Dr. Daniel Amen
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It's a liquid. It goes to whatever your taste is. Some people like it a little bit bitter. Some people like it super sweet. So my grandfather was a candy maker. And so I like sweet things.
It's a liquid. It goes to whatever your taste is. Some people like it a little bit bitter. Some people like it super sweet. So my grandfather was a candy maker. And so I like sweet things.
It's a liquid. It goes to whatever your taste is. Some people like it a little bit bitter. Some people like it super sweet. So my grandfather was a candy maker. And so I like sweet things.
Well, how would you know unless you looked? So I'm a double.
Well, how would you know unless you looked? So I'm a double.
Well, how would you know unless you looked? So I'm a double.
And I belong to the only medical specialty that virtually never looks at the organ it treats. And so for the last 34 years, we've been doing a study called brain spec imaging, looks at blood flow and activity, looks at how your brain works. And Megan, literally, it has changed everything in my life. how I diagnose my patients, how I treat myself.
And I belong to the only medical specialty that virtually never looks at the organ it treats. And so for the last 34 years, we've been doing a study called brain spec imaging, looks at blood flow and activity, looks at how your brain works. And Megan, literally, it has changed everything in my life. how I diagnose my patients, how I treat myself.
And I belong to the only medical specialty that virtually never looks at the organ it treats. And so for the last 34 years, we've been doing a study called brain spec imaging, looks at blood flow and activity, looks at how your brain works. And Megan, literally, it has changed everything in my life. how I diagnose my patients, how I treat myself.
If you date my daughter for more than four months, I'm going to scan you because I really want to know. We have a poster. I don't know if you heard the president and the Department of Justice, but he's about a conversation he had with the Mexican president. And it's like, why doesn't Mexico have the drug problem we have, even though you're selling us the drugs?
If you date my daughter for more than four months, I'm going to scan you because I really want to know. We have a poster. I don't know if you heard the president and the Department of Justice, but he's about a conversation he had with the Mexican president. And it's like, why doesn't Mexico have the drug problem we have, even though you're selling us the drugs?
If you date my daughter for more than four months, I'm going to scan you because I really want to know. We have a poster. I don't know if you heard the president and the Department of Justice, but he's about a conversation he had with the Mexican president. And it's like, why doesn't Mexico have the drug problem we have, even though you're selling us the drugs?
And they have a very vigorous drug education campaign. Well, as soon as I started scanning people in 1991, I take a healthy scan. And then one of my marijuana users, cocaine users, alcoholics, their brains look so bad. And we put it on a poster and called, which brain do you want? Which now hangs in about 100,000 schools, prisons, churches around the world.
And they have a very vigorous drug education campaign. Well, as soon as I started scanning people in 1991, I take a healthy scan. And then one of my marijuana users, cocaine users, alcoholics, their brains look so bad. And we put it on a poster and called, which brain do you want? Which now hangs in about 100,000 schools, prisons, churches around the world.
And they have a very vigorous drug education campaign. Well, as soon as I started scanning people in 1991, I take a healthy scan. And then one of my marijuana users, cocaine users, alcoholics, their brains look so bad. And we put it on a poster and called, which brain do you want? Which now hangs in about 100,000 schools, prisons, churches around the world.
It's like the real reason not to use drugs is they damage your brain alcohol is not a health food and marijuana is not innocuous we have to stop lying to the american public and go these are not good things but the first thing you have to do is get them to fall in love with their brain and that's what the imaging did for me
It's like the real reason not to use drugs is they damage your brain alcohol is not a health food and marijuana is not innocuous we have to stop lying to the american public and go these are not good things but the first thing you have to do is get them to fall in love with their brain and that's what the imaging did for me
It's like the real reason not to use drugs is they damage your brain alcohol is not a health food and marijuana is not innocuous we have to stop lying to the american public and go these are not good things but the first thing you have to do is get them to fall in love with their brain and that's what the imaging did for me
It's your brain is involved in how you think, how you feel, how you act, how you get along with other people. And when your brain works right, you work right. And when it doesn't, you'll never live up to your potential. So now you go, drugs damage the brain. And why would you ever damage your potential unless you are self-defeating?
It's your brain is involved in how you think, how you feel, how you act, how you get along with other people. And when your brain works right, you work right. And when it doesn't, you'll never live up to your potential. So now you go, drugs damage the brain. And why would you ever damage your potential unless you are self-defeating?