Name: 【TEDx】TEDxOrangeCoast - Daniel Amen - Change Your Brain, Change Your Life
Uploaded: 2016-01-17T06:57:42.000Z
Duration: 19 min 10 s
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at the Orange County Performing Arts Center.

It is dependent on the physical health of your brain.

So, did you know obviously, your brain is involved in everything you do:

how you think, how you feel, how you act, how you get along with other people.

at over 63,000 brain scans over the last 20 years,

and it is very clear to me that your brain is the organ of judgment,

you are much more likely to have trouble in your life.

So what you see on the screen are two brain SPECT scans.

SPECT is the study that we do in our clinic.

It is a very sophisticated brain imaging study

that looks at blood flow and activity patterns.

And it basically shows us three things: areas of the brain that work well,

areas of the brain that are low in activity,

and areas of the brain that are high in activity.

So good activity, too little, or too much.

The image on your left is a healthy scan.

It shows full, even, symmetrical activity.

The color doesn't mean anything, it's the shape.

The image on the right is an alcoholic scan.

Alcohol is directly toxic to brain function.

you have to have your two glasses of red wine a day

With a healthy brain, it's very clear to me

you're happier, healthier, wealthier, you're wiser,

When your brain is not healthy, for whatever reason:

you had a brain injury, you have a terrible diet,

you're sadder, sicker, poorer, not as smart.

You're more rigid, and you're inflexible,

I've said this tens of thousands of times, and it always blows me away.

Your brain is the most complicated organ in the universe.

There is nothing as complex as the human brain, nothing.

It is estimated we have 100 billion nerve cells.

And each nerve cell is connected to other nerve cells,

but up to 10,000 individual connections between cells.

Which means you have more connection in your skull

Information in your brain travels at about 268 miles an hour.

And even though your brain is only 2% of your body's weight,

it uses 20 to 30% of the calories that you consume.

So, of the breakfast you had this morning, or the lunch you had this afternoon,

almost a third of it goes to feed 2% of your body's weight.

Your brain is the most expensive real estate in your body.

On average, you lose 85,000 brain cells a day.

And what we've discovered at the Amen Clinics

is you can accelerate the aging process with your behavior,

The health of your brain also decelerates innovation,

So what are the things that hurt your brain?

brain imaging study on retired NFL players.

The NFL is no longer lying about brain injuries.

Do not let your kids play tackle football, or hit soccer balls with their head.

Come on, the brain is very soft, about the consistency of soft butter.

but what our country has no clue yet, but is learning,

We just published a study in the Nature journal, "Obesity",

the actual physical size and function of your brain goes down.

I read that study, the first one that came out about three years ago,

I was serious, when it comes to the brain, size matters.

Smoking constricts blood flow to the brain.

Like it prematurely ages your skin, it prematurely ages the brain.

High blood pressure, as your blood pressure goes up,

So you need to know your blood pressure on a regular basis,

Diabetes, standard American diet, environmental toxins,