269: Neuroscience Secrets to Happiness with Dr. Daniel Amen

30mg of this specific extract of saffron is equally effective as antidepressant medication to boost your mood. Saffron also has studies showing it enhances memory. It also has studies show that it enhances sexuality. There's actually two studies showing it can reverse the side effects of SSRIs.

One of the most important things I discovered is you want to supplement your brain, because 90% of Americans do not eat 5 servings of fruits and vegetables a day, and you end up with deficits in things like omega-3 fatty acids, vitamin D, magnesium.

Americans are the unhappiest they've been since the Great Depression. Before the pandemic, we were at epidemic levels of addiction, depression, suicide.

The research on Bobby McFerrin's 'Don't Worry, Be Happy' song is the opposite. The people who have low levels of anxiety actually die early from accidents and preventable illnesses.

If you have low frontal lobe function, you're much more likely to be unhappy. Optimizing the physical function of your brain is crucial to happiness.

You have to teach your mind to help you rather than just let it be the wild west that hurts you.