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OPTIMIZE YOUR HORMONES TO FEEL YOUR BEST

When hormones go wrong it can affect your entire life! And if you include ADD, depression, bipolar, or schizophrenia it's a recipe for disaster unless you are equipped with the tools you need. Understanding your hormones is key to managing your life, relationships and health.

4 Sneaky Reasons You’re Forgetting Things

Are you in your 40s or 50s and wondering where your sharp memory went? Well, I can tell you that you’re not the only one. I’ve been hearing this same complaint from several friends—all of whom are in perimenopause or have recently reached menopause. While I can honestly say nature is in part to blame,…

How Past Trauma Can Mess with Your Hormones

It’s widely recognized that growing up in an abusive home environment or surviving physical trauma can impact your psychological well-being. I know this only too well because I had a chaotic upbringing, which I describe in raw, uncensored detail in my new book The Relentless Courage of a Scared Child, which comes out January 5,…

Your PMS Rescue Plan

Cramps. Bloating. Mood swings. Premenstrual syndrome (PMS) can really get you down. If you find yourself struggling each month in the days before Aunt Flo arrives, it’s time to get serious. We’re taught from a young age that PMS is just an inevitable part of being a woman and that there’s nothing you can do…

Foods To Balance Hormones At THAT Stage Of Life

I recently heard from a Brain Warrior who, after a lifetime of having a healthy weight, began struggling with postmenopausal weight gain despite eating organic foods, taking high-quality supplements, and doing intermittent juice fasts. All of a sudden at age 47, she started feeling hungry all the time and as a result, she put on…

7 Medications That Are Depleting Your Nutrients

I meet with so many Warriors who tell me they’re eating nutrient-dense foods, so they wonder if they need to take supplements too. I usually tell them that even if they’re consuming high-quality foods, they may not be getting the benefit from all the nutrients they contain. Why not? If you’re taking any kind of…

Herbs That Curb Cramps

Menstrual cramps can really cramp your Warrior lifestyle, sometimes pushing you to choose the couch over that karate class. That’s not the only way menstrual pain impacts your brain health. Studies in the journal PAIN show that cramps can also lower your ability to pay attention and cause abnormal changes in your gray matter. When…

Is It Time To Fire Your Doctor?

My daughter Chloe’s second-grade teacher knew something was wrong. She felt like her whole life was unraveling. All of a sudden, this very intelligent, organized educator couldn’t concentrate anymore. She was experiencing brain fog and couldn’t focus. “This isn’t normal for me,” she said. Since she had a known thyroid issue and said she had…

Heartbeet Smoothie by Chef Honor Harvey for Tana Amen BSN RN

Feel The Healing Power Of A Heartbeet Smoothie

I asked my Chef to create a brand new recipe for my Brain Warrior Tribe as a Valentine’s Day gift. Medicinal quality food that tastes delicious but also helps to heal and nurture those suffering brain health issues. You’re going to love this smoothie! HEALTH BENEFITS: Beets: Increase blood flow! Excellent for brain health! Hemp…

Quick Tips To Feel Better Fast

For many of us, summer is the perfect time to start focusing on new health habits. If you start with simple steps that help you feel better fast, and quickly increase your energy, focus and motivation, you’ll be more likely to gain positive momentum toward your goals. Since your brain is the control center for…

Change Your Life In A Powerful Way

I wanted to take a minute or two to reflect with you all about the journey we have been on together, and how we arrived at leading a movement of Brain Health Warriors. For me, after practicing and learning to love martial arts, being a warrior is symbolic of overcoming. Warriors don’t have an easy…

Why I’m Not On the Evening News: Balancing Hormones

Your hormones play a critical role in the way you think, feel, act and look. I admit, I’m in the lotions and potions stage of life and balancing my hormones are at the center of feeling great in my early fifties. It also keeps me sane and keeps me from driving my family crazy. Did…

Supplements That Match Your Health

How great would it be… if we heard this from our doctors:

"Take two multivitamins, and call me in the morning."

Watch this video to discover what you can do for your health with a supplement regiment!

Know Your Important Health Numbers

Let’s play "Fill in the Blanks" and see how much you REALLY know about your health!

Dump Dairy Like A Bad Boyfriend: 3 Reasons To Break Up For Good

OK girlfriend, it’s time to dump the dairy. I know what you’re thinking… “What? But milk does a body good!”. You have been told that if you have not “got milk” you are missing out on something. And you have seen a constellation of movie stars and celebrities smiling at you from beneath their milk…

Ease MANopause With Diet & Exercise

Ladies, I’m not talking about how the man in your life responds to your menopause. This is about the “mid-life change” that occur for men. It’s often referred to as “Andropause”. Male menopause may be a bit controversial medically, and certainly it isn’t the universal, predictable milestone that female menopause is, but truly, some guys…

Men & The John Wayne Syndrome

June is Men’s Health Month, an annual effort to get guys to focus on their health. Women are way ahead of men on this, which may be why we live longer (an average of 81.3 years compared to 76.2 years for men). It’s time to wake up men: in the battle of the sexes, women…

How Stress Sabotages Your Health

We’re learning more and more about the surprising reach and power stress has over us. Would you have guessed that food high in fat and sugar (aka junk food) is worse for your health when you’re under stress? A study from the University of California, San Francisco suggests that two women whose diets are high…

Great News about Exercise

Here is some fantastic news for women: researchers in Europe have found that daily exercise cuts the risk of breast cancer, regardless of a woman’s age or weight. The “age” and “weight” findings are surprising and hugely important. We’ve known for years that exercise can reduce some women’s risk of breast cancer, but earlier studies…

Always choose grass fed beef - Tana Amen BSN RN - The Brain Warriors Way

Is Grass-Fed Beef Worth the Money?

I won’t ruin your day by telling you how your hamburger gets to your plate. But if you have a picture in your mind of cattle grazing serenely in a green and lovely pasture, I can tell you that most of them raised for food in the United States aren’t so lucky. But the burgeoning…

Brain Warriors Choose Organic Food - Tana Amen BSN RN

Why Buy Organic?

Organic foods cost more than conventional ones, and they’re said to be no more nutritious. So why buy organic? The Annals of Internal Medicine published a study that turned out to be quite controversial. After reviewing 17 human studies and 223 studies of nutrient and contaminant levels in unprocessed fruits, vegetables, grains, milk, eggs, chicken,…