A year ago I believed I had early onset Alzheimer’s 😳 So i went to the Atlanta Amen Clinic and discovered I have ADD. Additionally with what’s called The Ring of Fire. My supplement and exercise program has been a game changer. I recommend it to everyone.
Don’t waste your money. There’s no point in getting a SPECT scan. If you need help, go to a psychiatrist who won’t make you pay $5k to inject you with radiation for a colorful picture. If you want to know about your brain’s strengths and weaknesses, get cognitive testing done. That will tell you more.
Read books, learn something new all the time, get sleep, eat plant based, exercise, have loving relationships which you clearly do with each other 💗, positive thoughts, you do that well also. Thank you for doing this video. It’s a lot of money without clear cut results from his studies. Stay beautiful💜
It's not that easy as the above for some. And that some need extra support or help. If you have a family member going through severe mental health issues then I'm pretty sure you won't just settle on this.
Thanks for sharing this. I wish I had gotten this when I was younger. A lot of people struggle because "self-help" doesn't work. It's a worthwhile investment to get more specific information on how to help yourself. Watching you go through the process takes away some of the anxiety about what it will be like. What about follow ups, if you get a follow up scan it would be interesting to see how it changed. Also, a follow up on how your therapy went and whether the whole thing gave you significant improvements. Also, you want to post videos and get views and comments, but then you don't go back and answer the questions from the viewers.
@@ns8594 i’m going tomorrow i will let you know how it goes! but i definitely would recommend it. if your 15 year old is really struggling and you guys need to know how to treat them then i would recommend it. i’m really hoping this will help my anxiety, adhd, and depression!
@@ns8594 hey there! i got it done, and i highly recommend it. it’s very easy testing, and doesn’t last that long. its a quick and pretty simple process. you do have to get an IV both days which was probably the worst part, but other than that it was nice! it is extremely expensive though, so i do want to warn you about that
@@sarahmezaael I hope this isn’t too late but please don’t give Amen money. SPECT scans are useless for mental disorders. He only does them as a selling point because he wants money. You can get better help from an honest psychiatrist, unlike Amen. Or you can get neuropsych testing which will tell you more about your brain than those stupid and useless SPECT scans.
While this is an exciting topic, it would’ve been helpful to include the appointment to hear the doctor explain the scan results. As a graduate student I looked forward to the clinical data. I appreciate the links.
Great info! I did all the free assessments they have and you’re right even those results helped my family tremendously! I’m so glad you shared your experience. I know Dr. Amen has been lobbying to get SPECT scans added to insurance 🙏
@@nikangel5362 Please don’t be fooled by Dr. Amen. I am autistic and a neuroscience student who works in a lab. The psychiatrists in the lab know Amen is a fraud. SPECT scans cannot help you understand ADHD and autism. Amen will put radiation into your child for no reason other than to show you a colorful picture of his brain that gives no info. Save your money and go to a regular psychiatrist. If you want better info on your son’s cognitive skills and weaknesses, spend the money on neuropsychological evaluation.
@@sarahmezaael Don’t do it. I can point you to videos showing how Amen is a scammer. He gives most of his patients SPECT scans which are both expensive, radioactive, and pointless. I’m a neuroscience student working in a lab. We know it’s a scam. Please save your money and go to a better professional.
I love how you define that you’re good at handling emotions but the hardware is still there beneath the software... I’m going to include that when I explain to my friend why I support brainMD. Thanks!
Not everyone believes this will help them. I have an appointment next month in Seattle. I am going in with a bit of skepticism. As I do when my do adds a new med to help the other med side effects. At 57yr old they shotgun approach for my ADD isn't helping my life quality. If its a rip off ill be the first to say so. I know diet and supplements are part of the plan. If there suggestions are to costly thru BrainMD I have other ways. I researched the drs I am Zooming for my results and many are from highly regarded backgrounds. Do your home work for any procedure. If you work the plan and you don't think it helps you have more information than before you started. Adult ADD is real and co-morbid problems are tricky. Ill keep you posted and thanks for the insight about scanning while snoozing.
Everything has a learning curve even Ripoffs teach you something. Healing such a complex organ takes information to choose what path you would like to follow. If you have some facts please share. If not, you do you.
@@destresschiropractic as I said. I am eager to go. But about the 5k I have spent on my journey with them, I have e spent way more a year in chiropractic. Some say waste my money Keep commenting so others go to your site click bait. I choose mt path you choose yours. 200 000 scans and many of the footballers. Some say Chiro is a rip off. Let's not make this about you. I have had chiropractic, acupuncture, talk therapy, meds, and much more I can find evidence for and against everything from eastern to western medicine. I have joined OM from one taste and spent nothing but learned a lot how about lets see what I learn and go from there. Money is spent and booked. Click along little no named doggie.
I have a few more apts included with my package. They rested a focused brain and a resting brain. My brain at rest was just as busy as my first scan. They suggested a sleep study in the future. We ruled out bipolar. I have depression and anxiety which I have not previously discussed the anxiety with the Psyc Dr. I am on no stimulants currently until we solve other issues. The blood work showed im not absorbing vit D and my copper is too high. My cholesterol is way high. We are testing more hormones and gut health for vit absorbing problems. I started Cymb@lt@. Replace the symbols with a. Love my 2 dr. Zoomed everything. Well and complete start to better health. Highly recommend this evaluation. I was waiting for the complete path but this is the start of my journey
I wish i could of gotten this done for my 12 yr old non-verbal Autistic Son. I wrote Dr. AMEN about 5 yrs ago, asking if it was possible to do a pro-bono. Being a Single Mom and all. Unfortunately never heard back from his team. Bummer. Hopefully insurance will cover it someday. 🙏
@jahgirl8647 You both dodged a bullet. Amen is a scammer. SPECT imaging for Autism is completely useless and a waste of $5k. If you want help for your child, here are some things that will save you so much money and get you better help: psychiatrist, psychologist, and neuropsychological evaluation.
@@bouabdellaouibasma4173 depends on what you choose and what you struggle with. I did a 2 scan resting and concentrating. 2 different doctors discussed my scans one started the meds for anxiety and depression (Cymb@lt@) before we added Rit@lin 5 months latter anxiety can be hard to support if you are triggered by stimulates. I paid 5k but that included the natural path who added some tests for my stomach issues and hormones because of sleep disturbances. This is very much complex not just a brain scan.
Well done people. Thanks for this overview. Amen clinics should go public, I truly believe if more people discover the premise of Dr. Amen this can become the next blockchain...
Never go public if you mean become a public company. If that happens stockholders will be the owners and they care only about profits not what’s best for the clients or the science.
@@SH-jv5uf I hear you. Though it might be a good life science company that actually does care for the science, while being publicly owned so they can lower the cost of treatment...
@@supreme5580 Sadly, the system doesn't work as you seem to believe. I am not an attorney, but have worked in business, and you can check what I am saying with an attorney who understands how the Securities and Exchange Commission works. Publically traded CORPORATIONS MUST ALWAYS FIRST PRIORITIZE PROFITS FOR SHAREHOLDERS, not value to customers. If corporations do not prioritize shareholders first, both the corporations and the corporate executives involved in not first prioritizing shareholders can be sued for enormous amounts of money, which may bankrupt them.
Yes. Radiation is necessary for SPECT. Please never give money to Amen. You can get a better brain scan than SPECT for cheaper and without radiation (fMRI). SPECT is fine if you need it but it is useless for psychiatric disorders (fMRI is also useless for psychiatric disorders, but at least you’d get a better scan if you really wanted to see your brain). Amen is a con artist who wants your $5k.
This is the only way to know for sure, this is like a blue print for the brain just as a blood work for our health. Insurance should really cover the costs because mental health is is also a medical condition. This is very expensive for us out of pocket, sadly some have to live with illness because of $$. And also the government should cover costs because of legalization of of certain things that is made available to everyone, especially our children. Thank you for this video.
I had a very unprofessional experience speaking to the staff at Amen Clinics which discouraged me from going through with SPECT scan imagining. There are a multitude of reviews which expound upon my experience in great detail. I’m afraid this may discredit Dr Amen greatly but I do appreciate the abundance of knowledge and information he shares to the world with fervor.
That’s actually great they told you to not go through with the SPECT scan. You are one of the lucky ones. 90% of people who go there are scanned and conned out of $5,000. SPECT is useless for psychiatric disorders. So Amen is injecting people with radiation and taking their money for no reason.
I’m not sure that any of that initial stuff was all that important to my treatment. And if they were, it’d prolly turn up later, but I really can’t afford my appointments past the first $5,000
@Christian Torres walnut creek. And it's literally nothing. You get cool momentos (scans). Then they try to sell you vitamins. If you have a medical and nutritional background like I do, you can see right through their work. It's on the boarder of a scam.
@@NSWvet83 but at least the scan gives you a legitimate diagnosis. The scans and his books are really all you need. Medication wise there have genesight and genomind to tell you what meds are the best
I hope they also gave you all the results and recommendations in writing, because if they were telling me all of this stuff I would not remember at all
I just did this today, and absolutely wasted nearly 5k.. all they do is give you so much info that is pre-written based off all the paperwork I filled out and try selling you on their supplement products.. I told the Dr. “what did I pay all this money for, I didn’t learn anything I didn’t already know or already currently doing”
When you said that how did they handle it? So after this expensive scan they just want push their supplements on you and tell you to eat right and exercise?
I hope you didn't actually plunk down the $5,000 for those standard psychological tests (available to any licensed psychologist and LCSW) and subsequent naps.
@@paytongutierrez5723 My quote was $4000 is for 1 scan $5500 for 2 (main & followup) both included sessions with their doctors for 4-6 months I believe no matter what center I went to in US.
@@Drea538 It doesn’t matter if they fall asleep or not. SPECT scans are useless for psychiatric disorders. They are only good for seeing if you have a serious brain injury (TBI, stroke, Alzheimer’s). Dr. Amen is a scam artist.
Isn't it sad that our medical healthcare insurance mostly only covers reactive needs for health? There's foundational information we all should get in order to help us know that certain choices can maximize us and hopefully reduce costs and suffering as we age.
Ive only seen them recommend surgery when tumors show up. Otherwise exercise, ginko baloba, turmeric, NAC, and quitting things that cut blood flow are the most recommend based in scan results.
Good question. Supplements won’t help blood flow. The supplements Amen sells are a scam. Remember that supplements are not regulated by the FDA. If you need help, see a psychiatrist (not Amen). Amen will make you pay for SPECT just so he can earn $5k. SPECT is useless for mental disorders and they don’t change the treatment at all. Also, SPECT isn’t necessary to find tumors. Scans that don’t require radiation can easily find tumors. I’m a neuroscience student and I’ve seen how this works.
It’s a scam. You can get more effective help for cheaper through a regular psychiatrist who won’t inject radiation into you to give you a useless pretty picture of your brain. You can understand your brain better through neuropsych testing. fMRI is a better imaging tool than SPECT.
Don’t do it. SPECT scans are useless for OCD and other psychiatric disorders. They are useless for ADHD. Dr. Amen is a liar. He just wants you to spend $5k on a pointless scan. Other than that and the quack supplements he sells, he’s no different than a regular psychiatrist.
It’s approx $5,000 or at least it was last year when I called them for more info. Edit to add: not sure about insurance coverage but give them a call and they’ll tell you everything. The lady who picked up the phone was very patient and answered to all of my questions.
@@mariannpap3625 Id almost bet my life on the fact that insurance does not see this as valuable enough to pay for. They don't pay for my thermographys either. 🤷♀️
Dr. Amen has been lobbying to get SPECT scans for insurance. Since ins ignores some helpful things he put together online tests to help as much as possible and lots of articles, supplements and books.
There is only one type of anxiety, if you don’t do what your supposed to do then you get it, there is no other reason, don’t let the doctors trick you into spending more money with them, anxiety gets shit done
ATTENTION: So many people keep asking the same question about cost!!! Read the comments, people keep answering it, $5k. Ya’ll are flooding the post with nonsense.
Do you still think it’s worth it till this day? I’m a low income individual so I’d be spending a good chunk of my saving. But my mental health is very important to me so I’d be willing to make the sacrifice.
It was definitely beneficial and we see the value in it, even years later, but if this is going to be a large financial burden for you, we'd recommend starting with some of the free resources and quizzes that the Amen Clinic offers online!
@@BuildYourTribePodcast Amen is a scammer. Look into critical videos of him, and it’s very clear. Yes he helps some people, but that’s because he’s a psychiatrist like any other psychiatrist. The difference is he sells quack products and SPECT scans, which are us useless. I can’t believe how long he’s gotten away with ripping people off.
I just watched Tyler Fernengel’s brain scan, he mentioned same issue. I see scam stuff too but we did just the online tests and those helped my family tremendously. Sometimes I think most scam writers are people in same field who don’t help patients as well and want to discredit. My family is proof he helped 🥳
@@soupergiffy You have fallen for a scam, and I’m sorry. Some scams do have helpful elements. Dr. Amen is a real psychiatrist so no doubt he does some things that are helpful. The problem is that SPECT scans are useless for psychiatric issues. He is injecting people with radiation just to show a pretty picture of the brain and pretend it helps him in his treatment of mental disorders. These scans take $5,000 away from people for no reason.
I suggest you call the clinic directly near you. My appointments and follow up is just over $5k with blood work, 2 scans, computer evaluation and 2 zoom calls. But each person had different needs look at the seperate services and what you may be able to get submitted to your insurance. Good luck on your journey
I think it's important that parents shouldn't be similar in mental weakness or ability to get a mental illness, because they're mainly genetic, making children having a high possibility of having a mental illness in their lives
Hmm 🤔I’ve just read the remark below my own words. Interesting. Sad too! Don’t like to hear that this happened to this person. I’m wondering now what to think about the people who work there esp, if they seem to ignore your emails or phone calls u leave them to call. Blast it! I wish they’d STOP ✋ & realize that there r people in Canada that truly need their help!!! Come on now! 🤷♀️
What is a pet or spect brain scan, do you get injected with a contrast? Is it like MRI or ? So you get scanned twice for this? How long each take? Is it like a xray and want to limit exposure?
@@trickcyclist1 Amen is a scammer. He can help people just like any psychiatrist can (he prescribed meds), but the difference between him and an honest psychiatrist is that an honest psychiatrist won’t make you pay $5k on a useless SPECT scan. There’s no point in a SPECT scan for mentally ill people. That’s only scratching the surface of how shady he is.
Did you get a scan? Why do you have that opinion? I'm interested but don't want to throw $$$ out the window as I have a lot of stuff to address. Appreciate you input.
My husband looked into this for me and is completely sold on it. I'm a veteran with a severe tbi ptsd, just attempted suicide 4 days ago and am fresh out of inpatient. I love that he wants to help me and is hopeful for this to work, but as someone who has been struggling with a severe mental illness the last decade, I've learned that around every corner there is another somebody offering you a quick fix or a cure. So it's good to be skeptical and take your time to consider it.
His “scam” worked for our family of 6, were all much better in health, sleep, water, excise, diet, brain and supplements. Even got off all medications eventually. Not a very good scam artist when things worked.