Moment 123: 11 Extremely Damaging Things You NEED To Avoid For A Healthy Brain: Dr Amen

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🗓️ 18 August 2023

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

In this moment, the celebrity psychiatrist and brain disorder specialist, Dr Daniel G Amen breaks down the most important tricks for a healthy and powerful brain. According to Dr Amen, while genetics do play a factor in your brain health, what is more important is how you live your life. This can include everything from eating more fish and less red meat, avoiding brain trauma, toxins and even taking better care of your mouth health. However, for Dr Amen, the 2 most important factors for whether you have a healthy or unhealthy brain is: learning and loneliness. By not learning and being lonely, you rapidly decreases your brain’s capacity and ability to function, which will then affect every aspect of your life.

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0:00.0	You want to prematurely age your brain drop out of school.
0:10.3	Do not engage in new learning.
0:12.9	I mean, you doing this podcast, you're always learning new things, which is great for you.
0:20.2	But the lack of when you learn something new, your brain makes a new connection.
0:25.8	When you stop learning or you start doing the same thing over and over again, your brain
0:31.3	starts to disconnect itself.
0:34.5	Being in a job that does not require new learning is a risk factor for dementia.
0:44.1	Being lonely is a risk factor for dementia.
0:50.0	So be an ass and be more likely to hurt your brain.
0:56.0	At my workplace, we have the no-asshole rule.
1:00.2	So there's a book by a Stanford professor called the no-asshole rule.
1:05.0	Love that book and the no-asshole rule as a CEO starts with me.
1:10.4	So I don't get to be one, but I'm not tolerating anybody who has asshole behavior at work.
1:19.0	And if you're not an asshole, you're less likely to be lonely.
1:25.1	And loneliness is terrible for brain function.
1:29.4	If you want to prematurely age your brain, eat a lot of red meat as if your iron and
1:39.0	ferritin levels are high, because ferritin is just stored iron, 10 stage the brain.
1:49.7	If you want to increase inflammation, which is a root cause of so many medical and mental
1:54.1	health issues, never floss, don't really care about your teeth.
2:00.2	So you want to love your brain, you have to love your mouth.
2:03.2	It's absolutely critical for you not to have gum disease.
2:09.3	Because if you have genjevitis, odds are you're at increased risk for heart disease and depression
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