I'm Donnie Osman and welcome to the Brain Warrior's Way, hosted by my friends Daniel and Tanna Aeman.

Now in this podcast you're going to learn that the war for your health is one between your ears.

That's right. If you're ready to be sharper and have better memory, mood, energy, and focus,

well then stay with us. Here are Daniel and Tanna Aeman.

Well, welcome back.

We are here with our good friend world-leading neurologists, teacher, New York Times bestseller, Dr David Perlmutter.

David, you know, it's just such a joy to spend time with you.

We've been talking a lot about things that hurt the brain,

things that we ingest.

But, you know, I think probably one of the most exciting things in my life as a psychiatrist and a neuroscientist and what we learn from doing

Brain Spect imaging is you're not stuck with the brain you have. You can make it better and

and we've been able to prove it with you know I mean literally thousands of before and after scans, yes,

there are things you can do today that hurt your brain, drugs, alcohol, we just

published a new study on marijuana, head trauma, sleep apnea, but there are also lots of things you can do to help

your brain.

Talk to us your experience with neurogenesis and actually growing the brain?

Well, I will and let me just say that, as you well pointed out, early on in our days, this was not felt to happen.

We were told we were given a certain number of brain cells and that was it.

About age 18, we were on skids after that and you know every time you

drank a beer you'd kill off 30,000 brain cells or some number I can't remember what the

number was now for whatever reason. But that said, what a notion that we can engage in stem cell therapy that our bodies are involved in stem cell therapy right now.

Everybody's talking about let's have stem cell therapy right now.

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