DO THIS Everyday To Completely Heal Your BODY & MIND | Dr. Daniel Amen & Jay Shetty

you want to drip dopamine, don't throw it away because when you throw it away with the chips and the alcohol, you don't have much of the porn left and then you have to go back and do it again and suddenly it's better. Selling author and host of the #1

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th and wellness podcast On Purpose with Jay Shetty. Hello everyone, welcome back to the world's number one

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th podcast by the way, thank you to each and every one of you who come back every week to listen, learn and grow. now you know that I am fascinated and committed to introducing you to people who can expand

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brain, who can help you heal internally and externally, who can help you take care of your life in 360 degrees and today's guest is someone who is the first. guest Who has been on the podcast twice and now the first guest to have been on the podcast three times, which shows us how much he is loved and how much I really appreciate all his ideas and guidance, plus he is my go-to person I always listened to about a new treatment or a new therapy or whatever new.

I'm texting

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person saying, "Hey, what do you think about

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?" I really appreciate how you live an extremely holistic life from a from a spiritual point of view from a scientific point of view and having someone that I can openly ask these questions to helps me so I hope that today helps you. I'm talking about the one and only Dr. Daniel Amen. Dr. eamon's mission is to end mental health. disease by creating a revolution in brain health Dr. Emin is an adult and child psychiatrist and founder of Amen Clinics with 10 locations in the US. Eamonn Clinics has the brain scan database for psychiatry largest in the world, with a total of more than 200,000 patient-specific scans.

Hailing from 155 countries, he is also the founder of Brain MD, a fast-growing scientific company, and Eamonn University, which has trained thousands of medical and mental health professionals on the methods he has developed. Dr. Ayman is not new to the books or television he has produced for over 16 years. National public television brain programs and his online videos on the brain and mental health have been viewed more than 300 million times and Dr. Raymond is a 12-time New York Times bestselling author. I have a long way to go. and today we are talking about his latest book, it is called "You are happier", the seven secrets of neuroscience to feel good according to your brain type.

This is the book. I want you to go and get the link in the title right now. Dr. Daniel Layman, thank you. So much for being here, thank you for letting me have you in my pocket at all times so I can text you and ask you weird and wonderful questions, and most of all, thank you for being so kind and warm. Kind-hearted person who always brings his best energy and serves others, so thank you for being here, which makes me happy to be with you. You know, I think of happiness as a daily practice and appreciating the people you love is fund

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tal to that, yes, yes. and I really appreciate you, you said you were happy to be here when we were filming it a couple seconds ago and then you tell me I looked good and I told you it's because I've been doing everything. the right things and follow your advice and I remember, I think it was our second interview, not the first, our second interview.

I was telling you that I only have one cheat day a week now and you looked at me and said, well. You know why they call it a cheat day, right, and I don't. I thought: what do you mean? and you say yes, because you are tricking your brain as you know and you gave me this beautiful explanation and I was thinking about you. Always have these things that you say stick with me and if anyone doesn't follow Dr. Danny Layman on Instagram, make sure you follow him because I love how he posts brain scans from before and after taking a certain drug and without it. certain drug with marijuana without marijuana.

I just think the way you communicate brain health is fantastic and great for you, you know my generation, the generation after me. I think we have a lot to learn from you so thank you for what you're doing and how you're doing it too and it always makes me happy to see you and your wife too uh and this has probably been the longest time I haven't seen you. I've seen since you scanned my brain, so that was really fun. It was fun. I was very relieved to know that my brain was working very well. When you see him, you develop a relationship with him and you want him to be better and it's hard to hurt him once you see him.

Yes, that's so true. It's crazy to me that we're not exposed to our brains like you never see your brain, that we use every day, that works for us every day and you don't have access to it other than seeing your

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, you see yourself. I know different organs maybe sometimes but we don't talk much about the brain what our brain is what it does and how we develop a relationship with it because I feel like people are very confused with what the brain is what the

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is you know what Does it do what does not?

I think there are a lot of things out there. How would you describe it well? It's very clear to me, after all the scans I've done, that your brain, the physical functioning of your brain, moment to moment, physical. The functioning of your brain creates your mind and if your brain is not right, your mind is not right and there are many spiritual teachers who will separate the mind from the brain, but you can't because just think about Alzheimer's disease, you know, very brains. damaged. and they are very damaged Minds The Go I mean people who act in a way that they would never act if their brain were healthy and who do not remember the people they are deeply in love with and therefore, if we want a healthy mind, in reality begins. with a healthy brain and you know I have been blessed or cursed to scan over a thousand convicted criminals and over a hundred murderers and their brains are very damaged so if your behavior is that bad you end up in a cage and they I'm not thinking, oh, I have to understand, evaluate, rehabilitate that person's brain and then that better and that helps us all.

Stafsky once said that you can tell about the soul of a society not by how it treats its outstanding citizens but by how it treats its criminals and, you know, when I started scanning people, I didn't really have an opinion on punishment death, I just hadn't thought about it. I thought of free will as black or white, you either have it or you don't, and then when my work became known, defense lawyers would send me people who did really bad things and their brains were very damaged and when I went to court a lot of people I hated myself for that, you know, if you have a bad brain and you did something terrible.

You can't go home, but if you kill them, I mean, it's a really important question and I say, no, you know, it's not a sign of a society involved to kill sick people, I mean, you have to protect society from them, but what I've seen is that if we rehabilitate their brain, they can have a meaningful life and people just don't connect. It's your brain. It's easy to call people bad. It's harder to understand why and can I fix it? What are the things that harm? our brains because I think what we find is we often think like, oh, that person was totally normal and then one day they just changed or we say things like oh, yeah, if you met them like they were quiet and calm like you never would have. . they noticed something and then they did something horrible like what are those habits, what are those patterns that start to damage our brain because I don't think we're aware, like you said, we never see our brain, we don't really talk about it.

I don't really know much about it, what are the things we do from birth that damage our brain and could lead to something as extreme as that? Even before birth. Yes, since marijuana became legal in many states, babies born with marijuana in their bodies. went up seventeen hundred percent, I mean, it's a ridiculous amount, so before you're even born, what happens in the womb can damage the trajectory of your life, have more behavioral problems, have more attention problems, have less empathy for other people and then you. You know that as you go through life, this standard American diet is damaging the brain.

You know you talked about how healthy your diet has been. I follow this guy on Tick Tock for some reason, my tic tocks have gone crazy and he looked at his blood sugar before and after Pop-Tarts and Pop-Tarts was like the worst thing I've ever seen almost worse than Coca- Cola and but, what are we feeding the children? I mean, on free public school lunches, Pop-Tarts, which means we're hurting your blood sugar levels. We're damaging your weight and we're damaging your brain and I have a mnemonic called Bright Minds that helps me remember, you know, like B is for blood flow, low blood flow, number one brain imaging predictor of Alzheimer's, so Netflix is ​​not fair compared to watching TV too often not exercising that damages your brain probably the main cause of brain problems your brain is soft in terms of the consistency of soft butter your skull is very hard and has sharp bone ridges the mild traumatic brain injuries ruin people's lives if you say "hi" Daniel, top of mind from 210,000 scans, mild traumatic brain injuries, physical, from snowboarding, falling off a horse, football, soccer, abuse physical, falls, car accidents, you know, and people texting, driving, texting, and walking, and there are three million new concussions. every year in the United States, meaning over the last 30 years there have been 90 million people who have had concussions, it is very common and a common cause of depression, homelessness, addiction, suicide, panic attacks, ADHD, wow, yeah, I mean, when you explain it clearly, I think what I love about you is I think the two times I did an interview and then when I was with you, I just walked away.

I need to do it so I need to do something for my brain I need to figure it out right and it's It's a good thing as I enjoyed that healthy feeling of Awakening and fear because I think we are very afraid of being afraid in today's society like we don't want to Listen to the truth because it is scary, it is inconvenient, it forces you. change something If someone could do something starting tomorrow, what could someone do when they wake up tomorrow? That might be better for his brain, what would you say? It's okay, you know it and you are happier.

I talk a lot about the little habits that the smallest things that will make the biggest difference and brain and mental health is a daily practice just like physical health, like I said, you look great, it's a daily practice, right? You just don't do it one day a week, you do it every day. day if you want a really great brain and a really great mind, your habits every day and some of my favorites every day are good or bad for my brain. I just like when my daughter turned 19 yesterday and when she was little we I played Chloe's game and Chloe's game was: Is this good for your brain or bad for it?

Frozen blueberries, so two thumbs up, God's candy or avocados, oh, two thumbs up, God's butter, hitting your head with a soccer ball, isn't very stupid, thumbs down, so just I'm playing. with her with that question that takes three seconds, right, I mean, it doesn't take much time and people say what's good and what's bad, second graders know that. I walked into his second grade class, put 20 things on the board and set them aside for me. and they got 19 out of 20 right, so I got a 95 percent and the only thing they got wrong was the orange juice, which they put in the good category, which is too much sugar, yes, and so on as long as you correctly unwrap the sugar from its source of fiber. turn the fruit into juice, it becomes toxic in your

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, so you have to be very careful with that, so that's one, two, every time you wake up in the morning, today is going to be a great day, you have to give it a push your brain, we have a conscious mind. we have an unconscious mind, we have a self-image and your subconscious is paying attention to the words that the conscious mind says, so if you say oh, I don't want to get out of bed, today is going to be a bad day you're going to have a bad day because you just to program your subconscious mind to do that every day, when my feet hit the ground, today is going to be a great day and my favorite of all is um, when you go to bed at night and going to bed is very important because if you want to have a good day starts the night before, it's what went well today so when I go to bed I say a prayer and then I go to what went well and I go to a treasure.

I hunt because I intentionally look for what are the right things that happen and I look for the micro moments, you know, the smallest thing and for me, where I live I see a lot of hummingbirds and butterflies and I just focus on them and I've been doing this for years. and it's very helpful and about two and a half years ago my dad died and I had a terrible day and when I went to bed that night I said a prayer and then I said what went well.today and then the voice in my head, you know, started criticizing me like you're a bad kid and you don't love your dad and whatever, but as is my habit, today I did what went right and I saw this interaction between my mother and the police officer and it was so funny and so beautiful it made me smile and then I thought about all the text messages I got from my friends who found out about my dad and that was peaceful and then I thought about holding his hand before they He took it away and I went to sleep because I'm mastering my mind and not being a victim of the situation doesn't mean I'm not grieving.

I still grieve. I still miss it, but it is these habits, like every day, that direct my mind. to help me while I take care of my brain yes, I love those practical tools because, in effect, what we are trying to do is change our thinking pattern, right, we have a pattern like you said: waking up and saying I'm tired and we put it off and then we get up and then we eat breakfast and we think like I'm still tired and Then we get to lunchtime and we look at the clock and we're like, "I'm still tired" and then at the end I'm still tired, but then we wake up at midnight watching Netflix or whatever to be. be saying I'm still tired and then that becomes our reality that we keep feeding that fatigue and we're getting more and more tired, whereas when you push your brain in a different direction like you said and you said today is going to be a great day now you start making big decisions because you want it to be a great day but what I love about what you have defined and this is different and I appreciate it is that you don't talk about positive thinking, you talk about precise thinking as a healthier way of living and I really like that clarification because I think the positive thinking approach can also be quite toxic, like you just said about your father, it's not that you didn't feel pain, it's not that you don't.

I don't miss it, of course, those are very real human emotions, but you know how to direct them. Can you clarify for our audience today what the difference is between accurate thinking and positive thinking? Can I have this third beer and no? It doesn't impact me negatively or I can drive 125 miles down the highway in the rain and it won't hurt me. The positive thinking is that I can stay up and be on my phone until two in the morning and it won't have a negative impact. they did this big study at Stanford Lewis Turman 1921 they tested 1,400,153 10-year-olds and then followed them for 90 years looking at what success and health and longevity entails and people who don't worry are happy, actually in the beginning.

In the book I talk about the lies of happiness and this is one of the lies, don't worry, be happy, they died before from accidents and preventable diseases. I have an older brother and I adore him, but he is like 150 pounds overweight. I always wanted it. be like him because I'm intense and I work hard and I always have projects and he goes out at three o'clock playing golf and you know, he didn't seem to have a care in the world, but my health is so much better than his because I care and That's why you want to have the right dose of anxiety.

People with low levels of anxiety go to jail because they don't like it. They think, oh, if I do this, something bad could happen, but obviously too much. it makes you suffer and I love the New Test

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t verse John 8 32 know the truth and the truth will set you free and I want to live my life in truth so I want to tell myself always like this what the truth is so if I think Tana I will never Listen, I say, well, it's true, it's true, it's another small habit, it's true to always carry those three words with you.

I don't have any tattoos, but if I had one, it's true, it would be one of the tattoos because I don't want to believe everything I think and that's very important. Your mind creates problems. Know. Thoughts come from all kinds of places. They come from your ancestors. They are actually written in your genetic code. I don't know if you ever read the book. it didn't start with you yes of course yes amazing I love that book and traumas and successes are actually written into our genetic code and our thoughts come from the voices of our moms, our dads, our siblings, our friends, our enemies, the news you hear.

By the way, it's not news anymore, let's be very clear, they bastardize that industry and it's about tribalism and money and it's not about news. I start every day with the good news network, it's just a great app, I have no financial interest in it. I love it, I'm always smiling, you know, sending articles to my kids and the music you listen to. In fact, I did a study on rap, country rock, classical music and heavy metal. We did a memory task with high school and heavy metal students. it was the worst classic it was the best the second best was the country that surprised us married rap fallen in the uh right behind heavy metal oh wow wow because that's like one of the most important forms of music today is rap and the hip-hop, so y Music influences a lot how we feel and that's why you have to be careful with the inputs because you may think they don't matter, but your subconscious mind is listening, yes, absolutely fine.

That's why I want to ask you, this is really interesting to me because that's how I've been. listening to jazz in the car now jazz is my new jazz is my new Usually I don't listen to anything. I usually just talk to myself when I drive, that's been my habit for years. I consider driving to be a time to spend more. time with myself, so I usually don't drive to anything, but when my wife and I are in the car together, we both like music and recently we've been listening to jazz music together, but what I find really interesting about what you just said To say is that there is a difference between what feels good and what is good for you, so someone can say: I feel good when I eat junk food, when I listen to music that is not good for my brain, and when I drink, but when I miss that meal, I don't I don't feel good when I choose classical music, I don't feel good and when I choose to eat healthy and maybe not drink as much, I don't feel good and what fascinates me is our relationship with the feeling of a certain way versus being a certain way, so when I started having to eliminate refined sugar from my diet, something my wife encouraged me to do, I didn't feel good about it, it was painful, I didn't enjoy that feeling in my mind, did I?

TRUE? or when I started going to the gym every day or walking, where now I walk outside every day and when I exercise I don't feel good, but it's good for me, so I started to find out that the things that are actually good for For me, I don't always feel good, so how do you approach the idea of ​​feeling a certain way? Because I feel like everything I do is good for me. I didn't feel good when I started doing it, now I choose. it's because now it's because you're getting the benefit correct the benefit I'm also feeling the pattern change now if I still crave junk food I still have that craving sometimes and maybe once a month now I will be like or I'm going to eat one hamburger like I'm going to eat, you know, I eat a hamburger with fries and whatever and now I don't like the taste after I feel very regretful and I think no.

Even then I need to remember that now I have changed my tastes, like this which has changed now, so tell me a little bit about that, like why we always want to feel happy and feel good, but we don't do it often. Secret number four of the right decisions is to love the food that loves you and during a relationship I want you to love what you eat, but I also want her to love you, so if you are in love with alcohol and alcohol is clearly toxic to your brain . for many reasons, your brain and your body, so it's like you're in an abusive relationship and you know, I just want people to think about what you really want, do you want that mountain of chips or that pool of alcohol? you want energy you want clarity you want memory you want vitality you want creativity and ultimately what I want is I want to feel good and I want to be good and I want to do good and that comes from a brain and body that works well, so I don't want to feel good now but not after, right, that's the mentality of a four-year-old.

I want to feel good now and later, so I love the things I do day in and day out now, that's right. sometimes it takes a while to change your habits the brain is lazy it just wants to do what you've allowed it to do so what you said is so beautiful it's like well I still have cravings and I'll give up and then I'll go why did I do that? Yeah, that's right, I really feel good because then I just don't, I just don't feel amazing, so for that momentary pleasure it's like, well, it's worth it, it looks good on me, so I get another tattoo? someday it will fit, so I recommend that this actually be part of the seven secrets that are lived every day based on clearly defined values, purposes and objectives and, frankly, hedonism is not on my goal list, it is not on my list of values ​​and hedonism, so give in. every craving I have is the enemy of happiness because it ends up wearing down your dopamine or pleasure centers in your brain and I always talk about you in a drip of dopamine, don't throw it away because when you throw it away with the fries and alcohol, with pornography you don't you have a lot left and then you have to go back and do it again and all of a sudden the chemicals control you instead of you controlling yourself, the dopamine becomes so addictive and like you said, now with the pleasure centers. we're having the same amount of what we had doesn't even satisfy the amount of pleasure, so we have to have more to achieve the same amount of pleasure, as far as I understand, that's right, like it's absolutely true, yeah, and fame, uh. it wears down the pleasure centers in your brain and I've been blessed, I mean, I'm friends with yours, Justin Miley, and you know, we talk about this over and over again, how fame is a trap because you know it once you know it.

I had a video that went viral and it had like 40 million views and I was like, oh, that's so exciting, and when the next one gets eight million views, you're like, well, that sucks and you realize how stupid you are. You have to be very careful and you want to drip dopamine, how do you drip dopamine? How does someone do that? Let's say someone who doesn't get 40 million views or 8 million views but they're posting on social media, they're eating a burger, they're having that glass of you know, alcohol every night, whatever it is, how does someone learn?

To do it? I love that idea. I'm thinking about how someone practically drips dopamine, because that's what it's really, it's the micro moments of happiness, so for me, I mean, it's like holding. Tana's hand and then but noticing and feeling her skin and feeling the warmth the softness is like being present being connected or seeing the hummingbird uh watching the sunrise or the sunset depending on where you live is being present noticing what you like much more than what you don't like besides sunlight drip dopamine pumpkin seeds drip dopamine omega-3 fatty acids I just gave you our vegan omega-3 because I know you're vegan and people have been craving it for a long time, but all the vegan Omega-3s do not contain EPA, so omega-3s have EPA and DHA, they are almost all DHA, but EPA is essential for Focus mood and circulation and is the first product on the market that I know. it is simply loaded with the right balance of Omega-3 and what is the difference between EPA and DHA.

They work on different systems of the body. They are both absolutely essential and are essential, meaning you have to get them from an external source (your body does not produce them and for people who are vegan it is very difficult to get healthy levels of EPA and DHA from flax seeds and avocados, for example). , yes, no, I can't wait to start taking them. I'm very excited, what am I? you're going to notice how it will be good, your skin is already good, but your skin, your hair, your nails, that's what people notice good, but their mood is better, a new study conducted today.

Omega-3 fatty acids help reduce the incidence of depression and also help with concentration and help with memory, it is essential because they constitute fats in 20 five percent of the membranes of nerve cells in the brain. I mean, that's hugely important. The reason I find this so fascinating is that I think many of us are trying to solve a problem. mental challenge when it's actually a tangible physical brain challenge, like I'm going to meet a lot of people who say Overall, I feel focused, I feel foggy, I don't feel energy, I feel lethargic, what do I do to motivate myself and it's like , well, no, no, the motivation?

That's not the problem, it's like you're dealing with a lot of other physically tangible things that could be solved and then with good values, good purposes, good goals, you can go in the right direction, but just by having a good set of goals and objectives. . Values ​​are not going to solve the fact that your body is crying out for attention and I think I was definitely in that space for a long time in my life where I wish I had such a strong mind that I didn't realize how much. I was weakening my brain, and in fact, if I strengthened my brain, my mind was even stronger, my body was even better, andyou know everything was interconnected so for anyone listening to this, I want you to remember that if you've I have an energy problem a fatigue problem a focus problem like this is the podcast for you this is what I want you to listen to because chances are you're missing out on some of these things like there's a part of your diet or something that doesn't go into your body well and if you think about it like hardware and software, yeah, setting goals, which is very important and not believing every stupid thing you think that we're going to talk about, it's very important, but those are software programs and you have to have the hardware that will run it, plus I hate the term mental illness and you and I have talked about that before, it's not mental , it's brain and when you call someone mental you shame them, when you call them brain you elevate them. so we need to change the discussion, um, and mental illness is right, everyone talks about their mental illness, but it's the wrong discussion, the discussion is about brain health and yes, you have to schedule it, but what's happening in our society now is one of the reasons why I wrote the book we are the unhappiest since the Great Depression that depression tripled from February 2020 to August 2020. incredible I had never seen anything like it and child suicides skyrocketed depression anxiety the drug abuse skyrocketed and children and it's as if the pharmaceutical industry is gaining that the incidence of antidepressants, anti-anxiety medications like I'm opposed to medication, it's never the first thing I think about, it's like your brain and your habits are fine and then we'll see what you need and more than half of the people who take medication don't really need it last year 337 million of antidepressant prescriptions in the United States, that's crazy, I mean, yeah, it's alarming.

I think we've all experienced it in small microdoses from our family, our friends. the news, but then when you hear it as a collective it's super painful, I mean, how do we as a society that is going through so much pain, how do we collectively heal? Because that's how we're all further behind because of the pandemic. It was already difficult now that we're really dealing with someone who's dealing with a friend or family member or someone in their life who's going through that, it can be overwhelming for anyone, like not everyone is a trained psychiatrist, not everyone is trained as a therapist to can.

To support that type of person, where would you suggest someone start if someone in their life is really spiraling or struggling? I would start by following me on Tick Tock or Instagram or you will be happier or the end of mental illness is something

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new. way to think about it, yes and I dedicated my book The End of Mental Illness to my nieces and right at the beginning of the pandemic we adopted them because their mom and dad couldn't stop using drugs and I'm very proud of them for how well they did. They are doing it just by getting the right supervision, the right love, the right food, and the right habits.

Now they grew up in trauma. You know that Ace test? Adverse childhood experience. Oh, we should talk about it. Yes please. It's a test and it was originally done. by the CDC and Kaiser and it's ten questions about whether you experienced early childhood trauma, things like physical abuse, emotional abuse, sexual abuse, parents getting divorced, parents who were addicts, incarcerated, saw a parent being hit in domestic violence, okay, so 10 of these questions. So how do you get the score? You get zero as if you had no trauma. I got one. My wife is an eight because she grew up in trauma and she wrote about it in her book.

The relentless courage of a frightened child. The nieces we adopted are a nine. If you score four or more, you have an increased risk of seven of the ten leading causes of death. If you score six or more, you have a twelve hundred percent increased risk of suicide. You have an increased risk of addiction depression, pretty much all health problems and our daughter is one, so eight to one, that's the goal. How do you take your trauma to heal it and not give it to the next generation? And when I met Tana I loved her so much, I mean, she's beautiful, she's smart, she's amazing, but when I found out about the trauma I gave her 10 sessions of EMDR, it's a specific psychological treatment for trauma, it means eye movement desensitization and reprocessing. .

She ended up going for a year because there are a lot of things to solve, but to change the trajectory of her life. She is like my best friend. We never like to fight. We get along. We have the same goals. We don't live in the past. We live in the present and what we want for the future. future and many people live with trauma and We are living being controlled by the traumatized eight year old in their lives when they don't have to be and that's why part of being happy is dispelling the traumas of the past.

Where can people take that fascinating-sounding test? you can go online and simply search for adverse childhood experiences. NPR has a free online version and once you pick it up you know how long it takes to do like three minutes, oh wow that's cool, it's only 10 questions, oh wow. that's basically yes or no, but you know, if you have four or more, you're getting help and amdr is great. I want to know more about this. I'm so glad you brought it up because I thought, "I have, I have." I had some clients that I'm training right now and they've been working with someone else in the EMDR space, obviously that's not my experience, but yeah, I wanted to get their take on it, like how to explain if someone who doesn't know what it is .

EMDR is not the name, but what is it as a practice? What you do is actually an eight-step practice. You take a good story and you look up what are the top 10 traumas that you've had in your life and you do this with it, you do it with a therapist, uh, with someone who is trained and certified in this, then you start taking aim, so, what? What is the worst and what is the negative belief with that and what is the positive belief that you would rather believe and where? you feel it in your body and then you hold that image and then you imagine just being on a train and we make your eyes go back and forth or sometimes do alternate tapping on your knees or this thing called The Butterfly Hug to do . alternatively, while you mention that and while you're on the train, you just see where it's going and often the early traumas intensify it, but then with eye movements it helps the brain integrate it from an adult perspective. instead of living from the perspective of a four-year-old and taking the angst of an eight or nine out of ten to zero and it's great and it's one of the quickest therapies because a lot of times people go to a therapist and we talk about the trauma and they just feel worse because what they've done is bring it up, they say subconscious, let's pay attention to these horrible things that you've been trying to forget, but it's integration and me.

We did a study that we published in the Journal of neuros Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, a big journal about eight police officers who were involved in shootings and couldn't go back to work because they were traumatized because you know what you think about the police. I work with a lot of police officers, most of them are kind, caring, service-oriented people and don't want to hurt anyone, so they were devastated and couldn't go back to work. I scanned them and in their brain there is a pattern of trauma. where there is emotional brain was working too hard and after an average of eight sessions his brain had calmed down and everyone went back to work with EMDR with EMDR wow and so on and with the MDR there is no, you are not under anything, there is no substance it is just no and in fact I just sat down to talk to you and started.

I made this connection because what psychedelics do and people ask me about it all the time and I'm not a fan of that because I think it's risky and I understand. to see the consequences of people who do it and who have bad trips, what psychedelics do is they start to fill in some of the holes and grooves in your brain like you know if you've been traumatized and I'm bad, I'm bad. Am I bad or is it my fault it's my fault my fault may help dispel that for some people but its side effects with EMDR there are no side effects and you come out freer so my first experience with EMDR is what I do in my profession you know?

I've often said that I've been bleeding at The Cutting Edge because psychiatrists don't look at the brain, which is crazy, but when I started doing that 30 years ago my colleagues hated me, it's like no, you should. We don't do that, that's not what we do, we make diagnoses based on clusters of symptoms that we don't need to know about the brain, which is like you guys are crazy, but the Medical Board of California investigated me for like a year. the worst year of my life and I had an EMDR therapist working for me in my office and one day I went to Dr.

Lendl and I said, "I'm not okay, do this to me and after an hour I left his office and I didn't care , I thought whatever happened, you know, I love to say it. My friend Byron Katie says argue with reality. Welcome to hell and my anxiety just disappeared and they finally dismissed any complaints against me and I've obviously been doing this for a long time. time, but I just saw how powerful it is. I didn't have to stay attached to the pain. I mean, I'm fascinated to try it myself now and I think it's the only way to know.

But it's great to hear that again, just to clarify. , I think what you're saying is that this is a great practice that helps you move forward and then all the habits still have to be in place because you feel like people do it Yeah, right, it's like the others, you can go back. back and say that dancing is a great brain exercise, but if you drink while dancing you're

completely

ruining the benefit, yeah, yeah, that's great. New study published today. I am very excited. that, um, Rocket Sports people who play racquet sports live longer than everyone else 16 longer than runners longer than anyone else.

I love that because I play ping pong and pickleball, but no, I literally pay. I play all three. I'm getting a ping pong table tennis game and I'm starting to play pickleball and it's so much fun, it's easy, you just need another person, it's easy to do and it's good for you, it's fun and you don't need to be that good, yeah. and it loves you, yeah, so you just have to find what those habits are, what those activities are, I love that, that loves me, yeah, that's fantastic. I want everyone to know that if you don't have them yet, you are happier. which is the book we're talking about, make sure you grab a copy because we're literally scratching the surface, but happy lies are fantastic.

There are 11 lies here that we have been told that we have talked about many of them today that have more. and have more of something like love, sex, fame, drugs, uh, don't worry, be happy, we talk about that positive mindset, we talk about advertisers and fast food, we talk about the need for, you know, technology, which we talked about and we will talk a little more about it. that's also we talk about constantly being in the news, constantly being on top of the news, we talk about alcohol, marijuana, we've touched on a lot of those lies, but I really want you to dig into them because I think those lies are what rule our lives. searches. but focusing on the seven secrets of happiness to talk about that no one else talks about, you said that the brain needs specific nutrients every day to increase happiness, what are some of those specific nutrients because you also gave me along with the vegan omegas What did you also give? me theanine, could you tell us a little bit about why it's so amazing for calm?

Clarity and focus, especially if you tend to be anxious. The theanine in green tea helps you focus and calm down at the same time and yes, green tea has some. of caffeine, but the reason green tea is better than coffee is that the theanine helps calm the effects of caffeine and theanine alone is just magical for many of my patients and those gummies taste great and They don't have sugar because sugar would be a trademark violation and we don't commit trademark violations. Where does the canine come from? What does it come from? Green Tea. Okay, that's where it comes from.

Yes, it is one of the active ingredients in green tea. The catechins in green tea are another great substance. For your brain, my favorite of all we talk about Omega-3 but my favorite is saffron and I have followed the science of saffron for more than 20 years because more than 20 years ago a study came out that showed that it was equally effective as Prozac. and I say whoa um and there is folklore in India India, yes, my mom will love this moment from this podcast. She tells me it's saffron all the time and if you're really happy you must have eaten saffron, so now there are 24 randomized.

Head-to-head controlled trials against antidepressants showing it is equally effective in improving mood, but unlike antidepressants which can decrease sexual function, saffron increases sexual function increases pleasure increases responsiveness even in someStudies have shown that sperm motility improves memory and I like memories, mood and sex, and at the beginning of the pandemic, just when my dad was sick, I make something called happy saffron with saffron, zinc and curcumin. I've taken it every day since then and I think it's just a nice something to help keep people balanced, but supplements depend largely on your brain type, so that's secret number two: what it does. makes some people happy, makes other people miserable, and one-size-fits-all happiness just isn't the reality some people need. novelty and they love surprises, where is type two, there are five main types, that is our spontaneous type, but type 3, the persistent type, they hate surprises and love routine, so they know their type and the kind of your spouse and children and then ask yourself every day. something that makes me especially happy and this book will help people discover their type.

You have the types in the book, so we have the balanced brain type, the spontaneous brain type, the persistent brain type, the sensitive brain type, the cautious brain type and the book. helps you diagnose and find out what type of brain you have so you can do this with your friends, your family, your partner, your children, and that will help you understand what they need more or what they are missing, in fact, my nieces who had . friends and they were at the home spa and they were taking the best quizzes with their friends and getting to know each other's brain type it was a great discussion yeah I love how people walk us through the process you created to Help people discover their brain type.

Well, you know, based on my image work. Yeah, initially I was just looking for the kind of, you know, where the depression is. in the brain and then I realize that there is not just one type of depression, there are seven that add up in the brain, well, there is not one type of ADD, there are seven, that is why Ritalin is controversial for some people, it is A miracle for other people, it's a nightmare. and it depends on how your brain works and then I realized that I was seeing personality patterns like if your frontal lobes work too much you tend to be worried and rigid and if things don't go your way you are upset and I have of My five daughters , two of them have this pattern and I know that no matter what I tell them, they will ignore it, it will bounce, it's like they use Teflon, so for shopping, I love shopping with my daughters and I'm like, "Oh, Yeah".

If you like this the answer will immediately be no so for them I know their type and I wait for them to show me things and if I want them to do something I'll actually ask them the opposite of what I want them to do because you know these people They are naturally oppositional and if I want them to go to the store with me, I'm going to go, I'm going to go to the store, you probably don't want to go? with me, yeah, it's like, what do you mean? I don't want to go with you, we don't spend any time together.

That personalization and individualization approach is very necessary, especially in healthcare, because, as you say, you can and that is what My wife and I see that in us strange diets are completely different so that we have an optimal level and our workouts They are completely different, like my wife is a high intensity exerciser. I am a person who exercises at low intensity. I just don't enjoy it. High intensity doesn't work for me. I feel more inflamed. I feel like you know more heat on my body where I don't need it. I'm pretty. You know active heat as it is and then my wife really enjoys it.

It's really great. for your body, it feels great for men, so I think it's fascinating that we keep trying to take what works for everyone must work for me and we have this trend or this fad and I think this diagnosis of your brain type, although I think. This is the best thing they could have done for us persistent, carb-need people. If you put them on a ketogenic diet, they get depressed and angry. I was on Rachel Ray's show and she was the persistent brain type. On national television we are talking about this and she said I went on a low carb diet and I was so bad that I wondered why my husband didn't let me because the persistent type of brain needs serotonin and if you think about higher protein, more low in simple.

The carb diet is a dopamine diet that helps you focus, but if you give it to the persistent type, they focus more on the things that make them unhappy and make other people unhappy, so the wrong diet can cause the divorce, so you have to like it. the person, but it's also the reason why people get addicted to sugar, because sugar is a simple carbohydrate and sugar increases serotonin and makes you happy. Have you ever wondered when you go to a restaurant why they immediately give you bread and alcohol because they both drop you? frontal lobe, so bread, a simple carbohydrate, increases blood sugar and the pancreas sees this and produces insulin.

Insulin carries tryptophan to the brain. Tryptophan produces serotonin and you feel very happy, that's why people get addicted to cakes, bread, pizza and donuts, and then they give you alcohol because it lowers your frontal lobes, so if they give you free bread and If they offer you alcohol, they will make more money because you will order things that you said before entering the restaurant and that you were not going to order. order including dessert that is very true and I love when they give me bread it's like my favorite but it's not anymore but it's my favorite thing that I love when I walk into a restaurant I ask: do you have a basket of bread?

As you know, it's a habit, right, they're all habits. What I find is that happiness is a very interesting goal. That's what I meant by we want to feel happy, but the things you have to do to feel happy aren't necessarily happy. the things that you want to do if something like initially initially that's what I'm saying until it changes until it changes and by the way, I start the book with this happiness is a moral obligation because you know people like oh, you're writing a book about the happiness that is nonsense, can't you do something more serious?

And I say, but it's a moral obligation, why, because of how you affect other people, I guarantee you if you ask anyone who was raised by an unhappy parent or married to an unhappy spouse or raised an unhappy child, already Whether or not happiness is an ethical issue, then this is important for us to pursue happiness in the context of health. Amazing everyone, that's Dr. Daniel Amen, talking about you happiest, this is the book I really recommend. book I think you already know, there are certain books that will transform the way you think about your brain.

I know that working with Dr. Danny Layman has been really powerful for my brain, so a lot of the habits that I've developed consciously or unconsciously have happened through our conversations, I mean, when you told me about Rocket Sports, that was which led me to start playing tennis and then I started playing pickleball and then I chose, I'm going to buy a ping pong table and it was these really little things that I've exchanged in our conversations that have made big differences in my life and that's why today, When you told me I look great, I said, yeah, thanks to you, Dr.

Dennis, because of you, but I want you to go and pick up this book. The seven secrets of neuroscience. of feeling good according to your brain type the book calls you happier uh Dr. Dan Lehman you will know uh this will not surprise you we end each interview with a quick five, which is our final five uh every time we do this You have to find new answers every time you show up, uh, but this is your Fast Five, so the first question is what's the best brain advice you've ever heard received or given every day.

Ask yourself this question. Is it that good for my brain? or bad, it's so simple, it's the small habit of having a great brain for the rest of your life. Okay, second question, what's the worst brain habit advice you've ever received? So what's the worst brain advice you've ever received? in moderation, which is the Gateway thought to hell, is the Gateway thought to cheating as soon as you hear someone say everything in moderation, they're going to do something bad to their brain. Wow, explain, let's dig into that a little bit because I feel like that's a very common misconception that people have, oh, I need to have a balanced life and a balanced diet, so yeah, but balance for them when they say moderation means sugar. , alcohol, marijuana or everything not.

It doesn't matter well, it means Consuelo, it's their excuse, it's one of the little lies people tell themselves that keeps them fat, depressed and weak-minded, yeah, let's do it. I actually want to make a small step, let's talk a little bit about marijuana because I think. that's become so popular i did it a little bit when i was a kid i played with MIT means i never really got into it you did my brain scan there's no sign of it because i was never too into it uh and obviously since i lived like a monk, no, I don't mess with anything, so no, you know, I haven't drank alcohol for 16 years or something and I haven't drank marijuana for 16 years, um, but what's marijuana doing?

I feel like a lot of people feel like they need it or it benefits their life or it's become so normal now, what are the problems? Well, they need it because it changes their brain to need it to feel normal. What makes people feel they are useful? What calms things down directly in the brain? So I published a study on a thousand marijuana users, every area of ​​their brain has less activity, and then I published the largest imaging study in the world. study on 62,454 scans looking at how the brain ages and look well, accelerated aging and marijuana was the second worst thing to accelerate aging the worst thing was having schizophrenia but the second worst thing frankly surprised me it was worse than alcohol worse than marijuana , hinders and slows down the activation of nerve cells, so if your brain is busy and you are anxious you feel that it is useful, but it has also been shown to damage some structures of neurons and children who smoke or consume have a higher incidence . of anxiety, depression and suicide in their 20s, children who use have a 450 percent higher risk of developing psychosis and people have been psychiatrists for 40 years, we've all seen cases like that now because marijuana is much more potent. that when I was a child there is a word called scrometing which is screaming and vomiting at the same time that if you are in an emergency room people say oh oh this person is poisoned by marijuana not to mention the 1700 percent increase in babies being born with marijuana and the problems that that causes is like people do that before they learn diaphragmatic breathing, before they learn to meditate, before they learn self-hypnosis, before they turn to EMDR to deal with their traumas and that's just not right, so let's do the same. non-toxic stuff first instead of what you know, and that's my problem with psychedelics, it's like you know, maybe at some point, if you have severe PTSD that doesn't respond to anything that might be helpful, but have you done the basics first?

Yes, and the challenge I find. What most people say is that non-toxic things are slow, you have to learn something certain, it's not immediate, like meditation, for example, or, as you know, meditation, let's take, what was the first thing you You said, diaphragmatic breathing, can I help you? break a panic attack in two minutes, yes, if I just get you to breathe, yes, four seconds hold it for one second eight seconds hold it for one second do it for three minutes you will feel much better, much calmer, this is not difficult, yeah, but it's not taught, so people don't know, oh yeah, and then they say, where's my dealer?

That's the hard part, that's the hard part, they don't teach us and then we look for the quick fix and then. we get addicted to the Quick Fix because it's a quick fix and then it becomes our reality and that's how it is but there are other quick fixes that are quick yeah if they just teach us yeah like you know one of my favorite things It's killing ants. automatic negative thoughts whenever you feel sad angry nervous write what you think just write it down and then see if it is true and then write the opposite Tana never listens to me Tana does listen to me and then see if it is true and you I often find the opposite of the thought that is torturing you, it is true.

I do it all the time with my wife. I feel the same. Doing the same thing with your spouse is very helpful when I think I don't care about myself and then I do ask. I'm right, Carol does, yeah, like, oh, I can find a lot of reasons, yeah, it's beautiful and then you don't have to believe, yeah, negativity because where you look determines how you feel, if you find the negative, you'll feel negative. . and if you find the beautiful you will feel beautiful absolutely fine, question number three, this was a great tangent. I am happy to have done it.

Question number three. What is your current purpose? How do you define it? My current purpose. is to change the way psychiatric medicine is practicedto take it out of the Dark Ages and end the whole concept of mental illness and create a revolution in brain health. I love it, what a great purpose, we are here to support, we have a great gala. I'm so excited that on December 7th at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, the end of mental illness, we're going to be what's the point of that, what's the purpose that you didn't have, so the purpose of the event is really to raise money for the foundation for research and the whole concept of mental illness for education.

In fact, we have a new preschool course to teach kids to love their brains called Brain Thrive by Five and a service to raise money especially for first responders because you know they were hurt. really bad in the pandemic, uh, so that they can get this new form of brain health, we are very excited. Carrie Anna Nava will be the master of ceremonies for the event. Miley Cyrus says she's coming, so we're excited. Amazing congratulations, very excited for. I have two more questions for you, so I'll let you go, okay, question number four is something that everyone can get to, by the way, yes, it's a public event, so let's get started. announce soon perfect December 7 December 7 Beverly 2022 Beverly Hilton Hotel is a public event that people can purchase tickets to attend and support the cause you just mentioned.

Right amazing love. We'll also put the details in the notes. so everyone has question number four: what is something you wish you knew about the brain sooner in your own life? So, 1991, I'm 37 years old and a double-certified psychiatrist. I was the best neuroscience student in medical school and I don't know it. I didn't care at all about my brain and thought I was overweight and only slept four hours a night. I was chronically stressed and I scanned my brain because I just started scanning so I scanned everyone I knew. I scanned my six year old mother she had a wonderful brain and when I scanned myself I was unhealthy and I was horrified and come from a very competitive family and I'm really unhappy that my six year old mother had a better looking brain than me, so I developed a concept called the Envy brain.

I always say that Freud was wrong. Penis envy is not the cause of anyone's problem. I wanted a better brain and I think I've spent the last 31 years trying to get it. a better brain wow, so you wish you knew about that. I wish I had known before. I wouldn't have played soccer and drank diet soda like he was my best friend. Do you want to tell us a little? about that because I feel like people agree that soda is bad, but now diet soda has become. I used to think diet sodas were free, right, I mean they have no calories, but aspartame and what we now know is sucralose is really bad, so there's a brand.

New study that looked at sugar sucralose or Splenda and Stevia and they did brain scans and cognitive tests and Stevia didn't do anything before or after it actually seemed pretty safe. That is surprising. Sugar. New learning. Splenda was the worst new learning. Long-term memory decline. you had a surge of slow activity in the frontal lobe, which means it turned off your frontal lobes and I was like, and you know the yellow packets are everywhere, yeah, it's over, it's so scary, it's like I don't know how, I do not know how. they haven't found a way to improve the food bank as a whole through all these standards, like with all these studies that reveal that most of these foods haven't been banned because of agricultural laundering, you know, I mean, they just talk later. about Pop-Tarts and how bad they are, but you know we're spending government money to give them to poor kids, which will keep them poor, that's so sad.

I think that's the hardest part for me, but we can change it, yes, I know we can, that smart people can find solutions to, yes, dramatically change the population. I don't know if we ever talked about the Daniel Plan, the big project I did at Saddleback Church, you know, thousands of churches have done health. program that I created with Pastor Rick Warren, so you just have to be intentional, yes, absolutely, there are many intentions that are part of the revolution in brain health, yes. Fifth and final question, what makes you happiest being here? It makes me happier to see you be with the people I love.

It makes me happier because today I was at the Beverly Hilton Hotel getting ready for our event and they cooked many of Tana's recipes from her Warriors brand style cookbook and they did an amazing job that made me happy and I'm going to the parking lot someone recognized me so I love your Tic Toc of all things so making a difference yeah it makes me happy. I'm one of seven kids and I'm in the middle, so I was completely irrelevant and therefore not being irrelevant helps. Make me happy, I love it, Dr. John Eamon, it's always a great pleasure to spend time with you, honestly it really is and thank you so much for all the work you're doing.

I know I lean on it constantly and I deeply appreciate it. I hope you all go out and read the book, make a change in your lives and start changing your brains, but thank you so much for joining us, be sure to follow Dr. Raymond on tick tock on Instagram on all social media platforms and make sure to tag us with anything you've learned, anything you've done, shoot anything from this podcast, feel free to share it with someone else who needs it, feel free to cut it up and put it on Tick Tock, like there are so many amazing ideas here . the book, but also in this program and I love to see what resonates with you and I love to see what you're applying in your life, so be sure to share it.

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