Dr. Daniel Amen | Club Random with Bill Maher
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What does Dr. Amen say about the brain’s role in health and behavior?
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I'm so excited to see your brain. Oh yeah.
Muhammad Ali was one of my You had Muhammad Ali as a patient? I have his what was he like? Awesome. Dark. How are you, sir? So nice to see you. Ah, thanks for coming. What do you think of the place? Spectacular. Really? Is your kind of place? Love it. Really? Good. Well, listen, I've been uh dying to meet you. Uh you're very popular. The chicks dig you, Doc. Did you you knew that, I guess. So women really Very excited at y hoy that talks on. Yeah. They they're into that medical stuff much more than the guys.
I think of all my followers, eighty percent are women.
Eighty percent.
Yeah.
No wonder why you're such a Mac. Okay,
so my wife said I came housebroken and well trained. I have five sisters. So
Really? Now somebody told me you give your uh Daughters boyfriends brain scans?
Absolutely.
You gotta you got the Machine right in the dining room. No, but they they
go to the clinic uh when I met my wife it's our anniversary on Sunday. Yeah. How many years? Eighteen. Um
I'm sorry. People on TV they always clap when people are married more than like two
years. And I was married once before and I wasn't good. And so
she's gonna
hear that and be offended. She said uh when I asked her We're dating three weeks. And I'm like, you haven't seen the clinics, time to see the clinic. And She said it was the most unusual line that you wanted to see my naked brain.
I I I mean when I see brains uh in like I've I've only seen it in movies and stuff. But it is one of the more unattractive looking organs in the body. Don't you think? Oh
no, I love
Brains. The brains.
Because it makes you who you are.
How you think and feel and act and I I gotta tell you. I'm not one of those people who believes in the universe. I mean I believe in the universe. Just don't believe it speaking to me like people think. However, this is I think this is just a not a c it's a coincidence but the sign of where medicine is moving. Not because you're coming, but two other people, not one person I read about and one person I had lunch with, Arianna Huffington, just two days ago, was all about the brain. And she's writing about it and you know, she must be a big fan of yours. And uh then I was reading about someone who had no problems but had a brain scan at like forty and they found what they w she wouldn't have known unless she died from it.
So like Your basic message about, you know, 'cause I've never been a big fan of psychiatry, I know it works for some people, but your thing about like look at the physical organ I'm much more down on that page. I mean I'm sure it's both. But I'm gonna get the brain scanned. Do you drink?
No.
Oh, me neither. Because I look at the brain.
So Well, come on. And when when it comes to the brain, it's the only organ in your body where size matters. Oh now, Doc, don't
give me a str set up line like that where I can drive right down Broadway with the punchline. The only organ that matters? Boy. Your wife's a forgiving woman. Your wife's a forgiving woman.
Good night everybody. Size matters. So I never want to do anything to have a smaller brain. I
never want to do anything up a smaller dick. That's so funny. I've done so much shit to my brain. My dick I've treated like gold.
Um so there's the big brain and the little brain and which one's in charge and I want to have the A big brand in charge.
In every way, Doc, I had it in reverse. But I'm seventy now and I'm much more mature. And uh I I've taken care of myself very well. Like uh when it got serious, I smoked stupidly for t twenty years, but I quit at forty. Let me ask you that you would know this. Like how mu how much poison do you think just I could put in my body?
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What does Dr. Amen say about the brain’s role in health and behavior?
0:00–13:32
2
How did treating Muhammad Ali and NFL players shape Dr. Amen’s view on brain health?
13:32–27:09
3
Why does Dr. Amen argue that psychiatry should look at the physical brain?
27:09–40:44
4
What are the risks of marijuana and alcohol on teen brain development?
40:44–53:24
5
How can we train our minds to manage automatic negative thoughts?
53:24–1:05:49
6
What is the ‘one‑page miracle’ and how does it improve daily focus?
1:05:49–1:19:37
7
Why does Dr. Amen believe brain scans should become routine health checks?
1:19:37–1:32:38
8
What future technologies could change how we monitor and heal the brain?
1:32:38–1:43:37