most people don't know is Alzheimer's disease actually starts in the brain decades before you have any symptoms people don't realize sex hormones estrogen testosterone progesterone are way more than about sex they're about mood memory Focus they're about energy 49 out of 50 people had suboptimal levels of omega-3 fatty acid people who grow up in hard environments the past is always in front of them so on the scale of zero to 10 how many bad things happen to you you have four more you have an increased risk of seven of the top 10 leading causes of
death you have six or more you die 20 years early you're in a bad relationship with alcohol you in love with something that didn't love you back get your brain healthy and your mind will follow not feeling like yourself experiencing some brain fog maybe your libido is just really low or you just don't feel as mentally sharp as you once did my friend it may be your hormones did you know it's possible to unlock powers in your brain that you haven't experienced before you can literally change your brain every single day and it's not by
taking a drug lifestyle changes if you've been dealing with forgetfulness just feeling tired or anxious or everyone is on your last nerve it's not in your head but it might be your brain today my guest is Dr Daniel aan this is the 10year anniversary that he's been on the show Dr aan is is leading a revolution to end mental health he is probably one of the most prolific psychiatrists Dr Amon has scanned over a quarter of a million brains including mine my father's my father-in-law's my husband Justin Bieber and Miley Cyrus just to name a
few and today we're here to talk about the changes in your brain and what happens when your hormones are in Decline what you can do to reverse that foggy feeling you have the feelings of anxiety or depression or sadness just feeling of low energy and libido and understand the very easy changes you can make simple changes to your lifestyle to improve your quality of life your longevity and the way you feel without further Ado my friend welcome back to the show Dr aan well thank you so much for joining me again this is exciting well
you told me we have a 10year relationship so I'm so happy we've lasted this is our 10e anniversary what what stone do you get for your 10y year anniversary I don't know but it's been a remarkable journey and I just can't thank you enough for everything you have taught me about my brain love your brain and we have your brain before and after love so before love and after love and it's better I think I need an after after well I think every five years you should look at your brain um what most people don't
know is Alzheimer's disease actually starts in the brain decades before you have any symptoms and so if you start to lose your memory when you're 60 odds are we would have seen it when you were 50 and when do you think treatment works like really really early or late early early yeah that's why I'm trying to reach women as young as possible and they don't want to hear certain words I was one of those women who didn't when I would hear the word like per menopause per menopause has the word menopause in it and I
was too young for anyone to be using that term in my head there was such a negative connotation around menopause that I was very reluctant to hear anything related to P menopause but today I realize how important that is and we're going to talk about all those things but the first thing I want to ask you is what has it done for your popularity to have referred to psychiatrist and suggested that many of them in your opinion are practicing witchcraft well some people love it some people hate it I was actually introduced on a podcast
recently and the person who was interviewing me said most psychiatrists say you're dangerous what would you say and I'm like I'm absolutely dangerous to the current way of making diagnoses based on symptom clusters with no biological data exactly like they did in 1840 when Abraham Lincoln was depressed how did his doctor anen Henry diagnose him he talked to him he looked at him he looked for symptom clusters and then diagnosed and treated him that's exactly what's happening today without any biological data which that's insane right I'm a psychiatrist I was taught how to diagnose crazy
and that's crazy yeah because when you start looking at the brain at Amon clinics we've been looking at the brain for 33 years now and what you realize is things like traumatic brain injury are major cause of psychiatric problems that nobody knows about that alcohol is not a health food marijuana is not innocuous being overweight is bad for your brain but if you don't look then you don't really have to talk about what causes mental illness it's brain health what if we got rid of the term mental illness and called these things what they really
are brain health issues it decreases stigma increases compliance because everybody wants a better brain right you want a better brain you don't want a mental health problem and it's so exciting I'm just trying to create this Revolution and you know whenever there's a revolution there's haters and so just sense though I mean and I'm glad that you are and I'm glad that you are so passionate about it because you are you have created a revolution I have learned a lot about brain Envy from you I stopped worrying about what somebody else's body looked like and
I like just hearing that how you scanned your wife's Brain before you met and I was like that I want a really juicy prefrontal cortex I want I want someone to go like she's got like the best brain and that meant I had to change a lot of things about my lifestyle but just like to revisit this controversy because it really does drive me crazy it just defies common sense that anyone could consider villainizing someone who says hey maybe we should look at the organ that we're treating that we're diagnosing it just defies common sense
right and you know you see it all the time in politics now they just like spread a lie and then just say it over and over and over again but the fact is if you don't look you don't know you should stop lying about that mik drop I have a lot of women in my audience who are struggling with anxiety and depression we're talking women over 40 the conversation often turns to hormones and I'm curious how does a woman whose hormones are declining which is every woman after age 40 and men too obviously but specifically
for women what does the decline in estrogen progesterone testosterone what does that do to our mental health our the way our brains function you know like starting with brain health well if you think of Perry menopause what a lot of people don't know in fact a lot of doctors don't know is progesterone starts to go low 10 years before you go into menopause and think of progesterone is the brain's natural valum it sort of calms you down and settles you and when it goes low all of a sudden when you're 38 40 40 to you
can't sleep and you're irritable and you're anxious and you're sad and you go to the doctor and he gives you ambient to help you sleep then gives you lexipro for your mood and Xanax for your anxiety ambient and xanaxs are both addictive ambient and Xanax both increase your risk of dementia and without ever looking at your hormones around day 19 to 21 of your Cycles so it's important when you measure them and I had this woman recently I was at the Olympics it was so much fun I had a patient uh who was an Olympic
pole vter so I got to be on our coaching staff it was so much fun and one of my patients was also there she's like I can't sleep and my doctor gave me Adavan to sleep which is benzo and I'm like well that's a very bad thing and as as I tried to taper her it just wasn't working and I'm like let's look at your hormones and her progesterone was terrible it was 10% of the lowest number in the normal range and on Progesterone 100 milligrams she started sleeping got rid of the benzo and isn't
that sort of a more rational way to approach life um do you know why hormones drop with age well I mean because we don't need them in order for us to release eggs to get pregnant it's the planet's way of getting rid of you okay and I'm not okay with that okay with that so I um want to be optimal normal 50% of people 85 have Alzheimer's disease 50% 50 % that's normal I want nothing to do with normal I want to be optimal which is to not have it and so whatever age I'm in
you want to think about what's the optimal range not too high because too high can be a big problem too high testosterone your libido goes up and your empathy goes down that's a prescription for divorce that's a very expensive uh state right you don't want to have a high libido and low empathy because you lose half your net worth and then you're visiting your children on the weekend so very bad but so often if a doctor is willing to look at your hormones the word that you just used is normal and you'll hear uh GPS
or whoever it is looking at your your labs and they'll say well you're you're within normal ranges but normal is for the normal person who's in Decline is that accurate right so and you want to be so what's optimal for my age right I don't want testosterone of an 18 year old because I don't need all those thoughts would R it around my head but I certainly don't want it to somebody who's 90 yeah and I just turned 70 this year and I don't want it for someone who's 70 right I'm like I think I
want it to be about 45 okay so to have energy and cuz people don't realize sex hormone estrogen testosterone progesterone are way more than about sex they're about mood they're about memory they're about Focus they're about energy so when estrogen is in Decline what is that doing to her brain how does it affect her mental health so lower overall blood flow to the brain so more tiredness more Depression more cognitive problems now you don't want to go too high because then you're sort of too emotional and focused on the wrong things uh focused on trouble
um so it's it's about having this sort of beautiful Balancing Act and you have to measure it right so I do imaging that's where I get all the grief from oh no you shouldn't look at the organ you treat I'm like um you can't change what you don't measure and so I think for women and men every year they should know their important lab numbers they should know their testosterone level for women estrogen and progesterone but also other things like hemoglobin A1c you need to know where your blood sugar levels are your CVC or the
sleeper and all of this is fertin fertin is a measure of iron storage and when it's low people don't sleep so if you're 42 and you're not sleeping could it be ferian yes you have low iron could it be you have low progesterone but how do you know yeah unless you look right you wouldn't just start taking things right so you know looking at Labs is one protocol it's one strategy some doctors really believe in looking at labs and you know I've treated with a lot of different hormone doctors now and traveling all over the
world and living in different states it's been interesting and some of them believe vehemently that we shouldn't be looking at Labs I should only ask about your symptoms and certainly I'm not the expert here but for someone like me I'm not in touch with my symptoms I'm just not like I've just been conditioned to just go go go go go I can't tell you I don't give myself permission to say I'm more tired today or yeah I guess I am a little foggy like I just I don't notice those little nuances so for someone like
me going by my symptoms wouldn't be wouldn't give you the picture no and I think you always have to talk to people right we don't treat lab results but without lab results you're guessing more than you need to guess right can't change what you don't measure and the Brain produces language it actually I had this fight once with the director of the National Institute of drug abuse she's like oh I don't need scans she was an Imaging doctor I don't need scans the brain has language patients will tell me what's wrong I'm like that's just
insane the patient will never tell you their brain has mold their brain has liy their brain has postco the the brain was in an accident and the accident still lingers 20 years later right if you don't look you don't know and I think with Labs people should just get in the habit every year of having basic labs done hormones vitam vamin D hemoglobin A1c and work to optimize them and I told you I wear continuous glucose monitor so I know my blood sugar anytime I want and I'm always looking at it maybe 20 times a
day because it gives me feedback and because I know it I alter my diet and I alter my exercise because I have the right blood sugar number Envy I want to have a healthy blood sugar because as blood sugar goes up blood flow and actually size of your brain goes down and that's a bad thing if your hormones are low and we're in this epidemic and I know most people that listen are females but we're in this epidemic of low testosterone in males and that is so bad because they're not going to be as driven
not going to be as motivated not going to be as strong not going to be as vital not going to be as sexual yeah that's a bad thing for our society and for relationships of course while we're talking about estrogen is I know that there's a higher rate of Alzheimer's in women have we looked at do we know if that has something to do with estrogen yes likely it does and there's studies from UCLA that look at women who are taking hormone replacement versus those who were not taking hormone replacement and the women who were
not taking hormone replacement had lower overall blood flow in their brain especially in an area it's an interesting area called the posterior singular gyrus in the top back part of the brain and it's the first area that dies an Alzheimer's disease and so I I'm just a huge fan of bioidentical hormones and people go what about that study that showed that it caused cancer that hormone replacement estrogen progesterone it's like one they were synthetic I've never seen an association between bioidentical hormones and cancer now it's a little bit more Nuance than that because some people
are they have the genes that make them more vulnerable to breast cancer and I think you just have to work with somebody you trust yeah does blood flow have an impact on cleaning the plaque from our brain absolutely so that would make sense then that a woman's going to have a whose estrogen is in Decline so estrogen and I'm assuming that what you're saying is estrogen has a protective mechanism for a woman's brain correct why aren't we more vocal why aren't we making sure that women have this kind of care I mean it would save
us millions and millions of dollars in in Alzheimer's care yes way more than that it would save us billions of dollars and now now I'm hopeful with the current Administration we're going to be much more interested in preventive medicine and in optimization medicine rather than just sick care did you know 90% 90% of healthc care dollars in the United States are spent on chronic preventable illnesses in 2011 that was 75 5% this is not okay there's just not anything okay about not about America not being focused on health because we're the sickest right we have
4% of the world's population 16% of the world's covid deaths it's like there's not one thing about that statistic that is okay so focusing on health everybody should be doing that and the simple things to do are know your important Health numbers if you know your vitamin D level and it's low as it is in most people you'll get more sunny or take a supplement that's not hard some of the other important multis how important are those for us in terms of our our brain health if we're eating a really well balanced unprocessed diet do
I need to so not many people do that but you need to know your number and so if you live in a place like Miami where the sun is out a lot um you you're likely to have a better vitamin D level than if you live in Minnesota but I live in Southern California and when I first measured my vitamin D level so normal is 32 100 over 40 you have half the risk of cancer of those people who are under 20 I was 17 wow and I live in Southern California where the sun shines
33 30 days a year but I was working all the time you know I exercise but at night and when I started taking vitamin D my appetite went away so I come from a family of fat people my dad hates when I say that but obesity runs in my family and I had always sort of struggled with that extra 15 20 30 lbs and as soon as I got my vitamin D level high normal my appetite went away and it was easy to lose the weight I'd been trying to lose for decades how often do
you think that that should be our first line of defense is looking at our like our magnesium our vitamin D our just our basic vitamins and minerals to find out if we are at sufficient levels before we start looking at other mechanisms to affect appetite like a glp1 every year it's the first place to start know your important numbers I mean the first start place to start always is you have to care right why are you on the planet what is your sense of meaning and purpose and if it's to be vital and to make
a difference it's like okay I have to avoid things that hurt me and I have to do things to help me and how would I know unless I looked and so getting your important numbers done I mean I do it on every first appointment I see with patience because I don't want to miss anything yeah it was shocking to me to get my results back because I was someone who was being positioned as a health expert influencing millions of people and to find out that I wasn't healthy that I was so deficient in all of
these major minerals and vitamins and you know to see my brain and to understand that what I was pursuing what I was doing looked like Instagram Health you know what I mean like it looks like health because we associate Health with an aesthetic but I was so unhealthy you know that was shocking to me to learn about what it was I was eating and it was so processed and how probably my gut permeability and lifestyle choices lifestyle choices some of which I was making to exercise more you know like I'm GNA sacrifice sleep to exercise
more I'm gonna I'm GNA eat less to you know look a certain way um it was it kind of shocking to me but since that time I've just become and I and never took any supplements because I was like H that's that's gimmicky stuff that's like you know they're just trying to sell me something I don't need until I looked at my labs until I understood what it felt like to feel great and I think that's so um common for people who don't realize they they you just that that decline into not feeling well is
so slow you don't realize it like I didn't know I didn't feel great until I felt great to understand that difference and for so many people they want to know so I'm going to let the expert take this question if I have to focus like I I can't afford to do a lot but if I have to focus on certain supplements to supplement my diet where are most people if they haven't looked at their Labs where are most people uh it's a pretty good Beth that they're they're deficient omega-3 fatty acids 98% of the population
I did a study at am clinics and 49 out of 50 people had suboptimal levels of Omega-3 fatty acids so I think everybody should be taking a fish oil supplement vitamin D you need to know your level CU if your level is high you don't want to be supplementing it but you need to test your vitamin D level and then I think a really great multiple vitamin it just helps to protect you there are studies that show it they have a protective effect and then it really depends on your brain type it's one of the
things based on Imaging um we have a test it's free called brain health assessment and it'll tell you which of the 16 brain types you have and it's based on the five primary types balanced spontaneous it's my ADD group persistent that's my OCD group uh sensitive my sad group and cautious my anxious group and if you know what you are so balance doesn't need anything special or spontaneous group does really well um with something like tyrosine which is the amino acid building block for dopamine I have a new product I'm very excited about called Peak
energy that has paranthe and ATP and then I love 5htp for my persistent group it just works um I love zaffron for my sensitive group and gaban theanine for my clous group so so it's like know your brain like everybody's brain's different and know your type and then well what do I need for my type what about magnesium magnesium is so helpful and so many people are low and you know you're low if you have muscle twitches and you can't sleep and you get headaches and your muscles are tight and it's so non-toxic and I
don't take too much because of give you diarrhea um but if you take like 150 or 200 milligram of magnesium glycinate it just seems to help people feel more relaxed there's so many different types of magnesium which ones are most essential what I don't know about essential but magnesium oxide is not um processed very well in the body not absorbed well in the body magnesium glycinate magnesium threonate um um how about for Sleep magnesium glycinate yeah I think it's really helpful so when we're talking about different types of brains I had my brain scanned I
also had my dad's brain scanned which was really so interesting so fascinating why do so many people when they get a scan and they see their brain and you talk to them about what's going on in their brain why does everybody cry because you look at it and for yours it was actually really important yeah because it gave us Direction on why you struggled and what to do about it and then you go you mean it's not my fault yeah and that's why I fell in love with imaging my first scan 33 years ago was
her name was Sandy she was 44 bright never finished College because she had undiagnosed add and um when she saw her scan she started to cry and she said you mean it's not my fault H yeah it's like your whole life kind of makes sense and I'll talk to people who will tell me they've had a diagnosis and I of course I'm always curious like oh how are you diagnosed sometimes they'll say I watched a YouTube video I'm like oh no it wasn't mine um and sometimes say it was a general practitioner who asked them
some questions you know but they will when I tell them how I was diagnosed and how just it just answered so many questions just even to see other areas of my brain they say do well do I do I need to see my brain and I'm like in my opinion I'm a need to know kind of person like that motivated me like nothing else to make the lifestyle changes and then coming back in two years later doing not all but many of the things you'd suggested and just just making those minor changes how dramatically my
brain had improved I just think I wish I wish it was something everyone would consider do just have answers when I got my brain scanned it changed absolutely everything in my life including who I was going to marry cuz when I met Tana you've met Tana she's beautiful she's smart easy to love I'm like first naked part of you I want to see is your brain and so I was like two and a half weeks later I'm like you have a come to the clinic don't you want to come to the clinic and it passed
and we've been together 19 years so you were happy with what you saw on your brain scan I was but I also saw trauma okay so I just published a huge study on adverse childhood experiences so on a scale of 0 to 10 how many awful things happened to you as a child right so for me it was a one for her it was an eight and I could see that and you know as I'm getting to know her for me if I'm getting to know somebody why want I know about their childhood or I
sort of know about their mom and dad and my first gift to her was 10 sessions of EMDR so EMDR is a specific psychological treatment for trauma yes and she went for two years I mean she just like was all into it and it was so helpful because people who grow up in hard environments the past is always in front of them and so you're never sort of dealing with the other person you're dealing with the other person and all the sort of stressors you had growing up doing the EMDR when she and I are
with each other we just sort of deal with each other rather than all the trauma from her past that's remarkable how does trauma affect our longevity and I I'm asking this because I find that older generation like so I'm going to say myself and older uh in fact I just ran into a friend at the gym who's 71 years old um very fit doing all the things and he he just kind of started unloading to me all of these problems that are going on in his life and I thought like this is someone who's got
a lot of trauma and they're just too stubborn probably now to to understand that it could make a difference in their life at any age people who have an ace score uh the a or or more so Ace stands for adverse childhood experiences so on a scale of 0 to 10 how many bad things happen to you so it's physical emotional sexual abuse neglect witnessing domestic violence having a parent go to jail have an addiction a mental health problem abandonment I assume having parents that got divorced so you have four more you have an increased
risk of seven of the top 10 leading causes of death you have six or more you die 20 years early and I think when Danna found that out she's like we're gonna get serious and on our podcast we have a a new episode coming out on trauma and adverse childhood experiences this is so important because I think it's like 23% of the population has four or more and we adopted our two nieces cuz both their parents were drug addicts and they're both nines but they're not going to die 20 years early because we're intervening early
so that they can be the best they can so to be clear that statistic is indicative of someone who has X number of traumas Beyond four and isn't doing anything actively to um process was just sort of in a general population the C and Kaiser did this study on 177,000 people and it was just what's the association of health and adverse childhood experiences and it was huge um my experience is if you work on it you're going to be so much better and it changes your brain right I just um and our show scanned my
brain I scanned Paula White so Pastor Paula White was President Trump's Pastor is Dr in from Pastor for the last 24 years and she has an a score of nine and lots of abuse and Trauma and stuff growing up and her emotional brain was just on fire well she came back and I scanned her a year later so much calmer after 40 sessions of EMDR and loving her brain right nobody loves their brain cuz you can't see it but once you see it just like you did you start to love it and you start to
treat it better yeah the hardest change for me to make was to quit alcohol and I'm just going to confess to you that every time I would see one of your like YouTube shorts or you on another podcast and you'd start talking about alcohol I'd be like Fast Forward because I'm like oh you know I don't have a problem fast forward I don't want to hear this I enjoy it and I had a I have what I call foma fear of missing alcohol I thought it would change my personality I thought it would life wouldn't
be as fun and I just didn't think it was that big of a deal but I realized something in the back of my brain fell out of alignment with what I want for other women and I just was like if it's a fear I should probably just face it and see if I really do miss it and I don't I I not been drinking for a year no it's been four months four months yeah yeah four months oh my goodness if I scan my brain will it look different from drinking or not drinking oh you
B how long will it take for me to see differences on a scan couple months okay yeah alcohol is not your friend you're in a bad relationship with alcohol right you were in love with something that didn't love you back now I don't know in your past if you've ever been in bad relationships no but I have not cute guys that's all that's the worst I've ever I have I married my childhood sweetheart and it was 20 years of pure hell and I no I'm not doing bad relationships and I'm damn sure not doing it
with something I drank or something I eat I only want to love things people food that loves me it's a relationship but what about those people are like it's so you know it's just we're not being social I don't drink that often I don't drink to black out I I'm always in control um so isn't a little bit po just part of life well it is it's absolutely part of life um but it's also normal if you're 85 to have Alzheimer's disease so um the American Cancer Society did me a huge favor because I've been
talking about this ever since I've been looking at scans I'm like nope not good for your brain American Cancer Society came out in 19 in 2021 and said you shouldn't drink because any alcohol is associated with an increased risk of seven different cancers mouth cancer stomach cancer colon cancer this is not good why would you drink something right I mean there are other ways to feel good there are other ways to become more social there are other ways to be a little bit dis inhibit it um I know and I didn't want to hear that
and I know I have listeners right now that don't want to hear that too so you know I just want to every once in a while we bring up the subject I think it it just takes time yeah right you don't have to do everything at once I mean I think the most important thing is get your important numbers checked or learn your brain type I mean that's so simple but over time my hope so when I first saw my SC the week before I scanned my mother's brain and she was 60 and I was
37 and she had a stunningly beautiful brand and it really reflected her life and mine wasn't because I played football in high school I had menitis when I was a young Soldier and I had bad habits and that's I developed brain Envy I wanted a healthy brain like my mom's and that moment on okay I want this better but it's a process right and you go from Coke to Diet Coke and then you realize brand new study out on aspartame it's terrible yeah it increases anxiety in mice but it then increases anxiety not just in
the mice but in their babies and their grandbabies and so you wonder why we have this Mental Health crisis that we're in could it be this artificial sweetener that's in 6,000 Foods W and it's like it could be the sleeper that is why we have this mental health epidemic not to mention of course Facebook and I mean I gave up di Coke when I had my scan and until then I was living on it like I had you know oh me too until I realized so this is why I gave it up I had a
patient who came into my office it's like 30 years ago and she said when I stop um aspartame my arthritis went away and I was 35 and I had arthritis like I couldn't get off the floor cuz my knees and hands would hurt and I'm like I think I'll try that and so I stopped aspartame and about a week later my arthritis went away and then you know because I'm not that smart I like had to test it like a couple of months later had a 32 oz Diet Coke from Jack In The Box and
I'm like I was in so much pain and so I broke up with Pate yeah right I don't want to ever love something that doesn't love me it's simple not always easy but it is simple I've been taking just so you know I've been taking the um bright Minds uh multi powder for 10 years thank you it's remarkable and the reason why I'm going to tell you why I think it's so brilliant I've told so many people about it because it allowed me to get rid of like a shelf worth of other supplements I was
taking like I would just be like how many bottles do I have to open and take it's a remarkable product recently you came out with creatin or creatine creatin um tell me how important is that for our brain health well why we came out with it's called smart creatine um it's a powder that you can just put in the shake with the bright Minds powder um is it helps build muscle that's why bodybuilders take creatine but it also helps with cognition and memory and focus which is why oh we have to carry that yeah at
brain MD and it's got no taste and it's great I'm so happy that you come out with that um what's the right milligrams for a woman versus a man or is it the same five milligrams is what um five grams not milligrams five grams is what has been shown in the test to help with cognition so many women will say to me um oh but wait a second I heard it causes you to hold water water retention and they're worried about that I I haven't seen it yeah I and I'm not had anybody complain about
it to which I would say it's water who cares and someone that'll worry about but it builds muscle and I don't want to be big and it's like no you actually get smaller if you look at how much volume fat is versus how much volume muscle is there you get smaller when you get stronger how important is muscle for our longevity so important you know the thing that actually kills people as you get old is frailty and so the stronger you are as you age the less likely you are to get Alzheimer's disease and don't
walk slow I always tell my patients walk like you're late so people who are 80 if they can walk 3 mes an hour have a 90% chance of Living to 90 but people who are who can only walk a mile an hour have a 90% chance they're not going to live until they're 90 and so I think all women should be lifting weights twice a week don't hurt yourself they don't have to be big whites go to a trainer if you can afford it but um it's so important to work the major muscle groups because
that's your reserve I had one of my doctors had this terrible infection almost died and he went into the hospital and people said oh he's going to die he's going to die but he didn't because he went in in good shape right it's often the brain and body you bring into the accident or the illness that determines how you come out of it last thing I want to ask you about is um because we've shared openly my father-in-law's Journey with Alzheimer's and you've scanned his brain you scanned his brain when he was first diagnosed you
were so pivotal and so important in helping us transition helping him to understand the things he needed to change um to slow the pro progression of the disease um and every day someone will send me a message on Instagram saying like did you hear this new study you're going to be able to reverse your father-in-law's Alzheimer's and um certainly I know that he's in a state where it it's not reversible am I accurate in saying that number one and number two do you think we will reach a day when someone who's in a late stage
of Alzheimer's could have a reversal you know it depends on what's causing it and that's the important thing Alzheimer's is not one thing and as you and I have talked about bright Minds is you have to go after all of those risk factors now I think at your age or my age we should be on a prevention program right especially if you have it in your family especially if you have it in your family but if you're starting at 75 or 80 or 90 it's going to be hard but you can clearly slow it and
there are some reversible causes of it like one of the reasons I got excited about Imaging um Margaret was her name 69 years old diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease almost burned her house down the five daughters they were going to put her in a home she didn't want to go so there was a huge family fight um they put her in the hospital and just by random chance if you believe in random chance I was her doctor and I thought she had Alzheimer's too and I scanned her but she didn't have the pattern for Alzheimer's she
had the pattern for depression her emotional brain was on fire I put her on an anti-depressant and three weeks later she got her memory back and so if you don't look and most people diagnosed with Alzheimer's no one looks at their brain they do it based on symptom clusters yeah and that's just nuts the protocol the protocol that you gave me to help which I really love that that's your approach it was like you know everyone's wants Aderall everybody wants Ridin or whatever the you know viance whatever the popular drug is but I really love
it at your clinic um you take a lifestyle approach and I I applied those as many of those as I could at the time and I I keep applying more you know I'm getting better at it but the protocol for prevention to minimize my symptoms of ADHD if you look at them they're the same protocol to prevent Alzheimer's to prevent heart disease to prevent to to minimize the disruption of your hormones like the prescription for just about everything it's the same same but we keep saying like how do we fix this how do we fix
this and you just does it ever frustrate you that you're like we it's guess what it's these things again yeah the answer to the epidemic problems of obesity heart disease Alzheimer's disease and depression is the same thing get your brain healthy and your mind will follow and if you get your brain healthy well you have to get your heart healthy because your brain uses 20% of the blood flow into your body if you get your brain healthy well you have to get your liver healthy because if you don't detox your brain gets poisoned yeah but
it gives me a reason to get up and I'm so excited uh about the future because we have to make a difference if we don't make a difference shame on us yeah you know um I have to ask you this we'll end on this question um I would like do you ever just go wild I I want to see Dr aan like dancing on a table belly laughing like we always see you so buttoned up and you know you can't drink can't eat junk food don't drink coffee watch your sugar don't smoke don't stay up
late no porn we're like where's the fun so what do you do for fun what what does Dr aan unleash look like so who has more fun the person with the good brain or the person with the bad brain um I have a high school course called brain Thrive by 25 it's in all 50 states we teach kids to love their brain and week four are things to avoid and invariably it's a boy never a girl it's always a boy who raises his hand and go how can you have any fun and so we play
a game with them who has more fun kid with the good brain or the kid with the bad brain who gets the girl and gets to keep her because he doesn't act like a jerk the kid with the good brain or the kid with the bad brain who gets into the college they want to get into has the best jobs who makes the most money who has the most purpose in life it's a person with the good brain you are proof I have fun every day I start every day with today is going to be
a great day yeah I end every day what went well today and I have um do you know BJ fog yes yeah he wrote tiny habits and I worked with him for and I saw him after I worked with him like two years later and he said I want to thank you I said why he said I wake up 100% every day wow because he stopped drinking oh that's and he didn't have a problem with it but he drank yeah he I wake up don't you want that that is me Unleashed it's doing the work
I love for as long as possible well I can't thank you enough for coming back 10 years in a row and and the revolution that you started and thank you for making me very serious about getting a big fat juicy prefrontal cortex and just living a life that um I feel 100% so thank you for being here love you so much love you too [Music] n [Music]
