Dr. Daniel Amen
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And the overweight NFL players had significantly lower activity in their frontal lobes.
So the frontal lobes is the most human thoughtful activity.
part of your brain.
It's 30% of the human brain, 11% of the chimpanzee brain, 7% of your dog's brain, 3% of your cat's brain, which is why cats need nine lives.
Anyways, significantly lower blood flow and activity in their frontal lobes.
What weight does,
excess weight increases something called inflammatory cytokines.
So the fat on your belly is not your friend.
It decreases blood flow.
It increases inflammation.
It prematurely ages your brain.
It takes healthy testosterone and flips it into unhealthy cancer-promoting forms.
of estrogen which is why being overweight increases your risk of 30 different cancers really and it lowers your testosterone lowers your testosterone and is it wow that's that's unbelievable is that widely known yes
I'm usually the last.
It's widely known in scientific circles that obesity is associated with at least 30 different medical conditions, but including cancer.
Lowers it.
Yes.
And we have this younger generation who have low testosterone levels.
They've been getting lower and lower and we have to ask them, so why is that?
And now we have these record levels of low vitamin D levels, but we also have record levels of toxins being put on our bodies.