Valuetainment - Psychiatrist Uncovers Trends From 175,000 Brain Scans

00:00:00.000 People go, how can you listen to problems all day long?

00:00:02.760 That's quite frankly not what I do.

00:00:04.320 I get people better.

00:00:05.940 I get their brains better, their minds better,

00:00:08.560 their relationships better.

00:00:10.360 What are your thoughts about Tom Cruise's assessment

00:00:12.520 on medicine not being the solution

00:00:14.800 to helping people's psychological issues?

00:00:17.520 I think how psychiatry is currently practiced

00:00:20.080 is just a scandal and it's a mess.

00:00:22.880 85% of psychiatric drugs are prescribed

00:00:25.800 by non-psychiatric physicians

00:00:27.860 in 10-minute office visits.

00:00:30.000 Is it true that the brain's a muscle

00:00:31.980 that the more you work it, the stronger it gets

00:00:34.220 or that's just a myth?

00:00:35.760 Ultimately, it's responsible for your success.

00:00:40.420 Relationships, work, money, joy, happiness.

00:00:44.500 The epidemic of teenage suicide

00:00:46.680 is being driven by social media.

00:00:48.980 As girls constantly compare themselves 1.00

00:00:52.020 in a negative way,

00:00:53.480 then you struggle more with anxiety,

00:00:55.640 depression, trauma, or grief.

00:01:00.000 My guest today is an expert in an area

00:01:04.000 many of us need help with,

00:01:05.500 specifically your interviewer,

00:01:07.300 myself, yours truly.

00:01:08.420 He's a 13-time New York Times bestseller.

00:01:11.400 He has scanned 175,000 brains

00:01:15.820 that he has access to.

00:01:16.940 His facility that he runs

00:01:18.000 from 155 different countries.

00:01:19.620 He's a double board certified

00:01:21.840 child and adult psychiatrist

00:01:24.640 and many other things I can say

00:01:26.660 about this man on the great work he's done.

00:01:29.040 He's got tens of millions of views

00:01:30.380 on YouTube in the area of expertise,

00:01:32.760 brains.

00:01:33.260 With that being said,

00:01:33.940 my guest today,

00:01:35.160 Dr. Daniel Amen.

00:01:36.460 Doc, thank you so much

00:01:37.320 for being a guest on Valuetainment.

00:01:39.020 Wow.

00:01:39.420 Thank you so much for having me

00:01:41.540 and helping me spread the word

00:01:43.300 about brain health.

00:01:45.040 One of the things I like the fact

00:01:46.420 is our interview

00:01:47.280 that we started on time

00:01:48.580 and we had no technical difficulties.

00:01:50.440 So I love the fact that,

00:01:51.540 you know,

00:01:52.260 it allows us to have more time together.

00:01:53.880 So I appreciate your patience

00:01:55.180 while we were going through

00:01:55.960 the madness with Zoom earlier,

00:01:57.220 but good to have you on.

00:01:59.520 You know,

00:02:00.160 you hear stories

00:02:01.860 and you'll say,

00:02:02.700 you know,

00:02:02.880 you watch a kid and you say,

00:02:04.020 why did you end up becoming a cop?

00:02:05.820 My dad was a cop.

00:02:06.740 Why did you end up going

00:02:07.500 in the military

00:02:08.080 and serving 20 years

00:02:08.960 and becoming an officer?

00:02:09.800 Like when I talked

00:02:11.060 to General McChrystal,

00:02:12.040 well,

00:02:12.220 because my dad was a general.

00:02:13.460 My grandpa was in,

00:02:14.820 you know,

00:02:15.160 in Colonel Wendiswell.

00:02:16.520 Okay,

00:02:16.680 got it.

00:02:17.060 That makes sense.

00:02:17.580 There's a lineage.

00:02:18.200 You want to go out there

00:02:18.660 and follow the footsteps.

00:02:19.560 Yes.

00:02:20.480 Why did you want to be a brain surgeon

00:02:23.380 with your background?

00:02:24.740 How did it lead to you

00:02:25.560 doing what you're doing today?

00:02:27.240 Well,

00:02:27.620 actually,

00:02:27.940 I was the first one

00:02:29.400 in my family

00:02:30.940 to graduate from college.

00:02:33.140 So I am the son.

00:02:37.200 My grandparents immigrated

00:02:38.580 from the Middle East

00:02:39.800 and my dad,

00:02:42.240 clearly smart enough

00:02:43.120 to go to college,

00:02:43.840 but just worked like crazy

00:02:46.120 from the time he was 12.

00:02:48.280 And when I was 18,

00:02:51.260 Vietnam was still going on

00:02:53.280 and I became an infantry medic.

00:02:55.860 That's where my love

00:02:56.840 of medicine was born.

00:02:59.280 But about a year into it,

00:03:00.580 I realized I didn't really

00:03:01.660 like being shot at.

00:03:03.180 It wasn't my thing.

00:03:04.980 Some people like it.

00:03:06.820 For me,

00:03:07.680 I'm like,

00:03:08.220 no,

00:03:08.480 people could get hurt out here.

00:03:09.740 And I became

00:03:11.120 an x-ray technician

00:03:12.880 and developed a passion

00:03:14.520 for medical imaging.

00:03:16.380 As our professors used to say,

00:03:18.380 how do you know

00:03:19.200 unless you look?

00:03:20.780 And then I got out of the army

00:03:21.920 and went to medical school.

00:03:23.320 And when I was a second-year

00:03:25.820 medical student,

00:03:27.120 someone I loved

00:03:28.800 tried to kill herself.

00:03:30.640 And I took her

00:03:31.640 to see a wonderful psychiatrist.

00:03:33.520 And I came to realize

00:03:34.760 if he helped her,

00:03:35.920 it wouldn't just help her.

00:03:37.280 That ultimately,

00:03:38.100 it would help her children

00:03:39.480 and even her grandchildren

00:03:42.320 as they would be shaped

00:03:43.820 by someone who was happier

00:03:45.600 and more stable.

00:03:46.720 So in 1979,

00:03:48.240 I fell in love

00:03:50.060 with psychiatry

00:03:51.040 because I realized

00:03:52.940 it could change

00:03:54.040 generations of people.

00:03:56.840 But I fell in love

00:03:57.680 with the only medical specialty

00:03:59.140 that virtually never looks

00:04:01.360 at the organ it treats.

00:04:03.900 And I knew it was wrong

00:04:05.440 and I knew it would change.

00:04:07.460 I just had no idea

00:04:08.780 I'd be part of the change.

00:04:11.980 And in the late 1980s,

00:04:14.180 I was an army psychiatrist.

00:04:16.160 I trained at the

00:04:17.500 Walter Reed Army Medical Center,

00:04:19.700 Washington, D.C.

00:04:21.060 In the late 1980s,

00:04:22.260 I started looking at the brain

00:04:23.960 and it just changed

00:04:25.820 everything I do.

00:04:28.700 You know, I don't really think

00:04:29.620 of myself as a psychiatrist.

00:04:31.260 I think of myself

00:04:32.280 as a brain health specialist,

00:04:34.840 a clinical neuroscientist,

00:04:36.840 where my whole job

00:04:38.720 is to get your brain right.

00:04:40.960 And I want to make

00:04:42.080 brain health cool

00:04:44.020 because quite frankly,

00:04:45.680 nobody really wants

00:04:46.900 to see a psychiatrist.

00:04:48.380 When I told my dad

00:04:49.620 I wanted to be a psychiatrist,

00:04:50.960 he asked me why

00:04:51.920 I didn't want to be

00:04:52.740 a real doctor,

00:04:54.160 why I wanted to be

00:04:55.200 a nut doctor

00:04:56.280 and hang out with nuts

00:04:57.760 all day long.

00:04:59.100 So my dad never got

00:05:00.580 father of the year award,

00:05:03.160 even though he was a good guy,

00:05:05.380 but he just didn't,

00:05:06.460 you know.

00:05:07.220 Did he have a sense of humor?

00:05:08.420 Like, was he being sarcastic

00:05:09.640 or he was being really

00:05:10.640 like serious with you?

00:05:11.700 Like, why are you being...

00:05:12.300 He was dead serious.

00:05:13.920 He was mad at me.

00:05:16.220 You know, what am I going

00:05:17.000 to tell my friend?

00:05:18.120 Yeah.

00:05:18.560 Son's a shrink.

00:05:19.720 And, you know,

00:05:20.480 he hangs out with nuts

00:05:21.680 all day long.

00:05:22.480 And even though

00:05:24.380 that hurt my feelings,

00:05:26.080 I totally get

00:05:27.340 where he was coming from

00:05:28.760 because most psychiatrists

00:05:30.440 don't act like real doctors.

00:05:32.520 They don't look

00:05:33.640 at the organ they treat.

00:05:35.980 And when I started looking,

00:05:37.820 it just changed

00:05:38.680 my whole life

00:05:39.620 in such a good way.

00:05:41.380 So did your patients

00:05:43.100 ever make you go nuts

00:05:44.940 or no?

00:05:45.580 Well, I've treated...

00:05:48.780 It came public last year

00:05:50.020 that Justin Bieber

00:05:51.000 has been one of my patients.

00:05:53.220 And that was close.

00:05:57.200 Yeah, no,

00:05:58.000 we've taken care of

00:05:58.880 some just wonderful

00:06:00.280 but complicated people.

00:06:03.600 And, you know,

00:06:05.660 people go,

00:06:06.240 how can you listen

00:06:06.940 to problems all day long?

00:06:08.780 And that's quite frankly

00:06:10.520 not what I do.

00:06:11.240 I get people better.

00:06:12.820 I get their brains better,

00:06:14.440 their minds better,

00:06:15.580 their relationships better,

00:06:17.400 their spiritual selves better,

00:06:20.360 which is sort of

00:06:20.960 an odd thing to say

00:06:21.800 for a psychiatrist.

00:06:23.100 But when you get...

00:06:25.120 When you help people get better,

00:06:26.620 it's thrilling.

00:06:27.720 It's exciting.

00:06:28.980 I have loved it

00:06:30.120 every day for 40 years.

00:06:32.280 You know,

00:06:32.520 the only reason

00:06:32.920 I ask that question

00:06:33.520 is because I have friends

00:06:34.640 who are detectives

00:06:35.700 or cops or,

00:06:36.560 you know,

00:06:37.540 divorce attorneys

00:06:38.440 or DEA agents.

00:06:40.060 And, you know,

00:06:41.040 I was former military,

00:06:42.320 so you got Delta

00:06:43.300 and all these guys

00:06:44.020 and you're taught

00:06:44.840 to be a little bit paranoid.

00:06:46.040 You know,

00:06:46.140 so when they come home,

00:06:47.500 it kind of bleeds

00:06:48.080 into their marital life.

00:06:49.200 You know,

00:06:49.340 what were you doing?

00:06:49.960 What's going on?

00:06:50.400 Who's this on?

00:06:50.880 They're very extra paranoid.

00:06:52.580 So when you're a psychiatrist

00:06:54.180 and you hear a lot

00:06:54.960 of people's issues,

00:06:55.780 it literally filters out of you.

00:06:58.680 Nothing sticks

00:06:59.560 where you kind of

00:07:00.260 catch yourself

00:07:00.880 when you come home at night.

00:07:01.840 You're irritated,

00:07:02.740 you're upset,

00:07:03.320 you're frustrated

00:07:03.920 or kind of reacting

00:07:05.560 to a patient's conversation

00:07:06.880 you had earlier?

00:07:08.180 Not really.

00:07:09.200 I mean, you know,

00:07:10.080 I help them manage their minds.

00:07:13.560 And in the process,

00:07:14.720 whenever you help someone

00:07:16.060 do something,

00:07:16.980 you tend to be better

00:07:18.700 at it yourself.

00:07:20.460 I agree.

00:07:21.120 And I work with my wife.

00:07:24.860 So we have done

00:07:26.240 over a thousand

00:07:27.120 Brain Warriors Way podcasts.

00:07:28.840 We just finished filming

00:07:31.280 our fourth

00:07:32.180 national public television special.

00:07:35.080 She's my best friend.

00:07:36.440 I mean, you know,

00:07:36.920 we had to figure out

00:07:37.740 how to work together,

00:07:38.880 but we had someone,

00:07:41.880 a consultant once said,

00:07:43.260 look at him

00:07:44.020 like you love him.

00:07:46.360 That just helps so much.

00:07:48.940 And so we're always

00:07:50.480 thinking about

00:07:51.800 how to have better minds

00:07:54.240 and better brains.

00:07:55.280 And it leaks

00:07:56.740 over to the kids.

00:07:59.200 How long have you guys

00:08:00.040 been together?

00:08:01.380 15 years.

00:08:02.520 15 years.

00:08:03.160 Very cool.

00:08:03.760 So, okay.

00:08:04.660 So let's put that part aside.

00:08:06.400 Let's go to the next part

00:08:07.340 of it here.

00:08:09.360 You know,

00:08:09.860 I like bodybuilding.

00:08:10.980 I follow a lot of athletes,

00:08:12.440 a lot of bodybuilders.

00:08:13.260 We've had a lot of bodybuilders.

00:08:14.260 We've interviewed here.

00:08:15.740 And, you know,

00:08:16.360 when somebody builds

00:08:17.200 their biceps,

00:08:18.040 you can see it.

00:08:18.800 When somebody builds

00:08:19.440 their chest,

00:08:20.040 you can see it.

00:08:20.640 When somebody works

00:08:21.320 on their abs,

00:08:21.860 you can see it.

00:08:22.420 There's a, you know,

00:08:23.760 visible,

00:08:24.400 you kind of look at it

00:08:25.100 and say, look,

00:08:25.400 you look good.

00:08:25.920 Your abs look good.

00:08:26.600 You know,

00:08:26.800 your traps look good.

00:08:27.640 You know,

00:08:28.940 you hear the saying,

00:08:30.340 a brain is a muscle.

00:08:32.820 You know,

00:08:33.120 your brain's like a muscle.

00:08:34.480 The more you feed it,

00:08:35.460 the more, you know,

00:08:36.180 it could get this.

00:08:37.040 You know,

00:08:37.220 the more you read,

00:08:37.820 the more you learn.

00:08:39.080 Is it true that

00:08:40.120 the brain's a muscle

00:08:41.120 that the more you work it,

00:08:42.360 the stronger it gets?

00:08:43.400 Or that's just a myth?

00:08:45.100 The more you use it,

00:08:46.520 the more you can use it.

00:08:49.760 So the brain is very much

00:08:52.420 a use it or lose it organ.

00:08:54.580 That when you learn

00:08:56.540 something new,

00:08:57.960 your brain makes

00:08:59.220 a new connection.

00:09:00.940 When you stop learning,

00:09:02.940 your brain actually starts

00:09:04.880 to disconnect itself

00:09:06.800 and makes it harder

00:09:08.940 for you to learn.

00:09:10.040 That's why adults,

00:09:11.000 when they go back

00:09:12.020 to college

00:09:13.100 the first semester or two,

00:09:15.160 they're really struggling

00:09:16.420 because they're not used to it.

00:09:18.900 But over time,

00:09:20.360 you have this great part

00:09:22.620 of your brain

00:09:23.240 called the hippocampus.

00:09:24.720 It's on the inside

00:09:25.900 of your temporal lobes.

00:09:27.480 And it's Greek for seahorse

00:09:29.660 because it's shaped

00:09:31.040 like a seahorse.

00:09:32.580 And every day

00:09:34.240 you make new stem cells

00:09:37.480 in the hippocampus.

00:09:38.900 So I just think of it

00:09:41.640 like every day

00:09:43.760 you're making 700 new

00:09:46.360 baby seahorses

00:09:48.200 and your habits

00:09:49.840 are either growing them

00:09:52.280 or murdering them. 0.53

00:09:55.300 I had a fun conversation

00:09:56.940 with Miley Cyrus

00:09:58.040 who came out last year

00:10:00.220 as one of my patients.

00:10:01.960 And she was smoking pot 1.00

00:10:04.840 and drinking

00:10:05.340 and not doing

00:10:06.080 the right things.

00:10:07.140 And I told her

00:10:07.800 about the baby seahorses

00:10:09.160 and she goes,

00:10:10.020 that's so unfair.

00:10:11.380 You know I'm an animal lover

00:10:13.080 and I never want to do it.

00:10:14.780 And she's just doing

00:10:18.540 such a better job

00:10:19.600 of taking care

00:10:20.400 of her seahorses.

00:10:23.040 And there are things

00:10:24.080 we do every day

00:10:25.220 that either grow our brains

00:10:27.380 or shrivel our brains.

00:10:30.940 And because most people

00:10:32.380 never look at the brain,

00:10:34.220 most people never care.

00:10:36.080 And that's what

00:10:38.400 we need to make cool.

00:10:40.640 Caring about your brain.

00:10:42.460 Because ultimately

00:10:44.140 it's responsible

00:10:46.280 for your success.

00:10:49.320 Relationships, work,

00:10:50.940 money, joy, happiness.

00:10:54.040 There's an organ

00:10:55.060 called the brain

00:10:56.740 that is responsible

00:10:57.940 for all of that.

00:11:00.220 Can you unpack that?

00:11:01.580 Well, when your brain

00:11:02.680 works right,

00:11:03.280 you work right.

00:11:04.300 Your brain is the organ

00:11:05.560 of decision making.

00:11:07.580 And I argue

00:11:08.660 your level of success

00:11:10.540 success in life

00:11:11.420 is basically

00:11:12.540 a sum of all

00:11:13.840 the decisions

00:11:14.740 that you've made.

00:11:16.380 And when your brain

00:11:17.660 is healthy,

00:11:19.240 you're more thoughtful.

00:11:21.480 You have better control

00:11:22.820 over your impulses.

00:11:24.760 You're more organized.

00:11:26.220 You are better

00:11:27.780 at planning

00:11:28.620 and then acting

00:11:30.140 in ways consistent

00:11:31.820 with your goals.

00:11:34.120 And most people

00:11:36.200 are never thinking,

00:11:37.640 you know,

00:11:38.340 that if I drink

00:11:39.620 too much alcohol

00:11:40.400 or smoke pot

00:11:41.660 or eat bad food,

00:11:43.800 that it's actually

00:11:45.020 going to negatively

00:11:46.360 impact the moment

00:11:48.380 by moment decisions

00:11:49.940 that I make.

00:11:52.120 This is really

00:11:53.520 important stuff

00:11:54.760 that when your brain

00:11:56.440 works right,

00:11:56.980 you work right.

00:11:57.760 And when it's troubled,

00:11:59.280 for whatever reason,

00:12:00.280 you played football

00:12:01.160 in high school

00:12:01.820 like I did,

00:12:02.620 or you hit soccer balls

00:12:04.460 with your head,

00:12:05.200 or you were in that

00:12:06.240 jeep accident

00:12:08.020 when you were

00:12:08.700 in the military,

00:12:09.960 damage the brain,

00:12:12.580 damage your decisions,

00:12:14.040 damage your life.

00:12:15.420 So does it mean

00:12:16.620 Elon Musk's brain

00:12:18.400 looks like Arnold Schwarzenegger

00:12:20.360 in his 20s?

00:12:22.700 That's a great analogy

00:12:24.700 that, you know,

00:12:27.520 he's so smart

00:12:28.720 and has learned

00:12:29.860 so many diverse things.

00:12:32.220 And that's what's

00:12:32.880 really good for the brain.

00:12:34.060 It's not doing

00:12:35.080 the same thing

00:12:35.960 over and over again.

00:12:37.280 It's just having

00:12:38.280 this level of diversity

00:12:40.080 that means his brain

00:12:42.780 is likely very unique

00:12:45.840 and working hard.

00:12:48.820 Who is,

00:12:49.260 have you,

00:12:49.580 like,

00:12:49.800 I'm curious right now,

00:12:51.200 when you scan a brain,

00:12:53.620 I mean,

00:12:53.880 you got 170,000 of them.

00:12:55.400 When you scan a brain,

00:12:57.120 can you tell apart

00:12:58.160 a brain of someone

00:12:59.640 who has got

00:13:01.020 a high IQ genius,

00:13:02.280 a great decision maker,

00:13:03.280 versus somebody

00:13:04.000 that hasn't put it

00:13:04.780 to use a lot

00:13:05.640 and doesn't read a lot

00:13:06.560 is just kind of,

00:13:07.660 you know,

00:13:08.080 living a regular life.

00:13:09.140 Can you see it through a scan

00:13:10.320 or that's not something

00:13:11.200 you can see through a scan?

00:13:12.620 Well,

00:13:12.720 we can clearly see

00:13:14.120 how healthy your brain is.

00:13:15.940 The healthier it is,

00:13:17.300 the brighter you are,

00:13:18.580 generally.

00:13:19.440 We can see tendencies

00:13:21.020 in the brain.

00:13:22.580 Are you spontaneous,

00:13:24.640 which means

00:13:25.420 you don't like waiting in line

00:13:27.260 and you're very creative,

00:13:29.080 but you can't focus

00:13:31.280 unless you're super interested.

00:13:33.300 Are you persistent?

00:13:35.220 It's sort of another way

00:13:36.600 of calling someone a jerk.

00:13:38.540 It's,

00:13:39.360 they're worried,

00:13:40.180 rigid,

00:13:40.940 inflexible,

00:13:41.920 if things don't go their way,

00:13:43.560 they get upset,

00:13:45.240 argumentative,

00:13:46.440 oppositional.

00:13:47.840 We can tell

00:13:48.940 if they're more sensitive,

00:13:50.760 more tendency

00:13:51.520 to be empathic

00:13:52.660 or more cautious

00:13:55.020 where they tend

00:13:56.360 to be more anxious.

00:13:58.460 So the scans

00:13:59.420 give us a lot

00:14:00.560 of information.

00:14:01.800 So basically,

00:14:02.700 is it healthy?

00:14:04.280 Is it sleepy?

00:14:05.720 Does it tend

00:14:06.420 to work too hard?

00:14:08.360 Has it been hurt?

00:14:10.480 Like traumatic brain injury,

00:14:12.580 David,

00:14:12.920 like a major cause

00:14:14.940 of psychiatric problems

00:14:16.180 and nobody knows about it

00:14:17.640 because most psychiatrists

00:14:18.620 never look at the brain.

00:14:21.040 We can tell

00:14:22.120 if you've had toxic exposure.

00:14:24.320 I have dozens now

00:14:26.220 of COVID-19 brains

00:14:28.140 and it's very interesting

00:14:30.860 when it impacts your brain.

00:14:32.840 It doesn't always,

00:14:33.960 but when it does,

00:14:34.880 it tends to fire up

00:14:36.300 your emotional brain.

00:14:38.140 So the dragons

00:14:39.020 that I write about

00:14:39.980 in my new book,

00:14:41.740 your brain is always listening.

00:14:44.220 It tends to fire them up.

00:14:46.180 And you struggle more

00:14:47.180 with anxiety,

00:14:49.120 depression,

00:14:50.320 trauma,

00:14:50.820 or grief.

00:14:52.540 So, okay.

00:14:53.340 So that's,

00:14:54.400 that's interesting

00:14:55.200 because I'm assuming

00:14:56.700 if you went through

00:14:57.720 the school

00:14:58.260 that you went through

00:14:59.120 to become a psychiatrist

00:15:00.340 and you've scanned

00:15:01.000 170,000,

00:15:02.240 did you,

00:15:03.740 when you were going

00:15:04.220 through school,

00:15:04.760 have a chance

00:15:05.320 to see the scan

00:15:07.240 of an Einstein?

00:15:08.440 Like,

00:15:08.620 did they have a scan

00:15:09.400 of some of the smartest

00:15:10.340 people in the world

00:15:11.080 for you to say,

00:15:11.620 look at Einstein's brain here.

00:15:12.680 Was there any kind of,

00:15:14.080 you know,

00:15:14.400 classes you took

00:15:15.220 where you were able

00:15:16.180 to see the scan

00:15:16.800 of some of the most

00:15:17.360 genius brains of all time?

00:15:19.220 Genius minds of all time? 0.93

00:15:20.860 Well,

00:15:21.180 I've certainly

00:15:21.820 been able to do that.

00:15:23.280 I mean,

00:15:23.540 we've scanned

00:15:24.480 incredible athletes,

00:15:27.180 Hall of Fame athletes,

00:15:28.620 and we've scanned

00:15:30.120 Pulitzer Prize winning

00:15:31.640 writers.

00:15:32.660 And the interesting

00:15:36.860 commonality

00:15:39.000 is their cerebellum

00:15:41.320 works really well.

00:15:44.120 Cerebellum's

00:15:44.720 in the back bottom

00:15:45.660 part of the brain.

00:15:46.940 It's Latin

00:15:47.620 for little brain.

00:15:49.620 And it's

00:15:50.140 what I think of

00:15:51.180 almost as the central

00:15:52.300 processing unit

00:15:53.660 in the brain.

00:15:55.660 Has half the brain's neurons,

00:15:57.660 even though it's only

00:15:58.400 10% of the brain's volume.

00:16:00.680 that when your cerebellum

00:16:02.860 is healthy,

00:16:03.860 you process faster,

00:16:05.560 which means

00:16:06.060 you generally

00:16:06.660 think faster.

00:16:08.560 So,

00:16:09.200 did you guys

00:16:10.000 get a chance

00:16:10.740 to look at the scans

00:16:12.160 of some of the

00:16:12.700 brightest brains?

00:16:13.500 Were you able

00:16:13.800 to kind of look at it

00:16:14.660 and see any similarities

00:16:15.540 or no?

00:16:16.680 I'm talking people

00:16:17.440 in the past,

00:16:18.200 you know,

00:16:18.360 Einstein's,

00:16:19.760 folks like that.

00:16:21.000 Einstein actually

00:16:21.780 had a little bit

00:16:22.520 smaller brain

00:16:23.460 than,

00:16:24.720 by weight,

00:16:25.880 but his parietal

00:16:27.920 lobes,

00:16:28.400 top back part

00:16:29.340 of the brain,

00:16:30.380 one of the

00:16:30.900 association areas

00:16:32.340 in the brain

00:16:33.140 had more cells

00:16:36.720 there.

00:16:37.820 It was pretty

00:16:38.360 interesting.

00:16:40.980 But as a rule,

00:16:42.640 that's not why

00:16:43.340 people come to see me.

00:16:45.460 Okay.

00:16:46.300 No,

00:16:46.800 I understand.

00:16:47.600 I'm just curious.

00:16:48.320 I'm trying to see a trend

00:16:49.540 with 175,000 scans

00:16:51.160 if you see anything there.

00:16:52.240 So,

00:16:52.900 we are living

00:16:54.080 in a

00:16:55.000 pretty vain era.

00:16:57.020 I lived in L.A.

00:16:57.720 for 24 years

00:16:58.600 and cosmetic surgery

00:16:59.580 was just something

00:17:00.380 that everybody was doing.

00:17:01.500 I went to Dallas

00:17:02.380 and Dallas'

00:17:04.040 Highland Park is,

00:17:05.380 listen,

00:17:05.540 if you want to do

00:17:06.040 anything cosmetic,

00:17:06.680 it's a great place to be.

00:17:08.200 I'm in Boca now

00:17:09.400 and, you know,

00:17:10.040 Boca,

00:17:10.460 you walk around,

00:17:11.420 you know,

00:17:11.660 everybody's got

00:17:12.400 some kind of

00:17:13.540 cosmetic surgery

00:17:14.320 they've done.

00:17:15.360 Is there any

00:17:16.140 kind of

00:17:16.700 surgeries

00:17:17.800 that can be done

00:17:19.880 to make somebody

00:17:20.980 sharper,

00:17:22.400 you know,

00:17:23.040 better processor,

00:17:25.340 better decision maker?

00:17:26.260 Is there anything

00:17:26.900 to be done

00:17:27.500 with that?

00:17:28.520 Well,

00:17:28.660 there's a lot

00:17:29.120 of things

00:17:29.520 to do,

00:17:30.000 not surgery.

00:17:32.040 You know,

00:17:33.300 and they did

00:17:33.660 prefrontal lobotomies

00:17:35.020 to try and treat

00:17:36.040 mental illness

00:17:36.680 that didn't turn

00:17:37.340 out really well.

00:17:39.220 They are doing

00:17:40.300 some specific,

00:17:42.280 highly targeted

00:17:43.780 psychosurgeries.

00:17:45.480 For example,

00:17:46.120 if you have OCD

00:17:47.080 or you have

00:17:48.280 Tourette's syndrome,

00:17:50.040 you want to be smarter,

00:17:51.700 you want a healthier,

00:17:52.640 prettier brain.

00:17:53.540 And I love your analogy.

00:17:54.800 You know,

00:17:55.440 I live in

00:17:55.880 Newport Beach

00:17:56.720 where there's

00:17:57.580 more plastic surgeons

00:17:59.140 per capita

00:17:59.780 than almost any

00:18:00.520 place in the world.

00:18:01.960 And I often say

00:18:03.740 we care more

00:18:04.660 about our faces,

00:18:06.420 our boobs,

00:18:07.380 our bellies,

00:18:08.040 and our butts 0.95

00:18:08.760 than we do

00:18:09.460 our brain,

00:18:10.760 which is sort of

00:18:11.580 insane.

00:18:12.840 And when I started

00:18:13.760 looking at the brain,

00:18:14.860 I'm like,

00:18:15.340 okay,

00:18:15.560 how do you make it better?

00:18:17.300 So diet,

00:18:19.040 exercise,

00:18:19.460 that helps.

00:18:21.060 Certain nutraceuticals,

00:18:22.720 like I'm a huge

00:18:23.580 fan of Ginkgo.

00:18:24.800 The prettiest brains

00:18:26.200 I've ever seen

00:18:27.440 take Ginkgo.

00:18:28.600 Ginkgo increases

00:18:29.800 blood flow

00:18:30.860 to the brain.

00:18:32.080 I'm a huge fan

00:18:33.280 of the Persian spice,

00:18:36.280 saffron.

00:18:37.380 Saffron has been shown

00:18:38.720 in 21 randomized

00:18:40.300 controlled trials

00:18:41.460 to be as effective

00:18:43.300 as antidepressant

00:18:44.560 medication.

00:18:45.720 Wow.

00:18:46.160 Saffron.

00:18:46.860 Wow.

00:18:47.000 I take saffron

00:18:48.440 every day.

00:18:50.200 And there's another

00:18:52.020 treatment I like a lot

00:18:53.480 called hyperbaric

00:18:54.460 oxygen therapy

00:18:55.940 where you go

00:18:57.140 into a hyperbaric

00:18:58.260 chamber.

00:18:59.200 It's been showed

00:18:59.860 to increase

00:19:01.120 stem cell production,

00:19:02.460 so those baby 0.95

00:19:03.200 seahorses,

00:19:04.360 and increase

00:19:06.000 blood flow

00:19:06.720 to the brain.

00:19:07.620 I did the big

00:19:08.280 NFL study

00:19:09.120 sort of when

00:19:09.740 the NFL

00:19:10.180 was not telling

00:19:11.040 the truth

00:19:11.680 about traumatic

00:19:12.680 brain injury

00:19:13.280 in football.

00:19:13.820 and, like,

00:19:16.880 let's stop

00:19:17.400 lying about this.

00:19:18.340 This is a brain

00:19:19.100 damaging sport.

00:19:21.060 But 80%

00:19:22.140 of my players

00:19:22.920 get better

00:19:23.640 when we put

00:19:24.840 them on a

00:19:25.420 rehabilitation

00:19:26.040 program,

00:19:28.100 multiple vitamin,

00:19:29.280 fish oil,

00:19:30.240 brain boost

00:19:31.020 I created,

00:19:32.200 and many of them

00:19:33.040 also hyperbaric

00:19:34.160 oxygen therapy.

00:19:36.280 When you do

00:19:37.640 that,

00:19:38.140 when you put

00:19:38.880 the brain

00:19:39.580 in a healing

00:19:40.240 environment,

00:19:40.980 it can be

00:19:42.200 prettier,

00:19:43.180 can be

00:19:43.600 healthier,

00:19:44.440 which means

00:19:45.620 you're happier

00:19:46.680 and you make

00:19:48.220 better decisions.

00:19:50.120 So,

00:19:50.460 cosmetic surgery

00:19:51.560 or surgery

00:19:52.440 period to make

00:19:53.620 somebody become

00:19:54.400 a better processor,

00:19:55.420 better decision maker,

00:19:56.440 we're not there yet.

00:19:57.840 But certain,

00:19:59.200 you know,

00:20:00.180 dietary supplements

00:20:01.560 or approach

00:20:02.580 can help you

00:20:03.540 become a better

00:20:04.200 processor and a

00:20:05.140 better decision maker.

00:20:06.580 Okay.

00:20:07.900 Outside of

00:20:08.780 dietary,

00:20:09.220 you know,

00:20:09.380 in bodybuilding,

00:20:10.000 they say it's

00:20:10.800 cardio,

00:20:11.540 they say it's

00:20:12.420 weightlifting,

00:20:13.220 proper weightlifting,

00:20:14.620 you got diet,

00:20:15.740 and then you got,

00:20:16.400 as you get older,

00:20:17.260 stretching to make

00:20:17.980 your muscle more,

00:20:19.420 you know,

00:20:20.240 full,

00:20:22.180 makes it look better

00:20:22.880 if you got some,

00:20:23.660 you see a lot of

00:20:24.220 bodybuilders going,

00:20:25.060 they've taken ballet

00:20:25.740 and gymnastics

00:20:26.460 because the body

00:20:27.140 comes out a lot nicer.

00:20:29.480 What is a good

00:20:30.960 combination,

00:20:31.720 you would say,

00:20:32.440 to make someone's

00:20:33.400 brain sharper?

00:20:35.720 So,

00:20:36.000 so many of those

00:20:37.040 things,

00:20:38.080 because the stronger

00:20:39.260 you are as you age,

00:20:40.800 the less likely

00:20:41.500 you are to get

00:20:42.240 Alzheimer's disease.

00:20:45.700 Cardio's important.

00:20:47.300 I tell people,

00:20:48.360 walk like you're late,

00:20:50.200 that it's easier

00:20:51.800 on your joints

00:20:52.920 and people who walk

00:20:54.200 like they're late,

00:20:55.160 45 minutes,

00:20:56.220 four to five times

00:20:57.780 a week,

00:20:58.660 have a lower incidence

00:21:00.040 of cognitive problems

00:21:01.600 and depression.

00:21:03.540 And so,

00:21:04.100 if you're 80 years old

00:21:05.160 and you can walk

00:21:05.920 three miles an hour,

00:21:07.420 you have a 90% chance

00:21:08.960 of living

00:21:09.380 until you're 90.

00:21:10.780 If you can only walk

00:21:11.860 a mile an hour,

00:21:13.280 you have a 90% chance

00:21:14.580 you are not going

00:21:15.520 to live

00:21:15.980 until you're 90.

00:21:18.360 So,

00:21:18.940 exercise.

00:21:19.800 Diet is so important.

00:21:21.960 Your brain

00:21:22.480 is only 2%

00:21:24.000 of your body's weight,

00:21:25.400 about three pounds.

00:21:27.000 It uses

00:21:27.620 20 to 30%

00:21:29.660 of the calories

00:21:31.360 you consume.

00:21:33.460 Think about that.

00:21:34.500 So,

00:21:35.500 it is

00:21:36.740 the Beverly Hills,

00:21:38.460 if you will.

00:21:39.180 It's the most expensive

00:21:40.640 real estate

00:21:41.780 in your body.

00:21:44.120 And if you have

00:21:44.900 a fast food diet,

00:21:46.280 you're going to have

00:21:46.740 a fast food mind.

00:21:48.820 You're more likely

00:21:49.780 to be depressed

00:21:50.800 and demented.

00:21:52.380 Interesting.

00:21:52.780 So,

00:21:53.300 diet is critical.

00:21:54.740 There is

00:21:55.360 a linear correlation

00:21:57.300 between the number

00:21:58.940 of fruits and vegetables

00:22:00.120 you eat a day

00:22:00.980 and your level

00:22:02.440 of happiness

00:22:03.540 up to eight.

00:22:05.400 So,

00:22:05.820 eight should be

00:22:06.400 the target

00:22:07.040 for everyone.

00:22:09.600 And then nutrients,

00:22:10.800 I think,

00:22:11.320 are really important.

00:22:12.620 I think everybody

00:22:13.440 should take

00:22:14.000 a multiple vitamin.

00:22:15.860 Everybody should take

00:22:17.060 an omega-3 fatty acid

00:22:19.080 fish oil supplement.

00:22:20.960 97%

00:22:22.100 of the population

00:22:23.040 is low

00:22:23.860 in omega-3 fatty acids.

00:22:26.200 Critical

00:22:26.800 for getting

00:22:27.700 your brain

00:22:28.440 to connect right

00:22:30.060 and to think right.

00:22:32.700 And then

00:22:33.120 new learning

00:22:34.340 needs to be part

00:22:35.880 of everything

00:22:36.880 you do

00:22:38.260 because

00:22:38.720 when you work

00:22:39.880 your brain,

00:22:40.520 it makes new

00:22:41.660 connections.

00:22:42.760 And don't be

00:22:43.500 overweight, right?

00:22:44.360 If I had to say

00:22:44.960 one thing,

00:22:46.100 if you say,

00:22:46.500 hey, Daniel,

00:22:47.100 what's the one thing?

00:22:50.500 In my books,

00:22:51.540 I talk about

00:22:52.280 bright minds,

00:22:53.200 which is the mnemonic

00:22:54.520 I created

00:22:55.280 to keep your brain

00:22:56.240 healthy.

00:22:56.900 You want to keep

00:22:57.520 your brain healthy

00:22:58.340 or rescue it

00:22:59.300 if it's headed

00:22:59.800 to the dark place.

00:23:01.020 You have to prevent

00:23:02.260 or treat

00:23:03.300 the 11 major

00:23:04.660 risk factors

00:23:05.380 that steal

00:23:06.120 your mind.

00:23:07.320 And the mnemonic

00:23:08.000 is bright minds.

00:23:09.100 So B is for blood flow,

00:23:10.540 R is retirement

00:23:11.400 and aging.

00:23:12.580 The D

00:23:13.120 is diabetes.

00:23:14.880 If you are

00:23:15.900 overweight

00:23:16.880 or have high blood sugar,

00:23:19.340 shrinks

00:23:19.760 your brain.

00:23:21.200 But being

00:23:21.700 overweight,

00:23:22.560 actually,

00:23:23.840 if you're overweight,

00:23:24.720 you have five

00:23:25.600 of the 11

00:23:26.400 risk factors

00:23:27.500 because the fat

00:23:28.820 on your belly,

00:23:29.780 so that's one

00:23:30.440 risk factor,

00:23:31.520 decreases blood flow.

00:23:33.520 I published a study

00:23:34.480 last year

00:23:35.040 on 35,000

00:23:37.280 scans

00:23:37.880 that showed

00:23:38.820 as your weight

00:23:40.120 went up,

00:23:42.060 the function

00:23:43.440 of your brain

00:23:44.500 went down.

00:23:45.840 What is the correlation

00:23:46.800 between the two?

00:23:47.500 Is it energy?

00:23:48.140 Like,

00:23:48.360 I'm just too tired

00:23:49.120 to want to process

00:23:49.820 and go extend

00:23:50.620 five more minutes

00:23:51.940 to make a better decision?

00:23:53.000 What is the link?

00:23:53.900 So,

00:23:55.740 lowers blood flow

00:23:57.440 to your brain.

00:23:58.420 It increases

00:23:59.960 inflammation

00:24:01.480 because the fat

00:24:03.680 cells produce

00:24:04.660 something called

00:24:05.460 inflammatory cytokines

00:24:07.180 that damage

00:24:08.100 your brain.

00:24:09.620 It takes

00:24:10.300 healthy

00:24:10.900 testosterone

00:24:11.840 and turns

00:24:13.300 it into

00:24:14.380 unhealthy

00:24:15.320 cancer-promoting

00:24:16.660 forms

00:24:17.220 of estrogen

00:24:18.140 and

00:24:20.500 it stores

00:24:21.660 toxins.

00:24:22.400 and so

00:24:23.480 it does

00:24:23.940 all of these

00:24:24.960 bad things

00:24:26.540 which means

00:24:27.800 you really

00:24:28.460 should have

00:24:29.160 an idea

00:24:29.680 of how many

00:24:30.240 calories

00:24:30.900 you eat a day.

00:24:32.140 I think of

00:24:32.700 calories like

00:24:33.720 money

00:24:34.320 and we want

00:24:35.580 to be

00:24:36.020 a value

00:24:37.040 spender

00:24:37.780 and then

00:24:39.980 the quality

00:24:41.000 of your calories

00:24:41.820 actually matters

00:24:43.280 more than

00:24:43.960 the number

00:24:44.400 itself.

00:24:46.180 But

00:24:46.700 there's this

00:24:47.680 fascinating

00:24:48.440 study from

00:24:49.520 the Mayo Clinic

00:24:50.360 where they

00:24:51.340 looked at

00:24:51.700 people who

00:24:52.200 had a

00:24:52.600 fat-based

00:24:53.340 diet

00:24:53.780 avocados

00:24:55.480 nuts and

00:24:56.100 seeds

00:24:56.400 healthy oils

00:24:57.280 healthy fish

00:24:58.180 42%

00:24:59.900 less risk

00:25:00.860 of getting

00:25:01.260 Alzheimer's

00:25:01.980 disease

00:25:02.400 and they

00:25:03.640 compared them

00:25:04.420 to people

00:25:04.840 at a

00:25:05.220 carbohydrate-based

00:25:06.260 diet

00:25:06.720 simple

00:25:07.160 carbohydrate-based

00:25:08.260 diet

00:25:08.700 bread

00:25:09.620 pasta

00:25:10.300 potatoes

00:25:11.040 rice

00:25:11.960 fruit juice

00:25:12.940 sugar

00:25:13.500 a 400%

00:25:16.860 increased

00:25:18.220 risk

00:25:18.800 of getting

00:25:19.720 Alzheimer's

00:25:20.500 disease

00:25:20.900 it's the

00:25:22.360 sugar

00:25:22.660 now I'm a

00:25:23.580 fan of

00:25:24.060 carbs

00:25:24.500 just not

00:25:25.280 the ones

00:25:25.700 that quickly

00:25:26.160 turn to

00:25:26.780 sugar

00:25:27.120 simple carbs

00:25:29.060 like bread

00:25:29.660 pasta

00:25:30.080 potatoes

00:25:30.640 rice

00:25:31.080 and sugar

00:25:31.860 so so

00:25:32.760 the follow

00:25:33.640 up on

00:25:33.960 this would

00:25:34.400 be how

00:25:35.360 much of

00:25:35.760 it has

00:25:36.160 to do

00:25:36.840 with what

00:25:38.320 I see

00:25:38.960 what I

00:25:39.620 hear

00:25:40.200 so what

00:25:41.780 I see

00:25:42.340 what I

00:25:43.120 hear

00:25:43.600 what I

00:25:44.220 speak

00:25:44.780 meaning

00:25:45.280 I listen

00:25:46.900 to music

00:25:47.580 is it is

00:25:48.420 certain kind

00:25:48.980 of music

00:25:49.440 strengthening

00:25:50.000 my brain

00:25:50.840 because I

00:25:51.400 have to

00:25:51.740 listen to

00:25:52.260 the words

00:25:52.840 and I

00:25:53.100 have to

00:25:53.380 process

00:25:53.720 what's

00:25:54.040 being

00:25:54.240 said

00:25:54.660 it

00:25:55.860 you know

00:25:56.860 gets my

00:25:57.940 creative

00:25:58.420 juice

00:25:58.820 flowing

00:25:59.180 is it

00:25:59.560 watching

00:26:00.040 if I

00:26:00.460 watch

00:26:00.860 a

00:26:01.220 exorcist

00:26:02.340 a movie

00:26:02.800 messes

00:26:03.260 with my

00:26:03.620 head

00:26:03.860 versus

00:26:04.140 watching

00:26:04.640 something

00:26:05.020 that's

00:26:05.340 getting

00:26:05.560 me

00:26:05.700 to

00:26:05.840 think

00:26:06.080 about

00:26:06.320 the

00:26:06.500 decision

00:26:06.820 making

00:26:07.120 is it

00:26:07.480 video

00:26:07.800 games

00:26:08.260 there are

00:26:08.840 a lot

00:26:08.980 of

00:26:09.080 people

00:26:09.220 right

00:26:09.460 now

00:26:09.620 that are

00:26:09.860 saying

00:26:10.080 certain

00:26:10.440 games

00:26:10.840 make

00:26:11.100 you

00:26:11.240 smarter

00:26:11.580 as a

00:26:11.860 teaching

00:26:12.220 if I

00:26:13.140 speak

00:26:13.480 to an

00:26:13.780 audience

00:26:14.060 and I'm

00:26:14.360 having

00:26:14.540 a debate

00:26:15.020 and a

00:26:15.300 dialogue

00:26:15.620 is that

00:26:15.920 making

00:26:16.220 me

00:26:16.420 a

00:26:16.520 better

00:26:16.680 processor

00:26:17.260 a

00:26:17.840 sharper 1.00

00:26:18.160 mind

00:26:18.460 what

00:26:18.700 would

00:26:18.900 you

00:26:19.020 say

00:26:19.280 those

00:26:26.860 of the

00:26:27.140 whole

00:26:27.320 book

00:26:27.680 your

00:26:28.140 brain

00:26:28.600 is

00:26:29.300 always

00:26:30.100 listening

00:26:31.080 to the

00:26:32.640 dragons

00:26:33.120 from the

00:26:33.520 past

00:26:33.920 those

00:26:34.180 are

00:26:34.320 the

00:26:34.440 big

00:26:34.620 emotional

00:26:35.160 issues

00:26:35.620 people

00:26:36.000 struggle

00:26:36.480 with

00:26:36.940 like

00:26:37.640 grief

00:26:38.240 and

00:26:38.460 loss

00:26:39.000 or

00:26:39.240 wounded

00:26:39.740 dragons

00:26:40.420 it's

00:26:41.960 the

00:26:42.120 they

00:26:42.420 them

00:26:42.740 and

00:26:42.900 other

00:26:43.120 dragons

00:26:43.580 you're

00:26:43.860 always

00:26:44.220 listening

00:26:44.720 to

00:26:45.260 the

00:26:45.420 other

00:26:45.620 people

00:26:46.060 alive

00:26:46.960 and

00:26:47.360 dead

00:26:47.900 like

00:26:48.560 I

00:26:48.740 always

00:26:49.200 have

00:26:49.420 my

00:26:49.660 dad's

00:26:50.140 voice

00:26:50.560 in

00:26:50.960 my

00:26:51.180 head

00:26:51.400 even

00:26:51.600 though

00:26:51.820 he

00:26:51.960 died

00:26:52.180 a

00:26:52.340 year

00:26:52.480 ago

00:26:52.800 it's

00:26:54.920 the

00:26:55.420 sibling

00:26:56.240 and

00:26:56.540 birth

00:26:56.820 order

00:26:57.100 dragons

00:26:57.620 I

00:26:57.800 don't

00:26:57.920 know

00:26:58.040 how

00:26:58.200 many

00:26:58.420 siblings

00:26:58.760 you

00:26:59.040 have

00:26:59.360 I

00:26:59.540 have

00:26:59.700 seven

00:27:00.120 they

00:27:00.600 come

00:27:00.820 from

00:27:01.020 a

00:27:01.140 good

00:27:01.320 Lebanese

00:27:01.860 Catholic

00:27:02.280 family

00:27:02.860 respect

00:27:03.480 and

00:27:04.560 I

00:27:04.940 have

00:27:05.100 five

00:27:05.400 sisters

00:27:05.860 so

00:27:06.300 your

00:27:06.600 birth

00:27:07.060 order

00:27:07.420 really

00:27:08.000 does

00:27:08.540 matter

00:27:08.940 you're

00:27:09.180 sort

00:27:09.380 of

00:27:09.500 always

00:27:09.920 listening

00:27:10.440 are

00:27:11.100 you

00:27:11.340 special

00:27:11.860 or

00:27:12.300 are

00:27:12.580 you

00:27:12.920 not

00:27:13.960 special

00:27:14.460 your

00:27:15.720 brain

00:27:15.980 is

00:27:16.160 always

00:27:16.520 listening

00:27:17.000 to

00:27:17.320 your

00:27:17.560 habits

00:27:18.200 there's

00:27:19.120 a whole

00:27:19.380 section

00:27:19.800 on

00:27:20.100 bad

00:27:20.400 habit

00:27:20.800 dragons

00:27:21.400 like

00:27:23.000 people

00:27:23.320 who

00:27:23.520 say

00:27:23.720 yes

00:27:24.020 yes

00:27:24.280 yes

00:27:24.760 when

00:27:25.800 they

00:27:26.000 should

00:27:26.240 say

00:27:26.480 I

00:27:26.640 have

00:27:26.860 to

00:27:27.020 think

00:27:27.300 about

00:27:27.660 it

00:27:27.920 or

00:27:28.320 you

00:27:28.520 know

00:27:28.840 the

00:27:29.080 other

00:27:29.300 people

00:27:29.720 like

00:27:30.140 my

00:27:30.340 dad

00:27:30.720 no

00:27:31.020 no

00:27:31.260 no

00:27:31.660 it's

00:27:32.100 like

00:27:32.240 the

00:27:32.400 first

00:27:32.660 response

00:27:33.380 is

00:27:33.620 no

00:27:33.860 they

00:27:34.040 don't

00:27:34.240 even

00:27:34.480 think

00:27:34.760 about

00:27:35.080 it

00:27:35.300 there's

00:27:36.860 the

00:27:37.020 addicted

00:27:37.540 dragons

00:27:38.280 so

00:27:38.760 whatever

00:27:39.160 you

00:27:39.580 allow

00:27:40.120 your

00:27:40.440 brain

00:27:40.780 to

00:27:41.040 do

00:27:41.400 if

00:27:42.400 it's

00:27:42.640 rewarding

00:27:43.220 it's

00:27:43.820 going

00:27:43.960 to

00:27:44.080 do

00:27:44.260 it

00:27:44.400 again

00:27:44.820 which

00:27:45.280 is

00:27:45.440 why

00:27:45.700 porn

00:27:46.060 can

00:27:46.320 be

00:27:46.620 a

00:27:47.100 problem

00:27:47.540 it's

00:27:48.080 why

00:27:48.600 caffeine

00:27:50.360 and

00:27:50.780 nicotine

00:27:51.300 and

00:27:51.620 alcohol

00:27:52.140 and

00:27:52.660 marijuana

00:27:53.100 can

00:27:53.400 be

00:27:53.720 habit

00:27:54.360 forming

00:27:54.760 because

00:27:55.260 your

00:27:55.640 brain

00:27:56.000 is

00:27:56.180 always

00:27:56.660 listening

00:27:57.120 it's

00:27:57.440 like

00:27:57.620 oh

00:27:57.820 I

00:27:57.980 got

00:27:58.120 rewarded

00:27:58.560 for

00:27:58.800 that

00:27:59.040 let

00:27:59.260 me

00:27:59.440 do

00:27:59.760 that

00:28:00.520 again

00:28:01.100 and

00:28:02.720 it's

00:28:02.980 listening

00:28:03.380 to

00:28:03.740 the

00:28:04.020 scheming

00:28:04.820 dragons

00:28:05.660 which

00:28:06.560 is

00:28:07.380 the

00:28:08.260 digital

00:28:08.660 dragons

00:28:09.300 you

00:28:09.660 know

00:28:09.960 the

00:28:10.420 Netflix

00:28:12.320 documentary

00:28:13.120 social

00:28:13.860 dilemma

00:28:14.240 was so

00:28:15.240 good

00:28:15.680 and so

00:28:16.780 disturbing

00:28:17.540 because

00:28:18.500 these

00:28:19.100 did you

00:28:19.420 agree

00:28:19.680 with it

00:28:20.100 were you

00:28:20.420 in

00:28:20.800 agreement

00:28:21.120 with it

00:28:21.520 absolutely

00:28:22.420 okay

00:28:22.860 I've

00:28:23.360 seen

00:28:23.660 it

00:28:23.880 that

00:28:24.340 they're

00:28:24.660 changing

00:28:25.320 our

00:28:26.020 brains

00:28:26.740 to

00:28:27.640 make

00:28:27.880 money

00:28:28.140 for

00:28:28.380 their

00:28:28.580 advertisers

00:28:29.300 that

00:28:29.960 they're

00:28:30.240 finding

00:28:30.740 what

00:28:31.560 hooks

00:28:32.040 us

00:28:32.420 and

00:28:33.540 feeding

00:28:34.060 to

00:28:34.660 us

00:28:34.980 over

00:28:35.440 and

00:28:35.720 over

00:28:35.940 again

00:28:36.260 I'm

00:28:36.500 very

00:28:37.020 worried

00:28:37.540 about

00:28:38.340 it

00:28:38.640 because

00:28:39.380 the

00:28:40.720 epidemic

00:28:41.380 of

00:28:41.800 teenage

00:28:42.220 suicide

00:28:42.780 I

00:28:43.580 believe

00:28:43.920 is being

00:28:44.500 driven

00:28:44.840 by social

00:28:45.620 media

00:28:46.040 as

00:28:46.620 girls 0.98

00:28:46.960 constantly

00:28:47.800 compare

00:28:48.560 themselves

00:28:49.280 in a

00:28:49.740 negative

00:28:50.040 way

00:28:50.640 to

00:28:51.340 the

00:28:51.700 social

00:28:52.160 influencers

00:28:53.060 that

00:28:54.340 are

00:28:55.140 struggling

00:28:55.580 just like

00:28:56.380 they are

00:28:56.960 I know

00:28:57.320 I've

00:28:57.700 treated

00:28:57.920 many

00:28:58.240 of

00:28:58.460 them

00:28:58.620 and

00:28:59.220 so

00:28:59.880 your

00:29:00.940 brain

00:29:01.200 is

00:29:01.400 always

00:29:01.800 listening

00:29:02.380 to

00:29:03.360 the

00:29:04.840 food

00:29:05.280 pushers

00:29:05.940 the

00:29:06.180 toxin

00:29:06.920 pushers

00:29:08.200 it's

00:29:08.660 always

00:29:09.000 listening

00:29:09.480 to

00:29:09.760 the

00:29:09.960 news

00:29:10.320 mongers 1.00

00:29:11.040 where

00:29:11.700 the

00:29:11.880 news

00:29:12.100 is

00:29:12.280 actually

00:29:12.640 not

00:29:13.000 the

00:29:13.220 news

00:29:13.600 anymore

00:29:14.080 they

00:29:15.040 pick

00:29:15.540 whatever

00:29:15.900 thing

00:29:16.580 is

00:29:16.740 going

00:29:16.880 to

00:29:16.960 get

00:29:17.160 you

00:29:17.320 upset

00:29:17.660 and

00:29:18.320 then

00:29:18.460 they

00:29:18.660 play

00:29:18.960 it

00:29:19.180 over

00:29:19.560 and

00:29:19.860 over

00:29:20.340 again

00:29:21.360 and

00:29:22.160 people

00:29:22.540 who

00:29:22.760 start

00:29:23.080 their

00:29:23.300 day

00:29:23.720 with

00:29:24.140 the

00:29:24.320 news

00:29:24.740 are

00:29:25.220 27%

00:29:26.640 less

00:29:27.520 happy

00:29:28.340 as

00:29:29.100 the

00:29:29.320 day

00:29:29.540 goes

00:29:29.920 on

00:29:30.220 I

00:29:30.540 actually

00:29:30.740 have

00:29:30.900 an app

00:29:31.260 called

00:29:31.580 the

00:29:31.740 Good

00:29:31.920 News

00:29:32.200 Network

00:29:32.580 and

00:29:33.180 that's

00:29:33.460 how I

00:29:33.780 start

00:29:34.080 my

00:29:34.320 day

00:29:34.660 it's

00:29:35.720 always

00:29:35.980 there's

00:29:36.240 something

00:29:36.500 fun

00:29:36.820 I

00:29:36.900 have

00:29:37.060 an

00:29:37.180 old

00:29:37.400 friend

00:29:37.820 that

00:29:38.060 wanted

00:29:38.320 to

00:29:38.520 start

00:29:38.740 a

00:29:38.880 company

00:29:39.140 called

00:29:39.460 GNN

00:29:40.120 so

00:29:40.400 you

00:29:40.600 did

00:29:40.800 it

00:29:40.940 Good

00:29:41.100 News

00:29:41.300 Network

00:29:41.820 I

00:29:43.420 like

00:29:43.700 it

00:29:43.980 I

00:29:45.460 log

00:29:45.880 on

00:29:46.180 every

00:29:46.440 morning

00:29:46.820 I

00:29:47.560 love

00:29:47.840 it

00:29:48.140 I

00:29:48.300 love

00:29:48.520 it

00:29:48.620 very

00:29:48.840 cool

00:29:49.080 so

00:29:49.360 books

00:29:50.700 books

00:29:51.500 are

00:29:51.920 there

00:29:52.120 books

00:29:52.500 that

00:29:52.700 don't

00:29:52.920 do

00:29:53.040 nothing

00:29:53.280 to

00:29:53.440 your

00:29:53.580 brain

00:29:53.820 where

00:29:54.020 it's

00:29:54.140 wasted

00:29:54.540 like

00:29:54.900 if

00:29:55.100 I

00:29:55.280 read

00:29:55.620 I

00:29:56.480 don't

00:29:56.660 know

00:29:56.880 if

00:29:57.060 I

00:29:57.240 read

00:29:57.640 Fifty Shades

00:29:59.680 of Grey

00:30:00.080 versus

00:30:00.340 Psycho

00:30:00.840 Cybernetics

00:30:01.580 okay

00:30:02.020 you know

00:30:02.940 and I'm

00:30:03.340 sure you

00:30:03.640 know

00:30:03.740 both

00:30:04.020 of them

00:30:04.240 with

00:30:04.400 Maxwell

00:30:04.760 Moll

00:30:05.080 you know

00:30:05.460 being in

00:30:05.800 your world

00:30:06.180 you probably

00:30:06.560 read

00:30:06.800 Psycho

00:30:07.180 Cybernetics

00:30:07.740 is there

00:30:08.760 is there

00:30:09.120 books that

00:30:09.660 I feed

00:30:10.080 my mind

00:30:10.760 that's

00:30:11.180 tapping

00:30:11.500 into

00:30:11.900 a certain

00:30:13.020 muscle

00:30:13.480 or

00:30:13.920 it's

00:30:14.240 just

00:30:14.500 period

00:30:14.980 you're

00:30:15.320 tapping

00:30:15.580 into

00:30:15.840 muscle

00:30:16.120 the more

00:30:16.420 you read

00:30:16.920 and the more

00:30:17.240 you feed

00:30:17.580 your

00:30:17.740 imagination

00:30:18.220 mind

00:30:18.760 I think

00:30:19.480 what you

00:30:19.840 read

00:30:20.180 really

00:30:20.820 matters

00:30:21.580 if

00:30:22.480 you're

00:30:22.760 reading

00:30:23.160 a lot

00:30:23.660 of

00:30:23.820 horror

00:30:24.240 stuff

00:30:25.260 just

00:30:25.540 to

00:30:25.700 keep

00:30:25.900 you

00:30:26.060 up

00:30:26.380 and

00:30:26.620 get

00:30:27.080 excited

00:30:27.740 that's

00:30:28.660 going

00:30:28.780 to

00:30:28.940 wear

00:30:29.180 out

00:30:29.480 the

00:30:29.720 pleasure

00:30:30.140 centers

00:30:30.660 in

00:30:31.240 your

00:30:31.420 brain

00:30:31.800 I mean

00:30:32.140 you

00:30:32.300 should

00:30:32.660 read

00:30:33.080 for

00:30:33.400 pleasure

00:30:33.760 like

00:30:35.660 Pillars

00:30:37.000 of the

00:30:37.320 Earth

00:30:37.580 by

00:30:37.860 Ken

00:30:38.080 Follett

00:30:38.420 one of

00:30:38.720 my

00:30:38.880 favorite

00:30:39.280 all-time

00:30:40.100 books

00:30:41.060 or the

00:30:41.460 Da Vinci

00:30:41.940 Code

00:30:42.380 because

00:30:42.760 it

00:30:42.960 entertains

00:30:43.640 you

00:30:43.940 and

00:30:44.720 educates

00:30:45.600 you

00:30:45.940 at

00:30:46.700 the

00:30:47.040 same

00:30:47.500 time

00:30:48.140 and

00:30:48.680 we

00:30:48.880 need

00:30:49.220 to

00:30:50.020 go

00:30:50.220 offline

00:30:50.780 so

00:30:51.920 that

00:30:52.120 you're

00:30:52.260 not

00:30:52.460 always

00:30:53.100 working

00:30:54.080 but

00:30:55.340 at

00:30:55.520 the

00:30:55.740 same

00:30:56.120 time

00:30:56.780 if

00:30:57.200 you're

00:30:57.440 feeding

00:30:57.800 it

00:30:58.060 garbage

00:30:58.520 it's

00:30:59.860 not

00:31:00.060 good

00:31:00.420 for

00:31:01.060 it

00:31:01.240 you

00:31:01.400 can

00:31:01.600 actually

00:31:02.000 wear

00:31:02.480 out

00:31:03.020 the

00:31:03.360 pleasure

00:31:03.880 centers

00:31:04.560 in

00:31:05.880 your

00:31:06.100 brain

00:31:06.520 by

00:31:07.240 what

00:31:07.640 you

00:31:07.800 allow

00:31:08.160 your

00:31:08.420 brain

00:31:08.800 to

00:31:09.040 do

00:31:09.200 what

00:31:09.400 does

00:31:09.720 that

00:31:09.880 mean

00:31:10.080 so

00:31:10.980 in

00:31:11.340 your

00:31:11.560 brain

00:31:11.940 you

00:31:12.420 have

00:31:12.620 this

00:31:12.880 area

00:31:13.400 called

00:31:13.800 the

00:31:14.020 nucleus

00:31:14.620 accumbens

00:31:15.720 and

00:31:16.260 it's

00:31:16.440 really

00:31:16.960 important

00:31:17.520 because

00:31:17.940 it responds

00:31:18.840 to the

00:31:19.640 neurotransmitter

00:31:20.500 dopamine

00:31:20.960 and

00:31:21.800 dopamine

00:31:22.240 helps

00:31:23.240 you

00:31:23.400 focus

00:31:23.880 makes

00:31:24.440 you

00:31:24.680 happy

00:31:25.160 drives

00:31:26.200 motivation

00:31:27.160 and

00:31:28.360 but if

00:31:29.240 you

00:31:29.660 dump

00:31:30.560 dopamine

00:31:31.100 you

00:31:31.660 engage

00:31:32.400 in

00:31:32.780 behaviors

00:31:33.520 that

00:31:34.360 cause

00:31:35.060 too much

00:31:35.840 of it

00:31:36.100 to be

00:31:36.440 released

00:31:36.980 think

00:31:37.480 cocaine

00:31:38.060 or

00:31:39.040 compulsive

00:31:39.900 gambling

00:31:40.460 or porn

00:31:41.320 or

00:31:41.920 incredibly

00:31:43.080 delicious

00:31:43.680 desserts

00:31:44.240 you know

00:31:44.760 high fat

00:31:45.400 high

00:31:45.760 sugar

00:31:46.040 desserts

00:31:47.040 it dumps

00:31:48.040 dopamine

00:31:48.520 over

00:31:49.460 time

00:31:50.140 if you

00:31:50.860 do it

00:31:51.160 too much

00:31:51.640 or too

00:31:52.040 often

00:31:52.480 it wears

00:31:53.720 out

00:31:54.280 the

00:31:55.660 nucleus

00:31:56.080 accumbens

00:31:56.760 and then

00:31:57.460 it takes

00:31:57.880 more

00:31:58.320 and more

00:31:58.960 to feel

00:32:00.420 anything

00:32:01.060 at all

00:32:01.600 which is

00:32:02.260 why

00:32:02.640 for my

00:32:03.160 young

00:32:03.500 superstars

00:32:04.380 my prayer

00:32:05.300 for them

00:32:05.780 is dear

00:32:06.200 god

00:32:06.500 please

00:32:06.880 don't

00:32:07.140 let me

00:32:07.460 be

00:32:07.700 famous

00:32:08.220 before

00:32:08.900 my brain

00:32:09.660 is

00:32:09.860 finished

00:32:10.340 developing

00:32:11.060 which is

00:32:12.000 not until

00:32:12.660 25

00:32:13.400 or

00:32:13.700 26

00:32:14.360 and so

00:32:15.520 you see

00:32:16.100 these young

00:32:16.880 superstars

00:32:17.780 like Miley

00:32:18.400 and

00:32:18.700 Justin

00:32:20.040 severe

00:32:21.320 drug

00:32:21.940 abuse

00:32:22.360 and it

00:32:23.000 wasn't

00:32:23.360 drug abuse

00:32:23.900 to feel

00:32:24.400 high

00:32:24.880 it was

00:32:25.440 drug abuse

00:32:26.200 to chase

00:32:27.460 feeling

00:32:27.980 normal

00:32:28.660 and

00:32:29.780 wait

00:32:30.200 drug abuse

00:32:30.920 not even

00:32:31.300 to escape

00:32:31.940 drug abuse

00:32:32.700 to chase

00:32:33.240 feeling

00:32:33.580 normal

00:32:34.140 right

00:32:34.760 because

00:32:35.260 their

00:32:35.500 pleasure

00:32:35.920 centers

00:32:36.400 had been

00:32:36.840 damaged

00:32:37.320 by the

00:32:38.700 thing

00:32:39.060 so

00:32:39.900 the more

00:32:40.440 famous

00:32:40.920 you are

00:32:42.040 initially

00:32:42.980 it's

00:32:43.560 awesome

00:32:44.120 it's

00:32:44.560 unbelievable

00:32:45.140 it's

00:32:45.780 great

00:32:46.160 when people

00:32:47.080 cheer for

00:32:47.660 you

00:32:48.040 but dopamine

00:32:48.900 is really

00:32:49.760 the molecule

00:32:50.560 of more

00:32:51.740 it's a trap

00:32:52.860 because

00:32:53.740 whenever you

00:32:54.700 get some

00:32:55.800 and it

00:32:56.120 makes you

00:32:56.520 happy

00:32:56.980 it's not

00:32:58.420 enough

00:32:58.880 and you're

00:32:59.760 going to

00:32:59.940 want more

00:33:00.720 and more

00:33:01.460 to get

00:33:02.040 the same

00:33:02.860 reaction

00:33:03.640 so I've

00:33:04.380 had 12

00:33:05.140 New York

00:33:05.880 Times

00:33:06.220 bestsellers

00:33:06.940 and one

00:33:07.260 of them

00:33:07.480 was a

00:33:07.780 bestseller

00:33:08.300 for 40

00:33:09.400 weeks

00:33:09.820 I mean

00:33:10.180 it was

00:33:10.560 pretty

00:33:10.840 cool

00:33:11.280 change

00:33:11.860 your

00:33:12.000 brain

00:33:12.240 change

00:33:12.620 your

00:33:12.800 life

00:33:13.180 but if

00:33:14.020 the next

00:33:14.340 one's only

00:33:14.720 a bestseller

00:33:15.280 for 12

00:33:16.040 weeks

00:33:16.620 which is

00:33:17.440 sort of

00:33:17.800 a historic

00:33:18.480 accomplishment

00:33:19.220 it's like

00:33:20.480 well it's

00:33:20.840 not good

00:33:21.200 enough

00:33:21.580 and so

00:33:22.420 you really

00:33:23.020 have to

00:33:23.560 do work

00:33:24.380 on your

00:33:25.060 mind

00:33:25.680 to not

00:33:26.700 let

00:33:27.180 success

00:33:29.020 steal

00:33:30.460 your

00:33:31.680 happiness

00:33:32.540 when they

00:33:33.200 ask people

00:33:33.900 who are

00:33:34.340 wealthy

00:33:34.860 what would

00:33:36.320 it take

00:33:37.080 so people

00:33:37.900 had

00:33:38.320 five

00:33:38.980 million

00:33:39.300 dollars

00:33:39.740 ten

00:33:40.060 million

00:33:40.400 dollars

00:33:40.800 a hundred

00:33:41.240 million

00:33:41.640 dollars

00:33:42.020 what would

00:33:42.820 it take

00:33:43.220 for you

00:33:43.520 to be

00:33:43.880 perfectly

00:33:44.640 happy

00:33:45.660 they all

00:33:47.080 said two

00:33:47.480 to three

00:33:47.840 times

00:33:48.460 more

00:33:49.240 which is

00:33:50.500 sort of

00:33:50.840 ridiculous

00:33:51.320 right

00:33:52.140 I mean

00:33:52.420 at some

00:33:52.860 point

00:33:53.180 there's

00:33:53.800 no

00:33:54.120 correlation

00:33:54.680 between

00:33:55.100 money

00:33:55.460 and

00:33:55.660 happiness

00:33:56.140 over

00:33:57.460 seventy

00:33:57.920 five

00:33:58.340 thousand

00:33:58.780 dollars

00:33:59.320 which I

00:34:00.380 think is

00:34:00.840 pretty

00:34:01.200 interesting

00:34:01.860 that we

00:34:03.900 need to

00:34:04.280 really work

00:34:04.960 on our

00:34:05.340 minds

00:34:05.820 as much

00:34:07.020 as we're

00:34:07.360 working on

00:34:07.800 our

00:34:07.960 businesses

00:34:08.420 how do

00:34:08.860 you deal

00:34:09.160 with that

00:34:09.600 how do

00:34:09.880 you deal

00:34:10.220 with I

00:34:10.840 mean you've

00:34:11.620 got fame

00:34:12.240 and you

00:34:12.680 you know

00:34:13.040 one hundred

00:34:13.480 and seventy

00:34:13.840 five thousand

00:34:14.500 scans

00:34:14.840 these are

00:34:15.220 data

00:34:15.500 these are

00:34:15.840 bragging rights

00:34:16.480 right

00:34:16.760 13 times

00:34:17.780 12 times

00:34:18.300 New York

00:34:18.640 Times

00:34:18.900 bestseller

00:34:19.480 40 weeks

00:34:20.700 on the

00:34:20.980 charts

00:34:21.380 how do

00:34:22.160 you deal

00:34:22.520 with it

00:34:22.880 yourself

00:34:23.460 to not

00:34:24.660 become

00:34:25.180 a fiend

00:34:25.900 for more

00:34:26.560 of it

00:34:26.920 or is

00:34:27.540 there anything

00:34:28.060 wrong with

00:34:28.660 that because

00:34:29.080 if you

00:34:30.300 I think

00:34:30.760 you said

00:34:31.180 somewhere you

00:34:31.660 like enjoying

00:34:32.180 watching

00:34:32.540 football

00:34:32.980 I think

00:34:33.440 you said

00:34:33.720 you like

00:34:34.020 enjoying

00:34:34.260 watching

00:34:34.600 football

00:34:35.000 so I

00:34:35.440 don't know

00:34:35.980 if you

00:34:36.700 are you

00:34:36.960 a sports

00:34:37.380 fan

00:34:37.620 yourself

00:34:38.080 are you

00:34:38.600 a guy

00:34:38.900 do

00:34:39.200 huge

00:34:40.040 I'm a

00:34:40.520 Los Angeles

00:34:41.100 Lakers

00:34:41.520 fan

00:34:42.060 okay

00:34:42.600 you and

00:34:43.080 I both

00:34:43.460 I'm a

00:34:43.760 diehard

00:34:44.140 Laker

00:34:44.400 fan as

00:34:44.880 well

00:34:45.100 I'm

00:34:45.340 interviewed

00:34:46.180 Kobe

00:34:46.640 we've

00:34:46.960 had

00:34:47.200 Kobe

00:34:47.500 at our

00:34:47.800 event

00:34:48.020 last year

00:34:48.400 with

00:34:48.520 President

00:34:48.840 Bush

00:34:49.220 the late

00:34:49.600 Kobe

00:34:49.840 Bryan

00:34:50.160 and

00:34:50.380 from the

00:34:51.260 day I

00:34:51.520 came to

00:34:51.820 I was

00:34:52.100 a Laker

00:34:52.400 fan

00:34:52.620 so

00:34:52.880 what do

00:34:55.140 we do

00:34:55.680 with the

00:34:56.400 people we

00:34:56.980 admire so

00:34:57.760 much

00:35:01.660 championships

00:35:02.060 Jordan

00:35:02.500 back to

00:35:03.100 back to

00:35:03.520 back

00:35:03.780 did it

00:35:04.120 twice

00:35:04.580 you know

00:35:05.340 Kobe

00:35:06.240 got five

00:35:06.980 of them

00:35:07.360 and after

00:35:07.880 Shaq got 0.91

00:35:08.520 his fourth

00:35:08.940 before Kobe

00:35:09.560 got his

00:35:09.960 fourth

00:35:10.280 and they

00:35:10.620 had a

00:35:10.900 song about

00:35:11.460 him so

00:35:11.720 Kobe got

00:35:12.240 pissed off

00:35:12.720 when he

00:35:12.960 got his

00:35:13.300 fifth

00:35:13.600 I said

00:35:13.980 in the

00:35:14.640 interview

00:35:14.900 he says

00:35:15.360 I think

00:35:15.700 five is

00:35:16.140 more than

00:35:16.460 four

00:35:16.720 please

00:35:17.020 let me

00:35:17.220 make sure

00:35:17.480 Shaq 0.81

00:35:17.820 knows

00:35:18.080 this

00:35:18.320 so

00:35:19.180 is that

00:35:19.840 a bad

00:35:20.380 thing

00:35:20.720 that there

00:35:21.180 is this

00:35:21.540 competitive

00:35:22.120 juice that

00:35:22.840 produces

00:35:23.280 into us

00:35:23.820 to say

00:35:24.180 damn

00:35:24.840 it I

00:35:25.220 want one

00:35:25.700 more than

00:35:26.100 this other

00:35:27.180 guy named

00:35:27.600 Shaq 0.81

00:35:27.960 I want

00:35:28.200 to get

00:35:28.420 five

00:35:28.720 you know

00:35:29.000 what

00:35:29.220 I'm Tom

00:35:29.700 Brady

00:35:30.000 everybody

00:35:30.760 says

00:35:31.160 that guy

00:35:31.520 is the

00:35:31.780 MJ of

00:35:32.480 doctors

00:35:32.940 that guy

00:35:33.320 is the

00:35:33.540 MJ of

00:35:34.180 psychiatrists

00:35:35.400 I want

00:35:35.800 people to

00:35:36.220 say that

00:35:36.560 guy is the

00:35:36.940 Brady of

00:35:37.480 psychiatrists

00:35:38.100 that guy

00:35:38.400 is the

00:35:38.620 Brady of

00:35:39.160 whatever

00:35:39.900 what's wrong

00:35:41.120 with wanting

00:35:41.660 to compete

00:35:42.280 and do

00:35:42.600 more

00:35:42.960 well because

00:35:43.640 it's a

00:35:44.060 trap

00:35:44.460 that it's

00:35:45.940 constantly

00:35:46.460 going to

00:35:46.980 make you

00:35:47.400 unhappy

00:35:48.020 now I

00:35:49.040 want to

00:35:49.460 be the

00:35:49.920 best I

00:35:50.920 can be

00:35:51.580 and I

00:35:52.280 want my

00:35:52.800 books to

00:35:53.600 be the

00:35:53.980 best they

00:35:54.960 can be

00:35:55.520 but whenever

00:35:56.920 I argue

00:35:57.960 against

00:35:58.520 reality

00:35:59.400 welcome

00:36:00.480 to hell

00:36:01.100 and it's

00:36:03.500 just so

00:36:04.080 important it's

00:36:04.760 really worth

00:36:05.340 writing down

00:36:06.380 is I

00:36:07.880 need to be

00:36:08.520 happy with

00:36:09.280 the best I

00:36:10.420 can do I

00:36:11.440 want to be

00:36:12.280 the best but

00:36:13.980 if it doesn't

00:36:14.700 work like I

00:36:15.700 hope that

00:36:16.780 season I

00:36:17.480 don't win

00:36:18.280 the championship

00:36:19.160 I'm not

00:36:20.280 shooting myself

00:36:21.440 I'm just

00:36:22.200 gonna go

00:36:22.760 what can I

00:36:24.340 do better

00:36:25.540 better and

00:36:26.380 live in

00:36:27.600 the moment

00:36:28.440 because it's

00:36:29.620 not the

00:36:30.100 destination that

00:36:31.140 makes anybody

00:36:31.900 happy because

00:36:32.980 the destination

00:36:33.880 is death

00:36:34.780 it's one of

00:36:36.000 the dragons

00:36:36.680 the death

00:36:37.620 dragon

00:36:38.100 it's what

00:36:39.320 I start

00:36:40.740 every day

00:36:41.540 with today

00:36:42.820 is going to

00:36:43.380 be a great

00:36:43.900 day and

00:36:45.300 I end

00:36:46.140 every day

00:36:47.240 with what

00:36:48.300 went well

00:36:48.920 today I

00:36:50.180 put myself

00:36:50.900 to bed

00:36:51.600 with that

00:36:52.720 exercise

00:36:53.460 and I

00:36:54.380 even look

00:36:55.000 for the

00:36:55.480 smallest

00:36:56.120 moments

00:36:56.800 the micro

00:36:57.600 moments

00:36:58.340 on you

00:36:59.460 know what's

00:36:59.820 the smallest

00:37:00.400 thing that

00:37:01.000 happened you

00:37:01.920 know I

00:37:02.080 live in

00:37:02.420 Newport

00:37:02.760 Beach and

00:37:03.200 I can see

00:37:03.780 the water

00:37:04.320 from my

00:37:04.840 house the

00:37:05.740 sunset last

00:37:06.580 night was

00:37:07.100 spectacular

00:37:08.040 and I see

00:37:09.660 those you

00:37:10.240 know maybe

00:37:10.580 150 nights

00:37:12.400 a year but

00:37:13.640 to just take

00:37:14.300 time to

00:37:15.560 appreciate it

00:37:16.920 or my

00:37:18.420 assistant made

00:37:19.140 me this

00:37:19.560 banana fresh

00:37:20.860 banana

00:37:21.360 strawberry tea

00:37:23.200 and it

00:37:23.920 just tastes

00:37:24.680 awesome so

00:37:25.860 it's really

00:37:26.560 noticing the

00:37:27.840 micro moments

00:37:29.260 and you know

00:37:30.060 I've done big

00:37:30.840 things in my

00:37:32.240 life but it's

00:37:33.560 really the

00:37:34.160 little things

00:37:34.880 that make me

00:37:35.680 happy and if

00:37:36.940 I can celebrate

00:37:38.380 being part of

00:37:40.740 someone else's

00:37:42.380 success then

00:37:44.200 it's not all

00:37:44.960 about me when

00:37:46.240 it's all about

00:37:46.980 me I'm not

00:37:47.740 happy when

00:37:49.240 it's about us

00:37:50.700 and that's

00:37:51.380 why you

00:37:52.180 know I

00:37:52.520 dearly wish

00:37:53.440 I could have

00:37:53.820 had Kobe

00:37:54.340 and Shaq

00:37:54.900 together because

00:37:55.640 they could have

00:37:56.080 won three or

00:37:56.800 four more

00:37:57.300 championships if

00:37:58.880 they didn't have

00:37:59.580 the psychological

00:38:00.500 nonsense between

00:38:02.440 them I'm

00:38:03.360 surprised Phil

00:38:04.040 wasn't able to

00:38:04.680 fix that because

00:38:05.420 he was a

00:38:06.100 psychological guy

00:38:07.160 he was in

00:38:08.260 another life he

00:38:08.900 could have been a

00:38:09.320 psychiatrist a

00:38:10.180 hippie psychiatrist

00:38:10.900 but the guy was

00:38:11.760 an expert in

00:38:13.080 personalities no the

00:38:14.220 only reason I say

00:38:14.980 this is because

00:38:15.580 when I was

00:38:16.960 coming up as a

00:38:17.660 young kid as a

00:38:18.560 young guy in

00:38:19.340 business I was

00:38:20.040 21 years old I

00:38:20.960 just got out of

00:38:21.560 the army and I

00:38:23.640 was conflicted I

00:38:24.860 was going in the

00:38:25.640 direction you know

00:38:26.560 just a rebel so I

00:38:27.960 stopped I met an

00:38:29.000 old friend of mine we

00:38:30.040 started going to

00:38:30.540 Bible study together

00:38:31.320 on Fridays and we

00:38:32.920 stay up till two

00:38:33.480 o'clock in the

00:38:33.980 morning I started

00:38:34.560 reading I know you

00:38:35.280 did some stuff with

00:38:35.960 Rick Warren and I

00:38:37.280 said you know I

00:38:38.600 don't know you know

00:38:40.440 I went to like 27

00:38:42.120 churches I went

00:38:43.020 everywhere I went to

00:38:43.940 Scientology I went to

00:38:45.160 LDS I went to

00:38:45.920 Jehovah I went to

00:38:46.620 Seventh-day I went

00:38:47.260 to if I could find a

00:38:48.740 religion I went to

00:38:49.560 it right and you'd

00:38:51.620 hear well you know

00:38:52.400 competition's not good

00:38:53.720 and you know you got

00:38:54.480 to be careful with

00:38:55.120 this and all this

00:38:55.640 other stuff I'm like

00:38:56.260 okay and then a lot

00:38:58.760 of these folks who

00:38:59.500 were saying it were

00:39:01.500 at the same time some

00:39:02.420 of the most successful

00:39:03.360 pastors in the world

00:39:05.460 I'm like wait a

00:39:06.720 minute you're running

00:39:08.280 a church massive you

00:39:09.800 you in sports would

00:39:11.140 have been one of the

00:39:11.620 most ridiculous

00:39:13.280 competitors I

00:39:13.920 look how much good

00:39:14.960 you've done in the

00:39:15.580 world I consider Rick

00:39:16.540 Warren very competitive

00:39:17.520 the guy's book sold

00:39:18.740 40 million copies 50

00:39:20.220 million copies and he

00:39:21.820 was able to make a big

00:39:22.820 impact so the only

00:39:24.100 reason I say that is

00:39:25.020 because sometimes

00:39:25.720 younger generation when

00:39:27.180 they hear that message

00:39:28.260 they devalue that

00:39:31.320 additional effort to

00:39:32.540 put in to find out

00:39:33.860 what their best version

00:39:34.820 looks like so that's

00:39:35.920 the only reason I

00:39:36.560 brought it up because

00:39:37.260 someone like you with

00:39:38.700 the amount of

00:39:39.140 accomplishments you had

00:39:40.060 what if you would

00:39:40.560 have stopped 20 years

00:39:41.360 ago I wouldn't

00:39:43.540 people wouldn't have

00:39:44.140 had you in your life

00:39:44.860 Miley wouldn't have

00:39:45.460 had you in their

00:39:45.940 lives I wouldn't have

00:39:47.400 been happy because I

00:39:49.440 love what I do and

00:39:51.880 I've had people try to

00:39:53.380 buy amen clinics and

00:39:55.840 you know I'd get a lot

00:39:57.360 of money and they I

00:39:58.540 would be working for

00:39:59.500 them I'm like no I

00:40:01.340 wouldn't be happy with

00:40:02.740 that it's not money

00:40:03.840 that for me at least

00:40:06.160 and and pastor Warren

00:40:07.460 says money is only

00:40:09.280 something you borrow

00:40:10.460 because as soon as

00:40:12.080 you're dead it's

00:40:13.160 somebody else's and

00:40:14.660 so when you think of

00:40:15.700 it like that it's the

00:40:18.580 lives change but but

00:40:22.180 the Bible at least for

00:40:24.040 me doesn't go against

00:40:25.580 success the verse the

00:40:27.560 parable I hold on to

00:40:29.400 is the parable of the

00:40:31.240 talents that the master

00:40:33.760 gave just talked about

00:40:35.300 it today you know three

00:40:37.660 different people three

00:40:38.680 different levels of

00:40:40.120 investment and the

00:40:42.140 master got mad when the

00:40:44.140 one person buried his

00:40:45.840 investment out of fear

00:40:47.620 and I feel like I've

00:40:50.000 been given certain

00:40:51.240 gifts and part of it

00:40:53.400 I've worked really hard

00:40:54.900 but but I have certain

00:40:56.460 gifts like how to make

00:40:57.600 complex information

00:40:59.560 accessible and easy to

00:41:01.100 understand and I'm

00:41:03.840 expected to do

00:41:05.520 something with what I

00:41:07.740 have been given and

00:41:09.860 it's not just about

00:41:12.120 me it's about we the

00:41:15.240 whole love your

00:41:16.140 neighbor as yourself

00:41:17.380 you're not going to be

00:41:18.560 a very good lover if

00:41:19.520 you don't like yourself

00:41:20.560 so yeah I feel

00:41:23.600 incredibly blessed

00:41:25.160 because I spend a lot

00:41:27.160 of time working in the

00:41:29.280 meaning and purpose

00:41:30.420 circle you know I

00:41:31.560 always think of people

00:41:32.360 in four big circles

00:41:33.360 what's the biology

00:41:35.060 what's the psychology

00:41:37.260 what's the social

00:41:38.860 circle and what's the

00:41:40.860 spiritual circle

00:41:42.140 which it sounds like

00:41:43.400 you've spent time

00:41:44.340 working there as well

00:41:45.480 it's so why do I

00:41:47.020 care why am I on the

00:41:48.700 planet what is my

00:41:50.300 sense of meaning and

00:41:51.560 purpose and I need

00:41:53.920 with my patience to

00:41:55.660 always work in those

00:41:57.160 four circles let's get

00:41:58.320 your brain right your

00:41:59.900 mind right don't believe

00:42:01.560 every stupid thing you

00:42:02.820 think tame the dragons

00:42:04.240 relationships right and

00:42:07.660 I'm blessed because I'm

00:42:09.000 married to my best

00:42:10.060 friend I was married

00:42:11.500 for 20 years to

00:42:12.800 someone who didn't

00:42:13.400 really like me very

00:42:14.360 much and it was just

00:42:15.760 chronic unhappiness and

00:42:17.680 conflict that was

00:42:18.800 chronically stressful for

00:42:20.880 me and now that I'm in

00:42:22.600 the right relationship it

00:42:25.300 brings so much joy and

00:42:27.820 so I often think am I in

00:42:29.520 a good relationship with

00:42:31.660 my wife am I in a good

00:42:33.140 relationship with food I

00:42:34.560 only want to love food

00:42:35.720 that loves me back am I

00:42:37.600 a good relationship with

00:42:39.360 work am I doing things

00:42:41.240 that have meaning and

00:42:42.640 purpose but yet still can

00:42:44.280 support my family I love

00:42:46.640 that and we're on the

00:42:47.220 same page you said July

00:42:48.180 17th right say July 17th

00:42:50.360 or July 19th July 19th got

00:42:52.800 it I love that you know

00:42:54.080 Rick Warren's book I think

00:42:55.700 came out in 0203 I mean when

00:42:58.000 I read it I didn't read it in

00:42:59.100 40 days I read it in two

00:43:00.360 days it changed my life when

00:43:01.540 I read Rick Warren's book I

00:43:02.540 needed to read a book like

00:43:03.600 that at that time and what

00:43:06.600 was Billy Graham had an

00:43:08.680 event November 17th it was

00:43:11.360 four days he came to talk at

00:43:13.040 in 2003 at the Rose Bowl and

00:43:16.620 I said if he's speaking I'm

00:43:17.640 speaking I went Wednesday I

00:43:19.180 went Thursday Friday Saturday

00:43:20.740 half a day and a Sunday all

00:43:22.340 day and Pastor Rick Warren was

00:43:25.240 one of the guys I gave a

00:43:26.120 message there I'm like you

00:43:27.100 you know it was seeing a

00:43:30.260 guy that baptized 210 million

00:43:33.840 people you have to be a big

00:43:35.320 thinker to be able to

00:43:36.220 baptize to go to Korea and

00:43:38.020 you speak one and a half

00:43:38.980 million people show up and

00:43:40.100 that's what he did I mean

00:43:41.500 that's just out of control

00:43:43.260 impact positive impact being

00:43:45.320 made in the world but let me

00:43:47.260 wrap up with this before we

00:43:48.680 finish up here I want to talk

00:43:50.340 to you about Tom Cruise's sit

00:43:53.860 down with Matt Lauer I'm sure

00:43:55.740 you know which one I'm

00:43:56.500 talking about when he and Matt

00:44:00.760 had a conversation together

00:44:02.140 let me pull this up I know I'm

00:44:03.480 getting the zoom thing a little

00:44:04.720 bit mixed up here okay we got

00:44:06.120 it back here have you seen

00:44:08.740 that interview between the two

00:44:10.100 of them I'm almost certain you

00:44:11.500 have about how he knows about

00:44:14.620 psychiatry and yeah he's a

00:44:18.800 Scientologist and the founder of

00:44:22.080 Scientology Ron L Hubbard was very

00:44:26.100 psychologically minded and the

00:44:29.060 psychiatric community rejected him

00:44:31.540 and and they've rejected me in

00:44:34.180 large part so I sort of get how

00:44:36.320 that feels and they've sort of been

00:44:40.920 at war with each other you know

00:44:42.640 Scientologists will rent huge semi

00:44:46.140 bands and on the side of them go

00:44:48.060 psychiatry kills children and I'm

00:44:51.180 like that sort of hurt my feelings

00:44:52.900 because I help children but you know

00:44:58.940 whenever you have a position on

00:45:00.500 anything somebody is going to hate

00:45:02.420 you and you just have to be clear

00:45:07.240 within yourself on what you know is

00:45:10.860 right and stay with it and I want to

00:45:15.280 read it to I want to read it to because

00:45:16.680 I want to see I think there's some

00:45:18.760 some alignment between the two of

00:45:20.460 you guys are but I'm just curious

00:45:21.680 to know I'll read you two parts of

00:45:23.340 it so the whole thing was about the

00:45:25.660 story with I think Brooke Shields

00:45:27.400 right and she says you know I've

00:45:31.320 never agreed with psychiatry ever

00:45:33.460 before I was a Scientologist I never

00:45:34.940 agreed with psychiatry okay so that's

00:45:36.260 that's kind of your space what he's

00:45:37.540 saying Matt Lahr comes back and says

00:45:38.860 but if there's a particular thing that

00:45:40.740 makes her feel better whether it was

00:45:43.380 antidepressants or going to a

00:45:44.800 counselor psychiatrist isn't that

00:45:46.340 enough he says Matt you have to

00:45:48.040 understand this here we are today

00:45:49.520 where I talk against drugs and

00:45:51.180 psychiatric abuses of electric

00:45:52.720 shocking people against their will of

00:45:56.840 drugging children with them not

00:45:58.560 knowing the effects of these drugs do

00:46:00.280 you know what Adderall is do you know

00:46:02.400 what Ritalin is do you know that

00:46:04.440 Ritalin is a street drug do you

00:46:05.940 understand that and then they go back

00:46:07.380 and forth and it gets pretty heated

00:46:08.900 etc etc and later on obviously I'd show

00:46:11.280 the video to you but we can't because

00:46:12.840 it's footage but what happens the

00:46:15.020 antidepressants all it does is mask the

00:46:16.940 problem there's ways of vitamins and

00:46:18.940 through exercise and various things I'm

00:46:21.120 not saying that this isn't real that's

00:46:22.740 not what I'm saying that it's an

00:46:24.340 alteration of what I am saying so he

00:46:25.960 goes on talking about I'm just against

00:46:27.500 drugs you know we're living in a time

00:46:30.160 today where I would be categorical

00:46:34.040 categorically if I was a 12 year old

00:46:37.020 kid man I my teacher Mr. Woods is

00:46:38.960 teaching math if I saw a butterfly there

00:46:40.800 I'm following the butterfly and I'm like

00:46:42.400 and then I see the swimming pool then I

00:46:44.620 see a tree that's yellow I would say why

00:46:46.140 is that yellow why are the other ones

00:46:47.260 green where's that cat going and I'm

00:46:48.740 lost I'm going to a different place

00:46:50.260 they would have put me on so much

00:46:52.020 medication if it was school today so

00:46:54.280 what are your thoughts about the

00:46:55.780 approach we're taking with kids where

00:46:59.080 they'll first say you know I want to

00:47:01.240 meet with the parents I got three kids

00:47:02.960 I want to meet with the parents and

00:47:04.180 then they meet with you and then they

00:47:05.300 say you know I'm not saying your kids

00:47:07.340 has this but I think it's good you go

00:47:09.000 see this doctor here and they may make

00:47:11.160 some recommendations because he's a

00:47:13.320 little bit different than others and

00:47:14.740 she's a little bit different and you

00:47:16.160 know who knows maybe medicine may be the

00:47:18.100 solution so what are your thoughts

00:47:19.940 about Tom Cruise's assessment on

00:47:21.940 medicine not being the solution to

00:47:24.620 helping people's psychological issues

00:47:26.660 I think how psychiatry is currently

00:47:29.860 practiced is just a scandal and it's a

00:47:33.060 mess 85 percent of psychiatric drugs are

00:47:37.260 prescribed by non-psychiatric physicians

00:47:39.800 in 10-minute office visits there are so

00:47:44.280 many other avenues to have a better

00:47:47.020 brain and a better life yet if those

00:47:50.860 things don't work for your depression

00:47:53.500 please give me an antidepressant

00:47:56.300 targeted to my brain I mean first look at

00:47:59.200 my brain so medicine is not the enemy

00:48:02.960 medicine is not of the devil I've seen

00:48:06.320 Ritalin take children from D's and F's 0.86

00:48:11.780 A's and B's one of my daughters who and I 0.76

00:48:15.140 missed it until she was in 10th grade and

00:48:17.580 I'm one of the world experts on ADD and

00:48:21.280 when I scanned her because she just kept

00:48:24.240 having problems she had a really sleepy

00:48:26.620 brain and the next day on Ritalin it

00:48:28.660 normalized it and she went from B's and

00:48:31.220 C's working her brains out to straight A's 0.98

00:48:34.160 for 10 years and got into the world's best

00:48:37.900 veterinarian school at the University of

00:48:40.780 Edinburgh in Scotland there's no way that

00:48:44.340 would have happened if I wouldn't have

00:48:46.020 balanced her brain now my first thought is

00:48:48.640 well let's get their diet right and then

00:48:50.360 let's see let's use nutrients natural

00:48:53.400 supplements and then let's see if it's a

00:48:56.620 family problem let's get everybody's brain

00:48:59.080 in the family better and then let's see

00:49:02.080 but let's not throw out medicine I mean

00:49:04.900 what other branch of medicine would go 0.56

00:49:06.880 okay can't use medicine if you use

00:49:08.640 medicine you're a bad person that's

00:49:11.120 ridiculous you know medicine is there as

00:49:14.460 a tool to help right for every diabetic

00:49:17.820 please get your diet right let's do that

00:49:21.420 first but if you don't I need to put you on

00:49:24.700 insulin or you're going to die if you

00:49:26.800 don't treat bipolar disorder if you don't

00:49:29.740 treat depression and sometimes patients do

00:49:32.760 what you want them to do like I saw

00:49:36.640 someone yesterday she's like I'm all in

00:49:38.460 I'm gonna do everything you say well odds

00:49:40.460 are she will not need medicine or will need

00:49:43.400 less medicine other people they don't have

00:49:46.560 the mental discipline to do it or the

00:49:49.220 motivation to do it and for me I think of

00:49:52.720 it as informed consent you know my job isn't

00:49:55.760 to tell you what to do my job is to give

00:49:58.080 you the options and you choose that's

00:50:01.720 what good doctors do they don't tell you

00:50:05.000 what to do they teach you what's going on

00:50:08.500 and then they give you options and then

00:50:11.240 you decide and then I get to supervise

00:50:13.940 whatever you decide as long as it's

00:50:16.540 reasonable interesting you know do you see

00:50:21.480 do you see a a I mean a lot of studies

00:50:24.500 comes out and you see the level of

00:50:25.920 addiction to some of these drugs how do

00:50:28.440 we manage that from happening if there was

00:50:31.760 a way to improve some of the addiction to

00:50:33.440 these drugs you're somebody that's been

00:50:34.860 in this for quite a long time what would

00:50:36.980 your suggestion be well I would want to

00:50:39.760 know why they're using the drug and the

00:50:43.260 hysteria around stimulants like Adderall

00:50:45.660 and Ritalin my biggest problem with

00:50:48.760 teenagers who I think need to take them is 1.00

00:50:51.180 they don't take them is they skip them

00:50:54.140 they miss them it's not that they take

00:50:56.720 more and more to get the same result that's

00:51:00.380 what addicts do it's when you dial it in

00:51:04.020 right they work the problem is is we think

00:51:07.600 of ADD is one thing oh you have ADD take

00:51:11.420 Ritalin I wrote a book about this called

00:51:13.960 Healing ADD where based on our brain

00:51:16.740 imaging work it's seven different things

00:51:18.760 please don't give everybody Ritalin

00:51:20.560 because some people like my daughter it

00:51:22.860 helped dramatically other people it makes

00:51:26.420 them suicidal and whenever you use one

00:51:30.740 treatment fits everybody right it sort of

00:51:34.080 be like you have chest pain let's give

00:51:35.540 everybody nitroglycerin well that would

00:51:37.880 be ridiculous because there's a hundred

00:51:39.340 different causes of chest pain and you

00:51:41.680 know you may have been distracted because

00:51:43.520 you were super smart and you had all these

00:51:45.280 other ideas come into your head well you

00:51:47.940 may be distracted because you were in a car

00:51:50.560 accident when you were four years old and

00:51:52.760 it hurts your frontal lobes we just need to

00:51:55.880 look at what we do before we do it

00:51:58.140 doc for the folks who are in business who

00:52:00.840 are under a lot of stress what what is a

00:52:02.760 headache on this side headache on this

00:52:04.340 side headache on this side headache on this

00:52:05.840 side when you say my head hurts is there a

00:52:08.020 difference or it's all a headache well no

00:52:10.520 it's just like with ADD there's 10 different

00:52:13.820 kinds of headaches there's stress headaches

00:52:16.060 or migraine headaches or cluster headaches

00:52:18.200 we need to know there's gluten headaches

00:52:21.300 and dairy headaches you know are you sensitive

00:52:24.000 to something you're consuming my body's very

00:52:29.460 sensitive to dairy if if I just completely

00:52:32.780 avoid it my GI tract is very happy

00:52:35.540 uh is there red meat headaches um no but

00:52:41.620 there are bacon headaches and they're nitrite

00:52:44.940 uh nitrate headaches

00:52:46.520 got it um so before we finalize if you uh

00:52:54.820 uh before we wrap up if you don't mind

00:52:56.580 taking a minute and telling us about your

00:52:58.100 new book that's coming out your brain is

00:52:59.540 always listening what could you tell us

00:53:01.260 about this book here and obviously the

00:53:03.680 pressure's on we got to make sure it's 41

00:53:05.260 weeks uh uh on new york times but tell us

00:53:08.620 about your latest book that just came out

00:53:10.220 today well i'm super excited your brain is

00:53:13.740 always listening it's about all the

00:53:15.760 influences that are going after your brain

00:53:18.720 moment by moment and how you can tame them

00:53:22.600 um the subtitle is tame the hidden dragons

00:53:26.160 that control your happiness your habits and

00:53:29.480 your hang-ups and i talk about the dragons from

00:53:32.980 the past that are always breathing fire on

00:53:35.380 your emotional brain and how to tame them

00:53:38.420 the they them and other dragons how we're

00:53:40.680 always listening to people alive and deads

00:53:44.060 that are still in our head to our habits to

00:53:47.140 the scheming dragons uh there's a whole

00:53:50.660 section on the dragon tamer which is

00:53:52.660 basically how to activate your frontal lobes

00:53:54.800 to calm down your emotional brain and there's a

00:53:58.760 brand new 12 step program uh the anonymous

00:54:02.760 programs like alcoholic anonymous those 12

00:54:06.460 steps were developed 85 years ago and there's no

00:54:09.820 neuroscience to them they're great and i've sent

00:54:12.680 people and some people have gotten a lot of

00:54:15.200 benefit and a lot of people have not gotten any

00:54:17.220 benefit they just couldn't sort of get into it and

00:54:20.500 i'm like we need to put neuroscience in here so

00:54:23.400 there's whole sections uh steps on how to get your brain

00:54:27.540 right how to get cravings under control how to make good

00:54:30.540 decisions um and how to repair a damaged brain

00:54:35.420 because addictions can damage your brain

00:54:37.740 so it's loaded it's fun uh i'm really excited

00:54:41.740 about the book well we're gonna put the link below for the

00:54:45.700 folks that want to get it go uh we're gonna put the link

00:54:48.200 below to either amazon or barnes and noble for you go pick

00:54:50.400 up the book uh i can i watched a bunch of your videos and

00:54:55.080 i said you know what a fascinating mind you have and you

00:54:59.160 got me thinking about that stuff that you know i didn't think

00:55:02.380 about before and i feel i got smarter in the last hour of

00:55:05.360 spending time with you so having said that thank you so

00:55:07.640 much for being a guest with us on value

00:55:10.340 tainment for the last hour or so minus the technical

00:55:13.520 difficulties what a joy to be with you thank you for helping

00:55:17.540 me spread this word and um if people go to your brain is

00:55:22.160 always listening.com they can get some special gifts if they

00:55:26.540 order the book wonderful we will make sure that link

00:55:29.860 is below brains right like if you were to visualize your brain

00:55:33.600 muscle getting bigger and getting cut up and shredded what would

00:55:36.680 it look like i thought it was a very unique

00:55:38.940 conversation some of the areas you know you may have agreed with some you may

00:55:41.880 have not agreed with but i'm curious to hear your thoughts comment below and if

00:55:45.860 you enjoyed this interview i did another interview that was more on the heart

00:55:50.060 side not the brain side the heart side who's another very well-known doctor

00:55:56.000 worldwide if you've not watched a click here to watch the interview with that

00:55:59.580 being said thank you so much for watching everybody take care bye

Valuetainment - March 12, 2021

Psychiatrist Uncovers Trends From 175,000 Brain Scans

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