the arrow is pointing at the thalamus. there is left and a right. kind of similar we were talking about with the chicken and egg question, because this person has a little asymmetry to begin with. this side has a big blob of red compared to this side. i can tell you this person loved practice. really got into it and thought it was incredible and helped them alot they felt. when did the practice for the first time you can see there is some kind of acute shift. suddenly both sides are at least a lot more equal. this side is a little bit brighter in of the red activity. when they came back, eight weeks later, technically these two scans should be comparable to each other. this is both in a resting state. you can see that now their thalamus at this point has become more a quill greated rather than rather than asymmetric. when they actually did the meditation for the last time where they now really trained and know how to do this practice very deeply, a substantial degree of asymmetry. so what this is suggesting to us, that you can change your brain in a

. >> they trigger receptors in the autumn sun three in the mouth from the thalamus to reward center of the brain that is why they are so powerful. the drugs go through the bloodstream and go to the specific receptors but the real pathway still learning memory that haven't circuits of the brain sugar, fat, and salt is wired. that is live from the evolutionary perspective and that is why they are so powerful. we are hard wired to focus on the most salient stimuli and sugar, fat, and salt because of the receptors and because of the learning. it is learning and conditioning that occurs at two year-old regulates. if you expose them to sugar, fat, and salt they lose the ability to compensate because sugar, fat, and salt becomes especially when it is on every corner, we had barriers in this country for five decades ago the protected us. we only eight at meals. my hat is off we used to eat real food. now all we're eating is to stimulate ourselves and reward circuits. >> we also have manual labor and women at home cooking food. >> of not getting into the last one i will stay away from. [laughte

with a prescription pill like ambien, lunesta, they hit more areas of the brain, the hype thalamus, thes on your brain. it basically puts the entire brain to sleep. depends on the dosage you use now. if you use a touch of it, then you can actually get high from it. the more you use, the more you get to general anesthesia. >> take a look at it. this is what it looks like. looks almost like milk. in hops they rougher to it as milk of amnesia. think of it as a turbocharged sleeping agent. it puts the whole brain to rest. it's a medically induced coma. how dangerous is this? >> as dangerous as it become. you will die if you give yourself our somebody gives you pr propisal. >> can you write me a prescription? >> no. it is injected intravenously. it is not taken orally. so, i don't think that the pharmacy will give you intravenously. you have to go to a hospital. >> i wanted to find out for myself you who easy it is to get this particular medication. we came to this pharmacy in north hollywood to find out. if i came in with a prescription for propisol, could i get that filled here? >> absolut