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Roost your brain Power. I'm your host, doctor Eric Kaplan. We're gonna
be talking about brain development. The most important time for brain development is in
utero. It's when your mother is pregnant that will dictate how your brain forms
in the womb. It's where it all starts. And what I mean by
that is if the mother is highly stressed or anxious when she's pregnant, then
the baby is going to already be born in stress mode. We see that
all the time. So if a mother is anxious, stress, high strung,
worried all the time, angry, not sleeping right during the pregnancy,
then the baby is going to develop anxiety and have high stress during childhood.
So the beginning is where it all starts. As a man, you want
to give the healthiest sperm ever. So if you plan on having children a
month before you decide to start trying, you become so healthy. You don't
drink any alcohol, you don't smoke any cigarettes, you exercise every day.
You drink lots of water, you eat very healthy, you get good sleep,
you get sunlight, you have good emotional stress, you have fun,
you work hard, you do all the right things. And then when you're
ready to donate the sperm, it's the healthiest sperm possible. Same thing for
females. When they're producing their eggs, you only get a certain amount of
eggs your entire life. You want to have the healthiest eggs possible. When
you combine healthy sperm with healthy eggs, that creates a very healthy baby.
Now after you've donated, now it's developmental time and that starts in the womb.
So as a father, a father's job once the woman is pregnant is
to reduce all the stress in the mother's life. Make sure she's relaxed,
make sure she's happy, make sure she's having fun, make sure she's support
her and everything and eating healthy and exercising. You be there for her to
reduce all your stress, to be as healthy as possible, because the healthier
the mama is, the healthier the baby is. All right, So the
good news is you can really alter your environment to improve your genes. It's
called epigenetics. Okay, So I don't care if everybody in your family has
diabetes. If you do the right things, and you avoid the sugar and
the soda and the juice and the breads and the pastas and all those complex
carbohydrates and those starchy foods, and you exercise, and you would use your
stress, you could sleep, you do all the right things. You could
turn off the diabetes gene. You could turn off the cancer gene. You
could turn off the heart disease gene. You could turn off the Alzheimer's gene.
But you have to do it. It's called the epigenetics, and it
all starts from the beginning. So you could not only alter your own genes,
but you can improve your kid's genes by giving them the healthiest genes possible.
That's the key, all right. Now. Most people think a lot
of things happen after birth. Most of the stuff's happening before birth. That's
where the problems start, right, So what you do when you're pregnant is
key. Make sure you drink lots of water, make sure you exercise.
All the right things that I teach are even ten times more important as a
mother, because now it's not only taking care of your own body, but
then you're taking care of the baby's body, and the baby will have good
brain development if the mother has good brain activity when she's pregnant, if she's
in a good mood, if she's happy, she's having fun. We don't
want her stress. We don't want her depressed. We don't want her in
pain. We don't want her having mourning sickness. That's not normal. A
lot of women thinks all these things are normal because they're common. You know,
Menstrual cramps are not normal. It's not normal to get headaches when you're
prayed. It's not normal to get headaches when you have your period. It's
not normal, mull to have hot flashes when you go through menopause. Just
because many people have these symptoms, it doesn't mean it's normal. If you're
getting mourning sickness, that means you're putting something in your body that the baby
doesn't want. So then you get nauseous and you throw up to get rid
of this stuff that the baby's like, I don't want this. Maybe add
some dairy products, maybe add some gluten, maybe add some corn or soy
whatever is. The baby is like, nah, I can't do this,
I've got too much. So it gets rid of it. Now, you
do want to expose yourself to a little bit of that stuff so that the
baby is able to resist it when it gets exposed, because there's always going
to be some sort of exposure. So you would put just a tiny bit
of dair, you tiny bit of gluten, tiny bit of corn, tiny
bit of soy, tiny bit of conventional foods that are non organic. You
know, you want to get a tiny bit of that other stuff too,
because if you're too pure, then the baby can't handle it when it's really
exposed. But most babies, I've already you know, two to three hundred
chemicals that they're exposed to before they're even born, you know, starting from
mommy drinking into the plastic water bottles. Start using glass or stainless steel to
drink your water. You don't realize how much of those chemicals in the plastics
leak into the water that you drink. It's worth getting a filter at home
and just filling up glass water bottles, get a reverse osmosis, put some
electrolytes in there, and you're good to go. All right, So take
care of your water situation. Make sure your pipes are clean, make sure
you clean and filter the water, make sure you mineralize it. Best time
to drink waters on an empty stomach, right when you wake up in the
morning. I like to do it before I work out. Just nice glass
of sole water, water with pink amlane salt, Squeeze some lemon in there.
Room temperature not too cold. That's the key I drink. Think of
your brain like a grape. When a grape gets dehydrated, it shrivels up
into a raisin. I'm sure you don't want your brain to shrivel up,
So start drinking water on an empty stomach right when you wake up in the
morning, and half hour before each meal. The water is important on an
empty stomach. Try not to drink water during your meal. Try not to
drink it after your meal. You really want to do it on an empty
stomach. Okay, if you have to drink it during the meal, just
just a little, just a sip or whatever it may be. Like,
water is key, especially when you're pregnant, especially when you're on your period.
You know you get dehydrated, you're losing fluid. Most them and get
stomach cramps or headaches during their period because they're dehydrated. Most stomach cramps.
Most leg cramps are from dehydration. A lot of headaches, dehydration, a
lot of constipatient it's dehydration. I see a lot of patients with dementia and
Alzheimer's, and the days they're the worst or the days they're dehydrated, and
the days they're the best are the days they have lots of fluids in them.
A lot of people go to hospital all they have to do is to
get fluids in them. They're dehydrated. There's so many conditions that are just
caused by dehydration. But you have to make sure there's salt in your water.
It's not just about drinking water. It's about drinking mineralized water. The
minerals balance out your pH. You don't want to have your system be acidic.
I'm not talking about your stomach acid I'm talking about your brain, your
body. When you're acidic, that's where disease lives. When your immune system
can get messed up, will you'll be susceptible to viruses and bacteria. They
thrive off an acidic environment. If you have diabetes, you have an acidic
environment. If you have heart disease or cancer or Alzheimer's, you have an
acidic environment. These diseases can thrive in an acidic environment as well as hypoxic.
That means low oxygen, high carbon. Low oxygen, high carbon.
They like that. That's why breathing exercises are so important. Inhale for four
seconds, hold it for seven seconds, and exhale for eight seconds to maximize
oxygen intake and get rid of carbon dioxide. Inhale for four seconds, hold
it for seven seconds and exhale for eight seconds. That will increase oxygen levels
and get rid of carbon dioxide. That will increase an alkaline environment and decrease
an acidic environment. And the other thing you want to do is bring down
your inflammation. There's lots of natural ways to bring down inflammation. Tumeric resveratrow,
rosemary, I'm a meal. There's lots and lots of ways. Garlic
ginger, those are all natural anti inflammatories, Vitamin d omega threes. They
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Boost Humaine Power. I'm your host, doctor Eric Caplan. We're talking about
ropper brain development. So when babies are born, they have what's called primitive
reflex. Is one of the primitive reflex is called a Babinski sign, And
what that is is when you rub the bottom of the foot, the big
toe goes up. That's a positive Babinski sign. That's normal in babies.
But after one year of age, it's not normal. That reflex is supposed
to go away. You're not supposed to have it anymore. If you still
have it after one year of age, that means there's an issue in your
brain. It's called an upper motor neuron lesion. Now what that means is
there could be a lot of different things. We see it on kids with
autism, ADHD, dyslexia, Tourette's, aspergers. We see a lot of
different children with it. I also see it on adults, people with parking
sins and Alzheimer's disease and certain strokes, and so we see it kids and
adults as well. Anytime we see it after one year of age, it's
a problem. Though. With children, sometimes they'll have these retained primitive reflexes.
That's just one of them. Another one that most people know is called
the palmer grasp reflex. That's when you put your finger in the child's palm
and they grasp, they make it tight. So that's not normal after one
year of age. If they're two years old and they still have that palmer
grasp that means their brains not developing properly. We also have this spinal gallant
reflexes where I rub along their spine and I see a little twitch. And
a lot of times people who are bedwetters, you know, they could be
five six years old still wetting their bed. A lot of times they'll have
this primitive reflex going on. It should be gone after one year of age.
The good news is there's neurological remediation exercises that we can do to remediate
these primitive reflexes. If we remediate the primitive reflexes, then we catch the
brain up on development. It's really cool, and there's lots of them.
There's you know, this asymmetrical tatonic neck reflex. You know, there's the
startle reflex. That's where you know, you jump ballup and your he goes
back. You get scared very easily. So a lot of these reflexes are
supposed to be gone after one year of age, but what improper brain development
will still have these. The good news is there's exercises you can do.
Remember we talked about neuroplasticity rewiring your brain. If your problem is primitive flexes.
There are brain exercises you could do and that will catch up the brain
to development and that will help with add ADHD, troubles with focus, develop
mental delays, autism, Asperger's dyslexia, wide range to reat. You know,
there's a lot of these developmental delays where the brain isn't developing properly,
and the first step always got to be remediation. These primitive reflexes. It
works very well for brain development that might not be the issue though. Sometimes
you might need to work on the motor aspects. Sometimes you might need to
work on the sensory aspects. Sometimes you need to work on the balance.
Everybody's different, everybody's brains different, you know. That's why I always need
to do a brain analysis. But remitive reflexes are one of the ways we
could check how the brain is fun you know, we could also check for
memory and the senior community with a Macha test, the Macha test MCA,
that's the standard test you can do to see if you are likely to get
dementia, to get Alzheimer's disease. You know, you can actually have an
issue with dementia not even realize it. So that's called the Macha test.
We do that in an office during our neurologic evaluation. So if you really
want to see how your brain's functioning, you got to do a full neural
neurologic evaluation. Got to check your balance, We got to check your heart,
your gut. You know, your stomach is key to brain function.
If your stomach's all inflamed, then you can get tia that leak out of
your gut and start attacking your brain. You can get viruses that leak out
of your gut and attack your brain. Your gut is your first line of
defense against the bad stuff. You can get parasites and then they go and
attack your brain. Sometimes to heal the brain, we got to heal the
gut. But we got to do a proper neurological valuation to figure out where
the problem is. Sometimes it's a circulation issue. You're not getting up blood
flow, so we got to improve cardiac function. You know, the future
of medicine is taking a holistic approach, not just looking at one specialty,
because everything works together at the human body's amazing piece of machinery, and they
all work together. So at my office, I have two offices, one
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I'm your host, doctor Eric Caplin. All right, we're talking about
boosting your brain. Improup brain function as you develop and get older. It
all starts from in the mother's belly. That's the most important time for brain
development. Now, as you get older and you get rid of these permitive
reflexes, your brain can develop more. Okay. What's interesting is that a
female brain usually fully develops around you know, sixteen or seventeen years old,
but a male brain usually only develops after twenty one or twenty two. So
males have a little bit more time to catch up their brain to development.
They are a little bit delayed, you know, from the beginning, which
is okay, that's totally normal. That's just the way it is. Females,
we have to work a little bit quicker. So we got to make
sure that any problems in the female brain is taken care of before fourteen fifteen
sixteen. That's when you know they're going to really get some what's called plasticity
in their brain, where stuff's going to get wired or certain wet. That
you can always rewire your brain. We can rewire your brain through a process
called neuroplasticity. Rewiring your brain is the way if you unfortunately already have a
problem. Right, Let's say you have insomnia or sleep deprivation. You know,
you wake up and you're all groggy, you don't want to get out
of bed. You press the snooze alarm. All right, So let's say
that's your problem, because that's the way your brain's wired. You know,
whenever it was you got into some bad habits as a teenager. You know,
you always were working hours that were off or whatever it is, your
brain's wired. One. By doing brain exercises, by altering your environment,
you can rewire your brain and you could teach your brain. Hey, you
could actually go to sleep at a normal time and stay asleep and not get
up to roll over, or not get up to pay or not stay with
your mind raising or thinking too much. You can wake up with energy,
with vitality, but you got to rewire your brain. You don't want to
take an ambient that's dangerous. You don't want to take xanax, that's dangerous.
These drugs cause brain problems. Okay, and we want to always do
the least risky medical intervention. If you're trying to do something, you always
measure the risk versus the reward, the risk versus the reward. So if
you take a pill that's high risk, now what if you could do activities
that are very low risk and high reward. That's where neuroplasticity comes in.
But the caveat is it's more work. It's not easy for sleep, for
example, that's what we're just talking about. You got to do a lot
of work. There's a lot of important rules, like for sleep, you
got to be consistent ten o'clock every night, one in one straight days.
You don't want your brain going ten o'clock one night, ten fifteen, one
night, ten thirty, another night ten fifteen, the next night ten ten
o'clock, eleven o'clock, ten o'clock, ten fifteen, ten o'clock. It's
too confusing. You got to get any good rhythm. It's called circadian rhythms.
It's controlled by your penneal gland. Okay, so we want to do
ten o'clock every night, and then you get into your different brain waves.
You get into that delta brain wave, which is the sleep. You want
to get into that rim rapid eye movements. You want to get into that
deep sleep cycle. Your sleep cycles are about ninety minutes, all right.
So let's say if you fall asleep at ten, you get one sleep cycle
from ten to eleven thirty, and your next one is eleven thirty to one,
then one to two thirty and two thirty four and then four to five
thirty. You sleep from ten to five thirty. That's perfect. You can
all your sleep cycles in. You're waking up every time, same time,
you're going to sleep, same time. If you want to get an extra
sleep cycle, so instead of wig up at five thirty, you go to
seven, but you're keeping it in that same sleep cycle. To do it
consistently, I like to go at the four o'clock sleep cycle. I'm waking
up at four, like to exercise get that power hour we spoke about last
time, right, But you don't have to do that. You could do
five thirty, you could do seven, but it's consistency ten o'clock to five
thirty every single night, ten five thirty, ten, five thirty, ten,
five thirty. And then your brain it's in that good rhythm. Now,
what else you could do is where you use the sun. The sun
is the key to sleep. And say you have to walk outside during sun
rise. So yeah, you're getting up early, you could see the sunrise.
Conversely, you go outside during sunset, it's try and get ten twenty
minutes, go for a nice walk. Make that you know when you walk
the dog, something like that, walk yourself. It's getting a good rhythm.
Three good habits, twenty one days of good habits and your brain rewires
and neuroplasticity. You could do it. You could do anything for twenty one
days. All right, So you're going outside sunrise, going outside during sunset.
Now what the brain doesn't like if you came home after sun set.
But now the blinds are closed, all the lights are on, the TV's
on, the computers are and you're checking your cell phone, you're eating food,
it's late at night, you're stressed out, whenever it may be.
You're you're increasing your cortisol levels. After sunset, we got a decreased cortessol
levels. You gotta dim the lights. You gotta turn off the computer.
You gotta turn off your cell phone, turn on the radio, Listen to
a podcast, read a book, talk to a family member, exercise,
learn something new, take a class, do something social, draw, sculpt,
paint, so garden, put up a shelf, learn something they new,
Learn an instrument, learn a dance, learn a language. But stay
away from light, Stay away from electricities, stay away from the screens,
stay away from food. Those all increased cortisol. Stay away from stress.
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doctor Eric Caplan. So we're going to talk about how to improve your brain
function from the start. The key is having a good foundation, so it
starts from even before conception, then into pregnancy, then as a baby child
teen adult. So it's not just you know, everyone says, oh,
these are the most important years, these the most important years. The most
important years actually starts even before conception. That's when it all starts. Healthy
spurre, healthy acts, and ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
Right. So, I'm not the doctor that likes to write prescriptions or
do surgeries. I don't do that. I am not writing prescriptions, I'm
not performing surgeries. I'm a functional doctor. I'm a functional neurologist. I
practice functional medicine. So what we do is we get to the root cause
of the problem. And to get to the root cause, and they come
up with a solution that is a low risk. You always want a solution
that's low risk and high reward, and that's typically a more natural, integrade,
a holistic type of approach. You always want to take less risks.
That's the key. The body is amazing at healing itself. We just need
to get rid of interference, and we get rid of that interference in a
way that causes no harm. It's not that hard. Got to keep it
simple, right, So for your brain, just do the right things.
When you're pregnant, do the right things don't give it as an excuse to
start eating a lot of bad food. Yup, I'm eating for two.
Now. What you do is a motivator. Okay, I'm gonna give this
kid the best brain ever. I'm going to drink lots of water with good
minerals. I'm gonna exercise every day. I'm gonna have good mental attitude,
reduce my anxiety. I'm gonna get good sleep, I'm gonna have good relationships.
I'm gonna eat healthy food. I'm gonna go on vacation, gonna have
some fun, help charity. Just like be on point, be the best
person ever, and then you'll give that baby the best brain ever. All
right, that's the key, and all starts from the beginning. But the
good news is it's never too late. I had a patient. She was
ninety six years old. When she came to me. She couldn't even look
at me because her head was down and her chin was all marked up,
because the only way she could look at someone is she would push her chin
up. She came to me ninety six years old. She never saw a
doctor in her life. She was literally born in the apartment that she lived
in, this little studio she's lived there for ninety six years. She barely
leaves. She's in the village in the West Village where my office is in
Manhattan. But she came to me in desperation because like she literally kept hunching
over more and more and more and more and couldn't even lift her head.
So at ninety six years old, we were able to rehab her, work
on her posture, work on her brain, actually do a lot of eye
act for sciences, and we were able to get her to lift her head
up for the first time in twenty years at ninety six years old. It's
never too late. Brains are much easier to fix when they're developing. That's
why we always want to see kids early on. Right now, we're doing
a lot of pre testing for sports, so since school's about to come,
we're doing a lot of concussion testing. We're actually check all the lobes of
the brain. And what we do is we figure out where your baseline is.
We do a complete physical, complete neurological evaluation, figure out where exactly
the problems are, if any, but if not, then we have a
good baseline. And if there is a head injury. Now let's say they're
playing football and they don't necessarily get knocked out. It's not a big hit,
but they do hit their head. Then what you do is you retest
and you compare the first test to the last test and you see where the
average areas are. If the damaged areas are really bad, we know that
they head injury caused the problem. So this test that we do are preconcussion
test. It's called a VNNG video nistography, and you wear these goggles and
you just follow this red dot and it goes up and down and left and
right, and there's light and there's no light, and there's head movements.
So we measure all the lobes of the brain, the frontal loam, the
parodo temporal occipital, the cerebellum, the brain stem. So we measure all
the different areas of the brain. You get a baseline, it's called baseline
testing. Then if there's any injury, you redo the VG and you could
see up. Look, the cerebellum was good before the season started. Now
that right cerebellum is decreased in function. Now we know that the sports injury
damage that right cerebellum area, and we could give therapeutic exercise, natural exercise
to stimulate that damaged area, make it stronger, just like make a muscle
stronger. A lot of people when they have a head injury are just told
to rest. Sometimes that could be actually really bad because the brain just gets
weaker and weaker and weaker. You don't want to overdo it when you have
a sports injury, but you don't want to underdo it when you have these
injuries. It could be from car accidents as well, slip and fall.
It's not necessarily a football concussion. But to check the areas of the brain
and get a good baseline and see how your brain is functioning, sell all
the different loads of the brain and functioning, and you see is one side
overactive and one side's underactive. This is the best test for that. It
tells you if it's overfiring or underfiring, and that will dictate what type of
therapy we need, because if it's underactive, we need to do more stimulating
exercises. If it's overactive, we need to do more relaxing or calming type
of exercises. So the only test where I shall say, the best test
that will diagnose that properly is this v goggle test, the V test.
That test is normally five hundred dollars, but for the first twenty one or
for the first seven people that sign up, you can get it for twenty
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So this test is it's really good because it tells us the difference between the
left and the right, and then it also analyzes the different area of the
brain. Now, if you want to take advantage of all the tests that
we offered today, you could do the VG for twenty one. You could
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