Dr. Daniel Amen

Why?

I'm on an obesity heart disease prevention program every day of my life.

because I don't want those things.

We adopted our nieces because their parents were addicts.

And I tell them, I said, you have addiction in your family.

You need to be on an addiction prevention program every day of your life.

And when I found the older one vaping, I grounded her for six months.

I mean, we're like very serious about if you want to go that way,

That's up to you, but I'm not going to do anything in my power to help you.

The second one, and this is so important, or the next one is H, head trauma.

A major cause of psychiatric problems, but it's also a major cause of substance abuse.

Because if you damage your frontal lobes, which happens in 90% of people who have head trauma, 90% of them, their frontal lobes are involved.

it decreases impulse control.

So you might know this isn't good for me, but if you want it, you do it rather than if you want it, you distract yourself.

You make a better decision for yourself.

Tea is toxins, drugs, alcohol, mold in your home can damage your brain and make you decrease your decision making.

General anesthesia is toxic to your brain.

And then the products we put on our lives.

general anesthesia.

And like, I'm a psychiatrist.