Dr. Daniel Amen
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Many of us do.
I have 60 psychiatrists that work with me at Amen Clinics, and we all believe this.
Has the American Psychiatric Association taken a position on this?
It's not a huge fan of marijuana as medicine.
And most addiction societies are very concerned about it.
You could, oh, it's just, it's that powerful.
Not with the current administration.
So are you suggesting... I mean, if there's going to be a different administration, it will be hard.
But I think the more we start caring about our brains... So the most important thing I'm doing right now is I'm working on creating a national brain health revolution.
Wow.
My goal is for everyone to ask themselves this one question.
Whatever I'm doing now, is it good for my brain or bad for it?
And if I can accomplish this, then I think people will really start to ask themselves that question.
Is it good for my brain or bad for it?
And the thing most pressing is marijuana, psilocybin, cell phones, social media, AI.
There's a brand new study out from MIT that evaluated...
smart kids who use AI to write their papers rather than just doing it themselves or just using Google had significantly less brain function while they were doing that task.
What that means is if I go to the gym and I'm used to lifting 25 pounds so I could have strong arms, it's now I go to the gym and I only lift two pounds.
So I'm not going to have strong arms.
Farm it out.