Dr. Daniel Amen

People my age, 70.

70% of us have abnormal backs who have no pain at all.

People who are 50 who have abnormal MRIs, 50% of them have abnormal back MRIs and no pain at all.

That means just because you have an abnormal MRI on your back or your neck or your shoulder doesn't mean surgery should be the first step.

thing you do, but because there's an industry around surgery that's often the first thing that's recommended.

And I argue, well, let's do the conservative things with a brain boost first.

And then if you need it, you need it, right?

I'm not opposed to it.

I'm just opposed to that's the first and only thing you do.

They're not.

State of California.

Or at least in my state, they're not because it's a revenue source, because there's a political lobby.

And...

It's shameful.

I don't know how else to say it.

When you really understand the research and now even more emerging research on anxiety, depression, suicide, and psychosis, I think we should be much more concerned from a public health standpoint.

I don't think they say it because of the pressure that's put on them not to say it.

It's the same thing.

Yeah.

You just look at power and power has to do with money.