TRANSCRIPTS EPISODES 1–8 HEAL YOUR BODY, HEAL YOUR BRAIN Dr. Mark Hyman, Host TABLE OF CONTENTS EPISODE 1 The Broken Brain Epidemic / My Story ..................................................3 EPISODE 2 Gut Brain Connection: ............................................................................... 17 Getting to The Root of a Broken Brain EPISODE 3 Losing Our Minds (Alzheimer’s, Dementia & MS) ............................. 35 EPISODE 4 ADHD & Autism .........................................................................................59 EPISODE 5 Depression & Anxiety .............................................................................. 83 EPISODE 6 Traumatic Brain Injury (Accidents, Sports & More) ..........................105 EPISODE 7 7 Steps to An UltraMind (Part 1) .............................................................117 EPISODE 8 7 Steps to An UltraMind (Part 2) ...........................................................135 © 2017 Hyman Digital. 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Do you feel frustrated, because you misplace objects or forget names? Do you suffer from brain fog? Do you find it hard to focus on tasks? Do you feel your energy diminishing as the days go on? If you do, you're not alone. This is how most Americans feel. In fact, I'd say we have an epidemic on our hands. Psychiatric disorders affect 26% of our adult population. That's over 60 million Americans. Over 20% of children have some type of psychiatric disorder. Over 40 million people have anxiety and more than 20 million people have depression. 1 in 10 Americans takes an antidepressant. The use of antidepressants has tripled in the last decade. Alzheimer's disease will affect 30% and some experts say up to 50% of the people over 85, which is the fastest growing segment of our population, and will affect 106 million people by 2050. Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, is a label we now give to almost 9% of children between the ages of 8 and 15. Autism rates have increased in children from 3 in 10,000 to 1 in 166 and more. That's an 11-fold increase in the last decade. Learning disabilities affect between 5 and 10% of school-age children. These statistics are grim and the indirect cost to society, for these brain disorders, are mammoth. They include loss of productivity at school, at home, or in the workplace, accounting for loss of over $80 billion a year. I call this an epidemic of broken brains. I'm Dr. Mark Hyman. I'm a practicing Functional Medicine Physician. I'm also the director of the Cleveland Clinic Center for Functional Medicine, Founder and Director of The UltraWellness Center, and Chairman of the Board of the Institute for Functional Medicine. I'm also a 10-time New York Times best selling author. Brain health is an important topic and a personal topic for me. I'd like to take you on a journey to help you understand why. You know, I first began to discover the mysteries of the brain when I personally got sick. I went from being very healthy, riding my bike 100 miles a day, being able to memorize 30 patient’s charts, and dictate them all flawlessly the end of the day, to barely being able to walk up the stairs and not remembering where I was at the end of a sentence when I got there. It happened almost overnight. It happened, as I realized, because my whole system broke down from a number of insults, that I wasn't aware of; it was pretty startling. To be highly functional, highly capable of operating in the world, to being almost debilitated. I was really unable to function in any real way and my brain wasn't working. I had trouble remembering things. I had severe ADD. I couldn't focus on anything and had memory issues. Because no one had really figured out what it was, I sort of struggled from doctor to doctor to doctor and I went to see the psychiatrist who wanted to give me antidepressants. I saw that neurologist who wanted to give me other drugs. It was just like a whole series of different doctors and a whole series of different drugs. I realized that I wasn't really depressed, I wasn't really demented, I wasn't really having ADD, that something was wrong and that I needed to figure it out. I was told I had chronic fatigue syndrome which means nothing other than you’re tired and feel lousy all the time. I was told I had depression. I was told I was stressed and was recommended to take anti-anxiety medications. So, I was given antidepressants and anxiety medications, ADD medications, and none of them really helped because I didn't deal with the root cause. I was very frustrated because they gave me all these labels, but they didn't actually tell me what was wrong with me. It was like, I knew that something was real and it wasn't just depression or stress, because I was fine one minute and I wasn't the next minute. EPISODE 1 – The Broken Brain Epidemic / My Story © 2017 Hyman Digital. All Rights Reserved. 4 So, when physicians said that to me, when my doctors told me I was depressed or I had ADD or I needed medication or I was anxious, it made me angry, because I felt that I was given these labels, but I was given no road map to get better. I realized that, as physicians, we're trained to actually label people and often tell them it's psychological when it's very physical. Because we don't know what to do and we don't know how to find the answer and we don't know the questions to ask. So, we just assume, well, if you're having all these vague symptoms, it must be in your head. I knew it wasn't. Although it was affecting my head, it wasn't in my head. Our broken brains cause many problems, such as anxiety, depression, bipolar disease, personality disorders, addictions, obsessive compulsive disorder, attention deficit disorder, autism, Asperger syndrome, learning difficulties, and dyslexia. They take many shapes, including psychotic disorders such as schizophrenia. And all the neurodegenerative disorders of aging, especially Alzheimer's, dementia, and Parkinson's disease. In Episode One, of the Broken Brain docuseries, I brought together some of the world's leading brain and health experts to talk about the increase of broken brain syndrome. Just how bad is this epidemic? Let's find out. Dr. Datis Kharrazian: Well, for the most part, when you look at statistics for all types of neurodegenerative diseases, they're all on the rise. We know that all developmental disorders are on the rise. If you look at childhood developmental disorders, I mean, there's some stats that are saying that 1 out of 8 children in the US have some type of developmental delay. Whether it's dyslexia, or autism, or attention deficit, or hyperactivity disorder. So, it's really an epidemic, and it's really growing. And we're not really doing anything to change that. Dr. Mark Hyman: In addition, there are brain problems that fall on the lighter side of the broken brain continuum. While many psychiatrists and neurologists wouldn't qualify these problems as treatable diseases, they still cause unnecessary suffering for so many. These problems include chronic stress, lack of focus, poor concentration, brain fog, anger, mood swings, sleep problems, or just feeling a little bit anxious or depressed most of the time. Dr. Drew Ramsey: The statistics are grim no matter what way you slice them. In terms of disability, depression is the top cause of disability worldwide. It is going to be, or already is, the top cause of disability in America. When you look at the most common mental health disorders in America, it's been like 40 million Americans have a diagnosis of an anxiety disorder. Then just look at things like… what… there's now 60,000 overdoses in the opioid crisis.