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hope everybody is doing great. Today. We're going to talk about natural,
holistic, and integrative ways to improve the function of your brain and body without
any harmful medications or surgeries. The power that made the body heals the body,
so we just want to unleash the body's potential to heal on its own.
We have all these amazing ways to get rid of the toxins that we're
exposed to. And believe me, there are lots of toxins. There's chemicals
in the air. There's chemicals in the water. There's chemicals the food.
There's chemicals in the chemicals. There's chemicals in the cleaning stuff. There's chemicals
in the makeup. There's chemicals and the lotions and the soaps and the shampoos
and the toothpaste and the deodorants. They're everywhere, all right. So what
you gotta do is make sure you avoid the stuff that's possible. You gotta
get the cleanest stuff. You might have to pay a little bit extra,
but money means nothing if you don't have your health. Your health is the
most important thing. So you only get one body, you've got to make
sure you treat it like a temple and you don't put anything bad in it.
You get rid of the bad stuff that is involuntary, but don't voluntarily
get put bad stuff inside your body. Right, So we're gonna go over
lots of natural ways to improve of your brain and bodies function. Now,
what are the most common health problems? All right, well, let's go
over the most common. The cause of death is heart cancer number two.
Iatrogenic is actually number three. That's caused by the doctor, mostly through medication.
That's literally the number third leading cause of death, and that's what they
admit, that's what they prove to be caused by medication. So it's probably
actually a little bit higher. But heart disease and cancer they've always been the
top two for a long time. The most prescribed drugs are statins, you
know, for cholesterol. Lipotoris are always number one. Heart disease, high
blood pressure medication that's always up there. Diabetes foreman, that's always up there.
There's always the top medications. Right, it's cholesterol, it's heart disease
or high blood pressure. All right, it's diabetes. Also is the thyroid.
Most people don't talk about that too much. Thyroid doesn't get a lot
of publicity, but it's definitely one of the most top prescribed drugs. Most
people are hypo thyroid. The problem is when we're dealing with the thyroid,
no one really does good thorough blood work. So to do good thorough blood
work, you have to see a doctor that practices functional medicine. We do
that at Caplin Brain and Body in both of our office is one in New
Jersey in Emerson, New Jersey, Bergen County, and the second office is
in Manhattan in the West Village Office six Bleiker And we practice functional medicine at
those offices. And what functional medicine. The approach to the thyroid is very
different. You have to do a lot of tests, so you gotta look
at your not just your H that's thyroid stimulating hormone. Most doctors all they
do is look at TSH thyroid stimulating hormone. If the TSH is high,
which is typical, that means you have hypo thyroidism. If the TSH is
low, that means you have hyper thyroidism, right, So it's the opposite.
The reason it's opposite is because if your thyroid is underactive, which is
a hypo thyroid, which is what most people have in America. Right,
So if your thyroid is underactive, then the brain says, I need more
thyroid and it's going to activate t SH, which is thyroid stimulating hormone.
So the thyroid stimulating hormone is going to be high because we need it high
because the thyroid is low. So it's the opposite, got it, all
right? So what are they gonna do? They're going to prescribe you with
medication. Now what does a functional medicine doctor do, not just a typical
endocrinologist, which is usually who people with thyroid problems going to say. If
you see a functional doctor like at Caplinbrain and Body, We're going to look
at all the thyroid tests T four, T three free, T three free,
T four you know, TPI, TPO, different antibodies, all right,
you got to look at the different antibodies. There's different autoimmune diseases that
are the normal cause of thyroid problems. But if you don't test for autoimmune
disease, you're not gonna know that's the cause of your hypo thyroidism. And
if you don't know what the cause is, then you can't come up with
the proper remedy because there's all different types of treatments for the thyroid. It's
not just tree with medicine. That should be the last resort. Always try
it naturally first, Right now, what's the natural way? Well, if
we look at the functional medicine scales, for example TSH, most labs,
whether it's a lab corp or quest or bioreference or whatever it is, most
of these labs are going to have a range, a normal range of the
ts H to be maybe point two point three to about four point five four
point six something like that. That's a typical range for the TSH and that's
usually the one test that they do. So a functional medicine scale is different.
So our scale is one point eight to three, and what that means
is if your number is four point zero, most endrocinologists are going to say
that's normal, but we're going to say, nope, that's too high.
That means the thyroid's underactive. If the scale is one point zero, they're
going to say it's normal. We're gonna say, no, that number is
too low. That's a high birth thyroid and it could be from overuse of
the medicine. So if you're taking medicine, you've got to monitor to make
sure you don't get put into hyph birth thyroid. You see it all the
time. Well, it's very important to monitor your numbers, and you do
it on not the normal scale, which that the labs say, but on
a healthy scale. Rights, if you have blood work at home, take
a look right now, is it one point eight to three or is your
TSH high? Is it low or is it within their normal range. We
don't want the normal range. We don't want the point three to the four
point six. We want the healthy range, which is a one point eight
to three that's for thyroid. So sometimes you know, you have to see
is it underactive? Is it overactive? It's the medicine that you're taking overactive.
Do you want to prevent using medicine? If you want to prevent using
medicine, you got to do a full panel like we were just talking about.
That way you could diagnose it properly and you could say, okay,
is it a primary thyroid problem. Is it a secondary thyroid problem? All
right? You could say, is it an autoimmune thyroid problem. If it's
underactive autoimmune, that's called a Hashimoto's thyroid diet. That's the most common.
We see tons of patients with Hashimoto's thyroid dietis and it's not to fix it
with medicine. The way to fix it is through nutrition, So you've got
to go on an autoimmune diet. Now, if it is a secondary thyroid
condition, that would mean it's coming from your pituitary gland. Your pituitary leads
into the thyroid. And we see a lot of people with this at our
office too. They have what's called a disautonomia. Their autonomic nervous system isn't
functioning properly, and you're stuck in this fight or flight mode rather than the
relaxed rest and digest state. Right When we have a problem with that,
that's going to cause a pituitary adrenal problem. It's called your HPA access.
I'm getting pretty technical today, but if you can follow me, we're doing
pretty good. But it has to do with your pituitary gland. So it's
a brain issue. We're gonna fix the brain. We're gonna relax the brain
to get you out of stress mode. And if you get out of the
stress mode, then the thyroid is going to function better. The adrenals are
going to calm down, the pituitary is going to function normally. The thyroid's
not going to be abnormal function. It's all about improving function, improving signals.
Now, if you have a primary thyroid problem, there's also natural herbs
you can take, so sometimes you could do some herbal stuff. The best
herbs that I like comes from Apex Energetics. You have to order it through
doctor, so let me know if you're interested about that, we can take
care of that. We'll give you the phone number at the break. But
it's always about getting to the root cause. So the most medicine, right
we said, is cholesterol, high blood pressure, thyroid, diabetes, acid
reflects. These are the most prescribed medicine. So we're gonna go over in
natural ways to prevent all those medicines where you won't need them, where you
don't need to see doctors, you don't need to take medicine, but you
got to do it in a natural way. So if you're already on the
medicine. It's not something you could just stop. That's very dangerous. So
when you stop medicine, you have to work with your doctors and make sure
you do it in a safe way. Okay, But what we do in
our office is get people super healthy, so healthy that the medicine works too
much and then they don't need to take it. Right. So, if
you improve your heart function but you're taking high blood pressure medication, then your
blood pressure is going to go too low. If you improve your diet and
your sedentary lifestyle and you're taking diabetes medication, it's going to bring your levels
too low. So when you get healthy, sometimes you have to monitor your
blood work to make sure you safely reduce the medication. Right. You always
work with your medical director for that. Never stop medicine on your own,
okay, But there are ways to do it in a healthy way. So
a lot of patients come to us because they want to do it in a
natural, healthy way, right. So that's why we practice functional medicine and
functional neurology. Functional neurology is where we analyze the different areas of the brain
and the nervous system and find any areas of dysfunction and then give you neurologic
exercises to improve that area. It's called neuroplasticity. You could rewire the brain,
just like you could go to the gym and exercise your muscles. You
can exercise it is your brain. And if you exercise your brain, you
can affect your pituitary and adrenal gland, which can affect your thyroid And if
you exercise your brain, it can also affect your blood pressure. We're going
to continue that conversation. Have the brain and the blood pressure connected when we
come back from the brain. This is doctor Eric Applin. You're listening to
boost your brain power. If you want to improve your brain function, help
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and digestive problems. Doctor Kaplan is most famous for getting to the root cause
of a wide variety of brain and health conditions, rather than treating symptoms with
traditional medicines and risky surgeries. To contact the doctor Kaplan, you can call
this team at two h one two six one two one five zero or visit
his website at kaplan dc dot com. Welcome back to boost your brain power.
I am your host, doctor Eric Kaplan. So we're talking about the
thyroid and high blood pressure. Just to summarize the thyroid first before we move
on to the blood pressure. So we have to analyze the thyroid through blood
work and brain function to figure out. If there's an autoimmune thyroid and underactive
autoimmune, it's called hashimotos. If it's a hyper thyroid autoimmune, it's called
Graves disease. If it's Graves or hashimotos, we fix that through nutrition.
If it is a primary hypo or hypo thyroid, there are ways to fix
that herbally naturally through stuff from the earth as opposed to the medicine and the
chemicals built in the labs. So try it naturally first, and then if
that doesn't work, then you can always go for the medicine. And then
the third one is influenced by your brain, your pituitary or adrenal gland,
your hypothalmus, So for that you might need to rewire your brain. It's
called neuroplasticity. You also might need to increase vitamin D levels to increased function
of the thyroid. Vitamin D is actually a hormone, it's not a vitamin,
but it definitely greatly influences thyroid function. Most people are vitamin D deficient.
We get that from the sun, So start going out in the sun.
The sun is not your enemy. You know, a lot of doctors
tell you to stay away from the sun. I'm telling you to go out
in the sun. You know, unless you have a really bad history of
skin cancer. The sun actually prevents cancer, prevents Alzheimer's, improve thyroid function,
proves heart function, immune system. You know, you've got to go
out in the sun. Super important, and if you need to, you
have to supplement again. We like Apex Energetics. They're pretty good. You
can contact us will let you know how to order those vitaminty Supplementation in the
winter is very important because the sun is so weak, and when you go
outside, you're wearing long sleeves so you don't get a lot of skin exposure.
That's what those are three types of thyroid problems. Blood pressure, right,
it's either high blood pressure, it's low blood pressure. And what most
doctors don't do is check left and right blood pressure. Do you have to
check both sides? You can't just check one side. What if they check
your left arm and your blood pressure is normal one twenty over eighty, but
they never check the right arm and the right arm is always like one forty
over nine ninety, That's going to be a problem. You could have big
differences in blood pressure from your left side to your right side. As a
functional neurologist, we always want to check both sides. You know, when
I check your oxygen levels, we want to check both sides. Right.
How Come when we check your muscle strength, we check both sides, but
when they check your blood pressure they only check one side. How doesn't make
any sense. You know, the eye doctor looks in both eyes, the
ear doctor looks in both ears. How come the cardiologist doesn't take blood pressure
on both sides. It's very important to check the balance of left and right.
I'd rather have two high blood pressure than one low blood pressure and one
high blood pressure. The imbalance can be worse. And if you're checking it
at home with those blood pressure cuffs, which in my opinion aren't very accurate.
But if you are, check both sides, and you might even want
to check from lying to sitting. You know, you can find out a
lot of different things with your blood pressure, but you gotta check for imbalances
from left to right. Now. He said, that's one of the most
prescribed drugs. People have high blood pressure. Why do they have high blood
pressure? Biggest cause is stress. You know, the most common time for
a heart attack or stroke is Monday morning. People are in stress mode.
They were relaxed over the weekend, but then they got stressed out because now
they go back to reality. Right, a lot of people going back to
school. I had a long weekend after Labor Day, going back to work.
You know, it's been a tough week for a lot of people.
Right. Well, maybe some people are more relaxed because now the kids are
out of the house, but whatever it is, Monday morning is always a
very stressful time, all right, And the more stress you have, the
higher your blood pressure is going to be So what about we change our way
of thinking. This is what we call a paradigm shift. Instead of taking
medicine to treat your high blood pressure, what about you get to the root
cause of your high blood pressure, and you fix the root cause of your
high blood pressure, then your blood pressure goes down naturally. Then you don't
have to be on high blood pressure medication. Understand, Just like you could
change your diet and reverse autoimmune thyroid disease such as hashimotos in graves, if
you reduce your stress levels, you can bring down your blood pressure naturally.
In addition to exercise physical exercise, in addition to eating healthier, in addition
to drinking more water, in addition to going to bed earlier, in addition
to reducing inflammation. So I'm not saying it's an easy thing to do to
reduce your blood pressure, but if you do all the appropriate things, and
you take those measures necessary to rewire your brain and get you out of stress
mode, your blood pressure can actually go down. Now, what are some
of the things you could do right now naturally? Right most people know about
meditation, I practice the relax technique. I do just the thirty seconds every
morning thirty second meditation. Everybody has thirty seconds, and you say relax for
thirty times. Relax, relax, and each second I relax a different muscle
group. I relax the muscles. I start on the top of my head,
relax those muscles. Then I go to my forehead relax. Then I
go to my temples relax, and my eyebrows relax, and my eyes relax.
Then my jaw relax, and my cheeks relaxed, and my mouth relax.
So I picked thirty spots and just relax each muscle group. Relax.
The neck relax, the shoulders relax, the chest relax, the hips,
the knees, the feet, the toes. So I just think thirty points
and it relax every area. And it's a thirty second meditation that's very good
to get the brain at a stress mode. And then when you get good
at thirty seconds and you bump it up to a minute, then you go
up to two minutes. But just start doing thirty seconds. Everyone can do
thirty seconds, all right. Another way to relax is to activate what's called
your vaguest nerve. Your vaguest nerve helps to get you out of at what
we call the fight or flight mode, that stress mode. When you have
increased cortisol, you can't sleep, You're always worrying, you even have some
anger and aggression. Your mind's raising, you know, you're always thinking of
what's going on, what's the next thing, what's going to happen, what
do we do if this happens. To worry, the brain stresses out.
Sometimes you even get anxiety, and sometimes there's even a little panic. It's
just worry. I'm going to stop worrying. That creates too much stress,
that increases the blood pressure. So one way to stop the worrying, stop
the stress, the anxiety, the panic is to gargle really intensely. Just
take some water and you guard off really loud up to the ceiling. Another
good way splash your face with cold water. And another good exercise to stimulate
the vegas nerve. It's called the gag reflex, when you just take your
tongue to pressor or your toothbrush and hit the back of your palette, not
to the point where you throw up, but just elicit a gag that unless
you have a history of bulimia, don't do that. But for the gag
reflex that's been proven through neuroscience to stimulate the vegus nerve. You could also
swallow, just like a big swallow, get a bunch of saliva on your
tongue and do a big swallow. That all helps out with stress. Singing
really loud, humming, you know, stimulate that throat. It's very good
for the vagus nerve. That helps to reduce stress, get you out of
that fight or flight mode, bring down that blood pressure. Then we work
in actual ways so you don't have to take medicine as you get older.
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Doctor Eric Kaplan. Sorry to bite. Natural ways to improve your thyroid.
You could do it through your diet. If it's autoimmune disease, you could
do it through herbal remedies. If it's a primary issue, you could do
it through neuroplasticity and rewiring your brain. If it's a secondary problem, then
we spoke about how to bring down blood pressure. If you have high blood
pressure, you got to meditate through the relaxed technique. Got to stimulate that
bagest nerve got to exercise burn that energy every day. You gotta exercise in
the Morning's the best time to exercise. So where your corsol levels highest,
where your testosterone's highest. Exercise every single morning, and that makes sure you
go to bed early. It's very good for your blood pressure. You gotta
go to bed early. You can't be up watching the news, watching TV,
scrolling on Facebook. I'm gonna YouTube, playing on the internet on your
iPhone. Gotta stop. Those electronics are no good. They increase cortisol at
night. It's going to increase your blood pressure. You gotta put those electronics
away, right, said you gotta get good vitamin D. So you also
want to go outside during sunset, see the sun go down. And then
when you come home, turn off all the lights, all the electronics,
keep everything nice and dim. Just read a book, listen to some music,
listen to a podcast, have some conversations, play a board game,
play some cars, take the dog for a walk, do something, draw,
write a novel, you know anything, do something artistic, do something
musical. Anything besides using electronics at night. The electronics should be used during
the day. And we got to unplug. We gotta shut it off,
right, it's going to bring down your blood pressure. Now, what else
is prescribed a lot besides thyroid medication, high blood pressure medication, we're looking
at diabetes medication metforming and now they're prescribing the diabetes medication for weight loss.
You know, America is pretty much the fattest country in the world, and
people, you know, have all these things for weight loss and bands and
surgeries, and you know, staples and different diet pills and appetite suppressants,
and you know, we have brain diseases, bolimia and anorexia and body dimorphism,
and you know there's so much you know, bad with the advertising and
marketing and what's appropriate and what's not appropriate. And you know, sometimes you
know it goes the other way too, you know, and say, okay,
the models are too skinny, But then we don't want to also be
too fat either. You know, we just want to be our natural weight.
We don't want to under eat, but we don't want to overeat.
And you always want to basically, only eat when you're hungry, and you
gotta feel your body. You gotta be cognizant, and you gotta say,
like, in the middle of a meal, you think to yourself, hey,
am I still hungry? And if you're still hungry, okay, you
can continue to eat. But if you really think about it and saying,
you know what, I'm actually not hungry anymore, you don't finish the meal
all right, so save it for later, and maybe an hour or too
later you get hungry again. Then try it again, but maybe it won't
be you listen to your body. Only eat when you're hungry you want to
lose weight. That's the simplest rule to follow is only eat when you're hungry,
stop eating when you're not hungry. And the way to not be hungry
so much is to eat each color of the rainbow. That way you're getting
all your nutrients. If you eat each color, you get all your bidamins,
minerals, nutrients. Right, if we get everything we need, then
you're not gonna be hungry. That's what You can eat a whole bag of
potato chips or whole basket of bread. There's no nutritional value in that.
But what you have to do is eat each color of the rainbow. Then
your brain won't even want food because you have all the nutrients that you need
and won't desire the sugar, won't desire the bad foods. But you gotta
eat each color of the rainbow every single day, hopefully every single meal.
All right, that's gonna be very important when diabetes. Eat all the colors
and stay away from the white foods, all the white foods, the sugar,
the bread, the flour, the noodles, the potatoes, the rice,
the milk, the cream. Stay away from all the white foods and
eat all the colorful foods. You don't want diabetes. You want to take
that foreman, You don't want to be obese, overweight. You eat all
the colorful foods. You stay away from all the white foods. Eat color,
all right, eat color, lots of color every single meal. And
then you gotta get away from that sedentary lifestyle. You know what is the
typical diabetes patient to Every day? They work at the computer, and they
come home and they eat dinner, and they sit on the couch and they
watch TV, play under phone, go to bed, wake up, coffee,
work, home, dinner, sit on the couch, go to sleep,
home, Sit in the car driving to work, Sit in the car
home from work, Sit at the computer at work, sit at the dinner
table, eating a big dinner, sit on the couch watching TV. It's
sedentary lifestyle. We gotta get off our butts. You gotta get outside.
You gotta be social, you gotta be in nature. You gotta move your
body. You never want to sit for more than twenty minutes. Every twenty
minutes, you get up, You walk twenty feet, you look twenty feet,
or whatever it is. You get up every twenty minute to twenty jumping
jacks, do twenty push ups, do twenty sit ups, do twenty lunges,
do twenty squats, take twenty steps, do twenty meditation, do twenty
sitting to standing. Just do twenty seconds or something every twenty minutes. It'll
change your life. Not only reverse diabetes and heart disease, but just boost
your energy, boost your brain power, your focus, your productivity. The
twenty rule. You gotta get up every twenty minutes. You know I can
remember, so you gotta set an alarm, all right, that's the twenty
rule. So for diabetes, we're eating a lot of colorful foods we're staying
away from. Now. That's diabetes type two. If you have diabetes type
one, that's different. That's autoimmune disease. That's like the thyroid. That's
like with Graves and Hashimotos. Diabetes type one is the same solution, which
is avoid the autoimmune diseases, the autoimmune foods. The autoimmune foods. The
big ones are dairy, gluten, corn, soy, coffee, alcohol,
Those are the big ones. Those are the big autoimmune foods that you got
to stay away from. If you're worried about diabetes type one, if you're
worried about Hashimoto's graves silliac disease, rheumatoid authoritis, psoriasis, fibromyalgia, multiple
sclerosis, show grins, lupus. Those are all autoimmune disease. So I'm
gonna stay away if you have any of those conditions, and you'll really know
that if you tested antibodies for those. But if you have any of those,
if you tested those antibodies in blood work. You have to avoid dairy,
gluten, corn, soy, coffee, alcohol, right, and then
follow the diabetes pattern, which is eating each color of the rainbow and avoiding
all the white foods as well. You got it. That's for diabetes type
one, diabetes type two, the most common medication I was for diabetes type
two, that's the met forming the insulin. Diabetes type one, yes,
but not as much all right, So those are natural ways to reduce your
chances of getting diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure, thyroid. Another
big prescription is the nexium, the acid reflux medications. Right, So a
lot of people get gird acid reflux in digestion, stomach problems, ibs,
chrones, ulcerative colitis, CBO. They have all these intestinal problems and they're
giving and acids. However, that acid is very good for you. That
acid kills off the bad bacteria. That acid helps you to absorb food.
That acid is very important. So when you take medication to reduce the stomach
acid, that puts you at risk for infections. That puts you at risk
for viral infections, for back sterial infections, It puts you at risk for
mold exposure, puts you at risk for parasites. That acid is protecting you,
But you got to figure out what's the root cause. Remember, so
instead of giving you medicine to get rid of the acid reflects symptoms which are
called ant ascids. Let's figure out why are you getting those symptoms. Why
is everything backed up and pushing back the other way, Why are your systems
not working, Why are you bloated? Why aren't you digesting and absorbing properly.
You've got to get to the root cause. And maybe you have autoimmune
disease that's silliac. Then you have to do that whole list of foods.
Maybe you have a vegas nerve problem that's the rest and digest So a lot
of people with insomnia or digestive problems have an issue in their veagest nerve then
you would have to do those vegas nerve exercise. This right, Maybe it's
a problem in your bacteria. Maybe you've taken a lot of antibiotics and you
have low bacteria, so you have to take probiotics. And the key with
probiotics is to change it up. You don't want to keep taking the same
probiotics over and over. You want different bacteria, different strains. They all
have different jobs that they have to do and different activities that need to be
performed. So every two months you switch your probiotics. So probiotics are very
important in these days. Probably the two most important supplements are vitamin dum probiotics.
But getting back to the stomach acid, right, So when you take
an ascids, now you're decreasing stomach acid. That makes you more susceptible.
So we've got to get to the root cause, fix the symptoms, and
then probably have to actually supplement with hydrochloric acid with some bile to neutralize the
ass You've got to do it in the right way with some enzymes. Maybe
you don't have proper enzymes. Maybe you're not food combining properly, maybe you're
not doing intermittent fasting, which is eating only eight hours in the day from
ten am to six pm. We want to eat during the daylight hours.
We eat for energy, So when you're doing activities during the daytime, that's
when you want to eat ten am to six pm. After six pm,
we don't want to eat. We want our bodies to chill out. After
we come home from sunset, we want to turn off the lights. We
don't want electronics. We don't want to eat. We want to relax.
We want to calm everything down. Okay, that's key for that vagus nerve,
and that's going to help with our digestive process as well with the intermittent
fasting, because it gives us sixteen hours to break down all the foods.
So there's lots of different reasons for digestive problems, but we always got kidd
get to the root cause of the problem. And we're going to continue this
conversation when we come back from the break. If you want to improve your
brain function, help with memory, focus, sleep, digestion, energy depression,
anxiety, dizziness, balance, vision, headaches, brain fog, weight
loss, or simply want to maximize your human potential and prevent future diseases that
this is the show for you. Don't misboost your brain power with doctor Eric
Kaplan and you will learn natural, integrative, and holistic approaches to modern day
medical problems such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's stroke, autism, add concussion, autoimmune
diseases, insomnia, fibromyalgia, vertigo, migraines, for posture pain, TBI,
skin and digestive problems. Doctor Kaplan is most famous for getting to the
root cause of a wide variety of brain and health conditions, rather than treating
symptoms with traditional medicines and risky surgeries. To contact doctor Kaplan, you can
call his team at two O one two six two or visit his website at
kaplan dc dot com. Welcome back to boost your brain power. I'm your
host, doctor Eric Caplan. We're talking about natural ways to improve your brain
and body function, to either prevent taking medicine or to actually get your body
healthy so that you can reduce taking the amount of medication you're so the good
news is that it's never too late, but you just got to work for
it. So don't come to me if you want prescription medication, because that's
not what I do. I'm not a medical doctor. Don't come to me
if you want surgeries, don't come to me for that. I'm not a
surgeon. But what I am I'm a functional neurologist. So we improve the
function of the brain. So think of me like a physical therapist, but
for the brain and the nervous system. And I also find as functional medicine
where we look at patterns in your blood work and see how your organs are
working. Look at how their stomach acid is, Look how your liver's working.
See if you have inflammation. If you have low stomach acid, low
bacteria, inflammation, we could see that in blood work. Then you're gonna
have what's going to leaky gut. And when you have a leaky gut,
then you're gonna have the bacteria are going to escape your intestinal tract, your
viruses and worms and mold and yeast, and then they're going to get into
the blood stream and then attack other organs, maybe attack your brain, maybe
attack your thyroid, maybe attack your heart or your lungs, or your liver,
or your kidneys, or your adrenal gland, or your ovaries or your
testes or your prostate. Because once they're in the blood stream, they can
go everywhere. So that's why your gut is your first defense with your immune
system. That's why it's so important to have good stomach acid and good bacteria
and good enzymes. Most people are deficient in acid, and they're deficient in
bacteria, and they don't release the enzymes when it's appropriate. You can't just
take digestive enzymes that won't do it, because you have to know when to
release the enzymes, because proteins have certain enzymes, and carbohydrates have other enzymes,
and fruit have their own enzymes. And you know, the saliva has
their enzymes, and you know, the intestinal track is theirs and the gut
has theirs. So there's all these different types of enzymes and they need to
be released at the appropriate time. So it's not just taking enzymes that won't
do it. And the bacteria. We said, you can't just take one
bacteria. There's different bacteria. You gotta keep changing it up every two months.
Take different bacteria. And the acid. Most people are taking an acid,
they're decreasing their ascid. They're taking tums and roll aids and prescriptions,
and oh my god, they're causing their own problems by taking these medications.
We need more stomach acid. We just lead less backup. We need more
bacteria. We just need more good bacteria and less bad bacteria. We need
a proper balance. That way, that's how you stabilize your gut. And
with a leaky gut, there's four phases that have to be accomplished. The
first phase is reducing inflammation. To reduce inflammation, the best ways are through
with vera tral tumeric. Got to make sure your vitamin D levels are good,
the bacteria are good. You got to go in an anti inflammatory diet.
You got to bring down all the inflammatory foods. The second phase is
plugging in the holes of the leaky gut. We do that with glutamine.
It's like a shake that we could take, but you can't do that until
you reduce the inflammation. You got to reduce the inflammation first that step one.
Step two is plugging the league you up. Then step three is to
destroy all the bad stuff. I call it the atomic bomb. So it's
this packet of pills that we you know, suggest for the patients and it
helps to kill off the viruses, the bacteria, the yeast, of parasites,
but in just with natural herbs, so nothing that's going to cause any
side effects or no risks. That's the third phase, the atomic bomb,
kill off all the bad stuff. Now the fourth phase, that's the cleanse.
Now that you've killed off all the bad stuff, now that you've contained
it with the league, you guy, you've brought down your inflammation. You've
done those first three phases. Now it's time to cleanse. You'll flush everything
out. We clear it out, and we do that through this little shake,
and then we cleanse the liver tip. A lot of people do this,
try and flush everything out and do a liver cleanse first. Now you
gotta kill off all the bad stuff first. Then you flush it out,
then you eliminate it. Then you cleanse it out. Now your body can
heal. That's the four stage. It's for leaky gut. So if you
have ulcerative colitis, you got league you gut, you have IBS, you
got leaky gut, you got silliac, you have a leaky gut. You
know you got Crohn's disease, you got leaky gut, you got sebo,
you got league you gut. Leaky gut isn't like a real diagnosis. It
just means basically, your guts inflamed. And when you have those conditions,
that means you have inflammation. It's like colitis, you know, that's that
means inflammation, right, anytime you have itis, itis means inflammation, right,
So you have to reduce that inflammation, super important. Right, that's
the four stages, and then you might have to replenish with the stomach acid.
It's very important. So you get to the root cause of the gut
problems, then you can get off the acid reflux medication. But you got
to eat healthy. That's important. You know, you got to do the
work if you want to get the results. But you know, how do
you know what the root cause is? How do you know what your thyroid
cause? How do you know if you have the intestinal inflammation? How do
you know if you're in stress mode? Well, there's one test that can
actually check for all of that. It's called a q EEG brain mapping.
It literally will pick up, Hey, is there a thyroid problem? Is
there intestinal inflammation? Are you worrying too much? Are you in stress mode?
Do you have anxiety? Do you have anger? Do you have aggression
to your problems with depression? Do you have anxiety? Do you have insomnia?
Do you have troubles with memory? Do you have heavy metal poisoning,
you have a concussion. Do you have a virus pathology that's attacking your brain.
Do you have white matter inflammation in your brain? Do you have difficulty
shifting tests? Do you have troubles with focus, motivation, organization, blaming?
Do you have sensory problems? You have balance problems, eyes ears?
Do you have issues with coordination? You know, it literally breaks down everything
for you, and it doesn't without any radiation. You don't have to sit
in a small tube. You don't have to take any contrast fluid. It's
not like an MRI or cat scan. You just sit in a chair.
You wear this cap. It looks like a swimmer's cap, but it's got
electrodes that are attached to all these different areas. You're the brain and control
these parts of your brain and body's function. So it analyze your brain waves.
It can literally say what areas are functioning very well and what areas are
not functioning well. If it's not, we don't fix it. So we
want to find mostly areas that are functioning well when we leave those alone.
But when we do this test, and it tells us what areas are not
functioning well. Now we could come up with natural, holistic, and integrative
solutions to remedy those situations so they don't develop into major health problems where you
need to take lots of medicines and see lots of doctors and do lots of
surgeries. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. So believe
me, take advantage of this test because it is very informative and it's good
to do it. You know, to just get a baseline test as well,
even if you don't have any neurologic problems to begin with, but if
you have any health conditions, let's get to the root cause. Not treat
symptoms, but get to the root cause. Now, this test takes about
twenty to thirty minutes. There's a lot of set up time. It's normally
five hundred dollars, but the first seven people that call you can get the
entire qEEG brain mapping tests for only twenty one dollars. All you gotta do
is call, text or email. The number is six four six two two
one six seven three eight and the emails info at kaplan Brain and body dot
com. I also suggest doing a VG test which is where you wear these
goggles. They're infrared goggles and you just follow this red dot goes fast and
slow and up and down and left and right, and it measures all the
different lobes of your brain butt. When it does, it tells us which
areas are underactive and which areas are overactive. The qEEG tells us which areas
are not functioning right, The VG tells us, okay, which ones are
overactive. If they're overactive, we got to come up with therapies to relax
it. If they're underactive, we got to come up with exercises to stimulate
it. And it says, is there imbalance of left and right? Remember
we're talk abou the blood pressure. You want to make sure everything's equal from
right and to left. Well, this is going to measure your brain function.
You want your brain equal from right to left. That's called a VNNG
video distography. That's also normally five hundred dollars, but for the first seven
people that call, you can get that for twenty one dollars as well.
Number six four, six, two, two, one, six, seven
three eight, or you can email info at Kaplan Brain embody dot com.
And the last test we're going to offer is a one on one evaluation with
me. That's where I check out your memory, your balance or coordination.
We look at your blood work, your history, we talk about your health
goals, we review your other findings, and we literally check out your coordination,
your heart, your lungs, your stomach, We check out everything.
That takes about forty five minutes. It's also normally five hundred dollars, but
for the first seven people that call, text or email, they can get
that for twenty one dollars as well. One more time. The number is
six four six two two one six seven three eight take advantage. You could
do all three. If you want for more information, go to our website
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your memory and focus. That can be bought on Amazon or you can call
my office and get your signed copy as well. Hope you guys enjoyed the
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