Daniel G. Amen - Change Your Brain Every Day

Want to think smarter, feel happier, have better focus, and remember more? The neuroscience-backed strategies to make that happen are all within the pages of Dr. Amens new book Change Your Brain Every Day .

UMA NAIDOO, MD, Harvard nutritional psychiatrist, chef, nutritional biologist, and national and international bestselling author of This Is Your Brain on Food

What makes this book so special is that it goes beyond theory and includes practices you can put into action every day. Each practice builds on the previous ones, so by the end of the year, youll have created a whole new life.

DR. DERWIN L. GRAY, cofounder and lead pastor of Transformation Church; author of How to Heal Our Racial Divide: What the Bible Says, and What the First Christians Knew, about Racial Reconciliation .

Did you know you can improve your brain health in just a few minutes a day? Just one page a day of this book is all it will take to start turning your life and brain health around.

CHALENE JOHNSON, lifestyle and business expert, motivational speaker, New York Times bestselling author, and top-ranked podcaster

Scientific research has made it clear that our lifestyle choices affect brain health. And while some books can steer us toward a better brain outcome, the programs described are often vastly complicated and overwhelming. Dr. Amens Change Your Brain Every Day lovingly gifts us the ability to alter our brains destiny. He simply asks us to pursue one small change each day. And these changes ultimately aggregate to empower us with the attainable goal of a healthier, happier, and better functioning brain.

DAVID PERLMUTTER, MD, FACN, six-time New York Times bestselling author

Change Your Brain Every Day is a great addition to anyones mental health tool kit! Dr. Amen gives you practical, easy-to-implement tips and strategies to improve your mental health and live your best life in just one year, based on his examination of more than 225,000 brain scans from 155 countries.

DR. CAROLINE LEAF, clinical neuroscientist and bestselling author of Cleaning Up Your Mental Mess

Every single day our brains are changing. They can be improving or declining, but they are never staying the same. This is why today, more than ever, having daily practices to take your brain health up a level is so valuable. Change Your Brain Every Day is a treasure trove of daily nuggets that will put your brain improvements on automatic.

SHAWN STEVENSON, bestselling author of Eat Smarter and Sleep Smarter

Change Your Brain Every Day is like getting a daily dose of Dr. Amen to enhance your memory, mood, and mindset.

JIM KWIK, New York Times bestselling author of Limitless: Upgrade Your Brain, Learn Anything Faster, and Unlock Your Exceptional Life MEDICAL DISCLAIMER The information presented in this book is the result of years of practice experience and clinical research by the author. The information in this book, by necessity, is of a general nature and not a substitute for an evaluation or treatment by a competent medical specialist. If you believe you are in need of medical intervention, please see a medical practitioner as soon as possible. The case studies in this book are true. The names and circumstances of many of those profiled have been changed to protect the anonymity of patients.

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Change Your Brain Every Day: Simple Daily Practices to Strengthen Your Mind, Memory, Moods, Focus, Energy, Habits, and Relationships

Copyright 2023 by Daniel G. Amen, MD. All rights reserved.

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Some material is taken from Memory Rescue , published in 2017 under ISBN 978-1-4964-2560-7, Feel Better Fast and Make It Last , published in 2018 under ISBN 978-1-4964-2565-2, The End of Mental Illness , published in 2020 under ISBN 978-1-4964-3815-7, Your Brain Is Always Listening , published in 2021 under ISBN 978-1-4964-3820-1, and You, Happier , published in 2022 under ISBN 978-1-4964-5452-2, all from Tyndale House Publishers.

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Contents

Introduction

You are not stuck with the brain you have. You can make it better, even if you have been bad to it, and I can prove it. You can literally change your brain, and when you do, you change your life. Over the last 30 years, Ive ended most of my lectures with the above words. Its the mission that drives my work. Your brain controls everything you do and everything you are. Each day it is changing. Either it is getting better and growing younger, or it is getting worse and growing older due to your daily diet, supplements, thoughts, decisions, and habits. This daily reader is designed to help you be the master of your brains destiny and boost your memory, mood, focus, and overall sense of happiness and peace. Learning to love and care for your brain will also decrease your stress, improve your relationships, increase your chances of success in every area of your life, help you stave off dementia, and prevent you from becoming a burden to those you love.

As an example, meet my friendjournalist and media personality Leeza Gibbons. I got to know Leeza after being on her nationally syndicated television show in 1999 when my book Change Your Brain, Change Your Life was first published. Shes brilliant, purposeful, and has a smile that brightens any room. We became friends after Id been on her show several times. In getting to know her, I found out her mother and grandmother both died with Alzheimers disease, which was incredibly stressful for them and for Leezas family. Given that I knew that Alzheimers disease runs in families and shows negative brain changes decades before people have any symptoms, I encouraged Leeza to come see me to get her brain scanned. At Amen Clinics we do a brain imaging study called SPECT that looks at blood flow and activity patterns; it is one of the best studies to evaluate the risk for Alzheimers disease.

Initially, Leeza was hesitant to get scanned. Many people are afraid to know if their brains may be headed for trouble. But I told her, If you knew a train was going to hit you, wouldnt you at least want to try to get out of the way? After going through a stressful time, Leeza came to see me, and her SPECT scan showed several areas of very low blood flow. Her brain was clearly headed for trouble. Leeza took the results seriously and did everything I asked, which is all in the daily practices of this book. Ten years later, her brain was dramatically healthier, which is not what typically happens with age. The images of her scans below tell a storya story of hope. You are not stuck with the brain you have. With the right guidance you can make it better, and I can prove it.

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