Change Your Brain Every Day

What if the key to balancing your hormones, boosting your energy, and finally feeling like yourself again starts in your gut? In this eye-opening conversation, functional medicine doctor  Dr. Eboni Cornish, MD, and Tana Amen dive into the powerful connection between gut health, hormones, inflammation, metabolism, and overall wellness.  They explore how what's happening inside your gut may affect h...

What if Lyme disease is only part of the story?   In this fascinating conversation, Dr. Richard Horowitz and Dr. Daniel Amen explore Lyme disease, chronic inflammation, immune dysfunction, and the complex symptoms that can persist long after an initial infection.   Why can Lyme be so difficult to diagnose and treat? How might inflammation affect the brain and body? And what can we learn from looki...

What does it really take to break free from addiction, protect your brain, and rebuild your life?   In this powerful conversation, actor Neal McDonough gets candid about the lessons, struggles, and turning points that shaped his journey. We dive into brain health, addiction and recovery, resilience, faith, discipline, and the mindset it takes to make lasting change.   Neal also shares insights int...

What if changing your brain could change your life?   In this powerful conversation, Dr. Daniel Amen sits down with Kelly Gores for a deep dive into the brain, trauma, emotional patterns, healing, and the powerful connection between what we experience and how our brains function. They explore the questions so many of us are asking: Why do we repeat the same patterns? How does trauma affect the bra...

What if some of the anxiety, fear, relationship patterns, or emotional pain you struggle with didn't begin with you? In this powerful conversation, Mark Wolynn , author of It Didn't Start With You , joins Dr. Daniel Amen & Tana to explore one of the most important questions in mental health: How much of what we carry was inherited from the generations before us? They unpack the hidden patterns tha...

What if the Gospel is the answer to America's deepest divisions and to our deepest wounds? In this episode, we sit down with Pastor Derwin Gray; former NFL player turned church planter, best-selling author, and founder of Transformation Church — for a raw, hope-filled conversation about faith, identity, healing, and what it really means to follow Jesus in a fractured world.   Derwin shares his jou...

What if your greatest trauma could literally reshape your brain and your life for the better? After surviving a shark attack that took her arm at just 13 years old, Bethany Hamilton became a global symbol of resilience. But what actually happened inside her brain? In this powerful conversation, Bethany sits down with renowned psychiatrist and brain imaging expert Dr. Daniel Amen, alongside Tana Am...

For decades, medicine has treated memory loss, brain fog, and neurodegenerative disease as inevitable — but what if the real battle is happening at the cellular level, inside your brain's own immune system? In this episode, six-time New York Times bestselling author and neurologist Dr. David Perlmutter joins Dr. Amen & Tana to unpack the findings from his groundbreaking new book, Brain Defenders ....

In this episode, Dr. Daniel Amen sits down with Stanley Cup and NHL champion Erik Johnson for a groundbreaking look inside Erik's concussion recovery. Using advanced SPECT imaging, Dr. Amen scans Erik's brain to reveal the hidden impact of his traumatic brain injury and maps areas of damage, dysfunction, and remarkable resilience that standard imaging often misses.   Together, they walk through th...

In this throwback episode, Dr. Daniel Amen performs eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) therapy with Tish Cyrus in order to help her process past traumas and pave the way to move on from these negative thoughts. EMDR is a gold-standard treatment method for lessening the impact that past traumas can have on your life. For more information about EMDR Therapy, visit https://www.amenc...

Hal Elrod survived a devastating car accident that left him clinically dead for six minutes and facing a future doctors thought he'd never recover from. Instead of allowing trauma to define him, he transformed it into extraordinary personal growth.   In this conversation, Hal shares the mindset shifts, daily practices, and life-changing lessons that helped him move beyond survival and into post-tr...

In this week's throwback episode, Dr. Amen sits down with fitness mogul and New York Times bestselling author Jillian Michaels. Jillian discusses her past emotional history, growing up, and battle with organization, ADHD tendencies, and anxiety. Dr. Amen provides Jillian's brain SPECT scan results and a pathway for healing.   Want to schedule a visit? Our highly trained specialists can guide you t...

What if the world's most famous prayer is also one of the most powerful tools for transforming your mind? In this conversation, bestselling author and pastor Brad Gray explores the surprising connection between the Lord's Prayer, neuroscience, and spiritual formation. Discover how Jesus' timeless words can reshape thought patterns, reduce anxiety, strengthen emotional resilience, and create lastin...

Everyone struggles with stressful situations at some point in their life. And most of us know that too much stress isn't good for us. But in today's world, we're faced with all kinds of stress on a daily basis—there's no escaping it. Did you know that, according to the National Safety Council, stress contributes to as much as 80% of all disease and illness? Understanding that having to deal with s...

On this week's episode, Dr. Daniel Amen sits down with author and TV personality Amanda Kloots for one of her most personal and emotional conversations yet. Amanda shares the profound impact of losing her husband, the realities of living with grief, and how she found the strength to keep moving forward while honoring the love that changed her life forever. Together, they explore the emotional and...

Food is medicine, or it's poison. Knowing what to eat and having the discipline to stick to the plan are usually the biggest game-changers for improving the health of both your body and your brain. In this video, Dr. Amen shares his 11 simple food rules you can begin implementing in your life today to optimize your health and be your best. In 2020, The BMJ published a study exploring the role diet...

Holly Madison joins Dr. Daniel Amen for an honest conversation about her experience with getting an adult autism diagnosis, her battle with depression, mental health, and life beyond the Playboy Mansion. She shares her personal journey, discusses the factors that may have contributed to her struggles, and reviews the results of her brain scan with Dr. Amen. Together, they explore how brain health...

On this episode of Change Your Brain Every Day , host Dr. Daniel Amen sits down with renowned addiction expert Mark Gold for a powerful, eye-opening conversation about addiction—and why it has far more to do with brain health than character or willpower.   Together, they explore how addiction physically changes the brain, why some people are more vulnerable than others, and how substances and beha...

In this week's episode, Dr. Amen sits down with actress Jennie Garth. Six years ago, Jennie Garth was struggling with something she couldn't quite explain: brain fog, memory lapses, mental fatigue, and a growing fear that something wasn't right. Now, in a powerful and deeply personal conversation, Jennie sits down with Dr. Amen to uncover the science behind her symptoms, the surprising factors aff...

Responsibility is one of Tana's favorite words because it's a word that helped her get through a difficult time in her life. However, many people tend to confuse the word 'responsibility' with 'blame', which can lead to problems. As Tana and Dr. Daniel Amen share in this episode, the two words have quite different meanings. This concept, taken from Dr. Amen's upcoming book 'Your Brain is Always Li...

On this week's episode of Change Your Brain Every Day, Dr. Amen sits down with real estate investor and TV personality Tarek El Moussa. Tarek came to see Dr. Amen 1-year ago and his brain was struggling. This episode is an update on Tarek's progress after a year on the Amen program. Dr. Amen delivers Tarek's brain scan results.

As parents, we often care so much about our children's wellbeing that we will do whatever we can to make things easier for them. However, when we step in to fix our children's problem, are we helping them or hurting them? Dr. Amen reveals the approach you should consider taking when it comes to your kids' struggles in order to raise them to be mentally strong, confident adults.   Want to schedule...

Should you post photos of your children's faces online? What about screen time? iPads? This week, Dr. Amen and Tana are joined by Dr. Lisa Strohman - who is an attorney, clinical psychologist, and author. As a licensed clinical psychologist, Dr. Strohman has spent more than a decade working with individual, family and adolescent clients struggling with issues including depression, anxiety, addicti...

This in throwback episode, Dr. Amen and Tana Amen first began their relationship, Tana was carrying past trauma from her past experiences. Daniel suggested a unique treatment method for getting over trauma, but Tana wasn't convinced. Yet when she finally gave in and decided to give it a try, it changed everything. In this episode of the podcast, the Amens explain what EMDR is, and how it can help...