Dr. Daniel Amen
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And then someone comes up with a new mouse trap. We should scan. When you scan and look at the brain, you then treat it as an organ. And you just don't try to drug it into submission. You get people to eat better. You get them to exercise. You get them to go to sleep. You get them to put down their phones. Give them supplements to nourish their brain.
One of the things for you, recommended hyperbaric oxygen to help repair the accident you had. It's not just, oh, you have this, take that. And so the next stage in the revolution, if it disrupts somebody's money, and I disrupt the pharmaceutical industry, then they try and kill you.
One of the things for you, recommended hyperbaric oxygen to help repair the accident you had. It's not just, oh, you have this, take that. And so the next stage in the revolution, if it disrupts somebody's money, and I disrupt the pharmaceutical industry, then they try and kill you.
One of the things for you, recommended hyperbaric oxygen to help repair the accident you had. It's not just, oh, you have this, take that. And so the next stage in the revolution, if it disrupts somebody's money, and I disrupt the pharmaceutical industry, then they try and kill you.
And that's just normal. It's what happens. And I think 10 years from now, it's going to be radically different.
And that's just normal. It's what happens. And I think 10 years from now, it's going to be radically different.
And that's just normal. It's what happens. And I think 10 years from now, it's going to be radically different.
So I went to medical school in the 70s. So my short story is I was 18. Vietnam was still going on. And I had a low draft number and became an infantry medic and
So I went to medical school in the 70s. So my short story is I was 18. Vietnam was still going on. And I had a low draft number and became an infantry medic and
So I went to medical school in the 70s. So my short story is I was 18. Vietnam was still going on. And I had a low draft number and became an infantry medic and
uh my love of medicine was born there but about a year into it i realized i didn't like getting shot at it's like not for me i don't like it um and so i got retrained as an x-ray technician and that was the thing our professors used to say how do you know unless you look right and then i got out of the army finished college went to medical school it's 1979 I marry my childhood sweetheart.
uh my love of medicine was born there but about a year into it i realized i didn't like getting shot at it's like not for me i don't like it um and so i got retrained as an x-ray technician and that was the thing our professors used to say how do you know unless you look right and then i got out of the army finished college went to medical school it's 1979 I marry my childhood sweetheart.
uh my love of medicine was born there but about a year into it i realized i didn't like getting shot at it's like not for me i don't like it um and so i got retrained as an x-ray technician and that was the thing our professors used to say how do you know unless you look right and then i got out of the army finished college went to medical school it's 1979 I marry my childhood sweetheart.
Two months later, she tries to kill herself. And I took her to see a wonderful psychiatrist. And I came to realize if he helped her, which he did, it wouldn't just help her. It would help me. It would help our children. It would help our grandchildren. But I fell in love with the only medical specialty that never looks at the organ and treats. And I knew it was wrong.
Two months later, she tries to kill herself. And I took her to see a wonderful psychiatrist. And I came to realize if he helped her, which he did, it wouldn't just help her. It would help me. It would help our children. It would help our grandchildren. But I fell in love with the only medical specialty that never looks at the organ and treats. And I knew it was wrong.
Two months later, she tries to kill herself. And I took her to see a wonderful psychiatrist. And I came to realize if he helped her, which he did, it wouldn't just help her. It would help me. It would help our children. It would help our grandchildren. But I fell in love with the only medical specialty that never looks at the organ and treats. And I knew it was wrong.
I just had no idea I'd be involved in the change. And back then, I hated the term mental illness. If you looked at my ex-wife and go, she has a mental illness. It's shaming.
I just had no idea I'd be involved in the change. And back then, I hated the term mental illness. If you looked at my ex-wife and go, she has a mental illness. It's shaming.
I just had no idea I'd be involved in the change. And back then, I hated the term mental illness. If you looked at my ex-wife and go, she has a mental illness. It's shaming.
Nobody wants it. What if we thought of these as brain health issues? Nobody wants to be called mental. everybody likes to be called a brain yes right so what if mental health was really brain health and that's the revolution that i'm trying to create it's like let's stop calling these things mental let's create a brain yeah i had one of my young stars came into my office and