00:00:49.000His spirit, his love of this country, he's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
00:00:57.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:02:06.000And some of you probably recognize him.
00:02:10.000Now, I don't admit it from watching the Kardashians on Hulu.
00:02:15.000That's totally where I recognized him, obviously, when I first heard about him when he was brain scanning Chloe Kardashian and Kendall Jenner's brain.
00:02:24.000And so he's got a very, he's well known in the space and he has a lot to say.
00:02:30.000And the reason I think it's fitting for us on Freedom Night is that can you be a free citizen if you're living in mental torment?
00:02:38.000Can you be a free citizen if you are constantly getting advice, medical advice, pharmaceutical advice that is making you less likely to flourish, less alive?
00:02:54.000You know, somebody that is currently running for the presidency, again, this is not a political thing, but you might be very surprised to him in a say who is saying something very interesting.
00:03:03.000It's Bobby Kennedy Jr. who is running.
00:03:09.000I actually kind of like what he has to say because he talks about environmental toxins and he talks about how these companies might actually be trying to harm us and how we as sovereign beings made in the image of God need to be aware that maybe these kids staring at screens all day long not exactly good for them.
00:03:29.000Maybe the food that we are eating is not what it used to be.
00:03:33.000And so it is Freedom Night and typically we're always talking about liberty and freedom from tyranny.
00:03:42.000Boy is that needed now given the news today, which only furthers that.
00:03:49.000But isn't it equally as important if we want to fight the bad guys and all that sort of stuff and to revitalize the country to be the healthiest we can possibly be?
00:04:00.000And we are living through an unprecedented, we don't even know the depth of the damage of how many young people are dealing with mental torment.
00:04:10.000It's the most suicidal, alcohol-addicted, drug-addicted generation in history.
00:04:16.000And the kind of main line of thinking is let's just throw more drugs at it no matter what.
00:04:21.000And are we actually getting down to root causes?
00:04:24.000And in fact, I believe Jesus always seeks to set the captivates free, free from lies, free from tyranny, free from totalitarianism, and also free from any some of the issues.
00:04:42.000And in fact, you know, as I visit these college campuses, I have a great deal of sympathy and compassion because I feel a lot of these kind of social contagions that we see manifest, especially in the month of June, are people that are really hurting and people that need help.
00:04:58.000And so there's a booth out there that you guys can get the book afterwards for, I don't even know, I think most basically for just if you sign up or give a gift an email, but I've read this book twice.
00:05:23.000If you are the nastiest, most evil person in charge, would you want a country of people that are mentally strong and free, or a country of people that are in torment and people that are not free from that?
00:05:40.000Jesus says in John 8, I came to set the captives free.
00:05:45.000And tonight, I have to just reemphasize this.
00:05:48.000We are super blessed to have one of the most requested and demanded and sought-after speakers in this space on the planet, someone who literally lectures around the world here tonight at Freedom Night.
00:06:01.000Please join me in welcoming Dr. Daniel Amy.
00:06:29.000So the short story is in 1972, I turned 18, and we were still involved in Vietnam, which meant I had a draft number, and it was 19, which meant by, and I became an infantry medic, where my love of medicine was born.
00:06:52.000But about a year into it, I realized something very important about myself.
00:07:08.000And I got myself retrained as an x-ray technician and developed a passion for medical imaging.
00:07:16.000And our professors used to say, how do you know unless you look?
00:07:22.000And then fast forward a couple of years at Oral Roberts University, that's where I went to medical school, because I wanted to learn medicine in the context of my faith.
00:07:35.000And I'm a second-year student there, and someone I love tries to kill herself.
00:12:14.000Right now, approximately anywhere between 50 to 70 million Americans are on some form of dosage of antidepressants or psychiatric medicine, something.
00:12:26.000Those are just rough estimates as you're looking at.
00:12:29.000What percentage of doctors that are prescribing them actually look at the brain?
00:13:10.000There's 60 million prescriptions written for stimulant medications.
00:13:16.000And don't get me wrong, I'm not opposed to medicine.
00:13:19.000I'm just opposed to that's the first and only thing you do without anybody ever assessing your brain.
00:13:28.000And 85% of psychiatric drugs are prescribed by non-psychiatric physicians in 10-minute office visits who do standard of care treatment 12% of the time.
00:13:50.000And the problem with psychiatric medicine, if it's not done properly, it changes your brain to need it in order for you to feel normal.
00:14:04.000And I want you to feel better fast, but I want it to last.
00:14:10.000And too often, people go to the emergency room, they have a panic attack, they complain of chest pain, they figure out it's a panic attack, they put them on Xanax that they're on for the next 40 years because when you try to withdraw from it, you feel awful.
00:14:29.000And why would we start something that we can't stop?
00:14:35.000So the pharmaceutical industry is winning, and they're winning, and they're winning.
00:15:14.000And the first week, Sid Garrett, who is our dean, comes into our classroom and he goes to the board and he says, never think of your patients as their diagnosis.
00:15:27.000Always think of them in these four circles.
00:15:31.000And this is how people get sick and it's how they get well.
00:15:36.000So the first circle he drew, and then he put biology.
00:15:40.000You have to understand the physical functioning of their brains and their bodies.
00:16:02.000And he's just not talking about psychiatry.
00:16:04.000He's talking about all of medicine, whether you have hypertension or diabetes or cancer.
00:16:09.000And then the third circle was the social circle, which I think church can be so important in, but it's our connections with other people.
00:16:20.000And then he drew the last circle, which most psychiatrists wouldn't touch, which is the spiritual circle, which is ultimately it's your relationship with God, your relationship with our home, the planet, your relationship with the past.
00:16:37.000So for me, it's anchored in my grandfather.
00:16:42.000And the future, anchored in my grandchildren.
00:16:46.000And so when you know why you're on the planet, you can have a bad brain and you do better.
00:16:56.000When people, and I've scanned serial killers, I've scanned school shooters.
00:17:03.000Generally, if you have a troubled brain, but you're connected to a church family, you do way better.
00:17:15.000One of my school shooters, he had problems in all four circles, a very damaged brain, a damaged mind, no relationships, and he had no connection.
00:26:21.000If you ask me, hey, Daniel, single most important lesson you've learned from 230,000 scans: mild traumatic brain injury ruins people's lives, and nobody knows about it because they go see psychiatrists, psychologists, marriage and family counselors who never look at the brain.
00:26:39.000We need to do a better job of protecting the brain.
00:26:45.000I did the big NFL study at a time when the NFL was lying that they had a problem.
00:26:50.000Around 2007, 2008, Roger Goodell was in front of Congress going, We don't know.
00:27:04.000I loved when Maxine Waters, who we often don't agree with, waxed the commissioner.
00:27:12.000And she said, Commissioner, having you act like you're studying traumatic brain injury in football is like the tobacco companies saying they're studying lung cancer.
00:27:36.000So, I've scanned and treated 350 NFL players.
00:27:40.000I mean, like cool players like Rosie Greer and Jack Youngblood and Terry Bradshaw and one of my favorites, Dick Bucus, who calls me his brain savior, which I thought was weird, but cool.
00:27:59.00080% of so contact sports for children is a bad idea.
00:30:23.000It's an app that allows you to scan all of your personal products and it'll tell you on a scale of one to 10 how quickly they're killing you.
00:30:32.000Like, for example, I shaved with barbasol for 50 years.
00:30:37.000And on a scale of zero to 10, 0, you live a long time.
00:32:56.000So COVID is real, but if your vitamin D level is high, you get less sick and you're much less likely to die from it.
00:33:07.000Now, why didn't Anthony Fauci talk about everybody get their vitamin D level and everybody take 5,000 international units of vitamin D a day?
00:34:33.000Turn off your gadgets an hour before you go to bed.
00:34:36.000Otherwise, you won't produce enough melatonin to actually go to sleep because of all the blue light.
00:34:44.000And if you're snoring and you stop breathing at night, you need to get checked for sleep apnea because sleep apnea triples the risk of Alzheimer's disease.
00:37:35.000You know, and you have to wonder, and Doctor, I'm sure you could comment on this, how much of that is really what you believe, and is it what you're processing and putting into your mind and into your body?
00:37:47.000And I'm writing about this actually in my upcoming book.
00:37:50.000I have a whole chapter on it: that if we want to win against the Marxists, then we have to take our own health and our children's health extremely seriously.
00:38:02.000We will not, quote unquote, win if we are sloppy and overweight and watching Netflix all day long.
00:38:08.000We have to be the best possible versions of ourselves, especially if we have the agency to do it.
00:40:22.000And in large part, it's the pandemic and the reaction of our country, the isolation, the fear, the lockdowns, the death tolls, which then led to bad food, more alcohol, chronically stressed people.
00:40:40.000If we don't pay attention and we allow what happened again, that means we're not learning.
00:40:47.000And then COVID itself, you get COVID, and almost all of us here have had it, that it increases the risk of a new onset mental illness in the next six months.
00:40:59.00025% of people who get COVID will get a new onset depression, new onset anxiety disorder.
00:43:58.000We've really enjoyed listening to you tonight.
00:44:00.000Based on what you've said, I would like to know your thoughts on the correlation between what you do and the current push on transgenderism.
00:44:44.000And along with this, you should also ask yourself: why did the incidence of autism go from one in 10,000 in 1985 when I was a child psychiatry fellow?
00:44:59.000One in 10,000, rare, to one in 34 now.
00:45:06.000We're poisoning pregnant women, and it's not just pregnant women.
00:45:11.000We want our boys to get healthy before they're making babies.
00:45:16.000And you really want to get your mind blown.
00:45:20.000When a little girl is born, she's born with all of the eggs she will ever have in her ovaries.
00:45:28.000And then what happens to her throughout her life turns on or off certain genes that make illness more or less likely in her, but also in her babies and her grandbabies.
00:45:42.000So as we started with, this is not just about you.
00:45:49.000And as we've been poisoning our population with parabens and phthalates and bisphenol A, which the CDC said is in 90% of Americans, what we're doing is we're increasing the risk of illness.
00:46:08.000And now with hormone disruptors, we're increasing the risk of gender confusion.
00:46:17.000And then there's a psychological part to this.
00:46:43.000And so if you understand it from that point, we have to clean up our environment.
00:46:48.000I mean, it's so critical to stop poisoning people, get our minds right, so we're not believing every stupid thing we think, get our connections better.
00:47:00.000And the church has got to be more effective at getting people into church, but not by polarizing people.
00:47:09.000What the doctor just said is so courageous for him to say, you understand the party line on that is not that.
00:47:17.000So you deserve to be commended for that.
00:47:18.000Oh, no, the American Medical Association would throw me out, but I'm not a member, so they can't throw me out.
00:47:28.000Do you see why they wouldn't want that?
00:47:30.000Because it's, you know, not, drugs are not the answer to everything, everybody.
00:47:37.000So I have my 10-year-old son with me, and his fourth-grade teacher brought it to our attention that she notices some type of OCD and anxiety.
00:47:52.000And she said, I can't diagnose as a teacher, so I'd like for you to take him and go get tested.
00:47:58.000His primary PCP pediatrician said, you know, after doing a bunch of questions, yes, he has something.
00:48:07.000Let's just give him a low dose of a pill as a second choice.
00:48:12.000Her first choice is she wanted him to get some counseling and therapy because it's a broken home situation.
00:48:19.000So fast forward, I was told that brain mapping is a waste of money and that I shouldn't do the brain mapping because it doesn't really work.
00:48:31.000And then I was also given, call the Gentry Foundation.
00:48:36.000But you mentioned tonight that you guys have opened up somewhere new in Scottsdale.
00:48:43.000What should I do for my 10-year-old son when the ex-husband won't allow any type of counseling or any of that?
00:48:56.000So the first thing is not to put him on medicine.
00:49:13.000I mean, in my mind, if I saw him, I would want to look at his brain and go, how is it?
00:49:18.000When you think of things like OCD and anxiety, like, did it happen after he got COVID?
00:49:26.000There's this other thing we talk about a lot as child psychiatrists called pandas, pediatric, autoimmune, neuropsychiatric disorders associated with SRAP.
00:50:59.000I was 28 years old in my psychiatric residency at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C.
00:51:07.000And one of the professors came in and he sat down and he looked at us and he said, you have to teach your patients not to believe every stupid thing they think.
00:52:03.000So first of all, I just want to thank you, Dr. Amon, for helping me by telling my mom 11 years ago, right after I had brain surgery, what supplements I needed to take to help my emotional problems.
00:52:21.000My question is, as I mentioned, I had brain surgery 11 years ago to remove a tumor that caused some pretty severe disabilities.
00:52:32.000So I have cranial nerve damage in my third, fourth, and sixth cranial nerves.
00:52:40.000Recent tests, it was revealed that my superior and inferior collicula aren't functioning properly.
00:52:47.000And so I suffer from some disabilities, as I said, shrabismus, severe tinnitus.
00:52:53.000So my question is, do you know anything about neuroplasticity and any therapies I could do to make my situation better?
00:53:03.000Also, Charlie, I just wanted to let you know that I sent an email to you, freedom at freedom at charliekirk.com, regarding this pride tree that's in my neighborhood.
00:53:14.000So I just wanted to mention that really quick.
00:56:35.000But the fact is, if there's not a margin, there's no mission, right?
00:56:39.000Because we don't get money from anybody.
00:56:42.000The only way we make money is if people see value in what we do.
00:56:51.000The scans at our clinic are probably half of what they are at any other clinic because the cost of the radiopharmaceutical or the isotope is $1,600.
00:57:06.000So that's just the medicine to do the procedure.
00:57:38.000And so it's a nonstop fight with them.
00:57:42.000And I will say that you're seeing a trend that the most effective and emergent innovations in medicine are not covered by insurance right now.
00:57:51.000The stuff that's really piercing the darkness and improving people quickly, homeopathic solutions, diet changes, all sorts of different types of proven stuff, ozone therapy, vitamin D supplementation.
00:58:05.000I think we have a sick care industry in America that is afraid to go and cover things with an insurance pool that actually, I mean, I don't think you have to be a conspiracy theorist.
00:58:17.000If all of a sudden if every American was brain scanned every couple years, all of a sudden there'd be so much information, people would change their diets, all of a sudden they'd ask better questions, and Pfizer, Astrogenica, Moderna, and Johnson and Johnson would have to run for the hills.
00:58:53.000It's called the Change Your Brain Foundation, where we raise money for research, for education, and for service for people who can't afford to come to our clinics.
00:59:06.000Somebody gave us a donation to study prayer.
00:59:31.000And the hypothesis was that speaking in tongues, you would drop your frontal lobes, the executive part of the brain, and activate your emotional brain, where we believe that the Holy Spirit would actually speak through you.
00:59:52.000That was actually true in 60% of our subjects.
00:59:56.000But one of our subjects, it looked like he just got a hit of cocaine.
01:00:02.000I looked at this scan and I'm like, you do this a lot, don't you?
01:00:11.000I'm really good friends with Andrew Newberg, who is the physician at Thomas Jefferson University, who has studied Franciscan nuns praying and Tibetan monks meditating.
01:00:28.000And what they find with meditation and prayer is just fascinating because it actually helps to balance the brain.
01:00:45.000And I know when you're a Christian, you often feel like the whole science community is against you.
01:02:11.000So, you know, if you have obsessive-compulsive disorder, you get stuck on I have to clean, I have to wash, bad thought that goes over and over again.
01:02:19.000With ODD, you get stuck on no, no way, never.
01:02:39.000It allows you to go from thought to thought, move from idea to idea, be flexible, go with the flow.
01:02:46.000When it's overactive, people tend to be, They get stuck, which can be on obsessions or compulsions or being argumentative, or no.
01:03:00.000And so a little bit of serotonin will help.
01:03:05.000If you really need to talk to them, take them on a walk and don't actually bring up anything sticky for about 15 minutes because exercise naturally boosts serotonin.
01:03:18.000And I love the parenting program, Parenting with Love and Logic.
01:03:27.000I love that program for oppositional defiant disorder kids.
01:04:07.000Like nowhere did I find any of your information about ending mental illness and especially with working with vets and what they experience.
01:04:16.000And now I'm with like substance abuse and suicidal ideation.
01:04:23.000And so I'm like just wanting to know how can I better advocate for patients to get the health care that they need because it's just a reciprocal revolving door.
01:04:34.000I see the same people coming in for the same things over and over again.
01:04:41.000As it will be until we actually start thinking of this as a brain health issue.
01:04:47.000When we think of it as a mental health issue that I can solve with medication that is not targeted to their brain, but to a cluster of symptoms, we're going to end up with this circular system where things are not better.
01:05:04.000I mean, I'm listening to a book now called Healing by Tom Insel.
01:05:07.000Tom Insel was the director of the National Institute of Mental Health.
01:05:12.000He was responsible for $20 billion in resource money.
01:05:54.000Exercise has been found to be equally effective as antidepressants.
01:05:59.000Are we putting an exercise program in your life?
01:06:05.000So not just while you're here in the program, but how do we figure out how you can do this every day?
01:06:14.000And if you're drinking, that's not loving your brain.
01:06:17.000If you're smoking pot, which is largely endorsed by the psychiatric community, it's another bit of insanity.
01:06:24.000If you're smoking pot, you're probably not going to be feeling better.
01:06:28.000So if you get them to eat right, they're going to be thinking better.
01:06:34.000So I know not everybody's going to get a scan, but at least learn from what we've learned from the scans with a better brain always comes a better life.
01:07:54.000And shouldn't we at least think about like non-toxic things like hyperbaric oxygen if you had a brain injury or if you have low blood flow to your brain?
01:08:05.000Have we really worked on what are the right supplements?
01:08:11.000From a brain health perspective, I know how they work.
01:08:16.000And I do a series, you can see it on Instagram called Scan My Brain.
01:08:21.000We actually released a new episode today with Emma Willis, Bruce Willis's wife, and we talked about the stress she's been under managing someone who has frontal temporal lobe dementia.
01:08:35.000But I also did one with Annalyn McCourt, who did a whole documentary on plant medicine.
01:08:42.000That's what they call mushrooms and hallucinogens.
01:10:21.000And here's step one, and here's step two, and here's step three.
01:10:25.000And it's my NFL repair guide in the end of mental illness.
01:10:32.000And there's also lots of information on end and change your brain every day because, you know, as I said, it's like the most important thing I learned is there's a lot of psychiatric illness as a direct result of traumatic brain injuries.
01:11:32.000If you want to take a cross-country flight for our Turning Point Action Event Action Conference in Palm Beach, we just announced Tucker Carlson will be speaking there.
01:11:44.000So that will be July 15th and 16th, all the way in Palm Beach.
01:11:48.000I know it's a ways, but if you guys want to be there, and obviously we'll have America Fest again, which is more local in December.
01:11:53.000But I want to just reiterate: this conversation was super important.
01:11:57.000You guys will be able to hear it back on my podcast.
01:11:59.000Also, check out the information provided with the book in the lobby.
01:12:04.000But if you want to be a strong citizen, if you care about reclaiming your country and your grandkids' country, then you also need to be aware of all the other threats, not just the educational curriculum and all that stuff we talk about, the toxins, the screen time.
01:12:20.000And there's no better expert to be able to strengthen your brain health than Dr. Eamon.