What we do at the Amen Clinics over the last 23 years is we look at people's brains, and

we have the world's largest database of brain scans related to behavior, and I'm so blessed

to be able to do that. We've learned so many lessons. Your brain's involved in everything

you do. When it works right, you work right, and when it's troubled, you have trouble in

your life. Your brain is incredibly soft and happens

to be housed in a really hard skull that has many sharp bony ridges. The brain's easily

damaged, which is why I'm totally opposed. Amen Clinics did the world's largest study

on active and retired NFL players. Children should not be playing contact sports, because

when you have a brain injury, it increases your risk for things like homelessness, depression,

suicide, learning problems. As we did our work, attorneys started sending

us people who did really bad things, and it's probably not a surprise to you that many people

who do bad things, whether it's murder, robbery, rape, arson, they have troubled brains. Not

a big surprise, but what did surprise us was that many of these troubled brains could be

rehabilitated. Here's a really radical thought: What if we

took troubled brains and instead of warehousing them in chronically stressful environments,

really work to evaluate, treat and optimize them, we could be saving tremendous amounts

of our country's resources and money. As I think of all 87,000 scans, the single

most important lesson, the single most exciting lesson that I've learned is that you can literally

change your brain and when you do, you change your life. We can take brains that are troubled

and through diet, exercise, simple supplements, medications, other treatments, optimize them

and when your brain is better, everything in your life is better.