The Top 5 Ways to Overcome These Sleep Stealers
Most people know that ADD/ADHD can cause symptoms of distractibility, impulsivity, inattentiveness, hyperactivity and irritability. But did you know that ADD/ADHD can also affect your sleep? When you...
View Article12 Prescriptions for Creating a Brain Healthy Life – Part 2
In Part 1 of this blog series, you discovered how brain health is the key to a happy, successful, and fulfilling life, and we outlined the first 6 prescriptions for creating a brain healthy life. Here...
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Use Your Head and Get Out of the Game
The dangers of playing football, at any level, have been well documented. Though the sport has made modest attempts at protecting its players in recent years, such safeguards simply aren’t enough. The...
View ArticleADHD or OCD? The Best Way You Can Know for Sure
Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) is a national health crisis that continues to grow, yet remains one of the most misunderstood and incorrectly treated illnesses today. ADHD, which adds a hyperactive...
View ArticleIs Your Diet Making You Depressed?
Getting proper nutrition is essential for healthy brain function and a better body. For example, studies have shown that your body works better if you eat nine servings of fruit and vegetables a day....
View Article4 Ways to Detox Your Brain and Your Life
With age comes a tendency to rely on feeling that symptoms of memory loss, lack of focus, headaches, and fatigue are normal. However, let’s explore the proper explanation for these feelings as: Toxins...
View Article8 Do-It-Yourself Tips for Brain Improvement
No matter your age, income, IQ, or education, there are dozens of ways to help your neurons grow, stretch, and branch into a younger, more beautiful brain every single day. Here are a few easy...
View ArticleMental Health Attack: How Can We Help Veterans
Wars are not over when the shooting stops. They live on in the lives, memories, bodies, and brains of those who fight them. We want to share a story of a former patient Max Cleland. Forty-eight years...
View ArticleHelping the Military Address PTSD – Jill’s Journey of Healing
For many years, Jill didn’t talk about the burning aircraft that chased her in nightmares, or that she had insomnia and couldn’t get more than 3-4 hours of sleep at night. She had brushed the issues...
View ArticleBreakthrough Anti-Aging Treatment You Never Heard Of
It is no wonder the anti-aging industry is worth hundreds of billions of dollars with the myriad of popular creams, lotions, and supplements. But, there is one cutting edge treatment you might not...
View ArticleTired All the Time? You Might Have Sleep Apnea
Do you frequently fall asleep during the day? Are you tired all the time, even when you get a good night’s sleep? Have others noticed that you snore or make choking noises when you sleep? If you...
View ArticleThe Most Important 7 Hours of the Day
A good night’s sleep has a hard time getting the respect it deserves in our 24/7 world. But lack of quality sleep can make anyone’s health and memory take a nose dive. “Nearly every disease killing us...
View ArticleIs Lack of Sleep Killing You?
“I’ll sleep when I’m dead.” Sadly, that joking remark has become the motto of many overachievers in our society. The list of reasons why we pass up a good night’s sleep is extensive. It’s estimated...
View ArticleIs it Just a Phase? Or Something More? Understanding Depression in Teens
All teenagers get moody and anxious as they go through adolescence, right? Well, while it may be a cliché to think of teens as sad and moody, there may be something making many teen’s lives harder...
View Article5 Ways to Boost Your Emotional Flexibility
It is important to be able to “keep your cool” and remain flexible with your emotions throughout life’s ups and downs. This ability allows you to adapt more effortlessly to new obstacles, situations,...
View ArticleDepression and Young Girls, are Rates Increasing?
Increasing Rates of Depression in Girls As rates of depression among the girl demographic increases, it gives pause to how this will affect future generations of adults. We pride ourselves on removing...
View Article5 Critical Steps To Parenting A Difficult Child
Parenting a child is one of the most important responsibilities any of us ever undertake. Yet, it does not require any special training or prior experience. It has been said that parents make most of...
View ArticleHealthy Food Rules for Your Workplace
At Amen Clinics, we feel the most important asset of any company is the collective brain health of all its employees. Healthy nutrition combined with proper lifestyle choices are critical strategies...
View Article1 in 5 Teens Have Already Suffered a Concussion
Brain trauma can cause significantly decreased function in a person’s brain. Even though we have seen that brain damage can be reversed to some degree, for the best quality of life, a never-damaged...
View ArticleThe Five Horsemen of Aging
Do you think how you age and when you die is left to the fate of good or bad genes? Think again. “Only about 5 to 20 percent of the aging process has to do with our genes,” says Johnny Bowden, author...
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