Your Brain Is Not You - Dr. Lee Warren - #65

Dr. Lee Warren is a neurosurgeon, Iraq War veteran, podcast host, and author of four books, including The Life-Changing Art of Self-Brain Surgery.What if the thing controlling your thoughts, habits, and emotions isn't who you really are? For decades, science taught us that genes and brain chemistry write our futures — that we're stuck with the minds we were given. But the latest neuroscience tells a different story. So what does it actually mean that your mind and brain are separate things, and how much of your life can you still rewrite?Expect to learn why your brain and your mind are not the same thing, how neuroplasticity lets you structurally rebuild your brain in real time simply by changing what you think about, why 80% of your automatic thoughts are biased or outright false, the real timeline for breaking old habits and wiring in new ones, how Dr. Warren rebuilt his life after losing his son at 19, why alcohol is a class-one carcinogen with no safe dose for the brain, and much more…-Save hundreds on the best saunas on the market: HERE (use code MERRILSave on an amazing cold plunge: HERE (use code MERRILL)-Thank You For Listening To The Chase Merrill Podcast-Get in touch in the comments below or head: HERE-Dr. Lee's Instagram: HEREDr. Lee's website: HERE-0:00 Your Brain Is Not You3:02 Genetic Determinism Is Dead10:26 You Need Hard Things to Survive Hard Things14:08 How Lee Became a Neurosurgeon17:08 200 Surgeries in a Tent28:52 Coming Home With PTSD31:17 How Writing Healed What War Left Behind37:02 Losing Mitch: One Death Can't Kill Two People40:32 The fMRI Scanner That Changed Everything52:47 What Is Self-Brain Surgery?57:59 How Long Does It Take to Rewire Your Brain?1:16:59 Feelings Aren't Facts — They're Chemical Events1:22:19 What a Neurosurgeon Actually Does for Brain Health1:31:00 Closing Questions