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High Performance Strategies to Boost Your Mood,
Focus, Energy, Memory and Success
Daniel G. Amen, MD
Amen Clinics
THE BRAIN WARRIOR’S WAY
Church healthcare
initiative
15,000 people first week
Over first year the results
were spectacular!!
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Participants lost over 250,000 lbs.
Better:
Energy
Focus
Creativity
Sleep
Mood
After 12 Months
Reductions in:
Stress
Blood pressure
Blood sugar
Sexual dysfunction
Many medications
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Because Make No Mistake …
You are in a WAR for the health
of your brain and body
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Everywhere you go someone is trying to shove bad
food down your throat that will kill you early
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These Are the Real Weapons of Mass Destruction
Highly processed
Pesticide sprayed
High glycemic
Low fiber
Food-like substances
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Those same companies use neuroscience
tricks to hook your pleasure centers!
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Tech companies create addictive gadgets that hook our
attention and distract us from our loved ones
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Microsoft:
Attention Span in Humans < Goldfish
8 Seconds 9 Seconds
Time May 14, 2015 time.com/3858309/attention-spans-goldfish/
You are in a WAR for the health
of your brain and body
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Expected to quadruple by 2050
No cure on the horizon
Affects 50% of people 85 and older
Starts in the brain decades
before any symptoms
Alzheimer’s Disease
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Ron Brookmeyer, Elizabeth Johnson, Kathryn Zieger-Graham, H.
Miachel Arrighi: “Forecasting the Global Burden of Alzheimer’s Disease,” Alzheimer’s & Dementia , June 2007.
Healthy Alzheimer’s, Age 59
Brain SPECT
If You Knew A Train Was Going to Hit You …?
One of greatest killers of our time
Affects 50 million Americans
J400% since 1987
23% taking antidepressants
J Alzheimer’s risk
Depression
Harvard Health Publication 2011: Astounding increase in antidepressant use by Americans
Affects 50% of population
Damages blood vessels
and every organ in body
Stroke, blindness,
depression, dementia
Diabetes, Pre-diabetes
Menke A, Casagrande S, Geiss L, Cowie CC. Prevalence of and Trends in Diabetes Among Adults in the United States, 1988-2012. JAMA. 2015;314(10):1021-1029. doi:10.1001/jama.2015.10029
2/3rds overweight, 1/3rd obese
Risk factor for 30 medical illnesses, including cancer,
diabetes, depression, and dementia
Dozens of studies report as weight goes up, size and
function of the brain goes down
Obesity Is a Serious National Crisis
Raji, C. Brain Structure and Obesity. Hum Brain Mapp. 2010 Mar; 31(3): 353–364.
Diabetes
Obesity
Alzheimer’s
Depression
Answer is NOT to see these as separate disorders, but
as different expressions of same unhealthy lifestyle
That have exactly the same cure!
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If you want to survive and thrive
you MUST become a
BRAIN WARRIOR
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My journey to becoming a
Brain Warrior
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Maverick
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1972…
Imaging Professors…
How do you know unless you look?
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1979…
Fell in love with psychiatry because it
has potential to change generations
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1991…
Brain SPECT Imaging
+
Psychiatry
=
Revolution
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Healthy vs 2 Strokes
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Healthy vs Alzheimer’s Disease
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Healthy vs Traumatic Brain Injury
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Healthy vs Drug Abuse
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All Day Conference on
SPECT in Psychiatry
1992 …
Researchers Complain
Scans Only for Research
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Diagnoses made just like those in 1840
Without Imaging
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Psychiatrists are the only medical specialists
who rarely look at organ they treat
Cardiologists look
Neurologists look
Orthopedists look
All other specialties look
Psychiatrists guess
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Imaging Changes Everything
Picture worth 1,000 words
But a Map:
Is worth 1,000 pictures
Tells you where you are
And how to get to where you want to go
Without a map you are lost
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Age 60
Mother’s Scan
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Age 37 Age 57
SPECT Changed Everything in My Life
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SPECT Changed Everything in Kids’ Lives
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Changed Everything in My Love Life
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Imaging Decreases Stigma
See problems as MEDICAL, NOT MORAL
Decreases shame and guilt
Increases forgiveness and compassion
from families
No one wants to see a psychiatrist
No one wants to be labeled as abnormal or defective
But, all of us want better brains
What If Mental Health
Was Really Brain Health?
SPECT Completely Changes the
Discussion around Mental Health
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You are not stuck with the brain you have
You can make it better
Even if you have been bad to it
We can prove it!
Most Exciting Lesson from 125,000 Brain Scans
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Amen Clinics NFL Study
1994 NFL concussion committee
Yet, never sponsored a brain imaging study on players
… instead they studied rats
Goodell (2009) to Congress, “NFL didn’t know if playing football caused long term brain damage. They were still studying the issue.”
Problem with NFL Position
If you don’t admit you have a problem, you cannot do
anything to solve it!
Brain damaged players left without help or hope
2009 Amen Clinics & NFL Players Association did first
and largest imaging study on players
SPECT helped to change everything!
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Active and Retired NFL Players
Damage Seen across Whole Brain
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Anthony Davis: The Notre Dame Killer
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Healthy AD
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Duval Love
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Healthy 12 Year O. Guard
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Amen Clinics Brain
Optimization Program
4 Simple Steps to Boost Your Mood,
Focus, Memory, and Decrease Your Risk for
Alzheimer’s Disease All at the Same Time
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1. Baseline Brain Health Assessments
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SPECT – You Need a Map
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1. Body Mass Index
2. Blood pressure
3. Fasting blood glucose
4. HbA1C
5. Cholesterol
2. Know and Optimize Important Health #s
6. C-reactive Protein
7. Vitamin D
8. Thyroid
9. Testosterone
10. Omega-3 Index
Omega-3 Index And Hippocampal Volume
Pottala et al. Neurology 2014
Omega-3 Index
Omega 3 fatty acids – inflammation, mood
Ginkgo, vinpocetine – blood flow, memory
B vitamins, ALC, PS – nutrient loading, energy
Huperzine A – boost acetylcholine
Alpha lipoic acid -- blood sugar stabilization
N-acetyl-cysteine -- antioxidant support
3. Heal Your Brain in Multiple Ways
Obesity, diabetes, heart
disease and hypertension
Erectile dysfunction
Low hormone levels
Smoking, drugs, alcohol
Sleep apnea
Insomnia
Excessive stress
Untreated ADD
Exercise < 2X week
No new learning
Standard American Diet
Increasing age
4. Know, Reduce and Treat Your Risk Factors
Let me show you how this works …
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Brain Rehabilitation Possible
with Amen Clinics Method
80% improvement!
Especially in:
Memory
Attention
Mood
Sleep
Duval Became a Brain Warrior
Before After 12 Months
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Duval
Before After 12 months
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Fred Dryer, LA Rams, Actor, Age 64
“With the program I’ve replaced a part of
me that had slowly slipped away.
My mind is sharper and I have the mental
energy and clarity I had lost!”
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AD Became a Brain Warrior
Before 10 Years Later!
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AD
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Reversing brain damage is exciting new frontier,
but implications are much larger than football.
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Before After
Addiction
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Before After
ADD/ADHD
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Before After
Dementia
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Who Wants to Be a
Brain Warrior?
Are You a Sheep or a Sheepdog?
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Flocking animal
Go with the herd
Docile, easily led
Live in denial
Pretend all is OK & the
wolf will never come
Annoyed by sheepdogs who remind them trouble may be nearby
Are You a Sheep?
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Serious
Highly-trained
Purpose/mission-driven
Love your sheep, even when
the love is not returned
Give your life for your flock
Are You a Sheepdog?
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Who Needs YOU to Be Their Sheepdog?
Andrew
What is your WHY?
Emmy
Emmy
Emmy walking
to preschool
“I don’t get heart attacks, I give them.”
Dad 87
“Sick of being sick”
Dad
Assessed brain
Got #s checked
Texted food labels
Ate perfectly
Targeted supplements
Just did the whole program!
Worked Out Together
Playing
Golf Again
Dad (6 Minute Plank)
Dad Will Be Better at 90 than 70
You can too!!
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