Stop Doing THIS! It's Ruining Your Brain: Dr Daniel Amen

you want to prematurely age your brain drop out of school low blood flow is the number one brain Imaging predictor of Alzheimer's disease but you're the first one through my research that seems to be very clear that caffeine is does have a significant cost it's a drug if I was intent on damaging my own brain what would you advise me to do so in the book I talk about a mnemonic called bright Minds you want to keep your brain healthy or rescue it you have to prevent or treat the 11 major risk factors that steal your mind so if you want to damage your brain bright Minds the B is for blood flow low blood flow is the number one brain Imaging predictor of Alzheimer's disease okay how do you get low blood flow caffeine oh nicotine marijuana alcohol having a sedentary lifestyle being overweight the r is retirement and aging can we pause on this uh low blood foot flow you are the first person I've ever spoken to who has a comprehensive and very believable hypothesis that caffeine has a side effect I've asked my guests over and over again because I I think people refer to caffeine often as like this miracle drug that comes with no cost but you're the first one through my research that seems to be very clear that caffeine is does have a significant cost it's a drug it's it's the most common drug it's addictive I mean a little bit's fine but more than a little bit is not fine it increases cortisol you don't want to increase cortisol puts fat around your belly it shrinks your hippocampus but you know the reason I started really paying attention to it is on spect the study I do which is a blood flow study it constricts blood flow 30 percent I have all my patients hold caffeine the morning of their scans because I don't want it to artificially uh show me they have less blood flow than they really do um it it fakes you out to think you have energy what it does is it blocks adenosine the chemical that tells you to go to sleep and so often people rely on caffeine because they're sleep deprived but it's just this bad cycle and so many of my patients stop and uniformly they tell me they feel better they said their energy is better you talk about one particular patient in the book who was struggling with um a variety of difficulties I think it was like brain brain fog and um memory issues and so on and one of the things you advised him to do was to cut coffee Jeff yeah I remember Jeff he was a pilot and I live on caffeine and I'm like you got to get rid of it because brain looked terrible his brain looked terrible his brain looked terrible and he's like no no no and he's like all right I'm gonna do it and so he didn't get headaches we cut it down by five percent a day so three weeks it was gone he didn't have any withdrawal didn't have any headaches and he's like texting me unbelievable energy unbelievable clarity and it it's a drug and why you know I want to teach my pill my patients skills I don't want them to just take pills and caffeine's the drug do you drink caffeine a little bit not much how much was Jeff having um Jeff was having about 600 milligrams a day Jesus which is two venti Starbucks one venti Starbucks is 330 milligrams of caffeine and you know we've supersized everything in this country I don't know if they do that in the UK but we certainly do it here and it's it's not a a good strategy and so long time restriction of blood flow to the brain through these things you've described to caffeine marijuana all of these things has a detrimental impact on the development of the brain pretty straightforward I get that so that's the B Stars retirement and aging you want a prematurely age your brain drop out of school do not engage in new learning I mean you doing this podcast you're always learning new things which is great for you but the lack of when you learn something new your brain makes a new connection when you stop learning or you start doing the same thing over and over again your brain starts to disconnect itself being in a job that does not require new learning is a risk factor for dementia being lonely is a risk factor for dementia so be an ass and you're more likely to hurt your brain at my workplace we have the no rule so there's a book by a Stanford Professor called the no rule love that book and the no rule is a CEO starts with me so I don't get to be one but I'm not tolerating anybody who has Behavior at work and if you're not an you're less likely to be lonely and loneliness is terrible for brain function if you want to prematurely age your brain eat a lot of red meat as if your iron and ferritin levels are high because ferritin is just stored iron 10 stage the brain um the eye is inflammation if you want to increase inflammation which is a root cause of so many medical and mental health issues never floss don't really care about your teeth so you want to love your brain you have to love your mouth it's absolutely critical for you not to have gum disease because if you have gingivitis off odds are you're at increased risk for heart disease and depression and dementia it's fascinating like I didn't learn about this and I didn't really care about my teeth and so I started seeing the lengths between gum disease and heart disease gum disease and brain disease and now I'm a flossing fool but if you want to damage your brain don't care about your mouth your about your teeth don't ever eat fish people who have grilled or baked fish once a week have more gray matter in their brain people have low levels of omega-3 fatty acids have smaller brains and if you want to damage your brain eat the standard American diet so processed food like eat most of your calories from the gas station and from the fast food restaurants near nearby and they spend billions on getting those foods to the perfect crunchiness the perfect meltiness the perfect Aroma because they hire neuroscientists to addict your brain be suspicious um the G is genetics you want to damage your brain blame everything on your genes like I have obesity and heart disease my family but I'm not overweight and I don't have heart disease why I'm on an obesity heart disease prevention program every day of my life because genes load the gun it's what happens to us and what we choose to do that pulls the trigger so I adopted my nieces because their parents couldn't stop using drugs and I'm like adamant if you want my help you have to cooperate there's no vaping there's no drug use there's no alcohol if you love The Driver's CEO brand and you watch this Channel please do me a huge favor become part of the 15 of the viewers on this channel that have hit the Subscribe button it helps us tremendously and the bigger the channel gets the bigger the guests [Music]

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Length: 9min 25sec (565 seconds)

Published: Fri Apr 07 2023