531: Is Your Pain All in Your Brain? The Shocking Truth About Chronic Pain, Mood, and Inflammation | Daniel Amen, MD
The Genius Life
Max Lugavere
4.7 • 4.7K Ratings
🗓️ 3 December 2025
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Chronic pain affects one in five adults, and psychiatrist and social media star Daniel Amen believes most of us are treating it completely wrong. In this episode, we explore how the brain’s hidden “pain circuits” keep suffering alive—and the surprising tools that can finally break the cycle.
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| 0:25.9 | What up, everybody? |
| 0:27.0 | It's episode 531 of the genius life. |
| 0:31.3 | Let's go. |
| 0:31.9 | And say genius of women. |
| 0:36.6 | Max, look at me here. Max, look at me. Max. Max. What's the genius life. |
| 0:45.1 | What's going on everybody? |
| 0:50.6 | Welcome back to The Genius Life. |
| 0:52.3 | I'm your host Max Lug of your reporting live for my |
| 0:54.7 | ongoing quest to understand how to actually move the needle on public health. Today I'm joined in |
| 0:59.7 | person by Dr. Daniel Aeman, double board certified psychiatrist, brain imaging pioneer, founder of |
| 1:05.6 | Aman clinics, and the author of the new book, Change Your Brain, Change Your Pain. Dr. Aymann is one of the most visible and controversial figures in brain health today. |
| 1:14.6 | His clinics have performed over 200,000 spec-brain scans on patients for more than 150 countries, |
| 1:20.6 | making him one of the most prolific readers of brain scans in the world. |
| 1:24.6 | He's built a massive social media audience in the millions, and his client base |
| 1:28.1 | ranges from everyday patients to major celebrities seeking help for everything from addiction |
| 1:32.1 | and anxiety to performance issues and ADHD. His use of spec imaging goes far beyond traditional |
| 1:37.6 | applications like diagnosing Alzheimer's or stroke. He uses it to map blood flow patterns tied to |
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