Well, hello, hello, guys. You're listening to Beauty Bites with Dr. K, Secrets of a Plastic Surgeon,

and today on the podcast, we are really thrilled

to invite a brain health expert, Dr. Daniel Aman, and he is a clinical neuroscientist,

psychiatrist, and brain imaging expert. He's also the author of two amazing books,

Your Brain is Always Listening, which he was so kind to send to me,

and change your brain, change your life. And welcome to the podcast, Doc. How are you?

Thanks, Dr. Kay. Such a joy to meet you. Well, I'm really thrilled to learn and see people on

Instagram talking more and more about brain health. I'm in a profession with

aesthetics and beauty where I feel like sometimes what we do is very superficial. But as a physician

at heart, the brain, it is our most important organ and asset. What got you into triggering more

conversations about brain health in America? Well, you know, I love talking to a plastic surgeon because the health of your skin

is actually a reflection of the health of your brain, that they tend to go together.

So being beautiful on the inside often leads to being prettier on the outside. So I was an

infantry medic at the end of Vietnam and fell in love with medicine. But a year into it, I realized

I didn't like being shot at. It just wasn't my thing.

Some people like it.

I got retrained as an X-ray technician

and developed a passion for medical imaging.

So our professors used to say,

how do you know unless you look?

And then in 1975, I got out of the Army,

finished college, went to medical school.

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