Dr. Daniel Amen

And when you stop using it, it's going to come back.

So if you don't go to the origin of the pain and pain.

I have a new book coming out in December, Change Your Brain, Change Your Pain.

And I talk about this in the book.

If you have chronic pain, say you have pain for three weeks or four weeks, well, pretty soon it's no longer in your back or just in your back.

It's actually in your brain.

That your brain with pain becomes remodeled.

Yes.

And pain is now felt again.

in your back, but it's in your brain.

And if you're really going to go after that chronic pain, you have to get your brain healthy.

And so if you're using marijuana for the chronic pain, it's suppressing those pain centers, but it's not getting your brain healthy.

And so when you stop the marijuana, the pain is just going to come back.

And it's very important in the book I talk about the doom loop where you have pain for any reason, which then triggers the suffering circuits in the brain that actually are the same ones for anxiety and depression, anxiety, depression, pain, the same circuits in the brain, which then triggers this flood of ants, automatic negative thoughts.

I need surgery.

I'll never be well.

I'll always be in pain.

which then triggers muscle tension, which increases the pain and leads to bad habits.

So not just marijuana, but could be overeating because of the marijuana.

And you end up into this cycle of the doom loop.