392: Tana Amen - The Relentless Courage of a Scared Child
The Ultimate Health Podcast
Jesse Chappus
4.5 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 9 February 2021
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Summary
Watch the full video interview on YouTube here: https://bit.ly/tanaamen392
Tana Amen (IG: @tanaamen) is a New York Times bestselling author, vice president of the Amen Clinics, a neurosurgical ICU trauma nurse, and a world-renowned health and fitness expert.
She has won the hearts of millions with her simple yet effective strategies to help anyone optimize their lifestyle and win the fight for a strong body, mind, and spirit.
Tana holds a second-degree black belt in Kenpo Karate and a black belt in Tae Kwon Do.
Tana and her husband, Dr. Daniel Amen, have four children and five grandchildren.
Today we’re discussing her new book: The Relentless Courage of a Scared Child: How Persistence, Grit, and Faith Created a Reluctant Healer.
In this episode, we discuss:
- How we were all scared children at one time
- The epiphany Tana had working with addicts
- Tana’s first 3 memories as a child
- Growing up in constant chaos
- Tana's mom always showed she loved her
- Dealing with unwanted attention and bullying during her teen years
- Battling an eating disorder, anxiety, and depression
- Tana was diagnosed with thyroid cancer at age 23
- How Prozac hijacked her brain
- The spiritual walk that lead to Tana’s healing journey
- Responsibility means the ability to respond
- Falling in love with her best friend, Dr. Daniel Amen
- Working with Byron Katie
- Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) therapy can help with trauma
- Lifestyle factors including food, nutrition, and exercise impact your health
- Be your own best advocate
- Your doctor is not your boss, they are your partner
- Tana’s life-changing journey studying Metabolic Medicine and Functional Medicine
- Implementing the Omni diet at Amen Clinics
- Consciously raising her daughter Chloe in a healthy environment
- The vulnerable truth about writing a memoir
- Processing past trauma through the eyes of an adult
- Helping her half sister and taking custody of her 2 nieces
- Forgiving her dad before he passed away
- The powerful need for forgiveness
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Listen to Tana Amen previously on TUHP (episode #063)
Listen to Dr. Daniel Amen previously on TUHP (episodes #333 and #359)
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Listen to Dr. Mark Hyman previously on TUHP (episodes #074, #084, and #214)
Listen to Dr. David Perlmutter previously on TUHP (episodes #273, #289, and #332)
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| 0:00.0 | coming up on the Ultimate Health podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | I took control of my own health by finding someone |
| 0:05.6 | who knew what they were doing. |
| 0:07.2 | I was my own advocate and I explained to him, |
| 0:09.3 | I'm not doing this anymore, I'm not quitting karate. |
| 0:11.6 | He's like, you don't have to, right? |
| 0:13.1 | Your doctor is not your boss, they are your partner. |
| 0:16.8 | So you need to find someone who is your partner |
| 0:18.5 | and who listens to you. |
| 0:20.0 | And so I was able to now go back to doing exercise |
| 0:23.6 | in a healthy way. |
| 0:24.9 | I mean, I've been exercising in a healthy way |
| 0:26.4 | for, you know, 15 years now. |
| 0:28.6 | So I will never be able to do extreme exercise again, |
| 0:31.7 | which is probably better for me anyways, |
| 0:34.2 | but I will always have to take thyroid. |
| 0:37.0 | So don't be ashamed if you have to take a medication. |
| 0:39.9 | Just know that you don't want to be taking it indiscriminately. |
| 0:48.7 | Hello and welcome to Ultimate Health podcast, episode 392. |
| 0:52.7 | I'm Jesse Chapis and I'm here to take your help |
| 0:54.8 | to the next level. |
| 0:56.2 | Each week I'll bring you in-depth conversations |
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