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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 didn’t 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 I’m 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 don’t 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 it’s 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 people’s 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 couldn’t be prouder,
it’s the one I take called “NeuroVite plus.” 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 won’t find in vegetable-based oils. It can support specifically heart and brain
health. Everyone should get their vitamin D level checked and if it’s 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, I’ll go through them more specifically.
One of the things I want you to know, we want them to work for you. We’ve 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
it’s 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.