Dr. Daniel Amen
from Danica Patrick Pretty Intense Podcast Hosted by Jennifer Cawley
The Washington Post called Dr. Daniel Amen the most popular psychiatrist in America. He is a former infantry medic and board‑certified child and adult psychiatrist, who trained at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, DC. He is the CEO and founder of Amen Clinics, with 11 locations nationwide and home to the world’s largest brain imaging database for psychiatry with nearly 300,000 SPECT scans on patients from 155 countries. Dr. Amen is a 12‑time New York Times bestselling author, including the books Change Your Brain, Change Your Life, Healing ADD, Memory Rescue, Raising Mentally Strong Kids, and The End of Mental Illness. In addition, Dr. Amen has published over 90 scientific articles and has led groundbreaking brain imaging research on active and former NFL players, childhood trauma, negativity bias, reversing brain aging, obesity and the brain, and predicting treatment responses. His PBS specials and top‑ranked podcast have inspired millions. With over 10 million social media followers, his mission is bold: to end mental illness by creating a revolution in brain health. Dr. Amen is formally working with the White House Faith Office on creating a national brain health revolution.
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Today on The Pretty Intense Podcast we are talking to our old friend Dr. Amen about his new book “Change Your Brain Change Your Pain” We talk about why pain gets repeated. Why that back pain returns again and again and again. The pain is stuck in your brain. Dr. Amen is teaching us exercises that help us release hidden rage in our brain that is causing our body these repeated pain patterns. Do you suffer regular back pain, regular head aches, regular stomach pain? If you have pain that is not going away, you should grab Dr. Amen’s new book and try treating the pain from a different place. What have you got to loose? Maybe just pain. Enjoy today’s episode.
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