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  • Recently, I gave a talk called "The Most Important Lessons I've Learned from 87,000 Brain Scans."

  • What we do at the Amen Clinics over the last 23 years is we look at people's brains, and

  • we have the world's largest database of brain scans related to behavior, and I'm so blessed

  • to be able to do that. We've learned so many lessons. Your brain's involved in everything

  • you do. When it works right, you work right, and when it's troubled, you have trouble in

  • your life. Your brain is incredibly soft and happens

  • to be housed in a really hard skull that has many sharp bony ridges. The brain's easily

  • damaged, which is why I'm totally opposed. Amen Clinics did the world's largest study

  • on active and retired NFL players. Children should not be playing contact sports, because

  • when you have a brain injury, it increases your risk for things like homelessness, depression,

  • suicide, learning problems. As we did our work, attorneys started sending

  • us people who did really bad things, and it's probably not a surprise to you that many people

  • who do bad things, whether it's murder, robbery, rape, arson, they have troubled brains. Not

  • a big surprise, but what did surprise us was that many of these troubled brains could be

  • rehabilitated. Here's a really radical thought: What if we

  • took troubled brains and instead of warehousing them in chronically stressful environments,

  • really work to evaluate, treat and optimize them, we could be saving tremendous amounts

  • of our country's resources and money. As I think of all 87,000 scans, the single

  • most important lesson, the single most exciting lesson that I've learned is that you can literally

  • change your brain and when you do, you change your life. We can take brains that are troubled

  • and through diet, exercise, simple supplements, medications, other treatments, optimize them

  • and when your brain is better, everything in your life is better.

Recently, I gave a talk called "The Most Important Lessons I've Learned from 87,000 Brain Scans."

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