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The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby

Brain Expert: "Don't let your toddler have screen time" w/ Dr. Daniel Amen

The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby

Matt & Abby

Society & Culture

4.816.1K Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2025

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Daniel Amen—renowned psychiatrist, brain imaging pioneer and bestselling author—joins Matt & Abby to unpack how the brain really affects health, mood and relationships. They dive into big topics: what Tylenol does to your brain, how autism should be understood through brain health, when anti-depressants help (and when they don’t), and why our brains are often overlooked in mental health. [sponsor info please Addy] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Social media companies are purposefully pissing you off.

0:04.1

If you're anxious, you stay on longer.

0:06.6

The only thing they want is your attention.

0:09.9

When I'm looking at my kids, if they're using some sort of technology that's supervised, that's educating them, I view it as a net positive.

0:16.6

Do you disagree with that?

0:17.5

Do you think that's...

0:18.2

I do. I think you have to be so careful.

0:20.3

When did autism spike? As a child psychiatrist, I rarely saw it. Tylenol all of a sudden

0:27.3

became the star pain reliever. Then we also saw an explosion of autism. We sat down with Dr. Daniel

0:34.2

Amit, a world-renowned psychiatrist, brain expert, and 12-time New York Times

0:38.5

best-selling author. Amin has scanned over 200,000 people's brains, including those of NFL players

0:44.2

and celebrities. I know there's a lot of, like, hot topics in the media right now, especially

0:51.0

when it comes to Tylenol, how that affects, you know, children, especially when a

0:55.3

mother is taking that while pregnant. So I kind of wanted to start off with that topic, if that's all right.

0:59.8

Well, let's just go for it right away. Okay. So those of us that think of ourselves as integrative

1:08.0

or functional medicine doctors, and I think of myself as an integrative

1:12.5

psychiatrist, have known for a long time that Tylenol is potentially a problem. And why? What does it do?

1:25.2

It disrupts liver function. And so you can't properly detoxify the poisons that are in

1:33.0

your body there has been an association so when did autism really spike yeah and the american

1:41.3

psychiatric association will lead you to believe when they change the

1:45.0

diagnostic criteria, that's absolutely wrong. I mean, yes, maybe more people got diagnosed.

1:52.5

But as a child psychiatrist, I rarely saw it in the 1980s when I was doing my training.

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