WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.160 --> 00:00:05.799 The following is a paid podcast. iHeartRadio's hosting of this podcast constitutes neither an 2 00:00:05.879 --> 00:00:11.119 endorsement of the products offered or the ideas expressed. Hello, and welcome to 3 00:00:11.359 --> 00:00:17.120 boost your brain power. I'm your host, doctor Eric Kaplan. We're going 4 00:00:17.199 --> 00:00:23.960 to talk about headaches and dizzyness and the best holistic, natural ways to take 5 00:00:24.000 --> 00:00:30.839 care of these problems without using medicine or even you know, vitamins and supplements, 6 00:00:30.920 --> 00:00:36.840 and you know, making sure that we don't cover up symptoms with pills, 7 00:00:36.920 --> 00:00:40.560 but actually get to the root cause of the problem. Don't come to 8 00:00:40.600 --> 00:00:44.000 me if you want prescriptions, if you just want a pill to take to 9 00:00:44.079 --> 00:00:47.320 fix your headache, to fix your dizziness, that's not what we do. 10 00:00:48.200 --> 00:00:50.520 You know, if you have a sleeping troubles, I don't give you a 11 00:00:50.560 --> 00:00:54.359 sleeping pill. If you have anxiety, I don't give you an anti anxiety 12 00:00:54.439 --> 00:00:58.320 pill. But what I do is teach you how to get to the root 13 00:00:58.359 --> 00:01:02.679 cause of it, and then you can actually rewire your brain in a process 14 00:01:02.719 --> 00:01:10.239 called neuroplasticity to make your brain stronger and stronger and decrease your symptoms so you 15 00:01:10.400 --> 00:01:15.359 feel better, function better, and have a better quality of life. Now 16 00:01:15.439 --> 00:01:19.159 let's go over the basics first. The basic thing with headaches is hydration. 17 00:01:19.319 --> 00:01:23.079 You gotta stay hydrated. It's basic, but you gotta do it all right. 18 00:01:23.079 --> 00:01:26.040 Everyone's so, I know I got to drink water, but are you 19 00:01:26.079 --> 00:01:27.760 doing it? And are you doing it the right way? The right way 20 00:01:27.799 --> 00:01:30.879 is to do it on an empty stomach. You don't want to drink water 21 00:01:30.920 --> 00:01:34.799 with your meals. That's not good. That actually makes it harder to digest. 22 00:01:36.159 --> 00:01:40.439 You always want to drink your water and an empty stomach. So first 23 00:01:40.439 --> 00:01:42.400 thing in the morning is the best time to do it. Drink two glasses 24 00:01:42.439 --> 00:01:47.799 of water, put a pinch of pink. Come lene salt that's called salleet 25 00:01:47.840 --> 00:01:52.840 water, or you could do Celtic salt. That's good too. I like 26 00:01:52.879 --> 00:01:57.319 to squeeze some lemon for some flavor, and you do two glasses of water 27 00:01:57.359 --> 00:02:00.359 and an empty stomach right away. It's the first thing in the Then you 28 00:02:00.400 --> 00:02:05.040 want to do a half hour before each meal. Remember on an empty stomach, 29 00:02:05.200 --> 00:02:07.759 So a half hour before the meal is perfect number one. It also 30 00:02:07.840 --> 00:02:14.080 lubricates the intestinal pathway to make your digested food go through a lot easier, 31 00:02:14.919 --> 00:02:19.400 but it also prevents you from over eating as well. Helps with weight loss, 32 00:02:19.800 --> 00:02:23.840 helps with detoxification. You know, there's nothing better than drinking water on 33 00:02:23.919 --> 00:02:30.360 an empty stomach. But always remember to get the minerals. Do the salt 34 00:02:30.840 --> 00:02:34.400 that helps to pull the water into the cells to make sure the hydration is 35 00:02:34.400 --> 00:02:37.639 efficient. You know, if you drink something like distilled water that doesn't have 36 00:02:37.719 --> 00:02:39.120 the minerals, it's not going to be as good. It's not going to 37 00:02:39.159 --> 00:02:43.560 be utilized as properly as it would if you had salt in it. You 38 00:02:43.680 --> 00:02:46.840 need the minerals, but not through gatorade or pediolite or you know, other 39 00:02:47.000 --> 00:02:53.319 these commercial types of stuff, because that's not going to be healthy for you. 40 00:02:53.360 --> 00:02:58.120 A lot of it's sugar and food dyes and artificial flavors and chemicals, 41 00:02:57.840 --> 00:03:00.639 so stay away from, you know, the stuff that you're gonna get at 42 00:03:00.639 --> 00:03:05.360 the conventional supermarket. So we gotta do hydration. You're supposed to drink half 43 00:03:05.400 --> 00:03:07.240 your body weight in ounces. If you weigh one hundred and fifty pounds, 44 00:03:07.280 --> 00:03:10.759 you gotta drink seventy five ounces of water a day. You should be able 45 00:03:10.759 --> 00:03:17.479 to drink water at the end of the night and sleep throughout the whole night 46 00:03:17.520 --> 00:03:23.639 without having to urinate. If your systems are efficient. Something that actually makes 47 00:03:23.680 --> 00:03:27.039 you urinate during the night is not drinking water at night, but it's eating 48 00:03:27.120 --> 00:03:30.560 late at night. So the last meal you want to have is four hours 49 00:03:30.599 --> 00:03:34.800 before bedtime. So if you're going to bed at ten pm, you want 50 00:03:34.800 --> 00:03:38.000 to be done eating by six pm. That gives you four hours to fully 51 00:03:38.039 --> 00:03:43.240 digest your food and then you're gonna have a better sleep and then you have 52 00:03:43.360 --> 00:03:49.120 more energy in the morning as well. Getting back to the water, half 53 00:03:49.120 --> 00:03:52.759 your body weight and ounces. And also what are you drinking your water in. 54 00:03:52.800 --> 00:03:54.560 Are you drinking it in a glass? Great? But is it coming 55 00:03:54.560 --> 00:03:59.199 out of plastic? That's not good. I don't want to see plastic water 56 00:03:59.280 --> 00:04:04.400 bottles because that leaches into the water and then you're actually drinking plastic. It's 57 00:04:04.479 --> 00:04:11.400 kind of scary. You know. The average American drinks about a credit card 58 00:04:11.479 --> 00:04:16.040 size worth a plastic every year, so we don't want to be adding plastics. 59 00:04:16.079 --> 00:04:20.360 So you drink from glass. And you can get a glass water bottle 60 00:04:20.439 --> 00:04:25.279 to travel with, or you can get a stainless steel those are the two 61 00:04:25.319 --> 00:04:29.319 best. So you want to drink your water in glass stainless steel. Make 62 00:04:29.360 --> 00:04:31.519 sure you got the salt to the electrolytes. Squeeze a little lemon for some 63 00:04:31.600 --> 00:04:34.759 flavor, and you're good to go, as long as you're drinking it on 64 00:04:34.800 --> 00:04:41.000 an empty stomach and drinking happier body weight in ounces. That can help prevent 65 00:04:41.160 --> 00:04:46.120 many many headaches. If you on your period, you have to drink more 66 00:04:46.480 --> 00:04:50.079 because you're losing a lot of fluid. If you work out a lot and 67 00:04:50.120 --> 00:04:55.079 you sweat, you got to drink more water. Right. If you threw 68 00:04:55.240 --> 00:04:59.240 up or have diarrhea, you got to drink more water, all right. 69 00:04:59.319 --> 00:05:03.720 So it's always depending on what's going on in your life as well, but 70 00:05:04.079 --> 00:05:09.680 basically half your body weight in analysis, that's part of the basics. Number 71 00:05:09.680 --> 00:05:14.720 two basics. Got to stay away from the screens, stay away from the 72 00:05:14.800 --> 00:05:18.199 computer, the iPhones, the iPads. We want to stay away from the 73 00:05:18.720 --> 00:05:27.920 smart TVs, especially at night. That's very bad for your head. So 74 00:05:28.079 --> 00:05:32.079 at night we want to use blue light filter glasses. If you have to 75 00:05:32.199 --> 00:05:35.319 use the computer, the best time to do it is in the morning and 76 00:05:35.439 --> 00:05:40.519 in the early afternoon when the sun is out, so you know, just 77 00:05:40.560 --> 00:05:46.399 to make sure we get our cortisol high at the appropriate times. It's actually 78 00:05:46.560 --> 00:05:49.959 better to use the computer in the morning and the early afternoon, and then 79 00:05:50.000 --> 00:05:54.519 it's better to unplug in the evening. So if you have to do it 80 00:05:54.519 --> 00:05:59.199 for your job, get it all done early during the daylight hours and during 81 00:05:59.319 --> 00:06:04.160 night. Now you turn off the electronics if you have to use it at 82 00:06:04.240 --> 00:06:10.199 night. Use your blue light filter glasses. These are glasses. They look 83 00:06:10.199 --> 00:06:13.959 pretty orange, and what they do is they filter out the blue light, 84 00:06:14.079 --> 00:06:17.120 which is the light that is going to stimulate cortisol, which is the stress 85 00:06:17.199 --> 00:06:23.120 hormone that's going to be no good. That deposits belly fat that creates stress 86 00:06:23.160 --> 00:06:30.120 anxiety, that creates adrenal fatigue, that creates insomnia, sleep deprivation. So 87 00:06:30.160 --> 00:06:32.879 there's a lot of issues. You know, you don't want to have to 88 00:06:32.959 --> 00:06:36.959 use a c PAP because you have sleep apnea. But if you get to 89 00:06:38.000 --> 00:06:42.560 the root cause, then you can rewire your brain and then you're not treating 90 00:06:42.560 --> 00:06:47.279 not only with medicine or surgeries, but not wearing machines either. The good 91 00:06:47.279 --> 00:06:50.480 thing is your body can function properly. You just got to do the work. 92 00:06:51.680 --> 00:06:57.040 My job as a functional neurologist is to teach you what you need to 93 00:06:57.120 --> 00:07:00.319 do, but you're the one that's got to go home and do it. 94 00:07:00.759 --> 00:07:03.839 Okay, But education is key. Knowledge is power. So you have this 95 00:07:04.000 --> 00:07:09.279 knowledge to be that top one percent. You don't want to be like the 96 00:07:09.319 --> 00:07:13.560 other ninety nine percent. Right, what's the other ninety nine percent doing in 97 00:07:13.600 --> 00:07:18.279 America? There? They're waking up, they're drinking coffee, They're going to 98 00:07:18.279 --> 00:07:26.040 work, stressed out. Then they go home, eat a big dinner late 99 00:07:26.079 --> 00:07:32.240 at night, then have a snack on the couch while watching the news or 100 00:07:32.600 --> 00:07:42.199 some you know horror movie or some you know crime, or some zombie apocalypse. 101 00:07:42.319 --> 00:07:45.680 You know, it's like it's never good, and then they'd go in 102 00:07:45.800 --> 00:07:50.040 bed. That's a stressful way to live. That's why I said to unplug 103 00:07:50.040 --> 00:07:55.199 at night. You don't have any electronics at night. It's gonna take a 104 00:07:55.240 --> 00:08:01.000 lot of that pressure off your head. Okay. Also, are such a 105 00:08:01.040 --> 00:08:05.079 sedentary lifestyle now because everybody's at the computer all day, so you gotta take 106 00:08:05.199 --> 00:08:09.720 breaks. It's the twenty rule. Every twenty minutes, you get up for 107 00:08:09.759 --> 00:08:13.480 twenty seconds, you look twenty feet away, and then you do a twenty 108 00:08:13.480 --> 00:08:18.160 second exercise with it's just walking twenty feet, sitting to standing twenty times, 109 00:08:18.360 --> 00:08:24.639 twenty jumping jacks, twenty pushups, twenty sit ups, twenty lunges. I 110 00:08:24.720 --> 00:08:28.279 don't care what it is, but just move that body for twenty seconds. 111 00:08:28.360 --> 00:08:33.320 Get off that chair. You gotta get up right. Sitting is the new 112 00:08:33.360 --> 00:08:39.360 smoking, So get up off the chair and do a twenty second exercise. 113 00:08:39.799 --> 00:08:43.799 I don't care if it's just walking to the kitchen, filling up your glass 114 00:08:43.799 --> 00:08:46.080 of water and then coming back, because you know in a half hour is 115 00:08:46.159 --> 00:08:52.720 lunchtime, right, that counts, But just get up and move. I 116 00:08:52.720 --> 00:08:58.200 don't care if it's just walking around your desk for twenty seconds, but do 117 00:08:58.360 --> 00:09:03.399 something every twenty minutes. You get up for twenty seconds, you look twenty 118 00:09:03.440 --> 00:09:05.559 feet, do a twenty second exercise, and then you can go back to 119 00:09:05.600 --> 00:09:09.399 work and you'll be so much more productive. You'll be better focused. But 120 00:09:09.519 --> 00:09:16.120 it'll help prevent headaches, dizziness. Those screens are really bad for our brains. 121 00:09:16.720 --> 00:09:22.519 We're three dimensional. We want to see depth perception. We want to 122 00:09:22.679 --> 00:09:26.559 hear sounds from all movements, we want to see things from all over the 123 00:09:26.679 --> 00:09:31.039 room. We want to touch things. But the screen takes away all of 124 00:09:31.080 --> 00:09:39.679 our senses. It's really unhealthy for your brain. So you've got to purposely 125 00:09:39.759 --> 00:09:46.399 do these things to keep your brain strong. And you'll be more productive at 126 00:09:46.480 --> 00:09:52.440 work by taking these breaks. So we really have to prevent headaches. If 127 00:09:52.440 --> 00:09:56.600 you already have headaches, start doing some of these shoulder rolls. These are 128 00:09:56.960 --> 00:10:03.240 you know where you roll your sh bags, look up, roll back. 129 00:10:05.240 --> 00:10:07.240 I call it the walnut. You want to have a wallnut between your shoulder 130 00:10:07.240 --> 00:10:13.000 blades and your scapula. Try and crack that walnut with these big shoulder rolls 131 00:10:13.120 --> 00:10:18.519 looking up. Very good for your posture. And if you have what's called 132 00:10:18.519 --> 00:10:24.120 a stress headache where the muscles in the back of your head are so tight 133 00:10:24.159 --> 00:10:26.919 and in spas them that they're pulling on your head, that's gonna help. 134 00:10:28.200 --> 00:10:31.679 You might not have a good curve in your spine, so you might have 135 00:10:31.720 --> 00:10:35.519 to take a towel, fold it in half, roll it up, put 136 00:10:35.519 --> 00:10:39.960 it under your neck, let your head lie over it to create a curve 137 00:10:39.120 --> 00:10:45.200 in your neck. Many people with these stress headaches don't have a good curve 138 00:10:45.240 --> 00:10:48.039 in their neck. They have a straight neck or a military neck. And 139 00:10:48.120 --> 00:10:52.000 we want to have a nice sea curve. So we got to get that 140 00:10:52.080 --> 00:10:54.159 sea curve by doing the towel roll. You just lie on the ground, 141 00:10:54.519 --> 00:10:58.080 your heads on the ground, your upper backs on the ground and the towel 142 00:10:58.279 --> 00:11:03.879 is rolled up underneath your neck to get a nice sea curve in your neck. 143 00:11:05.080 --> 00:11:11.720 Your ear should be directly above your shoulder. Most people these days their 144 00:11:11.759 --> 00:11:16.320 ears are in front of their shoulder. It's called a forward and talgia. 145 00:11:16.039 --> 00:11:20.200 So we don't want our heads in front of our shoulders. We want our 146 00:11:20.679 --> 00:11:26.200 ears right on top of the shoulder. That is proper posture. So you 147 00:11:26.360 --> 00:11:31.159 have to work on your posture. You might need to do physical therapy. 148 00:11:31.720 --> 00:11:37.000 You might need manipulation of your bones. We do all that in our offices 149 00:11:37.039 --> 00:11:41.399 a Caplin Brain and Body. We have one office in Bergen County, New 150 00:11:41.480 --> 00:11:43.759 Jersey. We have another office in New York City in the West Village in 151 00:11:43.840 --> 00:11:50.480 Manhattan, where we check you for headaches and dizziness, including stuff that is 152 00:11:50.519 --> 00:11:58.679 related to stress, headaches, posture, muscles, nerve compression, skeletal misalignment, 153 00:11:58.120 --> 00:12:03.639 and forward and coug more. When we come back from the break, 154 00:12:05.360 --> 00:12:09.720 don't miss boost your brain power with doctor Eric Kaplan every Saturday from two pm 155 00:12:09.799 --> 00:12:15.279 to three pm to learn the secrets of how to optimize your brain function. 156 00:12:15.519 --> 00:12:20.360 You can improve memory, focus, energy, sleep, digestion, mood, 157 00:12:20.720 --> 00:12:26.720 skin, metabolism and strength by following the science and research that doctor Caplan will 158 00:12:26.759 --> 00:12:30.879 be sharing with his audience. Join the adventure of discovering how to help the 159 00:12:30.960 --> 00:12:35.039 brain and body in a natural way while having fun at the same time. 160 00:12:35.360 --> 00:12:39.559 Listen to boost your brain power. If you want to function better, feel 161 00:12:39.600 --> 00:12:43.960 better, and enjoy the quality of life you deserve, call two oh one 162 00:12:43.159 --> 00:12:48.840 two six' one two one five zero or email info at Kaplan Brainandbody dot 163 00:12:48.879 --> 00:12:54.519 com if you're interested in a free ten minute consultation with doctor Caplan, or 164 00:12:54.639 --> 00:13:03.120 visit kaplandc dot com for more information. Welcome back to boost your brain power. 165 00:13:03.639 --> 00:13:09.960 I'm your host, Doctor Eric Kaplan. So if we want to prevent 166 00:13:09.440 --> 00:13:15.840 headaches and dizziness, we have to get to the root cause of the headaches. 167 00:13:16.480 --> 00:13:20.679 There's always a different cause. You know, it's not just one cause. 168 00:13:20.720 --> 00:13:22.399 That's why you know, taking a tile and all or an aspirin an 169 00:13:22.399 --> 00:13:26.440 avil that's not gonna fix it because there's so many different types of headaches. 170 00:13:26.879 --> 00:13:31.519 You know, it might alleviate some of the symptoms temporarily, but then you 171 00:13:31.559 --> 00:13:35.279 gotta keep taking it over and over and over again. It's much better to 172 00:13:35.279 --> 00:13:39.799 get a permanent fix. So to get a permanent fix. You have to 173 00:13:39.000 --> 00:13:46.600 understand where it's coming from. One of the headaches is a stress headache. 174 00:13:46.279 --> 00:13:52.240 That's when the muscles are all strained and they're pulling on the back of your 175 00:13:52.320 --> 00:14:01.639 occiput. For that we require physical therapy, manipulate of the bones, manual 176 00:14:01.759 --> 00:14:07.480 traction, postural therapy. There's a lot that needs to be done. We 177 00:14:07.559 --> 00:14:15.200 can figure it out, or you can have what's called a cervicogenic headache that 178 00:14:15.279 --> 00:14:18.799 usually comes from the atlas, which is the top bone in the neck might 179 00:14:18.840 --> 00:14:22.320 be shifted over to the right or to the left, but that can affect 180 00:14:22.639 --> 00:14:26.519 a lot of stuff, even the arteries, the vertible artery, So we 181 00:14:26.559 --> 00:14:31.240 want to make sure that that top bone in the neck which holds your head 182 00:14:31.559 --> 00:14:37.480 is in the right position. Sometimes it's the oxis that's the second bone in 183 00:14:37.519 --> 00:14:43.919 the neck that's you know, closely related to more rotation. So a lot 184 00:14:43.919 --> 00:14:50.440 of people have difficulty with rotation in their necks and they're getting headaches. Might 185 00:14:50.440 --> 00:14:56.639 have an issue in that access or sometimes it's that transition that's C seven and 186 00:14:56.720 --> 00:15:00.840 T one. So there's all different types of these cervicogens. But we have 187 00:15:00.919 --> 00:15:05.399 to do a proper evaluation. So we could figure out where it's coming from. 188 00:15:05.159 --> 00:15:07.360 We're gonna give a gift at the end, so just make sure you 189 00:15:07.399 --> 00:15:13.720 stick around. I'll tell you about that. So besides a cervicogenic headache or 190 00:15:15.000 --> 00:15:22.960 a stress headache, you can get a migraine headache. A migraine headache will 191 00:15:24.000 --> 00:15:28.120 typically be behind one of your eyes. It'll be really like a sharp pain 192 00:15:28.279 --> 00:15:35.480 behind the eye. There'll be light sensitivity, sometimes sound sensitivity. There might 193 00:15:35.559 --> 00:15:43.960 be some nausea. If it's really intense. Patients even throw up. That's 194 00:15:45.080 --> 00:15:50.240 really intense, you gotta lie in a dark room for twenty four hours with 195 00:15:50.440 --> 00:15:56.759 no lights, no sound, only leaving to go to the bathroom to throw 196 00:15:56.879 --> 00:16:00.960 up. Those are severe migraines. We help it. Since that's severe. 197 00:16:00.840 --> 00:16:07.879 There's actually a cool technique. It's called insul filtration technique where we blow air 198 00:16:07.039 --> 00:16:11.320 into the ear in the middle of a ten out of ten migraine and within 199 00:16:11.799 --> 00:16:18.080 one minute can reduce it to a zero out of ten. It's pretty amazing. 200 00:16:18.200 --> 00:16:22.799 People come in literally even throwing up in the bathroom with big sunglasses and 201 00:16:22.919 --> 00:16:32.159 big headphones to decrease any light sound. And we take this little instrument and 202 00:16:32.200 --> 00:16:36.360 I blow air into the ear and I have this way where this method that 203 00:16:36.360 --> 00:16:41.919 we've been taught to reduce the headache pretty quickly, but it's got to be 204 00:16:41.919 --> 00:16:45.159 at a certain angle, certain speed, a certain amount of repetitions. It's 205 00:16:45.279 --> 00:16:48.480 very important, you know, to do it the correct way, or else 206 00:16:49.159 --> 00:16:53.399 it can actually cause more damage. We don't want to do that. But 207 00:16:53.480 --> 00:16:57.840 when we do in the office for a migraine, it has worked one hundred 208 00:16:57.840 --> 00:17:03.039 percent at a time. Won't work if it's a cervicogenic headache, it won't 209 00:17:03.079 --> 00:17:10.400 work if it's a stress headache or a migraine or a tention headache, but 210 00:17:10.440 --> 00:17:15.160 it will work for a migraine. Only for a migraine, right, But 211 00:17:15.240 --> 00:17:18.400 it does work pretty amazingly. There's only about I don't know, fifty to 212 00:17:18.400 --> 00:17:22.000 one hundred people that do it in the whole world actually, but it's pretty 213 00:17:22.000 --> 00:17:26.960 cool technique. So if you ever have a migraine, just call my office 214 00:17:27.359 --> 00:17:30.599 and we can get you in. Literally just takes a minute, so even 215 00:17:30.640 --> 00:17:33.680 if you're not on the schedule, we just get rid of it right away, 216 00:17:34.079 --> 00:17:37.599 all right. So that's something to look forward to, knowing that there's 217 00:17:37.880 --> 00:17:41.680 a technique out there that can get rid of it so quickly, so you 218 00:17:41.680 --> 00:17:45.279 don't have to sit in that dark room all day. You don't have to 219 00:17:45.279 --> 00:17:48.079 be throwing up, you don't have to have the lights off. You know, 220 00:17:48.160 --> 00:17:52.240 you can get rid of that migraine. Now, that's not prevention, 221 00:17:52.720 --> 00:17:56.200 So most of the time I'm talking about prevention, right, that's not prevention. 222 00:17:56.319 --> 00:17:59.440 That's just get getting rid of the migraine on the spot. So we 223 00:17:59.559 --> 00:18:03.039 never do that if you don't actually have a migraine. But more importantly, 224 00:18:03.160 --> 00:18:07.880 after we do get rid of that, okay, we come back later and 225 00:18:07.920 --> 00:18:12.440 then we figure out where's this migraine coming from. Now, migraines are caused 226 00:18:12.480 --> 00:18:18.640 by decrease oxygen into the brain or you know, behind that eye. How 227 00:18:18.640 --> 00:18:22.359 do we know we're not getting enough oxygen or blood flow? You know, 228 00:18:22.400 --> 00:18:26.319 we do this red saturation test. It's pretty cool. So its measures. 229 00:18:26.359 --> 00:18:29.160 Okay, is the blood getting to that back of that retina? And you 230 00:18:29.200 --> 00:18:32.839 just literally hold a piece of paper. You can do it on the computer 231 00:18:32.880 --> 00:18:36.480 as well, and you cover the right eye and you say, okay, 232 00:18:36.519 --> 00:18:38.680 how red is it? And then you cover the left eye. Okay, 233 00:18:38.759 --> 00:18:41.960 how red is it? Keep doing that right eye, left eye, right 234 00:18:41.960 --> 00:18:45.480 eye, left eye, and usually the patient will know if there's an issue 235 00:18:47.119 --> 00:18:49.359 Okay, this one looks a lot brighter, it looks a lot more vibrant. 236 00:18:51.240 --> 00:18:53.680 Or sometimes they'll say, okay, this one looks more dull. It 237 00:18:53.720 --> 00:18:57.880 looks like it's been through the wash a few many two times, not as 238 00:18:59.200 --> 00:19:03.000 strong as the other sides. And then we know, okay, one side's 239 00:19:03.039 --> 00:19:06.640 not get enough oxygen and blood flow. Typically you know it might be the 240 00:19:06.680 --> 00:19:08.599 side of the migraine. It's pretty common to see there. And we could 241 00:19:08.599 --> 00:19:12.279 also look in the eyes, look at the blood vessels, and look at 242 00:19:12.319 --> 00:19:18.079 the arteries in the veins. Eyes are so cool because you can actually see 243 00:19:18.319 --> 00:19:22.960 the arteries in the veins in the eyes. There's no other place where you 244 00:19:22.960 --> 00:19:29.039 could see the arteries in the veins without actually cutting open the body. So 245 00:19:29.119 --> 00:19:30.960 this is pretty cool stuff. You actually look in the eyes and we could 246 00:19:30.960 --> 00:19:37.319 see the ratio of the veins to the arteries. And what we don't want 247 00:19:37.680 --> 00:19:42.359 is for the veins to be twice as big as the arteries. We call 248 00:19:42.400 --> 00:19:45.960 that a VA ratio. You don't want a two to one VA ratio. 249 00:19:47.440 --> 00:19:51.440 You want a one to one or a five to four. But basically we 250 00:19:51.559 --> 00:19:55.200 just say a one to one ratio. But if we start seeing the veins 251 00:19:55.200 --> 00:19:57.839 are blowing up. That's not good. It's gonna be an issue. And 252 00:19:57.880 --> 00:20:03.400 the blood vessels pressure in there because the veins are a little bit more elastics, 253 00:20:03.440 --> 00:20:07.920 so they're more susceptible to pressure. They so they'll they'll blow up bigger 254 00:20:07.960 --> 00:20:11.359 than the arteries. They're a little bit tighter, a little bit harder to 255 00:20:11.400 --> 00:20:14.640 blow up. But we can see that in the eyes. I'm gonna, 256 00:20:14.839 --> 00:20:18.240 you know, help analyze that and see if that's related to the migraines. 257 00:20:18.240 --> 00:20:21.000 And then we got to take care of that. We gotta get more blood 258 00:20:21.000 --> 00:20:26.319 flow, more oxygen. Sometimes we need hyperbaric oxygen chamber therapy. Sometimes we 259 00:20:26.359 --> 00:20:30.160 need, you know, an oxygen concentrator. Sometimes we need to do breathing 260 00:20:30.279 --> 00:20:36.440 exercises. Everybody you know can start doing breathing exercises on your own right now. 261 00:20:36.480 --> 00:20:40.839 Which is the best breathing exercises To inhale for four seconds, hold it 262 00:20:40.880 --> 00:20:45.759 for seven seconds, and exhale for eight seconds. And then as you do 263 00:20:45.839 --> 00:20:48.319 that and you build your lung capacity, then you start to count slower, 264 00:20:49.039 --> 00:20:52.319 so you know, you count, but keep the ratio because you always want 265 00:20:52.319 --> 00:20:59.119 to exhale twice as long as you inhale, but as you want to progress, 266 00:20:59.200 --> 00:21:02.720 start counting lower so you can get more of an inhale, more of 267 00:21:02.759 --> 00:21:06.519 a hold, and more of an exhale. The more you exhale, the 268 00:21:06.559 --> 00:21:11.319 more carbon dioxide you get rid of. If you get rid of carbon dioxide, 269 00:21:11.359 --> 00:21:15.119 then you're going to create a less acidic environment. And all disease loves 270 00:21:15.119 --> 00:21:19.319 a cidic environment. I don't care if it's heart disease, cancer, diabetes, 271 00:21:19.359 --> 00:21:25.119 obesity, lung disease, liver disease, kidney disease, adrenal issues, 272 00:21:25.200 --> 00:21:30.559 thyroid issues. They love acidic environment. So you want to keep your environment 273 00:21:30.880 --> 00:21:38.119 alkaline that while you increase oxygen and you decrease carbon dioxide, and you share 274 00:21:38.480 --> 00:21:41.839 that carbon dioxide to the trees and the plants, and you know it's a 275 00:21:41.880 --> 00:21:48.960 symbiotic relationship. We give Mother nature carbon dioxide and then they give us oxygen 276 00:21:49.079 --> 00:21:55.160 to breathe. Okay, So it's very important to inhale for four seconds, 277 00:21:55.200 --> 00:21:59.279 hold it for seven seconds, and exhale for eight seconds. And we talked 278 00:21:59.279 --> 00:22:03.200 about the pot before the posture is gonna help you to breathe. If your 279 00:22:03.240 --> 00:22:08.039 shoulders are rolled in and your heads down, your lungs aren't gonna expand properly. 280 00:22:08.160 --> 00:22:12.160 So you gotta keep that posture upright, keep that chin up, keep 281 00:22:12.160 --> 00:22:17.799 those shoulders back, keep those shoulders relaxed. You don't want to breathe through 282 00:22:17.799 --> 00:22:23.160 your shoulders. You want to breathe through your diaphragm diaframatic breathing. When you 283 00:22:23.319 --> 00:22:27.559 inhale, push your belly down and out like you're a pregnant woman, and 284 00:22:27.599 --> 00:22:33.920 then when you exhale, it should come in and squeeze that carbon dioxide out. 285 00:22:34.160 --> 00:22:38.319 So when you inhale, the belly goes down and out, when you 286 00:22:38.519 --> 00:22:45.319 exhale comes back in right, and then you're inhaling for four seconds, holding 287 00:22:45.359 --> 00:22:52.039 it for seven seconds, exhaling for eight that'll also help build your core stability. 288 00:22:52.279 --> 00:22:55.400 You know you want to get that six pack in your abs, start 289 00:22:55.400 --> 00:23:00.519 doing a lot of these breathing exercises. Contract those abdominal musk. So do 290 00:23:00.599 --> 00:23:07.559 that diaframatic breathing. And it's very important if you want to get the proper 291 00:23:07.640 --> 00:23:11.359 oxygen. If you have migraines, you know you need oxygen into that brain. 292 00:23:11.920 --> 00:23:15.599 Now. A lot of times you're getting these migraines because it's from your 293 00:23:15.680 --> 00:23:22.920 autonomic nervous system, which is responsible for constricting and dilating your blood vessels, 294 00:23:23.319 --> 00:23:26.279 and a lot of that's controlled by your vegus. Nerve controls your heart rate. 295 00:23:26.440 --> 00:23:29.839 So if you feel these heart beats or you know, if you see 296 00:23:29.839 --> 00:23:33.400 that caronic pulse pressure too big, you see a beating in the neck or 297 00:23:33.440 --> 00:23:36.839 the forehead and stuff like that. So that means, you know, if 298 00:23:36.880 --> 00:23:41.720 you have autonomic nervous system problems because it's not pumping properly and then there's too 299 00:23:41.799 --> 00:23:44.359 much pressure in there, and let's see that in the eyes as well. 300 00:23:44.759 --> 00:23:48.880 But to understand that you need a proper neurologric evaluation, and a gift we're 301 00:23:48.920 --> 00:23:52.880 giving to you is a one on one evaluation with me, doctor Kaplan, 302 00:23:52.920 --> 00:23:56.319 where we do we check your blood pressure, we check your pulse rate, 303 00:23:56.359 --> 00:24:00.160 We check your oxygen levels and listen to your lungs, your gut. We 304 00:24:00.240 --> 00:24:03.599 check out your memory, your posture, your alignment. Seeing where those headaches 305 00:24:03.640 --> 00:24:06.440 are coming from, and they're coming from, you know, muscle tension. 306 00:24:06.480 --> 00:24:10.079 Are they coming from you know, sinuce problems. Are they're coming from your 307 00:24:10.160 --> 00:24:14.720 high blood pressure? Are they coming from allergy? That theyre coming from nutritional 308 00:24:14.759 --> 00:24:18.799 deficiencies, you have autoimmune disease. So we do this one on one. 309 00:24:18.079 --> 00:24:22.680 Uh. It's a really cool evaluation takes about forty five minutes. It's normally 310 00:24:22.759 --> 00:24:26.599 five hundred dollars, but for the first seven people that call, text or 311 00:24:26.640 --> 00:24:30.920 email you can get it for only twenty one dollars and we'll review all your 312 00:24:32.039 --> 00:24:33.759 history and come up with your health goals. All you have to do is 313 00:24:33.839 --> 00:24:38.960 call or text six four six two two one six seven three eight, or 314 00:24:40.240 --> 00:24:45.559 you can email info at Caplinbraininbody dot com. 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You're listening to boost your brain power. There are many types of 333 00:26:17.759 --> 00:26:23.079 headaches. We want to look at the some of the least common headaches. 334 00:26:23.119 --> 00:26:27.640 Most people think about everything as being a migraine, and we said, migraine 335 00:26:27.759 --> 00:26:32.880 it's gonna be when you're not getting oxygen and blood flow. That's behind the 336 00:26:32.880 --> 00:26:37.039 eye. It's sharp shooting pain one of the eyes. You're gonna get naise, 337 00:26:37.359 --> 00:26:41.200 you're gonna get light sensitivity. Those are no fun. Now, there's 338 00:26:41.200 --> 00:26:47.359 a different type of headache called a tension headache that's usually going to be around 339 00:26:47.359 --> 00:26:52.000 the temples, and that occurs a lot of times. When you're you know 340 00:26:52.079 --> 00:26:56.880 your blood pressure is too high. Now you get this tens and sometimes you 341 00:26:57.079 --> 00:27:03.079 feel pulsating to the of your heart. Some people say, I feel like 342 00:27:03.079 --> 00:27:10.400 their heads squeezing. Our head's gonna explode. It's a tention headache, all 343 00:27:10.480 --> 00:27:15.079 right. Gotta reduce your stress levels, that's for sure. How do you 344 00:27:15.160 --> 00:27:18.640 do stress levels? Gotta exercise. It's gonna make your heart more efficient. 345 00:27:19.279 --> 00:27:23.519 It's not gonna have to work so hard. Might have to do some meditation, 346 00:27:25.799 --> 00:27:33.119 practice mindfulness, do those breathing exercises. Maybe take on taichi, some 347 00:27:33.200 --> 00:27:42.480 relaxation yoga type of technique, or some spirituality, you know, join some 348 00:27:44.200 --> 00:27:48.440 Buddhist type of group, or go out in nature. Be one with nature. 349 00:27:49.279 --> 00:27:52.599 I don't care if it's cold. Put on a hat and gloves and 350 00:27:52.640 --> 00:27:59.640 a coat, and you go out in nature. You want to feel nature, 351 00:27:59.680 --> 00:28:03.240 You want to touch nature. You want to be out in the sun. 352 00:28:03.559 --> 00:28:07.200 You want to breathe the oxygen in the air. You want to hear 353 00:28:07.200 --> 00:28:11.359 the birds chirping. You want to look at the deer. Be in nature. 354 00:28:12.519 --> 00:28:18.000 It's very powerful for your brain. If you're by a beach, that's 355 00:28:18.039 --> 00:28:23.480 the best the salt water air. Putting your feet in the sand doesn't get 356 00:28:23.480 --> 00:28:30.079 more therapeutic for your brain. You got to be in nature reduce your stress 357 00:28:30.200 --> 00:28:36.960 levels. Okay, maybe you gotta go to bed early. If you're staying 358 00:28:37.000 --> 00:28:40.960 up late and you're on the computer and you're scrolling and you're on social media 359 00:28:41.039 --> 00:28:44.240 and you're watching TV, and you're listening to the news, and you're, 360 00:28:44.799 --> 00:28:48.200 you know, in stress mode, that's not good. You're not getting good 361 00:28:48.279 --> 00:28:52.400 night's sleep. You got to be a good environment you do. The most 362 00:28:52.440 --> 00:28:57.279 common time for a heart attack or a stroke is Monday morning because you're in 363 00:28:57.400 --> 00:29:06.480 stress mode. Tension, headaches are early signs. You must intervene now and 364 00:29:06.720 --> 00:29:11.000 prevent future problems. Don't wait till you get the heart attack or a stroke 365 00:29:11.319 --> 00:29:17.640 to then start working at it. It's too much damage has been done. 366 00:29:17.720 --> 00:29:22.680 You gotta prevent it. You gotta eat healthy. What's the worst thing that's 367 00:29:22.680 --> 00:29:30.119 going to cause an increase in cholesterol and blood pressure? Dairy products, pizza, 368 00:29:30.880 --> 00:29:38.440 ice cream, cakes, and cookies, pastries, this Christmas stuff. 369 00:29:40.400 --> 00:29:44.720 Gotta stay away from it. I don't want to be like drinking milk and 370 00:29:44.799 --> 00:29:52.160 eating cookies. That's not good. Cereal and milk is not a healthy breakfast. 371 00:29:52.200 --> 00:29:59.119 A bagel and cream cheese is not a healthy breakfast. Toast and butter 372 00:29:59.720 --> 00:30:04.920 is a healthy breakfast. A croissant with jelly is not a good breakfast. 373 00:30:06.559 --> 00:30:11.559 Don't be in this breakfast mindset, and even worse, just having a coffee 374 00:30:11.880 --> 00:30:18.400 drain your adrenals. Have something healthy in the morning, something colorful. Start 375 00:30:18.400 --> 00:30:22.839 off with a fruit salad as an appetizer, and then and don't be in 376 00:30:22.839 --> 00:30:27.119 that breakfast mood. You could literally have a piece of grilled chicken for breakfast. 377 00:30:27.359 --> 00:30:30.799 You could have a piece of fish for breakfast. You don't have to 378 00:30:30.799 --> 00:30:34.839 have just eggs for breakfast. I don't know why people just have to have 379 00:30:36.160 --> 00:30:41.599 eggs and bread for breakfast every day. It's ridiculous. I mean, yeah, 380 00:30:41.599 --> 00:30:45.799 you can have you know, eggs one day, a little piece of 381 00:30:45.839 --> 00:30:48.839 chicken one day, little piece of fish one day. Yeah. Fine, 382 00:30:48.839 --> 00:30:53.480 you can have maybe bacon one day, maybe sausage one day. But you 383 00:30:53.480 --> 00:30:57.359 know, you put it in some vegetarian meals and more vegetarian meals where it's 384 00:30:57.400 --> 00:31:03.519 just the colorful fruit and veggies and nuts and seeds. You know, back 385 00:31:03.519 --> 00:31:07.400 in the day when we were hunt together as you weren't catching meat every day, 386 00:31:07.720 --> 00:31:11.680 so you shouldn't be eating meat every day. Should be a special surprise 387 00:31:15.000 --> 00:31:18.400 or more just like a little topping, you know, for lunch of salad. 388 00:31:18.799 --> 00:31:22.480 You know it's more vegetables than anything else. And if you want to, 389 00:31:22.559 --> 00:31:27.920 you know, sprinkle a little chicken on there, fine, but use 390 00:31:27.960 --> 00:31:33.720 that as more of like a topping. That is the main course. So 391 00:31:33.839 --> 00:31:37.000 try and you know, reduce some of this animal consumption. The thing is 392 00:31:37.039 --> 00:31:41.799 too you don't know what's this animal going through. If you eat an anxious 393 00:31:41.839 --> 00:31:45.400 animal, you're gonna become anxious. If you eat depressed cow, you're gonna 394 00:31:45.440 --> 00:31:49.559 be depressed. Cows are very emotional, they're very sensitive. If you separate 395 00:31:49.599 --> 00:31:53.319 them from their family, they're gonna get all depressed. Then you're gonna get 396 00:31:53.359 --> 00:32:00.880 depressed. They don't exercise, it's gonna cause you to be fat. If 397 00:32:00.920 --> 00:32:07.839 these cows are fed genetically modified corn or just horrible diet meat, or even 398 00:32:07.000 --> 00:32:14.079 sometimes they feed them meat, and you're gonna be sick. If you were 399 00:32:14.160 --> 00:32:19.200 a cow that's full of steroids or a chicken, you're taking those steroids. 400 00:32:19.839 --> 00:32:23.799 If they're taking the antibiotics, you're taking the antibiotics. If you're eating an 401 00:32:23.839 --> 00:32:30.000 animal that's taking hormones. You're taking the hormones. You are what you eat. 402 00:32:30.480 --> 00:32:32.279 So if you eat a depressed cow, you'll be depressed. You eat 403 00:32:32.279 --> 00:32:37.720 a cat that's on hormones, you're taking hormones. You think these these kids 404 00:32:37.720 --> 00:32:43.039 are getting there a period at nine ten years old now because they're eating all 405 00:32:43.079 --> 00:32:47.480 these foods that are full of hormones. Oh, they don't tell you that 406 00:32:50.039 --> 00:32:53.519 there's a lot of poisons there. They don't tell you about. You gotta 407 00:32:53.559 --> 00:32:59.720 be careful what you put in your body. I mean, I have one 408 00:32:59.720 --> 00:33:06.279 of the uh, you know, we're getting a lot of patients now from 409 00:33:06.519 --> 00:33:13.920 you know, side effects even some of the covid immunizations where we're getting these 410 00:33:14.160 --> 00:33:19.359 burning mouth syndromes, We're getting these welts on their body, We're getting these 411 00:33:19.920 --> 00:33:27.000 brain fogs, these chemical sensitivities, these autoimmune conditions. You know, we 412 00:33:27.039 --> 00:33:30.720 gotta be careful with what we put in our body. But we're helping these 413 00:33:30.720 --> 00:33:36.440 people get their lives back to normal through neuroplasticity and doing these healthy habits. 414 00:33:36.480 --> 00:33:38.880 So the good news is there's hope, but you gotta be careful. You 415 00:33:38.920 --> 00:33:44.640 know, if you have high cholesterol and you take lipitour. One of the 416 00:33:44.680 --> 00:33:49.960 side effects is dementia, right, so I have a lot of people coming 417 00:33:49.960 --> 00:33:52.880 to me with dementia. We got to get their cholesterol better so they don't 418 00:33:52.920 --> 00:33:58.960 have to take these statin drugs which affect their brain function. You know, 419 00:33:59.039 --> 00:34:06.400 we see a lot of people well that are taking antibiotics a lot, but 420 00:34:06.559 --> 00:34:13.400 sometimes the antibiotics kill the good bacteria in your body, and that good bacteria 421 00:34:13.440 --> 00:34:15.800 is your best defense against the bad bacteria, and then you're more likely to 422 00:34:15.840 --> 00:34:20.920 be sick in the future. So even though it might have helped you short 423 00:34:21.000 --> 00:34:24.679 term, in the long term, now the gut what's called the microbiome is 424 00:34:24.760 --> 00:34:30.440 depleted, and that affects the immune system. That affects the digestive system. 425 00:34:30.719 --> 00:34:35.800 More likely to get you know, stuff like chromes, colitis, ibs, 426 00:34:37.239 --> 00:34:43.159 acid reflux, gastritis, sillyact disease. So we see a lot of these 427 00:34:43.159 --> 00:34:47.000 intestinal issues, but some of them are caused by side effects of the medication. 428 00:34:47.119 --> 00:34:51.239 A lot of people get ant acids, you know, when they have 429 00:34:51.400 --> 00:34:55.119 acid reflux or girt. But then when you take away the acid, now 430 00:34:55.800 --> 00:35:01.760 the stomach acid is depleted and they're not going to break down their nutrients and 431 00:35:01.800 --> 00:35:06.079 they become anemic. And now it's like, oh, now we got to 432 00:35:06.079 --> 00:35:07.800 deal with the anemia. And so it's like, that's why I'm dealing with 433 00:35:07.840 --> 00:35:10.840 anemea. We gotta get to the way, where's this anemia coming from? 434 00:35:12.280 --> 00:35:16.880 Is it because you're not eating food properly? Probably not. There's very few 435 00:35:16.960 --> 00:35:22.760 nutritional deficiencies in America. We have so much food, you know, we're 436 00:35:22.800 --> 00:35:24.199 not in these third world countries. We're not seeing you know, when you 437 00:35:24.199 --> 00:35:29.159 get scurvy, which is that vitamin C deficiency. And you know, a 438 00:35:29.159 --> 00:35:36.079 lot of these anemias aren't because they're not getting enough food in their diet and 439 00:35:36.199 --> 00:35:39.440 nutrients in their diets because they're not absorbing properly. But sometimes it's a side 440 00:35:39.440 --> 00:35:45.159 effect of the ant acid. Now I can't break down my food properly. 441 00:35:45.239 --> 00:35:49.960 It's also the acid helps to kill viruses bacteria. Yet, so a lot 442 00:35:49.960 --> 00:35:52.320 of times when you get these other types of infections, it's because you don't 443 00:35:52.320 --> 00:35:55.840 have enough stomach acid. Because you take ant acids, even over the counter 444 00:35:57.199 --> 00:36:00.719 tombs and roll aids and stuff. It's not just prescription acid. So we 445 00:36:00.800 --> 00:36:07.280 gotta be careful decreasing stomach acid because that can affect your absorption, your digestion, 446 00:36:07.760 --> 00:36:13.480 your immune system, your brain function, your inflammation. You know, 447 00:36:13.639 --> 00:36:16.440 there's a lot of stuff that can lead to so we got to be careful 448 00:36:16.679 --> 00:36:22.320 what type of medicine we put in our body, even just pain medication, 449 00:36:22.960 --> 00:36:25.920 and that's not even talking about the whole opioid epidemic where people get put on 450 00:36:25.960 --> 00:36:32.159 pain medication, you know, like pergistan and victing and these opioids that become 451 00:36:32.880 --> 00:36:38.320 an addicted issue because the brain then requires it after taking it, and the 452 00:36:38.320 --> 00:36:43.719 patients like how they feel. So this opioid epidemic is a little bit scary. 453 00:36:44.239 --> 00:36:45.880 But even if you take this over the counter the time, all the 454 00:36:45.880 --> 00:36:51.000 ibuprofen, that type of stuff, the pain is your body telling you that 455 00:36:51.119 --> 00:36:53.480 something's wrong. You know. I play a lot of sports, so and 456 00:36:53.519 --> 00:36:57.800 sometimes I'll you know, get beat up and banged around and I'll come home 457 00:36:58.000 --> 00:37:00.760 like, oh, limping, and my life will say, hey, you 458 00:37:00.760 --> 00:37:02.360 take a tile and all take an EBB. I'll say, no, I 459 00:37:02.559 --> 00:37:05.880 want to say, why do you want to suffer with the pain? I 460 00:37:05.880 --> 00:37:09.239 said, because the pain is telling me not to bend this way, not 461 00:37:09.360 --> 00:37:13.400 to move that way, or else I'm going to cause maybe some nerve root 462 00:37:13.440 --> 00:37:19.280 irritation, or some increased muscle spasm, or some increased bone misalignment. So 463 00:37:19.320 --> 00:37:22.320 that pain is protecting me. If I take a muscle relaxer, then my 464 00:37:22.519 --> 00:37:28.119 muscle that was tight in protection mode now loosens up. Now I can maybe 465 00:37:28.119 --> 00:37:31.119 cause more damage. All right, So we don't want to hide the symptoms. 466 00:37:31.559 --> 00:37:36.320 Get to the root cause of the symptoms. Then if you get to 467 00:37:36.400 --> 00:37:39.800 the root cause, you can come up with a good, holistic and integrative 468 00:37:39.920 --> 00:37:45.519 natural solution to function better, feel better, and live a better life. 469 00:37:45.800 --> 00:37:52.800 This is doctor Eric Caplan. You're listening to boost your brain power. Don't 470 00:37:52.880 --> 00:37:58.000 miss boost your brain power with doctor Eric Kamplin every Saturday from two pm to 471 00:37:58.039 --> 00:38:01.760 three pm to learn the secrets of how to optimize your brain function. You 472 00:38:01.800 --> 00:38:07.159 can improve memory, focus, energy, sleep, digestion, mood, skin, 473 00:38:07.559 --> 00:38:13.880 metabolism, and strength by following the science and research that doctor Caplan will 474 00:38:13.880 --> 00:38:17.000 be sharing with his audience. Join the adventure of discovering how to help the 475 00:38:17.119 --> 00:38:22.159 brain and body in a natural way while having fun at the same time. 476 00:38:22.480 --> 00:38:25.679 Listen to boost your brain power. If you want to function better, feel 477 00:38:25.719 --> 00:38:30.039 better, and enjoy the quality of life you deserve. Called two oh one 478 00:38:30.280 --> 00:38:37.000 two six' one two one five zero or email info at Kaplan brainanbody dot 479 00:38:37.000 --> 00:38:40.679 com if you're interested in a free ten minute consultation with doctor Caplan, or 480 00:38:40.760 --> 00:38:49.880 visit caplindc dot com for more information. This is doctor Eric Kaplan. You 481 00:38:49.880 --> 00:38:57.920 are listening to boost your brain power. In regards to headaches, sometimes there's 482 00:38:57.960 --> 00:39:00.880 an issue in the sinuses, so a lot of people get sinus headaches. 483 00:39:01.440 --> 00:39:09.199 There's four sinus points. There's two below the eyes and there's two above the 484 00:39:09.360 --> 00:39:16.639 eyebrow. Those points can be massaged to help alleviate some of the inflammation and 485 00:39:16.719 --> 00:39:25.039 tension there where you just kind of do circular clockwise counterclockwise movements on these sinus 486 00:39:25.079 --> 00:39:29.280 points and that helps to alleviate some of the pressure. Or you can do 487 00:39:29.320 --> 00:39:32.320 a nettypot helps to flush out some of those toxins. You can get one 488 00:39:32.400 --> 00:39:37.199 of you know, a local pharmacy. You can also, you know, 489 00:39:37.320 --> 00:39:44.280 make sure you reduce allergies. That's important for that. You got to make 490 00:39:44.280 --> 00:39:50.280 sure your diet's pretty clean. The worst foods for allergies or the white foods 491 00:39:51.440 --> 00:39:57.000 you know, the flower, the sugar, the breads, the dairy products, 492 00:39:58.679 --> 00:40:02.320 all those grain you know, those are not good for allergies. Even 493 00:40:02.440 --> 00:40:07.239 corn soy. Stay well from all that white stuff, all the grains, 494 00:40:07.280 --> 00:40:10.679 the rice, even the potatoes. You know, we got to stay away 495 00:40:10.719 --> 00:40:15.559 from that for allergies. Every bread, crackers, you know, cereals, 496 00:40:15.679 --> 00:40:20.000 oatmeal, that type of stuff, you know, oatmeals. You know, 497 00:40:20.000 --> 00:40:22.119 we really want to stay away from that. People think that's a good healthy 498 00:40:22.119 --> 00:40:25.679 breakfast if you have allergies, something I would stay away from for sure. 499 00:40:28.960 --> 00:40:32.280 Also, you could do homeopathic remedies. Homeopathic remedies have been around for thousands 500 00:40:32.320 --> 00:40:37.519 of years. Those are really good. So what that is is where it's 501 00:40:37.519 --> 00:40:39.719 sort of what vaccines are based on. So like when they give you the 502 00:40:39.760 --> 00:40:43.760 polio vaccine, you know, they give you a little bit of the polio 503 00:40:43.920 --> 00:40:46.480 virus. And when they give you, you know, the measles vaccine, 504 00:40:46.480 --> 00:40:50.880 it's a little bit of the measles and the chicken pox, and so the 505 00:40:50.920 --> 00:40:53.440 actually give you a little bit of that virus. And the idea is that 506 00:40:53.519 --> 00:40:58.159 your body will say, oh, okay, I can handle this little tiny 507 00:40:58.239 --> 00:41:01.800 virus and it will defeat it so that when you do get exposed to it, 508 00:41:01.920 --> 00:41:06.559 hopefully never, but if you do, now your body can fight it 509 00:41:06.559 --> 00:41:09.840 all because it recognizes this, and now we could continue to fight it because 510 00:41:09.840 --> 00:41:14.199 says, oh I beat this, I could do that again. So with 511 00:41:14.280 --> 00:41:19.440 homeopathic for allergies, you get these little tiny you know, microscopics amounts of 512 00:41:20.119 --> 00:41:22.920 dust and pollen and say, okay, I can handle this, so that 513 00:41:23.000 --> 00:41:27.039 when spring comes up, now I've seen palm before, I can handle it. 514 00:41:27.440 --> 00:41:30.599 Or dog hair and cat hair. So okay, now when I go 515 00:41:30.679 --> 00:41:35.440 over to my mom's house at Christmas and her cat's there, I don't get 516 00:41:35.480 --> 00:41:39.000 allergic because I took this homeopathic remedy. Or you know, it's for food 517 00:41:39.079 --> 00:41:44.199 allergies, whether you have gluten or dairy or you know, the most common 518 00:41:44.559 --> 00:41:49.599 types of allergies that you could see. You know not only from the environment, 519 00:41:50.119 --> 00:41:53.639 but you know from internally as well. You know, dust and mold 520 00:41:53.760 --> 00:41:58.280 and you know everything that the most common. So we have a good concoction 521 00:41:58.719 --> 00:42:01.000 that we recommended of our all. You know, just contact my office about 522 00:42:01.039 --> 00:42:06.880 the homeopathic remedy and we could give you more information about that as well. 523 00:42:07.079 --> 00:42:09.559 But that would really help out the best with sinus type of headaches, which 524 00:42:09.559 --> 00:42:15.119 are either pressure below the eyes or above the eyebrows. So tension headaches are 525 00:42:15.159 --> 00:42:20.920 more to the temples. Sinus are more in the front, migraines are usually 526 00:42:20.960 --> 00:42:28.360 more behind the eye. Stress headaches are usually behind the neck. Cervicogenic headaches 527 00:42:28.360 --> 00:42:36.679 are usually at the neck. Dehydration headaches could be anywhere. So there's a 528 00:42:36.679 --> 00:42:38.519 lot of variety, but it's always good to get to the root cause of 529 00:42:38.559 --> 00:42:42.559 the headaches. There's lots of tests you could do to get to the root 530 00:42:42.559 --> 00:42:46.960 cause of the headaches. One of the best tests it's called a VNNG or 531 00:42:47.000 --> 00:42:52.840 a VOG video onestography or video oculography, And what that is is where we 532 00:42:52.920 --> 00:42:58.199 hook you up to these goggles. They're infrared goggles. They measure your eye 533 00:42:58.199 --> 00:43:01.440 movements from left to right, up and down, from fast and slow and 534 00:43:01.480 --> 00:43:07.480 with movements and with light and with allight. And it's really cool because we're 535 00:43:07.480 --> 00:43:09.079 able to analyze all the different areas of the brain. The eyes are the 536 00:43:09.119 --> 00:43:13.480 window into the nervous system, so we really can get Hey, is one 537 00:43:13.480 --> 00:43:16.199 sign working too much? Is one signe working too little? You have issues, 538 00:43:16.280 --> 00:43:21.760 you know with your frontal cortex or your occipital cortex, or your temporal 539 00:43:21.760 --> 00:43:24.480 cortext or is it from cerebellum or brain stem. It really kind of breaks 540 00:43:24.639 --> 00:43:30.559 everything down there. So it's a really good technology. It's normally five hundred 541 00:43:30.599 --> 00:43:34.159 dollars, but we're gonna give a gift for the first seven people that call 542 00:43:34.239 --> 00:43:37.800 text or email. You can get the VNG or the VOG for only twenty 543 00:43:38.000 --> 00:43:43.760 one dollars, and this is very good if you have headaches or dizzyness. 544 00:43:43.800 --> 00:43:45.880 One of the best tests you could do, and all you have to do 545 00:43:46.000 --> 00:43:52.159 is call text or email six four six two two one six seven three eight 546 00:43:52.440 --> 00:43:59.599 or email info at kaplanbrainebody dot com. The next test that I like, 547 00:44:00.519 --> 00:44:04.119 and we're gonna give a gift with this one as well. It's called a 548 00:44:04.280 --> 00:44:09.639 qEEG brain mapping, and this measures your brain waves and this will say, 549 00:44:09.639 --> 00:44:15.400 okay, how's your alpha brain waves and your beta and theta and delta, 550 00:44:15.440 --> 00:44:19.519 which all are responsible for different things, and it says, okay, what's 551 00:44:19.559 --> 00:44:22.039 the location where are these abnormal brain waves? And based on the location, 552 00:44:22.800 --> 00:44:27.400 it'll tell us, hey, are you not getting enough blood flow into the 553 00:44:27.400 --> 00:44:30.679 brain. Have you had a concussion, heavy metal poisoning. Do you have 554 00:44:30.719 --> 00:44:37.159 a thyroid problem, do you have intestinal inflammation? Do you have sleep deprivation 555 00:44:37.320 --> 00:44:40.760 or insomnia? Do you have anxiety? Do you have anger, aggression. 556 00:44:42.199 --> 00:44:46.039 Do you have troubles with dopamine or acetycoline. Do you have an issue with 557 00:44:46.119 --> 00:44:52.000 your sensory integration where okay, you can't taking too much light in your eyes 558 00:44:52.039 --> 00:44:58.639 are too sensitive to sounds. So this QEG brain mapping literally breaks down every 559 00:44:58.679 --> 00:45:02.400 single area of the Brain's really great technology. There's no radiation. All you 560 00:45:02.480 --> 00:45:06.360 have to do is where this cap and it measures all your brain weighs. 561 00:45:06.679 --> 00:45:10.880 Only takes about fifteen to twenty minutes. Super easy, but super informative. 562 00:45:12.039 --> 00:45:15.159 It's normally five hundred dollars, but the gift is the first seven people can 563 00:45:15.159 --> 00:45:19.239 get it for only twenty one dollars, and if you want, you can 564 00:45:19.280 --> 00:45:23.639 sign up for all three the brain mapping for twenty one, the VOG for 565 00:45:23.800 --> 00:45:28.880 twenty one, and the one on one with me for only twenty one dollars 566 00:45:28.920 --> 00:45:31.760 as well. All you have to do is call text or email six four 567 00:45:31.880 --> 00:45:39.239 six two two one six seven three eight or email info at Kaplan brainebody dot 568 00:45:39.280 --> 00:45:43.760 com and it's gonna tell us, Okay, where's your headaches coming from? 569 00:45:43.840 --> 00:45:47.760 Where's your anger coming from? What if you have dizziness? You know dizzyness 570 00:45:47.800 --> 00:45:51.480 too, that's a you know we see a lot of patients with dizzeyness. 571 00:45:51.519 --> 00:45:54.880 A lot of times it's from concussion. A lot of times it's related to 572 00:45:54.920 --> 00:46:00.199 the inner ear. You might have these crystals in your inner ear. That's 573 00:46:00.199 --> 00:46:04.159 the easiest one to fix for dizzeyess. We love when we see that. 574 00:46:04.199 --> 00:46:07.960 It's called BPPV, where this is when you turn over and bed and you 575 00:46:07.000 --> 00:46:09.880 get dizzy. We help a lot of patients with that. Twenty five percent 576 00:46:09.880 --> 00:46:15.199 of my dizziness patients is BPPV. So if these crystals in the inner ear 577 00:46:15.199 --> 00:46:19.119 and when you turn your head that creates all this dizzyness. What I do 578 00:46:19.159 --> 00:46:22.440 when you come to the office is move your head in a certain position, 579 00:46:22.199 --> 00:46:27.400 get rid of these crystals so they're in the area where they don't bother you 580 00:46:27.440 --> 00:46:30.679 and create these weird sensations, and then next time you lie down and turn 581 00:46:30.719 --> 00:46:35.239 your head, you don't get dizzy anymore. Patients love it because it literally 582 00:46:35.280 --> 00:46:38.960 only takes a one time to fix. That's very rare. Most times when 583 00:46:38.960 --> 00:46:44.679 we're healing dizzeyiness, it takes more than just one time to fix. But 584 00:46:44.719 --> 00:46:49.440 if it's the BPPV, that's the easy one, most common to fix. 585 00:46:49.719 --> 00:46:52.000 Has to do with these crystals. So patients love that because they just come 586 00:46:52.000 --> 00:46:55.519 in. We do this little maneuver, get rid of the crystals, and 587 00:46:55.559 --> 00:46:59.559 they get no more dizziness, all right. We like those very common, 588 00:47:00.239 --> 00:47:06.440 very easy and quick fix. Sometimes people get dizzyness from what's called POTS, 589 00:47:06.920 --> 00:47:10.719 positional orthostatic tachycardia syndrome. That means when you get up quickly, like you 590 00:47:10.800 --> 00:47:15.320 get very light headed out your heart heart starts beating really fast, and we 591 00:47:15.360 --> 00:47:19.760 see a lot of that. So we have to do these, you know, 592 00:47:19.920 --> 00:47:23.039 because it's a positional one. We have to do positional exercises. Okay, 593 00:47:23.079 --> 00:47:27.960 So we do brain exercise called functional neurology, and we rewire the brain 594 00:47:28.320 --> 00:47:30.920 and we do stuff where they're lying flat down, and then we bring them 595 00:47:30.960 --> 00:47:32.480 up a little bit and we do more brain exercise, and then we bring 596 00:47:32.480 --> 00:47:35.960 them up a little bit more, and then we do more exercises and then 597 00:47:35.960 --> 00:47:38.079 we bring up a little bit more. So this is for POTS. It's 598 00:47:38.199 --> 00:47:42.559 really cool therapy. We do it those both of our offices. We have 599 00:47:42.559 --> 00:47:45.760 one office in Emerson, New Jersey, and one office in New York City 600 00:47:45.800 --> 00:47:50.840 in the West Village, where we help people with these POTS syndromes. And 601 00:47:50.880 --> 00:47:55.679 they do positional exercises and a lot of different eye exercises and autonomic exercises, 602 00:47:55.719 --> 00:48:00.719 and oxygen therapy and doing stuff to make your systems more efficient, so that 603 00:48:00.719 --> 00:48:05.199 the blood can get up into the brain, so that the heart doesn't have 604 00:48:05.239 --> 00:48:09.280 to beat so fast. All my solutions are natural though. I don't use 605 00:48:09.400 --> 00:48:13.920 medicine. I don't prescribe medicine for my patients, so they're wy to come 606 00:48:13.960 --> 00:48:16.719 for me for dizziness. I don't say, Okay, here's your antivert. 607 00:48:17.280 --> 00:48:21.760 You know, here's your mechlasine. That's not the type of doctor I am. 608 00:48:21.840 --> 00:48:25.039 I'm a functional neurologist, different than a medical neurologist who's going to just 609 00:48:25.119 --> 00:48:30.000 write those prescriptions. What I'm going to do is see where is the problem. 610 00:48:30.039 --> 00:48:35.960 Where is the dysfunction of your nervous system creating the dizziness. Maybe it's 611 00:48:36.000 --> 00:48:40.320 coming from your cerebellum and we have to do balance exercises. Maybe it's coming 612 00:48:40.360 --> 00:48:45.159 from the eyes and we have to do eye exercises. Maybe it's coming from 613 00:48:45.159 --> 00:48:50.559 the canals in the inner ear and we have to do ear exercises, or 614 00:48:50.599 --> 00:48:54.480 maybe we have to do eye exercises, ear exercises, balance exercises, vestibular 615 00:48:54.559 --> 00:48:59.599 we have all at the same time, okay, but if you sign up 616 00:48:59.800 --> 00:49:05.079 for those valuations, will know which one that's coming from, and then we'll 617 00:49:05.119 --> 00:49:09.800 properly diagnose you and give you a remedy that's going to be holistic and integrative 618 00:49:10.320 --> 00:49:15.480 without any surgeries. You know, we don't do like the briep deep brain 619 00:49:15.599 --> 00:49:21.159 stimulation or you know, we don't want to do anything invasive. As long 620 00:49:21.199 --> 00:49:23.639 as we fix the brain to get to the root cause, then we don't 621 00:49:23.639 --> 00:49:29.519 have to do all these you know, invasive and risky procedures there. You 622 00:49:29.559 --> 00:49:34.239 know, I think less is more, less intervention, less pills, less 623 00:49:34.280 --> 00:49:38.320 surgeries, less testing, less doctors. I think those are going to be 624 00:49:38.360 --> 00:49:43.639 the people that live the healthier life, not the one that sees more doctors 625 00:49:43.639 --> 00:49:47.639 and more medicine, but the ones that let the body work and heal on 626 00:49:47.719 --> 00:49:52.360 its own. So that's our philosophy at Capitlin Brain and Body, And that's 627 00:49:52.360 --> 00:49:55.199 the way you try and teach our patients is how to help yourself so they're 628 00:49:55.199 --> 00:49:59.559 not reliant on the system. You know, I teach my family, hey, 629 00:49:59.800 --> 00:50:01.400 you know, we might not have Medicare when I get to that age, 630 00:50:01.440 --> 00:50:07.679 so I need to be healthy, so I don't need any hospitalization visits 631 00:50:07.719 --> 00:50:12.000 and medical visits and medicine payments. So if I take care of my body 632 00:50:12.039 --> 00:50:15.960 now, then I'll prevent future costs as well. So you invest in your 633 00:50:15.960 --> 00:50:20.639 health when you're young, and you prevent future costs as you get older, 634 00:50:21.079 --> 00:50:24.480 because an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. So we don't 635 00:50:24.480 --> 00:50:30.079 want to hide symptoms with medicine, but we want to get to the root 636 00:50:30.159 --> 00:50:36.639 cause of the problem and solve it in a way that's very low risk and 637 00:50:36.840 --> 00:50:39.639 high reward. Everything that I do with my patients, that's what I try 638 00:50:39.639 --> 00:50:45.840 and strive to be the lowest risk and the highest reward. That's what you 639 00:50:45.880 --> 00:50:51.960 should always look for before making a metal decision, a medical decision. What's 640 00:50:52.000 --> 00:50:58.360 the risk and what's the reward. This is doctor Eric Kaplan. You're listening 641 00:50:58.679 --> 00:51:04.599 to boost your brain. Pass more when we come back next week. If 642 00:51:04.639 --> 00:51:07.280 you want to improve your brain function, help with memory, focus, sleep, 643 00:51:07.360 --> 00:51:12.920 digestion, energy, depression, anxiety, dizziness, balance, vision, 644 00:51:12.960 --> 00:51:16.119 headaches, brain fog, weight loss, or simply want to maximize your human 645 00:51:16.159 --> 00:51:21.960 potential and prevent future diseases, that this is the show for you. Don't 646 00:51:22.000 --> 00:51:27.000 misboost your brain power with doctor Eric Kaplan and you will learn natural, integrative, 647 00:51:27.000 --> 00:51:31.119 and holistic approaches to modern day medical problems such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's stroke, 648 00:51:31.280 --> 00:51:37.119 autism, add concussion, autoimmune diseases, insomnia, fibromyalgia, vertigo, 649 00:51:37.280 --> 00:51:43.599 migraines, four posture pain, TBI, skin and digestive problems. Doctor Caplin 650 00:51:43.679 --> 00:51:46.199 is most famous for getting to the root cause of a wide variety of brain 651 00:51:46.280 --> 00:51:52.239 and health conditions, rather than treating symptoms with traditional medicines and risky surgeries. 652 00:51:52.320 --> 00:51:54.880 To contact doctor Caplin, you can call his team at two oh one two 653 00:51:54.880 --> 00:52:00.440 six one two one five zero, or visit his website at Kaplan DC dot 654 00:52:00.559 --> 00:52:07.320 com. The proceeding was a paid podcast. iHeartRadio's hosting of this podcast constitutes 655 00:52:07.400 --> 00:52:10.199 neither an endorsement of the products offered or the ideas expressed.