FaithFood

FitnessFOCUSFriends

FaithFood

FitnessFOCUSFriends

“God gave you a big brain for a reason.”“God gave you a big brain for a reason.”

Maverick Maverick

How do you know unless you look?How do you know unless you look?

1972…1972…

Fell in love with psychiatry because it has potential to change generations

Fell in love with psychiatry because it has potential to change generations

1979 …1979 …

Brain SPECT ImagingBrain SPECT Imaging

1991 …1991 …

Healthy Brain SPECT ScansHealthy Brain SPECT Scans

Surface View Active View Surface View Active View

Healthy vs 2 StrokesHealthy vs 2 Strokes

Healthy Stroke Healthy Stroke

Healthy vs Alzheimer’s DiseaseHealthy vs Alzheimer’s Disease

Healthy Alzheimer’s Healthy Alzheimer’s

Healthy vs Traumatic Brain InjuryHealthy vs Traumatic Brain Injury

Healthy TBI Healthy TBI

Healthy vs Drug AbuseHealthy vs Drug Abuse

Healthy Drug Affected Healthy Drug Affected

Healthy vs OCDHealthy vs OCD

Healthy OCD Healthy OCD

Healthy vs Bipolar DisorderHealthy vs Bipolar Disorder

Healthy Bipolar Disorder Healthy Bipolar Disorder

All Day Conference on SPECT in Psychiatry

All Day Conference on SPECT in Psychiatry

1992 …1992 …

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Without Imaging

Psychiatrists only medical specialists who rarely looks at organ they treat

Cardiologists look

Neurologists look

Orthopedists look

All other specialties look

Psychiatrists guess

There is a reason most psychiatric medications have “Black Box” warnings

Before Imaging

It’s Not Working Very Well! Psychiatric Outcomes Have Not Improved in Decades

Insel, NIMH, “The unfortunate reality is that current medications help too few people to get better and very few people to get well.”

Antidepressants effect similar to placebo, except for severely depressed

Antipsychotics and stimulants no more effective than in 1954

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Not Looking at the Brain Hurts Patients and Families

Symptom based diagnoses are misleading – many ways to depression

Lead to one-size-fits-all treatments – no understanding of illness subtypes

Often completely miss TBI, toxicity or infections – often the primary cause of psychiatric symptoms

Misses that some psychiatric medications are toxic to brain function

Not Looking at the Brain Hurts Patients and Families

Miss a huge opportunity to K stigma, J compliance

What If Mental Health Was Really Brain Health?

Not Looking at the BrainHurts Society

Organizations like NFL/NHL remained in denial for decades about long term effects of TBI

Military personnel with TBI are often left without appropriate help and hope – 700,000 veterans are incarcerated and suicidal leads the way for premature death

Costly dementias are not diagnosed until late in illness

Underachievement

School failure

Job failure

Relationship problems

Legal problems

Failed therapy attempts

Multiple failed med trials

Residential treatment can cost ~$100,000 a year for troubled teens

28 day drug treatment is ~ $20-80,000/month

Psychiatric hospital stays often > $2,000 a day

Permanent disability is extremely costly

Ineffectively Treated Brain Problems Are Expensive & Painful!

Imaging Showed Connection Between Physical and Mental Health

Dinosaur Syndrome

Imaging Showed Connection Between Physical and Mental Health

Dinosaur Syndrome

Attending Religious ServicesAttending Religious Services

Associated with obesity

Church healthcare initiative

52 week program

Content delivered weekly through web

Meet in small groups

15,000 people in project

Results are spectacular!!

At Saddleback Everything Is ChangingAt Saddleback Everything Is Changing After 12 months church

has lost 250,000 lbs.

People report improved energy, focus, creativity, sleep, and mood.

Reductions in stress, blood pressure, blood sugar, sexual dysfunction and many medications!!

Your Brain’s INVOLVED In Everything You Do!! Your Brain’s INVOLVED

In Everything You Do!!

How you:

think

feel

act

interact

When your brain works right –

You work right

When your brain has trouble, you have

trouble in your life

Healthy Brain

Happier

Physically healthier

Wealthier

More successful

Unhealthy Brain

Sadder

Sicker

Poorer

Less successful

God gave you a big brain for a reason! God gave you a big brain for a reason!

4 Steps to Achieve FOCUS

Brain EnvyClear Focus

Kill the ANTsGet Your Mind Right

4 Steps to Achieve FOCUS

Brain EnvyClear Focus

Kill the ANTsGet Your Mind Right

1. Develop Brain Envy1. Develop Brain Envy

My Brain

Age 37Age 37 Age 57Age 57

Brain Health Requires Brain Health Requires

1. Brain envy – you have to care

2. Avoid anything that hurts it – brain injuries, drugs, overweight, poor diet, being inactive, hypertension, diabetes, inactivity, etc.

3. Engage in regular brain healthy habits – DP diet, exercise, new learning, sleep, and stress management

2. Clear Focus and Purpose2. Clear Focus and Purpose

“Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you,

whom you have received from God?

(1 Cor 6:19)

“Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you,

whom you have received from God?

(1 Cor 6:19)

What is your motivation to be healthy?What is your motivation to be healthy?

Honor God’s gift of your body

Keep your brain healthy

Live longer, look younger

Be a better role model for your children?

Write it down and look at it everyday!

Use anchor images

My Anchor Images

3. Kill the ANTs3. Kill the ANTs

Be transformed by the renewingof your mind. (Romans 12:2)

Be transformed by the renewingof your mind. (Romans 12:2)

Be Transformed, Renew Your MindBe Transformed, Renew Your Mind Whenever you feel sad, mad, nervous or out of

control write down what you’re thinking and talk back to yourself.

This plan won’t work.

I always relapse.

It’s hopeless.

I am too far gone.

This technique found to treat depression, anxiety disorders, and help people lose weight.

 

4. Focus Your Attention4. Focus Your Attention

It’s not just about you. It’s about generations of you.

It’s not just about you. It’s about generations of you.

EpigeneticsEpigenetics

Habits turn on and off genes

Make illnesses more or less likely

Choices affect generations

Get it

Give it away

Keep it forever

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