in it for two minutes three minutes three minutes - two 25-ish Fahrenheit yeah I don't know yeah I'm okay I have to try it okay yes go definitely cold but I love it all right so go back to toxins I mean this is interesting that she was asking about you know so we're lower Curie exposure to toxic society I mean people go why the increase incidence of abd or why the increased incidence of autism you know yes autism in 1991 was one in 10,000 children now it's one in 55 why that's not as genetic change in our society I think it's vulnerable people that are being assaulted by air pollution water pollution plastic pollution I mean we've seen these massive lawsuits against roundup 286 million dollars a jury awarded a man massive lawsuits against baby powder yeah that the plastics that we are consuming the parabens and phthalates they're called hormone disruptors yeah and I like this app I have no money in the app it's called think dirty it's you can scan all of your personal products and it'll tell you on a scale of one to ten how quickly they're killing you you should not be putting aluminum under your armpits every day yeah and you know there are aluminum free deodorant work and when I first downloaded that out and I scan my bathroom I throw out half of it Oh easy so soft soap yeah for example I'm on a scale of one to ten when is good ten is killing you early was it ten yes horrified yeah and now I get something off Amazon's main Africa called Alafia yeah and it's not very expensive and it works Barbasol the shaving cream I used since I was like 14 yeah is it ten yes and now I get something called kiss my face yep that's a to her mother's market and it's a 2 and it actually is cheaper because it lasts way longer you know boys like gone in two weeks yeah this is gone into my wife's buy more so faster you sew and people call but it's expensive it's like no it's not but being sick is expensive people don't you get it thank you no I can't do that it's you with too much money it's like come on God gave you a big brain for reason yes you can figure out how to do this because if your brains better you're going to make more money yes they don't get the money thing right people go all the doctors aren't imaging because of the money yeah it's like now it's not the money it's the mindset yeah gotta get your mindset right yeah this group is all about that I mean that's why they've eaten you up every time we've done work together so alright toxins what's the next one so you know and in toxins yeah yeah you know it's alcohol marijuana any drugs of abuse really but it's toxic air mold exposure every real-estate agent knows that one and it's so important Dave Asprey and I are friends and he first got his scan 14 years ago brain look like crap it was really fat also he was and he we had brain fog it was terrible he had mold in this house and actually he did a documentary I'm in called moldy okay and it's brilliant it's it's a major cause of psychiatric problems okay I want to go on a limb here why is it that marijuana is now being pushed on people like alcohol and everything else why is that I mean it's just it's I mean I grew up in the day and age when look I mean I I tried pop when I was a kid like it you know like everybody else you know maybe maybe every else growing up in my area did but then you kind of realize like I I think I woke up around 17 and said every time I do this I become a zombie I've got way too much energy I've got way too many things I want to do so it just wasn't I was easy it wasn't my thing and now I look at a bunch of people I know that are 30s 40s 50s 60s that are taking edibles like it's it's a Tuesday night they're dropping an edible smoking some weed hanging out having a drink and I'm just I'm questioning the sanity of it so let me talk about this because I have no dog in the fight yeah I you know I don't have a marijuana company and I actually make more money if you do marijuana because you're more likely to see me exactly so so I have no dog in the fight except I've seen a hundred and fifty thousand spec scans over the last 30 years and the marijuana ones look older yeah they look sicker I have so many 16 year old patients who start smoking pot and all of a sudden they look like they have a TD yeah I have no motivation they can't do school does it happen to everybody no but it happens enough that it's risky business yeah if you smoke as a teenager spot it increases your risk of psychosis four hundred and fifty percent if you smoke as a teenager it increases your risk of depression and suicide one of my friends who's 76 he's been smoking for 50 years and he came to see me his brain looked like he was 106 I mean it really looked awful yeah and he stopped yeah and you know for about the first two months he was struggling with you know some anxiety and insomnia but you know I gave him some supplements and now he's better than ever so it's the little lie now I'm a fan tannaz not but I'm a fan of legalizing marijuana cos please don't put them in jail I agree you know he put them in a cage really and let him hang out with bad people and give them bad food and chronically stressed though that's not smart but let's not say it's good for everybody and now that it's legal in many states there's gonna be a lot of study and a lot of the studies are already coming out and saying it's increasing the risk of suicide and depression and things like that yeah so sorry this is arbitrary but in alcohol yeah no not really yeah is it worse than xanax no not really but none of those things are good for you that you once shared a quote and now of course now I'm really gonna pick it you know somebody's you know a little scar here X percentage of women under age 40 are on some kind of xanax or something so 23% of women between the ages of 20 and 60 are taking antidepressant medication it's a scandal yeah what else is a scandal is 36% of teenage girls mm-hmm will struggle with major depression during their adolescence it's insane yeah and it's because we're working on the wrong paradigm and in my new book the end of mental illness I have this writing device you'll like there's a section in each chapter on if I was an evil ruler mmm how would I create mental illness in America and basically I'd create American society I'd give everybody social media apps that make everybody else's life look amazing and by comparison yours sucks I create the KFC hot cheetos sandwich there's a new sandwich by KFC hot now so if you're listening to this and you're going oh that sounds amazing you have work to do because I look at that and I'm like that is clearly a weapon of mass destruction and these companies hire neuroscientists mm-hmm they hire neuroscientists like me yeah to figure out how to make addictive gadgets yeah so that they can get more mindshare more of your attention to make money yep don't let them do that there's actually a book about this called hooked how to create addictive gadgets oh yes and I'm not okay with that yeah and the more time you spend on the gadgets the more likely you are to be anxious depressed and overweight and so we have to be careful my grandson my oldest grandson he came out of the womb addicted to the iPhone and when he gets screen time his tics go up you know gets blinky things in his face it's like no these things are we need to be thoughtful yes and allowing children to play you know these violent video games Grand Theft Auto that's abuse I it's shocking and I know someone's gonna say okay someone's gonna be listening like at least you righteous son of a you know like what what are they talking about and yet all I would say is look around at society right I mean I don't think we're being righteous in any way shape or form I think I you have such a caring for a human being yeah I was yeah I'd create Fox News and CNN if I was evil war because what did what did they do they focus on what's wrong and they and look yet people to fight with each other yeah and I got to do Hannity and I don't know if I got to do Hannity I was you were sentenced so he needs to do anity and the and and I've done him twice and one was actually really good I do it with Pastor Warren and I work on the Daniel plant yes but the other it was just why are we yelling in each other and why are we fighting yeah right to pit people against each other which is what's happening in our society increases the incidence of mental illness and we have to be more thoughtful we have to be more careful and I'm coming up with the evil ruler card game I think it's fantastic all right I actually want you to switch gears you talked about the Daniel plan and I was actually in the gym this morning and then again with my my Active Release therapist I add quite the morning Jim Active Release therapists stretching and then cryo and then you and I so it's been a it's been a brain active morning in the gym talking with my buddy we're talking about the Daniel plan and the impact of that and I starting to tell the story but you could tell it way better you said I'm sitting at church with my wife you know the story I'm talking about tell that please so I just finished my book change your brain ginger body yeah it's odds my second book on the connection between physical health and mental health and it was a Sunday morning I was just so happy yeah and we went to Mariners that's where we were going and at the time which is a big church Newport Beach and I said why don't you drop Chloe off at children's church so she has sex at the time I'll go save his seats and as I walk toward the sanctuary there are hundreds of doughnuts for sale yeah I'm preacher and I've seen the doughnut since I was a little boy yeah yeah but that day they pissed me off yeah and I actually remember I took a picture of them cuz um like I'm not happy right around the donuts or bacon and sausage cooking on the grill and now I'm really not be bacon has all sorts of bad things that are for you and then as I walked in the sanctuary off to the side they were cooking hot dogs for after church and I'm thinking I'm going to church to get my soul fed these bastards are trying to kill me yeah and I tried to get you to heaven sooner and as I sat down the minister started talking about the ice cream festival the night before and obvious at this point and I don't I'm not like that I'm not all reactive emotionally generally I'm furious and so when Tana finds me in church I'm typing on my phone and she hates that and she gave me that oh yeah that are you being on your phone at church only your wife can give you like and so I showed her what I was writing go to church get Donuts hot dogs bacon sausage ice cream they have no idea they are sending people to heaven early saved them then kill them yes this is not the plan yes and I prayed that Sunday that God would use me to change the culture of food that church no lie yeah two weeks later Rick Warren called me he's the senior pastor at Saddleback Church cover of Time magazine twice as a man faster the author of the purpose in life 50 million copies worldwide and he said I'm fat yeah my church is fat will you help me and together with my friend Mark Hyman we created the Daniel plan that has now been done in thousands of churches around the world any optics on or data around how much weight has been lost because of that well the first year they lost a quarter of a million pounds the so the same as the Space Shuttle but weight loss was really the side effect sure it was people got off their medicine there was better memory better energy less pain the the stories of transformation or that's what it's all about yeah I mean that's what you know like what what drives you the stories is this story it's the healing it's people getting better I look at my own situation and just that experience it's like all I want to do is share you with everybody afterwards we did remember we did the Facebook live sitting in your office and you had all of the NFL brain specs sitting in front of us talk about that just for a second because anybody saw the movie Will Smith concussion they experienced a bit of you inside of that well as a consultant on the movie I was actually written into it as hope and written out of it so I know what that's like but in 2007 Anthony Davis came to see me he's the Hall of Fame running back from us sees people in Southern California will know he's a local hero he's called the Notre Dame killer because in 1972 he scored six touchdowns against the University of Notre Dame I got goose bumps and but in 2007 he had memory problems temper problems he had periods of confusion he's on the 405 freeway and he has no idea where he's going he had to actually pull off and one of the pharmacists at USC recommended he come see me and at 54 his brain looked like he was 85 and bad for 85 yeah clearly had traumatic brain injury and I put him on multiple vitamin fish oil brain loose mmm taught him those three things brain and being avoid things that hurt it new things that help it and within 3 months he's Roddick we better and he's so excited yes he's like doc we have to tell people and so he wrote to the Commissioner about we need to work on rehabilitating brain trauma Commissioner never wrote him back because they were in full-on denial prom yeah but in January 2009 we started our study we partnered with the NFL Players Association and we've scanned and treated 300 NFL players and within two months 80% of our players get better when we do that we put them on the supplements and we teach them about brain health and I have cool players like Terry Bradshaw and rosey Grier and Jack Young legends and legends legends and the idea behind this study is yes playing football causes long-term brain damage don't lie about it just and and I don't think parents should be signing consent forms for their children because they're the children's brains are not finished developing how do you really give consent that this could actually impact your ability to be a good dad or your ability to be a good mom or your ability you know it's just the facts that football causes long-term brain damage but if you're gonna play one of my players just signed an 88 million dollar deal if you're gonna play you should be putting your brain in a healing environment you should be rehabbing it every day yeah talk about you sent me to this place and it was for me it was painful but it was sitting in that oxygen chamber for an hour at a time I think I did it five or six times it was extraordinary obviously the benefits all part of sort of my healing process but talk about that just for a second so one of my favorite treatments for a traumatic brain injury is hyperbaric oxygen if you have low blood flow to your brain I'm gonna want to put you in a chamber because more oxygen under pressure increases the oxygen to your brain it also increases stem cell yes and it promotes healing and five concussions you had were wounds yes and hyperbaric oxygen is actually approved by Medicare for 14 wound-healing indications and I think anybody that's had a stroke should probably be in a hyperbaric chamber yeah now we don't have the Lazarus treatment to bring the dead back to life but we can get this struggling yes better yes and too often people have neurodegenerative diseases like strokes or Parkinson's people just you know all they do is they're like sheep and that they follow I'm taking this medicine or that and the neurologist is not talking to them about what we need to change your diet we need to put your brain in a healing environment because it's dying on you and there's so little of that going on just because of how medicine has changed since I've been a doctor you know is a psychiatrist I used to get an hour with people yeah and now it's just turned into 15-minute med Jackson and I have no interest in that yeah and people go but that's what they reimburse well so what you know be good enough people want to come see you yeah and pay you yes it's like don't just go with the flow because the flow is toxic yeah your dad called you a maverick or was it your mom that's my dad yeah to him that was something that was not the positive maverick we accept if we have time he's my best story okay you should so I'm doing plank this morning for three three minutes and I am and I am focused and you know that's I mean that for me that's a lot but I'm thinking about your dad and I'm thinking that son of a is - six minutes have admitted planks so tell that story he texts me yeah actually did it he texted me yesterday with you know the time that he was able to do a plank yes oh my god your dad is yeah he's 90 90 and and he and I never really got along very well because it was like no bonding he was not a great dad right he never went to one of my little league games or basketball games and I was bitter about that it's like the only time I see you is when I'm working it's not about yeah but over time I mean I realized he's a product as his exactly and he is the American dream he was chairman of the board of unified grocers which is for billion dollar company before they were acquired and yeah he's really smart and realized about yes but he would never listen to me when I told him in 1979 that I wanted to be a psychiatrist he asked me why I didn't want to be a real doctor why I wanted to be a nut doctor and hang out with nuts all day long so you don't get father of the Year award saying those gotta bake and then when I realized I had to get healthy and then I encouraged him because I love him it's like now you're a health nut yeah what's with you in the nuts is what he said but when he was 85 he had mold in his house and he developed a chronic cough yes and then a heart arrhythmia and then heart failure and I thought we were gonna lose him and he got depressed first time in his life he got depressed and he said was this in the year 85 or when he was and he was 85 years so I thought right so it's really never - yeah this is so here's ago he's he looked at me and he was so sad and he said I'm sick of being sick mm-hmm what do you want me to do yeah and he's so stubborn you know he did everything yes right so those of you going oh my god this is a lot he's like bring it on yeah he said I don't want to feel this way anymore yes he wasn't going to work and he'd been going to work for 70 years that's who he is and so we so he completely changed his diet immediately and I have six siblings and they're like oh you don't have to be as serious as Danny is and he's like no he said you should listen to him you're fat yeah that's what he doing my siblings and they'd text me like tell him to leave us alone and I'm like absolutely not and because I'm not the lever person in my family who is my dad is yeah yeah and so he eats right we start working out he's 85 years old three pounds yeah then six pounds yeah and 12 pounds then 20 pounds worked out last Sunday he lists lifted over 20,000 pounds during our set right I mean he can pull down a hundred pounds and do it 60 times a beast that's and then went behind e and within six months he lost 40 pounds yeah he lost his heart failure mm-hmm he got the mold taken care of he's got more energy and my promise to him at 90 and now he's 19 you'll be better than when you're 70 and he just brags about how strong oh yeah and then you know because we'd always compete doing planks and at two minutes I'm like okay this is enough I don't believe in suffering yeah and my cousin challenged him and she went a minute he went six that that just drives me nuts I know Jeff may is one of our coaches isn't seen right now Jeff Mays I call you out six minute plank oh wow all right let's finish the let's finish the bright minds so we said blood flow retirement and aging right inflammation genetics head trauma toxins so toxic so just one simple thing is exercise for blood flow new learning for retirement and aging omega-3 fatty acids and get your gut Roy yeah genes know what's in your family and be serious to prevent it yeah head trauma stop texting while you're driving yes don't be reading your phone while you're walking down the stairs when you're walking and you think the car sees you make sure you have that person's eyes because they very well may be distracted Yeah right toxins just avoid things that hurt your brain the M is Mindstorms these electrical storms that go on in your brain that often trigger panic attacks emotional reactions aggression and what's the cause of that I've never heard that before head trauma can do it genetics can do it but it's the storms and that's why we often use anti-seizure medicines to calm down the storm but you know the biggest trigger is fluorescent lights yeah sure so if you have low sugar it's your brain is likely to get irritable and you're more likely to react in a way that you shouldn't so it's basically a higher protein lower simple carbohydrate diet it helps to stabilize how your brain fires hmm the eye is immunity and infections so common like things like Lyme disease herpes epstein-barr people who had mononucleosis those things can reimburse so if your mind is not getting right doing simple things somebody should check you for infections I have this great story I get a text every day about noon from this girl's mother Adriana's mother how can I pray for you today it's bad when she was 16 her famine Adriana was 16 her family went to Yosemite and they when they went to their cabin they were surrounded by six deer and they thought it was a magical moment ten days later she starts hallucinating she becomes aggressive paranoid and she's hospitalized to Kaiser they diagnosed her with schizophrenia the medicine doesn't work she goes to Stanford the doctor at Stanford told the mother she was in denial that a dran is gonna need to be on this medicine for the rest of her life which point she brought her to her Northern California clinic her brains on fire likewise her brain on fire she had Lyme disease from the Deer Tick Wow and Lyme there's a new book about this called bitten that Lyme was actually developed as a biological weapon and by accident got released in the Northeast but if you look at the North if you look at the map of the United States the highest incidence of schizophrenia which is a very severe mental illness it's the Northeast the Upper Midwest and even the west coast and I was thinking cold cold and then you lost me at West Coast West Coast if you overlay on that map the highest incidence of Lyme they're identical interesting so on an antibiotic a drannit got a brain back got her life back she recently graduated from Pepperdine and then the University of London with the master's degree normal beautiful so the doctor at Stanford I have problems with this you're gonna have to do this for the rest of your life never having looked at her brain or screened her for all the potential causes of psychosis and losing your mind I'm not okay with that no and I'm never gonna be okay now that we need to change the paradigm and I will spend the rest of my life trying to do that thank you and that's why you know Deb Adrian's mother prays for me because it's a big mission yeah go back to fluorescent lights a good friend of mine mark Davison from thousand watt who's just this creative branding genius comes to my office and in a month and a half ago he walks in and he puts on these yellow it looks like like hunting kind of glasses right that whatever yeah and he said I just I can't do the lights it just it just impacts me in so many bad ways and we didn't go into it I just said it's just another cool thing that Mark does whatever so what what is that fluorescent lights what should we be doing we should replace them when we can with grow lights that have full spectrum lights because the fluorescent lights not for everybody but for some people agitate them yeah and irritates them and gives them headaches there's an interesting syndrome I talked about in my new book called the Irlen syndrome ir lem and these are people that light really disrupts their brain they have depth perception problems so they have trouble catching balls they have you see them at the mall these are people who have a terrible time getting on escalators so most of us just walk on but these people stand at the bottom and then they watch and then with a lot of anxiety they get on because their depth perception is not right because light is in fearing with some of the pathways in their brain depth perception headaches especially when they read they're often anxious they look like they have a Dede and when they read words move on the page so either blurry halo words move and when they put on colored filtered lenses all of it goes away and the Irlen syndrome is very common after head trauma and so the treatment has colored filtered lenses some of my NHL players because they have a number of NHL players actually one of them just won the Stanley Cup he wears a tinted mask because he's a better hockey player Frisch's his depth perception is right so if you have headaches if you have night driving problems and there's a self test on the urlan website IRL I am calm it's miraculous for the people who have it the colored lenses my sister-in-law who we talked about the one who had problems with addiction well she also had nineteen car accidents and she was embarrassed to tell me she said I see these blue halos around things she thought I was gonna think she was psychotic yeah and she had the worst case of Erlin I'd ever seen and we screamed her treated her and now she's just so much better so let's go back to it and this mindstorm thing is fantastic okay what's what's the I immunity and infections okay so we want to strengthen your immune system think vitamin D get your gut right again and if your brain is going the wrong way someone should screen you for things like Lyme and herpes this thing called toxoplasmosis which toxoplasmosis is a parasite that you get from cats from stray cats and that and the story is really funny that this parasite actually affects lots of different animals but it can only sexually reproduce in rats and so when it infects a rat it turns the rat into a cat seeking so it actually works on the dopamine centers of the rat's brain - love cat urine and so when it smells cat urine it goes toward it rather than a way away from it fascinating and the cat eats the rat toxo gets to have sex and reproduce so it's the classic tale of Eat Pray Love just in a really bad way just in a really bad way and it's one of the causes of suicide and it's one of the causes of psychosis easy to call people bad harder to go yeah why so what about things like echinacea like I do a ton of echinacea doctors do you know dr. Schultz is that Richard Schultz that ringing Bell from Santa Monica mm-hmm he's like the you know the guy that my wife studied you know back in the early 90s like he was he was the one that you went to and said okay I've got it you know I'm all sir coming out of my body that's the size of a basketball and the doctors basically said go home and die right and he would say well why don't we instead flesh out your entire body and do you know a six week detox you know we're gonna do enemas everyday we're just gonna clean you out and people get freaked out when we say that stuff but you know he's like he would literally say you're full of he he created a Echinacea product that I've used for years right superfoods green foods all this kind of stuff so any input on that I'm just think about like whatever you can do to build your immune system you want to do it and colorful plants that's the best way yeah along with getting rid of the things that hurt your microbiome just like we talked about yeah okay all right so what's the what's the end nner hormone deficiencies so important low thyroid low testosterone low DHEA growth hormone all of these things they're neurohormones is they I'm in a new movie hopefully be released this fall called quiet explosions with my friend Mark Gordon and we take 10 people who have serious brain problems either emotional problems or head trauma one big wave surfer Shawn dollars in a mark rippin who's the Super Bowl MVP quarterback from the rest of Redskins and we do our magic with them and the stories are just so beautiful about how your brain can heal and one of the primary interventions is testing your hormones you can't change let's work yeah don't measure and then optimizing them either with precursors or the hormones actually themselves I think of them as miracle-gro for your brain yep and if they're not optimal you're not optimal because I can have a normal testosterone level for 65 you're old but do I really want that no no I don't want a 15 year olds no level because now I don't have that but I'm okay with a 40 year old level yes I have energy and strength and vitality I'm not okay with doing what is normal yes because normal quite frankly sucks agree especially bruh Mike yeah hey for my age I'm gonna be I'll be 50 in t-minus 13 months and I started doing like looking at my hormones when I was 40 trying to figure out see that I am I tired all the time like that was that was my it like why am I tired and it was Brad Davidson right our mutual friend Brad who said well wants us to manage your blood work done I'm like probably not since like 1997 he's like yeah we might want to do that as soon as I saw my blood I was like okay it's obvious what I have to do what most people don't know is concussions damage the pituitary gland which is the master hormone lamp and often you get this you know all of them are low and so I just I want to know what's optimal because I want to be my optimal yourself not my predicted self yeah I normal so yes because normal in this country is sick eighty if you're blessed to live to 85 like my dad you have a 50% risk of having dementia you have a one in two chance of having lost your mind I'm not okay with it now and you know in the next five years I'll be seventy I'm not okay with a 70% chance of having erectile dysfunction I'm not okay with that so if you're not okay with that then none of these interventions we've talked about today are heart yeah none of these are hard unless you're okay with the status quo okay I'm gonna switch gears before we do the dnas neuro-link what do you think about Niro length the new company that Elon Musk has put together I'm skeptical of all these things that say they can read your mind yes and that mine too mine can happen through a computer I think it makes great fiction yeah I haven't seen anything that shows this is gonna be ready for prime time in my lifetime yeah we'll see I think they said 2035 b-rank yeah yeah we'll be around but I mean just you know conceptually the thought of putting in a supercomputer into my brain I I think I would be one of the first to line up for it and say let's go for it I just there's just something about that maybe whoops I don't I can't think of the name of the movie but the handsome actor who takes the pill who goes from being a loser to being the most Oh Bradley Cooper yeah limitless limit limitless right I mean like I look at that and go I'd take that pill right like there's just something about one giant X do it lighting optimization ten years after let them let them perfect it before because you know so many of the medicines yeah I learned this you know cuz I was like a young resident oh yeah new medicine yes you know better science and then four years later they're like this causes seizures you uh not do that yeah so so some caution now I'm I know I know what do they call them I'm an early adopter with mine but from everything else I'm sort of the next stage yeah yeah yeah right I'm not the dinosaur but which gets us to D which is diabesity there we go neither word again die of be city what is that it's a combination of being diabetic or pre-diabetic and being overweight or obese got it 50% of the American population is diabetic or pre-diabetic that is insane that's a study from JAMA the Journal of the American Medical Association 14 percent of us have diabetes 30 / 6 6 % are pre-diabetic as your blood sugar goes up atrophy of your brain goes up - it's not a good thing yeah blood sugar is a disaster is this just the fast food you know revolution of America it's that an toxins there's a great book called the toxins solution and he actually argues that toxins are a bigger cause of diabetes than obesity but neither one of them is good for you and then you know 70% of us are overweight 40% of us are obese it's the biggest brain drain in the history of the United States and I published two studies as your weight goes up the size and function of your brain goes down I'm just finally saying if you haven't read this book everyone that's looking this this is the book to change it all for me and I'm sorry I'm interrupting but it's like this is it like if they just go back to these core principles just while we're here just because since school is right around the corner change your brain and change right do you talk about this just for some oh no we're talking about all the the unhealthy people out there but talk about this just for a second right you just sent me this I started scanning it I've got a kid going into college I got a kid going into the second year of college and I'm thumbing through this I'm feeling like a bad dad like I should have been doing things differently it's what was going through my head well what is the organ of learning its right if you don't focus on getting your brain right you're gonna have a harder time and if they have to repeat or take an extra year of college yeah it's like $60,000 or more than and so first thing get your brain right your mind will follow and so change your brain change your rates teaches kids how to love their brain get it right yeah and then there's practical stuff because I was actually not a very good student in high school because I was distracted and working and I was a phenomenal student in college yeah because I learned how to do it like you have to show up you have to be nice to the teacher and one of the secrets from the book is if you read what they're gonna talk about in class ahead of time it's a triple benefit yes one you're getting exposed to words and things you don't know in concept the teachers going to reinforce it you're also going to ask more intelligent questions and so once you get your brain right it's then a strategy on how you can excel even in hard classes like calculus and anatomy and physiology and so on yes all the ones that my boys are like oh I'm not sure if I want to be a doctor anymore right dad talked to me about getting my real estate license alright back to any other thoughts on so say it for me again diabesity diabesity to make sure i'm so it's this combination so this is where your toxins you want to detox your body but you gotta get your food right yeah and people go you should have five servings of fruits and vegetables a day in my mind I think you should have nine Wow because you will actually poop more yeah and you will have more nutrients because the nutrients really do come from plants yeah and so we have all sorts of recipes and things and then I wrote a book on this or look or tannerite yeah a number of cookbooks brain warriors weighs in favor yeah that was a great book by the way great yeah everyone checked that when I was well and then the S is sleep when you don't sleep it actually turns off 700 health-promoting genes it makes you more likely to be sick what's the optimal number of hours we should be asleep you know for most people it's about seven and a half mmm because we have these 90-minute cycles so people go eight hours yes like no people sleep eight hours they don't only wake up foggy yeah so it's about seven and a half on average in 1900 we got nine hours of sleep at night yeah and now we get six and a half and you can't go through that kind of change in just a short period of time without a dramatic negative impact on our society absolutely I'm actually on my sleep cycle app right now I'm tracking I'm on night number 2032 and I'm at seven hours and five minutes on average of sleep yeah so I would say that's great because you love your brain absolutely and I know if I get that rest it's when you feel good you perform good it's that simple well I need the rest to feel good we and we just learned this that when you sleep your brain cleans or washes itself and we didn't know that but yeah that actually you have this is called the glymphatic system you know we have lymphatic system through our body but not in our brain and so they thought our brain just didn't have one yes but they found they found it recently is an amazing that we just found something that we didn't know it's the glymphatic glymphatic system and it was rain washes the brain but it only turns on when you're asleep yes so it's sort of like trickles during the day and turns on at night yes and so if you're not sleeping trash builds up making it harder for you to think and increasing your risk about summers disease so for example Winston Churchill and Margaret Thatcher only slept four hours a night and both of them died with dementia yes which is interesting but you know the reason I like bright minds so much is it really is our integrative medicine program to keep your brain healthy for the rest of your life yes and I initially developed it for memory and then I went oh this is depression rescue this is addiction rush yes this is how do I keep my brain we end mental illness so the end of mental illness begins with brain health I love it I love it all right rapidfire Q&A from some other people on Instagram let's see we talked about that one best best tips for recovering from concussion let's go here so my my new trainer of the last couple years Richard Farley jr. big shout out to rich says what are the top three things I can do to start immediately optimizing my brain health I mean you've given a hundred first the first one you is everyday just start asking yourself is this good for my brain or bad for to me and that's the big one and then you just have to know the list yes the second thing that I do every day is when I wake up I say to myself sexually on the top of my to-do list is today is going to be a great day yeah and the reason I do that is because then my brain will find out why today is going to be very damn out like a really busy day today and I'm like today is going to be a great day and I go with you and I get to do some other things I'm gonna see my grandchildren tonight yeah rather than feel overwhelmed my brain directs change your focus change your life yeah and then I take my supplements in the morning yeah I just do it yep right and for me I'm not like it three times a day person cuz I'm busy I just I take them in the morning and it's for me it's an act of service to myself yes I'm at two times a day right I take my focus formula in the morning I take my you know I do all my vitamin D stuff after I've had lunch right I do enzymes also right before I eat and I do the omegas throughout the day this one's interesting this is actually from one of my great coaches and a phenomenal business person doug Edrington says parents assume life decisions have already paved the road and it's too late to change is that true absolutely not we talked about it was certainly with genetics but maybe speak to that so parents assume life decisions have already been already paved the road is it too late to change we talked about how my 85 year old dad thank you is better at 90 yes but my next book that I'm gonna work on that's called personalized parenting it's parenting to your child's brain ties but I think there is so much to talk about wind parenting and I'm a huge fan of Love and Logic parenting with love and logic Jim Fey who wrote that he and I were friends he actually was he's 80 and he struggled with his memory came to see me and his book was so helpful for Tana he's not kill Chloe that I'm like you have to stay with me we became really close friends his brain is better so that's happy yeah but it's the one thing about parenting that's so important is you want to let your children make and pay for mistakes when the cost is cheap rather I was wondering where you were going with that when a cost is high so if a six-year-old forgets his homework you don't take it to school six-year-old forgets his lunch you don't take it to school you teach them to be responsive my favorite story is when Chloe was 7 they were fighting about homework every night and I'm like don't do that I'm a child psychiatrist but now listening to me yeah she came and announced to Chloe I'm never going to help here with your homework again or tell you to do it unless you asked for help yeah and Chloe got very suspicious yes and she stormed upstairs and she said I never said I wasn't gonna do it I'm just not gonna do it now he didn't Anna backed on and left all the anxiety with Chloe Chloe's now a junior and high school straight-a student she holds the anxiety for her life and the decisions moomin life rather than the helicopter parent who is just angry and upset all the time trying to control love parent came with love and logic personal responsibility okay so my producer has two questions so rich fire away I've got your note here earlier you mentioned when you were talking about Tom scans diet exercise blood flow we're like great treatments but I'm also curious about one thing you mentioned when you talked about early trauma in life what about talking about like this talking to a therapist help it's a great question and talking to a therapist can be very effective when your brain works right and so trying to do software programming on a brain that has hardware problems is really hard yes that makes sense and so you know we could have put you on the couch and and done that and I'm a huge fan of psychotherapy it's so much more effective if your hippocampus works right yes so you can remember what happens and you don't have to fight the mood instability and the irritability and so but once the brain works right it still needs to be programmed yes right and so often we live in an undisciplined thinking world so you know whether it's politicians the level of cognitive discipline is just insane I'm so unhappy about that and so here's the exercise whenever you feel sad or you feel mad or you feel nervous or out of control one did you sleep how's your blood sugar did you eat and write down what you're thinking and then ask yourself if it's true right I want people to think about their thoughts yes now once your brain is right and you still find these periods of anxiety or depression well then we want to see what's the emotional bridge to that is that bridged back to abandonment issues is it bridge back to abuse or anxiety because you erase an alcoholic home I studied children and grandchildren of alcoholics because my first wife grew up in a severely abusive alcoholic home and I was just wondering why you mad at me all the time yes right so why'd you have to get her brain right because she's in a bad car accident - the therapy can be so helpful but most people don't think of oh I need to do therapy after I balance my brain and so they go and they waste a lot of time well it's taking hormones without checking your blood first right I mean it just it doesn't make sense and couples know couples therapist yeah looks at people's brains before they do therapy yes how do you know if they have bipolar disorder they had a head trauma their baby D they you know the hence toxic exposures this one case I'm getting ready to film my fourteenth public television special congratulations and I tell the story of Bonnie and Dave who failed marital therapy therapist gave them and ouch after three years twenty five thousand dollars they said I can't help you anymore after at divorce three years and how many sessions yeah and he had all these diagnoses misc mixed personality disorder with narcissistic and antisocial features ADHD bipolar disorder since didn't work and but they wanted to be married so they got mad at the therapists and the therapist said well I know this doctor and Costa Mesa takes care of difficult people time to see you guys are nuts yeah his brain was toxic they just had these big holes and it looked like a drug addicts brain yeah except he said he never did drugs and didn't drink and what's the first thing we've learned in psychiatry school about drug addicts say lie they lie a lot so in front of his wife I'm why is that true you don't do drugs and you drinkin ya said doctor him and I have many problems that's not it and so I looked at the wife and says it's that true and she said oh yes every button drugs doesn't drink he's just an yeah yeah but in my head I'm like why does brain look exactly exactly and so I went through the differential diagnosis environmental toxin severe hypothyroidism a near drowning episode cuz any loss of oxygen images yes your brain and infection and so I said where do you work he said I work in a Furniture Factory I said what do you do he said I finished furniture all day he was doing drugs he's doing the worst drug of abuse act which is inhaling organic solvents and I then looked to the wife and I said so when did he become an she said what do you mean I said did you marry him that way do you have father issues you're trying to work out and she said no he was great it wasn't until about five years ago and then the light bulb went on oh my god about the time he took this job his behavior started to change so in his attempt so if you play this out in his attempt to be a good husband mm-hmm by going to work in support in his family he's being poisoned and becoming a horrible husband and being a horrible husband and so she could have divorced him he would have had no psychological resources cuz his brain was terrible he could have killed himself or killed his family right we see these stories all the time tragic and no one's thinking about what's going on in the brain yes it's insane how about that for answer what's your what's your second question so when it comes to changing patterns changing beliefs you know that tapping into the unconscious mind if you want change something usually takes either a very traumatic event very something very dramatic or it's repetition and the third option may be hypnotherapy so what are your thoughts on that so I'm a huge fan of hypnotherapy in fact if I didn't find the brain scans that would have been my legacy my first professional papers were on hypnosis so I like getting people into a trance-like state where their mind is more open and I have great stories of taking them back to when their symptoms first began so I think people change when they're in pain just like you said a lot of people change because they're super smart and they go oh this makes sense to me I need to do this differently so sometimes they'll make big changes like my dad did he was in pain sometimes they'll make these small incremental changes but hypnosis can be very powerful we talked a lot about morning routines what would you say is the ideal evening routine for someone that has a healthy brain I think it's turning off the gadgets or at least if you won't put blue light blockers on so they don't mess up your melatonin before I go to bed at night I say a prayer and then I review my day looking for what went well yeah today because that will actually set my dreams up to be more positive which is what I want I want to have more dreams because then you're in REM sleep which is the restorative sleep but I want to set them up and just for people have nightmares my niece who you know came from this terrible abusive environment she had nightmares when she first came to see I said I want you to write them down and then I want you to write a new ending to the night yes and she was always being abandoned and so she wrote the ending of being rescued and it was great because the nightmares went away so don't eat three hours before bed so this thing intermittent fasting I don't know if you do that I do that every day pretty much and I go 12 to 16 hours and don't eat because people have nighttime eating mm-hmm have a higher incidence of strokes and hearted heart attacks because when you calm down to go to bed your blood pressure actually drops a little bit if you eat right before bed it increases your blood pressure 10 to 15 percent which then put you at risk for stroke and remote attack love it okay this has been insanely great I have like three pages of notes right and we're right on track on our time tell people how can they find you how can they reach your MAMP sure they just google your name they're gonna find you everywhere but what are some things that they can do with your firm like if they want to get a brains back if they want to go to the site you said earlier brain health what was it brain health brain health assessment assessment so they can learn about their brain hype yeah they can learn about Amen Clinics I have aid clinics around the country soon to be nine Amen Clinics calm brain MD health is our supplement and information product business and naman university so if they liked our discussion yes and they want to go deep we have a brain health coaching certification course that we have 3,000 members and Aemon universities are great resources well yeah you're a special human being my friend as we wrap absolutely okay so one more time the new book is coming out in March it's called the end of mental illness okay so how neuroscience is transforming psychiatry to prevent or reverse anxiety depression bipolar ADHD and more so when you go out on terrible have to make sure we do a little live show and you know yeah I love all of our friends know about it everybody watching this is the book you absolutely should start with I'd love this one for everybody with kids I don't care what age they are to help them get right and ready what's this one feel better fast and make it last is you know when I was thinking about what I wanted to write no one has ever come to me and said they wanted to feel better slower it's like what's instant gratification we live in an instant gratification society push about so happens the book is about what are those things that I do that help me feel better now but not later yeah versus now and later and it's structured in such a beautiful way I've actually done it in businesses where we teach how do you have a better brain yeah how do you have a better mind how do you have better attachments yes how do you have more purpose and inspiration yeah how do you get your food right and ultimately you do all of it not because you should but because you love yourself and a lot of this is coming from that the Stanford persuasive tech lab you mentioned earlier with these tiny habits yeah all sorts of turning out plenty habits right I love that all right so rich thank you for those little bonus questions Daniel thank you so much for coming in and spending time with us this has been just very very in-depth the brain of this whole conversation right going through the bright minds having everybody just go back through each and every one of those and look at maybe where you can make an adjustment whether it's big or small just this oh that's a lot but it's like no your risk factors ya know which of these are yours yes go after those first 100% 100% thank you my friend I really appreciate you always well my friend that was certainly a lot of information and if you're like me I was taking notes I've got three or four pages of notes in front of me because of every time I spent with Daniel it is like that reminder to love your brain and to avoid things that hurt your brain and do more things that make your brain healthy so I hope you got a ton of value with this I hope you reach out to his organization and if you are like many of my personal clients that have gone and done the brain spec that's awesome make sure you tell me all about it should be an email send me a text send me a message on any one of the social platforms and here's to your brain health look forward to talking to you on the next podcast [Music] [Music]

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