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Change Your Brain Every Day

Can Donating to Charity Help Your Brain? with Kelli Davis

Change Your Brain Every Day

Dr Daniel Amen

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.72K Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2019

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

In her work with The Children's Miracle Network, Kelli Davis brushes shoulders with high-profile celebrities on a regular basis. These interactions have resulted in some surprising lessons about what makes people truly happy. In this episode of the podcast, Dr. Daniel Amen, Tana Amen, and Kelli describe what egoistic altruism is, and Kelli tells a heartwarming story of what happened when a famous superhero actor visited a children's hospital.

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Brain Warriors Way podcast. I'm Dr. Daniel Aeman and I'm Tanna Aeman. In our podcast we provide you with the tools you need to become a warrior for the health of your brain and body.

0:19.0

The Brain Warriors Way podcast is brought to you by Aemon Clinics, where we have been transforming

0:25.5

lives for 30 years, using tools like brain-spect imaging to personalize treatment to your

0:32.0

brain.

0:32.7

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0:34.1

visit Aaman Clinics.com.

0:35.9

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0:38.7

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0:41.6

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0:44.3

and body. To learn more go to brainMD.com.

0:49.4

Welcome back. We're talking to Kelly Davis from the Children's Miracle Network and this is your

0:58.6

brain on giving and we've talked a little bit about purpose and how important that is and I know

1:06.2

you work with many celebrities as do we it's an interesting endeavor and we love them all but celebrity all by itself is actually bad for the brain.

1:20.0

It wears ouch your pleasure centers and in my book feel better fast make it last I talk about

1:27.9

The pleasure centers in the brain area called the basal ganglia that produce dopamine and dopamine helps you feel

1:36.7

happy, driven, motivated, but fame, getting people screaming your name, being talked about whether good or bad it wears out

1:46.3

your pleasure centers and one of my prayers for my young celebrities is dear God

1:52.0

please don't let me be famous before my brain is developed.

1:57.0

Yeah, you know, it's interesting. I love what you said in the last episode, Kelly,

2:01.5

when you said the small things are miracles right because I mentioned that I went

2:06.6

through a really severe depression as well when you come from a really dark

2:09.7

place and you start to come out of it, I remember thinking, oh my gosh, the flowers are so

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