643: Change Your Brain, Change Your Life with Dr. Daniel Amen
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Hal Elrod
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🗓️ 1 July 2026
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
The most important organ that we need to take care of is our brain. Yet it's also the organ most people ignore, even though it influences every thought we have, every decision we make, and every emotion we feel. From our finances to our relationships, our brains shape nearly every aspect of our lives.
That's why I'm so excited to introduce you to Dr. Daniel Amen. Dr. Amen is one of the world's leading experts on brain health, a double board-certified psychiatrist, founder of Amen Clinics, and the author of more than 40 books, including Change Your Brain, Change Your Life. In his clinics, they've scanned nearly 300,000 brains, giving him a unique understanding of what helps the brain thrive and what damages it over time.
In our conversation, Dr. Amen shares his BRIGHT MINDS framework, which addresses the major risk factors affecting brain health, what most people misunderstand about free will, and simple daily habits that will help you think better, feel better, and live a better life.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
- Why Brain Health Matters More Than You Think
- How Your Brain Impacts Free Will
- How Damaged Brains Can Heal
- The 3 Keys To Brain Health
- Daily Habits That Are Terrible For Your Brain
- Dr. Amen's BRIGHT MINDS Framework
- Is ADD A Problem Or A Superpower?
- Natural Supplements & Treatments For ADD
- The Truth About What Alcohol Does To Your Brain
- The Damage That Smartphones Are Doing To Kids
- Morning Routines to Promote Healthy Brains
- Dr. Amen's 7-Day Brain Challenge
- How You Can Learn More From Dr. Amen
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Achieve Your Goals podcast, the show that empowers you to wake up to your full potential and achieve your biggest goals and dreams. |
| 0:09.6 | I am your host, Hal Elrod, and I invite you to join us each week as we share actionable strategies to take your life to the next level, |
| 0:16.6 | as well as interview world-class experts and entrepreneurs who have achieved extraordinary goals |
| 0:21.9 | themselves, and we ask them to give you a peek behind the curtain and teach you exactly what you |
| 0:26.5 | need to do to do the same. Ready? Here we go. |
| 0:35.3 | Today I'm talking with Dr. Daniel Amin, one of the world's leading voices on brain health and author of the book, Change Your Brain, Change Your Life. |
| 0:44.1 | Dr. Amin has spent decades helping people understand that if you want to improve your thoughts, your emotions, your relationships, your behavior, your habits, your career, almost anything, you have to |
| 0:56.3 | start with the organ that drives all of it, your brain. In today's conversation, we're talking about |
| 1:01.8 | what hurts your brain and what helps your brain, free will, how it might not be what you think |
| 1:06.9 | it is, chemo brain, ADD, and ADHD, and ultimately practices that will help you to think |
| 1:15.6 | better, feel better, and live better. |
| 1:23.4 | Dr. Amen, it is so good to be with you. Hal, thank you so much for helping me share this message. |
| 1:28.8 | I appreciate you. |
| 1:29.8 | As someone who has, I've read your book twice now, and as somebody who has suffered brain damage and really struggled with a lot of brain issues, your work is so important to me. |
| 1:37.7 | I want to ask you just off the bat, what do people not understand about how important learning about their brain, understanding how it |
| 1:47.8 | works, caring for it, what do people not realizing that they need to be doing? Nobody cares about |
| 1:53.8 | their brain. Why? You can't see it. You can see the wrinkles in your skin or the fat around your belly and in 1991 when I started |
| 2:04.9 | looking at the brain here at Aman clinics have 11 clinics around the country we do a study |
| 2:10.1 | called brain spec imaging spec looks at blood flow and activity looks at how your brain works |
| 2:16.6 | and so I went to a lecture in 1991 on |
| 2:19.5 | brain spec imaging literally has changed everything in my life. And so I'm 37 at the time. I order my |
| 2:30.2 | first scan and I don't care about my own brain. I'm a double board certified scyatrist. |
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