Tips from Dr. Daniel Amen: Looking For Your Keys? Do This NOW!
Tips from Dr. Daniel Amen: Looking For Your Keys? Do This NOW!
{“en”:”[Intro Music] Dr. Amen: After being a psychiatrist for nearly 30 years, I find myself recommending natural treatments more and more. When we first started our brain imaging work on patients who have been taking a lot of medications, you know, I actually didnu2019t like how they affect the medications had on their brain which got me really interested in thinking of more natural ways to optimize my patients. In my mind Iu2019m always thinking, first do no harm, and the second thing is using the least toxic, most effective treatments. So, I got very interested in what natural supplements might be able to offer to my patients. What was really exciting as we started using them, we often saw that they had an important physiological effect on brain function.
But not everybody should be taking them. There are pros and cons to the whole idea of natural supplements. So let me talk about that. The pros are you know they work when prescribed properly, they can be very effective. You also never have to tell your insurance company that you ever take them. Now, most people donu2019t know that taking psychiatric medications or medicines for your mind can have a negative effect on your health insurance, your life insurance, your disability insurance and your long-term care insurance. Your doctor never tells you that. Natural supplements have pure side effects. My experience, I mean really dramatically less side effects and they can be very effective when prescribed properly. But itu2019s not all rosy. You have to be concerned about the quality control of many brands. For most people, their consultant is the teenage clerk at the health food store, which can be very concerning. And so what we did, initially at Amen Clinics, we just recommend other peopleu2019s brands that we trust but as I learned more and more that there are certain things I wanted in a multiple vitamin.
There is a certain type of fish oil I thought was best for the brain. So, Amen Clinics, over the last decade, has worked really hard to build our own line of supplements that are really brain directed to optimize your brain. I think everyone should start with a very high quality multiple vitamin and mineral supplement, and the one that we make at Amen Clinics, I couldnu2019t be prouder, itu2019s the one I take called u201cNeuroVite plus.u201d It has 50 nutrients in it to optimize brain function in just what I think are the best doses to enhance your brain. I also think everyone should be taking a fish oil supplement or omega-3 fatty acid. And while fish oil is opposed to flaccid oil, fish oil has something in it called EPA and DHA ingredients that you wonu2019t find in vegetable-based oils.
It can support specifically heart and brain health. Everyone should get their vitamin D level checked and if itu2019s low as it is for most people, should take vitamin D to optimize your vitamin D level. The supplements really depend on your specific needs. In other videos, Iu2019ll go through them more specifically. One of the things I want you to know, we want them to work for you. Weu2019ve invested in them working for you so we offer 100% money-back guarantee on all of our supplements. By you being a member of the Brainfit life community, you automatically get a 15% discount. We are so excited about what supplements can do to optimize the function of your brain; whether itu2019s to help support your memory, your energy, your mood, your cravings that we just can be more excited than to offer them to you as a member of our community.. “}