Faith Food Fitness FOCUS Friends

1. Faith Food Fitness FOCUS Friends “God gave you a big brain for a reason.”

2. Maverick

3. 1972… How do you know unless you look?

4. 1979 … Fell in love with psychiatry because it has potential to change generations

5. 1991 … Brain SPECT Imaging

6. Healthy Brain SPECT Scans Surface View Active View

7. Healthy vs 2 Strokes Healthy Stroke

8. Healthy vs Alzheimer’s Disease Healthy Alzheimer’s

9. Healthy vs Traumatic Brain Injury Healthy TBI

10. Healthy vs Drug Abuse Healthy Drug Affected

11. Healthy vs OCD Healthy OCD

12. Healthy vs Bipolar Disorder Healthy Bipolar Disorder

13. 1992 … All Day Conference on SPECT in Psychiatry For slides, TEXT name & email to (949) 220-0891

14. Without Imaging

15. Psychiatrists only medical specialists who rarely looks at organ they treat • Cardiologists look • Neurologists look • Orthopedists look • All other specialties look • Psychiatrists guess

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

17. Before Imaging

18. 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 For slides, TEXT name & email to (949) 220-0891

19. 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

20. 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?

21. Not Looking at the Brain Hurts 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

22. Ineffectively Treated Brain Problems Are Expensive & Painful! • 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 • Underachievement • School failure • Job failure • Relationship problems • Legal problems • Failed therapy attempts • Multiple failed med trials

23. Imaging Showed Connection Between Physical and Mental HealthDinosaur Syndrome

26. Attending Religious Services • Associated with obesity

28. Church healthcare initiative • 52 week program • Content delivered weekly through web • Meet in small groups • 15,000 people in project • Results are spectacular!!

29. At 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!!

30. Your Brain’s INVOLVED In Everything You Do!! • How you: • think • feel • act • interact

31. When your brain works right – You work right When your brain has trouble, you have trouble in your life

32. Healthy Brain Happier Physically healthier Wealthier More successful Unhealthy Brain Sadder Sicker Poorer Less successful

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

34. 4 Steps to Achieve FOCUS Brain Envy Clear Focus Kill the ANTs Get Your Mind Right

35. 1. Develop Brain Envy

36. My Brain Age 37 Age 57

37. 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

38. 2. Clear Focus and Purpose

39. “Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? (1 Cor6:19)

40. 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

41. My Anchor Images

42. 3. Kill the ANTs

43. Be transformed by the renewing of your mind. (Romans 12:2)

44. Be 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.

45. 4. Focus Your Attention

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

47. Epigenetics • Habits turn on and off genes • Make illnesses more or less likely • Choices affect generations

48. Get it Give it away Keep it forever

49. Marianne

50. Marianne