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Change Your Brain Every Day

Dr Daniel & Tana Amenwww.amenclinics.com
New York Times bestselling authors, Dr. Daniel Amen and Tana Amen are your personal Brain Warrior Guides to help you win the war for your health and defeat anxiety, depression, memory loss, ADHD, addictions, disease, and obesity. Learn how you can take control of your brain and body for the rest of your life.
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Episodes

The Harmful Effects of Not Treating Brain Injuries With Jerri Sher

Dr. Daniel Amen and Tana Amen continue their discussion with Filmmaker Jerri Sher about the many different harmful side effects of letting a brain injury go untreated and how a movie can illustrate this subject that doesn't often garner enough attention.

Apr 27, 202114 min

When Is It Okay to "Let Go"?

Dr. Daniel Amen and Tana Amen share personal parenting experience and discuss when is the right time to allow teenagers to make more adult decisions.

Apr 19, 202112 min

How Does Walking Improve Mood & Brain Health?

Dr. Daniel Amen and Tana chat about how exercise and High Intensity Training shape thinking and can lengthen life span. Dr. Amen also reminds listeners about the correlation between certain bacteria and mental illnesses.

Apr 14, 202111 min

COVID-19 Long Haul, Fatigue & Fighting Negative Thoughts in a Pandemic

Death toll statistics can have a negative impact on brain health and make way for harmful thoughts. Dr. Amen and Tana Amen sit down to elaborate on how to change one's focus to practicing mental discipline and how the benefits of these exercises help maintain a healthy body weight during a pandemic.

Apr 13, 202113 min

How Substances Affect the Brain During A Pandemic Isolation

Dr. Daniel Amen and Tana Amen review studies on drugs' influences on the brain during the pandemic. They discuss how marijuana and other drugs can affect mental health by worsening bad habits, and how discipline can help maintain a healthy lifestyle in isolation.

Apr 12, 202114 min

Perseverance Is Key To Surpassing Mental Health Threshold With Dr. Dale Bredesen

Experiencing pushback from the academic community, Dr Bredesen Discusses the cyclical nature of the ever changing field of mental health, and how the next generations will continue creating positive change. His new book "The First Survivors of Alzheimer's: How Patients Recovered Life and Hope in Their Own Words" is a collection of stories written by people that not only survived Alzheimer's disease, but are thriving. For more information on Dr. Bredesen's new book, The End of Alzheimer's Program...

Apr 08, 202114 min

How Does Social Isolation Affect Mental Health? With Dr. Dale Bredesen

Dr Bredesen touches on the topic of isolation and how it affects mental decline, especially in nursing homes where stimulation is key. He reviews some practices that people can use to keep their brain healthier for longer, by continuing ancestral traditions our bodies inherited through evolution. For more information on Dr. Bredesen's new book, The End of Alzheimer's Program, visit https://www.amazon.com/End-Alzheimers-Program-Protocol-Cognition-ebook/dp/B081Y3QF4C...

Apr 07, 202112 min

What Can You Do To Prevent Alzheimer's Disease? With Dr. Dale Bredesen

Dr Bredesen chats about how modern gadgets are helping people track their mental health by monitoring critical information for people to know about themselves. He elaborates on how the current state of detecting Alzheimer's disease is getting easier, but at the same time the age of the individuals affected is becoming younger and younger.

Apr 06, 202114 min

Is It Possible to Stop Cognitive Decline? With Dr. Dale Bredesen

Dr Dale Bredesen sits down with Dr Daniel and Tana Amen to discuss the serious threat Alzheimer's disease still represents to the world's population. Bredesen shares how difficult getting a simple trial approved by the Institutional Review Board can be and how some groundbreaking work is being overshadowed, thanks to corporate interest.

Apr 05, 202111 min

So, How Much Sleep Do You REALLY Need?

Today's episode of The Brain Warrior's Way Podcast brings a feature back by popular demand: Brain in the News! In this episode, Dr. Daniel and Tana Amen take a brain-centric look into some of the latest hot news topics associated with the brain and mental health. This episode features such topics as how much sleep you need, the rise in mental health issues for teenagers and young adults, how stress ages the brain, and how many alcoholic drinks a week is ok for your brain.

Apr 01, 202111 min

Try This Technique to Radically Transform the Way You Think

It's spring cleaning week at The Brain Warrior's Way Podcast, and Dr. Daniel and Tana Amen are here to help you clean not only your environment, but your mind and your life, too. In this episode, the Amens introduce a powerful technique that's an absolute game-changer in terms of how you think about yourself. It's a surefire way to help you psychologically distance yourself from the daily whirlwind in your head.

Mar 31, 202111 min

Does Your Kitchen Need Spring Cleaning?

When springtime hits and we begin our annual ritual of spring cleaning our homes, it's important that we don't neglect one of the most important rooms in it: the kitchen. In this episode of the podcast, Dr. Daniel Amen and Tana Amen discuss how to go about doing a full spring clean of your kitchen, and how to determine what stays and what goes based on the type of diet that's going to be most beneficial to you and your family.

Mar 30, 202112 min

Spring Into Better Mental Health Today

Spring is in the air, and with it comes the urge to clean and reorganize our environments for the coming year. But it's not just your bedroom or your closet that benefits from a spring cleaning. Cleaning your mind can be one of the most beneficial ways to set yourself up for success and happiness for the rest of the year. In this episode of The Brain Warrior's Way Podcast, Dr. Daniel Amen and Tana Amen give you practical tips to give your brain a proper spring cleaning.

Mar 29, 202113 min

What Happens When You Rewire Your Brain and Thinking, with Dr. Caroline Leaf

In this final episode of a four-part series with 'Cleaning Up Your Mental Mind' author Dr. Caroline Leaf, she tells the story of a man who suffered years of sexual trauma, and how he used the 5-step process outlined in Dr. Leaf's book to change his thought patterns to pave the way forward in his life. When you're able to understand where your negative thoughts are coming from, and when you can reframe them in a positive way as this man did, you can drastically change your life. For more info on ...

Mar 25, 202110 min

Try this Technique to Stop Toxic Thinking, with Dr. Caroline Leaf

Toxic patterns of thinking can damage more than just your emotional health. It can also affect the physical functioning of brain and even cause inflammation in the body! In this third episode of a series with 'Cleaning Up Your Mental Mess' author Dr. Caroline Leaf, she and the Amens take an in-depth look at her 5 steps to a cleaner mind, including an effective technique for making sense of your personal observations to give you a map for rewriting your own thought patterns. For more info on Dr. ...

Mar 24, 202113 min

How to Find the Roots of Your Psychological Troubles, with Dr. Caroline Leaf

This week's series of The Brain Warrior's Way Podcast features our guest and good friend Dr. Caroline Leaf, who outlines some of the major takeaways from her new book 'Cleaning Up Your Mental Mess'. In this episode, Dr. Leaf explains the second step in her 5-step process to cleaning up your mind, which is reflection. Dr. Leaf and the Amens give you practical tips to go deeper into your mind to explore and define the roots of your psychological issues, which is a vital step for learning to contro...

Mar 23, 202111 min

5 Steps to Managing a Messy Mind, with Dr. Caroline Leaf

When it comes to the subject of mental health, too much of the discussion is based on the fear factors associated with brain disease and destructive conditions. This negative bias led Dr. Caroline Leaf to write her new book 'Cleaning Up Your Mental Mess', which helps people to understand and train their minds without all the intimidation. In this first episode in a four-part series with Dr. Leaf, she and the Amens give an overview of her 5-step method to gaining control over your thoughts. For m...

Mar 22, 202114 min

How to Move on from Things (and People!) that Aren't Working Out

In this final episode based on the concept of dragons, as outlined in Dr. Amen's new book 'Your Brain is Always Listening', Dr. Amen and Tana discuss how other peoples' dragons can also breathe fire on your life. Recognizing when something or someone is a hurtful rather than encouraging influence on your life can bring a tremendous boost to your overall wellbeing. The Amens give you practical tips for moving on and leaving these negative influences behind so you can live your best, happiest life...

Mar 18, 20218 min

The Problem with Herd Mentality

From the pandemic to the election, this past year has seen our country go wild in taking sides to fight those with different belief systems. But who exactly are these others, these faceless 'they' that are supposedly driven to undermine everything one stands for? The answer has to do with herd mentality, which has become a driving force for hate over the past few years. In this podcast episode, the Amens discuss the problems with herd mentality, why technology and social media may be partly to b...

Mar 17, 20219 min

Internet Trolls: How to Deal with Negativity

A disturbing phenomenon that has emerged over the past several years has been the rise of 'internet trolls', people who regularly engage in harassment and other types of negative activity online. In this episode of the podcast, the Amens take an in-depth look at these trolls and examine how and why they engage in hurtful behavior, and why strategies like positivity-bias training can help you to remain objective when the hate comes your way. For more info on Dr. Daniel Amen's new book, "Your Brai...

Mar 16, 20219 min

Does The Influence of Others Affect Your Brain?

The influence of other people plays a massive role in how we feel from day to day, moment to moment. It's vital that we train our brains to remain objective in how we process the way in which other people behave toward us. In this episode of The Brain Warrior's Way Podcast, Dr. Daniel and Tana Amen discuss the ways that our brains will respond to both praise and criticism, and how we can use others' influence to motivate and inspire us, rather than bring us down. For more info on Dr. Daniel Amen...

Mar 15, 202112 min

Peer Pressure: How to Avoid Getting Burned by the Bully Dragons

The way we treat and are treated by our peers has a profound effect on us. Our bullies can leave us doubting ourselves or questioning our own worth, but is it true that "Hurt people hurt people"? In this episode of The Brain Warrior's Way Podcast, Dr. Daniel and Tana Amen discuss the 'Friends / Popular Kids / Mean Girls / Bullies Dragon' and the effect the internet is having on this generation's children. For more info on Dr. Daniel Amen's new book, "Your Brain is Always Listening", visit https:...

Mar 11, 202113 min

The Importance of Mentors on your Physical and Emotional Health

Our brain health and the way we see and interact with the world is influenced by a multitude of factors. One of the most important is the mentors we meet throughout our lives - the people that tear us down to (hopefully) build us back stronger. In this episode of The Brain Warrior's Way Podcast, Dr. Daniel and Tana Amen discuss the 'Teachers / Coaches Dragon' and the advantages of finding one that will push you to be your best. For more info on Dr. Daniel Amen's new book, "Your Brain is Always L...

Mar 10, 202114 min
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