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Super excited to talk to you. So we have a lot to talk about today. We're going to be talking about

a lot of what you're seeing through patients that are coming through and also a special thing about

the Aeman clinics is they do all these brain scans so you can see like what's going on

with kids that are on screens excessively and

things like that, substance abuse. But I would love if you could start off with your backstory. There's a video on the website that gives a little bit of it. But you were like a tinkerer growing up, a hands-on kid. You're in Scouts, you're doing Pinewood Derby and you're always like, oh, how can I get it even up to race down like how can I get this better how can I tweak and that is

kind of translated into your world of work and always like, oh, how can I get it? Even up to race, I'm like, how can I get this better? How can I tweak?

And that has kind of translated into your world of work.

Yeah, that's exactly right.

I can get obsessive sometimes about trying to think really, really hard about how to optimize the health of people's brains.

And one of the reasons I joined aiming clinics about, it's been five years now,

was that when I entered the world of psychiatry,

I entered it with a lot of hopes that I could enact like change in people, right?

And the human brain is the most interesting thing in the world to me.

Like the number of connections in the human brain

exceed the number of stars in the universe.

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