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The following is a paid podcast.
iHeartRadio's hosting of this podcast constitutes neither an

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endorsement of the products offered or the
ideas expressed. Hello, when welcome to

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Boost your brain Power. I'm your
host, doctor Eric Caplan. We're going

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to be talking about brain function today. We see a lot of patients with

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concussion or traumatic brain injury where their
brain isn't functioning at optimal levels. And

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it doesn't have to be right after
you hit your head. We've had patience

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with car accidents where years later their
brains get affected and they're like, how

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come my memory is not as good
as it used to be, or my

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focus is not as good as it
used to be, or I can't think

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of those words so easily like I
used to, or I lose things a

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little bit easier now. A lot
of people, doctors included, will blame

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old a Now, that is one
of my pet peeves when people blame old

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age on the brain not functioning properly. You can get older and your brain

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can function at a higher level.
You can get older and your memory can

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improve, your focus can improve,
you can have more energy, better sleep,

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less pain. You just have to
put in the work that's the key.

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You have to work for it.
You know, your health isn't given

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to you. You have to do
the right things. You've got to make

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better choices in your life. Your
health is a full time job twenty four

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seven. You've got to be thinking
about your health. And you always think,

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is it's going to improve my health
or is that going to cause problems

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to my health. You always measure
the risk versus the reward. A lot

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of things will be a lot riskier
and very little reward, okay, And

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it's simple stuff like food, right, So, sugar high risk, very

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low reward, dairy products high risk, very low reward, alcohol high risk,

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very low reward. Coffee high risk, very low reward. These things

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deteriorate your health. Coffee is a
diuretic. It dehydrates you. It's very

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bad for your digestion, causes ascid
reflux, it's bad for your thyroid,

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causes autoimmune disease spand for your brain, causes inflammation, creates more anxiety,

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difficulty with sleep, low energy.
It's a drug. It's not actually making

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you healthy, it makes you think
you're healthy. And especially the way they

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process it here in America, the
American coffee Starbucks Dunkin Donuts, those are

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the worst. Now you have those
flavored pumpkin lattes, pumpkin spice. There's

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no pumpkin in all these pumpkin flavored
drinks and foods. Now, it's artificial

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flavoring. Starbucks just got in trouble. They lost a big lawsuit. Have

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their fruit drinks have no fruit.
They call them fruit drinks, and there's

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no fruit in it. It's just
flavoring, artificial flavoring to make a taste

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like fruit. I have a patient, she's a chemist, and her job

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is to make all these flavors.
She's gotta make strawberry flavor and banana flavor

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and pumpkin flavor. And her job
is t she's a chemist, so she's

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got to taste it until it tastes
exactly like the flavor. However, she's

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ingesting all of these toxic chemicals,
all these artificial flavors. And that's not

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even including the food dies, which
goes cancer and lots of inflammation and neurological

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problems and ADHD a lot of problems
with these food dies. But my patient,

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who's a chemist, so her job
is to taste all these chemicals,

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and her brain's all messed up.
She has severe anxiety, she's got depression,

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troubles with focus, troubles with memory, she can't sleep, she got

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heart palpitations, got brain fog,
low energy. And I told her she

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has to quit, and she said, well, that's my job, that's

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how I make a living. Well. Money does no good if you're not

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healthy. Sometimes you gotta quit your
job. Sometimes you gotta get out of

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a bad relationship. Sometimes you gotta
move out of your living situation. Sometimes

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you gotta make life changes. If
it's your health that's at risk, it's

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always the risk verse the reward.
That's why all my therapies that I suggest

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to my patients are very low risk
and very high reward. Surgery very high

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risk, medication very high risk.
You've got to be careful with these high

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risk procedures. They could cause more
problems. Sometimes the cure is worse than

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the condition. Now, modern medicine, there's a lot of surgeries. You

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know, I don't agree with that. I'm a little bit different than doctors

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in the typical medical field. Okay, I'm not prescribing medication. I'm not

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a medical doctor. I'm not doing
surgeries. I'm not a surgeon. I'm

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a functional neurologist, so I improve
the function of your brain and your nervous

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system. If you have diabetes,
which is causing neuropathy, usually burning in

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the feed or the hands, numbness, tangling pains, that's neuropathy. If

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you have a diabetic neuropathy, I'm
not the doctor that says, okay,

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let's just amputate the foot. Give
diabetes. You could literally have to get

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your fingers amputated, your toe amputated, your limbs because it creates these neuropathy.

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The nerves die off, It kills
the nerves. You can get blind.

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Diabetes is no joke. I don't
want to lose a limb. I

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don't want to get blind. And
guess what. It also causes Alzheimer's disease.

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They're thinking about changing the name of
Alzheimer's disease to diabetes type three.

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Also COVID nineteen. Many people who
died from COVID nineteen also had diabetes.

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If you didn't have another co factor
with COVID nineteen, it wasn't as bad.

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The people who got it bad they
had diabetes, they had heart disease,

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they had obesity, They drank a
lot of alcohol, they had some

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health issue, some cofactor, lime
disease, pneumonia, influenza. It's when

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you're at a weak point and it
could just be stress mode. You could

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have, you know, not slept
the night before because you were fighting with

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your spouse all night. That's going
to weaken your immune system. So you

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get exposed to a virus such as
COVID nineteen. That virus is going to

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take over. The same thing happens
with cancer when you're immune system suppressed because

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you're not doing the right things.
Might be eating too much sugar, too

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much chemical exposure, too much emotional
stress. Now the cancer can thrive.

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If you didn't sleep right, if
you don't exercise, you eat an unhealthy

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diet. Now you could get the
flu. These viruses, these bacteria,

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cancer, they want you to be
weak. They wait until you're week.

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So what you have to do is
make your body strong. If your body's

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strong, you can handle anything.
You can handle emotional stress, you can

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handle physical stress, chemical stress.
You're always going to be stressed out.

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There's always going to be some problem
in your life. But if your body's

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strong and your body's healthy, it
will not result in any physical manifestation.

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Same thing with concussion. Like I
said before, we treat a lot of

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people with concussion. Now, if
you hit your head at a time when

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you're super healthy, your brain can
handle it. But if you hit your

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head and your brain is not in
a healthy state and your nervous system is

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depressed at that point, now it
could cause a lot of problems. Or

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if you hit your head in the
past and you were an a good state

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where it never manifested into physical problems, but you never fixed the problem when

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you hit your head. Then when
something does come up where you hit your

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head again, it might not even
be as hard, or you're emotionally stressed,

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or you're exposed to some virus or
bacteria or mold or parasite. Now

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you can start getting physical manifestations.
The body will take advantage when you're at

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a weak state. That's why it's
so important to not let your body get

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weak. Then you can fight off
anything. An ounce of prevention is worth

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a pound of cure, but you
have to put in the effort. Now.

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You have to get your body strong
and healthy so it can handle if

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you hit your head. And if
you hit your head in the past,

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we have to get your brain analyzed
to see if there was any damage.

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And I don't care if it was
a month ago, a year ago,

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ten years ago, twenty years ago. You can have a problem where you

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hit your head as a child and
now it's manifesting as an adult. And

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it might not manifest as headaches or
dizziness or blurry vision or light sensitivity like

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typical concussion. It might be digested
problems, sleeping problems, low energy,

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depression, anxiety, troubles with focus, memory. I was a co author

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of a book called Concussion Discussions.
You can get that at concussion discussions dot

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com or you can call my office. We can get you a copy.

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And that's about how you can hit
your head, but later in life it

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can have an effect on your brain. And you don't want to wait till

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you get dementia, Alzheimer's, Parkinson
stroke to start working on your brain.

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The time is now, and we're
going to teach you how to get your

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dc dot com. Now, how
come some people can hit their head and

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be okay and some people can hit
their head and have horrible symptoms. A

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lot of people don't even realize they
have a concussion. But what happens is

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your brain stops to function at optimal
levels. There's different parts of your brain.

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You have your frontal cortex or your
frontal lobe that's responsible for focus,

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motivation, organization, planning, memory, depression and anxiety, unctuality, executive

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functions, understanding consequences of action,
language words, fine motor movements. These

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are all from the frontal cortex.
So if you have a bunch of those

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problems, you probably have a weak
frontal cortex. Now, what would you

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do if a muscle is weak,
you would strengthen it. You'd go to

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the gym, you exercise it.
Well, if you have a weak frontal

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cortex, you can exercise your frontal
cortex. You can make your frontal cortex

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stronger. You can improve your motivation, your organization, you're planning, your

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memory, your focus. It can
all improve. But you have to exercise

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your frontal cortex. And I'm not
talking about, you know, doing the

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crossword puzzle. I'm talking about strengthening
your brain by doing stuff you've never done

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before. The key to strengthening your
brain is to do new things you've never

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done before. So if you keep
doing the crossword puzzle, it's like,

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Okay, I've done the crossword puzzle
on a million times. Your brain doesn't

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have to work as hard because you've
done it so many times. You have

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to start, you have to start
doing new things, novelty. It's literally

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the most important thing to improve your
brain function. If you want to prevent

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Alzheimer's disease, start doing new things
every day. Do you want to prevent

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dementia? Start doing new things every
day. Do you want to improve your

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memory and focus? You have to
start doing new things every single day.

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You have to do new things.
The worst thing is doing the same thing

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every week. You go to the
same job, you see the same people,

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you go to the same places,
you eat the same foods, you

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watch the same TV show. Repetition
is bad for the brain. It makes

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it die off. You have to
challenge it. You have to do new

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things. Don't always do things the
same way and everything in your life.

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Don't always brush your teeth with your
right hand, brush you with your left

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hand or your non dominant hand.
Don't always sit on the same place on

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the subway, change your seat up
and always take the same route to work.

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Don't always talk to the same people, don't always visit the same places.

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You have to do new things.
You can learn a new musical instrument,

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You could do a new learn a
new dance move, learn a new

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sport. I want you to learn
things where your body's moving. Not just

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sitting at a desk doing sudoku,
not just playing on your phone finding the

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wordle of the day or playing scrabble
with your friend on your phone. You

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have to do something where you get
your butt off the chair. You have

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to do something active. A lot
of people are taking a pick a ball

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now frying. It's something new.
Yeah, I haven't done it. Try

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it, and you gotta move your
body. You gotta coordinate. It's not

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very high risk, right, always
say risk verse reward. We don't see

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a lot of pickleball injuries. It's
not high risk, but it's very high

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reward. You're outside your social you're
gonna meet new people. You're gonna be

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in the sunlight. You're gonna get
oxygen. You're gonna get exercise and move

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your body. You're gonna coordinate.
It's good for your balance, but for

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your brain. Try something new.
Take a salsa class, take a my

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rengue class, Do some line dancing. I don't care what it is.

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Do something fun. I'm a patient
and she's seven years old. She started

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taking pole dancing classes. But it's
really good exercise. She's having fun,

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she's meeting new people. She can
exercise. You can out of the house,

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sweat, and it's good for her
cardio vascular health. She's lost a

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weight, she's improved her depression.
From pole dancing classes, She's learning something

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new. She's never done that before. I had another patient doing belly dancing

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classes. You know, I took
my wife out for Argentinean tango lessons.

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It was just something different. We
never did it. It was fun,

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we met new people, we got
out of the house. It was romantic.

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You know, we were active,
we were laughing. Do something fun.

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You know, my kid wants to
take drum lessons. That's great.

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You know, you're moving your body, moving your legs, your arms,

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you're coordinating. It's fun. It's
loud. Kids love to bang things.

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You know, you make music.
Music as therapeutic for the brain. I

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mean, there's so many good activities
you could do. And I don't care

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if you're just going outside for a
walk around the block a couple of time.

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But do something active. Go bike
riding, go hiking, you know,

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take on some art class. Art
class is very good for the frontal

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cortex. You know, you're moving
your body. You get the fine motor

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skills right, so you're painting,
you're sculpting, sewing, you know,

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crocheting. These are all movements of
your fingers that are going to stimulate your

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brain. You're gonna think. You
gotta coordinate, You gotta plan very good

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for that frontal cortex. We really
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don't want Alzheimer's, you don't want
dementia, you want Parkinson's. You better

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start working on your frontal cortex.
Fine finger movements, learning new things,

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challenging your brain, making it work. We could do an exercise called a

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trailmaking exercise. You guys can do
this at home. Think of that game

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rock paper scissors. So you do
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order. So you say rock scissors, paper, and you do that for

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thirty seconds straight on your hand,
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rock scissors, paper, over and
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scissors, rock, and then you
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you keep switching up the order.
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It's a trail making exercise. Then
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rock, paper, and then you
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paper, so you switch up the
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objects you're doing. This is very
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trail making exercise. You do it
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times a day. Another good exercise
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your right hand make a peace sign. With your left hand, make an

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okay sign, you know where you
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fingers and then you count to three. You say one, two, three,

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and then you switch and the other
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then you switch the other hand to
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you switch peace okay at the same
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I got thousands of thousands of exer
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it on the right side versus the
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when we see children with add or
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well, a lot of times it's
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have to do stuff more on the
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not everybody, but you know,
it's just a pattern I've seen. I've

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been doing this for twenty three years. Since two thousand, I've been studying

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functional neurology. I've been helping patients
balance out their brain and prove function.

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It's one of my biggest passions,
you know, comes from my grandma Daddy,

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who died from Alzheimer's disease. And
it was a slow death, you

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know, it took fifteen years.
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I'd visited her about once or twice
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saw her brain get worse and worse, her memory get worse and worse,

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her focus get worse and worse,
her depression got worse and worse. You

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know, by the end the last
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She was miserable, her frontal cortex
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passion in her life anymore. She
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dressed up and laughing and playing tennis
and dancing and making dinner and keeping her

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house clean and always wearing makeup and
getting here, you know, wearing nice

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clothes and always the hit at a
party. And then once she moved to

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Florida, she just sat on the
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Wasn't a social stop exercising, stop
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cooking, and her brain out worse
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it. She stopped learning new things. And I saw her brain get worse

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and worse, and I said,
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people. So I decided, I'm
going to be a functional neurologist, and

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I'm going to help people improve their
brain function to prevent Alzheimer's, prevent dementia

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in a natural, holistic way,
without any drugs, without any surgery,

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without any deep brain stimulation, low
risk, high reward, using functional neurology

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and neuroplasticity. We're going to continue
this discussion about neuroplasticity when we come back

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back to boost your brain power.
I'm your host, doctor Eric Kaplan.

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We're talking about neuroplasticity and rewiring the
brain. You could actually make your brain

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stronger. Now, the bad news
is after forty years of age, you

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lose about ten percent of your brain
cells every decade of your life. So

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the deal with that is is we
want to make sure we lose the bad

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brain cells. You have what's called
these glial cells. They're the nurses of

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your brain and they clean out all
these bad brain cells. So what we

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want to do and we get rid
of these ten percent. We want to

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get rid of the ten percent that's
bad, eliminate the bad brain cells and

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really make the other brain cells function
at the highest level. And you can

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make your brain strong by doing brain
exercises, different eye exercises, balance exercises,

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memory exercise, using different movements and
lights and sounds and oxygen and laser

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therapy and hyperbaric chambers and neurofeedbacks.
There's so many good, natural, holistic

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ways to boost your brain power,
improve the function of your nervous system that

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has a very low risk and a
very high reward by making your brain stronger

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and stronger and stronger. Now,
the thing is, how do you know

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which areas of the brain to make
stronger? How do you know which exercises

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you need to do, because there's
so many different brain exercises. There's different

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smells and tastes and lights and sounds
and movements and memory and balance and oxygen

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and breathing and gut and inflammation and
narrow transmitters and hormones and thyroid and blood

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flow and connections, and you know, there's so many different things narrow transmitters,

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mitochondria that we have to take in
consideration when figuring out what's most appropriate

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for you. Because everybody's different with
concussion, everybody has different areas of brains

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damage. When we get people with
COVID nineteen brain fog, it's totally different

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with each patient. We get people
with lyme disease who have difficulty with focus

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and energy, you know it all
has We always have to treat each patient

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as an individual, so we have
to analyze their brain properly. Unfortunately,

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the MRI, the CATS scan,
they're not going to show too much about

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the brain. They're gonna pick up
maybe if there's a big tumor, which

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is super important, and they're gonna
pick up if you had a big stroke

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something like that. But outside of
stroke, tumor, you know, multiple

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scuros as these major neurologic conditions,
the testing isn't going to pick up much.

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There are other tests outside of MRI's
X rays and cat scan that actually

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analyze the brain a lot better and
there's no radiation, there's no contrast fluid,

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there's no risk. It's always about
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aiming and testing, not just treatment, because a lot of the testing can

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be risky as well. The testing
that we do in our offices we have

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two offices, one in Emerson,
New Jersey and one in the West Village

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of Manhattan, New York City,
we do what's called a q EEG brain

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mapping. The q EEG brain mapping
is where you wear a cap. It

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looks like a swimmer's cap, and
there has electrodes that are attached to all

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the different areas of your brain,
you know, the frontal lobe which we

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are speaking about before, and the
parietal and the temporal and the accipital lobe

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and the cerebellum and all the different
areas of the brain. And it analyzes

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the different areas of the brain by
looking at the brain waves alpha and beta

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and beta and delta, all these
different brain waves, and based on where

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the brain waves are a normal it
will tell us which area the brains are

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not functioning well. It will pick
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anxiety, depression, It'll pick up. Do you have short term memory

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loss, sequential memory loss? Do
you have anger aggression? Do you have

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trouble shifting tasks? Do you have
low acietal coline or low dopamine? Do

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you have white matter inflammation in your
brain? Is it related to some thyroid

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problem? Do you have intestinal inflammation? Are you related to hyperglycemia and sugar

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and diabetes. Did you have a
concussion. Did you have a pathology a

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virus COVID nineteen lime disease? You
know It literally picks up all this stuff.

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Insomnia picks up, sleep deprivation,
it picks up, you know,

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if you have worry, if your
panic, it picks up. If you

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have time management issue, organization planning, sensory issues, tonightness, floaters in

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the eyes, troubles with smell and
taste, and balance problems and clumsiness and

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bumping into things. It's gonna tell
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or dementia. This qEEG brain mapping
is one of the best tests we can

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do. It's non invasive, it
only takes about twenty to thirty minutes to

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do the whole thing, and it
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on that information, we could give
you suggestions of natural, holistic remedies to

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improve your function so that those abnormal
brain waves start to function at a higher

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level. It's called neuroplasticity, where
we rewire the brain to strengthen the weak

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areas. If it's not broke,
we don't fix it. You only want

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to work on the areas that need
the help. Right. If things are

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working well, and we just continue
to do the things that work well,

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it's the areas that aren't functioning optimules
that gives you the problems. You're only

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as strong as your weakest link.
So most people are very comfortable doing the

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things that they're good at. But
what we have to do is find your

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weak areas, and the qEEG brain
mapping is one of the best tests to

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figure out where those weak areas are. And then based on where the weak

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areas are, now we could come
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already been done to stimulate those areas. You know, if you have a

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weak parietal cortex that's where sensory input
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is that you could do to strengthen
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of them is called graphesthesia, and
everyone's done this as a kid. Where

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you draw a letter on your friends
back and they're gonna say, okay,

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what letter is it? Or you
draw it on the hand, you draw

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a number, It's okay, what
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and that's very good for your parietal
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you identify certain objects, so you
close your eyes and you feel different balls

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or softball, and then you got
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you know, a quarter or nickel, a dime, a penny,

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half a dollar. You gotta feel
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Or you take little utensils. You
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highlighter, a cran, a marker, you know, all these different things

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and you got to identify by feeling
touch. There are so many different brain

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exercises that can be done, but
we got to figure out what's appropriate for

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you. Okay, you might be
in stress mode, so you might have

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to calm your nervous system down.
You might have anxiety, difficulty sleep,

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you get panic, heart palpitations,
you're always worrying, you're in fear mode,

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in that fight or flight mode.
You're always ready for that fight.

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Then we have to do exercises to
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might have to do you know,
like a little gargling exercise, or I

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might have you use cold water or
rub this part of your ear like I

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said, we got to figure out
where your weaknesses are then give you the

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appropriate therapeutic exercises without any drugs surgeries. Right, I'm not the doctor that

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gives you the prescription. If you
have anxiety and you want, you know,

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a xanex, don't come to me. You know, if you want

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a pain killer, don't come to
me. I'm not going to give you

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a percoset or viking it. I'm
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your pain. How come you have
neck pain or back pain. Maybe you're

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out of alignment, maybe a bed
posture, Maybe you got muscle spasm and

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you've got nerve compression. But don't
come to me if you just want,

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you know, an anti inflammatory or
a pain killer. Right, If you

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have insomnia or difficulties sleeping, don't
come to me. I'm not going to

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write you a prescription for an ambient. But I'm going to figure out what

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part of your brain is overactive and
why is your cortisol levels too high at

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night affecting your sleep, and we
could rewire your brain. You might need

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different types of therapy, might need
some neurow feedback, you might need some

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functional neurology. You might need some
you might need to change some habits at

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home, electronic exposure or eating habits. We gotta get to the root cause

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of the problem. Don't treat the
symbol, don't take melatonin or ambient but

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figure out why you're not sleeping.
So I'm a functional neurologist. We get

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to the root cause and increase your
function. But the first step is to

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do the brain mapping, a q
EEG brain mapping, so we can figure

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out exactly where the problems are.
We're going to do a big gift to

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all my listeners. The q EEG
brain mapping is normally five hundred dollars,

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but for the first seven people that
call, text or email, you can

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literally get the entire q EEG brain
mapping, plus my recommendation, my recommendations,

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diagnosis and review. Instead of paying
the normal five hundred dollars, you

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only have to pay twenty one dollars. Just call or text six four six

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two two one six seven three eight, or you can email info at Kaplan

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brain embody dot com. Just say
you want to be one of the first

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seven people that want to do the
q EEG brain mapping for only twenty one

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dollars. It's going to tell us
exactly what areas of the brain are not

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functioning at optimal levels, and then
I'm going to give you recommendations on how

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to improve it. Now, when
you work with me, I always tell

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patients it's work all right. I'm
going to teach you what to do,

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but you're the one that's got to
go home and do it. So don't

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sign up if you're looking for that
easy, quick fix. But if you're

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looking for the solution, permanent solution, if you're looking to get to the

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root cause, if you don't want
to just put a band aid, if

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you don't want to just cover up
symptoms, then this is the test for

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you. This is doctor Eric Kaplan. You're listening to boost your brain power

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more when we come back from the
brain. If you want to improve your

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brain function, help with memory,
focus, sleep, digestion, energy,

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depression, anxiety, dizziness, balanced
vision, headaches, brain fog, weight

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loss, or simply want to maximize
your human potential and prevent future diseases,

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that this is the show for you. Don't miss boost your brain power with

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doctor Eric Kaplan and you will learn
natural, integrative and holistic approaches to modern

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day medical problems such as Alzheimer's,
Parkinson's stroke, autism, add concussion,

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autoimmune diseases, insomnia, fibromyalgia,
vertigo, migraines, for posture, pain,

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TBI, skin and digestive problems.
Doctor Kaplan is most famous for getting

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to the root cause of a wide
variety of brain and health conditions, rather

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than treating symptoms with traditional medicines and
risky surgeries. To contact doctor Kaplan,

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you can call his team at two
O one two six one two one five

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zero or visit his website at kaplan
dc dot com. Welcome back to boost

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your brain power. I'm your host, doctor Eric Kaplan. We were talking

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about concussion, how you can hit
your head and you can affect different areas

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of your brain. Talked about the
frontal cortex. It's for focus, motivation,

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depression, anxiety, organization, planning, social behavior, punctuality, time

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management, understanding, consequences of actions. Those are your executive functions. When

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people injure their frontal cortex, they're
gonna have trouble with these executive functions.

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Other people might injure their parietal cortex. That's gonna be sensory stuff. You're

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gonna bump into things, clumsiness,
you're gonna confuse LEPs and right's gonna get

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lost easily, not knowing where you
are, feeling weird things on your skin,

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weird sensations, feeling out of your
body, feeling disconnected, abnormal sensory

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sensations. That's the parietal cortex.
And people who a concussion can injure all

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different areas of the brain. People
who get lime disease can affect all different

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areas of the brain, people who
get COVID nineteen, multiple sclerosis, stroke,

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all of these can be overlapping because
they can affect the same area of

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the brain. Now, what are
the other errors of the brain. The

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temporal cortex that's on the side,
by your temporals, that's going to affect

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your memory. Long term memory is
a little bit lower in the temporal cortex,

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and short term memory is a little
bit higher. So that's your memory.

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You're also related to hearing and balance
everything by that temple, by that

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ear. That's your temporal cortex.
And in the back you have your occipital

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cortex that's involved in vision. A
lot of people have visual problems. There's

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all different types blurry vision, there's
double vision, there's light sensitivity, there's

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problem with near vision, trouble with
far vision, trouble a vision and night

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trouble at vision, reading trouble and
vision without light, trouble at vision with

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light. All different types of visual
problems, tunnel vision, poor peripheral vision.

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But we gotta break it down.
We gotta analyze it through the fields

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of gaze, check out pursuits of
cords. A lot of stuff we gotta

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do with vision that's from the occipital
cortex, and that's where a lot of

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people get pain, they get headaches, they get tension in the back of

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their head. It pulls on the
skull. Sometimes we night might need to

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do physical therapy. Sometimes we night
we might need to do manipulation of the

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joints. Sometimes we have to you
know, decompress the nerves. Sometimes the

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skull is tilted. Now, there's
lots of things that and be affecting your

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health and your well being, but
we always got to get to the root

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cause of the problem. Another part
of your brain is your cerebellum, very

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common area injured in car accidents,
sports injuries, concussions, slips and falls.

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This is the part of the brain
that's responsible for balance, coordination,

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movement, gate, thinking, properly, speaking properly, it's coordinating your whole

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body. The cerebellum uses up a
lot of energy, a lot of oxygen.

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It's the first part that's affected when
you drink alcohol. So you might

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be you know, lose your balance, you might slur your speech, you

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might have lack of impulse control,
so you might get dizzy. This all

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comes from the cerebellum. That's what
the police do when they're doing a drunk

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driving. They're checking from the stagnast
They're checking can you stand on one leg

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your heel to tell They're checking how
you speak. That's all from the cerebellum.

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So people who have brain damage a
lot of times they're cerebellum is affected.

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First, another part of the brain. You have your brain stem.

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That's like the old brain, the
amphibian brain that controls your blood pressure.

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If you have high blood pressure,
we got to look at your brain stem

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controls your gut. If you have
IBS, constipation, diarrhea, ulcra,

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relative colitis, you have silliac disease, chrome's disease. There's all issues in

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your bagus, nerve, in your
brain stem. So high blood pressure,

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you have constipation, you have excessive
urination, you have trouble sleeping, you

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have hormonal problems, period problems,
pregnancy problems, anger problems, aggression problems,

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anxiety. This can be due to
abnormal function of your brain stem.

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And what we want to do is
locate where the problems are. Therefore we'll

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know how to treat it appropriately.
So we have to do a thorough evaluation.

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One of the best evaluations you can
do. It's called a VNNG video

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mystography. It's this test where you
wear these goggles and it measures different eye

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movements and based on the different eye
movements, we can analyze the different lobes

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of the brain. So not only
can we tell where the problem is,

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but we could tell the imbalances from
left to right. That is vital because

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we might want to calm down one
side and we might need to stimulate the

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other. So it's not just about
figure out where the problem is, but

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once we do figure out where is
it because it's overactive, is it underactive?

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Is it not communicating? Is it
a balanced from left to right?

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The VG is the best test for
that. And if you ever had a

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concussion, or you have your COVID
longhauler, or if a chronic lime disease,

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you have some autoimmune problem, you
got five on my alga multiple Scrows

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says, you definitely want to do
this test, or if you just want

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to see how your brain's function.
Your memory is not doing good, your

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focus isn't too good, your balance
is off, you get anxiety, it

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can't sleep, you get headaches,
dizing this. This is the test to

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figure out where the problem is.
It's called a VNNG. It's normally five

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hundred dollars, but as a gift
to all my listeners, for the first

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seven people that call, you can
get the entire BNNG test. Instead of

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paying five hundred dollars, you only
have to pay twenty one dollars. All

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you have to do is call or
text six four six two two one six

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seven three eight. Again that's six
four six two two one six seven three

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eight. You could call or text, or if you'd rather do email,

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just email us at info at Kaplan, brain embody dot com. Just say

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you listen to the show and you
want to be one of the first seven

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people to pay twenty one dollars for
the vn test. Now that's going to

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tell us the imbalances from left to
right, but maybe we need to take

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a few more things. Another test
that I would suggest you taking advantage of

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We're going to give you a gift
at the end of the show is a

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one on one evaluation with me,
yours truly, Doctor Eric Kplum. And

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during the one on one, we
listen to your heart, I listen to

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your gut, your lungs. I
check your oxygen levels. I check out

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your eyes, your memory, your
balance, We check out you know your

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history, your blood work. We
go over your goals, we go over

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any other test results you've done,
and then we come up with a diagnosis.

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After the diagnosis, I give you
my suggestions, and there's lots of

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different suggestions that might entail for you
to achieve optimal levels. But it's up

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to you. So don't come to
me if you want medications, you want

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drugs, you want injections, you
want ivs, you want surge. That's

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not the type of doctor I am. I'm not going to prescribe you medicine.

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I am not going to cut you
open. I'm not going to take

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out any organs. I'm not going
to do any surgeries. We're not going

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to do deep brain stimulation. We're
not going to put in anything in your

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body. We're not opening up anything, We're not penetrating the skin. We're

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coming up with solutions that are natural, holistic, and integrative that are going

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to be very low risk and very
high reward. We're going to figure out

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what you need to do specifically,
because every patient is different. You know,

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even with the same diagnosis. I
have one, you know, concussion

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patient, they're gonna get complete different
programmers as another concussion patient. You know,

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one stroke patient, they're going to
get completely different types of therapist than

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another stroke patient. You know,
one Parkinson's patient, we'll get different therapist

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than another Parkinson's or one autism patient
we'll get different than another autism. So

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it's not about the diagnosis, but
it's how your brain is functioning. The

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diagnosis is just the label. But
if we get to the root cause and

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figure out where the problems are coming
from, then we could come up with

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the best solution. And a way
to do that is a one on one

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evaluation with me. It normally takes
about forty five minutes. It costs five

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hundred dollars, but for the gift, for the first seven people they call,

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text or email, you can get
the one on one evaluation with me

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for only twenty one dollars. If
you already called about the QEG and the

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VNG, call back again you can
get all three. You could just sign

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up for the v ANDNG, the
QEG and the one on one with me

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for twenty one dollars each. You
can do all three in the same day,

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but you have to call or email
six four six two two one six

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seven three eight or email info at
Kaplan Brain and Body dot com. If

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you want to find out more information, go to our website Kaplan DC dot

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com. You could check out our
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check out our Facebook Kaplan Brain and
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So please subscribe, like, comment,

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share, spread the information, give
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Power, A Guide to Improving your
Memory and Focus. Or you can just

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call our email us and we can
get you assigned copy as well. But

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there's lots of information on how to
improve your body by getting to the root

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cause of the problem rather than treating
symptoms or using a band aid like medication.

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Or injections to just make you feel
better rather than getting a permanent solution

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by getting to the root cause of
the problem. In my offices in New

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Jersey and New York, we also
do virtual We pride ourselves and getting to

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the root cause and the problem and
helping people in a natural, holistic,

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and integrated way so you function better, feel better, and live a better

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life. Thank you for listening.
We'll see you next week. This is

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doctor Eric Kaplan. You're listening to
boost your brain power. Don't miss boost

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your brain power with doctor Eric Kaplan
every Saturday from two pm to three pm

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to learn the secrets of how to
optimize your brain function. You can improve

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memory, focus, energy, sleep, digestion, mood, skin, metabolism,

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and strength by following the science and
research that doctor Kaplan will be sharing

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with his audience. Join the adventure
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body in a natural way while having
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boost your brain power if you want
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enjoy the quality of life you deserve. Called two O one two six one

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two one five zero or email info
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you're interested. In a free ten
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