#958 - Dr Daniel Amen - The 11 Risk Factors That Are Destroying Your Brain

Modern Wisdom

Chris Williamson

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 4.6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2025

⏱️ 109 minutes

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Dr. Daniel Amen is a psychiatrist, brain-health researcher, founder of the Amen Clinics & New York Times bestselling author. You only get one brain, so how do you keep it healthy for life? Dr. Daniel Amen has scanned over half a million brains and knows exactly what helps and what hurts your brain. Using cutting-edge research and science-backed strategies, Dr. Amen reveals the keys to keeping your mind sharp and your body thriving. Expect to learn how to kill your automatic negative thoughts (ANTS), what a healthy brain should look like, what is contributing to the mental health crisis of the younger generations, the true impacts of alcohol, weed and other substances on your brain, the best supplements to take for brain health, how to rewire your brain to be a better romantic partner, how to get rid of brain fog, the best exercises and activity for a better functioning brain, and much more… Sponsors: See discounts for all the products I use and recommend: https://chriswillx.com/deals Get a 20% discount on Nomatic’s amazing luggage at https://nomatic.com/modernwisdom Get a Free Sample Pack of LMNT’s most popular Flavours with your first purchase at https://drinklmnt.com/modernwisdom Get the best bloodwork analysis in America at https://functionhealth.com/modernwisdom Get 35% off your first subscription on the best supplements from Momentous at https://livemomentous.com/modernwisdom Extra Stuff: Get my free reading list of 100 books to read before you die: https://chriswillx.com/books Try my productivity energy drink Neutonic: https://neutonic.com/modernwisdom Episodes You Might Enjoy: #577 - David Goggins - This Is How To Master Your Life: https://tinyurl.com/43hv6y59 #712 - Dr Jordan Peterson - How To Destroy Your Negative Beliefs: https://tinyurl.com/2rtz7avf #700 - Dr Andrew Huberman - The Secret Tools To Hack Your Brain: https://tinyurl.com/3ccn5vkp - Get In Touch: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chriswillx Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/chriswillx YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/modernwisdompodcast Email: https://chriswillx.com/contact - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Is it right that your clinics have got the world's largest database of brain scans for psychiatry?
0:06.3	Yes.
0:07.7	By far.
0:08.7	Nearly a quarter of a million spec scans.
0:10.9	More.
0:12.0	Yeah.
0:13.1	How does that level of data and information change the way that you approach mental health treatment?
0:19.3	Changes everything.
0:23.6	Most psychiatrally... change the way that you approach mental health treatment? It changes everything. Most psychiatric problems are not mental health issues.
0:29.1	They're brain health issues.
0:30.9	Get your brain healthy and your mind will follow.
0:36.2	And when I first got scanned,
0:40.0	ultimately it changed everything in my life,
0:44.3	changes the time I go to bed,
0:46.7	changes what I eat,
0:48.3	changes how I think about other people.
0:52.8	It was liberating because it took psychiatry, which I think many people
1:00.8	would agree as a soft science in that it's the only medical profession that virtually
1:07.0	never looks at the organ it treats. And it turns it into hard science because now I have
1:14.0	data on your brain and I'm going to make it better. Right. If you work with me, we are going to make
1:23.6	it better. It completely upends. Psychiatry, whose outcomes are actually no better than they
1:34.1	were in the 1950s, which is shameful and horrifying. So mental health as a term being the manifestation,
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