Dr. Daniel Amen
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And he was mad and he was sad.
And he said, could you just tell me your opinion?
And we scanned Nancy and she had frontal temporal lobe dementia.
You could see it on the scan.
The whole front part of her brain was severely low in activity.
And I said, I agree with the diagnosis, but if she was my wife and I like my wife, I would do all these things.
basically all the bright minds interventions, plus put her in a hyperbaric chamber, make sure she stops drinking alcohol, optimize her hormones.
10 weeks later, they came back and I scanned her.
Her brain was better.
Wasn't normal, but it was dramatically better.
And Ray had lost 30 pounds in those 10 weeks.
And I'm always getting, trying to get my NFL players to lose weight.
And I'm like, how did you do that?
how did you lose 30 pounds?
He said, I knew if I modeled a brain healthy life, she would do it too.
And it just hit me that sometimes motivation is about love.
He loved his wife.
Yes.
And as he got healthy, she did better.
Now, frontal temporal lobe dementia is awful and it was a war, but