WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.160 --> 00:00:05.799 The following is a paid podcast. iHeartRadio's hosting of this podcast constitutes neither an 2 00:00:05.879 --> 00:00:11.599 endorsement of the products offered or the ideas expressed. Hello and welcome to Boost 3 00:00:11.640 --> 00:00:17.079 your Brain Power. I'm your host, doctor Eric Kaplan. Hope everyone's having 4 00:00:17.079 --> 00:00:21.000 a great day today so far. We're going to talk about how to boost 5 00:00:21.039 --> 00:00:26.160 your brain power, how to improve your brain function. You know, up 6 00:00:26.199 --> 00:00:30.719 here in the Tri state area, up in the northeast, people are very 7 00:00:30.760 --> 00:00:38.240 stressed out. New York City nickname is the city that never sleeps. However, 8 00:00:38.359 --> 00:00:43.640 sleep is super important for your health. We need to have good rest 9 00:00:43.840 --> 00:00:49.679 so we can improve our brain function. When you rest, you clear out 10 00:00:49.719 --> 00:00:56.320 all the bad brain cells. After forty years of age, we lose about 11 00:00:56.359 --> 00:01:00.759 ten percent of our brain cells every decade of our life. So what happens 12 00:01:00.840 --> 00:01:04.680 is we have to make sure that we get rid of the bad brain cells, 13 00:01:06.519 --> 00:01:10.400 clear them out. You have these glial cells, they call them the 14 00:01:10.480 --> 00:01:14.159 nurses. They just kind of clean up everything, take out all the bad 15 00:01:14.400 --> 00:01:18.400 stuff and eliminate it. You want to get rid of the bad brain cells, 16 00:01:18.719 --> 00:01:22.159 and you want to make your good brain cells function at the highest possible 17 00:01:22.239 --> 00:01:27.439 level. The way you get them to function at the highest possible level is 18 00:01:27.480 --> 00:01:33.879 to create connections. Let's called neuroplasticity, where you can actually rewire the brain 19 00:01:34.359 --> 00:01:38.200 and create new connections. The more connections between the left, right, and 20 00:01:38.280 --> 00:01:44.359 the different lobes of the brain, the higher functioning the brain. So someone 21 00:01:44.400 --> 00:01:49.120 who has ADD or ADHD, now they have trouble with focus where they're easily 22 00:01:49.159 --> 00:01:56.519 distracted, or they have low motivation, have anxiety depression. There's usually an 23 00:01:56.560 --> 00:02:01.079 imbalance of the left and right brain. They're not connected. Did we call 24 00:02:01.159 --> 00:02:08.919 that a functional disconnect syndrome. It's very common in childhood developmental delays. The 25 00:02:09.039 --> 00:02:21.599 childhood developmental delays are autism, dyslexia, Aspergers, turetts, add ADHD. 26 00:02:22.520 --> 00:02:30.879 So it's these developmental delays and we see himbalances of the left and right brain. 27 00:02:30.280 --> 00:02:37.800 When there's less connections, there's less function. When they analyze Einstein's brain 28 00:02:38.039 --> 00:02:45.120 after he died, they didn't think that he was going to have so little 29 00:02:45.159 --> 00:02:49.680 brain cells. He actually had less brain cells than the average human, but 30 00:02:49.840 --> 00:02:55.280 what he had was more connections. The connections are the key. So you're 31 00:02:55.360 --> 00:03:00.599 always able to create more connections, You're always able to to rewire your brain. 32 00:03:01.080 --> 00:03:07.800 You're always able to create that process called neuroplasticity. But you gotta put 33 00:03:07.840 --> 00:03:13.039 the work in. You gotta Just like you exercise your muscles at the gym, 34 00:03:13.400 --> 00:03:16.560 you gotta exercise your brain. You know, people understand, oh, 35 00:03:16.719 --> 00:03:23.159 I gotta brush my teeth every day. People understand, Oh I gotta shower 36 00:03:23.240 --> 00:03:28.800 every day, or I gotta wash my hands. People understand I gotta exercise 37 00:03:28.879 --> 00:03:32.400 and go to the gym. People understand you gotta get a good night's sleep. 38 00:03:34.280 --> 00:03:39.159 People understand you have to drink water every day. So all these daily 39 00:03:39.280 --> 00:03:44.560 habits people know about. But what they don't know about is that you're supposed 40 00:03:44.560 --> 00:03:49.360 to exercise your brain every day. And if you think about it, what's 41 00:03:49.400 --> 00:03:53.520 more important than your brain? You know, I'd rather have bad teeth than 42 00:03:53.560 --> 00:04:01.240 a great brain, than great teeth and a horrible brain. Now, idealistically, 43 00:04:01.400 --> 00:04:06.520 let's have good teeth, good brain, good muscles, good eyes. 44 00:04:08.039 --> 00:04:13.960 So everything can improve if you put in the work. The question is what 45 00:04:14.039 --> 00:04:16.920 work do you have to put in? Well, it's not rocket science. 46 00:04:17.560 --> 00:04:24.759 If your memory is bad, let's work on memory right. If you have 47 00:04:24.800 --> 00:04:33.439 anxiety, let's work on reducing stress levels. If you have fatigue, let's 48 00:04:33.519 --> 00:04:40.720 work on improving your sleeping habits. If you have bloating, let's work on 49 00:04:40.759 --> 00:04:44.399 your nutrition, right. So it's not it's not rocket science. If you 50 00:04:44.439 --> 00:04:48.040 get sick, you gotta work on your immune system. If you have diabetes, 51 00:04:48.519 --> 00:04:54.519 you gotta stop eating sugar. Right. So most of the solutions are 52 00:04:54.560 --> 00:04:58.319 actually pretty simple. However, people just don't know how to do it. 53 00:05:00.480 --> 00:05:05.800 One of the most common conditions we see in our offices at KAPL and Brain 54 00:05:05.839 --> 00:05:10.040 and Body. We have one in Emerson, New Jersey, and we also 55 00:05:10.079 --> 00:05:14.519 have one in the West Village of New York City, Manhattan. So we 56 00:05:14.600 --> 00:05:20.519 see a lot of patients with what's called disautonomia. That's an imbalance of the 57 00:05:20.600 --> 00:05:27.120 autonomic nervous system. That's if you have too much of the sympathetic nervous system 58 00:05:27.160 --> 00:05:31.160 and not enough of the parasympathetic nervous system. If you have too much of 59 00:05:31.199 --> 00:05:35.399 the sympathetic nervous system, you're gonna be stuck in what we call the fighter 60 00:05:35.480 --> 00:05:43.680 flight mode instead of a relaxed calm, rest and digest So when in that 61 00:05:43.800 --> 00:05:47.519 fighter flight mode, you're gonna get anxiety, you're gonna get panic, you're 62 00:05:47.519 --> 00:05:55.360 gonna worry, you might have anger, aggression, you might have difficulty sleeping, 63 00:05:57.879 --> 00:06:00.959 you might have trouble with focus. Mind's raising all the time. You're 64 00:06:01.000 --> 00:06:05.759 always on alert, you're always ready to go, You're always worried about something. 65 00:06:06.839 --> 00:06:15.879 We see that a lot with this disautonomia, eye stress, lots of 66 00:06:15.920 --> 00:06:23.000 anxiety. The worst thing is stimulants. If you have this fight or flight 67 00:06:23.040 --> 00:06:30.120 mode, you don't want coffee, you don't want red bull, you don't 68 00:06:30.120 --> 00:06:36.519 want these energy drinks. You want soda, caffeine, you don't want sugar 69 00:06:36.639 --> 00:06:44.480 or juice. Those are stimulating. You gotta relax the nervous system. If 70 00:06:44.519 --> 00:06:48.720 your nervous system is over stimulated because you have too much of that fight or 71 00:06:48.800 --> 00:06:55.439 flight mode, we gotta calm it down. We have to relax your nervous 72 00:06:55.439 --> 00:07:02.120 system. Right, So how do you relax the nerrvous system. The way 73 00:07:02.199 --> 00:07:11.639 to relax the nervous system is to work on what's called your parasympathetic nervous system. 74 00:07:11.920 --> 00:07:18.800 The parasympathetic nervous system helps to calm you down. There's four nerves that 75 00:07:18.879 --> 00:07:28.040 are linked to this parasympathetic nervous system. The first nerve is called the ocular 76 00:07:28.120 --> 00:07:34.639 motor nerve. That's cranial nerve. Three that is basically responsible for most of 77 00:07:34.680 --> 00:07:43.759 your eye muscles. So by doing certain eye exercises, you can actually relax 78 00:07:43.800 --> 00:07:51.839 your nervous system. The ocular motor nerve or the eyes are going to help 79 00:07:51.879 --> 00:08:01.120 you get into a relaxed state. The second nerve is called the facial nerve, 80 00:08:01.199 --> 00:08:07.000 and that's pretty self explanatory. That nerve is linked to your face. 81 00:08:09.519 --> 00:08:13.399 It's also linked to what's called your traguest part of your ear. It's that 82 00:08:13.439 --> 00:08:24.519 little flap in your inner ear. So I was patient severe anxiety, always 83 00:08:24.560 --> 00:08:28.199 in that fight or flight mode, really stressed out. She used to get 84 00:08:28.279 --> 00:08:33.200 chronic headaches, migraines, and it was because she had too much of that 85 00:08:33.279 --> 00:08:39.000 sympathetic nervous system and not enough of the power sympathetic nervous system. Therefore, 86 00:08:39.039 --> 00:08:43.799 her blood pressure wasn't regulated, her pulse rate, her oxygen levels, her 87 00:08:43.840 --> 00:08:48.519 breathing, her respiration, they were often she wasn't getting enough blood flow to 88 00:08:48.559 --> 00:08:54.000 the brain, and that's what a migraine is. A migraine is when you're 89 00:08:54.039 --> 00:08:58.519 not getting enough blood flow into the brain, and you'll usually feel migraine, 90 00:08:58.559 --> 00:09:03.960 which is a pain behind one of your eyes, like a sharp stabbing pain. 91 00:09:03.600 --> 00:09:11.320 It's also associated with light sensitivity and nausea. So these are the patients. 92 00:09:11.320 --> 00:09:13.360 They want to just go in the dark room, you know, they 93 00:09:13.399 --> 00:09:16.639 don't want to hear anybody talk to anybody. They want to leave the house. 94 00:09:16.679 --> 00:09:22.000 They wanted to throw up their stomachs porus, just like they're out of 95 00:09:22.159 --> 00:09:26.799 commission. Those are severe migraines, bad pain behind the eye. That's due 96 00:09:26.840 --> 00:09:33.080 to lack of oxygen into the brain, which can turn which can occur secondary 97 00:09:33.679 --> 00:09:39.320 to a disautonomia, and too much of the sympathetic nervous system when you're in 98 00:09:39.320 --> 00:09:43.720 that fight or flight, not enough of the parasympathetic nervous system, which is 99 00:09:43.759 --> 00:09:48.399 the rest and digest so you get a migraine headache with that. Another type 100 00:09:48.399 --> 00:09:54.720 of headache that can be aggravated by this disautonomia is a tension headache. Attention 101 00:09:54.840 --> 00:09:58.279 headache is like if you're you know, you have hypertension and your blood pressure 102 00:09:58.360 --> 00:10:03.600 is too high and everything's squeezing and it's too tense. That's a tension headache. 103 00:10:03.600 --> 00:10:09.919 Well, usually see that the patients will describe it as a band around 104 00:10:09.919 --> 00:10:13.799 their head, you know, usually around the forehead temple area, like a 105 00:10:13.840 --> 00:10:20.039 tight band squeezing. That's a that's a tension headache that can be aggravated by 106 00:10:20.039 --> 00:10:24.639 this disautonomia. Now, a stress headache can also be aggravated by this disautonomous. 107 00:10:24.679 --> 00:10:30.440 Stress headache is basically when your muscles are really tight in the back of 108 00:10:30.519 --> 00:10:35.440 your head and then they pull on your skull. That's from a stress headache. 109 00:10:37.120 --> 00:10:41.600 The other headaches are like cervigogenic that comes from your neck if your necks 110 00:10:41.639 --> 00:10:46.360 out of alignment. Another headache is a signus headache that'll be like either in 111 00:10:46.399 --> 00:10:52.399 the forehead or below your eyes you have some pressure, or there's cluster headaches. 112 00:10:52.440 --> 00:10:56.159 Those are you know, aggravated by people who smoke cigarettes drink alcohol. 113 00:10:56.279 --> 00:11:01.039 They'll just get a bunch of headaches, you know, for maybe even week 114 00:11:01.120 --> 00:11:03.840 straight. Those are pretty intense. There. There's all type of headaches, 115 00:11:03.840 --> 00:11:09.200 but a lot of them are aggravated by this disautonomia, which is the imbounds 116 00:11:09.240 --> 00:11:13.559 of the autonomic nervous system. So the four nerves we got, the ocular 117 00:11:13.559 --> 00:11:20.639 motor nerve is number one, that's the eye exercises. The facial nerve that's 118 00:11:20.759 --> 00:11:24.279 number two. The reason I was telling that story about the headaches is because 119 00:11:24.720 --> 00:11:33.360 we had this patient do a tragus ear piercing which is part of the ear, 120 00:11:33.440 --> 00:11:35.480 the tragus, this little flap which is linked to the facial nerve, 121 00:11:35.799 --> 00:11:41.639 and her migraines went away after years. So I remember her when I said, 122 00:11:41.639 --> 00:11:45.639 oh, you should pierce your tragis and she was a teenage girl. 123 00:11:45.879 --> 00:11:48.080 Her mom looks at me like, oh, what did you say that for, 124 00:11:48.200 --> 00:11:50.200 because she was begging her mom to get her ear piers for so long. 125 00:11:50.679 --> 00:11:54.200 But I told them, Hey, this is for medical purposes. She 126 00:11:54.240 --> 00:11:58.960 has migraine headaches and when we pierce the tragus, that might stimulate this facial 127 00:12:00.200 --> 00:12:03.159 nerve, which is linked to the parasympathetic nervous system, which ended up getting 128 00:12:03.200 --> 00:12:07.240 rid of her migraines. Now, is this FDA approved for migraine treatment. 129 00:12:07.320 --> 00:12:13.120 No, okay, But we see lots of patients that when we stimulate this 130 00:12:13.159 --> 00:12:18.480 traggers part of the ear because of the facial nerve, they actually get rid 131 00:12:18.519 --> 00:12:22.759 of their migraine headaches. We also have this thing where I pump air into 132 00:12:22.799 --> 00:12:26.120 the ear. Now, this insult filtration technique. It's only about fifty people 133 00:12:26.159 --> 00:12:30.559 in the whole world that do it. But it's a technique that if you 134 00:12:30.559 --> 00:12:33.240 have a severe migraine and not the tension headache, or the cervicogenech or the 135 00:12:33.240 --> 00:12:37.879 stress headache, or the sinus headache or the cluster headache. It's only for 136 00:12:37.960 --> 00:12:41.919 the migraines. That's the sharp one behind the eye with the light sensitivity and 137 00:12:41.960 --> 00:12:45.639 the nausea. So if you have these severe migraines, we have this technique 138 00:12:45.639 --> 00:12:48.519 where we pump air into the ear and it actually gets rid of the migraine 139 00:12:48.559 --> 00:12:52.840 within one to two minutes, right on the spot. So the patient doesn't 140 00:12:52.879 --> 00:12:56.159 have to suffer for twenty four hours in the dark room throwing up, nauseous, 141 00:12:56.200 --> 00:13:00.639 can't go to where it can't go to school, horrible fore horble all 142 00:13:00.720 --> 00:13:03.279 day and they just come into the office and within a minute that headaches gone. 143 00:13:03.679 --> 00:13:07.559 But the key is to prevent them, and probably for preventing them, 144 00:13:07.559 --> 00:13:09.639 we have to work on all four of those nerves. Number one the oculo 145 00:13:09.720 --> 00:13:15.240 motor. Number two is the facial. Number three is the glosso pharyngeal. 146 00:13:15.519 --> 00:13:18.559 That has to do with the tongue and the mouth. We actually have a 147 00:13:18.559 --> 00:13:22.799 perple nerve stimulator we put on the tongue and we do this gag reflex and 148 00:13:22.879 --> 00:13:28.559 garnering exercise, and we need tongue exercise and different noises and mouth and animal 149 00:13:28.720 --> 00:13:33.360 sounds and all the different languages. That's really good for the glosso pharyngeal nerve 150 00:13:33.360 --> 00:13:37.399 and then the fourth nerve it's called the vegus nerve. So a lot of 151 00:13:37.440 --> 00:13:39.559 people have heard that, but that helps to relax your nervous system. So 152 00:13:39.600 --> 00:13:43.519 we have cold laser that helps with that. We do a coroate massage that 153 00:13:43.639 --> 00:13:48.399 helps with that. I don't try nities at home, but we also do 154 00:13:48.480 --> 00:13:52.840 this different swallowing exercise. So there's all natural ways to work on this vegas 155 00:13:52.919 --> 00:13:58.000 nerve, to work on this parasympathetic nervous system to get you out of that 156 00:13:58.039 --> 00:14:01.240 fight or flight into a calm, relax rest and digesting. And that's what 157 00:14:01.279 --> 00:14:05.200 we do with capital and brain and body is figure out natural holistic ways without 158 00:14:05.279 --> 00:14:11.000 any drugs, no surgeries, no injections, just natural, holistic and integrative 159 00:14:11.000 --> 00:14:15.879 ways to get to the root cause of the problem. Rather than just trying 160 00:14:15.879 --> 00:14:18.879 to hide symptoms or treated with medication. We want to get to the root 161 00:14:18.919 --> 00:14:24.120 cause improve the function because when you function better, you feel better and you 162 00:14:24.240 --> 00:14:28.679 live a better life more. 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Welcome back to boost your brain power. I'm your host, 176 00:15:31.240 --> 00:15:37.200 doctor Eric Kaplan. We're talking about the autonomic nervous system, what's called 177 00:15:37.320 --> 00:15:43.759 disautonomia. When people have disautonomia, they're too much in this fight or flight 178 00:15:45.000 --> 00:15:50.720 and they're not enough in the relaxed, rest and digest state. We see 179 00:15:50.759 --> 00:15:58.120 that a lot a lot of people with these different anxiety disorders, handic disorders. 180 00:15:58.559 --> 00:16:02.519 People can't focus, their mind racing, their heart's beaten fast, they're 181 00:16:02.519 --> 00:16:07.360 always nervous, always stressed out. The mind's racing a million miles per hour. 182 00:16:07.080 --> 00:16:11.360 What we got to do is rewire your brain. It's called neuroplasticity, 183 00:16:11.759 --> 00:16:18.480 and we went over these four nerves that you can exercise to strengthen that weak 184 00:16:18.600 --> 00:16:22.519 area of your brain to get you out of stress mode. We don't want 185 00:16:22.559 --> 00:16:26.399 you to be in that fight or flight mode that makes you more susceptible to 186 00:16:26.519 --> 00:16:30.679 heart attack, to stroke, to cancer, to diabetes, to digest the 187 00:16:30.799 --> 00:16:41.039 problems IBS, autoimmune disease, adrenal dysfunction, fatigue, insomnia, bipolar, 188 00:16:41.080 --> 00:16:45.159 all these things. We do not want you to feel bad. We want 189 00:16:45.200 --> 00:16:49.480 you to improve your quality of life. But we have to make sure your 190 00:16:49.519 --> 00:16:55.159 brain is in a relaxed state. We can't have it in stress mode. 191 00:16:55.399 --> 00:17:00.360 So when we exercise those four nerves, you're actually going to rewire your brain. 192 00:17:00.399 --> 00:17:07.559 It's called neuroplastis, and you're going to decrease your stress levels just like 193 00:17:07.599 --> 00:17:11.519 you could go to the gym and exercise your muscles to get stronger. You 194 00:17:11.559 --> 00:17:18.440 could do brain exercises so you could get your brain stronger, so you can 195 00:17:18.599 --> 00:17:26.279 handle stress and not get anxiety, not panic, not worry, not have 196 00:17:26.559 --> 00:17:30.680 so much stress in your life, because there's always going to be some problems 197 00:17:30.680 --> 00:17:36.240 that come your way. I don't care if it's a relationship problem, if 198 00:17:36.240 --> 00:17:41.480 it's a money problem, if it's a living situation problem, if it's you 199 00:17:41.519 --> 00:17:45.759 know, you lose a loved one, or you just worried about your family 200 00:17:45.799 --> 00:17:51.640 and Israel or Ukraine, or you know, everybody has some issues, right 201 00:17:51.720 --> 00:17:55.799 you lose a loved one, you know, you get divorced, you know, 202 00:17:55.960 --> 00:18:00.000 you get fired, you know you get you know into a car accident 203 00:18:00.000 --> 00:18:06.200 and you break a bone, you get a concussion, you got lime disease, 204 00:18:06.319 --> 00:18:11.200 COVID. There's always gonna be something. Life is not perfect. Life 205 00:18:11.279 --> 00:18:18.079 is not easy, but it's how you handle it. So you don't want 206 00:18:18.160 --> 00:18:22.680 your brain to go haywire every time you have some stress where the guy cuts 207 00:18:22.720 --> 00:18:26.720 you off on the highway and then you start freaking out, or you know, 208 00:18:26.960 --> 00:18:32.240 you start someone's late for an employment and then you start getting a panic 209 00:18:32.279 --> 00:18:37.240 attack. You know, it's not normal. You know, we have pretty 210 00:18:37.240 --> 00:18:41.920 good life here in America. We're pretty safe. You know, it's like 211 00:18:41.960 --> 00:18:45.720 we're protected by the Atlantic Ocean, we're protected by the Pacific Ocean. I 212 00:18:45.759 --> 00:18:51.559 mean, you know, the last real big attack was in two thousand and 213 00:18:51.680 --> 00:18:53.920 one. You know, it's twenty two years since you know, there's been 214 00:18:53.960 --> 00:18:59.319 really bad attacks here in America. I mean, you know, there hasn't 215 00:18:59.359 --> 00:19:03.680 been you know, really anything on our soil. You had Pearl River and 216 00:19:03.720 --> 00:19:07.640 you had you know, not nine eleven, but that's about it. You 217 00:19:07.680 --> 00:19:11.480 know, It's like, we're pretty safe here Canada. You know, it's 218 00:19:11.480 --> 00:19:14.720 a pretty safe border on top. Yes, there's a lot of you know, 219 00:19:15.720 --> 00:19:18.720 people getting in from the southern border, but overall, you know, 220 00:19:18.759 --> 00:19:22.079 it's a pretty safe place that we live, you know, especially you know, 221 00:19:22.160 --> 00:19:26.200 I live in New Jersey, and you know, even New York's not 222 00:19:26.240 --> 00:19:30.000 as bad as the news will have you. The news makes everything, you 223 00:19:30.039 --> 00:19:33.759 know, sound really bad. I mean, definitely worse than the seventies and 224 00:19:33.799 --> 00:19:37.480 the eighties. And you know, you know, definitely in the nineties was 225 00:19:37.480 --> 00:19:41.720 cleaned up and it's much better now than it was, you know, forty 226 00:19:41.839 --> 00:19:45.720 years ago. So you know, we're making some progress. There isn't you 227 00:19:45.759 --> 00:19:49.400 know, too many natural disasters that come our way. We had sandy, 228 00:19:49.440 --> 00:19:52.680 but that's pretty much it in the last forty years. You know, it's 229 00:19:52.759 --> 00:19:56.599 like, we don't get earthquakes, we don't get hurricanes, we don't get 230 00:19:56.839 --> 00:20:00.640 fires, we don't you know, there's really not a a lot of bad 231 00:20:00.839 --> 00:20:03.880 stuff that happens here. Tornadoes. You know, most people they go to 232 00:20:03.880 --> 00:20:07.440 sleep at night, their doors locked, they got to roof up over their 233 00:20:07.440 --> 00:20:10.200 head, they got clothes on their back. You know, they know where 234 00:20:10.240 --> 00:20:14.359 their next meal is coming from. So we shouldn't be in this stress mode 235 00:20:14.440 --> 00:20:18.359 all the time. But our brains are wired that way. They're wired for 236 00:20:18.440 --> 00:20:23.000 stress mode. They're wired for survival mode. We got to get out of 237 00:20:23.000 --> 00:20:29.200 that fight or flight mode into a relaxed rest and digestate. Maybe need to 238 00:20:29.200 --> 00:20:33.680 start meditating and do it just a thirty second meditation. Everyone could do a 239 00:20:33.680 --> 00:20:38.519 thirty second meditation. I call it the relaxed technique. I just start at 240 00:20:38.559 --> 00:20:41.839 the top of my head and I just say that's my mantra. I say 241 00:20:41.880 --> 00:20:45.440 relax, and I relax all the muscles on the top of my head. 242 00:20:45.839 --> 00:20:48.359 And then I say inside my head, I say relax, and I relax 243 00:20:48.440 --> 00:20:53.839 my forehead, You relax, relax my jaw, relax my eyes, relax 244 00:20:53.920 --> 00:20:59.160 my ears, my nose, my mouth. I cover the whole body, 245 00:20:59.440 --> 00:21:04.000 thirty hearts, from top to bottom. It only takes thirty seconds. Everybody's 246 00:21:04.000 --> 00:21:08.839 got thirty seconds. You do a thirty second meditation and it gets you in 247 00:21:08.839 --> 00:21:15.279 a more calm stink. Practice mindfulness. Mindfulness is where you just do one 248 00:21:15.319 --> 00:21:21.240 thing at a time. You can't have your mind going forty miles an hour 249 00:21:21.680 --> 00:21:23.880 when it should just be focused on one thing. Okay, when you're reading 250 00:21:23.880 --> 00:21:27.759 a book, you focus on the book. Don't have music playing in the 251 00:21:27.759 --> 00:21:33.839 background. When you're eating. Focus on the smell of the food, the 252 00:21:33.960 --> 00:21:41.519 texture of the food, the taste of the food. Don't be scrolling through 253 00:21:41.559 --> 00:21:45.440 your phone while you eat your dinner. When you go to the gym, 254 00:21:47.680 --> 00:21:55.119 focus on your muscles. You're breathing, you're stretching your strength. Your heart 255 00:21:55.200 --> 00:21:59.799 getting better, your lungs becoming more efficient, your bones becoming strong. Your 256 00:21:59.799 --> 00:22:06.519 mind is becoming stronger. Focus on your workout. Don't be texting your friend 257 00:22:07.079 --> 00:22:12.440 between sets. Keep your mind on the gym right when you're at work, 258 00:22:14.119 --> 00:22:18.799 be in work mode. Don't call your wife don't check in you know on 259 00:22:18.960 --> 00:22:23.920 your kids. Don't worry about the errands that you do after work. Focus 260 00:22:23.960 --> 00:22:30.960 on work. Be the best worker ever. When you're sweeping the floor, 261 00:22:32.480 --> 00:22:40.920 be the best sweeper ever. A great man once said, how you do 262 00:22:41.079 --> 00:22:45.160 anything is how you do everything. So if you're sweeping, be the best 263 00:22:45.200 --> 00:22:52.559 sweeper. You're working out, be the best worker outer. If you're cooking 264 00:22:52.599 --> 00:22:57.480 food, be the best chef. If you're taking your wife out, be 265 00:22:57.559 --> 00:23:04.480 the best husband. If you're a boss, be the best boss. If 266 00:23:04.519 --> 00:23:08.960 you're an employee, be the best employee. If you're on the basketball team, 267 00:23:10.000 --> 00:23:12.160 be the best basketball player. Be the first one in practice, be 268 00:23:12.200 --> 00:23:17.599 the last one to leave. You make your bed. You make your bed 269 00:23:17.720 --> 00:23:22.319 so crisp and tight so it looks beautiful. Take pride in everything you do. 270 00:23:22.559 --> 00:23:27.799 Strengthen your brain. Everyone is too weak right now. Our brains are 271 00:23:27.799 --> 00:23:30.599 becoming weak, and a lot of it has to do with technology, which 272 00:23:30.640 --> 00:23:37.640 is called digital dementia. We don't memorize people's phone numbers. We don't memorize 273 00:23:37.960 --> 00:23:41.119 directions. We don't memorize how to spell things. We don't memorize definitions, 274 00:23:41.880 --> 00:23:45.759 how to look up things. Everything is there. We don't have to do 275 00:23:45.799 --> 00:23:49.599 anything anymore. The technology does it for us. Now you've got AI chat 276 00:23:49.640 --> 00:23:53.559 GBT, they can think for you. You don't have to think anymore. 277 00:23:56.200 --> 00:23:57.319 You know. Let's say, oh you're a marketer, you just say, 278 00:23:57.319 --> 00:24:00.680 hey, chat GBT, come up with the marketing plan. You know. 279 00:24:00.720 --> 00:24:03.599 Let's say you're in stocks, you say, chatt GBT. You know, 280 00:24:03.640 --> 00:24:07.160 tell me the best stocks to get. I mean, nobody has to think 281 00:24:07.200 --> 00:24:11.599 anymore, which is bad. Your brains are getting weaker, so you have 282 00:24:11.680 --> 00:24:17.559 to think on purpose. You've got to challenge yourself. Learn a new language, 283 00:24:17.799 --> 00:24:22.000 learn a musical instrument, learn a new dance move, learn a new 284 00:24:22.039 --> 00:24:26.400 technique, read a new book. Stimulate your brain. Strengthen your brain. 285 00:24:26.720 --> 00:24:30.759 You use it or you lose it. The brain needs novelty, needs to 286 00:24:30.759 --> 00:24:36.920 do new things, do new things. Every day needs oxygen, go outside, 287 00:24:36.920 --> 00:24:45.000 get some exercise. Needs activation. Challenge yourself needs good food. Eat 288 00:24:45.039 --> 00:24:48.160 the rainbow every day, and avoid all the white foods, the dairy, 289 00:24:48.559 --> 00:24:53.839 the sugar, the flour, the bread, the noodles. Stay away from 290 00:24:53.839 --> 00:24:57.079 the whites, stay away from the sugar, and eat all the colors. 291 00:24:57.119 --> 00:25:03.079 Give that brain the fuel delivery it needs. That way will function better, 292 00:25:03.119 --> 00:25:07.359 feel better, and live better, life more when we come back from the 293 00:25:07.400 --> 00:25:14.119 break. Don't miss Boost your brain Power with doctor Eric Kaplan every Saturday from 294 00:25:14.119 --> 00:25:18.880 two pm to three pm to learn the secrets of how to optimize your brain 295 00:25:18.920 --> 00:25:22.559 function. You can improve memory, focus, energy, sleep, digestion, 296 00:25:22.960 --> 00:25:29.480 mood, skin, metabolism, and strength by following the science and research that 297 00:25:29.599 --> 00:25:33.240 doctor Caplan will be sharing with his audience. Join the adventure of discovering how 298 00:25:33.279 --> 00:25:37.400 to help the brain and body in a natural way while having fun at the 299 00:25:37.400 --> 00:25:41.480 same time. Listen to boost your brain power. If you want to function 300 00:25:41.599 --> 00:25:47.160 better, feel better, and enjoy the quality of life you deserve. Called 301 00:25:47.240 --> 00:25:51.960 two oh one two six' one two one five zero or email info at 302 00:25:52.079 --> 00:25:56.720 Kaplan brainanbody dot com if you're interested in a free ten minute consultation with doctor 303 00:25:56.759 --> 00:26:06.079 Caplan, or visit Caplan DC for more information. Hello, and welcome back 304 00:26:06.160 --> 00:26:11.920 to boost your brain power. I'm your host, Doctor Eric Kaplan. We're 305 00:26:11.960 --> 00:26:17.680 talking about how to reduce stress levels. We don't want you to have too 306 00:26:17.720 --> 00:26:21.079 much of what's called your sympathetic nervous system, which is the fight or flight, 307 00:26:21.519 --> 00:26:26.839 and not enough of the parasympathetic which is the rest and digest So one 308 00:26:26.880 --> 00:26:30.599 of the ways to do that, to calm your nervous system down is to 309 00:26:30.599 --> 00:26:37.039 do intermittent fasting because when we eat, it stimulates cortisol, and cortisol is 310 00:26:37.079 --> 00:26:40.799 the stress hormone. So you don't want to eat at night as most people 311 00:26:40.799 --> 00:26:42.799 do. They eat a big meal for dinner, but then you're gonna increase 312 00:26:42.839 --> 00:26:48.559 cortisol, increase stress. Then most people watch TV. After that the blue 313 00:26:48.680 --> 00:26:53.480 lights of all these smart devices, the smartphones, the TVs, the iPads, 314 00:26:53.519 --> 00:26:57.599 the computers. That's gonna put you more in stress mode. So we 315 00:26:57.599 --> 00:27:03.039 spoke about before how sugar and caffeine can put you in stress mode, but 316 00:27:03.279 --> 00:27:10.000 just nighttime eating as well as nighttime electronics can also put you in stress mode. 317 00:27:10.400 --> 00:27:14.200 So if you have anxiety, if you have difficulties sleeping, if you 318 00:27:14.279 --> 00:27:18.519 have low energy, if you have a little panic, a little worry, 319 00:27:18.759 --> 00:27:25.559 always in stress mode. Your brain's always firing, you have inflammation, you're 320 00:27:25.680 --> 00:27:32.440 overheated. One strategy you want to start implementing immediately is to stop eating at 321 00:27:32.519 --> 00:27:37.480 night and stop using electronics at night. The ideal way is to eat from 322 00:27:37.599 --> 00:27:41.440 ten am to six pm, so your last meal should be done by six 323 00:27:41.519 --> 00:27:45.720 pm, and then you want to sleep from ten pm to six am. 324 00:27:47.200 --> 00:27:52.079 Therefore, you're gonna have four hours between your last meal and bedtime. Now 325 00:27:52.119 --> 00:27:56.319 your nervous system can calm down and relax. You also want to dim the 326 00:27:56.440 --> 00:28:00.039 lights. Don't be eight nine o'clock in all the lights are on, the 327 00:28:00.039 --> 00:28:03.440 TV's on, the computers on, so your brain has no idea at nighttime. 328 00:28:04.039 --> 00:28:07.000 So what you wanna do is, after you're done eating at six o'clock, 329 00:28:07.440 --> 00:28:12.839 you go outside, take a nice little walk, maybe with your wife 330 00:28:12.920 --> 00:28:17.839 or your kids, or a friend or your dog, or even by yourself. 331 00:28:18.240 --> 00:28:22.720 But get outside so that you can see the sun go down. When 332 00:28:22.759 --> 00:28:27.359 you see the sun go down, then your brain relaxes. Then you're gonna 333 00:28:27.359 --> 00:28:32.759 be less stressed, last anxiety. You can get a deeper sleep, You're 334 00:28:32.759 --> 00:28:37.599 gonna get re energized, reoxygenated. So you go outside, watch the sunset, 335 00:28:37.599 --> 00:28:40.319 and then when you come back, turn off most of the lights. 336 00:28:40.359 --> 00:28:44.119 Just have like a little desk lamp and keep it really dark so that the 337 00:28:44.200 --> 00:28:47.920 brain knows to calm down. But if you're eating at night, it's it's 338 00:28:48.039 --> 00:28:52.880 nine o'clock at night. You're snacking on popcorn, you're watching TV, you're 339 00:28:52.920 --> 00:28:57.000 watching the news. Israel's getting bond, your cane's getting bond. Of course, 340 00:28:57.359 --> 00:29:02.200 you're gonna be stressed out. If you're eating at night, watching TV 341 00:29:02.799 --> 00:29:07.200 on the computer, learning about the travesties of the world and all the bad 342 00:29:07.279 --> 00:29:11.279 things that are going on, you're gonna have a horrible night's sleep. You're 343 00:29:11.319 --> 00:29:17.720 gonna have horrible stress, horrible anxiety, increase stress levels. It's a no 344 00:29:18.240 --> 00:29:21.559 you know, it's no good for anybody. So don't watch TV at night. 345 00:29:21.640 --> 00:29:25.640 Start to read a book, Start to listen to some music, Start 346 00:29:25.640 --> 00:29:30.359 maybe listening to some podcasts or some comedians. Or start a little hobby drawing 347 00:29:30.559 --> 00:29:34.079 or sewing, or you know, collecting stamps, or start you know, 348 00:29:34.160 --> 00:29:40.079 doing more exercise, take a little dance class, or learn a musical instrument, 349 00:29:40.160 --> 00:29:42.680 or learn a new language, or join a book club, or just 350 00:29:42.759 --> 00:29:48.359 do anything where you're active, anything where you're social, anything that's you know 351 00:29:48.640 --> 00:29:53.200 fun. But don't just sit on the couch watching TV. That's the worst 352 00:29:53.200 --> 00:29:56.079 thing for your brain. It's the worst thing for your body. It's a 353 00:29:56.200 --> 00:30:00.119 recipe for disaster. It's gonna increase your stress, it's going to make you 354 00:30:00.160 --> 00:30:04.720 more prone to get dimensioned. Alzheimer's and diabetes and obesity and heart disease and 355 00:30:04.759 --> 00:30:10.319 cancer. You don't want to be like a typical American. You gotta be 356 00:30:10.440 --> 00:30:14.599 that top one percent. You don't want to be like the ninety nine percent 357 00:30:14.640 --> 00:30:18.640 because everyone else is depressed and anxious and fat, and they're dying a heart 358 00:30:18.640 --> 00:30:22.559 disease and cancer. I mean, almost everyone is sick in America. We 359 00:30:22.599 --> 00:30:26.359 have, you know, the most hospitals, the most doctors, the most 360 00:30:26.440 --> 00:30:30.400 medicine. Yet we're one of the sickest countries in the world. Do the 361 00:30:30.440 --> 00:30:33.519 math. We're not doing it right, all right. We're over medicated, 362 00:30:34.640 --> 00:30:41.440 we're oversurgery. We see too many doctors, too many procedures. We're too 363 00:30:41.480 --> 00:30:48.160 invasive. We got to start living a more natural life. Stop eating all 364 00:30:48.160 --> 00:30:53.599 these processed foods. Live off the earth. Live off the earth. If 365 00:30:53.839 --> 00:30:57.640 if you can't grab it off a tree or a root or a bush, 366 00:30:57.720 --> 00:31:02.720 or you can't it in the ocean, or you can't grab it out of 367 00:31:02.720 --> 00:31:06.599 a nest, or you know, you can't catch it on the land, 368 00:31:07.680 --> 00:31:11.920 don't eat it if it's in a box or a can or a bag. 369 00:31:11.440 --> 00:31:17.680 You got to avoid it. Live natural. Right when it's dark, go 370 00:31:17.759 --> 00:31:22.680 to sleep, live natural, Go according to the sunlight. That's what people 371 00:31:22.839 --> 00:31:27.680 have done for thousands of years. We don't want to change it, all 372 00:31:27.720 --> 00:31:32.599 right, So you're active during the day, you eat during the day when 373 00:31:32.640 --> 00:31:36.680 it's sunny, and then when it's dark out, you relax. Don't eat, 374 00:31:37.680 --> 00:31:41.400 don't put on the electronics, don't watch TV, don't go on the 375 00:31:41.440 --> 00:31:45.359 computer, don't go on your cell phone, don't go on social media. 376 00:31:45.480 --> 00:31:48.640 You gotta turn that off. If you need to check that stuff, do 377 00:31:48.680 --> 00:31:52.920 it in the morning. Do it in the afternoon. That's when it's bright 378 00:31:52.920 --> 00:31:56.319 out. That's when cortisol's high, testosterone high, that's when we want to 379 00:31:56.319 --> 00:32:01.039 get stuff done. At nighttime is when you want to relax. So we've 380 00:32:01.039 --> 00:32:07.519 gotta turn everything off. You gotta chill out, calm your nervous system down, 381 00:32:07.640 --> 00:32:12.759 get added that fight or flight mode into a more relaxed rest and digest. 382 00:32:13.920 --> 00:32:16.680 A good way to calm down is a good breathing exercise. The best 383 00:32:16.720 --> 00:32:22.200 breathing exercise that gets you in a relax thing is to inhale for four seconds, 384 00:32:22.559 --> 00:32:27.839 hold it for seven seconds, and exhale for eight seconds. Then you 385 00:32:27.839 --> 00:32:30.160 want to breathe from your diaphragm. When you inhale, push your belly down 386 00:32:30.160 --> 00:32:34.640 and out like you're a pregnant woman and then when you exhale, suck everything 387 00:32:34.640 --> 00:32:40.400 in until you push out that carbon dioside. Carbon dioxide creates an acidic environment. 388 00:32:40.640 --> 00:32:45.880 We don't want a citic environment. That's because cancer likes in a citic 389 00:32:45.000 --> 00:32:52.119 environment. Heart disease likes an acidic environment, diabetes likes in acidic environment. 390 00:32:52.480 --> 00:32:59.000 Covid nineteen loves in a citic environment. Line disease loves in a citic environment. 391 00:33:00.119 --> 00:33:04.559 You know. That's when disease can thrive. We want more oxygen. 392 00:33:05.519 --> 00:33:09.160 That's why we get such great results with our patients in our office who uses 393 00:33:09.240 --> 00:33:15.119 the hyper baryck oxygen chamber, because the oxygen will kill off the lime, 394 00:33:15.240 --> 00:33:20.359 It'll kill off the covid, kill off the herpes, kill off, the 395 00:33:20.640 --> 00:33:24.720 e coi, kill off, the yeast infection, kill off, the urinary 396 00:33:24.799 --> 00:33:30.200 tract infection, kill off the lung infections. So anytime you're sick, got 397 00:33:30.240 --> 00:33:37.160 parasites or worms or yeased or virus or bacteria, we want to oxygenate our 398 00:33:37.200 --> 00:33:40.599 bodies because that will kill off all the bad stuff. It suffocates them, 399 00:33:42.000 --> 00:33:45.400 you know, so it's like they can't thrive on that. So that's why 400 00:33:45.400 --> 00:33:52.519 we want more oxygen and less carbon dioxide. Oxygen is key. If you 401 00:33:52.559 --> 00:33:57.799 want to get oxygen producing plants inside your house, get snake plants, spider 402 00:33:57.920 --> 00:34:04.640 plants, alo arab plants, money plants have high oxygen. They will purify 403 00:34:05.160 --> 00:34:07.519 your air. They will help to kill off the bed stuff. But nothing 404 00:34:07.519 --> 00:34:15.920 beats the hyperbaric oxygen chamber because that we increase the pressure which squeezes the oxygen 405 00:34:15.119 --> 00:34:20.800 into the celf. It actually increases mitochondria. So if you have a fatigue, 406 00:34:20.960 --> 00:34:25.840 low energy, headaches, you've had stroke, Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, memories 407 00:34:25.880 --> 00:34:30.599 not going, you can't focus, digestions off, heart's not functioning, look 408 00:34:30.639 --> 00:34:37.440 into that hyperbaric oxygen chamber. It was originally proved for the bends when people 409 00:34:37.440 --> 00:34:40.639 would go scuba diving and they would get dizzy in their ear helps to balance 410 00:34:40.679 --> 00:34:45.280 out the pressure. But then people were in the machine and their skin was 411 00:34:45.280 --> 00:34:51.639 getting healed like lesions, scars, breakouts, all this skin stuff was getting 412 00:34:51.639 --> 00:34:53.280 healed, and then people started going for skin stuff, and then you know, 413 00:34:53.320 --> 00:34:58.639 they started their long disease started getting fixed, and they started thinking better, 414 00:34:58.679 --> 00:35:00.880 and they started performing betterans school, in sports. So it's like every 415 00:35:00.920 --> 00:35:04.719 time people go in we figure more and more stuff that it helps with. 416 00:35:04.840 --> 00:35:08.360 So we love that hyperbaric oxygen chamber. It helps us get great results with 417 00:35:08.599 --> 00:35:16.239 our patients. So other things that can help calm down your nervous system, 418 00:35:16.360 --> 00:35:22.360 our stuff that are going to kind of relax your brain. So one thing 419 00:35:22.400 --> 00:35:27.000 that everyone could do at home to relax the brain is where you draw the 420 00:35:27.039 --> 00:35:30.519 infinity symbol like a figure eight. You just do it with your arm or 421 00:35:30.519 --> 00:35:35.840 your leg. They've been doing that in Asian cultures in India and Japan and 422 00:35:35.960 --> 00:35:39.639 China for thousands of thousands of years, but now Western neuroscience is caught up 423 00:35:39.960 --> 00:35:45.480 and actually proves it reduces anxiety. They did a ten year study on these 424 00:35:45.480 --> 00:35:50.679 office workers and half the group did these infinities thirty seconds, three times a 425 00:35:50.760 --> 00:35:54.840 day. Half the group did not do the infinities. And over ten years, 426 00:35:55.400 --> 00:36:00.360 and the group that did the infinities you know, had like only like 427 00:36:01.199 --> 00:36:07.400 five percent reported you know, anxiety, and the group that didn't do the 428 00:36:07.440 --> 00:36:15.800 infinities, it was something like seventy five to eighty five percent didn't seventy five 429 00:36:15.840 --> 00:36:21.320 to eighty five percent reported anxiety, so one from five percent to eighty five 430 00:36:21.320 --> 00:36:24.320 percent. So that crazy, crazy kind of research there, but drawing the 431 00:36:24.360 --> 00:36:30.039 infinities has been proven to reduce stress in anxiety. So those figure eights, 432 00:36:30.119 --> 00:36:34.360 like on a side, So you do that for thirty seconds, three times 433 00:36:34.400 --> 00:36:39.000 a day. That's something else you could do to help reduce your stress levels. 434 00:36:39.480 --> 00:36:44.400 Okay, very very important. Now exercise, right, You got to 435 00:36:44.480 --> 00:36:46.679 exercise. It's the best way to burn your energy. You know, when 436 00:36:46.800 --> 00:36:52.280 my son gets stressed out, I say, okay, go for a run, 437 00:36:52.559 --> 00:36:55.199 and he takes a run around the block. Feels better. He goes 438 00:36:55.239 --> 00:37:00.039 into the basement starts punching the punching bag. Feels better, you know. 439 00:37:00.199 --> 00:37:06.039 Or we go outside kick the soccer ball feels better. It's always feels better 440 00:37:06.639 --> 00:37:09.159 when you exercise. So you know, you just got to get off your 441 00:37:09.159 --> 00:37:12.559 butt and do it. You know. The hard part is going to the 442 00:37:12.639 --> 00:37:15.320 gym or you know, going outside for that run, or you know, 443 00:37:15.440 --> 00:37:20.000 going to the basketball court or whatever it is you want to do. But 444 00:37:20.079 --> 00:37:22.880 do something that you like. You know, I personally I like basketball and 445 00:37:23.000 --> 00:37:28.039 soccer and tennis, so I love sports. And then I love biking, 446 00:37:28.119 --> 00:37:31.119 and I love hiking, and you know, I love dancing, and I 447 00:37:31.159 --> 00:37:34.760 love to go to the gym, and I love orange Stairs. So I 448 00:37:34.920 --> 00:37:37.800 luckily, I love a lot of things, but you got to find something 449 00:37:37.840 --> 00:37:40.320 that you love. You know, some of my patients love pole dancing, 450 00:37:40.400 --> 00:37:45.000 some love hip hop dancing, some love belly dancing. You know, some 451 00:37:45.039 --> 00:37:47.920 love running, some love jogging, some love biking, some like rowing. 452 00:37:49.119 --> 00:37:52.920 You know, you got to do what you like so that you're having fun, 453 00:37:52.280 --> 00:37:54.920 all right, that's the key. So it's not you know, a 454 00:37:55.039 --> 00:38:01.559 chore or an obligation, but you're actually having fun. Not only will getting 455 00:38:01.599 --> 00:38:07.960 you in a calm state help to reduce your anxiety, but also exercising, 456 00:38:07.079 --> 00:38:12.320 get your heart beat going fast and burning off that energy and lifting those weights, 457 00:38:12.880 --> 00:38:15.320 you know that's gonna be it's even out your mood. Like you have 458 00:38:15.360 --> 00:38:20.440 this pharmacy in your muscles. You go to the gym, or you get 459 00:38:20.440 --> 00:38:22.119 some bands, or you get some freeways, or you do some push ups 460 00:38:22.199 --> 00:38:27.960 or pull ups, you actually boost your brain power, you improve your mood, 461 00:38:28.000 --> 00:38:31.440 You reduce stress and anxiety, so you don't need to take you know, 462 00:38:31.480 --> 00:38:37.920 a zonax or some of these you know, horrible neurologic pills. And 463 00:38:37.000 --> 00:38:40.440 you know, if you can calm down your nervous system in a natural way 464 00:38:40.880 --> 00:38:45.400 without any risk or side effects. In my opinion, it's more effective there. 465 00:38:45.760 --> 00:38:51.559 So you know, medicine should be using emergency situation, but not in 466 00:38:51.599 --> 00:38:54.920 a day to day situation. You know, if you have a chronic problem, 467 00:38:55.199 --> 00:38:58.320 then you've got to get to the cause of the problem, not just 468 00:38:58.440 --> 00:39:02.039 hide symptoms with metal occasion, but figure out where the root cause, rewire 469 00:39:02.039 --> 00:39:07.400 your brain through that process called neuroplasticity, and then after you rewire your brain, 470 00:39:07.480 --> 00:39:10.880 hopefully you won't feel the need to take as many medications, to see 471 00:39:10.880 --> 00:39:15.519 as many doctors, and you could be on your own because the power that 472 00:39:15.559 --> 00:39:19.119 made the body heals the body. That way, you will function better, 473 00:39:19.239 --> 00:39:22.079 feel better, and live a better life more when we come back from the 474 00:39:22.119 --> 00:39:25.920 break. If you want to improve your brain function, help with memory, 475 00:39:25.960 --> 00:39:31.039 focus, sleep, digestion, energy, depression, anxiety, dizziness, balance, 476 00:39:31.199 --> 00:39:35.480 vision, headaches, brain fog, weight loss, or simply want to 477 00:39:35.599 --> 00:39:39.519 maximize your human potential and prevent future diseases, that this is the show for 478 00:39:39.679 --> 00:39:45.119 you. Don't mis boost your brain power with doctor Eric Kaplan and you will 479 00:39:45.199 --> 00:39:49.920 learn natural, integrative, and holistic approaches to modern day medical problems such as 480 00:39:49.960 --> 00:39:55.159 Alzheimer's, Parkinson's stroke, autism, add concussion, autoimmune diseases, insomnia, 481 00:39:55.199 --> 00:40:00.760 fibromyalgia, vertigo, migrains four, posture pain, TV, skin and digestive 482 00:40:00.800 --> 00:40:05.639 problems. Doctor Kaplan is most famous for getting to the root cause of a 483 00:40:05.679 --> 00:40:09.599 wide variety of brain and health conditions, rather than treating symptoms with traditional medicines 484 00:40:09.639 --> 00:40:14.480 and risky surgeries. To contact the doctor Kaplan, you can call his team 485 00:40:14.519 --> 00:40:17.719 at two O one two six one two five zero or visit his website at 486 00:40:17.840 --> 00:40:25.280 kaplindc dot com. Welcome back to boost your brain power. I'm your host, 487 00:40:25.320 --> 00:40:31.280 doctor Eric Kaplan. We're talking about a condition called disautinomia. That's when 488 00:40:31.320 --> 00:40:37.239 you have an increase in your sympathetic nervous system and your next stress mode at 489 00:40:37.280 --> 00:40:40.480 fight or flight instead of a calm, relaxed, rest and digest state. 490 00:40:40.960 --> 00:40:46.360 That could lead to a condition called POTS positional orthostatic techacardia syndrome. This is 491 00:40:46.400 --> 00:40:50.000 when you get up quickly and then you get light headed and you're like, 492 00:40:50.039 --> 00:40:53.599 oh, I'm very dizzy, and that is POTS. If you have a 493 00:40:53.599 --> 00:40:59.000 problem in your autonomic nervous system, you might have POTS. So if you 494 00:40:59.039 --> 00:41:04.199 have POTS, we want to figure out where the dysfunction is in your autonomic 495 00:41:04.239 --> 00:41:07.840 nervous system. Another problem is insomnia. So if you have you're in that 496 00:41:07.840 --> 00:41:10.840 fight or flight mode. You're not going to sleep properly. So it's not 497 00:41:10.880 --> 00:41:17.440 just anxiety, it's also insomnia. It's also pots. If you have autoimmune 498 00:41:17.480 --> 00:41:23.639 disease, that's usually caused by this disautonomia because when your brain's overactive, then 499 00:41:23.679 --> 00:41:29.480 your immune system gets overactive. Then it starts attacking different areas. For example, 500 00:41:29.480 --> 00:41:32.280 if you have silliac disease, it starts attacking your gut or ibs or 501 00:41:32.320 --> 00:41:37.239 something like that. Your own body attacking the gut. If you have hashmotos, 502 00:41:37.239 --> 00:41:42.679 it's your own body attacking the thyroid. If you have multiple sclerosis, 503 00:41:42.760 --> 00:41:46.480 it's your own body attacking the brain. If you have problems in your joints, 504 00:41:46.480 --> 00:41:51.880 it's your own that's rheumatoid arthritis, it's your own body attacking the joins. 505 00:41:52.440 --> 00:41:57.719 So when you have a disautonomia or an overactive autonomic sympathetic nervous system, 506 00:41:58.119 --> 00:42:04.840 that's going to also cause an overactive immune system. So sometimes to fix an 507 00:42:04.880 --> 00:42:08.920 autoimmune disease, you have to get to the root cause and rewire your brain 508 00:42:09.440 --> 00:42:15.440 and calm down your nervous system. If you have autoimmune disease. We want 509 00:42:15.480 --> 00:42:19.920 to analyze your brain and see if you have a dysfunction in your autonomic nervous 510 00:42:19.920 --> 00:42:24.119 system, what else can that cause. It could cause muscle tension. So 511 00:42:24.119 --> 00:42:28.719 if your brain's overactive, then your muscles are going to be overactive, and 512 00:42:28.719 --> 00:42:32.760 they're gonna get neck pain and back pain and sciatica and carpal tunnel syndrome and 513 00:42:32.880 --> 00:42:38.280 headaches and dizzyness because all the muscles are pulling, they're tight, you're stiff, 514 00:42:38.599 --> 00:42:43.159 you got poor posture. A lot of that times it's from your over 515 00:42:43.559 --> 00:42:47.880 active nervous system. If you get heart palpitations, you know, I'm seeing 516 00:42:47.880 --> 00:42:52.440 so many patients right now with these heart palpitations, with these arrhythmias. You 517 00:42:52.480 --> 00:42:58.960 know, it's when people's high blood pressure, you know, tachycardia, and 518 00:42:59.000 --> 00:43:04.119 when people's hearts overworked. That can cause a lot of problems. So when 519 00:43:04.159 --> 00:43:09.639 your autonomic nervous system isn't functioning properly, it can cause high blood pressure techy 520 00:43:09.800 --> 00:43:15.760 cardia put you at risk for a heart attack and stroke. So you have 521 00:43:15.840 --> 00:43:20.719 to figure out is your nervous system overstimulated? Now, how do you figure 522 00:43:20.760 --> 00:43:23.599 that out? The best test to figure that out is called a q EEG 523 00:43:23.840 --> 00:43:29.960 brain mapping. This is a non invasive test. There's no radiation, there's 524 00:43:30.000 --> 00:43:32.960 no contrast fluid, there's no tube you have to lie in. It's pretty 525 00:43:34.000 --> 00:43:37.079 simple. It takes about twelve minutes. You just wear this cap that has 526 00:43:37.119 --> 00:43:42.199 electrodes attached to it and it measures all your different brain waves. Your alpha 527 00:43:42.280 --> 00:43:45.239 brain waves which is how you just normally are, your beta brainwaves when you 528 00:43:45.280 --> 00:43:50.599 really got to focus and concentrate and think, your theta brain waves when you're 529 00:43:50.599 --> 00:43:53.639 just daydreaming and la la land, and then your delta brain waves when you're 530 00:43:53.679 --> 00:43:59.079 sleeping and you're at rest. So it measures those four different brain waves and 531 00:43:59.280 --> 00:44:05.559 based on the location of where you would have abnormal brain waves, can tell 532 00:44:05.639 --> 00:44:09.360 us what type of symptoms you might have, such as anxiety, worry, 533 00:44:09.880 --> 00:44:17.000 stress, memory problems, focus problems, balance problems, hearing problems, visual 534 00:44:17.119 --> 00:44:23.760 problems, thyroid problems, intestinal issues, problems, anger, aggression, acetyl 535 00:44:23.800 --> 00:44:31.320 coling, dopamine problems, heavy metal poisoning, pathology, COVID, different infections, 536 00:44:31.960 --> 00:44:37.440 different concussions. If you hit your head, what areas damaged you know, 537 00:44:37.559 --> 00:44:42.400 So it really breaks down all the different areas of your brain, which 538 00:44:42.440 --> 00:44:45.679 areas are functioning well and which areas are not functioning well. So it's a 539 00:44:45.880 --> 00:44:51.400 great test that gives us valuable information. And we'll even tell us, hey, 540 00:44:51.400 --> 00:44:54.039 do you have lack of motivation, do you have difficulties shifting tasks? 541 00:44:54.400 --> 00:45:00.559 Do you excessive worry? Do you have sleep deprivation? And do you have 542 00:45:00.599 --> 00:45:06.880 any neurotransmitter problems. So it really breaks down everything pretty thoroughly. And what 543 00:45:07.039 --> 00:45:10.320 happens is we can tell you where your weaknesses are and then give you natural, 544 00:45:10.679 --> 00:45:19.079 healthy, holistic, integrative solutions that do not include risky surgeries or harmful 545 00:45:19.119 --> 00:45:22.960 medications. So it teaches you how to help yourself, how to rewire your 546 00:45:22.960 --> 00:45:28.800 brain in a process called neuroplasticity, to make more connections in your brain so 547 00:45:28.840 --> 00:45:31.760 you can function better, feel better, and improve your quality of life. 548 00:45:32.760 --> 00:45:37.880 That's a q EEG brain mapping. We're going to give a gift to our 549 00:45:37.000 --> 00:45:42.760 listeners, so the first seven people that call, text or email you can 550 00:45:42.840 --> 00:45:47.400 get that test. Instead of paying the normal five hundred dollars for this neurological 551 00:45:47.480 --> 00:45:52.960 evaluation, you only have to pay twenty one dollars just telling me listen to 552 00:45:52.000 --> 00:45:57.719 my show. You can call or text six four six two two one sixty 553 00:45:57.760 --> 00:46:02.559 seven three eight, or you can email info at Caplinbrain and Body dot com. 554 00:46:02.599 --> 00:46:07.480 A second gift we're gonna give you. It's called a VNG test. 555 00:46:08.039 --> 00:46:14.920 The VNG test is great for people with anxiety or depression, or we're talking 556 00:46:14.920 --> 00:46:20.159 about those developmental delays that add or the ADHD, or people who worried about 557 00:46:20.159 --> 00:46:23.280 their memory or their focus. Because what it does is it breaks down the 558 00:46:23.400 --> 00:46:28.039 left and the right brain and it says, Okay, this area is overactive 559 00:46:28.079 --> 00:46:31.199 and that's the anxiety. And this area is underactive, and that's the depression 560 00:46:31.239 --> 00:46:37.159 and lack of motivation and poor focus. And this area's overactive. That's why 561 00:46:37.199 --> 00:46:39.880 you can't sleep, and that's why your heart beats so fast and you never 562 00:46:39.960 --> 00:46:45.400 ridden me is and this hare is underactive, and that's why you have low 563 00:46:45.639 --> 00:46:50.880 energy and fatigue, and that's why you can't think straight. And so it 564 00:46:50.920 --> 00:46:53.480 really breaks down which areas are underactive, which areas are overactive. It tells 565 00:46:53.519 --> 00:46:57.679 the difference between the left brain and the right brain. It breaks down all 566 00:46:57.760 --> 00:47:00.679 the different lobes of the brain. This test, all you have to do 567 00:47:00.760 --> 00:47:04.239 is wear these infrared goggles. They have cameras in them, and they measure 568 00:47:04.239 --> 00:47:07.639 your eye movements as you follow certain things, they go left and right, 569 00:47:07.679 --> 00:47:09.480 and they go slow and fast, and they go up and down, and 570 00:47:09.519 --> 00:47:13.320 it's light and it's dark, and there's a left turn and a right turn 571 00:47:13.320 --> 00:47:16.639 and it's up and so all different eye tests, all different brain tests, 572 00:47:16.800 --> 00:47:21.920 breaking it down which side is overactive, which side is underactive. This test 573 00:47:22.000 --> 00:47:25.480 is also normally five hundred dollars, but for the first seven people that call, 574 00:47:25.559 --> 00:47:30.559 texts or email, they can get that test for only twenty one dollars. 575 00:47:30.159 --> 00:47:35.400 Caller text six four six two two one six seven three eight, or 576 00:47:35.679 --> 00:47:39.800 you can email info at Kaplanbrain and Body dot com. The last test, 577 00:47:39.880 --> 00:47:44.960 the last gift we're gonna give you, is a one on one evaluation with 578 00:47:45.079 --> 00:47:47.480 me. This is where we go over all your test results, blood works, 579 00:47:47.639 --> 00:47:52.519 MRIs, We go over your brain scans, if you did the brain 580 00:47:52.599 --> 00:47:55.239 mapping, if you did the VNG. We go over your history, your 581 00:47:55.280 --> 00:48:01.519 goals. We go over any conditions you've had. We go in diagnoses you've 582 00:48:01.599 --> 00:48:06.119 had, and then we come up with our own diagnosis. Do a whole 583 00:48:06.119 --> 00:48:08.719 evaluation. Check out your heart, your oxygen, We check out your lungs, 584 00:48:08.760 --> 00:48:13.800 your gut, your balance, your memory, your coordination, a complete 585 00:48:14.159 --> 00:48:19.559 neurological and physical evaluation takes about forty five minutes. We come up with a 586 00:48:19.599 --> 00:48:23.880 diagnosis, We come up with recommendations that are all natural, without any drugs, 587 00:48:24.280 --> 00:48:29.960 harmful surgeries, you know, risky medications, So we come up with 588 00:48:30.000 --> 00:48:32.360 all holistic solutions. Is up to you whether you want to follow through or 589 00:48:32.400 --> 00:48:36.800 not. But I always tell patients, if you want medicine, don't come 590 00:48:36.840 --> 00:48:39.440 to me. You want a surgery, don't come to me. You want 591 00:48:39.480 --> 00:48:44.719 an easy quick fix, just take some supplement or some herb, don't come 592 00:48:44.760 --> 00:48:47.280 to me. If you want to get to the root cause of the problem, 593 00:48:47.800 --> 00:48:51.440 come to me. If you don't want a band aid, you don't 594 00:48:51.440 --> 00:48:53.719 want to just cover up symptoms, you come to me. If you want 595 00:48:53.719 --> 00:48:58.119 a permanent solution and you don't want to see doctors, and you don't want 596 00:48:58.159 --> 00:49:00.719 to do all these tests, and you know that your body can heal on 597 00:49:00.800 --> 00:49:07.000 its own, then you come to me because we figure out where your problems 598 00:49:07.039 --> 00:49:08.679 are and the best natural ways to do it. So if you want this 599 00:49:08.719 --> 00:49:14.239 one on one evaluation with me, this is normally five hundred dollars, but 600 00:49:14.360 --> 00:49:16.320 for the first seven people that call, text or email, you can get 601 00:49:16.320 --> 00:49:22.239 the one on one evaluation with me, doctor Eric Kaplan for only twenty one 602 00:49:22.280 --> 00:49:25.159 dollars and if you want, you could do all three, so just tell 603 00:49:25.159 --> 00:49:27.920 them, hey, you listen to my show, you want to be one 604 00:49:27.960 --> 00:49:30.800 of the first seven people to do all three tests, and each one is 605 00:49:30.840 --> 00:49:35.840 only twenty one dollars each, So you literally can get all three tests for 606 00:49:35.880 --> 00:49:38.440 only sixty three bucks if you want, you know, but you'll be there 607 00:49:38.480 --> 00:49:40.639 for you know, a few hours, but you'll get all done, all 608 00:49:40.679 --> 00:49:45.760 your diagnosis and your recommendations as well. All you got to do is call 609 00:49:45.920 --> 00:49:51.800 text six four six two two one six seven three eight or email info at 610 00:49:51.840 --> 00:49:57.360 kaplinbraindobody dot com. If you want more information, you go to our website 611 00:49:57.679 --> 00:50:02.880 kaplindc dot com. You can and follow us on Instagram and Facebook Caplan Brain 612 00:50:02.920 --> 00:50:07.239 and Body. We have a YouTube channel you should subscribe get all our videos 613 00:50:07.320 --> 00:50:13.159 Caplin Brain and Body. We also have a couple of books out I have. 614 00:50:13.800 --> 00:50:16.719 My first book is called Boost your Brain Power Guide to Improving your Memory 615 00:50:16.719 --> 00:50:24.239 and Focus. It's a great quick, easy read on the seventeen most important 616 00:50:24.239 --> 00:50:29.599 ways to boost your brain power and I'll help you prevent Alzheimer's In Dementia. 617 00:50:30.639 --> 00:50:35.000 You could get that on Amazon or just call my office tell them that you 618 00:50:35.039 --> 00:50:38.039 want to purchase a copy and we can. I can have you assigned copy 619 00:50:38.079 --> 00:50:40.920 as well. We can send it to you if you want. I also 620 00:50:40.920 --> 00:50:46.199 have another book called Concussion Discussions. You can call me for that or you 621 00:50:46.239 --> 00:50:52.480 can go on Concussion discussions dot com. And so there's lots of materials out 622 00:50:52.480 --> 00:50:55.960 there. I also write for two local newspapers. If you don't live locally 623 00:50:57.039 --> 00:51:01.280 in your Jersey, you can subscribe to them online called the Pascach Press and 624 00:51:01.320 --> 00:51:06.920 the others called the Northern Valley Press. I have a weekly health column that 625 00:51:07.000 --> 00:51:12.039 you could check out. We also have TikTok kaplan Bringing Body as well, 626 00:51:12.159 --> 00:51:17.480 so there's lots of information. I'm also lecturing around the country. I have 627 00:51:17.559 --> 00:51:27.159 a lecture today in Edison, New Jersey at the Women's Expo, and next 628 00:51:27.159 --> 00:51:30.920 weekend in Brooklyn, New York. I'll be speaking Saturday and Sunday at the 629 00:51:31.599 --> 00:51:37.440 New Life Expo. So hope everyone enjoyed the show today. Hope you learned 630 00:51:37.679 --> 00:51:44.159 a lot. We learned about how to reduce the overactive nervous SYS system, 631 00:51:44.559 --> 00:51:50.559 this autonomia getting at a fight or flight into a more relaxed rest indigesty. 632 00:51:50.760 --> 00:51:55.360 Therefore, you will function better, feel better, and live a better life. 633 00:51:57.000 --> 00:52:00.960 This is doctor Eric Kaplan. You're listening to boost your brain power and 634 00:52:01.000 --> 00:52:07.440 we will see you next week. Don't miss boost your brain power with doctor 635 00:52:07.559 --> 00:52:13.360 Eric Kaplan every Saturday from two pm to three pm to learn the secrets of 636 00:52:13.440 --> 00:52:17.400 how to optimize your brain function. You can improve memory, focus, energy, 637 00:52:17.639 --> 00:52:23.199 sleep, digestion, mood, skin, metabolism, and strength by following 638 00:52:23.239 --> 00:52:28.760 the science and research that doctor Caplan will be sharing with his audience. Join 639 00:52:28.840 --> 00:52:32.440 the adventure of discovering how to help the brain and body in a natural way 640 00:52:32.559 --> 00:52:37.559 while having fun at the same time. Listen to boost your brain power. 641 00:52:37.679 --> 00:52:40.639 If you want to function better, feel better, and enjoy the quality of 642 00:52:40.719 --> 00:52:45.159 life you deserve. Called two oh one two six' one two one five 643 00:52:45.280 --> 00:52:52.000 zero or email info at Kaplan Brainandbody dot com if you're interested in a free 644 00:52:52.079 --> 00:52:58.000 ten minute consultation with doctor Caplan, or visit caplandc dot com for more information. 645 00:52:58.920 --> 00:53:04.679 The proceeding was a podcast. iHeartRadio's hosting of this podcast constitutes neither an 646 00:53:04.840 --> 00:53:07.119 endorsement of the products offered or the ideas expressed.