359: Dr. Daniel Amen - The End Of Mental Illness
The Ultimate Health Podcast
Jesse Chappus
4.5 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 30 June 2020
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Daniel Amen (IG: @doc_amen) is a double board-certified psychiatrist and ten-time NY Times bestselling author. In March 2020, his latest book, The End of Mental Illness was published.
Dr. Amen is the founder of Amen Clinics, which has 8 locations across the United States.
He's 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:
- The end of the term "mental illness"
- The history of how "mental illnesses" were treated
- Nourish your brain
- What is brain SPECT imaging?
- The anatomy of the brain
- The long term impact of concussions & head injuries
- Brain health involves 3 things
- Alcohol prematurely ages your brain
- You don’t have to lose consciousness to experience a brain injury
- The connection between hearth health & mental health
- Increasing blood flow with hyperbaric oxygen therapy
- Autoimmune issues are linked to mental health issues
- The connection between Lyme disease and schizophrenia
- How leaky gut impacts your brain & mental health
- Hormones are miracle grow for your brain
- Toxins impact neurohormones
- Brain injuries can damage your pituitary gland
- Gum disease is a major cause of inflammation in your body
- What is your brain reserve?
- The role of epigenetics & illness
- Give your brain a break with intermittent fasting
- Dr. Amen’s thoughts on CBD
- Working through grief
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Related links:
Dr. Daniel Amen - The End of Mental Illness (book)
Dr. Daniel Amen's website (Amen Clinics)
Follow Dr. Daniel Amen on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter
Listen to Dr. Daniel Amen previously on TUHP (episode #333)
Dr. Amen - I Told You So! Why The American Cancer Society Says To Stop Drinking (article)
Listen to Tana Amen previously on TUHP (episode #063)
Justin Bieber: Seasons (documentary)
Listen to Dr. Satchin Panda previously on TUHP (episode #353)
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248: Evan Brand – Parasites, H. pylori, & Candida • Cavitation Surgery • Addressing Mental Health
294: Dr. Sara Gottfried – Brain Body Diet, Start To Surrender, Reset With Intermittent Fasting
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Since 1999, cancer has declined 27%, but suicides gone up 33%. |
| 0:10.1 | It's like, why is that? |
| 0:11.5 | And I argue we are working on a wrong paradigm the paradigm for |
| 0:17.6 | mental illness making diagnoses based on symptom clusters with no biological data is just wrong. |
| 0:27.0 | And we need to sort of break the paradigm to have it be more brain-based. |
| 0:37.0 | Hello and welcome to the Ultimate Health Podcast episode 359 |
| 0:44.8 | Jesse Chapp is here with Marnie Wasserman and we are here to take your health to the |
| 0:49.0 | next level. Each week we'll bring you inspiring and informative |
| 0:52.4 | conversations about health and wellness, |
| 0:54.5 | covering topics of nutrition, lifestyle, fitness, mindset, and so much more. |
| 1:00.0 | And this week Dr. Daniel Aeman is back on the show. |
| 1:03.0 | He's a double board certified psychiatrist and 10 time New York Times best selling author. |
| 1:08.0 | In March of 2020 his latest book The End of Mental Illness was published and that's the focus of today's chat. |
| 1:15.3 | Dr. Aeman is the founder of Aeman Clinics which has eight locations across the US. |
| 1:20.0 | He's also hosted 14 national public television shows about the brain, |
| 1:24.3 | which have aired over 100,000 times across North America. |
| 1:27.9 | And as I mentioned before, Dr. Aeman has been on the show before, |
| 1:32.0 | and this was back on episode 333. |
| 1:35.0 | So you don't need to go back and listen to that one first. |
| 1:38.0 | Keep on listening, but be sure and listen to that one afterwards if you haven't checked that one out. |
| 1:42.0 | So back to today's show |
| 1:44.4 | and some of the highlights, we cover the long-term effects of concussions and head injuries, |
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