Every day you are making your brain better or you are making it worse. Stay with us to learn how you can change your brain for the better every day. Hi, Danica. Hi, Dr. Neiman. How are you? So nice to see you. So nice to see you. Excited to see your brain. I don't know how excited I am for you to truly see me, but I am. I am. I love this stuff. Knowledge is power and no matter what it looks like, I know that it only gets better from here. So let's see what damage I've done. Well, and that's what I tell people no matter what we see is good news. You raced professionally. How long? Professionally, I raced for 27 years, but I guess I was, I started getting paid when I was 19, but let's skip that. I started racing Indy cars when I was 23 and I retired at 36 or 7. Wow. That's a long career. Yeah. So good 15 years at the professional level where I was going 200 miles an hour. In recent years, there's been some health stuff. Originally, when I went to my OB and had blood work done, that's where I started and my thyroid was low. I thought, oh, this will be so easy. Just give me this magic pill and everything will be fine. And it was merely scratching the surface. What ended up coming through was severe heavy metal toxicity, especially mercury and a ray of different things, dysbiosis, leaky gut and other things. And health is just so interesting because it's such a jigsaw puzzle and one thing leads to the next and everything is connected, maybe not necessarily directly, but indirectly. And so it's such a balancing act. And so I know that it's about getting to what the root is, right? I'm sure you live this, right? Root cause and that's why you work on the brain so much because there's so much work to be done there. But finding a pathway to solving the other things. And one of the big things that I eliminated from the equation because nothing I was doing was working. Like I would try whether it be thyroid medicine or gut protocols or just anything from peptides to fasting to NAD, loading doses of NAD, anything that I tried. It was like, how do you feel? And I'm like, hmm, I feel the same. I look the same. And then I eliminated breast implants from the equation. I had them for seven and a half years and I found immediate relief with that. But then healing's not linear. And so it feels like you make a lot of you feeling really good and then you kind of regress and then you feel better than where you were before at your best. And then you go way back again. And then it just seems like a bit of a yo-yo process. And so I'm working pretty hard on, you know, healing my body from being hard on it with my job exposure to heavy metals, whether it's through the implants or through the job that I had because I have more than mercury. I have lead and cesium and barium and thallium. And there's like five metals that are above the threshold. And I don't mean above the threshold in the green. I mean in the red. The breast implant issue doesn't get enough attention because I think if it got more attention, there would be fewer of them placed because body image is such an issue for young women. Like 93% of young girls don't like their bodies. With social media, it's only gotten worse. But breast implant illness is a real thing. Oh, high five. Thank you for saying that. Not very many doctors do. No. And there's actually a spec study done on people who have breast implants, implants showing lower blood flow to their brain. So there's a level of toxicity. I'm friends with Yolanda Hadid who wrote a book called Believe Me. And she writes about lime and mold and heavy metals. But the one thing that really made the biggest difference was getting her breast implants out. The spec tells you three things. Good activity, too little or too much. And then our job, my job, is to balance it. So if it's low in activity, when it's stimulated, if it's high in activity, we want to calm it down. The image on the left is our resident example of a really healthy brain. Not that many people in the world that have a really healthy brain. Just make a list of 10 of your friends. And that's what we'll do. It becomes crystal clear. So the top left image, we're looking underneath the brain. Top is the front part of the brain. The bottom is the back. The bottom right image, we're looking down from the top. And then one side, then the other side. That's our head injury. This is the cerebellum back here. These are the... The little booty. The booty of the brain. The booty of the brain. The image is on the right. Blue is average activity. Red is the top 15%. This is really active. White is the top 8%. And it should be here in the cerebellum. That's why it's not my brain and it's not white enough. Here's your brain. What you have been through, you have a stunningly beautiful brain. When I'm like... That's mine on the left. That's me. This is you. It looks like the one that you just showed me. It does. So, super healthy. Okay. So, you have a beautiful brain. When you leave here, I want you to go. Despite the fact that I had a couple of concussions. Because I live mostly a healthy life. And I've really been working hard to get... To feel better. Your brain looks really good. Now, it can be better. How would you know, based on looking at my brain, if I have damage from a concussion? So you can see right here? Uh-huh. Okay. That's a good question. A dent. It's like a... Is it an imbalance perhaps? And then you can see here. If we go back to our healthy guy. See how full that is? Okay. Okay. And we go here. Okay. It's sort of like it got pinched. Okay. Yeah. And your temporal lobes. They're these guys here. They sit in a cavity. Uh-huh. It's called the middle cranial fossa. The temporal fossa. Right here. And it's surrounded by bone. And sharp bones. And so at some point when you hit the wall. Bad design. Even with a helmet on. Right? Yeah. Because what do the helmets do? Absorb some of the energy. Absorb some of the energy, but still inside your brain does this. Because your brain is not anchored inside it's floats. And water. So going 200 miles an hour. And then stop. Your brain is doing this. Uh-huh. So you have a biology. So that's your brain and your body that you've been working really hard to heal. You have a psychology, your mind. When you train it to help you rather than hurt you. There's a social circle which is your relationships. And there's a spiritual circle which is so what does all this mean? What is your deepest sense of meaning and purpose? And I think understanding anybody you have to understand them in these four circles. And getting them well. Getting them so for you it's helping you be optimal. Right? It's all four circles. So what are the biological things you can do? What are the psychological things? So we call it killing ants. That's where EMDR is to reprocess developmental traumas. And I think anybody that's had a big successful career. It's a lot of little traumas along the way with it. Right? Yeah. In 1986 I wrote this cool book called The Sabotage Factor. All the ways we mess ourselves up from getting love. And I created an exercise called the One Page Miracle. On one piece of paper, write down what you want. Relationships. Uh-huh. Work. Money. Emotional, spiritual help. What do you want? And so I did not. And then I've taught all of my patients since then. I want you to do the One Page Miracle. Because I believe even though I have worked really hard for a very long time, I'm thinking about those four circles all the time. So I don't get burned out. And in 40 years I haven't been burned out. Because it's like balance. Right? If I'm not doing this hard, my relationships are okay. Or my health is okay. But I'm always working on all four circles all the time. From a bright mind standpoint, what are the things to do? So blood flow, there's some supplements we can talk about. Hyperbaric oxygen. I'd be a huge fan of that for you. I have one at home. I literally have it in my bedroom. I would use it. How many times have you been in it? I only used it after surgery for like a week. And then I used it the week before my marathon. I guess I don't know the value of sporadic use because it's a soft chamber. So it's just the... I'm a huge fan. Okay. So any is good. I would go in 40 times. See that's what I mean. And that's overwhelming because I leave literally every week at some point for... So do it once or twice a week. And that's good. And that's awesome. All right, great. And just go target 40. Okay. Because your brain is awesome. Yeah. But it could be more awesome. Okay, great. For toxins, you have your own relationship with alcohol and caffeine. You're not drinking so much of like you need to stop. And how much caffeine do you drink? I probably drink... I'll just call it two cups a day. Do the other things right. You can make one of them green tea that would be even better. Okay. Because green tea has caffeine. What about matcha? Does that substitute? Matcha could be better still. Matcha is even better than green tea. Great. No, green tea is the best. Because of the theming. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Questions? What would you recommend the highest for brain health overall? Like if there was sort of like a master tablet, like if there was the 10 commandments, but maybe there was five or three or one. So these are the most healing. So I think of bright minds. Blood flow. How are we going to get you even better blood flow? So exercise, which we're already doing. Hyperbaric oxygen. A huge fan of that. Foods that increase blood flow like beets, cayenne pepper. I mean, if you go, okay, three things. Brain envy. You got to care about it. You have the beautiful brain and it can be better. So I want you every day, it's good for my brain or bad for it. It's good for my brain. This is going to get me a better brain or not a better brain. Right. I mean, like I'm totally bang. I want a better brain.
