Dr. Daniel Amen

Step three, let's go get your brain healthy.

Brain health is three things.

Brain envy, God care about it.

Avoid things that hurt it, know the list.

Do things that help it, know the list.

the list.

That's got to be the next step because with a healthy brain, you're less likely to relapse.

Or if you relapse, you don't see it as a failure because every day, and this is what Julius and I did, every day you win or you learn.

is you take a curiosity mindset into the problem rather than a shame mindset into the problem.

I failed.

It's like, well, let's look at it.

And if you can understand, do you know when people relapse?

when they have low blood sugar, when they've gone too long without eating, they're more likely to relapse.

So, like, carry nuts with you or just something with you all the time so you don't get hungry.

Why does hunger cause relapse, low blood sugar?

Because it lowers blood sugar.

When you get lower blood sugar, you have lower frontal lobe function.

really it's so interesting and there's this fascinating study where they took 107 couples at married couples and they measured their blood sugar right before bedtime and then they gave them voodoo dolls and they asked them to rate their feelings about their partner with pins in the dolls

And so they measured their blood sugar.

And the people who had the lowest blood sugar had more than twice the number of pins in the voodoo dolls.