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Self-care pays off. The right habits on diet and exercise are essential. But what are you doing to bolster your mental health? Gregory Scott Brown, M.D., author of The Self-Healing Mind, finds there's a lot we can do. He's identified five pillars of self-care, practices that are powerful, evidence-based medicine for the mind.

Gregory Scott Brown, M.D. joins us from Houston, Texas.

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Bio
Gregory Scott Brown, M.D., is a psychiatrist, a mental health writer, and the author of The Self-Healing Mind: An Essential Five-Step Practice for Overcoming Anxiety and Depression, and Revitalizing Your Life. A regular contributor for Men's Health and The Washington Post, Dr. Brown also co-hosts Friday Sessions, a popular Instagram Live series about mental health.

Dr. Brown is a diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. He completed a fellowship in integrative medicine at the Academy of Integrative Health and Medicine, specialty training in general psychiatry at the University of Texas Dell Medical School, and he received an M.D. from the McGovern Medical School in Houston. Dr. Brown is an alumnus of Rice University, where he earned a bachelor's degree in anthropology and Johns Hopkins University, where he completed a post-baccalaureate premedical program. Prior to his transition to medicine, Dr. Brown studied music at The Juilliard School in New York.

Dr. Brown is a member of the American Psychiatric Association where he serves on the Council on Communications. His commentary has been featured in The New York Times, Men's Health, and The Washington Post, as well as on The Today Show, Live with Kelly and Mark, and the PBS News Hour.

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For More on Gregory Scott Brown, MD

The Self-Healing Mind: An Essential Five-Step Practice for Overcoming Anxiety and Depression, and Revitalizing Your Life

Website - gregoryscottbrown.com

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Wise Quotes
On Mental Health



"...Mental health on the other hand, is the driving force that really dictates how we live our lives. It's how we interact with each other, how we love the quality of our relationships. It relates to our emotional intelligence. And so I think it's important that as people think about how they can stay mentally healthy, that they're also thinking about these other factors that play such a very important role in how we live and act."

On Movement

“As a psychiatrist, I prescribe psychiatric medications in my practice every single week, but we can't ignore the power of self-care. And what I mean by that is, as I outline in the book, things like Sleep, Spirituality, Nutrition, Breath Work, and Moving Our Body, Joe. These are things that all of us have access to. We all breathe 20 to 30,000 breaths every single day on average. We all move our bodies. We can all learn how to tap into the power of meditation, focusing on nutrient dense foods. And so if we're learning how to live our life in a way that supports not only our physical health but our mental health as well, then I believe we'll all be a little bit better off. A lot of people are intimidated by this idea of exercise. So Dr. Brown is telling me, I need to get a gym membership, or I need to sign up to run a marathon?  That's great, but that's not what I'm advocating here when it comes specifically to what we can do to improve mental health. Several  years ago, there was a huge study, a meta-analysis in the American Journal of Psychiatry, that actually found that people who move their bodies more had a lower risk for developing depression regardless of geographic ...