Dr. Brody Miller: How Brain Injury Drives Addiction—and How to Heal It Naturally
Dr. Brody Miller, co-creator of Addiction Rescue, reveals how a 2012 nightclub bouncer fight caused a brain bleed, seizures, and addiction—worsened by medications like Kepra and Depakote. His seven-step natural recovery, including Truvaga vagus nerve stimulation and dopamine-balancing exercises, eliminated seizures for two years. He links behavioral addictions to brain trauma, not character flaws, and warns against toxins, heavy metals, and fear-based media like doom scrolling, which spike cortisol. Nature and selective focus, he argues, rewire resilience better than AI or quick fixes, offering lasting healing over superficial solutions. [Automatically generated summary]
And then after the injury, it got exponentially worse.
It had nothing to do that I was a bad person.
It was literally that my frontal lobe, which most brain injuries are to the front of our brain, the control center was damaged.
And so it wasn't shutting off behavior and sending the right signals to the rest of my brain.
When I learned how to strengthen the front of my brain and boost my dopamine levels naturally over time, everything honestly changed for me.
Welcome to Brighteon.com.
I'm Mike Adams, and today we've got an amazing interview for you.
And if it feels like 2026 already slapped you upside the head and gave you a concussion, well, we have the perfect guest for you today.
It's Dr. Brody Miller, who is the co-creator of an amazing course called Addiction Rescue.
But we're going to talk about much more than just addictions.
We're going to talk about mental trauma, how to heal, how to recover, much more today with Dr. Miller.
So welcome to the show, Dr. Miller.
It's an honor to have you on today.
Yo, I'm super stoked to be here, Mike.
Appreciate it.
Well, it's great to have you on.
This is the first time that we've met and spoken, but I'm so excited to have you here because I would say that right now, this is the most mentally challenging time for a lot of people for a variety of reasons, economic relationships, you know, uncertainty, things like that.
Can you give us your overview?
Well, first, how about, can you introduce yourself to our audience?
What it is that you do, your focus, and then give us context of what you're seeing in the world.
Yeah, I would love to.
So what I do is specialize in concussion and brain injury recovery as a natural way.
And what I mean by naturally is the natural ability of the brain to heal itself.
And I originally got into that because I myself experienced a very traumatic brain injury 12 years ago.
And so I was outside of a nightclub and I ended up getting in a fight with a bouncer.
And that was the starting point to my own recovery.
And so I got knocked out and I experienced a severe traumatic brain injury.
And unfortunately, over 100,000 people ended up finding it went viral on social media.
And eventually that led to a brain bleed.
And it was causing me to have grand maul seizures.
And because of that, I had about three grand maul seizures on top of the memory loss, on top of the anxiety and the depression.
And so what we thought at that time was to the best thing to do was to get brain surgery.
They cut open my brain.
They removed that this cavernous malformation, basically a benign brain tumor.
And like thinking as if that was going to fix my issues, that it would stop the seizures.
So we were very optimistic at that time.
And it didn't.
And so some more time went on.
Mike and I was on all kinds of these horse pills, these seizure meds like Kepra, Depacote, et cetera, et cetera, that had all of these side effects.
And it didn't stop the intensity or frequency of my seizures.
Wait, wait, how frequently were you having these seizures?
I was having about three a month.
And so when I would have one, you have a grand maul, you lose consciousness and you'll hit your head on the floor.
So I would have even more concussions because of that.
Or it hit my nose, etc.
And if something's not stopping the intensity or frequency of what it is you're trying to stop, you start to second guess things with all of those different side effects.
And those side effects, as I understand it, from what I've studied, the anti-seizure medications can be extreme in side effects, including radical mood changes as well.
Is that some of what you experienced?
It is.
And in fact, this is why I ended up co-creating this course with Sean Cohen because I took a medicine.
I was actually in a drug rehab center and I was taking this medication called Kepra.
And I had such a severe mental reaction breakdown that they ended up having to take me to a psych ward for a couple nights.
So it was that severe of a reaction to Kepra.
So then how did you make it through all of this?
And now you are a doctor of naturopathy.
So I'm assuming you've wanted to figure out how to heal yourself.
Exactly.
It started probably similar to how your journey started.
It was kind of a rock bottom point.
And I knew deep down in my gut that there had to be something better out there, that there had to be something.
And so eventually it led me to watching a YouTube video with Tom Billieu and Dr. Joe Dispenza.
And Dr. Dispenza was talking about how we have 60,000 to 70,000 thoughts a day and that 90% of those are the same exact as the same as the day before.
And not only that, that if you could change your thinking, that you could start to change your life.
And so that hit me like a ton of bricks.
And so all of a sudden, I was no longer a victim, somebody who had a broken brain or somebody that needed to be on medications for the rest of my life.
And it was like, okay, well, step by step, what can I do?
Start with food, meditation, breathing exercises, just general exercise, brain health exercises, anything I could get my hands on.
I just became a learner.
I became, now I'm a lifelong learner, and I'm proud of that.
And a teacher to others.
But were you able to then, over time, eliminate all the medication, eliminate all the seizures, and restore your brain health?
Yeah, I'm proud to say I'm now completely, I'm two years seizure-free.
And that's like a miracle to me.
And the last thing that I found that helped me immensely was a vagus nerve stimulator because I reduce my seizures to about once every nine to 10 months, but I was still having one.
But now I'm two years free since I've been using this vagus nerve stimulator.
Wait, so what tell us about this vagus nerve stimulator?
Is it a device?
It's a device.
So I pull it up right here.
I don't have any affiliation to the company, although I'm friends with the CEO of the company.
It's called Truvaga, vagus nerve stimulator.
And you spray a couple on your vagus nerve and then you stimulate it for about, you know, basically electrically stimulate your vagus nerve for only two minutes.
What per day?
I had some breakthroughs.
Two minutes in the morning, two at night to start.
I see.
Non-invasive, natural product, and safe.
Wow.
Well, that's remarkable.
And, you know, people having a lot of problems with vagus nerve function because they're taking like GLP-1 injections that are also paralyzing the vagus nerve, which is not good.
Correct.
And you think about how stressful times are today.
We're mostly all stuck, and sometimes myself included, in fight, flight, freeze, or fawn.
And this was one of the fastest things that I found to get my nervous system and vagus nerve back in a parasympathetic state.
So I found it immensely helpful.
Well, okay, that's really fascinating.
Let me mention, too, that you're the co-creator of the course called Addiction Rescue that we are featuring at rangerdeals.com.
If you go to Ranger Deals, it's right here up top.
Addiction Rescue.
You click on that and you get to the page that shows you all about this course with Dr. Brodie Miller here and Sean Cohen, our longtime friend of the show.
And you can go through, you can register for this course.
You can purchase the course if you wish.
You can find out about it there.
And I strongly recommend that you check this out.
And this is about much more than just sort of standard addictions.
Maybe that's the wrong term, but common addictions.
Can you talk about that, Dr. Miller?
This isn't just for people who have alcohol, gambling, sex addictions, shopping addiction.
This is about much more than that.
People can be addicted to just bad behavior or bad thinking, correct?
Behavioral addictions, exactly.
And there's so everybody thinks of addiction.
They think of hard drugs.
They think of alcohol, maybe gambling or pornography.
But when you think about it, we're all addicted to something.
Some are addicted to work, sugar, pain pills.
We're talking, you know, you could go on and on, sleeping medications, even just to negative thinking in those types of patterns because it's all wired in the brain.
And one of the biggest revelations I ever had was that my addiction was not a character issue.
And God's honest truth is that it was a brain health issue.
And then when I was able to fix my neurology, suddenly I was able to control my impulses and my cravings.
It doesn't happen overnight, but we talk about in this course how to reset your dopamine naturally through foods, through education, through emotional regulation and mental exercises that you can do to rewire how this is working.
Yeah.
That's really important for people to hear.
And I don't mean to pry, but are you willing to share with our audience?
Because they may be challenged with the same things that you went through.
But what addiction did you, did you have a substance addiction before?
Are you willing to share that?
Absolutely.
Because it's part of my story and it's going to help others.
So even prior to the accident where I was involved with that bouncer, I was an addict.
I was addicted to a prescription pain medication.
I was addicted to Xanax.
I was addicted to alcohol.
Those were the main three.
And then after the injury, it got exponentially worse.
My risk, my behavior became erratic.
And I took even more drugs.
And to be honest with the people that are listening, I have overdosed a few times in my history.
But the fact is that when I realized it had nothing to do that I was a bad person, it was literally that my frontal lobe, which most brain injuries are to the front of our brain, the control center was damaged.
And so it wasn't shutting off behavior and sending the right signals to the rest of my brain.
So when I learned how to strengthen the front of my brain and boost my dopamine levels naturally over time, everything honestly changed for me.
Wow.
And that's then what you teach or a big part of what you teach is how to restore brain function.
That's, yeah, that's the nuts and bolts of what we teach in that course.
You know, you can, in only 15 minutes a day, you can educate yourself while you're going to work or driving.
We have a real seven-step process that you can use to start to get your dopamine levels back on a natural natural threshold because dopamine levels, most people will spike their dopamine levels through like social media, but then what comes up must come down as well.
So it's about all about increasing that threshold naturally over time.
I see.
Okay.
Well, I do want to talk to you about my addiction to vibe coding soon.
But first, I want to ask you, there is a, behind you, there's a skull on the shelf.
And that skull is kind of bothering me.
I'm wondering, what is what's it there for?
What is that?
That's a great question.
So I have two things behind me.
I have the skull and I have a brain.
And the reason is, is when I'm explaining to the people I talk to, I talk about head impact, how the front of the skull gets hidden and it shakes the brain violently back and forth rapidly.
And that's what causes a brain trauma.
And so this could have been me.
So it's also a reminder to me to take life seriously because it is.
That's a pretty creepy skull.
It's got some pretty dark hollow eye sockets right there.
It's like a Halloween skull.
Yeah, I have to admit, it is a little creepy, but for educational purposes, it definitely makes the point.
Okay, understood.
And yeah, I didn't see the brain behind you because that was blocked by your head.
So now it makes sense in context.
Yeah, I got it.
So how frequent or how common is it that people suffer a traumatic kinetic injury and then they either take on new addictive behaviors or they suffer instant personality changes?
Because I've heard of people instantly acquiring new addictions based on things like organ transplants, which sounds bizarre, but that has happened before.
So what's your knowledge in this area about how sort of how quickly things can change?
They can change, you know, in the blink of an eye.
We all know that with life.
But the fact is, is there's a high, high, high correlation between addiction and brain injury or brain trauma incidence.
And it makes total sense because behavior becomes erratic.
The control center of the brain, as I mentioned, turns off.
Activity actually gets less in the frontal lobe.
And not only on top of that, stress, negative stress like a brain injury or an organ transplant actually will really knock us out of autonomic and homeostasis,
which basically means that if we experience a mental, physical, emotional, or even spiritual stressor and it knocks us out of balance, we are way more predisposed to addictions and cravings of their many forms because it's hard to control yourself when you're under that much stress, right?
Behavioral Addictions Explained00:03:51
Yeah, well, absolutely.
And my follow-up question to that is, in your knowledge and experience, how much of addictive behavior also stems from people's, for example, feeling of soullessness or a lack of feeling recognized or important in society.
And the reason I ask that is because we have this rise of AI, you know, machine intelligence that is increasingly replacing people out of the workforce.
And those people are losing a big part of their self-identity.
And I'm just wondering what are the interrelationships of those concepts?
Well, when you think about our brain, it's a meaning-making machine and it creates meaning off of every incident that's ever happened to us in our lives.
And so if you're dealing with AI and it's stealing people's meanings or sense of purpose or direction, it can be devastating.
I mean, like, quite honestly, my self-esteem used to be awful.
Like, I used to look at myself in the mirror.
I was 195 pounds and I would look at myself in the mirror kind of and hated what I saw because I was taking drugs to numb my feelings.
And I was headed nowhere.
I was on a highway to hell, basically.
And the fact is, is that your internal self-talk network, the default mode network of the brain, can be rewired over time.
You can start to think about yourself in a more positive light through positive thoughts, positive actions, even cultivating positive emotions.
So what you mentioned is such a key role.
Then let me extend that.
Let's talk about social media because I believe that social media is extremely unhealthy for the mental health across society.
And, you know, there have been documentaries about that.
There's been a lot of articles about that.
But from your point of view, what do you make of social media and how it's sort of engineered as sort of attention bait to grab your attention, but not to give you meaning?
You know what I mean?
Absolutely.
Yeah.
I mean, social media addiction is huge right now.
I mean, people are scrolling on their phones, sometimes up to five to some as high as 10 hours a day.
And it's an automatic comparison algorithm.
You will compare yourself to somebody who lives in Spain in a split second subconsciously.
And that causes hellacious behavior.
And I quite honestly believe that algorithms are manipulated to try to destroy people's self-esteems.
I've seen that time and time again.
Clearly.
So it's kind of like, whereas we live in a world of a lot of toxic chemicals and we need to understand naturopathic principles of detoxification, good nutrition in order to protect ourselves from those toxic chemicals.
We also need to do the same thing for our brains is what it sounds like, right?
Yeah, 100%.
Protect ourselves from.
It's the feedback mechanism, right?
It's input and output.
And so it works that way.
Our bodies as well, our nervous systems, it's input and output.
So if we're consuming a lot of negativity, you are what you consume.
Right, right.
And it seems like, you know, fear is often used as a control mechanism politically, even just population-wide, you know, a lot of fear.
Like every winter, as it is now, the CDC will roll out, oh, super flu is spreading across 40 cities.
Tiny Changes Add Up00:04:14
Make sure you go take this jab.
And I'm like, just more fear, BS.
It doesn't work on me.
I'm immune to that, but it works on a lot of people.
You know what I mean?
Well, you have to empower yourself in this day and age.
And one of the ways to do that is to start with strengthening your brain connections because even just proactive steps like learning or learning a new language, trying a new hobby, walking, getting sunlight, all of these natural tools that our ancestors already knew about, meditation, breathing.
And that's what we, what, what I put into this course was just my heart and soul.
Just everything I wish I would have had 10 to 12 years ago so that I didn't have to go through that crazy learning curve.
And Sean and I wanted to make something affordable to people.
Some courses range up as high as 5,000.
Our course is 199.
And if you use that discount that Mike gave, you put Ranger in for a 15% discount on the code, you'll get it for $179.
Oh, that's very reasonable.
It also includes my best-selling book, Brain Rescue, and Sean's book with Dr. Habib, Dopamine Revolution.
And just great information.
And I think it's possible to make tiny changes no matter where you are.
And those tiny changes add up.
You know, by the way, thank you for putting all this together.
And give my thanks to Sean Cohen also, because he's also been a great educator, just a tireless champion for people's recovery and brain balance with dopamine and other methods as well.
But we live in a world that's so difficult for people right now.
And very often people turn to prescription psychiatric drugs.
Now, I've had many other guests on that talk about the dangers of those psychiatric drugs.
But I'd like to have your take on it about what actually happens when a person says, oh, I'm feeling stressed or I'm feeling lethargic or whatever.
So I'm going to turn to this Adderall or something.
Where does that lead people?
You know, such a fantastic question because when you're taking these unnatural medications, essentially it's changing your brain chemicals.
And so all brain chemical changes happen in the short term.
They call it in neuroscience short-term potentiation, which means short-term neuroplasticity.
And over time, that leads to long-term potentiation or long-term neuroplasticity, which means those chemical changes over time are sabotaging the natural way that your brain was born to work.
So I personally am not a fan of medications for 95% of the population.
And I think it's only putting a band-aid over a much deeper root cause issue.
Well, right.
And also, they have medicalized the normal range of human emotions, such as feeling sadness.
You know, sadness used to be a commonly recognized emotional state.
You know, if you're a kid and your best friend moves away, you know, you're sad.
Now it's a disease.
Now it's a medical condition.
And the doctor puts the kid on medication.
No, you have to cure your sadness because sadness is a brain chemistry imbalance.
But that's not true at all.
Not at all.
I mean, we have emotions for a reason, right?
God gave us these emotions for a reason.
It's not always supposed to be high in the sky, fairy dust and, you know, rainbows.
This is life, and we all go through grief.
We all experience depression, anxiety at times, but it's how long are you staying in that state?
Copper and Cognitive Health00:09:33
Right, right.
And when people are able to make these transformations, then I think there's a positive feedback loop.
They start to feel better and then they notice they feel better.
And then they're like, wow, this is working.
Let's do this more and more.
So isn't that also true?
There can be these positive reinforcement loops for healing.
Yeah, absolutely.
It's the momentum.
When you think about it, life is all about momentum and the physics of life and the physics of behavior.
That's why I love tiny baby steps or pinky moves in the right direction.
I even tell people to start with something like this, like clasp your hand and put up your pinky and then switch it.
Because I've seen remarkable stories in my own recovery.
It really adds up.
It was the turtle that won the race.
It wasn't the hare.
And these small little incremental steps that don't seem like a lot over a many long enough period of time, you know, five minutes a day of reading will add up to over 30 hours of reading if you do the math, which is quite a lot.
I mean, you're not kidding.
So like a couple of years ago, I really injured my index finger.
And for rehab, I decided to learn, you know, how to do speed cubing just a couple of minutes a day.
Now I just, I can routinely solve cubes in 30 seconds, you know?
That's awesome.
By accident, you know, I mean, well, it wasn't accidentally.
How many minutes a day?
It was just a few minutes a day.
I would learn like one new pattern per week, roughly, and just practice that pattern and add it to the other patterns until you get to like 50 or 60 patterns.
And then you can logically solve the cube.
But for me, that was just, that was a rehab thing.
This finger, I was like, I just need to move this finger, but it's too boring for me to just like move the finger around.
I need to be like solving a puzzle or something.
You know what I mean?
So that's just an example, though, for people.
There are creative ways to make this fun and interesting and have, you know, a sense of achievement of learning new skills as you go through this process.
Like creative expression for your brain.
Like what do you do now to boost your mood and express your creativity?
What are the things that you enjoy doing?
I love to, I just love pushing myself.
And I think about this a lot is the, when I think about long term, how your life turns out is hard now, easy later, easy now, hard later.
And so I try to apply that to my life, but also have fun while doing it.
And I believe that the biggest fulfillment that you get in life is through progress.
When you have that sense of progress, you start to feel good.
It's like a feedback loop, like you said.
I mean, it's not perfection.
I make mistakes all the time, but mistakes are not, they're part of the process.
Mistakes are building blocks to help you get in the right direction.
I failed more times than I can count, and I messed up so bad in my 20s.
But every day, and I honestly, I'm still paying for some of the things I did in my 20s.
But the fact is, is that we can't change the past.
All we can do is take steps into creating a better future for ourselves and our families.
Yeah, right.
Yeah, absolutely.
All right.
I want to ask you, well, first, let me remind people again that you can find the course at rangerdeals.com.
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Learn about this.
This can be really transformative information in your life.
But uh next, dr Miller, I want to ask you about nutrition and the importance.
See, I have a strong belief, but I mean, this is just my position.
You are free to disagree, but I think that having a healthy cognitive function is impossible if you don't have good nutrition and detoxification, because people are living on toxic poisons galore, from from uh fragrance products to seed oils, to you know all kinds of things.
So what do you think about that?
Yeah exactly, I think of the, the brain as as a house, and when you think about if you've experienced uh, a brain injury or a neurological setback, like stress, it's like a hurricane that hit the house.
Um, and so how do you rebuild it?
Well, you have to start with nutrition, because it's literally the building blocks of your brain health.
It's it's like the workers that need the supplies to rebuild, rebuild things.
And if you're in, you're ingesting toxins, uh you're.
You're not going to be able to build a solid foundation.
And if you're eating processed foods, Mcdonald's or alcohol, that's uh drugs that are going to sabotage that.
How do you ever expect to rebuild things?
Yeah you're, if your lunch is vodka mcnuggets, it's probably not a, not not a happy meal, really not really.
No, and i've been there too.
So it's possible to get things better.
Yeah um, but i've also seen like, for example, i've seen people go into uh self-help courses that don't help them at all because they don't address the real underlying issue.
So what I appreciate about your course is, if you have a dopamine problem, if you, if you have a brain chemistry problem that uh continues to be exacerbated by some of your you know lifestyle choices or dietary choices, if you go take, you know, a meditation class, that's not going to help you probably.
I mean, this is my opinion yeah, you'll learn how to meditate, but you still have this other problem over here and you you need to fix the brain chemistry.
You need to fix what's happening and not just mask it and and go off into some other area.
Um, what are your thoughts about that?
I mean, as a naturopath, I know certainly you've been trained on this, but it's critical to choose the correct modalities for the current health or mental health issues that you're facing, correct?
Well, i'll?
I'll push back a little bit because ironically, meditation what is what I honestly believe saved my life uh, when I was recovering, so like yeah, you know what?
I'm sorry That's a bad example, because meditation does improve the brain chemistry.
So you're right.
I chose a bad example there.
I meant something totally unrelated.
But I chose a bad example.
You're correct.
Thanks for correcting me.
Oh, all good.
Yeah.
I just want to express that you are making a valid point, though, because if you can't, you can't improve your brain chemistry if you're eating the wrong foods, if you're digesting crappy social media.
You need to get to the closest point of root cause as causation as possible.
It's like the inception point.
And you want to get as close, and perhaps that can be a traumatic incident that we haven't been able to process, like a trauma that our brain still needs help.
So maybe going to therapy at first can be the best thing, or journaling.
So you're right.
Perhaps just going into a meditation class blindly may not work for you.
No, but you were right to correct me on that.
And I like that what you're talking about here is there can be cross-benefits on certain modalities, but I've seen things where, for example, people are eating a lot of heavy metals like lead and cadmium and excess copper.
I actually see people taking too much copper because they get it in their multivitamin and then they're getting it from copper pipes and all and the meat intake and so on.
And they're getting copper toxicity.
And copper toxicity can cause schizophrenia and other mental health issues.
So as a food scientist, one of the first things I say to people is: you know, look, clean up your diet.
Like whatever your mental health challenge is, also clean up your diet because it's going to make everything easier on your journey.
100%.
And just educating yourself a little bit at a time.
You don't have to be a neuroscientist or go all in like Mike does.
You know, little just education can lead to empowerment and understand what foods you're eating and what chemicals they're producing.
Just breathe the labels when you're going to Whole Foods or you're going to Sprouts or Trader Joe's because you might be surprised what's in there.
And once again, if you don't have the supplies, how are you going to rebuild the brain?
Control Cognitive Intake Environment00:05:07
Yeah, absolutely.
I also want to mention to people that I think you need to control your cognitive intake environment.
And I want your reaction about the extreme violence and gore in Hollywood movies and TV shows today, because they are so bloody and violent, depicting very frequently scenes of torture and blood.
And it didn't used to be this way.
You know, when I was growing up, movies didn't show that.
Even Clint Eastwood dirty hairy movies, they weren't gory.
You know, he was shooting people, but you didn't see the blood and guts and everything.
Now it's all over the screen.
Can't even watch it.
And the horror movies, you know, like the crazy depictions of demonic entities and death and demonic possession all over Netflix for kids.
What are the implications of this in your view?
Yeah, such a valid point.
Our brains don't understand the difference between something that we're imagining and that actually happens to us.
So it's all getting processed there.
I mean, especially if you're a child, our brain literally cortisol will spike, adrenaline will spike as if there's actually a threat.
That's why people can, like my grandparents, they got addicted to watching like serial killer type stuff.
It was like an addiction of the sort.
You know what I mean?
And you have to be careful because your brain does not distinguish between that happening just from an imaginary state to actually being there.
It can traumatize you in a way.
Yeah.
So some interesting terminology, binge watching, which is what you're describing.
It didn't used to even be possible because you didn't have all the episodes of a season available to stream right now, right?
You had to wait a week.
But also then this term doom scrolling.
I want you to tell us about doom scrolling.
Well, we're all guilty of it to some extent, but what he's talking about is like going down the social media feed and the algorithm literally is sending you things that are going to spike your cortisol and adrenaline, like bad news.
If you watch a social media post and you're focused on all the crap that's going on in the world, it's going to show you more of that because it wants to suck your attention and time away and have you spend more time there.
So doom scrolling is fear-based scrolling.
So things that scare you and that you're doing without most people doing these things without even recognizing it.
Isn't it kind of interesting, though, that, for example, the YouTube algorithm feeds back to you the things that you give attention to?
So if you watch a video about whatever, it's going to feed you more videos about that same topic.
And that's just the algorithm.
But isn't it interesting that also the universe kind of works that way?
So whatever you give attention to, you get more of that feeding back to you, right?
Yeah.
And I've seen that was one of the biggest revel another one that I had a revelation was what I realized what I focused on expands and multiplies.
And so if I'm focusing on all of the bad things in my life, sure as heck, I'm going to create more of that.
And that does happen, honestly, because our brain has a negativity bias.
It's a survival instinct to keep us alive.
But like we have to sometimes swim upstream to make sure that we're feeding positivity into our life and focusing on the right things.
And how could people do that more effectively?
Because right now, people are genuinely afraid of certain things, maybe afraid of being replaced by AI or afraid of nuclear world war or whatever.
I mean, I try to tell people, I talk about a lot of issues, but at the end of my podcast, I usually tell people, hey, by the way, you're going to be fine because if you're listening to this, you're already more prepared than one out of 10, I mean, than 9,999 out of 10,000 people, right?
So you're going to be fine.
Don't sweat it.
But yeah, bad things are going to happen in the world, but it doesn't mean it has to consume you.
Yeah, don't put on horseblinders at the end of the day.
And just understand that I used to be a very negative person.
I used to be extremely, I would complain, I would blame, I would point the finger at everybody but myself.
And that led to feeling like miserable.
And don't put on, you don't need to put on horseblinders.
You can be aware of what's going on, but always just make sure to refocus to where you do want to go instead of the things that aren't going right.
Okay, so wait a minute.
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Let's let's explore this a little bit more about horse blinders.
But the positive side of that is also selective focus, right?
That's true, yeah.
Right.
It's important to be the architect of your focus rather than letting external forces determine where your attention is sucked off to.
Does that make sense?
Makes total sense.
When you see an ad, you're being manipulated towards your attention flow.
So our brain has two different types of focus: convergent focus and divergent focus.
But we're talking about that single-pointed focus, not multitasking, but we're talking about that single-pointed focus.
And something as simple as getting a candle and lighting it up and making the room dark and just refocusing your attention and focus on that candle can build your cognitive skills there.
Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
And I also want to encourage people to practice these attention-building skills in the natural world.
So get off the screens, put your phone down, go out into a park or a walk or a forest or your own backyard, whatever it is.
Start to notice nature.
Because to me, that's absolutely fascinating.
I see God everywhere in nature.
I'm always in nature.
I work out in a forest, by the way.
I have like push-up bars and kettlebells in the forest.
I only work out outdoors.
I do not work out indoors starting as like a year ago.
But because I love nature, and every time I'm out there, I'm lifting kettlebells, I notice something else.
Hey, there's a new orange fungi colony over here.
I didn't notice, I didn't see that before, you know?
But isn't this important?
Oh, it's so important.
And just getting out to nature, that natural healing frequency that you're talking about.
AI could never replace human connection.
It could never replace nature.
These are things that were made and can't be created by an outside source.
So you are a part of nature in the ecosystem.
And I love that you do that.
I love that you practice what you preach, natural.
And nature is part of a natural, holistic lifestyle.
Well, indeed, but I have to say, given we're recording this right before this big storm is going to hit Texas, I'm going to be freezing my balls out there lifting frozen kettlebells pretty soon.
Yeah, for sure.
But that's also part of it, you know?
It is.
It's like being adaptive, handling hot weather, cold weather.
Sometimes I've had to work out after dark.
I'm literally out there with my headlight and my kettlebells working out in a forest at night with coyotes howling around me and my dog just sitting there.
And we're fine.
I'm not afraid of coyotes.
Right.
But, you know, we got to be resilient is my point.
And that's something that we can build up.
Right.
And I think that's a lot of what your course teaches or some of it.
You want to talk about that?
Yeah, that's a lot of what our course teaches is mental resilience and emotional regulation.
Those two things.
The ability to have strength in the front of your brain so that you're able to focus better.
You're able to have mental flexibility.
And literally, like you're stretching your brain and creating new connections.
Resilience is everything in life, but how much stress we can tolerate and how to be able to re-regulate ourselves to back to homeostasis in a healthy state.
Got it.
That makes perfect sense.
Okay.
Let me mention one more time.
RangerDeals.com is where you can find this course.
It's called Addiction Rescue.
It's available for purchase and download right away.
And our guest today is Dr. Brody Miller.
And you want to hold up your book again, too, please?
Yeah, I would love to.
Here's my book, best-selling book, Addiction.
I mean, a brain rescue, excuse me, a 90-day blueprint to reclaim your memory after a brain injury or a concussion.
Because a lot of people that suffer with addictions also have experienced brain injuries.
So that's also included in the course with a digital copy of that with Sean's book, Dopamine Revolution.
Oh, okay.
So, like a PDF?
Yeah, yeah, PDF version of that.
Okay, perfect.
Wow.
I mean, that sounds very valuable.
All right.
Is there anything else that you would like to add?
I mean, this has been a pleasure speaking with you.
And I'm so glad that you're one of those people that was able to learn through your struggles, your injuries, and actually take on a whole new knowledge base that you're sharing with others.
It's really inspiring.
What else would you like to add here?
Yeah, the last thing I want to say is neuroplasticity changed my life.
The ability of the brain and nervous system to reorganize itself through our thinking, feelings, behaviors, and habits.
And there's also a neuroplasticity of the heart.
So emotional changes that make a huge big of a difference.
This is all science-based stuff.
And it changed my life.
I was at the bottom of the bottom.
And you can pick yourself back up today and get going on where you do want to go because things can change.
Life can change big.
Yeah.
And I would add, that was beautiful.
I would add to it that no, no corporation and no government is going to show you how to do that because they don't have your self-interest at heart in their own operations.
Only you have your own self-interest as the highest purpose, right?
Or, you know, the only you value your own yourself and your health more than anyone else.
So you have to take responsibility for this.
Yes, exactly.
It starts with responsibility and really there's a lot of things that are dragging us down like a negative rabbit hole, but you there's something calling within you, deep within you, at a very cellular level to be greater.
We all have that within us and make sure we have one life to live as far as we know.
Let's make the best out of it, truly.
Yeah, well said.
All right, Dr. Brody Miller, it's been a pleasure.
Appreciate you taking the time to speak with us today.
And we'll talk again.
So have a great rest of your day.
You as well.
And be careful with that storm out there.
Yeah.
Believe me, I will.
I'm not going on the roads.
I'm just going into my ranch.
You know, I'm staying off the roads.
But I can handle ice and snow on dirt or whatever.
That's no problem.
But thank you.
And folks, again, the course is called Addiction Rescue, and you can find it.
The link right here at rangerdeals.com.
And if you choose to support our creators here and our platform, then you can purchase it and use discount code Ranger for 15% off.
And it's, look, this thing is priced at lower than the cost of one visit to a neurospecialist physician.
You know, it's less than one visit.
And this might give you everything that you need to get on that journey for brain healing.
So thank you, Dr. Miller.
It's a pleasure.
Likewise.
Okay.
Take care and thank all of you for watching.
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