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Change Your Brain Every Day

The Brain in Love & Lust Series - More Sex On Your Brain

Change Your Brain Every Day

Dr Daniel Amen

Braintrauma, Healthtips, Sleep, Obesity, Anxiety, Braininjury, Depression, Ptsd, Mentalhealth, Mood, Brainhealth, Health & Fitness, Energy, Disease, Addiction, Mental Health, Healthadvice, Adhd, Memory, Focus

4.61.8K Ratings

🗓️ 15 February 2017

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Today's episode we're going to talk about love and sex and how the brain is affected by these two charged emotional events in our lives. We've talked a lot about sex in this podcast and if you haven't heard our previous episodes, check out episodes 16 and 61.

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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.

0:10.0

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 Tana Aeman.

0:23.6

On tonight's topic,

0:27.6

regarding love sex in the brain, we've all heard the phrase or the saying men give

0:36.0

love to get sex and women give sex to get love.

0:39.8

And I think we've all seen people who partake in these behaviors, many to high risk and self-destructive.

0:47.0

What are some of the reasons maybe psychologically and physiologically for this, and for those who have some of these high risk behaviors, how they might be able to identify and stop this and maybe get on a path to better health and better behavior.

1:01.0

So many couples have this issue where they use sex as a weapon

1:08.0

they use it as a hurtful behavior in their relationships.

1:14.0

For people who get addicted to it, and it's going to happen more than ever,

1:18.0

because online pornography is so easy to happen.

1:22.0

We'll see ADD people have a much higher incidence of it. People who've been on

1:26.2

their video games for a long time, they just need that next excitement, that next thrill,

1:30.9

they're gonna have more of it and it's going to ruin their level of

1:36.7

intimacy and you know it's it's a very good question we have to be so thoughtful about it. Now naturally we're wired.

1:45.4

Guys are wired to have as many offspring as they can. So you know we're always sort of

1:50.4

checking out that girl.

1:53.9

I mean, that's part of our evolutionary makeup.

1:57.4

And girls do not have that wiring

1:59.3

because, you know, one night can end up into a nine month really 20 year consequence where you know guys can sort of they don't have the same level of commitment often to the children So there is this sort of natural wiring that

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