The Real Reason Women Face More Anxiety & Depression: Dr. Amen’s Action Plan to Beat Burnout, Balance Hormones, and Outsmart Alzheimer’s (Fan Fav)

Women of Impact

Impact Theory

Society & Culture, Relationships, Education

4.8 • 701 Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2025

⏱️ 85 minutes

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This is a Fan Fav episode. If you ever needed a louder, clearer, better reason to start taking care of your brain this is it! Women are more likely to get Alzheimer’s than men, and the shocking truth is that it starts in your brain decades before the first symptom! Sound the alarm and grab a seat, you’re going to need all the time and determination you have to start changing the habits that have been doing more harm than good on your brain health. Dr. Daniel Amen, founder of Amen Clinics has scanned brains from all over the world and has one of the largest databases of brain imaging anywhere. He’s scanned brains of A-list celebrities and thought leaders such as Justin Beiber, Jay Shetty, his wife Radhi, and even Lisa’s homie Mel Robbins. In the next hour you’re going to walk away better than ever armed with the knowledge you need to start examining which habits you have that are destroying your brain health: Why you’re at greater risk for anxiety and depression thanks to the emotional side of your brain Using your woman super power to be all over the place doing everything may actually be undiagnosed A.D.H.D. that is killing your orgasms. What you can do with 5 minutes a day to start falling in love with your brain. Dr. Amen is a psychiatrist that has been helping people recover from traumatic brain injury, emotional trauma, childhood trauma, addiction and more. The female brain has developments and experiences unique to women that men do not. Understanding that difference alone is life changing. Check out Dr. Amen’s New Book: Change Your Brain Every Day: ⁠https://www.amazon.com/Change-Your-Brain-Every-Relationships/dp/149645457X⁠ Follow Dr. Daniel Amen: Website: ⁠https://danielamenmd.com/⁠ YouTube: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdHz-vi0JIugmscU_CkUxUQ⁠ Twitter: ⁠https://twitter.com/DocAmen⁠ Instagram: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/doc_amen/⁠ Facebook: ⁠https://www.facebook.com/drdanielamen⁠ Original air date: 3-22-23 CHECK OUT OUR SPONSORS Vital Proteins: Get 20% off by going to ⁠https://www.vitalproteins.com⁠ and entering promo code WOI at check out. SleepMe: Visit ⁠https://sleep.me/woi⁠ to get your Chilipad and save 20% with code WOI. Try it risk-free with their 30-night sleep trial and free shipping! OneSkin: Get 15% off with code LISA at ⁠https://oneskin.co ⁠ Shopify: Sign up for your one-dollar-per-month trial period at ⁠https://shopify.com/lisa⁠ Macy’s: Upgrade your glam at ⁠https://macys.com⁠ ****************************************************************** LISTEN TO WOMEN OF IMPACT AD FREE + BONUS EPISODES on APPLE PODCASTS: apple.co/womenofimpact ****************************************************************** FOLLOW LISA: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lisabilyeu/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/lisabilyeu YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/womenofimpact Tik Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@lisa_bilyeu?lang=en Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.7	Like Carrie Bradshaw knows shoes, Dr. Aman knows brains.
0:36.9	Guys, this man on women of impact is mind-blowing, pun intended.
0:42.3	This man has scanned hundreds of thousands of brains around the world and has the most incredible insight on what is normal habits and what actually are brain-dam damaging habits. He's worked with people like
0:55.9	Justin Bieber, he's helped Miley Cyrus get back on track with her anxiety. And so today, we dive
1:02.0	deep into female brains and how the emotional parts of our brain puts us at such a greater
1:08.2	risk, wait for it, for anxiety, depression, and we are three times
1:15.1	more likely to attempt suicide than men.
1:19.4	Guys, this guy is just full of so much powerful information about our female brains, how we're
1:25.3	more likely to get Alzheimer's, how if we have ADHD, it's going to be
1:29.1	harder for us to orgasm, and oh my God, so much more. So now, without further ado, let's just jump
1:34.3	in with Dr. Daniel Aymann talking about the female brain. And so if this did bring value,
1:41.0	please do share it, rate, review, click that follow button, guys. I'd so appreciate
1:45.8	it. Now, let's dive in to the episode. The one thing that people don't know, actually two
1:50.8	things that are horrifying, that if you are blessed to live to 85 or older, you have a one in two
2:00.3	chance of having dementia or having lost your mind. And so, and the other
2:07.9	horrifying fact is Alzheimer's disease starts in your brain decades before you have any symptoms.
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