WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.040 --> 00:00:05.639 The following is a paid podcast. iHeartRadio's hosting of this podcast constitutes neither an 2 00:00:05.679 --> 00:00:10.720 endorsement of the products offered or the ideas expressed. Hello, and welcome to 3 00:00:10.759 --> 00:00:16.160 boost your brain power. I am your host, doctor Eric Kaplan. I 4 00:00:16.239 --> 00:00:21.239 hope everybody is doing great. Today. We're going to talk about natural, 5 00:00:21.719 --> 00:00:28.839 holistic, and integrative ways to improve the function of your brain and body without 6 00:00:28.879 --> 00:00:38.119 any harmful medications or surgeries. The power that made the body heals the body, 7 00:00:38.200 --> 00:00:43.320 so we just want to unleash the body's potential to heal on its own. 8 00:00:44.039 --> 00:00:49.520 We have all these amazing ways to get rid of the toxins that we're 9 00:00:49.560 --> 00:00:55.640 exposed to. And believe me, there are lots of toxins. There's chemicals 10 00:00:55.679 --> 00:01:00.560 in the air, there's chemicals in the water, there's chemicals in food. 11 00:01:00.079 --> 00:01:07.200 There's chemicals in the chemicals. There's chemicals in the cleaning stuff. There's chemicals 12 00:01:07.239 --> 00:01:11.840 in the makeup. There's chemicals and the lotions and the soaps and the shampoos 13 00:01:11.959 --> 00:01:19.239 and the toothpaste and the deodorants. They're everywhere, all right. So what 14 00:01:19.319 --> 00:01:26.359 you gotta do is make sure you avoid the stuff that's possible. You gotta 15 00:01:26.400 --> 00:01:30.040 get the cleanest stuff. You might have to pay a little bit extra, 16 00:01:30.920 --> 00:01:36.200 but money means nothing if you don't have your health. Your health is the 17 00:01:36.239 --> 00:01:41.599 most important thing. So you only get one body, you've got to make 18 00:01:41.640 --> 00:01:46.560 sure you treat it like a temple and you don't put anything bad in it. 19 00:01:47.200 --> 00:01:52.959 You get rid of the bed stuff that is involuntary, but don't voluntarily 20 00:01:53.560 --> 00:01:57.879 get put bad stuff inside your body. Right, So we're gonna go over 21 00:01:57.959 --> 00:02:01.640 lots of natural ways to improve your brain and bodies function. Now, what 22 00:02:01.719 --> 00:02:07.280 are the most common health problems? All right, well, let's go over 23 00:02:07.960 --> 00:02:19.039 it. Most common cause of death is heart cancer number two. Iatrogenic is 24 00:02:19.080 --> 00:02:23.319 actually number three. That's caused by the doctor, mostly through medication. That's 25 00:02:23.360 --> 00:02:29.240 literally the number third leading cause of death, and that's what they admit, 26 00:02:30.319 --> 00:02:34.879 that's what they prove to be caused by medication. So it's probably actually a 27 00:02:34.919 --> 00:02:39.840 little bit higher. But heart disease and cancer they've always been the top two 28 00:02:39.879 --> 00:02:49.280 for a long time. The most prescribed drugs are statins, you know, 29 00:02:49.400 --> 00:02:55.639 for cholesterol. Lipotours are always number one. Heart disease, high blood pressure 30 00:02:55.719 --> 00:03:06.840 medication that's always up there. Diabetes foreman, that's always up there. There's 31 00:03:06.879 --> 00:03:15.199 always the top medications. Right, it's cholesterol, it's heart disease or high 32 00:03:15.280 --> 00:03:25.599 blood pressure. All right, it's diabetes. Also is the thyroid. Most 33 00:03:25.599 --> 00:03:30.199 people don't talk about that too much. Thyroid doesn't get a lot of publicity, 34 00:03:30.479 --> 00:03:36.639 but it's definitely one of the most top prescribed drugs. Most people are 35 00:03:36.759 --> 00:03:43.879 hypo thyroid. The problem is when we're dealing with the thyroid, no one 36 00:03:43.960 --> 00:03:49.840 really does good thorough blood work. So to do good thorough blood work, 37 00:03:50.280 --> 00:03:57.319 you have to see a doctor that practices functional medicine. We do that at 38 00:03:57.319 --> 00:04:01.960 Caplin Brain and Body in both of our offices is one in New Jersey in 39 00:04:02.120 --> 00:04:08.840 Emerson, New Jersey, Bergen County, and the second office is in Manhattan 40 00:04:09.039 --> 00:04:15.600 in the West Village Office sixte Bleaker, And we practice functional medicine at those 41 00:04:15.680 --> 00:04:21.959 offices. And what functional medicine. The approach to the thyroid is very different. 42 00:04:23.720 --> 00:04:27.560 You have to do a lot of tests, so you gotta look at 43 00:04:27.759 --> 00:04:34.720 your not just your t SH that's thyroid stimulating hormone. Most doctors all they 44 00:04:34.759 --> 00:04:44.240 do is look at TSH thyroid stimulating hormone. If the TSH is high, 45 00:04:44.399 --> 00:04:53.040 which is typical, that means you have hypo thyroidism. If the TSH is 46 00:04:53.319 --> 00:05:00.319 low, that means you have hyper thyroidism, right, it's the opposite. 47 00:05:01.199 --> 00:05:09.720 The reason it's opposite is because if your thyroid is underactive, which is a 48 00:05:09.800 --> 00:05:15.399 hypo thyroid, which is what most people have in America. Right, So 49 00:05:15.480 --> 00:05:21.279 if your thyroid is underactive, then the brain says, I need more thyroid 50 00:05:23.120 --> 00:05:29.639 and it's going to activate t SH, which is thyroid stimulating hormone. So 51 00:05:29.800 --> 00:05:35.839 the thyroid stimulating hormone is going to be high because we need it high because 52 00:05:36.000 --> 00:05:43.079 the thyroid is low. So it's the opposite, got it, all right? 53 00:05:43.120 --> 00:05:45.279 So what are they going to do? They're going to prescribe you with 54 00:05:45.399 --> 00:05:51.079 medication. Now what does a functional medicine doctor do, not just a typical 55 00:05:51.240 --> 00:05:58.600 endrocrinologist, which is usually who people with thyroid problems go to. Say. 56 00:05:58.959 --> 00:06:05.160 If you see a fun octionol doctor like at Caplinbrain and Body, We're going 57 00:06:05.319 --> 00:06:14.360 to look at all the thyroid tests T four, T three free, T 58 00:06:14.480 --> 00:06:23.199 three free, T four you know, TPI, TPO, different antibodies, 59 00:06:24.800 --> 00:06:30.079 all right, you got to look at the different antibodies. There's different autoimmune 60 00:06:30.079 --> 00:06:35.279 diseases that are the normal cause of thyroid problems. But if you don't test 61 00:06:35.360 --> 00:06:44.199 for autoimmune disease, you're not gonna know that's the cause of your hypo thyroidism. 62 00:06:45.600 --> 00:06:48.319 And if you don't know what the cause is, then you can't come 63 00:06:48.399 --> 00:06:55.759 up with the proper remedy. Because there's all different types of treatments for the 64 00:06:55.839 --> 00:07:02.279 thyroid. It's not just treat with medicine. That should be the last resort. 65 00:07:02.839 --> 00:07:08.439 Always try it naturally first. All right, Now, what's the natural 66 00:07:08.480 --> 00:07:15.920 way? Well, if we look at the functional medicine scales, for example 67 00:07:17.000 --> 00:07:27.839 TSH, most labs, whether it's a lab corp or quest or bioreference or 68 00:07:27.879 --> 00:07:33.000 whatever it is, most of these labs are going to have a range, 69 00:07:33.199 --> 00:07:45.199 a normal range of the ts H to be maybe point two point three to 70 00:07:45.360 --> 00:07:50.959 about four point five, four point six something like that. That's a typical 71 00:07:51.800 --> 00:07:58.560 range for the TSH and that's usually the one test that they do. So 72 00:07:59.519 --> 00:08:05.160 a functional medicine scale is different. So our scale is one point eight to 73 00:08:05.319 --> 00:08:13.959 three, and what that means is if your number is four point zero, 74 00:08:16.519 --> 00:08:20.680 most endrocinologists are going to say that's normal, but we're going to say, 75 00:08:22.600 --> 00:08:28.800 nope, that's too high. That means the thyroid's underactive. If the scale 76 00:08:28.560 --> 00:08:35.159 is one point zero, they're going to say it's normal. We're gonna say, 77 00:08:35.159 --> 00:08:37.679 no, that number is too low. That's a high birth thyroid. 78 00:08:37.840 --> 00:08:43.279 And it could be from overuse of the medicine. So if you're taking medicine, 79 00:08:43.320 --> 00:08:46.279 you've got to monitor to make sure you don't get put into hyperth thyroid. 80 00:08:46.360 --> 00:08:50.120 You see it all the time. Well, it's very important to monitor 81 00:08:50.159 --> 00:08:54.519 your numbers, and you do it on not the normal scale, which that 82 00:08:54.639 --> 00:08:58.559 the labs say, but on a healthy scale. Rights, if you have 83 00:08:58.559 --> 00:09:03.960 blood work, get home, take a look right now. Is it one 84 00:09:03.039 --> 00:09:09.080 point eight to three or is your TSH high? Is it low or is 85 00:09:09.120 --> 00:09:13.679 it within their normal range. We don't want the normal range. We don't 86 00:09:13.679 --> 00:09:18.080 want the point three to the four point six. We want the healthy range, 87 00:09:18.600 --> 00:09:24.720 which is a one point eight to three. That's for thyroid. So 88 00:09:24.799 --> 00:09:28.080 sometimes you know you have to see is it underactive? Is it overactive? 89 00:09:28.159 --> 00:09:33.000 It's the medicine that you're taking overactive. Do you want to prevent using medicine. 90 00:09:33.519 --> 00:09:37.039 If you want to prevent using medicine, you got to do a full 91 00:09:37.120 --> 00:09:41.279 panel, like we were just talking about. That way you could diagnose it 92 00:09:41.480 --> 00:09:46.879 properly and you could say Okay, Is it a primary thyroid problem? Is 93 00:09:46.879 --> 00:09:50.679 it a secondary thyroid problem? All right? You could say, is it 94 00:09:50.720 --> 00:09:58.639 an autoimmune thyroid problem. If it's underactive autoimmune, that's called a Hashimoto's thyroid 95 00:09:58.679 --> 00:10:05.080 diets. That's the most common. We see tons of patients with Hashimoto's thyroid 96 00:10:05.159 --> 00:10:09.679 dietis and it's not to fix it with medicine. The way to fix it 97 00:10:09.720 --> 00:10:15.639 is through nutrition, So you've got to go on an autoimmune diet. Now, 98 00:10:15.799 --> 00:10:22.240 if it is a secondary thyroid condition, that would mean it's coming from 99 00:10:22.240 --> 00:10:28.320 your pituitary gland. Your pituitary leads into the thyroid. And we see a 100 00:10:28.320 --> 00:10:31.440 lot of people with this at our office too. They have what's called a 101 00:10:31.559 --> 00:10:37.919 disautonomia. Their autonomic nervous system isn't functioning properly, and you're stuck in this 102 00:10:37.039 --> 00:10:43.200 fight or flight mode rather than the relaxed rest and digest state. Right When 103 00:10:43.240 --> 00:10:50.279 we have a problem with that, that's going to cause a pituitary adrenal problem. 104 00:10:50.360 --> 00:10:54.559 It's called your HPA access. And I'm getting pretty technical today, but 105 00:10:54.600 --> 00:10:58.000 if you can follow me, we're doing pretty good. But has to do 106 00:10:58.039 --> 00:11:03.120 with your pituitary gland. So that's a brain issue. We're gonna fix the 107 00:11:03.159 --> 00:11:07.399 brain. We're got to relax the brain to get you out of stress mode. 108 00:11:07.360 --> 00:11:09.759 And if you get out of the stress mode, then the thyroid's going 109 00:11:09.799 --> 00:11:15.720 to function better. The adrenals are going to calm down, the pituitary is 110 00:11:15.759 --> 00:11:22.480 going to function normally. The thyroid's not going to be abnormal function. It's 111 00:11:22.480 --> 00:11:30.320 all about improving function, improving signals. Now, if you have a primary 112 00:11:30.399 --> 00:11:33.559 thyroid problem, there's also natural herbs you can take, So sometimes you could 113 00:11:33.559 --> 00:11:39.799 do some herbal stuff. The best herbs that I like comes from Apex Energetics. 114 00:11:41.639 --> 00:11:45.399 You have to order it through doctor, so let me know if you're 115 00:11:45.440 --> 00:11:48.240 interested about that, we can take care of that. We'll give you the 116 00:11:48.279 --> 00:11:54.000 phone number at the break. But it's always about getting to the root cause. 117 00:11:54.080 --> 00:11:58.639 So the most medicine, right we said, is cholesterol, high blood 118 00:11:58.720 --> 00:12:07.120 pressure, thyroid, diabetes, acid reflects. These are the most prescribed medicine. 119 00:12:07.440 --> 00:12:13.000 So we're gonna go over in natural ways to prevent all those medicines where 120 00:12:13.039 --> 00:12:16.960 you won't need them, where you don't need to see doctors, you don't 121 00:12:16.960 --> 00:12:20.320 need to take medicine, but you got to do it in a natural way. 122 00:12:20.399 --> 00:12:22.919 So if you're already on the medicine. It's not something you could just 123 00:12:24.000 --> 00:12:28.320 stop. That's very dangerous. So when you stop medicine, you have to 124 00:12:28.360 --> 00:12:31.960 work with your doctors and make sure you do it in a safe way. 125 00:12:31.480 --> 00:12:35.360 Okay, But what we do in our office is get people super healthy, 126 00:12:35.879 --> 00:12:41.240 so healthy that the medicine works too much and then they don't need to take 127 00:12:41.279 --> 00:12:43.799 it. Right. So, if you improve your heart function but you're taking 128 00:12:43.919 --> 00:12:48.240 high blood pressure medication, then your blood pressure is going to go too low. 129 00:12:50.039 --> 00:12:56.919 If you improve your diet and your sedentary lifestyle and you're taking diabetes medication, 130 00:12:58.039 --> 00:13:01.279 it's gonna bring your level is too low. So when you get healthy, 131 00:13:01.720 --> 00:13:07.279 sometimes you have to monitor your blood work to make sure you safely reduce 132 00:13:07.440 --> 00:13:11.720 the medication. Right. They always work with your medical director for that. 133 00:13:11.840 --> 00:13:16.240 Never stop medicine on your own, okay, But there are ways to do 134 00:13:16.279 --> 00:13:18.759 it in a healthy way. So a lot of patients come to us because 135 00:13:18.799 --> 00:13:22.840 they want to do it in a natural, healthy way, right. So 136 00:13:22.840 --> 00:13:28.919 that's why we practice functional medicine and functional neurology. Functional neurology is where we 137 00:13:30.039 --> 00:13:33.720 analyze the different areas of the brain and the nervous system and find any areas 138 00:13:33.759 --> 00:13:39.759 of dysfunction and then give you neurologic exercises to improve that area. It's called 139 00:13:39.840 --> 00:13:45.480 neuroplasticity. You could rewire the brain, just like you could go to the 140 00:13:45.519 --> 00:13:50.840 gym and exercise your muscles. You can exercise it's your brain. And if 141 00:13:50.840 --> 00:13:54.679 you exercise your brain, you can affect your pituitary and adrenal gland, which 142 00:13:54.679 --> 00:14:01.759 can affect your thyroid And if you exercise your brain can also affect your blood 143 00:14:01.759 --> 00:14:05.639 pressure. We're going to continue that conversation. Have the brain and the blood 144 00:14:05.720 --> 00:14:09.440 pressure connected. 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I am your host, Doctor Eric Kaplan. That we're 159 00:15:18.879 --> 00:15:26.519 talking about the thyroid and high blood pressure. Just to summarize the thyroid first 160 00:15:26.559 --> 00:15:30.519 before we move on to the blood pressure. So we have to analyze the 161 00:15:30.559 --> 00:15:35.320 thyroid through blood work and brain function to figure out. If there's an autoimmune 162 00:15:35.360 --> 00:15:43.919 thyroid and underactive autoimmune, it's called hashimotos. If it's a hyper thyroid auto 163 00:15:43.960 --> 00:15:48.799 immune, it's called Graves disease. If it's Graves or hashimotos, we fix 164 00:15:48.919 --> 00:15:58.919 that through nutrition. If it is a primary hypo or hypo thyroid, there 165 00:15:58.960 --> 00:16:04.840 are ways to fix that herbally naturally through stuff from the earth as opposed to 166 00:16:04.879 --> 00:16:10.320 the medicine and the chemicals built into labs. So try it naturally first, 167 00:16:11.039 --> 00:16:15.039 and then if that doesn't work, then you can always go for the medicine. 168 00:16:15.919 --> 00:16:21.399 And then the third one is influenced by your brain, your pituitary or 169 00:16:21.399 --> 00:16:25.919 adenal gland, your hypothalamus, So for that you might need to rewire your 170 00:16:25.960 --> 00:16:30.759 brain. It's called neuroplasticity. You also might need to increase vitamin D levels 171 00:16:30.799 --> 00:16:34.000 to increase the function of the thyroid. Vitamin D is actually a hormone, 172 00:16:34.519 --> 00:16:40.919 it's not a vitamin, but it definitely greatly influences thyroid function. Most people 173 00:16:40.960 --> 00:16:45.360 are vitamin D deficient. We get that from the sun, So start going 174 00:16:45.399 --> 00:16:48.639 out in the sun. The sun is not your enemy. You know, 175 00:16:48.679 --> 00:16:51.000 a lot of doctors tell you to stay away from the sun. I'm telling 176 00:16:51.000 --> 00:16:52.720 you to go out in the sun. You know, unless you have a 177 00:16:52.799 --> 00:16:59.720 really bad history of skin cancer. The sun actually prevents cancer, prevents Alzheimer's, 178 00:17:00.200 --> 00:17:04.640 improve thyroid function, proves heart function, immune system. You know, 179 00:17:04.759 --> 00:17:07.759 you've got to go out and the sun super important, and if you need 180 00:17:08.039 --> 00:17:12.480 to, you have to supplement Again, we like ape Energetics, They're pretty 181 00:17:12.559 --> 00:17:18.559 good. You can contact us will let you know how to order those vitaminty 182 00:17:18.599 --> 00:17:22.559 Supplementation in the winter is very important because the sun is so weak, and 183 00:17:22.599 --> 00:17:26.640 when you go outside you're wearing long sleeves so you don't get a lot of 184 00:17:26.680 --> 00:17:32.759 skin exposure. That's so, those are the three types of thyroid problems. 185 00:17:33.160 --> 00:17:37.720 Blood pressure, right, it's either high blood pressure it's low blood pressure. 186 00:17:37.440 --> 00:17:42.880 And what most doctors don't do is check left and right blood pressure. You 187 00:17:42.960 --> 00:17:47.960 have to check both sides. You can't just check one side. What if 188 00:17:48.000 --> 00:17:52.039 they check your left arm and your blood pressure is normal one twenty over eighty, 189 00:17:52.960 --> 00:17:56.960 but they never check the right arm and the right arm is always like 190 00:17:56.160 --> 00:18:00.680 one forty over nine ninety. That's going to be a problem. You could 191 00:18:00.680 --> 00:18:04.480 have big differences in blood pressure from your left side to your right side. 192 00:18:06.480 --> 00:18:11.480 As a functional neurologist, we always want to check both sides. You know, 193 00:18:11.480 --> 00:18:14.880 when I check your oxygen levels, we want to check both sides. 194 00:18:15.799 --> 00:18:18.680 Right. How Come when we check your muscle strength, we check both sides, 195 00:18:19.839 --> 00:18:22.240 but when they check your blood pressure they only check one side. How 196 00:18:22.240 --> 00:18:27.319 doesn't make any sense. You know, the eye doctor looks in both eyes, 197 00:18:27.720 --> 00:18:33.559 the ear doctor looks in both ears. How come the cardiologist doesn't take 198 00:18:33.599 --> 00:18:40.559 blood pressure on both sides. It's very important to check the balance of left 199 00:18:40.720 --> 00:18:48.079 and right. I'd rather have two high blood pressure than one low blood pressure 200 00:18:48.119 --> 00:18:55.880 and one high blood pressure. The imbalance can be worse. And if you're 201 00:18:55.960 --> 00:18:59.839 checking it at home with those blood pressure cuffs, which in my opinion, 202 00:19:00.279 --> 00:19:03.480 very accurate, but if you are check both sides, and you might even 203 00:19:03.480 --> 00:19:07.279 want to check from lying to sitting. You know, you can find out 204 00:19:07.279 --> 00:19:11.759 a lot of different things with your blood pressure, but you got to check 205 00:19:11.839 --> 00:19:15.359 for imbalances from left to right. Now. He said, that's one of 206 00:19:15.359 --> 00:19:19.319 the most prescribed drugs. People have high blood pressure. Why do they have 207 00:19:19.400 --> 00:19:25.519 high blood pressure? Biggest cause is stress. You know, the most common 208 00:19:25.519 --> 00:19:30.599 time for a heart attack or stroke is Monday morning. People are in stress 209 00:19:30.720 --> 00:19:37.119 mode. They were relaxed over the weekend, but then they got stressed out 210 00:19:37.200 --> 00:19:41.119 because now they go back to reality. Right, a lot of people going 211 00:19:41.200 --> 00:19:45.720 back to school. I had a long weekend after Labor Day, going back 212 00:19:45.759 --> 00:19:49.039 to work. You know, it's been a tough week for a lot of 213 00:19:49.039 --> 00:19:53.200 people. Right. Well, maybe some people are more relaxed because now the 214 00:19:53.279 --> 00:20:00.480 kids are out of the house, but whatever it is, Monday morning is 215 00:20:00.559 --> 00:20:07.119 always a very stressful time, all right, And the more stress you have, 216 00:20:07.240 --> 00:20:11.559 the higher your blood pressure is. Going to be. So what about 217 00:20:11.799 --> 00:20:17.319 we change our way of thinking. This is what we call a paradigm shift. 218 00:20:18.359 --> 00:20:27.559 Instead of taking medicine to treat your high blood pressure, what about you 219 00:20:27.680 --> 00:20:33.720 get to the root cause of your high blood pressure, and you fix the 220 00:20:33.920 --> 00:20:41.880 root cause of your high blood pressure, then your blood pressure goes down naturally. 221 00:20:42.359 --> 00:20:48.839 Then you don't have to be on high blood pressure medication. Understand, 222 00:20:49.119 --> 00:20:57.519 Just like you could change your diet and reverse autoimmune thyroid disease such as hashimotos 223 00:20:57.559 --> 00:21:03.839 in graves. If you reduce your stress levels, you can bring down your 224 00:21:03.839 --> 00:21:14.640 blood pressure naturally. In addition to exercise physical exercise, in addition to eating 225 00:21:14.680 --> 00:21:21.319 healthier, in addition to drinking more water, in addition to going to bed 226 00:21:21.680 --> 00:21:30.240 earlier, in addition to reducing inflammation. So I'm not saying it's an easy 227 00:21:30.400 --> 00:21:34.440 thing to do to reduce your blood pressure. But if you do all the 228 00:21:34.559 --> 00:21:41.920 appropriate things, and you take those measures necessary to rewire your brain and get 229 00:21:41.920 --> 00:21:45.480 you out of stress mode, your blood pressure can actually go down. Now, 230 00:21:45.480 --> 00:21:48.799 what are some of the things you could do right now, naturally? 231 00:21:49.240 --> 00:21:57.680 Right most people know about meditation. I practice the relax technique. I do 232 00:21:57.839 --> 00:22:04.839 just thirty seconds every morning a thirty second meditation. Everybody has thirty seconds, 233 00:22:06.480 --> 00:22:12.400 and you say relax for thirty times. Relax, relax, and each second 234 00:22:12.920 --> 00:22:18.039 I relax a different muscle group. I relax the muscles. I start on 235 00:22:18.079 --> 00:22:19.920 the top of my head, relax those muscles. Then I go to my 236 00:22:21.000 --> 00:22:26.319 forehead relax, and I go to my temples relax, and my eyebrows relax, 237 00:22:26.599 --> 00:22:32.079 and my eyes relax. Then my jaw relax, and my cheeks relaxed, 238 00:22:32.160 --> 00:22:36.799 and my mouth relax. So I picked thirty spots and just relax each 239 00:22:36.880 --> 00:22:41.599 muscle group relaxed. The neck relax, the shoulders relax, the chest relax, 240 00:22:41.680 --> 00:22:45.240 the hips, the knees, the feet, the toes. So I 241 00:22:45.359 --> 00:22:52.160 just think thirty points and it relax every area. And that's a thirty second 242 00:22:52.200 --> 00:22:56.799 meditation. That's very good to get the brain at a stress mode. And 243 00:22:56.799 --> 00:22:59.039 then when you get good at thirty seconds and you bump it up to a 244 00:22:59.079 --> 00:23:03.119 minute, then you go up to two minutes. But just start doing thirty 245 00:23:03.160 --> 00:23:07.000 seconds. Everyone can do thirty seconds, all right. Another way to relax 246 00:23:07.359 --> 00:23:15.039 is to activate what's called your vaguest nerve. Your vaguest nerve helps to get 247 00:23:15.039 --> 00:23:18.079 you out of at what we call the fight or flight mode, that stress 248 00:23:18.119 --> 00:23:22.720 mode. When you have increased cortisol, you can't sleep, You're always worrying, 249 00:23:22.440 --> 00:23:27.839 you even have some anger and aggression. Your mind's raising, you know, 250 00:23:27.880 --> 00:23:30.839 you're always thinking of what's going on, what's the next thing, what's 251 00:23:30.880 --> 00:23:36.400 going to happen, what do we do if this happens. To worry, 252 00:23:36.599 --> 00:23:41.119 the brain stresses out, sometimes even get anxiety, and sometimes there's even a 253 00:23:41.160 --> 00:23:47.400 little panic. It's just worry. Gonna stop worrying. That creates too much 254 00:23:47.440 --> 00:23:52.359 stress, that increases the blood pressure. So one way to stop the worrying, 255 00:23:52.400 --> 00:23:59.440 stop the stress, the anxiety, the panic is to gargle really intensely. 256 00:23:59.519 --> 00:24:03.519 Just take some water and you guard off really loud, up to the 257 00:24:03.559 --> 00:24:11.519 ceiling. Another good way splash your face with cold water. And another good 258 00:24:11.599 --> 00:24:15.079 exercise to stimulate the vegas nerve. It's called the gag reflex. When you 259 00:24:15.119 --> 00:24:18.000 just take your tongue depressor or your toothbrush and hit the back of your palate, 260 00:24:18.039 --> 00:24:22.039 not to the point where you throw up, but just elicit a gag. 261 00:24:22.640 --> 00:24:26.799 That unless you have a history of bulimia, don't do that. But 262 00:24:26.920 --> 00:24:32.960 for the gag reflex that's been proven through neuroscience to stimulate the vagus nerve. 263 00:24:33.759 --> 00:24:37.000 You could also swallow, just like a big swallow, get a bunch of 264 00:24:37.039 --> 00:24:41.720 saliva on your tongue and do a big swallow. That all helps out with 265 00:24:41.880 --> 00:24:48.960 stress. Singing really loud, humming, you know, stimulate that throat. 266 00:24:48.000 --> 00:24:53.519 It's very good for the vagus nerve. That helps to reduce stress. Getch 267 00:24:53.519 --> 00:24:56.720 you out of that fight or flight mode, bring down that blood pressure. 268 00:24:57.359 --> 00:25:03.759 Then we work in that joys so you don't have to take medicine as you 269 00:25:03.799 --> 00:25:07.599 get older. This is doctor Eric Kaplan. You're listening to boost your brain 270 00:25:07.640 --> 00:25:14.279 power more when we come back from the break, don't miss boost your brain 271 00:25:14.319 --> 00:25:18.400 power with doctor Eric Kaplan every Saturday from two pm to three pm to learn 272 00:25:18.440 --> 00:25:23.119 the secrets of how to optimize your brain function. You can improve memory, 273 00:25:23.279 --> 00:25:29.759 focus, energy, sleep, digestion, mood, skin, metabolism, and 274 00:25:29.920 --> 00:25:33.799 strength by following the science and research that doctor Kaplan will be sharing with his 275 00:25:33.880 --> 00:25:38.519 audience. Join the adventure of discovering how to help the brain and body in 276 00:25:38.559 --> 00:25:42.839 a natural way while having fun at the same time. Listen to boost your 277 00:25:42.880 --> 00:25:47.880 brain power. If you want to function better, feel better, and enjoy 278 00:25:47.920 --> 00:25:52.599 the quality of life you deserve. Called two o one two six one two 279 00:25:52.720 --> 00:25:56.960 one five zero or email info at Kaplan Brain and Body dot com if you're 280 00:25:57.000 --> 00:26:03.200 interested in a free ten minute council with doctor Kaplan, or visit Kaplan DC 281 00:26:03.440 --> 00:26:10.880 dot com for more information. Welcome back to boost your brain power. I'm 282 00:26:10.920 --> 00:26:15.839 your host, doctor Eric Kaplan. Sorry to boute natural ways to improve your 283 00:26:15.920 --> 00:26:22.359 thyroid. You could do it through your diet. If it's autoimmune disease, 284 00:26:22.880 --> 00:26:26.559 you could do it through herbal remedies. If it's a primary issue, you 285 00:26:26.599 --> 00:26:33.079 could do it through neuroplasticity and rewiring your brain. If it's a secondary problem, 286 00:26:33.200 --> 00:26:34.920 then we spoke about how to bring down blood pressure. If you have 287 00:26:36.000 --> 00:26:41.799 high blood pressure, you got to meditate through the relaxed technique. Got to 288 00:26:41.039 --> 00:26:48.640 stimulate that vegest nerve got to exercise, burn that energy every day. You 289 00:26:48.640 --> 00:26:52.640 gotta exercise in the Morning's the best time to exercise. So where your coursol 290 00:26:52.720 --> 00:26:57.440 level's highest, where your testosterone's highest. Exercise every single morning, and that 291 00:26:57.559 --> 00:27:00.200 makes sure you go to bed early. It's very good for your blood pressure. 292 00:27:00.200 --> 00:27:03.680 Gotta go to bed early. You can't be up watching the news, 293 00:27:03.400 --> 00:27:08.640 watching TV, scrolling on Facebook. I'm gonna YouTube, playing on the Internet 294 00:27:08.759 --> 00:27:14.359 on your iPhone. You gotta stop. Those electronics are no good. They 295 00:27:14.400 --> 00:27:18.440 increase cortisol at night. It's going to increase your blood pressure. You gotta 296 00:27:18.519 --> 00:27:22.440 put those electronics away, right said. You gotta get good vitamin D. 297 00:27:22.599 --> 00:27:29.000 So you also want to go outside during sunset, see the sun go down. 298 00:27:29.720 --> 00:27:32.799 And then when you come home, turn off all the lights, all 299 00:27:32.839 --> 00:27:37.039 the electronics, keep everything nice and dim. Just read a book, listen 300 00:27:37.079 --> 00:27:41.559 to some music, listen to a podcast, have some conversations, play a 301 00:27:41.599 --> 00:27:45.839 board game, play some cars, take the dog for a walk, do 302 00:27:45.960 --> 00:27:52.039 do something, draw, write a novel, you know anything, do something 303 00:27:52.160 --> 00:27:57.000 artistic, do something musical. Anything Besides using electronics at night. The electronics 304 00:27:57.000 --> 00:28:00.960 should be used during the day. At night, we gotta unplug, we 305 00:28:00.000 --> 00:28:04.759 gotta shut it off. All right, it's gonna bring down your blood pressure. 306 00:28:06.920 --> 00:28:14.400 Now, what else is prescribed a lot besides thyroid medication, high blood 307 00:28:14.400 --> 00:28:22.880 pressure medication, we're looking at diabetes medication metforming and now they're prescribing the diabetes 308 00:28:22.880 --> 00:28:26.119 medication for weight loss. You know, America is pretty much the fattest country 309 00:28:26.160 --> 00:28:30.480 in the world, and people, you know, have all these things for 310 00:28:30.519 --> 00:28:40.240 weight loss and bands and surgeries, and you know staples and different diet pills 311 00:28:40.480 --> 00:28:45.559 and appetite suppressants, and you know, we have brain diseases bolimia and anorexia 312 00:28:45.599 --> 00:28:52.039 and body dimorphism, and you know there's so much you know, bad with 313 00:28:52.240 --> 00:28:56.640 the advertising and marketing and what's appropriate and what's not appropriate. And you know, 314 00:28:56.799 --> 00:29:00.680 sometimes you know it goes the other way too, you know, and 315 00:29:00.799 --> 00:29:04.319 say, okay, the models are too skinny, But then we don't want 316 00:29:04.319 --> 00:29:07.240 to also be too fat either. You know, we just want to be 317 00:29:07.240 --> 00:29:10.960 our natural weight. We don't want to under eat, but we don't want 318 00:29:10.960 --> 00:29:15.559 to overeat. And you always want to basically only eat when you're hungry, 319 00:29:17.920 --> 00:29:22.079 and you gotta feel your body. You gotta be cognizant, and you gotta 320 00:29:22.160 --> 00:29:23.279 say, like, in the middle of a meal, you think to yourself, 321 00:29:23.279 --> 00:29:27.400 hey, am I still hungry? And if you're still hungry, okay, 322 00:29:27.559 --> 00:29:30.279 you can continue to eat. But if you really think about you saying, 323 00:29:30.279 --> 00:29:33.359 you know what, I'm actually not hungry anymore, you don't finish the 324 00:29:33.400 --> 00:29:38.319 meal all right, so save it for later, and maybe an hour or 325 00:29:38.319 --> 00:29:41.799 too later you get hungry again, then try it again, but maybe it 326 00:29:41.799 --> 00:29:45.039 won't be you know, listen to your body only eat when you're hungry. 327 00:29:45.319 --> 00:29:52.039 You want to lose weight. That's the simplest rule to follow is only eat 328 00:29:52.079 --> 00:30:00.359 when you're hungry, stop eating when you're not hungry. And the way to 329 00:30:00.480 --> 00:30:06.039 not be hungry so much is to eat each color of the rainbow. That 330 00:30:06.079 --> 00:30:07.839 way you're getting all your nutrients. If you eat each color, you get 331 00:30:07.880 --> 00:30:11.480 all your vitamins, minerals, nutrients. Right, if we get everything we 332 00:30:11.559 --> 00:30:18.519 need, then you're not gonna be hungry. That's what. You can eat 333 00:30:18.559 --> 00:30:22.559 a whole bag of potato chips or a whole basket of bread. There's no 334 00:30:22.640 --> 00:30:26.319 nutritional value in that. But what you have to do is eat each color 335 00:30:26.319 --> 00:30:30.880 of the rainbow. Then your brain won't even want food because you have all 336 00:30:30.880 --> 00:30:33.240 the nutrients that you need and won't desire the sugar, won't desire the bad 337 00:30:33.279 --> 00:30:37.839 foods. But you gotta eat each color of the rainbow every single day, 338 00:30:37.880 --> 00:30:44.480 hopefully every single meal. All right, that's gonna be very important when diabetes. 339 00:30:44.559 --> 00:30:49.559 Eat all the colors and stay away from the white foods, all the 340 00:30:49.559 --> 00:30:55.519 white foods, the sugar, the bread, the flour, the noodles, 341 00:30:55.920 --> 00:31:03.079 the potatoes, the rice, the milk, the cream. Stay away from 342 00:31:03.119 --> 00:31:08.039 all the white foods and eat all the colorful foods. You don't want diabetes. 343 00:31:08.079 --> 00:31:11.759 You want to take that foreman, You don't want to be obese, 344 00:31:12.200 --> 00:31:18.039 overweight. You eat all the colorful foods. You stay away from all the 345 00:31:18.079 --> 00:31:26.759 white foods. Eat color, all right, eat color, lots of color 346 00:31:26.799 --> 00:31:30.559 every single meal. And then you gotta get away from that sedentary lifestyle. 347 00:31:32.440 --> 00:31:36.680 You know what is the typical diabetes patient to Every day? They work at 348 00:31:36.720 --> 00:31:41.599 the computer, and they come home and they eat dinner, and they sit 349 00:31:41.640 --> 00:31:45.480 on the couch and they watch TV, play on their phone, go to 350 00:31:45.559 --> 00:31:52.079 bed, wake up, coffee, work, home, dinner, sit on 351 00:31:52.119 --> 00:31:57.359 the couch, go to sleep, home, sit in the car driving to 352 00:31:57.359 --> 00:32:01.319 work, Sit in the car home from work, Sit at the computer at 353 00:32:01.319 --> 00:32:05.480 work, Sit at the dinner table, eating a big dinner, sit on 354 00:32:05.519 --> 00:32:10.039 the couch watching TV. It's sedentary lifestyle. We gotta get off our butts. 355 00:32:10.559 --> 00:32:15.240 You gotta get outside. You gotta be social, you gotta be in 356 00:32:15.359 --> 00:32:19.920 nature. You gotta move your body. You never want to sit for more 357 00:32:19.960 --> 00:32:24.759 than twenty minutes. Every twenty minutes, you get up, you walk twenty 358 00:32:24.799 --> 00:32:29.599 feet, you look twenty feet, or whatever it is. You get up 359 00:32:29.640 --> 00:32:34.119 every twenty minute to twenty jumping jacks. Do twenty push ups, do twenty 360 00:32:34.200 --> 00:32:40.400 sit ups, do twenty lunges, do twenty squats, take twenty steps, 361 00:32:42.079 --> 00:32:49.359 do twenty meditation, do twenty sitting to standing. Just do twenty seconds or 362 00:32:49.359 --> 00:32:53.880 something every twenty minutes. It'll change your life, not only reverse diabetes and 363 00:32:54.279 --> 00:32:59.880 heart disease, but just boost your energy, boost your brain power, your 364 00:33:00.079 --> 00:33:05.079 focus, your productivity. The twenty rule. You gotta get up every twenty 365 00:33:05.119 --> 00:33:09.400 minutes. You're not gonna remember, so you gotta set an alarm, all 366 00:33:09.480 --> 00:33:15.039 right, that's the twenty rule. So for diabetes, we're eating a lot 367 00:33:15.079 --> 00:33:19.319 of colorful foods we're staying away from. Now, that's diabetes type two. 368 00:33:20.079 --> 00:33:22.680 If you have diabetes type one, that's different. That's autoimmune disease. That's 369 00:33:22.720 --> 00:33:29.720 like the thyroid. That's like with Graves and Hashimotos. Diabetes type one is 370 00:33:29.759 --> 00:33:35.920 the same solution, which is avoid the autoimmune diseases, the autoimmune foods, 371 00:33:36.400 --> 00:33:45.039 the autoimmune foods. The big ones are dairy, gluten, corn, soy, 372 00:33:45.960 --> 00:33:51.240 coffee, alcohol, those are the big ones. Those are the big 373 00:33:51.359 --> 00:33:55.079 autoimmune foods that you got to stay away from. If you're worried about diabetes 374 00:33:55.119 --> 00:34:00.839 type one, if you're worried about Hashimoto's graves, Silly act disease, rheumatoid 375 00:34:01.039 --> 00:34:12.000 authoritis, psoriasis, fibromyalgia, multiple sclerosis, show grins, lupus. Those 376 00:34:12.000 --> 00:34:15.079 are all autoimmune disease. So we' gotta stay away if you have any of 377 00:34:15.119 --> 00:34:20.119 those conditions, and you'll really know that if you tested antibodies for those. 378 00:34:21.320 --> 00:34:24.960 But if you have any of those, if you tested those antibodies in blood 379 00:34:24.960 --> 00:34:31.800 work, you have to avoid dairy, gluten, corn, soy, coffee, 380 00:34:32.239 --> 00:34:37.480 alcohol, right, and then follow the diabetes pattern, which is eating 381 00:34:37.480 --> 00:34:42.400 each color of the rainbow and avoiding all the white foods as well. You 382 00:34:42.480 --> 00:34:46.519 got it. That's for diabetes type one, diabetes type two. The most 383 00:34:46.519 --> 00:34:52.800 common medication I was for diabetes type two. That's the met forming the insulin. 384 00:34:53.199 --> 00:35:00.119 Diabetes type one, yes, but not as much all right, So 385 00:35:00.239 --> 00:35:10.599 those are natural ways to reduce your chances of getting diabetes, heart disease, 386 00:35:10.920 --> 00:35:19.239 high blood pressure, thyroid. Another big prescription is the nexium, the acid 387 00:35:19.280 --> 00:35:24.320 reflux medications. Right, So a lot of people get gird acid reflux, 388 00:35:24.679 --> 00:35:32.679 indigestion, stomach problems, ibs, chrones, ulcerative colitis, cebo. They 389 00:35:32.719 --> 00:35:37.960 have all these intestinal problems, and they're giving and acids. However, that 390 00:35:38.079 --> 00:35:44.000 acid is very good for you. That acid kills off the bad bacteria. 391 00:35:44.159 --> 00:35:49.159 That acid helps you to absorb food. That acid is very important. So 392 00:35:49.199 --> 00:35:54.639 when you take medication to reduce the stomach acid, that puts you at risk 393 00:35:55.039 --> 00:36:00.800 for infections. That puts you a risk for viral infections, for bacteria infections. 394 00:36:00.199 --> 00:36:04.800 It puts you at risk for mold exposure, puts you at risk for 395 00:36:04.920 --> 00:36:10.880 parasites. That ascid is protecting you. But you got to figure out what's 396 00:36:10.920 --> 00:36:17.360 the root cause. Remember, so instead of giving you medicine to get rid 397 00:36:17.360 --> 00:36:23.880 of the acid reflects symptoms which are called ant assets. Let's figure out why 398 00:36:23.960 --> 00:36:30.320 are you getting those symptoms. Why is everything backed up and pushing back the 399 00:36:30.400 --> 00:36:34.159 other way. Why are your systems not working, Why are you bloated? 400 00:36:34.239 --> 00:36:38.920 Why aren't you digesting and absorbing properly? You got to get to the root 401 00:36:38.920 --> 00:36:44.480 cause. Maybe you have autoimmune disease that's silliac. Then you have to do 402 00:36:44.519 --> 00:36:49.760 that whole list of foods. Maybe you have a vegas nerve problem that's the 403 00:36:49.880 --> 00:36:53.960 rest and digest So a lot of people with insomnia or digestive problems have an 404 00:36:53.960 --> 00:36:58.719 issue in their vegest nerve. Then you would have to do those vegas nerve 405 00:36:59.039 --> 00:37:08.719 exercise. This right. Maybe it's a problem in your bacteria. Maybe you've 406 00:37:08.719 --> 00:37:14.360 taken a lot of antibiotics and you have low bacteria, so you have to 407 00:37:14.360 --> 00:37:19.679 take probiotics. And the key with probiotics is to change it up. You 408 00:37:19.840 --> 00:37:22.679 want to keep taking the same probiotics over and over. You want different bacteria, 409 00:37:22.760 --> 00:37:29.320 different strains. They all have different jobs that they have to do and 410 00:37:29.360 --> 00:37:32.840 different activities that need to be performed. So every two months you switch your 411 00:37:32.880 --> 00:37:37.639 probiotics. So probiotics are very important in these days, probably the two most 412 00:37:37.679 --> 00:37:45.679 important supplements or Vitamin DM probiotics. But getting back to the stomach acid, 413 00:37:45.840 --> 00:37:51.079 right, So when you take an ascids, now you're decreasing stomach acid. 414 00:37:51.119 --> 00:37:53.159 That makes you more susceptible. So we've got to get to the root cause, 415 00:37:53.199 --> 00:37:59.519 fix the symptoms and then probably have to actually supplement with hydrochloric acid with 416 00:37:59.639 --> 00:38:02.000 some fle to neutralize the ass You got to do it in the right way 417 00:38:02.159 --> 00:38:07.639 with some enzymes. Maybe you don't have the proper enzymes. Maybe you're not 418 00:38:07.519 --> 00:38:15.199 food combining properly, maybe you're not doing intermittent fasting, which is eating only 419 00:38:15.280 --> 00:38:19.840 eight hours in the day from ten am to six pm. We want to 420 00:38:19.840 --> 00:38:22.519 eat during the daylight hours. We eat for energy, So when you're doing 421 00:38:22.599 --> 00:38:28.000 activities during the daytime, that's when you want to eat ten am to six 422 00:38:28.039 --> 00:38:30.159 pm. After six pm, we don't want to eat. We want our 423 00:38:30.159 --> 00:38:35.559 bodies to chill out. After we come home from sunset, we want to 424 00:38:35.599 --> 00:38:37.960 turn off the lights. We don't want electronics. We don't want to eat. 425 00:38:38.639 --> 00:38:43.880 We want to relax. We want to calm everything down. Okay, 426 00:38:44.519 --> 00:38:49.000 that's key for that vagus nerve, and that's going to help with our digestive 427 00:38:49.039 --> 00:38:53.639 process as well with the intermittent fasting, because it gives us sixteen hours to 428 00:38:53.679 --> 00:38:59.719 break down all the foods. So there's lots of different reasons for digestive problems, 429 00:38:59.719 --> 00:39:01.840 but we had to get to the root cause of the problem. And 430 00:39:01.840 --> 00:39:06.960 we're going to continue this conversation when we come back from the break. If 431 00:39:06.960 --> 00:39:09.599 you want to improve your brain function, help with memory, focus, sleep, 432 00:39:09.679 --> 00:39:15.280 digestion, energy, depression, anxiety, dizziness, balance, vision, 433 00:39:15.320 --> 00:39:19.480 headaches, brain fog, weight loss, or simply want to maximize your human 434 00:39:19.519 --> 00:39:23.280 potential and prevent future diseases. That this is the show for you. Don't 435 00:39:23.320 --> 00:39:29.360 misboost your brain power with doctor Eric Kaplan and you will learn natural, integrative, 436 00:39:29.360 --> 00:39:34.440 and holistic approaches to modern day medical problems such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's stroke, 437 00:39:34.599 --> 00:39:39.480 autism, add concussion, autoimmune diseases, insomnia, fibromyalgia, vertigo, 438 00:39:39.599 --> 00:39:45.920 migraines, four posture pain, TBI, skin and digestive problems. Doctor Kaplan 439 00:39:45.039 --> 00:39:49.559 is most famous for getting to the root cause of a wide variety of brain 440 00:39:49.599 --> 00:39:53.559 and health conditions, rather than treating symptoms with traditional medicines and risky surgeries. 441 00:39:53.639 --> 00:39:58.199 To contact doctor Kaplan, you can call his team at two O one two 442 00:39:58.239 --> 00:40:05.199 six one two one zero or visit his website at kaplan dc dot com. 443 00:40:05.480 --> 00:40:09.719 Welcome back to boost your brain power. I'm your host, doctor Eric Caplan. 444 00:40:10.360 --> 00:40:16.639 We're talking about natural ways to improve your brain and body function, to 445 00:40:16.719 --> 00:40:22.719 either prevent taking medicine or to actually get your body healthy so that you can 446 00:40:22.760 --> 00:40:29.840 reduce taking the amount of medication your So the good news is that it's never 447 00:40:29.880 --> 00:40:32.360 too late, but you just got to work for it. So don't come 448 00:40:32.360 --> 00:40:37.480 to me if you want prescription medication, because that's not what I do. 449 00:40:37.639 --> 00:40:42.559 I'm not a medical doctor. Don't come to me. If you want surgeries, 450 00:40:42.559 --> 00:40:45.239 don't come to me for that. I'm not a surgeon. But what 451 00:40:45.320 --> 00:40:49.840 I am, I'm a functional neurologist, so we improve the function of the 452 00:40:49.920 --> 00:40:52.960 brain. So think of me like a physical therapist, but for the brain 453 00:40:53.039 --> 00:40:58.400 and the nervous system. And I also find this functional medicine where we look 454 00:40:58.440 --> 00:41:00.599 at patterns in your blood work, can see how your organs are working, 455 00:41:01.280 --> 00:41:07.320 look at how their stomach acid is, Look how your liver's working. See 456 00:41:07.320 --> 00:41:13.199 if you have inflammation. If you have low stomach acid, low bacteria, 457 00:41:13.559 --> 00:41:16.960 inflammation, we could see that in blood work. Then you're gonna have what's 458 00:41:17.000 --> 00:41:22.639 going to leaky gut. And when you have a leaky gut, then you're 459 00:41:22.639 --> 00:41:29.320 gonna have the bacteria are going to escape your intestinal tract, your viruses and 460 00:41:29.480 --> 00:41:34.119 worms and mold and yeast, and then they're going to get into the blood 461 00:41:34.159 --> 00:41:37.880 stream and then attack other organs, maybe attack your brain, maybe attack your 462 00:41:37.920 --> 00:41:43.000 thyroid, maybe attack your heart or your lungs, or your liver, or 463 00:41:43.039 --> 00:41:46.440 your kidneys, or your adrenal gland, or your ovaries or your testes or 464 00:41:46.480 --> 00:41:51.360 your prostate. Because once they're in the blood stream, they can go everywhere. 465 00:41:52.679 --> 00:41:55.840 So that's why your gut is your first defense with your immune system. 466 00:41:55.960 --> 00:42:00.519 That's why it's so important to have good stomach acid and good bacteria and good 467 00:42:00.679 --> 00:42:07.840 enzymes. Most people are deficient in acid, they're deficient in bacteria, and 468 00:42:07.920 --> 00:42:13.920 they don't release the enzymes when it's appropriate. You can't just take digestive enzymes 469 00:42:13.920 --> 00:42:17.159 that won't do it, because you have to know when to release the enzymes, 470 00:42:17.199 --> 00:42:22.159 because proteins have certain enzymes, and carbohydrates have other enzymes, and fruit 471 00:42:22.199 --> 00:42:27.480 have their own enzymes. And you know, the saliva has their enzymes, 472 00:42:27.519 --> 00:42:30.239 and you know, the intestinal track is theirs, and the gut has THEIRS. 473 00:42:30.239 --> 00:42:35.639 So there's all these different types of enzymes and they need to be released 474 00:42:35.679 --> 00:42:42.280 at the appropriate time. So it's not just taking enzymes that won't do it. 475 00:42:42.320 --> 00:42:44.559 And the bacteria. We said, you can't just take one bacteria. 476 00:42:44.599 --> 00:42:46.559 There's different bacteria. You gotta keep changing it up every two months, take 477 00:42:46.599 --> 00:42:53.119 different bacteria. And the acid. Most people are taking an acid, they're 478 00:42:53.159 --> 00:42:58.599 decreasing their ascid. They're taking tums and roll aids and prescriptions, and oh 479 00:42:58.639 --> 00:43:04.880 my god, they're causing their own problems by taking these medications. We need 480 00:43:04.960 --> 00:43:09.920 more stomach acid. We just lead less backup. We need more bacteria. 481 00:43:10.159 --> 00:43:16.440 We just need more good bacteria and less bad bacteria. We need a proper 482 00:43:16.559 --> 00:43:22.400 balance. That way, that's how you stabilize your gut. And with a 483 00:43:22.480 --> 00:43:27.880 leaky gut, there's four phases that have to be accomplished. The first phase 484 00:43:27.960 --> 00:43:35.159 is reducing inflammation. To reduce inflammation, the best ways are through vera tral 485 00:43:35.960 --> 00:43:38.880 tumeric. Got to make sure your vitamin D levels are good, the bacteria 486 00:43:38.920 --> 00:43:45.719 are good. You got to go in an anti inflammatory diet. You got 487 00:43:45.719 --> 00:43:53.239 to bring down all the inflammatory foods. The second phase is plugging in the 488 00:43:53.239 --> 00:43:58.199 holes of the leaky gut. We do that with glutamine. It's like a 489 00:43:58.239 --> 00:44:01.920 shake that we could take, but you can't do that until you reduce the 490 00:44:02.039 --> 00:44:07.239 inflammation. You got to reduce the inflammation first that step one. Step two 491 00:44:07.320 --> 00:44:12.719 is plugging the league you up. Then step three is to destroy all the 492 00:44:12.719 --> 00:44:16.519 bad stuff. I call it the atomic bomb. So it's this packet of 493 00:44:16.599 --> 00:44:21.480 pills that we you know, suggest for the patients and it helps to kill 494 00:44:21.519 --> 00:44:25.679 off the virus. Is the bacteria, the yeast of parasites, but in 495 00:44:25.880 --> 00:44:30.679 just with natural herbs, so nothing that's going to cause any side effects. 496 00:44:30.760 --> 00:44:36.039 Or no risks. That's the third phase, the atomic bomb, kill off 497 00:44:36.119 --> 00:44:40.000 all the bad stuff. Now the fourth phase, that's the cleanse. Now 498 00:44:40.000 --> 00:44:43.920 that you've killed off all the bad stuff, now that you've contained it with 499 00:44:43.960 --> 00:44:46.079 the league, you guy, you've brought down your inflammation. You've done those 500 00:44:46.119 --> 00:44:52.280 first three phases. Now it's time to cleanse. You'll flush everything out. 501 00:44:52.039 --> 00:44:58.679 We clear it out, and we do that through this little shake, and 502 00:44:58.719 --> 00:45:00.960 then we cleanse the li two. A lot of people do this, try 503 00:45:01.000 --> 00:45:05.159 and flush everything out and do a liver cleanse first. No, you gotta 504 00:45:05.239 --> 00:45:07.960 kill off all the bad stuff first. Then you flush it out, then 505 00:45:08.000 --> 00:45:12.920 you eliminate it. Then you cleanse it out. Now your body can heal. 506 00:45:14.360 --> 00:45:16.280 That's the four stays. It's for leaky gut. So if you have 507 00:45:16.400 --> 00:45:21.199 ulcerative colitis, you got league you gut, you have IBS, you got 508 00:45:21.280 --> 00:45:25.639 leaky gut, you got siliac, you have a leaky gut. You know 509 00:45:25.679 --> 00:45:29.599 you got Crohn's disease, you got leaky gut, you got sebo, you 510 00:45:29.679 --> 00:45:34.440 got league you gut. Leaky gut isn't like a real diagnosis. It just 511 00:45:34.480 --> 00:45:38.800 means basically, your gut's inflamed. And when you have those conditions that means 512 00:45:38.920 --> 00:45:45.960 you have inflammation. It's like colitis, you know, that's that means inflammation, 513 00:45:46.119 --> 00:45:52.119 right, anytime you have itis, itis means inflammation, right, So 514 00:45:52.639 --> 00:45:59.199 you have to reduce that inflammation, super important. Right, that's the four 515 00:45:59.280 --> 00:46:04.320 stages, and then you might have to replenish with the stomach acid. It's 516 00:46:04.440 --> 00:46:07.960 very important. So you get to the root cause of the gut problems, 517 00:46:08.079 --> 00:46:12.760 then you can get off the acid reflux medication. But you got to eat 518 00:46:12.800 --> 00:46:15.719 healthy. That's important. You know, you got to do the work if 519 00:46:15.760 --> 00:46:20.920 you want to get the results. But you know, how do you know 520 00:46:21.480 --> 00:46:24.440 what the root cause is? How do you know what your thyroid cause? 521 00:46:24.519 --> 00:46:29.639 How do you know if you have the intestinal inflammation? How do you know 522 00:46:29.679 --> 00:46:34.559 if you're in stress mode? Well, there's one test that can actually check 523 00:46:34.679 --> 00:46:39.039 for all of that. It's called a q EEG brain mapping. It literally 524 00:46:39.079 --> 00:46:44.280 will pick up, Hey, is there a thyroid problem? Is there intestinal 525 00:46:44.440 --> 00:46:49.079 inflammation? Are you worrying too much? Are you in stress mode? Do 526 00:46:49.079 --> 00:46:52.239 you have anxiety? Do you have anger? Do you have aggression? Do 527 00:46:52.280 --> 00:46:55.320 your problems with depression? Do you have anxiety? Do you have insomnia? 528 00:46:55.440 --> 00:47:00.559 Do you have troubles with memory? Do you have heavy metal poison, you 529 00:47:00.639 --> 00:47:05.119 have a concussion. Do you have a virus pathology that's attacking your brain? 530 00:47:05.480 --> 00:47:08.760 Do you have white matter inflammation in your brain? Do you have difficulty shifting 531 00:47:08.920 --> 00:47:15.039 tests? Do you have troubles with focus, motivation, organization, blaming? 532 00:47:15.039 --> 00:47:20.599 Do you have sensory problems? You have balance problems, eyes ears? Do 533 00:47:20.639 --> 00:47:27.519 you have issues with coordination? You know, it literally breaks down everything for 534 00:47:27.639 --> 00:47:31.119 you, and it doesn't without any radiation. You don't have to sit in 535 00:47:31.159 --> 00:47:35.159 a small tube. You don't have to take any contrast fluid. It's not 536 00:47:35.199 --> 00:47:38.159 like an MRI or cat scan. You just sit in a chair. You 537 00:47:38.159 --> 00:47:43.159 wear this cap. It looks like a swimmer's cap, but it's got electrodes 538 00:47:43.199 --> 00:47:46.599 that are attached to all these different areas. You're the brain and control these 539 00:47:46.719 --> 00:47:52.800 parts of your brain and body's function. So it analyze your brain waves. 540 00:47:52.800 --> 00:47:57.800 It can literally say what areas are functioning very well and what areas are not 541 00:47:57.960 --> 00:48:01.639 functioning well. It's not broke. We don't fix it. So we want 542 00:48:01.679 --> 00:48:07.280 to find mostly areas that are functioning well when we leave those alone. But 543 00:48:07.639 --> 00:48:10.559 when we do this test, and it tells us what areas are not functioning 544 00:48:10.559 --> 00:48:15.719 well? Now we could come up with natural, holistic, and integrative solutions 545 00:48:16.400 --> 00:48:22.119 to remedy those situations so they don't develop into major health problems where you need 546 00:48:22.519 --> 00:48:27.119 to take lots of medicines and see lots of doctors and do lots of surgeries. 547 00:48:28.400 --> 00:48:31.039 An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. So believe me, 548 00:48:31.079 --> 00:48:37.519 take advantage of this test because it is very informative and it's good to 549 00:48:37.599 --> 00:48:39.400 do it. You know, to just get a baseline test as well, 550 00:48:39.440 --> 00:48:44.719 even if you don't have any neurologic problems to begin with, but if you 551 00:48:44.719 --> 00:48:47.719 have any health conditions, let's get to the root cause. Not treat symptoms, 552 00:48:47.719 --> 00:48:52.920 but get to the root cause. Now, this test takes about twenty 553 00:48:52.920 --> 00:48:58.719 to thirty minutes. There's a lot of set up time. It's normally five 554 00:48:58.920 --> 00:49:04.039 hundred dollars, but for the first seven people that call you can get the 555 00:49:04.199 --> 00:49:09.239 entire qEEG brain mapping test for only twenty one dollars. All you gotta do 556 00:49:09.320 --> 00:49:13.800 is call, text or email. The number is six four six two two 557 00:49:13.840 --> 00:49:19.760 one six seven three eight and the emails info at Kaplan Brain and Body dot 558 00:49:19.800 --> 00:49:23.840 com. I also suggest doing a VG test, which is where you wear 559 00:49:23.920 --> 00:49:30.679 these goggles. They're infrared goggles and you just follow this red dot goes fast 560 00:49:30.719 --> 00:49:35.480 and slow and up and down and left and right, and it measures all 561 00:49:35.519 --> 00:49:37.599 the different lobes of your brain. Butt what it does. It tells us 562 00:49:37.639 --> 00:49:43.960 which areas are underactive and which areas are overactive. The qEEG tells us which 563 00:49:44.000 --> 00:49:47.559 areas are not functioning right. The VG tells us, okay, which ones 564 00:49:47.599 --> 00:49:52.039 are overactive. If they're overactive, we got to come up with therapies to 565 00:49:52.079 --> 00:49:55.400 relax it. If they're underactive, we got to come up with exercises to 566 00:49:55.480 --> 00:50:00.000 stimulate it. And it says is they're in balance of left and right. 567 00:50:00.000 --> 00:50:02.159 When we're talking about the blood pressure, you want to make sure everything's equal 568 00:50:02.199 --> 00:50:06.039 from right to left. Well, this is going to measure your brain function. 569 00:50:06.519 --> 00:50:09.639 You want your brain equal from right to left. That's called a VNNG 570 00:50:10.920 --> 00:50:16.079 video distography. That's also normally five hundred dollars, but for the first seven 571 00:50:16.119 --> 00:50:20.800 people that call, you can get that for twenty one dollars as well. 572 00:50:21.480 --> 00:50:24.679 Number six four six two two, one, six seven three eight, or 573 00:50:24.760 --> 00:50:30.559 you can email info at Kaplan Brain embody dot com. And the last test 574 00:50:30.599 --> 00:50:34.800 we're going to offer is a one on one evaluation with me. That's where 575 00:50:34.800 --> 00:50:37.159 I check out your memory, your balance, your coordination. We look at 576 00:50:37.199 --> 00:50:42.559 your blood work, your history, We talk about your health goals, we 577 00:50:42.599 --> 00:50:46.920 review your other findings, and we literally check out your coordination, your heart, 578 00:50:47.079 --> 00:50:51.800 your lungs, your stomach, We check out everything. That takes about 579 00:50:51.840 --> 00:50:55.159 forty five minutes. It's also normally five hundred dollars, but for the first 580 00:50:55.159 --> 00:51:00.440 seven people that call, text or email, they can get that for twenty 581 00:51:00.440 --> 00:51:04.599 one dollars as well. One more time. The number is six four six 582 00:51:05.000 --> 00:51:07.559 two two one, six seven three eight take advantage. You could do all 583 00:51:07.639 --> 00:51:13.840 three. If you want for more information, go to our website Kaplan DC 584 00:51:14.159 --> 00:51:17.320 dot com, or you could like us on social media. We have an 585 00:51:17.360 --> 00:51:23.519 Instagram Kaplan Brain and Body. We have Facebook Kaplan Brain and Body. We 586 00:51:23.679 --> 00:51:30.280 also have YouTube Kaplan Brain and Body. And we also have a book out 587 00:51:30.679 --> 00:51:35.960 that I wrote called Boost Your brain Power, a guy to improving your memory 588 00:51:35.960 --> 00:51:39.119 and focus. 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