This is the end my own show Welcome back to max out everybody, you know I pride myself on having the world's best on the show in a variety of different areas of topic and today's topic Which is going to be mental health brain health? I have America's number one psychiatrist with me. I have a man next to me has done 170,000 brain scans on people from 120 countries And is world-renowned leader in mental health and mental well-being and he helps people's lives get better by helping their brains get better And he's helped me in that area as well. We're gonna talk about that today So this is dr.
Daniel Ayman. Thank you my friend and thank you so good to have you He's got a new book out everybody that's coming out called the end of mental illness that you can either pre-order right now Or if it you can order if you watch this interview after the release date So the end of mental illness calm they can get access to it or Amazon or anywhere else End of mental illness calm or anywhere great books are sold anywhere. They're sold and you're gonna want to get your hands on this We're gonna tap into it a little bit today, but I want you to read the book So we're not gonna get into all of it But the term mental illness that term you don't like that so much I hate it and why is that when I hated it for 40 years I decided to be a psychiatrist 40 years ago because someone I loved tried to kill herself And I took her to see a wonderful Skytrus and I came to realize if he helped her it wouldn't just help her that ultimately it would help me It would help her children even her grandchildren I fell in love with psychiatry because I realized has the potential to change generations of people But I hated that term because it's shaming it's stigmatizing and it's wrong because these aren't mental illnesses They're brain health issues that steal your mind and that one distinction just changes everything because people see their problems is medical and not moral So it decreases shame and guilt it increases compliance because people want better brains Nobody wants a mental illness everybody wants a better brain and it also increases forgiveness and compassion from their families No one is shamed for heart disease or cancer or diabetes even though all of those have lifestyle contributions to them Likewise, no one should be shamed for bipolar disorder ADHD depression panic disorder get your brain right and your mind will follow You know you would get your heart treated You would get a broken leg treated but that shame factor causes people not to get help oftentimes and then that situation can exacerbate itself Let's talk about some basic things first and then we'll get a little bit more detailed because I know everybody right now That was driving a lot of her pulling over now getting their notepads off is now They know the topic and they know who's on the show this week and I'm curious or those of you that are watching on YouTube You do the same thing Let's start with something very basic which is your approach overall But just the standard approach of tell them what the four circles are which you would you discuss that for a second? So when I was a medical school our dean I went to a Christian medical school or a Roberts University and the first week the dean comes in And he says never think of your patience is their diagnosis Always think of them in these four big circles and on the board He wrote biology in the first circle So it's the actual physical functioning of your brain and your body And then he wrote psychology with the next circle and this is your mind and how your mind works And I also think it's your development it's your successes it's your failures it's your relationships Your dad and the past that still breathes fire on the present and then the third circle is the social circle So what do you hang out with?
You become like the people you spend time with you know that and then the fourth circle is the spiritual circle Which is well? Why the heck do you care? Why are you on the planet? What is your deepest sense of meaning and purpose and so often people go see a psychiatrist and they tell them their symptoms I'm depressed and then they'll give you a diagnosis with the same name Oh, you're depressed and then I'll give you an antidepressant completely ignoring the other three circles And I'm known for our brain imaging work and people really sort of peg me in the biology circle But we can never forget you have a mind and so many people's minds are undisciplined You and I talked about the ants the automatic negative thoughts that steal your happiness Tell them this because you've helped me with this so much and this concept of ants that you just described has helped me so much Because I think I was sort of the king of a little bit of this the wrong way even though I produce all these results in my life at the Jets in the house is in the great family and all those things But I kept why why do I not feel better?
Why is it that everything isn't perfect all the time? I found out through you it's not supposed to be perfect all the time But this ants concept is I want everyone in the world to hear it So please share so you have such a strong spiritual circle and such a strong social circle But your brain wasn't as healthy as it could have been my brain and your mind a bit undisciplined so many of us are because they don't teach us this So many years ago. I had a really hard day at work I saw four suicidal patients and that's stressful I saw two couples who hated each other and two teenagers who ran away from home and I came home and I was stressed And nobody was home except I had thousands of ants in my house It was an ant infestation in the kitchen and as I'm cleaning them up when you're a medical student You have to learn 50,000 new terms the first year So we're always making up acronyms and mnemonics is way to remember things as I'm clean up the ants I think to myself Automatic negative thoughts the thoughts that come into your mind automatically and ruin your day and I went my patients are infested With ants and so I came to work the next day with a can of raid You know and and road skiller and I just put it on the coffee table I'm so we're gonna kill these ants today and then later it morphed into item and puppet and an anteater puppet Because it's less toxic But you don't have to believe every stupid thing you think and that is such a powerful concept So we'll talk a lot about tiny habits smallest thing I can do today that'll make the biggest difference whenever you feel sad or mad or nervous or out of control right down what you're thinking and There are eight different types of ants all are nothing thinking blaming ants guilt beating ants fortune telling ants Identify it and then start talking back to it, right? I mean, I don't know if you were good at talking back to your parents when you were a teenager.
I was excellent I said I'm very good at the live here But I was not any good at talking back to myself and whenever you have a thought unless you question it you believe it And even if it's a lie you act as if it's true and they can devastate your life They can steal your happiness your joy and everybody This is you know personally everyone is a big issue for me and when you said that to me You know, you don't have to believe everything you think I'm a 48-year-old man I've coached some of the top people on planet earth with some of us coach doctor I've coached some of the same people right and I thought how has anybody said that to me before and that it starts to lose its power over you And I've done because he's asked me to do it guys over the recently I've been doing more of it writing down what I'm feeling What I'm thinking when I do those thoughts questioning those thoughts and I found I have a lot of BS thoughts I have a lot of thoughts that aren't true and the more I realize that the more I'm cognizant of it to your point I've lost some of its power over me and in some cases it's entirely lost its power over me Is there a daily habit or one small thing you would recommend for people going? Oh my gosh I got a lot of ants other than just being aware and writing it down anything else you would recommend whenever you feel sad or mad or nervous They're out of control right down what you're thinking and then there are five questions I have people ask themselves is it true? So I like to give the example I've had this thought my wife never listens to me My wife has 80 days We did a whole show on 80 do it together and she can get distracted easily and so I had that thought my wife never listens to me Question number one is it true? Well, no actually it's not true.
I've written 14 public television specials She's listened to each script at least three times. No, it's not true The second question is it absolutely true with a hundred percent certainty and if one is now two is automatically now the third question How do you feel when you believe the thought? Hannah never listens to me. I feel sad.
I feel lonely. I feel irritated I'll actually give myself permission to be rude to her So even though it's not true it drives loneliness and I give myself the permission to sort of be a jerk Yep to her the fourth question is how would I feel without the thought if I couldn't have the thought? Well, I'd be a good husband And then the fifth question is take the original thought my wife never listens to me and turn it to the opposite My wife does listen to me. Don't do the narcissistic opposite She always listens to me because that isn't true and and this is not pie in the sky.
I'm happy thinking It's because I'm not a fan of positive thinking. I'm a fan of accurate thinking because positive thinking is I could have the third piece of cheesecake at lunch And it won't hurt me. No, let's let's tell ourselves the truth Right, then don't worry be happy people die the earliest from accidents and preventable illnesses. So let's not go there Okay, but the opposite is Tana does listen to me And I can come up with a hundred examples where she listens to me And so that thought has no power over me the thoughts of lie.
I don't need to attach It's not the thoughts you have that cause you to suffer It's the thoughts you attach to that cause you to suffer That's brilliant and I practice it in my own life and everybody This is this is why I want you involved with dr. Aemond's work on whatever level that is if you go get a scan or if you get one of his books Whatever you do is that there's strategies to bring health There's strategies to mental health and someone like me who's performed at a high level or teaches other people how to be happier Even how you're trying to find nuances these five steps have really really supported and helped me I'm so grateful for you for that. Let's talk a little bit about I want to only touch in a few things in the book But I want them to have some idea of this bright minds concept too But just a few things that guys like in my scan for example when we looked at it I want to touch on a few things that impact the brain that people listening or watching this may not be aware of and one for me was circulation So can you talk about that? That's one of the markers that you look at I want you to get the book to hear all the markers everybody but this concept of circulation Why is it important and are there things we can do listening to this watching this right now that could improve that automatically for somebody?
So a long time ago, I realized so the imaging work I do is just so important because it just took mental illness put it to the side and went brain health So how do you optimize brain health? You have to prevent or treat the 11 major risk actors That steal your mind and the mnemonic bright minds that has to self-sus remember them and the B and bright minds is for blood flow Load blood flow is the number one brain imaging predictor of Alzheimer's disease. It's also associated with depression ADHD And schizophrenia it's clearly not a good thing So what blood brings nutrients to the brain and the brain is the most Hungry organ in your body. So I love where you live.
I just love where you live And I want you to think of the brain. It's sort of like a great place to live It's like Beverly Hills or Newport Beach or Laguna Beach 2% of your body's weight yet it uses 20 to 30% of the calories you consume 20% of the oxygen and 20% of the blood flow and anything that lowers blood flow to the brain Premet surely ages the brain and and it's back the study we do is this stuff looks at blood flow and activity And you're you have a sleepy brain and that's not good for it And so if you go I have all this but I sort of feel down sometimes because it's not getting enough energy Which is not your fault and so with all of these risk factors So know it avoid things that hurt it and do things that help it So I'm the master. How do we make this as simple as can be? So the things that hurt blood flow nicotine caffeine was a B not exercises So that's not your issue but people who are sedentary lowers blood flow hypertension as blood pressure goes up blood flow to the brain Goes down any form of heart disease or vascular disease is bad for the brain and erectile dysfunction people don't think about how It's not related to the brain.
Well, if you have blood flow problems anywhere, it likely means they're everywhere And so so what do I do? Um, so one get rid of caffeine nicotine, um get your blood pressure healthy Do what the doctor says about your heart for sure and then exercise supplements like ginkgo I'm a huge fan of ginkgo Foods like beets oregano, cayenne pepper, rosemary All increase blood flow and my favorite form of exercise coordination exercise people who play racket sports live longer than everyone else Is that why you play racket sports? That's why I play racket sports plus I love table tennis and I'm good at it So I'd like to do things I'm good at People who played football and soccer they live less long than everyone else Swimmers was good right? I was sort of in the middle Coordination because it works your cerebellum in the back bottom part of the brain Which I think of like the CPU the central processing unit gets your cerebellum healthy the rest of your brain is healthy Everybody you're welcome so far by the way.
I know you're all going wow right and first thing that this why I want to cover this topic Too in the detail we're doing it is every time we go through one of these steps I'm only gonna cover two or three of them today It should be an indicator for all of you who are suffering with any brain health issues or know somebody who is that that is what this is It's not a mental illness necessarily. It's brain health. There's ways that you can improve the health of your brain you referenced Soccer and football is not being quite as healthy and the other thing doctrine is done is he's done the first and largest ever Study on the brain scans of NFL football players and you know one of the things that you asked me immediately said you had any significant Concussions in your life and oftentimes I was reading in the book that sometimes bipolar can be misdiagnosed when someone's had a significant concussion in their life And there are probably people if you went back to your childhood if you've fallen off a bike you got hit in a football game You know even as an adult at car accident or something like that you have a concussion back and affect your brain health Correct for the rest of your life if nobody knows it and takes care of it There's a brand new study out on homelessness 50% of the homeless people had a significant brain injury before they were homeless If we don't put the brain in the center of the homelessness epidemic We lose and because a lot of my friends are going oh, that's a big mental illness and it's like oh great Let's put them on more psychiatric drugs without giving them good food Looking at their brains teaching them how to optimize the physical functioning brain. We're gonna get more of what we have Which is a nightmare.
Okay, so everybody evaluate that for yourself or people you know and everyone I want to go back to the book and I'm not a big book pusher typically on the show But I have to tell you this topic is central to the happiness of everybody's life around you including yourself And if you can get in to see us get a scan at one of those many clings you have somebody may not be able to go there do that A book like this can answer so many of your questions in one book for a nominal fee You could learn so much about yourself and the people around you that you love I gotta tell you go get the end of mental illness everybody Please go get it for your well-being and it's been a game changer for me as well a couple other little areas on the brain I want to talk about We talk a little bit by the way guys my brain when we looked at it You know I'm pretty functional person when we looked at it there was some You can see visually in these scans my goodness Like I had the holes in it and the spotty stuff and you can see it wasn't as smooth as we would want it to be And so it helped me understand why not everything's always perfect in my brain all the time, right? And even in my myself sometimes I carried like I'm this guy who's making everybody happier and perform yet I'm not always at that level and it helped me get rid of any guilt or shame I had about that What about the idea of mentioned heart disease earlier too? Which more and more people are saying is inflammation oriented in the body more and more dis-ease in the body has to do with inflammation How about this impact on the brain? So the eye in bright minds the first eye is inflammation because it's a disaster for brain function It's associated with Alzheimer's disease and depression and so and it's rampant.
Why? Yeah, over 90% of the population is deficient in omega-3 fatty acids, which helps quell inflammation Lots of us have gut health issues which increase inflammation and gum disease so paredontal disease people aren't serious about Seeing the dentist, flossing really the health of their gums. That's actually the first place It starts and and I really didn't really care about my gums and my teeth. I just really didn't think about it Until I started reading the studies of paredontal disease and dementia depression heart disease and You just got to take care of these things.
That's why a huge fan of fish oil for everyone and probiotics to help their gut get well and Flossing and it's like I have to love How my immune system works and so measuring inflammatory markers is one called C-reactive protein your omega-3 Index and I get a study we looked at 50 consecutive patients who came to him in clinics We took a drop of blood and we went so what's your omega-3 index? It should be above 8 49 of them was not above 8 And it was terrible. It was just horrifying to me See I knew the cutting edge in people that are doing heart work everybody You know this idea you can go to an orthodontist and get a study done of the bacterias and your gums And if that's prevalent there, it's prevalent in your heart is a very dangerous thing with heart disease I did not know that as a related to the brain. I didn't know that even as we've been working together So that's a new one for me.
Why the big emphasis on vitamin D also? What does that do for us and everybody hopefully writing this down too? Why is that such a big deal? So the second eye on bright minds is immunity and infections and vitamin D is actually the universal risk factor for illness So the normal level is between 30 and 100 people who are above 40 have half the risk of cancer of those under 20 And when I first measured mine and like you I live here in southern California was 17 I was horrified and When vitamin D level is low lepton the hormone that tells you to stop eating doesn't work people become lepton resistant And when I took vitamin D My appetite went away like I had been trying to lose like the extra 20 or 30 pounds I was carrying and tried every diet But I was always hungry and when I increased my vitamin my appetite went away And you know I could lose the way because I published two studies It says your weight goes up the size of your brain goes down Which you just scared the fat off anyone and I look just this weekend some people are watching the super ball Working on my laptop and I looked at 20,038 patients And I mapped each area of their brain compared to their BMI or their body mass index So I looked at healthy weight overweight obese and morbidly obese and it was a linear correlation As their weight went up the function in every area of their brain went down Which is just shocking when you think of 72 percent of americans are overweight 40 percent of us are obese It's the biggest brain drain in the history of the united states and now it's a national security crisis Because 70 percent of people who apply for the marines and the army and the navy and the air force They don't take them because they're not healthy and congress is going well.
We should relax the requirements It's like do you really want that do you want an unhealthy fighting force? I mean I'm an army train. I was an army man. I was right and then I was a Military doctor an army doctor and it's like no, I don't want you to lower the standards.
How does that make good sense? Right? Guys, this is just remarkable. Now.
Let's talk about something serious. This is touchy So when is it in your mind? I guess can't explain the exact situation But there are people listening this who have family who are on lexicro or one of these drugs that are being treated So they're being treated beyond natural treatments, but medically is there a place for that in your mind in certain cases? And um, I think someone who's obviously on those drugs should be careful just carte blanche getting off of them obviously What is your feeling about?
Pharmaceutical treatment in some cases for brain health. So I'm not crazy Your brain can have problems. It's like your ark can have problems and sometimes if I had someone with real bipolar disorder They should be on medication or it could cost them their lives someone with schizophrenia You bet they should be on medicine, but they should also be doing everything else right as far as things like anxiety depression ADHD My bias is well, let's try natural things first and in the book There's a chapter on mind medicine versus nutraceuticals and too often the physician goes Oh, there's no science behind nutraceuticals and my comment is do you read? Because all you have to do is go to pubmed.gov and type in saffron and you'll see it has a level scientific evidence for depression And as opposed to ruining your sex life, which many of the SSRIs like lexipro do it's prosexual.
It will help your sex life And so in that one chapter alone, there's 286 scientific references things like fish oil, sammy, saffron, st. John's ward And but if those don't work and you're thinking of killing yourself Medication can be really helpful, but think about this 85% of psychiatric drugs are prescribed by non psychiatric physicians in seven-minute office visits So you can go to your family doc and go I'm not sleeping I'm anxious and depressed and leave with a prescription for ambient for sleep lexipro for your mood And Xanax, which is addictive and now we know it increases your risk of dementia in a seven-minute office visit How we're doing this pharmaceutical thing in this country is a scandal and we can do better And most people don't know as soon as you start one of these medications They're insidious and that they change your brain to need them in order for you to feel okay And so why not well, let's do the natural things first because in medical school They taught all of us first do no harm use the least toxic most effective treatments But if they don't work and my patients when I decided to put them on medication And I told you beforehand dusan beavers one of my his docusary seasons just came out and he said publicly I've been his doctor And the turning point for him is he came into my office and he said my brain is an organ like my heart's an organ If you told me I'd have heart disease, I'd do everything you told me so I'm gonna start doing that because it was really helpful Yes for us and medicine was important for him was important for him It's interesting everybody so you know he talks about Justin Bieber one of the ways that I was led to doctrine And who I've watched for years on all the public specials you've done and I've read other books and years the memory book I read the last book yet And the amount of people who sat in these seats that after the interview that I work with or want me to work with them So many of them also worked with you and so he's helped many of the people that that you see on tv or on my show and different sports as well And so he's he's been a godsend to so many of us I want to finish this topic about prescription medication because it's clearly something that's an epidemic in the country of over prescriptions in these seven Minutes offices that she's referenced. I also love you for saying there is a space for it though because I believe that to be true There's a member in my family who should be treated in my opinion with prescription medication However, if you're listening to this and you have a loved one who's honest, I just want your counselness because People sometimes overreact as well because he said your brain begins to need it when you take it So I have a family member and I kind of have a where they started from everybody. I wanted to say this when I worked most of you know That I started working in that orphanage McKinley home for boys and one of the things that would break my heart every morning and night Was there would be a line of my boys these little precious eight and ten-year-old boys Whom at the time unknowingly I'm told each of them had their box of pills and I would feed these little boys their medications at the time I didn't even know what they were I just knew that Jose was supposed to take one of the blue and one of the green and We were medicating these poor little boys over and over again And the process of getting off of that medication someday is a dicey situation as well So what would your advice be that you're apparently listening to this and your kids been diagnosed with a mild form of ADD and they've given them some medication for it Or you personally, you know weren't dealing with your aunts weren't treating it With the different supplements that you could be taking and you're on lexepro right now or one of these other drugs What would your advice be for them to consider the process of getting off of it?
How should that work for somebody? That's a hard question. Well, I think the first thing before you even think about stop taking in is work to get your brain healthy And so know which of the eleven risk factors you have and attack each one of them as soon as possible work on getting your diet right work on killing And then work with an integrative psychiatrist or functional medicine doctor who's really like they're measuring your vitamin D level They're measuring your omega-3 index They're they're really working to optimize the physical functioning of your brain and then it becomes much easier to decrease them slowly and see if you still need them Right, so they're not the antichrist. They're they're not evil But are they necessary for you and if they are we thank God for them And if they're not if they're more problems than they're worth like oh like a huge like I don't like benzos Like Xanax, Klonopanatavans, Valium all of those because I see what they do to the brain But I also don't want people to be so anxious they want to kill themselves And so they're always balancing can I do this naturally and if I can't I'm like embracing the medication.
Okay, let's talk now about Thank you for this. I'm enjoying this so much. I know the world is getting so much value out of this Let's talk about self-medication now And so you referenced Justin earlier and this idea you know a lot of people now are big believers in marijuana use To self-medicate to sleep at night. It's sort of gone from this area where you know It was for people with chronic pain and that kind of line has moved now to where It's a culturally very acceptable thing.
I wonder what your stance is on marijuana use Yeah, I'm a bit horrified by the whole thing when Cory Booker so there's this presidential debate and Joe Biden is saying, you know I'm just not sure about this and Cory Booker goes are you high like it's been decided that this is innocuous by I published a study on a thousand marijuana users every area of their brain was lower in blood flow and activity That's what I've seen over time that it's not innocuous now if your father like my father-in-law was dying of pancreatic cancer I'll go buy it for him because it helps him eat and it makes him more comfortable But the two big innovations in psychiatry over the last couple of years marijuana for virtually everything and hallucinogens Like ketamine that these are the big innovations and I'm like, well, what about vegetables? What about omega-3 fatty acids and what about brain health, right? They're no one's talking about let's get this organ healthy And I have friends who've smoked marijuana for 50 years and they go it's not hurt me at all then they come see me And their brains are devastated. It's not a good thing And it's hard to break because once you let your brain do something, it's going to want to do it again I mean that's how habits become formed and stopping yourself is hard And I remember so my first clinic was in northern California right next to the Napa Valley of the clinic now in Walnut Creek close by and They were actually funding studies showing that alcohol was a health food And so you probably remember this it's like you have to have two glasses of red wine a day.
It's good for your heart It's total nonsense People who drink every day have smaller brains and when it comes to the brain size matters It's the only organ where size matters And millions of men are taking you with that same thing But my wife's a nurse and why does she put alcohol on your skin before she gives you a shot? Is it kills the bugs? You really want to be killing the bugs in your gut you have a hundred trillion of them. It's the whole ecosystem And they make neurotransmitters.
They digest your food. They detoxify your body They help you with hormones. No, you don't want to be killing them You want to love them and take care of them because it decreases inflammation. So I'm not a fan less of love The answer one thing he says about the time is love your brain, right?
And so if you if you're starting these brains and their circulation is left the brain is smaller That's an answer that's all I need to know right? I've never smoked my own but if those of you that do perhaps you should be listening today Couple more factors then we'll get into something fun and I'll say thank you to you In my case cholesterol was a little bit of an issue for me So we finished up my situation. So some of you that are out there on satins This is at least something to be cognitive of I've mentioned this people some have said to me Well, there's cholesterol in your body, but your brain makes its own cholesterol as well How important is markers like your cholesterol measures for your brain as well because that's not talked a lot about in the book And I thought I'd just ask you today. It needs to be a balance.
Okay, and so really high cholesterol I'm talking like over 230 or 250 you want to be careful with especially if it's high It's a little technical B particles for LDL. So people think of LDL as bad cholesterol. It's not bad cholesterol Right, they have big fluffy a particles that bounce off and there's just no problem little tiny demon B particles They're the problem. So whenever you get your cholesterol done, it should be fractionated so tell me about my LDL basically and 225 has actually been shown to go with longevity and cognitive function under 160 and a lot of cardiologists Don't tell you this they're like statin statin statin I went your cholesterol as low as possible But they're not telling you under 160 is associated with depression It's associated with suicide with homicide and death from all causes I have a brother-in-law who has heart disease and his doctor is always pushing it low low low And whenever he goes under 150 he calls me and he's like, I'm so sad I want to die and I'm like so I forget on the phone with his cardiologist and go It's a balancing act because 60 percent of the solid weight of your brain is fat And cholesterol makes up a lot of that and so you don't want it too low Which is why I'm not a fan of low fat diets.
Okay, there's a lot everybody right there You're all these different factors that you need to be looking at Okay, now off the medical stuff and the lab studies and those any daily practices you'd recommend We talked about ants earlier are there daily practices and strategies that someone right now says I've got anxiety I've got worry or you know any of those factors. I'm not focused enough I'm not happy it would be a daily practice you would recommend strategic So in the book there are a bunch of tiny habits the small things you can do they'll make a big difference What I do is actually on the top of my to-do list whenever I fire up my computer in the morning on the top It says today is going to be a great day And I've trained myself when my feet at the floor in the morning Just tell yourself today is going to be a great day and then my mind which is so powerful Well, fine why it's going to be a great day. I get to hang out with you today. That makes me happy Right, so it'll begin to retrain the negativity bias that is so hurtful and so common and people and then I have a practice before I go to bed at night I Say a prayer and then I go well today And I'm always amazed because like you I'm busy and I just like sort of get through my day But I find these nuggets of awesome experiences and we just um Dotted my two nieces who actually dedicate this book to and the breakfast wise today going to be a great day at dinner What went well today?
I mean I want to know what went wrong and what we can do differently But I want to train your mind to look for what's right because from an evolutionary standpoint We're already look for what's wrong right survival mode and and you need to know right that Don't worry be happy people die the earliest but I want to train away the negativity bias to help you be in a happier place It's funny that you say that because I write that in my book as well I'm too exercise what well today who do I love who loves me and I've had people say I try that didn't work And what I need everybody to understand is that you have to get it one day out of 11 It won't work, but if this becomes your habit your routine your behavior your culture It will absolutely transform your life. You will begin to see things that were always there that always existed that were outside your filter outside your periphery When you begin to look for these things regularly remind yourself that's brilliant brilliant brilliant advice Um couple things what about sleep So the acid bright mind is sleep because it is so crucial Teenagers who get just one hour less than their peers have a higher incidence of depression and suicide When you sleep your brain cleans or washes itself and if you're not sleeping seven seven and a half hours A night it's not getting at enough time for the cleaning crew to do their job And if you snore loudly stop breathing at night you're tired during the day. You might have sleep apnea Which triples the rest for Alzheimer's disease? So getting that properly assessed and treated is crucial sleep is so important and on average in 1900 Americans got nine hours of sleep at night now the average is six hours and 40 minutes.
You can't go through that Big change in such a small period of evolution without a dramatic negative impact on the population And a lot of it is the blue white and the gadget so I'm actually a fan of blue light in the morning Okay, but not after dark because it increases you talk a lot about social media contributing to Um brain health issues. Would you just reference that as you go through in the book? I love this writing device that basically said if I'm an evil ruler and I wanted to increase the incidence of mental illness in America What would I do and I'd create free social media apps that make everyone else's life look amazing and by contrast your sucks It'd be one of the first things I do and the kids who spend the most time on social media have the highest incidence of depression and obesity You have to be very careful with the gadgets and the gadgets were purposefully made to be addictive They are after mind share so you know in the grocery store The bottom two shelves go after your children because they're going after stomach share How much of your stomach share can I get but um for Silicon Valley? It's mind share I don't want them to have my mind.
I want to be careful but the variable reinforcement that they know exactly it works just like Vegas So I'm just picturing a teenager and these combination of factors all the exposure to social media blue light They smoke marijuana. They're diet is terrible. They're a bit overweight Um, then think of pornography that you know, I mean when you were an Ira yan if we could find Labo and I was like awesome, but now on their phones Or their friends phones if their parents are smart enough to put parental controls on which they absolutely should they have free access to something that will shrink their frontalops Now, why don't you want frontal lobes that are smaller because they run your life? That's the ceo the executive of your life is in the front third of your brain and exposing you know young boys to nonstop pornography is a disaster for development You're so amazing.
I love you. By the way. Thank you for everything you've done for me There's probably something I didn't ask you today or an idea or a thought you have about brain health overall or your mission right now the book itself the end of mental illness What would you just want to talk about the imaging? It's like well I You know because I've gotten myself into all sorts of hot water with my colleagues I'm a distinguished fellow of the American Psychiatric Association But probably how more psychiatrists hate me than any other psychiatrists in the world Why because I think if you don't look you don't know and we need to stop lying about that when 1979 I decided to be a psychiatrist and tell my dad and he asked me why I don't want to be a real doctor Why I want to be a nut doctor and hang out with nuts all day long and my dad didn't get father of the earward And he hurt my feelings, but 40 years later.
I completely got it What medical specialty never looks at the organ they treat and that's just dumb. It's wrong And the fact that I look and that's why we built this big database and despite incredible opposition But it's the stories that it's like I don't look I don't know I mean that's why we went up against the NFL because the NFL said oh there's no long-term evidence the play football causes brain damage And I'm like are you dumb the brain is soft the skull is hard the skull has sharp bony ridges if you went hey Daniel single most important thing You've learned from 170,000 scans mild traumatic brain injury ruins people's lives and nobody knows because nobody looks and so in the book I really you know, I plant my position really clearly if you're struggling and no one's looked at your brain Well, how would they know what to do based on what you tell them really would a cardiologist act like that or north of a doctor? No, and so I know that title is not gonna get me more friends, but it's not mental illness It's brain health issues get your brain right your mind will follow I think you're so important you've been so important in the world for so many decades because of the work you've done But right now maybe the most important and the reason for that is I think this book can be a catalyst to change that whole paradigm of shame And keeping it quiet and being embarrassed by it and understanding that your brain is an organ that it should get looked at that You can treat this that it is a medical issue correct This is something that can get healthier and get better and guys you gotta get the book I mean it's to get this much information from this man who's done hundreds of thousands of brain scans with people from all over the world You can get this in a book you need to get it And so I highly recommend you go get the end of mental illness and go to endofmental illness calm you can go wherever great books are sold Thank you so much. I love you.
I love today. I'm so grateful you're in my life And I just know that we changed and helped lives and you know what else saved some lives today. So thank you so much brother Yeah, I love you back. Thank you for the opportunity.
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