Why Bad Sleep is a Risk Factor for Mental Illness
Change Your Brain Every Day
Dr Daniel Amen
4.7 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 9 July 2020
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
This week's series of The Brain Warrior's Way Podcast has featured powerful lessons from Dr. Daniel and Tana Amen's End of Mental Illness live class and challenge. The subject of this episode is how poor sleep habits can negatively impact the brain. Many people are unaware that sleep is a major risk factor for cognitive issues such as dementia, and therefore it's crucial that we take steps to better our circadian rhythms to stay healthy and energetic throughout the day and keep mental illness at bay.
To take The End of Mental Illness Brain Health Revolution 6 Week Class and Challenge, visit https://endofmentalillness.com/brainhealthchallenge/
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Brain Warriors Way Podcast. I'm Dr. Daniel Aeman and I'm Tanna Aeman. In our podcast we provide you with the tools you need to become a warrior for the health of your brain and body. |
| 0:19.0 | The Brain Warriors Way podcast is brought to you by Aemon Clinics, where we have been transforming |
| 0:25.5 | lives for 30 years, using tools like brain-spect imaging to personalize treatment to your |
| 0:32.0 | brain. |
| 0:32.6 | For more information, |
| 0:34.1 | visit Aaman Clinics.com. |
| 0:35.9 | The Brain Warriors Way Podcast is also brought to you by Brain MD |
| 0:39.6 | where we produce the highest quality nutraceuticals to support the health of your brain and body. |
| 0:45.3 | To learn more, go to brainMD.com. |
| 0:48.6 | Hi, this is Dr. Daniel Aeman. |
| 0:51.6 | And I'm Tanna Aeman. |
| 0:52.8 | We're so excited you're with us. |
| 0:54.8 | For this week's series, what we're doing |
| 0:57.4 | is we're playing the live class |
| 0:59.8 | from the end of mental illness. |
| 1:02.0 | We wanted you to join us on this journey because we had such a good time in our class and the people who joined us had just saw such incredible transformation that we wanted to share the challenge with our tribe. |
| 1:13.0 | So we wanted to share this with you |
| 1:15.0 | and we hope that you will join us in the challenge. |
| 1:19.0 | The S in Bright Minds is sleep issues. It's just so important. 60 million Americans have |
| 1:28.1 | sleep related issues, things like chronic insomnia, sleeping pills, sleep apnea can devastate the brain and what |
| 1:39.1 | we see in sleep apnea and actually the brain looks like it has early Alzheimer's disease with these |
| 1:45.2 | pitting decreases across your parietal lobes in the top back part of your brain. |
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