333: Dr. Daniel Amen - Optimize Your Brain, Automatic Negative Thoughts, Eliminating Caffeine
The Ultimate Health Podcast
Jesse Chappus
4.5 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 21 January 2020
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
The Washington Post called Dr. Daniel Amen (IG: @doc_amen) the most popular psychiatrist in America and Discover Magazine listed his brain imaging research as the top neuroscience story for 2015. He is a double board-certified psychiatrist and ten-time NY Times bestselling author.
Dr. Amen is the founder of Amen Clinics, which has 8 locations across the United States.
He has also hosted 14 national public television shows about the brain, which have aired over 100,000 times across North America.
In this episode, we discuss:
- Lessons Dr. Amen learned from his pet raccoon
- Learn how to study
- Once you learn something, teach other people
- Don’t spend time with people who limit your ability to succeed
- Your brain is always listening to what you feed it
- What are automatic negative thoughts (ANTs)?
- Today is going to be a great day!
- Change yourself first
- Setting up an ideal study environment
- Tips for eliminating distractions
- Too much screen time impacts mental health
- Listening to brain directed music to help you focus
- Be the scientist and the subject
- Essential oils that enhance studying
- 3 types of memory
- The role of the hippocampus
- Make sleep a priority
- Start loving yourself
- Omega-3 supplements breakdown
- EPA is important for mood, ADD, and focus
- Ideas to promote quality sleep
- Bright light therapy in the morning improves mood & energy
- Using hypnotherapy to aid sleep
- Meditate or pray at bedtime to relax your mind
- How to overcome the fear of public speaking
- The 18-40-60 Rule
- Caffeine has a negative impact on your brain
- Your brain is 80% water, it needs to stay hydrated
- The world’s best brain game
- Contact sports and concussions
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Dr. Daniel Amen - Change Your Brain, Change Your Grades (book)
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Listen to Tana Amen (Dr. Amen's wife) previously on TUHP (episode #63)
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| 0:00.0 | Your brain is always listening to the inputs you allow into it, from the music you're listening to, |
| 0:06.0 | to the thoughts you think, to the news you listen to, to the gadgets in your pocket. |
| 0:10.8 | Your brain is always listening to what you feed it. |
| 0:17.0 | And if you feed it toxic things, including toxic people, |
| 0:21.0 | you're going to feel poorly about yourself. |
| 0:25.0 | Hello and welcome to the Altzman Podcast, episode 333. |
| 0:33.8 | Jesse Chapp is here with Marnie Wasserman, |
| 0:36.1 | and we are here to take your health to the next level. |
| 0:39.1 | Each week, we will bring you inspiring and informative conversations |
| 0:42.1 | about health and wellness, |
| 0:43.3 | covering topics of nutrition, lifestyle, fitness, mindset, and so much more. |
| 0:47.7 | And this week we are featuring Dr. Daniel Aeman. |
| 0:50.7 | The Washington Post called him the most popular psychiatrist in America and Discover magazine listed his brain imaging research as the top neuroscience story for 2015. |
| 1:01.0 | Dr. Aeman is a double board certified psychiatrist and 10 time New York Times best-selling |
| 1:06.9 | author. |
| 1:07.9 | He's the founder of Aeman Clinics, which has eight locations across the United States. Dr Aeman has also hosted 14 national public television shows about the brain, |
| 1:17.0 | which have aired over 100,000 times across North America. |
| 1:21.0 | If you haven't guessed already, this episode is going to be covering all things brain health. |
| 1:25.6 | It is a really important conversation for so many people and we're really excited for you to hear |
| 1:30.9 | this. |
| 1:32.1 | And the best thing that you can do with this |
| 1:33.6 | episode and so many of our other episodes is share it with someone in your life. |
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