WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.160 --> 00:00:05.759 The following is a paid podcast. iHeartRadio's hosting of this podcast constitutes neither an 2 00:00:05.839 --> 00:00:10.640 endorsement of the products offered or the ideas expressed. Hello, and welcome to 3 00:00:10.919 --> 00:00:16.280 boost your brain power. I am your host, doctor Eric Kaplan. I 4 00:00:16.399 --> 00:00:21.359 hope everybody is doing great. Today. We're going to talk about natural, 5 00:00:21.839 --> 00:00:28.960 holistic, and integrative ways to improve the function of your brain and body without 6 00:00:29.039 --> 00:00:38.280 any harmful medications or surgeries. The power that made the body heals the body, 7 00:00:38.320 --> 00:00:43.439 so we just want to unleash the body's potential to heal on its own. 8 00:00:44.200 --> 00:00:49.679 We have all these amazing ways to get rid of the toxins that we're 9 00:00:49.719 --> 00:00:55.799 exposed to. And believe me, there are lots of toxins. There's chemicals 10 00:00:55.840 --> 00:01:00.679 in the air. There's chemicals in the water. There's chemicals the food. 11 00:01:00.240 --> 00:01:07.359 There's chemicals in the chemicals. There's chemicals in the cleaning stuff. There's chemicals 12 00:01:07.400 --> 00:01:12.000 in the makeup. There's chemicals and the lotions and the soaps and the shampoos 13 00:01:12.079 --> 00:01:19.400 and the toothpaste and the deodorants. They're everywhere, all right. So what 14 00:01:19.439 --> 00:01:26.480 you gotta do is make sure you avoid the stuff that's possible. You gotta 15 00:01:26.519 --> 00:01:30.200 get the cleanest stuff. You might have to pay a little bit extra, 16 00:01:30.079 --> 00:01:36.359 but money means nothing if you don't have your health. Your health is the 17 00:01:36.359 --> 00:01:41.760 most important thing. So you only get one body, you've got to make 18 00:01:41.799 --> 00:01:46.680 sure you treat it like a temple and you don't put anything bad in it. 19 00:01:47.319 --> 00:01:53.120 You get rid of the bad stuff that is involuntary, but don't voluntarily 20 00:01:53.719 --> 00:01:57.000 get put bad stuff inside your body. Right, So we're gonna go over 21 00:01:57.079 --> 00:02:01.680 lots of natural ways to improve of your brain and bodies function. Now, 22 00:02:01.680 --> 00:02:07.280 what are the most common health problems? All right, well, let's go 23 00:02:07.280 --> 00:02:16.000 over the most common. The cause of death is heart cancer number two. 24 00:02:16.680 --> 00:02:23.520 Iatrogenic is actually number three. That's caused by the doctor, mostly through medication. 25 00:02:23.280 --> 00:02:28.879 That's literally the number third leading cause of death, and that's what they 26 00:02:28.919 --> 00:02:34.680 admit, that's what they prove to be caused by medication. So it's probably 27 00:02:34.680 --> 00:02:39.479 actually a little bit higher. But heart disease and cancer they've always been the 28 00:02:39.520 --> 00:02:49.319 top two for a long time. The most prescribed drugs are statins, you 29 00:02:49.360 --> 00:02:55.080 know, for cholesterol. Lipotoris are always number one. Heart disease, high 30 00:02:55.120 --> 00:03:06.159 blood pressure medication that's always up there. Diabetes foreman, that's always up there. 31 00:03:06.800 --> 00:03:15.560 There's always the top medications. Right, it's cholesterol, it's heart disease 32 00:03:15.039 --> 00:03:25.240 or high blood pressure. All right, it's diabetes. Also is the thyroid. 33 00:03:25.520 --> 00:03:29.520 Most people don't talk about that too much. Thyroid doesn't get a lot 34 00:03:29.560 --> 00:03:36.199 of publicity, but it's definitely one of the most top prescribed drugs. Most 35 00:03:36.240 --> 00:03:43.039 people are hypo thyroid. The problem is when we're dealing with the thyroid, 36 00:03:43.719 --> 00:03:49.719 no one really does good thorough blood work. So to do good thorough blood 37 00:03:49.759 --> 00:03:57.120 work, you have to see a doctor that practices functional medicine. We do 38 00:03:57.199 --> 00:04:01.000 that at Caplin Brain and Body in both of our office is one in New 39 00:04:01.080 --> 00:04:06.639 Jersey in Emerson, New Jersey, Bergen County, and the second office is 40 00:04:06.800 --> 00:04:15.480 in Manhattan in the West Village Office six Bleiker And we practice functional medicine at 41 00:04:15.480 --> 00:04:21.560 those offices. And what functional medicine. The approach to the thyroid is very 42 00:04:21.639 --> 00:04:27.560 different. You have to do a lot of tests, so you gotta look 43 00:04:27.600 --> 00:04:34.879 at your not just your H that's thyroid stimulating hormone. Most doctors all they 44 00:04:34.879 --> 00:04:44.399 do is look at TSH thyroid stimulating hormone. If the TSH is high, 45 00:04:44.560 --> 00:04:53.199 which is typical, that means you have hypo thyroidism. If the TSH is 46 00:04:53.480 --> 00:05:00.480 low, that means you have hyper thyroidism, right, So it's the opposite. 47 00:05:01.360 --> 00:05:09.759 The reason it's opposite is because if your thyroid is underactive, which is 48 00:05:09.800 --> 00:05:15.800 a hypo thyroid, which is what most people have in America. Right, 49 00:05:15.399 --> 00:05:20.519 So if your thyroid is underactive, then the brain says, I need more 50 00:05:20.720 --> 00:05:29.240 thyroid and it's going to activate t SH, which is thyroid stimulating hormone. 51 00:05:29.720 --> 00:05:34.639 So the thyroid stimulating hormone is going to be high because we need it high 52 00:05:35.600 --> 00:05:43.040 because the thyroid is low. So it's the opposite, got it, all 53 00:05:43.120 --> 00:05:45.439 right? So what are they gonna do? They're going to prescribe you with 54 00:05:45.519 --> 00:05:51.160 medication. Now what does a functional medicine doctor do, not just a typical 55 00:05:51.399 --> 00:05:59.240 endocrinologist, which is usually who people with thyroid problems going to say. If 56 00:05:59.279 --> 00:06:06.079 you see a functional doctor like at Caplinbrain and Body, We're going to look 57 00:06:06.279 --> 00:06:15.519 at all the thyroid tests T four, T three free, T three free, 58 00:06:15.759 --> 00:06:25.279 T four you know, TPI, TPO, different antibodies, all right, 59 00:06:25.319 --> 00:06:31.240 you got to look at the different antibodies. There's different autoimmune diseases that 60 00:06:31.279 --> 00:06:36.399 are the normal cause of thyroid problems. But if you don't test for autoimmune 61 00:06:36.399 --> 00:06:45.879 disease, you're not gonna know that's the cause of your hypo thyroidism. And 62 00:06:45.920 --> 00:06:48.839 if you don't know what the cause is, then you can't come up with 63 00:06:48.920 --> 00:06:58.199 the proper remedy because there's all different types of treatments for the thyroid. It's 64 00:06:58.319 --> 00:07:03.560 not just tree with medicine. That should be the last resort. Always try 65 00:07:03.600 --> 00:07:11.360 it naturally first, Right now, what's the natural way? Well, if 66 00:07:11.399 --> 00:07:21.240 we look at the functional medicine scales, for example TSH, most labs, 67 00:07:21.360 --> 00:07:30.120 whether it's a lab corp or quest or bioreference or whatever it is, most 68 00:07:30.160 --> 00:07:35.600 of these labs are going to have a range, a normal range of the 69 00:07:36.079 --> 00:07:48.399 ts H to be maybe point two point three to about four point five four 70 00:07:48.439 --> 00:07:55.360 point six something like that. That's a typical range for the TSH and that's 71 00:07:55.439 --> 00:08:01.120 usually the one test that they do. So a functional medicine scale is different. 72 00:08:01.279 --> 00:08:07.720 So our scale is one point eight to three, and what that means 73 00:08:09.240 --> 00:08:18.800 is if your number is four point zero, most endrocinologists are going to say 74 00:08:18.839 --> 00:08:24.800 that's normal, but we're going to say, nope, that's too high. 75 00:08:24.959 --> 00:08:31.360 That means the thyroid's underactive. If the scale is one point zero, they're 76 00:08:31.399 --> 00:08:35.840 going to say it's normal. We're gonna say, no, that number is 77 00:08:35.879 --> 00:08:39.720 too low. That's a high birth thyroid and it could be from overuse of 78 00:08:39.759 --> 00:08:43.639 the medicine. So if you're taking medicine, you've got to monitor to make 79 00:08:43.679 --> 00:08:48.519 sure you don't get put into hyph birth thyroid. You see it all the 80 00:08:48.600 --> 00:08:52.759 time. Well, it's very important to monitor your numbers, and you do 81 00:08:52.799 --> 00:08:56.279 it on not the normal scale, which that the labs say, but on 82 00:08:56.320 --> 00:09:01.120 a healthy scale. Rights, if you have blood work at home, take 83 00:09:01.159 --> 00:09:07.559 a look right now, is it one point eight to three or is your 84 00:09:07.639 --> 00:09:13.279 TSH high? Is it low or is it within their normal range. We 85 00:09:13.320 --> 00:09:16.200 don't want the normal range. We don't want the point three to the four 86 00:09:16.240 --> 00:09:20.240 point six. We want the healthy range, which is a one point eight 87 00:09:20.519 --> 00:09:26.159 to three that's for thyroid. So sometimes you know, you have to see 88 00:09:26.480 --> 00:09:31.399 is it underactive? Is it overactive? It's the medicine that you're taking overactive. 89 00:09:31.679 --> 00:09:35.799 Do you want to prevent using medicine? If you want to prevent using 90 00:09:35.840 --> 00:09:39.279 medicine, you got to do a full panel like we were just talking about. 91 00:09:39.840 --> 00:09:43.279 That way you could diagnose it properly and you could say, okay, 92 00:09:43.679 --> 00:09:50.600 is it a primary thyroid problem. Is it a secondary thyroid problem? All 93 00:09:50.679 --> 00:09:54.440 right? You could say, is it an autoimmune thyroid problem. If it's 94 00:09:54.600 --> 00:10:01.759 underactive autoimmune, that's called a Hashimoto's thyroid diet. That's the most common. 95 00:10:01.039 --> 00:10:07.279 We see tons of patients with Hashimoto's thyroid dietis and it's not to fix it 96 00:10:07.279 --> 00:10:11.919 with medicine. The way to fix it is through nutrition, So you've got 97 00:10:11.919 --> 00:10:20.159 to go on an autoimmune diet. Now, if it is a secondary thyroid 98 00:10:20.279 --> 00:10:26.399 condition, that would mean it's coming from your pituitary gland. Your pituitary leads 99 00:10:26.559 --> 00:10:30.759 into the thyroid. And we see a lot of people with this at our 100 00:10:30.799 --> 00:10:35.679 office too. They have what's called a disautonomia. Their autonomic nervous system isn't 101 00:10:35.720 --> 00:10:39.960 functioning properly, and you're stuck in this fight or flight mode rather than the 102 00:10:39.039 --> 00:10:46.559 relaxed rest and digest state. Right When we have a problem with that, 103 00:10:46.559 --> 00:10:52.279 that's going to cause a pituitary adrenal problem. It's called your HPA access. 104 00:10:52.080 --> 00:10:56.039 I'm getting pretty technical today, but if you can follow me, we're doing 105 00:10:56.080 --> 00:11:00.679 pretty good. But it has to do with your pituitary gland. So it's 106 00:11:00.679 --> 00:11:03.799 a brain issue. We're gonna fix the brain. We're gonna relax the brain 107 00:11:05.200 --> 00:11:09.320 to get you out of stress mode. And if you get out of the 108 00:11:09.360 --> 00:11:13.080 stress mode, then the thyroid is going to function better. The adrenals are 109 00:11:13.080 --> 00:11:18.480 going to calm down, the pituitary is going to function normally. The thyroid's 110 00:11:18.519 --> 00:11:24.320 not going to be abnormal function. It's all about improving function, improving signals. 111 00:11:28.279 --> 00:11:33.080 Now, if you have a primary thyroid problem, there's also natural herbs 112 00:11:33.120 --> 00:11:37.879 you can take, so sometimes you could do some herbal stuff. The best 113 00:11:37.919 --> 00:11:41.720 herbs that I like comes from Apex Energetics. You have to order it through 114 00:11:41.840 --> 00:11:46.600 doctor, so let me know if you're interested about that, we can take 115 00:11:46.600 --> 00:11:52.200 care of that. We'll give you the phone number at the break. But 116 00:11:52.240 --> 00:11:56.320 it's always about getting to the root cause. So the most medicine, right 117 00:11:56.399 --> 00:12:03.879 we said, is cholesterol, high blood pressure, thyroid, diabetes, acid 118 00:12:05.000 --> 00:12:09.480 reflects. These are the most prescribed medicine. So we're gonna go over in 119 00:12:09.559 --> 00:12:15.480 natural ways to prevent all those medicines where you won't need them, where you 120 00:12:15.480 --> 00:12:18.720 don't need to see doctors, you don't need to take medicine, but you 121 00:12:18.799 --> 00:12:22.600 got to do it in a natural way. So if you're already on the 122 00:12:22.600 --> 00:12:26.759 medicine. It's not something you could just stop. That's very dangerous. So 123 00:12:26.919 --> 00:12:30.200 when you stop medicine, you have to work with your doctors and make sure 124 00:12:30.200 --> 00:12:33.399 you do it in a safe way. Okay, But what we do in 125 00:12:33.440 --> 00:12:39.080 our office is get people super healthy, so healthy that the medicine works too 126 00:12:39.200 --> 00:12:41.000 much and then they don't need to take it. Right. So, if 127 00:12:41.000 --> 00:12:46.879 you improve your heart function but you're taking high blood pressure medication, then your 128 00:12:46.879 --> 00:12:52.080 blood pressure is going to go too low. If you improve your diet and 129 00:12:52.200 --> 00:13:00.360 your sedentary lifestyle and you're taking diabetes medication, it's going to bring your levels 130 00:13:00.399 --> 00:13:03.279 too low. So when you get healthy, sometimes you have to monitor your 131 00:13:03.279 --> 00:13:09.039 blood work to make sure you safely reduce the medication. Right. You always 132 00:13:09.039 --> 00:13:13.080 work with your medical director for that. Never stop medicine on your own, 133 00:13:13.840 --> 00:13:18.320 okay, But there are ways to do it in a healthy way. So 134 00:13:18.399 --> 00:13:20.720 a lot of patients come to us because they want to do it in a 135 00:13:20.799 --> 00:13:24.639 natural, healthy way, right. So that's why we practice functional medicine and 136 00:13:24.879 --> 00:13:31.279 functional neurology. Functional neurology is where we analyze the different areas of the brain 137 00:13:31.360 --> 00:13:37.360 and the nervous system and find any areas of dysfunction and then give you neurologic 138 00:13:37.559 --> 00:13:43.720 exercises to improve that area. It's called neuroplasticity. You could rewire the brain, 139 00:13:43.440 --> 00:13:48.279 just like you could go to the gym and exercise your muscles. You 140 00:13:48.320 --> 00:13:52.000 can exercise it is your brain. And if you exercise your brain, you 141 00:13:52.039 --> 00:13:56.960 can affect your pituitary and adrenal gland, which can affect your thyroid And if 142 00:13:58.000 --> 00:14:01.919 you exercise your brain, it can also affect your blood pressure. We're going 143 00:14:03.000 --> 00:14:07.639 to continue that conversation. Have the brain and the blood pressure connected when we 144 00:14:07.720 --> 00:14:11.879 come back from the brain. This is doctor Eric Applin. You're listening to 145 00:14:11.879 --> 00:14:16.120 boost your brain power. If you want to improve your brain function, help 146 00:14:16.159 --> 00:14:20.399 with memory, focus, sleep, digestion, energy depression, anxiety, dizziness, 147 00:14:20.480 --> 00:14:24.000 balance, vision, headaches, brain fog, weight loss, or simply 148 00:14:24.039 --> 00:14:28.840 want to maximize your human potential and prevent future diseases. That this is the 149 00:14:28.919 --> 00:14:33.720 show for you. 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Welcome back to boost your brain power. 158 00:15:15.360 --> 00:15:20.000 I am your host, doctor Eric Kaplan. So we're talking about the 159 00:15:20.320 --> 00:15:26.279 thyroid and high blood pressure. Just to summarize the thyroid first before we move 160 00:15:26.279 --> 00:15:31.799 on to the blood pressure. So we have to analyze the thyroid through blood 161 00:15:31.840 --> 00:15:39.759 work and brain function to figure out. If there's an autoimmune thyroid and underactive 162 00:15:39.759 --> 00:15:45.799 autoimmune, it's called hashimotos. If it's a hyper thyroid autoimmune, it's called 163 00:15:45.840 --> 00:15:50.159 Graves disease. If it's Graves or hashimotos, we fix that through nutrition. 164 00:15:52.000 --> 00:16:00.200 If it is a primary hypo or hypo thyroid, there are ways to fix 165 00:16:00.320 --> 00:16:06.840 that herbally naturally through stuff from the earth as opposed to the medicine and the 166 00:16:06.919 --> 00:16:11.639 chemicals built in the labs. So try it naturally first, and then if 167 00:16:11.639 --> 00:16:17.360 that doesn't work, then you can always go for the medicine. And then 168 00:16:17.399 --> 00:16:22.440 the third one is influenced by your brain, your pituitary or adrenal gland, 169 00:16:22.480 --> 00:16:26.440 your hypothalmus, So for that you might need to rewire your brain. It's 170 00:16:26.440 --> 00:16:33.039 called neuroplasticity. You also might need to increase vitamin D levels to increased function 171 00:16:33.080 --> 00:16:36.519 of the thyroid. Vitamin D is actually a hormone, it's not a vitamin, 172 00:16:37.240 --> 00:16:41.799 but it definitely greatly influences thyroid function. Most people are vitamin D deficient. 173 00:16:42.200 --> 00:16:45.240 We get that from the sun, So start going out in the sun. 174 00:16:45.360 --> 00:16:48.519 The sun is not your enemy. You know, a lot of doctors 175 00:16:48.559 --> 00:16:51.639 tell you to stay away from the sun. I'm telling you to go out 176 00:16:51.679 --> 00:16:55.080 in the sun. You know, unless you have a really bad history of 177 00:16:55.120 --> 00:17:02.159 skin cancer. The sun actually prevents cancer, prevents Alzheimer's, improve thyroid function, 178 00:17:02.399 --> 00:17:06.440 proves heart function, immune system. You know, you've got to go 179 00:17:06.440 --> 00:17:08.599 out in the sun. Super important, and if you need to, you 180 00:17:08.680 --> 00:17:14.960 have to supplement again. We like Apex Energetics. They're pretty good. You 181 00:17:15.000 --> 00:17:19.799 can contact us will let you know how to order those vitaminty Supplementation in the 182 00:17:19.839 --> 00:17:23.119 winter is very important because the sun is so weak, and when you go 183 00:17:23.279 --> 00:17:29.000 outside, you're wearing long sleeves so you don't get a lot of skin exposure. 184 00:17:30.039 --> 00:17:33.440 That's what those are three types of thyroid problems. Blood pressure, right, 185 00:17:33.519 --> 00:17:38.640 it's either high blood pressure, it's low blood pressure. And what most 186 00:17:38.680 --> 00:17:44.319 doctors don't do is check left and right blood pressure. Do you have to 187 00:17:44.400 --> 00:17:48.519 check both sides? You can't just check one side. What if they check 188 00:17:48.559 --> 00:17:53.200 your left arm and your blood pressure is normal one twenty over eighty, but 189 00:17:53.440 --> 00:17:56.920 they never check the right arm and the right arm is always like one forty 190 00:17:56.960 --> 00:18:00.319 over nine ninety, That's going to be a problem. You could have big 191 00:18:00.359 --> 00:18:06.880 differences in blood pressure from your left side to your right side. As a 192 00:18:06.960 --> 00:18:11.799 functional neurologist, we always want to check both sides. You know, when 193 00:18:11.799 --> 00:18:15.119 I check your oxygen levels, we want to check both sides. Right. 194 00:18:15.240 --> 00:18:21.039 How Come when we check your muscle strength, we check both sides, but 195 00:18:21.079 --> 00:18:22.799 when they check your blood pressure they only check one side. How doesn't make 196 00:18:22.839 --> 00:18:29.000 any sense. You know, the eye doctor looks in both eyes, the 197 00:18:29.000 --> 00:18:33.400 ear doctor looks in both ears. How come the cardiologist doesn't take blood pressure 198 00:18:33.480 --> 00:18:41.519 on both sides. It's very important to check the balance of left and right. 199 00:18:41.599 --> 00:18:48.519 I'd rather have two high blood pressure than one low blood pressure and one 200 00:18:48.599 --> 00:18:56.440 high blood pressure. The imbalance can be worse. And if you're checking it 201 00:18:56.559 --> 00:19:00.000 at home with those blood pressure cuffs, which in my opinion aren't very accurate. 202 00:19:00.039 --> 00:19:03.759 But if you are, check both sides, and you might even want 203 00:19:03.759 --> 00:19:07.519 to check from lying to sitting. You know, you can find out a 204 00:19:07.519 --> 00:19:11.960 lot of different things with your blood pressure, but you gotta check for imbalances 205 00:19:12.039 --> 00:19:15.839 from left to right. Now. He said, that's one of the most 206 00:19:15.880 --> 00:19:21.079 prescribed drugs. People have high blood pressure. Why do they have high blood 207 00:19:21.119 --> 00:19:25.920 pressure? Biggest cause is stress. You know, the most common time for 208 00:19:25.960 --> 00:19:30.240 a heart attack or stroke is Monday morning. People are in stress mode. 209 00:19:32.440 --> 00:19:37.799 They were relaxed over the weekend, but then they got stressed out because now 210 00:19:37.839 --> 00:19:41.640 they go back to reality. Right, a lot of people going back to 211 00:19:41.759 --> 00:19:47.799 school. I had a long weekend after Labor Day, going back to work. 212 00:19:48.440 --> 00:19:49.559 You know, it's been a tough week for a lot of people. 213 00:19:51.480 --> 00:19:53.720 Right. Well, maybe some people are more relaxed because now the kids are 214 00:19:53.759 --> 00:20:00.880 out of the house, but whatever it is, Monday morning is always a 215 00:20:02.000 --> 00:20:07.440 very stressful time, all right, And the more stress you have, the 216 00:20:07.519 --> 00:20:12.759 higher your blood pressure is going to be So what about we change our way 217 00:20:12.799 --> 00:20:21.680 of thinking. This is what we call a paradigm shift. Instead of taking 218 00:20:21.799 --> 00:20:29.799 medicine to treat your high blood pressure, what about you get to the root 219 00:20:29.960 --> 00:20:36.799 cause of your high blood pressure, and you fix the root cause of your 220 00:20:36.880 --> 00:20:44.519 high blood pressure, then your blood pressure goes down naturally. Then you don't 221 00:20:44.519 --> 00:20:51.519 have to be on high blood pressure medication. Understand, Just like you could 222 00:20:51.680 --> 00:21:00.079 change your diet and reverse autoimmune thyroid disease such as hashimotos in graves, if 223 00:21:00.079 --> 00:21:06.200 you reduce your stress levels, you can bring down your blood pressure naturally. 224 00:21:07.759 --> 00:21:15.599 In addition to exercise physical exercise, in addition to eating healthier, in addition 225 00:21:17.160 --> 00:21:25.440 to drinking more water, in addition to going to bed earlier, in addition 226 00:21:25.519 --> 00:21:32.559 to reducing inflammation. So I'm not saying it's an easy thing to do to 227 00:21:32.640 --> 00:21:37.400 reduce your blood pressure, but if you do all the appropriate things, and 228 00:21:37.440 --> 00:21:41.839 you take those measures necessary to rewire your brain and get you out of stress 229 00:21:41.880 --> 00:21:47.000 mode, your blood pressure can actually go down. Now, what are some 230 00:21:47.039 --> 00:21:51.359 of the things you could do right now naturally? Right most people know about 231 00:21:51.400 --> 00:22:00.839 meditation, I practice the relax technique. I do just the thirty seconds every 232 00:22:00.839 --> 00:22:07.920 morning thirty second meditation. Everybody has thirty seconds, and you say relax for 233 00:22:08.079 --> 00:22:15.720 thirty times. Relax, relax, and each second I relax a different muscle 234 00:22:15.759 --> 00:22:18.880 group. I relax the muscles. I start on the top of my head, 235 00:22:18.920 --> 00:22:22.680 relax those muscles. Then I go to my forehead relax. Then I 236 00:22:22.720 --> 00:22:27.279 go to my temples relax, and my eyebrows relax, and my eyes relax. 237 00:22:27.400 --> 00:22:33.640 Then my jaw relax, and my cheeks relaxed, and my mouth relax. 238 00:22:33.720 --> 00:22:37.039 So I picked thirty spots and just relax each muscle group. Relax. 239 00:22:37.119 --> 00:22:41.440 The neck relax, the shoulders relax, the chest relax, the hips, 240 00:22:41.519 --> 00:22:47.160 the knees, the feet, the toes. So I just think thirty points 241 00:22:48.240 --> 00:22:53.599 and it relax every area. And it's a thirty second meditation that's very good 242 00:22:53.960 --> 00:22:56.680 to get the brain at a stress mode. And then when you get good 243 00:22:56.680 --> 00:23:00.640 at thirty seconds and you bump it up to a minute, then you go 244 00:23:00.720 --> 00:23:03.400 up to two minutes. But just start doing thirty seconds. Everyone can do 245 00:23:03.480 --> 00:23:10.279 thirty seconds, all right. Another way to relax is to activate what's called 246 00:23:10.319 --> 00:23:15.880 your vaguest nerve. Your vaguest nerve helps to get you out of at what 247 00:23:15.880 --> 00:23:18.240 we call the fight or flight mode, that stress mode. When you have 248 00:23:18.359 --> 00:23:23.359 increased cortisol, you can't sleep, You're always worrying, you even have some 249 00:23:23.480 --> 00:23:29.799 anger and aggression. Your mind's raising, you know, you're always thinking of 250 00:23:29.880 --> 00:23:33.240 what's going on, what's the next thing, what's going to happen, what 251 00:23:33.279 --> 00:23:37.759 do we do if this happens. To worry, the brain stresses out. 252 00:23:38.839 --> 00:23:44.119 Sometimes you even get anxiety, and sometimes there's even a little panic. It's 253 00:23:44.160 --> 00:23:48.319 just worry. I'm going to stop worrying. That creates too much stress, 254 00:23:48.400 --> 00:23:52.839 that increases the blood pressure. So one way to stop the worrying, stop 255 00:23:52.880 --> 00:23:59.720 the stress, the anxiety, the panic is to gargle really intensely. Just 256 00:23:59.759 --> 00:24:06.160 take some water and you guard off really loud up to the ceiling. Another 257 00:24:06.200 --> 00:24:11.839 good way splash your face with cold water. And another good exercise to stimulate 258 00:24:11.880 --> 00:24:15.680 the vegas nerve. It's called the gag reflex, when you just take your 259 00:24:15.680 --> 00:24:18.279 tongue to pressor or your toothbrush and hit the back of your palette, not 260 00:24:18.319 --> 00:24:22.720 to the point where you throw up, but just elicit a gag that unless 261 00:24:22.759 --> 00:24:27.680 you have a history of bulimia, don't do that. But for the gag 262 00:24:29.079 --> 00:24:33.519 reflex that's been proven through neuroscience to stimulate the vegus nerve. You could also 263 00:24:34.720 --> 00:24:37.960 swallow, just like a big swallow, get a bunch of saliva on your 264 00:24:37.960 --> 00:24:42.960 tongue and do a big swallow. That all helps out with stress. Singing 265 00:24:44.119 --> 00:24:48.720 really loud, humming, you know, stimulate that throat. It's very good 266 00:24:48.720 --> 00:24:55.000 for the vagus nerve. That helps to reduce stress, get you out of 267 00:24:55.000 --> 00:24:59.720 that fight or flight mode, bring down that blood pressure. Then we work 268 00:24:59.720 --> 00:25:03.519 in actual ways so you don't have to take medicine as you get older. 269 00:25:04.480 --> 00:25:10.160 This is doctor Eric Kaplan. You're listening to boost your brain power more when 270 00:25:10.160 --> 00:25:15.640 we come back from the break, don't miss boost your brain power with doctor 271 00:25:15.759 --> 00:25:19.519 Eric Kaplan every Saturday from two pm to three pm to learn the secrets of 272 00:25:19.599 --> 00:25:25.559 how to optimize your brain function. You can improve memory, focus, energy, 273 00:25:25.799 --> 00:25:30.400 sleep, digestion, mood, skin, metabolism, and strength by following 274 00:25:30.400 --> 00:25:34.960 the science and research that doctor Kaplan will be sharing with his audience. Join 275 00:25:36.039 --> 00:25:40.640 the adventure of discovering how to help the brain and body in a natural way 276 00:25:40.759 --> 00:25:44.799 while having fun at the same time. Listen to boost your brain power. 277 00:25:44.839 --> 00:25:48.839 If you want to function better, feel better, and enjoy the quality of 278 00:25:48.880 --> 00:25:52.920 life, you deserve called two O one two six one two one five zero 279 00:25:53.000 --> 00:25:57.880 or email info at Kaplan Brain and Body dot com if you're interested in a 280 00:25:57.920 --> 00:26:03.680 free ten minute with doctor Kaplan, or visit Kaplan DC dot com for more 281 00:26:03.720 --> 00:26:11.559 information. Welcome back to boost your brain power. I am your host, 282 00:26:11.920 --> 00:26:17.720 Doctor Eric Kaplan. Sorry to bite. Natural ways to improve your thyroid. 283 00:26:18.640 --> 00:26:22.279 You could do it through your diet. If it's autoimmune disease, you could 284 00:26:22.279 --> 00:26:26.160 do it through herbal remedies. If it's a primary issue, you could do 285 00:26:26.200 --> 00:26:33.519 it through neuroplasticity and rewiring your brain. If it's a secondary problem, then 286 00:26:33.519 --> 00:26:36.640 we spoke about how to bring down blood pressure. If you have high blood 287 00:26:36.640 --> 00:26:41.799 pressure, you got to meditate through the relaxed technique. Got to stimulate that 288 00:26:41.960 --> 00:26:48.720 bagest nerve got to exercise burn that energy every day. You gotta exercise in 289 00:26:48.759 --> 00:26:52.559 the Morning's the best time to exercise. So where your corsol levels highest, 290 00:26:52.680 --> 00:26:59.079 where your testosterone's highest. Exercise every single morning, and that makes sure you 291 00:26:59.079 --> 00:27:00.559 go to bed early. It's very good for your blood pressure. You gotta 292 00:27:00.559 --> 00:27:04.240 go to bed early. You can't be up watching the news, watching TV, 293 00:27:04.880 --> 00:27:10.200 scrolling on Facebook. I'm gonna YouTube, playing on the internet on your 294 00:27:10.240 --> 00:27:15.599 iPhone. Gotta stop. Those electronics are no good. They increase cortisol at 295 00:27:15.759 --> 00:27:18.839 night. It's going to increase your blood pressure. You gotta put those electronics 296 00:27:18.839 --> 00:27:23.680 away, right, said you gotta get good vitamin D. So you also 297 00:27:23.720 --> 00:27:30.119 want to go outside during sunset, see the sun go down. And then 298 00:27:30.119 --> 00:27:33.839 when you come home, turn off all the lights, all the electronics, 299 00:27:33.920 --> 00:27:37.920 keep everything nice and dim. Just read a book, listen to some music, 300 00:27:37.039 --> 00:27:41.359 listen to a podcast, have some conversations, play a board game, 301 00:27:41.440 --> 00:27:47.559 play some cars, take the dog for a walk, do something, draw, 302 00:27:48.240 --> 00:27:52.960 write a novel, you know anything, do something artistic, do something 303 00:27:53.039 --> 00:27:57.880 musical. Anything besides using electronics at night. The electronics should be used during 304 00:27:57.920 --> 00:28:02.119 the day. And we got to unplug. We gotta shut it off, 305 00:28:02.839 --> 00:28:07.759 right, it's going to bring down your blood pressure. Now, what else 306 00:28:07.519 --> 00:28:17.559 is prescribed a lot besides thyroid medication, high blood pressure medication, we're looking 307 00:28:17.599 --> 00:28:23.599 at diabetes medication metforming and now they're prescribing the diabetes medication for weight loss. 308 00:28:25.119 --> 00:28:27.440 You know, America is pretty much the fattest country in the world, and 309 00:28:27.559 --> 00:28:32.880 people, you know, have all these things for weight loss and bands and 310 00:28:33.079 --> 00:28:42.079 surgeries, and you know, staples and different diet pills and appetite suppressants, 311 00:28:42.119 --> 00:28:48.839 and you know, we have brain diseases, bolimia and anorexia and body dimorphism, 312 00:28:48.960 --> 00:28:52.440 and you know there's so much you know, bad with the advertising and 313 00:28:52.599 --> 00:28:57.839 marketing and what's appropriate and what's not appropriate. And you know, sometimes you 314 00:28:57.880 --> 00:29:00.400 know it goes the other way too, you know, and say, okay, 315 00:29:02.440 --> 00:29:06.279 the models are too skinny, But then we don't want to also be 316 00:29:06.400 --> 00:29:08.200 too fat either. You know, we just want to be our natural weight. 317 00:29:08.240 --> 00:29:11.880 We don't want to under eat, but we don't want to overeat. 318 00:29:11.359 --> 00:29:18.279 And you always want to basically, only eat when you're hungry, and you 319 00:29:18.359 --> 00:29:22.519 gotta feel your body. You gotta be cognizant, and you gotta say, 320 00:29:22.559 --> 00:29:23.559 like, in the middle of a meal, you think to yourself, hey, 321 00:29:23.599 --> 00:29:27.799 am I still hungry? And if you're still hungry, okay, you 322 00:29:27.839 --> 00:29:30.440 can continue to eat. But if you really think about it and saying, 323 00:29:30.440 --> 00:29:33.799 you know what, I'm actually not hungry anymore, you don't finish the meal 324 00:29:36.319 --> 00:29:38.599 all right, so save it for later, and maybe an hour or too 325 00:29:38.680 --> 00:29:42.200 later you get hungry again. Then try it again, but maybe it won't 326 00:29:42.200 --> 00:29:45.839 be you listen to your body. Only eat when you're hungry you want to 327 00:29:45.880 --> 00:29:53.000 lose weight. That's the simplest rule to follow is only eat when you're hungry, 328 00:29:55.000 --> 00:30:02.400 stop eating when you're not hungry. And the way to not be hungry 329 00:30:02.440 --> 00:30:06.839 so much is to eat each color of the rainbow. That way you're getting 330 00:30:06.880 --> 00:30:08.759 all your nutrients. If you eat each color, you get all your bidamins, 331 00:30:08.839 --> 00:30:14.960 minerals, nutrients. Right, if we get everything we need, then 332 00:30:15.799 --> 00:30:18.839 you're not gonna be hungry. That's what You can eat a whole bag of 333 00:30:18.920 --> 00:30:23.000 potato chips or whole basket of bread. There's no nutritional value in that. 334 00:30:25.839 --> 00:30:27.359 But what you have to do is eat each color of the rainbow. Then 335 00:30:27.400 --> 00:30:32.119 your brain won't even want food because you have all the nutrients that you need 336 00:30:32.160 --> 00:30:36.079 and won't desire the sugar, won't desire the bad foods. But you gotta 337 00:30:36.200 --> 00:30:40.160 eat each color of the rainbow every single day, hopefully every single meal. 338 00:30:41.759 --> 00:30:45.799 All right, that's gonna be very important when diabetes. Eat all the colors 339 00:30:45.920 --> 00:30:51.799 and stay away from the white foods, all the white foods, the sugar, 340 00:30:52.759 --> 00:30:57.000 the bread, the flour, the noodles, the potatoes, the rice, 341 00:30:57.799 --> 00:31:04.839 the milk, the cream. Stay away from all the white foods and 342 00:31:04.960 --> 00:31:08.720 eat all the colorful foods. You don't want diabetes. You want to take 343 00:31:08.799 --> 00:31:15.640 that foreman, You don't want to be obese, overweight. You eat all 344 00:31:15.640 --> 00:31:21.799 the colorful foods. You stay away from all the white foods. Eat color, 345 00:31:22.400 --> 00:31:27.519 all right, eat color, lots of color every single meal. And 346 00:31:27.559 --> 00:31:33.240 then you gotta get away from that sedentary lifestyle. You know what is the 347 00:31:33.279 --> 00:31:37.920 typical diabetes patient to Every day? They work at the computer, and they 348 00:31:37.920 --> 00:31:41.880 come home and they eat dinner, and they sit on the couch and they 349 00:31:41.880 --> 00:31:48.440 watch TV, play under phone, go to bed, wake up, coffee, 350 00:31:48.039 --> 00:31:55.200 work, home, dinner, sit on the couch, go to sleep, 351 00:31:56.519 --> 00:32:00.240 home, Sit in the car driving to work, Sit in the car 352 00:32:00.400 --> 00:32:02.920 home from work, Sit at the computer at work, sit at the dinner 353 00:32:02.960 --> 00:32:07.519 table, eating a big dinner, sit on the couch watching TV. It's 354 00:32:07.599 --> 00:32:13.319 sedentary lifestyle. We gotta get off our butts. You gotta get outside. 355 00:32:13.599 --> 00:32:17.240 You gotta be social, you gotta be in nature. You gotta move your 356 00:32:17.279 --> 00:32:23.000 body. You never want to sit for more than twenty minutes. Every twenty 357 00:32:23.039 --> 00:32:27.359 minutes, you get up, You walk twenty feet, you look twenty feet, 358 00:32:28.519 --> 00:32:30.240 or whatever it is. You get up every twenty minute to twenty jumping 359 00:32:30.319 --> 00:32:36.960 jacks, do twenty push ups, do twenty sit ups, do twenty lunges, 360 00:32:37.039 --> 00:32:45.279 do twenty squats, take twenty steps, do twenty meditation, do twenty 361 00:32:45.279 --> 00:32:50.799 sitting to standing. Just do twenty seconds or something every twenty minutes. It'll 362 00:32:50.880 --> 00:32:58.319 change your life. Not only reverse diabetes and heart disease, but just boost 363 00:32:58.319 --> 00:33:02.039 your energy, boost your brain power, your focus, your productivity. The 364 00:33:02.079 --> 00:33:06.440 twenty rule. You gotta get up every twenty minutes. You know I can 365 00:33:06.480 --> 00:33:10.519 remember, so you gotta set an alarm, all right, that's the twenty 366 00:33:10.640 --> 00:33:16.599 rule. So for diabetes, we're eating a lot of colorful foods we're staying 367 00:33:16.640 --> 00:33:21.480 away from. Now. That's diabetes type two. If you have diabetes type 368 00:33:21.519 --> 00:33:25.079 one, that's different. That's autoimmune disease. That's like the thyroid. That's 369 00:33:25.119 --> 00:33:31.279 like with Graves and Hashimotos. Diabetes type one is the same solution, which 370 00:33:31.319 --> 00:33:37.240 is avoid the autoimmune diseases, the autoimmune foods. The autoimmune foods. The 371 00:33:37.319 --> 00:33:46.319 big ones are dairy, gluten, corn, soy, coffee, alcohol, 372 00:33:49.039 --> 00:33:53.039 Those are the big ones. Those are the big autoimmune foods that you got 373 00:33:53.039 --> 00:33:57.240 to stay away from. If you're worried about diabetes type one, if you're 374 00:33:57.279 --> 00:34:07.440 worried about Hashimoto's graves silliac disease, rheumatoid authoritis, psoriasis, fibromyalgia, multiple 375 00:34:07.480 --> 00:34:15.119 sclerosis, show grins, lupus. Those are all autoimmune disease. So I'm 376 00:34:15.159 --> 00:34:17.360 gonna stay away if you have any of those conditions, and you'll really know 377 00:34:17.440 --> 00:34:22.559 that if you tested antibodies for those. But if you have any of those, 378 00:34:22.599 --> 00:34:28.440 if you tested those antibodies in blood work. You have to avoid dairy, 379 00:34:28.800 --> 00:34:36.480 gluten, corn, soy, coffee, alcohol, right, and then 380 00:34:36.519 --> 00:34:39.440 follow the diabetes pattern, which is eating each color of the rainbow and avoiding 381 00:34:39.440 --> 00:34:45.159 all the white foods as well. You got it. That's for diabetes type 382 00:34:45.159 --> 00:34:50.880 one, diabetes type two, the most common medication I was for diabetes type 383 00:34:51.519 --> 00:34:55.159 two, that's the met forming the insulin. Diabetes type one, yes, 384 00:34:55.199 --> 00:35:06.039 but not as much all right, So those are natural ways to reduce your 385 00:35:07.880 --> 00:35:15.440 chances of getting diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure, thyroid. Another 386 00:35:15.440 --> 00:35:22.880 big prescription is the nexium, the acid reflux medications. Right, So a 387 00:35:22.880 --> 00:35:29.599 lot of people get gird acid reflux in digestion, stomach problems, ibs, 388 00:35:29.840 --> 00:35:36.280 chrones, ulcerative colitis, CBO. They have all these intestinal problems and they're 389 00:35:36.320 --> 00:35:39.760 giving and acids. However, that acid is very good for you. That 390 00:35:39.840 --> 00:35:45.440 acid kills off the bad bacteria. That acid helps you to absorb food. 391 00:35:45.880 --> 00:35:53.199 That acid is very important. So when you take medication to reduce the stomach 392 00:35:53.280 --> 00:35:58.360 acid, that puts you at risk for infections. That puts you at risk 393 00:35:58.400 --> 00:36:01.320 for viral infections, for back sterial infections, It puts you at risk for 394 00:36:01.480 --> 00:36:07.840 mold exposure, puts you at risk for parasites. That acid is protecting you, 395 00:36:08.760 --> 00:36:15.360 But you got to figure out what's the root cause. Remember, so 396 00:36:15.440 --> 00:36:21.880 instead of giving you medicine to get rid of the acid reflects symptoms which are 397 00:36:21.880 --> 00:36:27.320 called ant ascids. Let's figure out why are you getting those symptoms. Why 398 00:36:27.400 --> 00:36:31.639 is everything backed up and pushing back the other way, Why are your systems 399 00:36:31.679 --> 00:36:37.119 not working, Why are you bloated? Why aren't you digesting and absorbing properly. 400 00:36:38.039 --> 00:36:42.159 You've got to get to the root cause. And maybe you have autoimmune 401 00:36:42.159 --> 00:36:45.559 disease that's silliac. Then you have to do that whole list of foods. 402 00:36:46.000 --> 00:36:52.280 Maybe you have a vegas nerve problem that's the rest and digest So a lot 403 00:36:52.320 --> 00:36:55.760 of people with insomnia or digestive problems have an issue in their veagest nerve then 404 00:36:55.760 --> 00:37:02.760 you would have to do those vegas nerve exercise. This right, Maybe it's 405 00:37:02.800 --> 00:37:12.559 a problem in your bacteria. Maybe you've taken a lot of antibiotics and you 406 00:37:12.599 --> 00:37:17.400 have low bacteria, so you have to take probiotics. And the key with 407 00:37:17.440 --> 00:37:20.920 probiotics is to change it up. You don't want to keep taking the same 408 00:37:20.920 --> 00:37:23.920 probiotics over and over. You want different bacteria, different strains. They all 409 00:37:23.960 --> 00:37:30.920 have different jobs that they have to do and different activities that need to be 410 00:37:30.960 --> 00:37:36.559 performed. So every two months you switch your probiotics. So probiotics are very 411 00:37:36.559 --> 00:37:42.159 important in these days. Probably the two most important supplements are vitamin dum probiotics. 412 00:37:43.960 --> 00:37:46.639 But getting back to the stomach acid, right, So when you take 413 00:37:46.920 --> 00:37:52.559 an ascids, now you're decreasing stomach acid. That makes you more susceptible. 414 00:37:52.880 --> 00:37:54.239 So we've got to get to the root cause, fix the symptoms, and 415 00:37:54.239 --> 00:38:00.599 then probably have to actually supplement with hydrochloric acid with some bile to neutralize the 416 00:38:00.639 --> 00:38:04.559 ass You've got to do it in the right way with some enzymes. Maybe 417 00:38:04.599 --> 00:38:12.079 you don't have proper enzymes. Maybe you're not food combining properly, maybe you're 418 00:38:12.119 --> 00:38:16.239 not doing intermittent fasting, which is eating only eight hours in the day from 419 00:38:16.280 --> 00:38:21.440 ten am to six pm. We want to eat during the daylight hours. 420 00:38:21.840 --> 00:38:24.880 We eat for energy, So when you're doing activities during the daytime, that's 421 00:38:24.880 --> 00:38:29.960 when you want to eat ten am to six pm. After six pm, 422 00:38:29.960 --> 00:38:32.320 we don't want to eat. We want our bodies to chill out. After 423 00:38:32.440 --> 00:38:36.920 we come home from sunset, we want to turn off the lights. We 424 00:38:36.920 --> 00:38:40.000 don't want electronics. We don't want to eat. We want to relax. 425 00:38:40.159 --> 00:38:45.920 We want to calm everything down. Okay, that's key for that vagus nerve, 426 00:38:46.519 --> 00:38:51.679 and that's going to help with our digestive process as well with the intermittent 427 00:38:51.760 --> 00:38:55.639 fasting, because it gives us sixteen hours to break down all the foods. 428 00:38:57.000 --> 00:39:00.719 So there's lots of different reasons for digestive problems, but we always got kidd 429 00:39:00.760 --> 00:39:02.880 get to the root cause of the problem. And we're going to continue this 430 00:39:02.960 --> 00:39:07.119 conversation when we come back from the break. If you want to improve your 431 00:39:07.119 --> 00:39:12.920 brain function, help with memory, focus, sleep, digestion, energy depression, 432 00:39:13.079 --> 00:39:16.119 anxiety, dizziness, balance, vision, headaches, brain fog, weight 433 00:39:16.159 --> 00:39:22.000 loss, or simply want to maximize your human potential and prevent future diseases that 434 00:39:22.119 --> 00:39:27.079 this is the show for you. Don't misboost your brain power with doctor Eric 435 00:39:27.119 --> 00:39:30.480 Kaplan and you will learn natural, integrative, and holistic approaches to modern day 436 00:39:30.519 --> 00:39:37.679 medical problems such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's stroke, autism, add concussion, autoimmune 437 00:39:37.719 --> 00:39:43.159 diseases, insomnia, fibromyalgia, vertigo, migraines, for posture pain, TBI, 438 00:39:43.360 --> 00:39:46.639 skin and digestive problems. Doctor Kaplan is most famous for getting to the 439 00:39:46.719 --> 00:39:51.760 root cause of a wide variety of brain and health conditions, rather than treating 440 00:39:51.800 --> 00:39:55.679 symptoms with traditional medicines and risky surgeries. To contact doctor Kaplan, you can 441 00:39:55.760 --> 00:40:00.639 call his team at two O one two six two or visit his website at 442 00:40:00.719 --> 00:40:07.320 kaplan dc dot com. Welcome back to boost your brain power. I'm your 443 00:40:07.320 --> 00:40:15.320 host, doctor Eric Caplan. We're talking about natural ways to improve your brain 444 00:40:15.679 --> 00:40:22.039 and body function, to either prevent taking medicine or to actually get your body 445 00:40:22.079 --> 00:40:27.760 healthy so that you can reduce taking the amount of medication you're so the good 446 00:40:27.760 --> 00:40:31.000 news is that it's never too late, but you just got to work for 447 00:40:31.039 --> 00:40:36.519 it. So don't come to me if you want prescription medication, because that's 448 00:40:36.519 --> 00:40:38.679 not what I do. I'm not a medical doctor. Don't come to me 449 00:40:39.320 --> 00:40:43.519 if you want surgeries, don't come to me for that. I'm not a 450 00:40:43.559 --> 00:40:47.400 surgeon. But what I am I'm a functional neurologist. So we improve the 451 00:40:47.440 --> 00:40:52.880 function of the brain. So think of me like a physical therapist, but 452 00:40:52.920 --> 00:40:57.119 for the brain and the nervous system. And I also find as functional medicine 453 00:40:57.480 --> 00:41:00.880 where we look at patterns in your blood work and see how your organs are 454 00:41:00.880 --> 00:41:05.480 working. Look at how their stomach acid is, Look how your liver's working. 455 00:41:06.719 --> 00:41:10.719 See if you have inflammation. If you have low stomach acid, low 456 00:41:10.760 --> 00:41:16.320 bacteria, inflammation, we could see that in blood work. Then you're gonna 457 00:41:16.320 --> 00:41:21.760 have what's going to leaky gut. And when you have a leaky gut, 458 00:41:21.920 --> 00:41:27.960 then you're gonna have the bacteria are going to escape your intestinal tract, your 459 00:41:28.039 --> 00:41:32.280 viruses and worms and mold and yeast, and then they're going to get into 460 00:41:32.280 --> 00:41:37.920 the blood stream and then attack other organs, maybe attack your brain, maybe 461 00:41:37.960 --> 00:41:42.360 attack your thyroid, maybe attack your heart or your lungs, or your liver, 462 00:41:42.519 --> 00:41:45.400 or your kidneys, or your adrenal gland, or your ovaries or your 463 00:41:45.440 --> 00:41:50.360 testes or your prostate. Because once they're in the blood stream, they can 464 00:41:50.360 --> 00:41:55.039 go everywhere. So that's why your gut is your first defense with your immune 465 00:41:55.039 --> 00:42:00.519 system. That's why it's so important to have good stomach acid and good bacteria 466 00:42:00.800 --> 00:42:07.039 and good enzymes. Most people are deficient in acid, and they're deficient in 467 00:42:07.159 --> 00:42:12.000 bacteria, and they don't release the enzymes when it's appropriate. You can't just 468 00:42:12.119 --> 00:42:15.199 take digestive enzymes that won't do it, because you have to know when to 469 00:42:15.280 --> 00:42:22.159 release the enzymes, because proteins have certain enzymes, and carbohydrates have other enzymes, 470 00:42:22.199 --> 00:42:25.079 and fruit have their own enzymes. And you know, the saliva has 471 00:42:25.159 --> 00:42:30.199 their enzymes, and you know, the intestinal track is theirs and the gut 472 00:42:30.239 --> 00:42:34.639 has theirs. So there's all these different types of enzymes and they need to 473 00:42:34.639 --> 00:42:39.239 be released at the appropriate time. So it's not just taking enzymes that won't 474 00:42:39.320 --> 00:42:43.639 do it. And the bacteria. We said, you can't just take one 475 00:42:43.679 --> 00:42:45.960 bacteria. There's different bacteria. You gotta keep changing it up every two months. 476 00:42:45.960 --> 00:42:52.320 Take different bacteria. And the acid. Most people are taking an acid, 477 00:42:52.480 --> 00:42:57.280 they're decreasing their ascid. They're taking tums and roll aids and prescriptions, 478 00:42:57.360 --> 00:43:01.679 and oh my god, they're causing their own problems by taking these medications. 479 00:43:04.039 --> 00:43:08.840 We need more stomach acid. We just lead less backup. We need more 480 00:43:08.880 --> 00:43:15.519 bacteria. We just need more good bacteria and less bad bacteria. We need 481 00:43:15.559 --> 00:43:22.679 a proper balance. That way, that's how you stabilize your gut. And 482 00:43:22.760 --> 00:43:25.960 with a leaky gut, there's four phases that have to be accomplished. The 483 00:43:27.000 --> 00:43:32.880 first phase is reducing inflammation. To reduce inflammation, the best ways are through 484 00:43:34.039 --> 00:43:37.800 with vera tral tumeric. Got to make sure your vitamin D levels are good, 485 00:43:37.800 --> 00:43:44.519 the bacteria are good. You got to go in an anti inflammatory diet. 486 00:43:45.000 --> 00:43:52.320 You got to bring down all the inflammatory foods. The second phase is 487 00:43:52.400 --> 00:43:57.480 plugging in the holes of the leaky gut. We do that with glutamine. 488 00:43:57.480 --> 00:44:00.679 It's like a shake that we could take, but you can't do that until 489 00:44:00.679 --> 00:44:06.199 you reduce the inflammation. You got to reduce the inflammation first that step one. 490 00:44:06.280 --> 00:44:10.320 Step two is plugging the league you up. Then step three is to 491 00:44:10.400 --> 00:44:15.440 destroy all the bad stuff. I call it the atomic bomb. So it's 492 00:44:15.480 --> 00:44:20.400 this packet of pills that we you know, suggest for the patients and it 493 00:44:20.440 --> 00:44:24.440 helps to kill off the viruses, the bacteria, the yeast, of parasites, 494 00:44:24.480 --> 00:44:29.639 but in just with natural herbs, so nothing that's going to cause any 495 00:44:29.639 --> 00:44:35.079 side effects or no risks. That's the third phase, the atomic bomb, 496 00:44:35.199 --> 00:44:39.000 kill off all the bad stuff. Now the fourth phase, that's the cleanse. 497 00:44:39.400 --> 00:44:43.280 Now that you've killed off all the bad stuff, now that you've contained 498 00:44:43.280 --> 00:44:45.280 it with the league, you guy, you've brought down your inflammation. You've 499 00:44:45.320 --> 00:44:51.000 done those first three phases. Now it's time to cleanse. You'll flush everything 500 00:44:51.000 --> 00:44:57.440 out. We clear it out, and we do that through this little shake, 501 00:44:58.199 --> 00:45:00.239 and then we cleanse the liver tip. A lot of people do this, 502 00:45:00.440 --> 00:45:04.400 try and flush everything out and do a liver cleanse first. Now you 503 00:45:04.519 --> 00:45:07.960 gotta kill off all the bad stuff first. Then you flush it out, 504 00:45:07.400 --> 00:45:12.280 then you eliminate it. Then you cleanse it out. Now your body can 505 00:45:12.320 --> 00:45:15.760 heal. That's the four stage. It's for leaky gut. So if you 506 00:45:15.800 --> 00:45:20.519 have ulcerative colitis, you got league you gut, you have IBS, you 507 00:45:20.599 --> 00:45:25.159 got leaky gut, you got silliac, you have a leaky gut. You 508 00:45:25.159 --> 00:45:28.960 know you got Crohn's disease, you got leaky gut, you got sebo, 509 00:45:29.159 --> 00:45:32.840 you got league you gut. Leaky gut isn't like a real diagnosis. It 510 00:45:32.880 --> 00:45:37.239 just means basically, your guts inflamed. And when you have those conditions, 511 00:45:37.679 --> 00:45:44.000 that means you have inflammation. It's like colitis, you know, that's that 512 00:45:44.079 --> 00:45:51.480 means inflammation, right, anytime you have itis, itis means inflammation, right, 513 00:45:52.519 --> 00:45:58.440 So you have to reduce that inflammation, super important. Right, that's 514 00:45:58.440 --> 00:46:02.039 the four stages, and then you might have to replenish with the stomach acid. 515 00:46:02.800 --> 00:46:06.840 It's very important. So you get to the root cause of the gut 516 00:46:06.880 --> 00:46:12.119 problems, then you can get off the acid reflux medication. But you got 517 00:46:12.119 --> 00:46:15.239 to eat healthy. That's important. You know, you got to do the 518 00:46:15.280 --> 00:46:20.079 work if you want to get the results. But you know, how do 519 00:46:20.119 --> 00:46:23.639 you know what the root cause is? How do you know what your thyroid 520 00:46:23.760 --> 00:46:28.960 cause? How do you know if you have the intestinal inflammation? How do 521 00:46:28.960 --> 00:46:32.039 you know if you're in stress mode? Well, there's one test that can 522 00:46:32.079 --> 00:46:37.679 actually check for all of that. It's called a q EEG brain mapping. 523 00:46:38.159 --> 00:46:42.760 It literally will pick up, Hey, is there a thyroid problem? Is 524 00:46:42.800 --> 00:46:47.639 there intestinal inflammation? Are you worrying too much? Are you in stress mode? 525 00:46:47.639 --> 00:46:51.360 Do you have anxiety? Do you have anger? Do you have aggression 526 00:46:51.760 --> 00:46:54.920 to your problems with depression? Do you have anxiety? Do you have insomnia? 527 00:46:55.039 --> 00:46:59.599 Do you have troubles with memory? Do you have heavy metal poisoning, 528 00:47:00.119 --> 00:47:04.719 you have a concussion. Do you have a virus pathology that's attacking your brain. 529 00:47:05.079 --> 00:47:07.960 Do you have white matter inflammation in your brain? Do you have difficulty 530 00:47:08.039 --> 00:47:14.679 shifting tests? Do you have troubles with focus, motivation, organization, blaming? 531 00:47:15.639 --> 00:47:19.440 Do you have sensory problems? You have balance problems, eyes ears? 532 00:47:20.159 --> 00:47:25.960 Do you have issues with coordination? You know, it literally breaks down everything 533 00:47:27.079 --> 00:47:30.599 for you, and it doesn't without any radiation. You don't have to sit 534 00:47:30.639 --> 00:47:34.639 in a small tube. You don't have to take any contrast fluid. It's 535 00:47:34.679 --> 00:47:37.960 not like an MRI or cat scan. You just sit in a chair. 536 00:47:37.639 --> 00:47:42.079 You wear this cap. It looks like a swimmer's cap, but it's got 537 00:47:42.079 --> 00:47:45.559 electrodes that are attached to all these different areas. You're the brain and control 538 00:47:45.880 --> 00:47:52.400 these parts of your brain and body's function. So it analyze your brain waves. 539 00:47:52.400 --> 00:47:57.320 It can literally say what areas are functioning very well and what areas are 540 00:47:57.320 --> 00:48:01.079 not functioning well. If it's not, we don't fix it. So we 541 00:48:01.119 --> 00:48:06.119 want to find mostly areas that are functioning well when we leave those alone. 542 00:48:06.800 --> 00:48:09.519 But when we do this test, and it tells us what areas are not 543 00:48:09.639 --> 00:48:15.400 functioning well. Now we could come up with natural, holistic, and integrative 544 00:48:15.480 --> 00:48:22.440 solutions to remedy those situations so they don't develop into major health problems where you 545 00:48:22.480 --> 00:48:25.159 need to take lots of medicines and see lots of doctors and do lots of 546 00:48:25.199 --> 00:48:30.519 surgeries. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. So believe 547 00:48:30.559 --> 00:48:36.960 me, take advantage of this test because it is very informative and it's good 548 00:48:37.000 --> 00:48:39.000 to do it. You know, to just get a baseline test as well, 549 00:48:39.039 --> 00:48:44.239 even if you don't have any neurologic problems to begin with, but if 550 00:48:44.239 --> 00:48:46.800 you have any health conditions, let's get to the root cause. Not treat 551 00:48:46.840 --> 00:48:52.199 symptoms, but get to the root cause. Now, this test takes about 552 00:48:52.239 --> 00:48:57.519 twenty to thirty minutes. There's a lot of set up time. It's normally 553 00:48:58.039 --> 00:49:02.639 five hundred dollars, but the first seven people that call you can get the 554 00:49:02.840 --> 00:49:08.840 entire qEEG brain mapping tests for only twenty one dollars. All you gotta do 555 00:49:08.920 --> 00:49:13.400 is call, text or email. The number is six four six two two 556 00:49:13.480 --> 00:49:19.320 one six seven three eight and the emails info at kaplan Brain and body dot 557 00:49:19.400 --> 00:49:23.719 com. I also suggest doing a VG test which is where you wear these 558 00:49:24.400 --> 00:49:30.400 goggles. They're infrared goggles and you just follow this red dot goes fast and 559 00:49:30.480 --> 00:49:35.199 slow and up and down and left and right, and it measures all the 560 00:49:35.239 --> 00:49:37.440 different lobes of your brain butt. When it does, it tells us which 561 00:49:37.480 --> 00:49:43.880 areas are underactive and which areas are overactive. The qEEG tells us which areas 562 00:49:43.880 --> 00:49:47.360 are not functioning right, The VG tells us, okay, which ones are 563 00:49:47.480 --> 00:49:52.119 overactive. If they're overactive, we got to come up with therapies to relax 564 00:49:52.159 --> 00:49:55.599 it. If they're underactive, we got to come up with exercises to stimulate 565 00:49:55.639 --> 00:49:59.559 it. And it says, is there imbalance of left and right? Remember 566 00:49:59.599 --> 00:50:01.960 we're talk abou the blood pressure. You want to make sure everything's equal from 567 00:50:02.000 --> 00:50:05.639 right and to left. Well, this is going to measure your brain function. 568 00:50:06.119 --> 00:50:09.239 You want your brain equal from right to left. That's called a VNNG 569 00:50:10.519 --> 00:50:15.679 video distography. That's also normally five hundred dollars, but for the first seven 570 00:50:15.719 --> 00:50:20.440 people that call, you can get that for twenty one dollars as well. 571 00:50:21.079 --> 00:50:23.119 Number six four, six, two, two, one, six, seven 572 00:50:23.480 --> 00:50:30.239 three eight, or you can email info at Kaplan Brain embody dot com. 573 00:50:30.280 --> 00:50:32.360 And the last test we're going to offer is a one on one evaluation with 574 00:50:32.400 --> 00:50:37.320 me. That's where I check out your memory, your balance or coordination. 575 00:50:37.400 --> 00:50:40.039 We look at your blood work, your history, we talk about your health 576 00:50:40.119 --> 00:50:46.000 goals, we review your other findings, and we literally check out your coordination, 577 00:50:46.079 --> 00:50:50.280 your heart, your lungs, your stomach, We check out everything. 578 00:50:50.760 --> 00:50:54.159 That takes about forty five minutes. It's also normally five hundred dollars, but 579 00:50:54.280 --> 00:50:58.880 for the first seven people that call, text or email, they can get 580 00:50:58.920 --> 00:51:02.400 that for twenty one dollars as well. One more time. The number is 581 00:51:02.440 --> 00:51:07.800 six four six two two one six seven three eight take advantage. You could 582 00:51:07.800 --> 00:51:12.079 do all three. If you want for more information, go to our website 583 00:51:12.639 --> 00:51:16.559 Kaplan DC dot com, or you could like us on social media. We 584 00:51:16.639 --> 00:51:22.840 have an Instagram Kaplan Brain and Body. We have Facebook Kaplan Brain and Body. 585 00:51:23.039 --> 00:51:30.239 We also have YouTube Kaplan Brain and Body. And we also have a 586 00:51:30.360 --> 00:51:35.119 book out that I wrote called Boost Your Brain Power, a guy to improving 587 00:51:35.159 --> 00:51:38.239 your memory and focus. 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