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Change Your Brain Every Day

Strength Training & How to Boost Brain Health w Kathy Smith Fitness Expert

Change Your Brain Every Day

Dr Daniel Amen

Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.72K Ratings

🗓️ 6 January 2017

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

In today's episode, we are joined by New York Times bestselling author and forefront figure in the fitness and health industry, Kathy Smith. Kathy has sold more than 20 million exercise DVDs, and she has been featured on countless media outlets, including The Today Show, The Oprah Winfrey Show, The View and Good Morning America. She will share with us her insights on the undeniable benefits of strength training to keep a healthy body and healthy brain.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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

0:09.6

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

0:15.0

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

0:20.0

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

0:24.0

Welcome, everybody.

0:29.0

We are so excited.

0:32.0

We have a very special guest with us,

0:35.0

Kathy Smith, who is actually someone I got to meet

0:39.2

a couple of years ago, and I was like a little kid so excited because I mean virtually my whole

0:47.4

adult life I've looked up to her as a teacher as someone who is changing the world, not to mention she's drop dead gorgeous.

0:58.1

So Kathy, I believe, is sort of the world leader in getting people to use their bodies to enhance their

1:08.9

overall physical health. I think she's appeared on more covers than almost anyone I know. I think it's over 200 covers and it's because not only is she beautiful,

1:20.0

she's got a message that resonates with the population.

1:25.0

Yeah, and the passion clearly comes through.

1:26.5

So this is really important and special to me,

1:28.8

and I want to honor Kathy, so it's really fun for me to be able to actually

1:32.0

talk to you and meet you this way today because I know you hear this a lot, but I want to be able to tell you this because you actually impacted my life without really knowing it during a time that was really difficult and I'm sure you've done this with hundreds of thousands if not millions of people during times in their lives that were really hard.

1:51.0

So I used to work out, I started working out at 16, but took a really hard fall when I found

1:56.0

out I had thyroid cancer that had metastasized and I became extremely not only sick but depressed.

2:03.6

So when I was trying to make a comeback from that,

2:05.7

it was really hard to get back to the gym.

2:08.7

Very difficult to have even the energy or the desire

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