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Daniel Amen: “The drugs [teenage girls are using] is turning on or off…”

Featuring: Daniel Amen, Founder and CEO of Amen Clinics | National

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The 11 Risk Factors That Are Destroying Your Brain - Dr Daniel Amen

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So you have this odd three generation window where, you know, month eight, month nine, everybody's together kind of in a way. No, that's exactly right. And teenage girls need to know they are carrying their babies. And so The drugs [teenage girls are using] is turning on or off certain genes to make illness more or less likely. Not in them, but in their babies and their grandbabies. And another new study that just like exploded my mind, they looked at aspartame. So the sweetener that's in diet sodas, it made the mice anxious, but it also made their babies anxious and their Grandbabies, anxious. (40:12–40:26)

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Asserts that drug use in teenage girls can affect the health of future generations through genetic changes.

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