The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

Podbit · The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

The No.1 Brain Doctor: "This Parenting Mistake Ruins Your Kids Brain!", "Alcohol or Marijuana Will Destroy Your Brain!", "A Stagnant Career Can Increase Your Chance Of Alzheimers!" - Dr Daniel Amen

Explore episode Feb 10, 2025
Health & Fitness
ADHD: Real Disorder, Real Consequences of Ignoring It

The No.1 Brain Doctor: "This Parenting Mistake Ruins Your K… · Feb 10, 2025 Health & Fitness

ADHD is real and has a strong genetic component, but society's digital habits promote its expression. The side effects of not treating it — school failure, incarceration, bankruptcy, divorce — are far worse than the side effects of medication. Dr. Amen's own daughter went from Bs and Cs with enormous effort to straight As after a tiny dose of Ritalin normalized her brain scan.

Where this was said

Is ADHD Increasing in Our Population?

At 1:35:48 · chapter starts 1:35:01

If Dr. Amen could change one thing about the world, it would not be a policy or a drug approval. It would be a question: whatever I'm doing right now, is it good for my brain or bad for it? Asked honestly and consistently, this question reframes every decision — what to eat, whether to drink, how to parent, what to watch, who to spend time with — through the lens of the organ that controls everything. He imagines a 15-year-old with this question in their mind: knowing their frontal lobes aren't finished until 25, they'd be less likely to pour poison into a brain that's still being built. At 60, stressed about their football team, they'd reach for something other than a beer. The question is aspirational rather than punitive, rooted in love for the brain rather than fear of damage. Amen believes this is his life's purpose: to shift the global conversation from reactive psychiatric treatment toward proactive brain stewardship.

Similar podbits

Health & Fitness
AI in Healthcare: Where It Helps and Where It Doesn't

Using AI to Increase Your Intelligence & Enrich Humanity | … · Aug 10, 2026 Health & Fitness

AI nailed Andrew Huberman's vertigo-vs-low-blood-pressure diagnosis because that pattern has been reported millions of times. But every patient's liver is different and data on liver surgeries is scarce worldwide — making solo robot surgery dangerous. The rule is simple: data abundance means AI can help; data scarcity means keep the human in the loop.