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On Purpose with Jay Shetty

Dr. Daniel Amen ON: How to Change Your Life By Changing Your Brain & the Lies About Happiness That Are Increasing Depression

On Purpose with Jay Shetty

iHeartPodcasts

Health & Fitness, Business, Mental Health

4.828.5K Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2022

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Today, I sit down with our third time guest, the one and only Dr. Daniel Amen. Dr. Amen is a physician, double board-certified psychiatrist, twelve-time NY Times bestselling author, and founder and CEO of Amen Clinics, with 10 US locations. Dr. Amen is the author of many books including the mega-bestseller Change Your Brain, Change Your Life, as well as The End of Mental Illness, Memory Rescue, Healing ADD and Your Brain Is Always Listening. In March 2022, Tyndale will publish his new book, You, Happier: The 7 Neuroscience Secrets of Feeling Good Based on Your Brain Type. Dr. Amen emphasizes the importance of our brain health. He explains how taking care of our brain and mental health is a constant daily practice, comparing the things we do to boost our brain health to eating foods that will love our body back, foods that we love to eat and are beneficial to our health. We share our thoughts on why our generation is the unhappiest and uncontented, what we can do to boost our happiness hormones, and how happiness is always tied to our health. Get more science-based tips from Dr. Amen to achieve a healthier, happier, and more fulfilling life despite the challenges and difficulties we may be going through today.

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0:00.0

You want to drip dope for me. Don't dump it because when you dump it with the fries and the alcohol, the porn,

0:08.1

you don't have much left. And so then you have to go back and do it again and all of a sudden.

0:19.2

Hey everyone, welcome back to on purpose, the number one health podcast in the world. Thanks to each and every single one of you that come back every week to listen,

0:27.9

learn and grow. Now you know that I'm fascinated and committed to introducing you to people who can expand your mind, your brain that can help you heal internally and externally,

0:41.2

that can help you 360 degrees take care of your life. And today's guest is someone who is the first guest, whoever has been on the podcast twice.

0:50.8

And now the first guest who's ever been on the podcast three times, which shows us how much you all love him and how much I really appreciate all his insights and guidance as well.

1:00.8

He's my go to person whenever I hear about a new treatment or a new therapy or new whatever it may be, I'm texting this person saying, hey, what do you think about this?

1:10.8

Like what do you think about this? And I really appreciate how he lives in extremely holistic life from a from a spiritual point of view, from a scientific point of view and having someone that I can ask these questions to openly helps me.

1:22.8

So I hope today helps you. I'm speaking about the one and only doctor Daniel Aiman, Dr. Aiman's mission is to end mental illness by creating a revolution in brain health.

1:32.8

Dr. Aiman is a physician, adult and child psychiatrist and founder of the Aiman clinics with 10 locations across the US.

1:40.8

Aiman clinics has the world's largest database of brain scans for psychiatry, totalling more than 200,000 spec scans on patients from 155 countries.

1:52.8

He's also the founder of Brain MD, a fast growing science based company and Aiman University, which is trained thousands of medical and mental health professionals on the methods he has developed.

2:05.8

Dr. Aiman is not new to books or TV. He's produced over 16 national public television shows about the brain and his online videos on brain and mental health have been viewed over 300 million times.

2:18.8

Dr. Aiman is a 12-time New York Times best selling author. I've got a long way to catch up.

2:23.8

Today we're talking about his latest book. It's called You Happier, The Seven Neuroscience Secrets of Feeling Good based on your brain type.

2:33.8

This is the book I want you to go and get. The link is in the caption right now. Dr. Daniel Aiman, thank you so much for being here.

2:39.8

Thank you for allowing me to have you in my pocket at all times to be able to text you and ask you weird and wonderful questions. And most of all, thank you for being just such a kind warm-hearted person who always brings their best energy to serve others.

2:53.8

Thank you for being here.

2:54.8

What makes me happy to be with you. I think of happiness as a daily practice and appreciating the people you love is just critical to it.

3:09.8

I really appreciate you. You said you were happy to be here when we were just filming a couple of seconds ago and then you were telling me that I looked good and I was saying to you, it's because I've been doing all the right things and following your advice.

3:20.8

And I remember, I think it was our second interview, not our first one. Our second interview, I was saying to you, like, I have only one cheat day a week now.

3:30.8

And you just looked at me and you were like, well, you know why they call it a cheat day, right? And I did it. And I was like, what do you mean? And you were like, yeah, because you're cheating your brain.

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