There is a massive Mental Health problem. Are there solutions to fix this epidemic?

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We often talk about how this country has a massive Mental Health problem. It does and there's no argument. This is one of the few things that, you know, Republicans and Democrats and rich and poor and everybody can be like, yeah, we got some Mental Health issues in this country.

The real question is what are some of the solutions and who is going to pay for them? Are there ways of using alternative medicine and regular lifestyle changes to make a significant difference? Well, I believe there are and would change people's lives for the better.

Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:00:17] The problem is, is that while it's great that we can point it out, I mean, identifying the problem is obviously the very first thing we got to do before we can start solving it well, we don't say anything about it I don't know why that is.

Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:00:29] So here are the top two things you can do to eradicate depression and mental illness in your life. Exercise and testosterone, exercise actually increases testosterone so that's why it's the number one.

Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:00:44] When you exercise, what actually happens is all the little joint mechanoreceptors, all the neurology from your body that's connected to your brain, your muscle spindle, fibers, Golgi, tendon organs, all those things send tremendous amounts of information up through the joints into the spine, from the spine to spinal cord, spinal cord to the brain but it hits the cerebellum. And so all that information that to the cerebellum has to be processed. So it sends it from the cerebellum to the frontal lobe to be an actual process and function, and we make sure everything's going right.

Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:01:12] Here's the cool thing everybody talks about you only use 10% of your brain that's not necessarily accurate. What is accurate is the body can only focus energy in one spot or the other for a very long. As you increase function in the frontal lobe, you actually decrease function in the temporal lobe, the temporal lobe houses, the amygdala, the amygdala is your fear, hate, anger, terror, and all the bad stuff so you actually shut that part down.

Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:01:39] As you shut that down, the only thing that's left is a dopaminergic function, which is reward happy, Great all those things. You also get something that shifts what's called the sympathetic parasympathetic shunt back and forth.