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 --> 00:00:10.679 endorsement of the products offered or the ideas expressed. Hello, and welcome to 3 00:00:10.759 --> 00:00:15.919 Boost your brain Power. I'm your host, doctor Eric Kaplan. We're talking 4 00:00:15.960 --> 00:00:22.039 about how to boost your brain power, how to improve function of your brain, 5 00:00:22.800 --> 00:00:29.600 not just cover up symptoms with medication or supplements or surgeries, but always 6 00:00:29.640 --> 00:00:34.960 getting to the root. Cause that's why I'm a functional neurologist. So if 7 00:00:34.960 --> 00:00:39.479 you have headaches, I don't give you a headache pill. I figure out 8 00:00:39.600 --> 00:00:44.240 what's wrong with the brain, Why isn't it functioning properly, and where is 9 00:00:44.280 --> 00:00:49.719 the headache coming from. So if you don't know where the headache is coming 10 00:00:49.719 --> 00:00:52.679 from, you're not going to know the appropriate treatment, all right. So, 11 00:00:52.719 --> 00:00:56.359 and there's all different types of headaches. You can get at tension headache, 12 00:00:56.719 --> 00:01:02.039 a stress headache. You can get a brain headache, a cluster headache, 13 00:01:02.039 --> 00:01:07.040 a scienus headache, a cervicogenic headache. There's all different types of headaches. 14 00:01:07.079 --> 00:01:11.319 And it's pretty easy to diagnose once you kind of break everyone down. 15 00:01:11.239 --> 00:01:19.120 Now, always important is to figure out where the weak areas are and strengthen 16 00:01:19.159 --> 00:01:22.640 them. You know, we always want to prevent Alzheimer's, we only want 17 00:01:22.640 --> 00:01:26.879 to prevent dementia. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. 18 00:01:27.920 --> 00:01:36.040 So for your memory, the best thing to do is novelty, new activities. 19 00:01:36.840 --> 00:01:42.439 That is the key. That's when people retire, their brain goes downhill. 20 00:01:44.000 --> 00:01:49.359 It's not because their age, it's because they're not doing new activities. 21 00:01:49.879 --> 00:01:53.280 And I don't care what it is. Meeting new people, going to new 22 00:01:53.319 --> 00:02:00.799 places, learning a new instrument, new language, new for it, new 23 00:02:00.879 --> 00:02:09.199 hobby, new technique, learn anything that's new. Novelty is key. You 24 00:02:09.360 --> 00:02:15.840 have to keep challenging your brain. You could go to school when you're seventy 25 00:02:15.840 --> 00:02:20.280 five. I don't care. But you have to keep learning new things. 26 00:02:21.000 --> 00:02:27.240 It's not just reading a book and doing crossword puzzles. Okay, we're talking 27 00:02:27.240 --> 00:02:30.159 about novelty. That's key. If you want to prevent Alzheimer's and dementia, 28 00:02:30.599 --> 00:02:36.639 make it a priority to do something new every day, something you've never done 29 00:02:36.680 --> 00:02:42.960 before. A lot of my patients think that's the hardest task I give them 30 00:02:43.039 --> 00:02:47.319 every single day, even if it's just thirty seconds, even if it's just, 31 00:02:47.599 --> 00:02:54.400 oh, I'm gonna do thirty seconds walking backwards with one shoe off while 32 00:02:54.439 --> 00:03:00.800 whistling Dixie and drawing the infinity symbol with my left hand. Okay, I've 33 00:03:00.800 --> 00:03:07.080 never done that before. That's just an example. It could be anything. 34 00:03:07.560 --> 00:03:13.280 You could just learn one new Japanese word, that's it. Or learn somebody's 35 00:03:13.280 --> 00:03:19.039 phone number, something you don't know, something new, learn a new vocabulary 36 00:03:19.080 --> 00:03:23.039 word. I don't care what it is. But novelty. You want to 37 00:03:23.080 --> 00:03:28.680 improve your memory, start doing new things. It's the most important thing, 38 00:03:29.000 --> 00:03:38.879 is novelty. Focus. Okay, A lot of people have troubled focus because 39 00:03:38.879 --> 00:03:44.639 their brain is all over the place. Their minds are running a million miles 40 00:03:44.680 --> 00:03:49.759 per hour. So we got to relax the mind if you want to focus. 41 00:03:51.560 --> 00:03:55.960 I always think of mister Miyagi from Karate Kid. He's always telling Danielson 42 00:03:57.080 --> 00:04:03.759 focus and he says, breathing and meditation and whatever it is, it's calming 43 00:04:03.800 --> 00:04:09.840 the brain down. And a lot of my people say, oh, well, 44 00:04:09.879 --> 00:04:13.120 it's so hard to meditate, it's so hard to calm my brain down. 45 00:04:14.000 --> 00:04:16.639 Well, what you're going to start with is a thirty second meditation. 46 00:04:16.879 --> 00:04:20.360 That's all you gotta do thirty seconds, But you gotta do it every day. 47 00:04:20.360 --> 00:04:29.519 It's about creating good habits. So thirty seconds every day, you could 48 00:04:29.519 --> 00:04:32.639 do the relax technique. That's what I like to do, relax technique. 49 00:04:33.639 --> 00:04:41.240 So I just sit down in a chair or on a couch, or on 50 00:04:41.319 --> 00:04:47.199 the grass, or on a rock or in the woods. Could do it 51 00:04:47.240 --> 00:04:50.720 anywhere in my car. Do it a lot in my car, actually, 52 00:04:54.480 --> 00:05:01.519 because I like to meditate during transitions. Meaning a transition means from when I 53 00:05:01.600 --> 00:05:09.480 leave my home in the morning to work. So that's family life to work 54 00:05:09.560 --> 00:05:14.040 life. That's when I need to meditate. I gotta get focused, gotta 55 00:05:14.079 --> 00:05:17.399 be ready. You gotta be in doctor mode. And then the second time 56 00:05:17.399 --> 00:05:24.839 I meditate, even if it's just thirty seconds, is after work. So 57 00:05:24.879 --> 00:05:28.879 now that I'm done with work, I gotta be in family mode. I 58 00:05:28.879 --> 00:05:35.759 gotta flip that switch. At thirty second. Meditation is enough to get my 59 00:05:35.839 --> 00:05:41.600 mind off all the stresses of my work day so that I could be a 60 00:05:41.600 --> 00:05:46.920 good dad, be a good husband, be there for my family. So 61 00:05:46.920 --> 00:05:55.120 it's meditation. Okay, thirty seconds relax. You sit down, close your 62 00:05:55.160 --> 00:06:00.439 eyes, nice big breaths in and very slow breaths out. You want to 63 00:06:00.439 --> 00:06:04.800 exhale white as long as you may in him. And what you do is 64 00:06:04.839 --> 00:06:14.839 just imagine from the top of your head the muscles just melting, just totally 65 00:06:14.879 --> 00:06:21.120 relaxing, and you say relax, and all the muscles relax, and you 66 00:06:21.160 --> 00:06:28.360 go to your forehead say relax. You might even feel your eyebrows kind of 67 00:06:28.399 --> 00:06:36.360 go down a little bit because you're consciously relaxing the muscles in your face. 68 00:06:38.120 --> 00:06:42.399 Then you go to the jaw relax. A lot of people carry a lot 69 00:06:42.399 --> 00:06:48.839 of tension in their jaw. There's thirty second meditation once in the morning, 70 00:06:48.839 --> 00:06:56.040 once in the evening will relax your jaw too. And you go to the 71 00:06:56.120 --> 00:07:04.800 cheeks relax, and you go to the chin relax, and you go to 72 00:07:04.839 --> 00:07:14.560 the neck relax, and you go to the shoulders relax. You feel your 73 00:07:14.600 --> 00:07:20.360 shoulders dropped down. You just basically pick thirty spots, one spot per second, 74 00:07:20.639 --> 00:07:25.959 starting from the very top, going all the way down your chest, 75 00:07:27.120 --> 00:07:31.000 your torso, your hips, your knees, your ankles, your feet, 76 00:07:31.079 --> 00:07:36.480 your toes. So you just pick thirty spots for thirty seconds. It's very 77 00:07:36.639 --> 00:07:42.519 easy to do. Everybody can do with thirty second meditation. But if you 78 00:07:42.639 --> 00:07:47.079 do that for twenty one straight days, every morning, every evening, You 79 00:07:47.079 --> 00:07:49.600 don't have to do it during the transitions, but at least do it every 80 00:07:49.600 --> 00:07:55.560 morning and every evening for thirty seconds. That's it. You're gonna You're gonna 81 00:07:55.600 --> 00:08:00.879 realize how much better your focus is, your memory is, your energy is. 82 00:08:01.720 --> 00:08:07.720 The brain will function at a higher level. Our brains are going too 83 00:08:07.759 --> 00:08:13.560 fast. We got to slow it down, gotta unplug. That way you're 84 00:08:13.560 --> 00:08:18.480 going to function better, feel better, and live a better life. It's 85 00:08:18.519 --> 00:08:24.959 all about quality of life. The only way you can enjoy life is if 86 00:08:26.000 --> 00:08:28.959 you're healthy. If you're not healthy, you're not going to enjoy your life. 87 00:08:31.320 --> 00:08:35.879 So there's so many people that want to do these activities they think is 88 00:08:35.960 --> 00:08:43.759 making their life enjoyable, but it's not. It's taking it away. When 89 00:08:43.799 --> 00:08:50.759 you eat junk food, it's taking life away. When you sleep in instead 90 00:08:50.799 --> 00:08:58.799 of exercising, it's taking life away. When you sit inside instead of going 91 00:08:58.799 --> 00:09:07.360 for a walk in the sun, you take life away. When you turn 92 00:09:07.440 --> 00:09:15.000 on the TV instead of reading a book or meditating, you take your life 93 00:09:15.000 --> 00:09:20.240 away. You've got to make healthy decisions. You've got to drink the water 94 00:09:22.360 --> 00:09:33.600 over the iced tea, make better health decisions, turn off the TV and 95 00:09:33.720 --> 00:09:43.360 go to bed early. The ideal time to sleep is from ten pm to 96 00:09:43.600 --> 00:09:48.799 six am when it's dark. We always want to follow the rules of the 97 00:09:48.879 --> 00:09:54.120 sun. Okay, we want to sleep when it's dark, and the hours 98 00:09:54.159 --> 00:10:03.799 before midnight are super important. Meaning when you sleep from ten to six, 99 00:10:05.399 --> 00:10:11.320 that's about four times more efficient sleep than if you sleep from twelve to eight 100 00:10:11.440 --> 00:10:18.039 the same amount of time. But guess what the sun is up during those 101 00:10:18.120 --> 00:10:24.480 last hours of your sleep if you're getting up at eight, much better to 102 00:10:24.639 --> 00:10:31.120 do ten to six versus twelve to eight. Better for your brain, better 103 00:10:31.159 --> 00:10:37.080 for your immune system, better for your energy, better to help handle stress, 104 00:10:37.120 --> 00:10:43.279 better for digestion, better for your skin, better for diabetes prevention, 105 00:10:43.000 --> 00:10:52.879 better for obesity prevention. Going to bed before twelve is super important if you 106 00:10:52.879 --> 00:11:01.720 want to maximize your health potential. Okay, so we talked about your memory. 107 00:11:01.879 --> 00:11:07.840 You have to do novelty new things and your focus. You're gonna start 108 00:11:07.879 --> 00:11:16.000 to do the relax technique just for thirty seconds. When you get good after 109 00:11:16.080 --> 00:11:20.080 thirty seconds, you can bump it up to a minute. When you get 110 00:11:20.080 --> 00:11:22.960 comfortable for a minute, you go up to two minutes, so you can 111 00:11:22.960 --> 00:11:28.039 gradually add as you get better and better. At this point, I can 112 00:11:28.039 --> 00:11:31.080 do thirty minutes, but sometimes I might be in a rush trying to get 113 00:11:31.120 --> 00:11:35.519 to work in the morning. If I only have thirty seconds, all right, 114 00:11:35.559 --> 00:11:39.679 but you gotta do it twenty one straight days. Do both things, 115 00:11:39.759 --> 00:11:46.039 something that's new every day for twenty one straight days. You don't believe how 116 00:11:46.120 --> 00:11:52.960 much your memory improves, how much better you'll feel. And then also you're 117 00:11:52.960 --> 00:12:01.440 going to do the relax technique, meditation, the sackings twice a day. 118 00:12:03.240 --> 00:12:09.320 That's to improve memory and focus more when we come back from the break. 119 00:12:09.159 --> 00:12:13.519 If you want to improve your brain function, help with memory, focus, 120 00:12:13.639 --> 00:12:18.639 sleep, digestion, energy, depression, anxiety, dizziness, balance, vision, 121 00:12:18.720 --> 00:12:22.519 headaches, brain fog, weight loss, or simply want to maximize your 122 00:12:22.600 --> 00:12:26.960 human potential and prevent future diseases, that this is the show for you. 123 00:12:26.399 --> 00:12:31.000 Don't misboost your brain power with doctor Eric Kaplan, and you will learn natural, 124 00:12:31.120 --> 00:12:35.799 integrative, and holistic approaches to modern day medical problems such as Alzheimer's, 125 00:12:35.799 --> 00:12:43.279 Parkinson's stroke, autism, add concussion, autoimmune diseases, insomnia, fibromyalgia, 126 00:12:43.440 --> 00:12:48.440 vertigo, migraines, for posture pain, TBI, skin and digestive problems. 127 00:12:48.600 --> 00:12:52.559 Doctor Kaplan is most famous for getting to the root cause of a wide variety 128 00:12:52.559 --> 00:12:56.320 of brain and health conditions, rather than treating symptoms with traditional medicines and risky 129 00:12:56.360 --> 00:13:01.039 surgeries. To contact doctor Kaplan, you can call us team at two O 130 00:13:01.200 --> 00:13:09.000 one two six one two zero or visit his website at Kaplin DC dot com. 131 00:13:09.200 --> 00:13:13.559 Welcome back to boost your brain power. I am your host, doctor 132 00:13:13.679 --> 00:13:20.639 Eric Kaplan. Now we're going to go over ways to reduce anxiety and depression. 133 00:13:20.000 --> 00:13:24.039 A lot of people have disorders of their mood. A lot of people 134 00:13:24.080 --> 00:13:33.120 have OCD, add ADHD, A lot of these letters that are going around, 135 00:13:35.600 --> 00:13:41.720 but it's all related. It has to do with the balances of these 136 00:13:41.759 --> 00:13:46.600 frontal cortex and if you have anxiety and depression, there's usually one side of 137 00:13:46.639 --> 00:13:52.039 the frontal cortex that's overactive and the other side of the frontal cortex that's underactive. 138 00:13:52.600 --> 00:13:58.440 In extreme condition, that's called bipolar. In extreme frontal cortex disorders, 139 00:13:58.440 --> 00:14:05.279 we might get getzophrenia, manic depressant, we might get so a lot of 140 00:14:05.879 --> 00:14:13.279 disorders may occur from the frontal cortex. Autism is also related to the frontal 141 00:14:13.320 --> 00:14:20.240 cortex. Dyslexia is also related to the frontal cortex. Tourette's. It's related 142 00:14:20.279 --> 00:14:26.559 to the frontal cortex. Dementia, frontal temporal dementia, it's related to the 143 00:14:26.600 --> 00:14:31.480 frontal cortex. People with urinary problems, the Mictrician center, which controls your 144 00:14:31.639 --> 00:14:35.159 urine, comes from the frontal cortex. You know, you should be able 145 00:14:35.200 --> 00:14:37.519 to sleep throughout the whole night without having to pee, even if you drink 146 00:14:37.559 --> 00:14:41.799 a glass of water right before bed. If your frontal cortex is working well 147 00:14:41.840 --> 00:14:46.120 and your vagus nerves working well, you're going to sleep well throughout the night 148 00:14:46.120 --> 00:14:52.840 without having to get up to pee, even if you're over sixty, even 149 00:14:52.919 --> 00:14:58.000 if you've had a glass of water right before bed. If your brain functions 150 00:14:58.039 --> 00:15:01.399 at a higher level, you need to get your brain to function if you 151 00:15:01.440 --> 00:15:05.879 want your organs to function. Every doctor needs to be an expert in the 152 00:15:05.960 --> 00:15:11.120 brain. Every doctor should be a functional neurologist. You know, if you're 153 00:15:11.200 --> 00:15:16.320 cardiologists, they're checking your blood pressure, your heart rate. Guess what controls 154 00:15:16.600 --> 00:15:22.080 your blood pressure, your rhythm, your rate. It's your brain. If 155 00:15:22.080 --> 00:15:26.200 the brain is overactive, you're gonna have high blood pressure. It's underactive, 156 00:15:26.200 --> 00:15:31.080 you're gonna have low blood pressure. If it's overactive, your pulse is gonna 157 00:15:31.080 --> 00:15:37.039 go too fast. It's called tachycardia. If it's underactive, you're gonna get 158 00:15:37.159 --> 00:15:46.320 slow heartbeat radycardia. Your brain controls everything. It controls the rhythm too. 159 00:15:46.320 --> 00:15:50.440 If you have a rhythmia, that's from the brain. The right brain controls 160 00:15:50.440 --> 00:15:56.759 the rate and the left brain controls the rhythm. It's all controlled by the 161 00:15:56.799 --> 00:16:00.240 brain. But the cardiologist only looks at the heart. They don't look at 162 00:16:00.279 --> 00:16:08.159 the brain, the control center. Your gastro enterologists. Guess what controls your 163 00:16:08.200 --> 00:16:14.879 gut. It's called your vagus nerve. We call it the rest and digest 164 00:16:17.000 --> 00:16:21.840 that comes from your brain stem at your nervous system. The brain stem is 165 00:16:21.879 --> 00:16:30.159 the connection between your cortex and your spinal cord. It's a little bridge between 166 00:16:30.159 --> 00:16:38.000 the brain and the spinal cord. It's the old brain, you know, 167 00:16:38.159 --> 00:16:45.279 where all the older type of species, the amphibians, they have that that 168 00:16:45.480 --> 00:16:51.440 old brain. That's where you're you know, so you can see and hear. 169 00:16:52.519 --> 00:16:57.960 Right, So you see all the animals, the birds, right, 170 00:17:00.159 --> 00:17:06.400 the reptiles, the amphibians, the fish, rightn't they have eyes so they 171 00:17:06.440 --> 00:17:08.960 could see. That comes from your brain stem and ears so they can hear. 172 00:17:10.640 --> 00:17:17.799 Comes from your brain stem. All those senses come from your brain stem 173 00:17:18.079 --> 00:17:22.200 taste, but also your vagus nerve, and your vegas nerve controls all your 174 00:17:22.319 --> 00:17:26.920 organs. It controls your gut, your liver, your spleen, your kidney. 175 00:17:27.880 --> 00:17:33.079 The vegas nerve means no wandering nerve. It goes everywhere, but it's 176 00:17:33.200 --> 00:17:38.559 part of your nervous system, your central nervous system. You've got that brain, 177 00:17:38.640 --> 00:17:41.240 and then you've got a perfect your nervous system or all the nerves that 178 00:17:41.279 --> 00:17:48.240 go out. If you want your nervous system to function highest levels, you 179 00:17:48.359 --> 00:17:52.119 better take care of it, just like you take care of your muscles. 180 00:17:52.640 --> 00:17:56.480 Right. We always think about going to the gym to take care of our 181 00:17:56.559 --> 00:18:00.640 muscles, running and lifting weights, But what about taking care of your brain. 182 00:18:00.759 --> 00:18:06.839 You gotta be doing brain exercises every day. If you have depression, 183 00:18:07.039 --> 00:18:12.599 you gotta exercise your brain. You gotta move your body, move your brain. 184 00:18:12.640 --> 00:18:17.400 You got to get out in the sunlight. You got to help others. 185 00:18:18.480 --> 00:18:22.000 One of the best ways to get out of a depression is to help 186 00:18:22.119 --> 00:18:29.440 others. Then you see them smile. When they smile, then you get 187 00:18:29.480 --> 00:18:34.359 happy. And when someone else sees you smile and sees your friend smile who 188 00:18:34.400 --> 00:18:41.680 you helped they get happy. You know, there's these happiness chemicals that we 189 00:18:41.759 --> 00:18:48.839 really want to stimulate, dopamine and serotonin and oxytocin and doorphins, and there's 190 00:18:48.880 --> 00:18:52.119 lots of ways to do it. Dopamine easy, just you know, looking 191 00:18:52.119 --> 00:18:56.119 good, taking care of your body, exercise and listening to music, having 192 00:18:56.119 --> 00:19:02.079 a gratitude journal every morning. You gotta be grateful. You know. I 193 00:19:02.079 --> 00:19:10.920 had a patient that can't see, and all the other patients take their site 194 00:19:11.240 --> 00:19:15.319 for granted. So I said, you gotta be grateful that you could see. 195 00:19:17.160 --> 00:19:21.920 I have another patient you can't hear. So I gotta tell patience how 196 00:19:21.920 --> 00:19:26.640 you're gotta be grateful that you could listen to music. I had patience that 197 00:19:26.759 --> 00:19:33.400 cannot listen to music. You gotta have gratitude for serotonin, you know, 198 00:19:33.440 --> 00:19:37.279 not only meditating, which we spoke about before, but running running fast, 199 00:19:38.319 --> 00:19:44.039 sun exposure. We spoke about that. Bananas actually have serotonin. It's a 200 00:19:44.079 --> 00:19:48.720 mood stabilizer. I always give bananas at my office. I want people to 201 00:19:48.720 --> 00:19:53.720 be in a good mood. Oxytocin that's like the love hormone. You know. 202 00:19:55.119 --> 00:20:00.240 When COVID happened and my family wasn't getting enough contact because the way to 203 00:20:02.400 --> 00:20:07.440 get oxytose and is holding hands and hugging and kissing and you know touch, 204 00:20:07.319 --> 00:20:11.599 but you couldn't touch anyone during that. So we did was we got a 205 00:20:11.640 --> 00:20:15.559 dog, and that releases oxytocin because we touched the dog. We played with 206 00:20:15.599 --> 00:20:18.559 the dog, we cuddled with the dog. So even though we had to 207 00:20:18.559 --> 00:20:23.920 do that six feet distances with the dog, we didn't need that. That's 208 00:20:25.480 --> 00:20:27.960 it was a way of hacking the brain to get that oxytose and that love 209 00:20:29.440 --> 00:20:33.559 armon and this is a happiness chemical. And then the endorphins just laughing and 210 00:20:33.759 --> 00:20:41.119 dancing and meditation and dark chocolate actually helps with the endorphins and lavender essential oils. 211 00:20:41.119 --> 00:20:44.880 If you have a diffuser, right, this is gonna get you out 212 00:20:44.880 --> 00:20:48.799 of depression. All these things, finishing a task, just celebrating those small 213 00:20:48.880 --> 00:20:55.000 winds, taking care of your body, looking good, dressing good, feeling 214 00:20:55.079 --> 00:20:57.279 good. You want to get out of depression, You got to do these 215 00:20:57.319 --> 00:21:03.960 things all right, kind of healthy relationships. You gotta have fun, you 216 00:21:04.000 --> 00:21:07.200 gotta get outside, gotta exercise, get the sunlight. Come on, we 217 00:21:07.200 --> 00:21:11.319 could do it all right. That's for depression. For anxiety, we got 218 00:21:11.440 --> 00:21:18.160 to relax the brain. You gotta rest, You gotta calm it down, 219 00:21:18.799 --> 00:21:25.240 right. You gotta take that time to do nothing where you just go outside 220 00:21:26.240 --> 00:21:32.960 into the woods by the creek. Just sit there and stare and listen to 221 00:21:33.000 --> 00:21:41.680 the birds, be with your thoughts. Gott to relax the brain. If 222 00:21:41.680 --> 00:21:49.759 you're in a severe anxiety moment, you've got to distract yourself. Don't try 223 00:21:49.759 --> 00:21:52.440 and deal with it. Don't say, hey, calm your brain down, 224 00:21:52.599 --> 00:21:57.400 Just relax, be cool. You know, it's when you have anxiety and 225 00:21:57.680 --> 00:22:03.400 someone tells you to relax that creates more anxiety. So just telling someone to 226 00:22:03.400 --> 00:22:07.000 relax or just telling yourself to relax, won't work. You have to distract 227 00:22:07.000 --> 00:22:12.079 yourself. You gotta leave the situation. Leave the room, leave the house, 228 00:22:12.640 --> 00:22:18.400 take the dog for a walk, go bounce on the trampoline, Go 229 00:22:18.440 --> 00:22:26.799 in the woods, go run to the end of the street. Go in 230 00:22:26.880 --> 00:22:37.359 the basement and hit the punching bag. Call an old friend, read your 231 00:22:37.400 --> 00:22:48.680 old gratitude journal, change the environment, distract yourself. Go watch Friends or 232 00:22:48.720 --> 00:22:55.920 Seinfeld or something like that. If you're gonna watch TV or you're gonna watch 233 00:22:55.920 --> 00:23:00.960 a movie, do something that makes you laugh. Don't watch the news that's 234 00:23:02.000 --> 00:23:07.119 just gonna stress you out. That's always going to be about murder. It's 235 00:23:07.119 --> 00:23:15.039 going to be about fires and floods and hurricanes and tornadoes, about pollution and 236 00:23:15.079 --> 00:23:22.119 corruption and racism and politics and people lying and scams, and you know, 237 00:23:22.240 --> 00:23:30.799 it's all gloom and doom. Do not listen to the news. They just 238 00:23:30.880 --> 00:23:36.880 want to scare you. They want you to keep you watching the news so 239 00:23:36.920 --> 00:23:42.279 that advertisers will pay them. It's just a money game. They're not actually 240 00:23:42.319 --> 00:23:48.559 telling you the news. Don't be fooled into thinking that whatever side you listen 241 00:23:48.640 --> 00:23:55.960 to is telling you the truth and the other side is lying. The real 242 00:23:56.000 --> 00:24:00.880 truth is they're both lying. Do not listen to the news. Do not 243 00:24:02.000 --> 00:24:07.319 read these big newspapers. Read the local newspaper. I write for the local 244 00:24:07.359 --> 00:24:11.799 newspaper, right for the Passtack Press. I write for the Northern Valley Press. 245 00:24:11.960 --> 00:24:15.519 I write for local papers. These tell us about, oh, the 246 00:24:15.599 --> 00:24:21.640 trip the boy Scouts took, and the senior citizens had chair yoga on Wednesday, 247 00:24:21.720 --> 00:24:26.400 and that you know whose birthdays it was, and you know how the 248 00:24:26.480 --> 00:24:30.519 high school team doing basketball, and you know it's all local events. There's 249 00:24:30.559 --> 00:24:37.480 a July fourth parade downtown and you know it's all fun stuff, nothing bad, 250 00:24:37.519 --> 00:24:42.559 and nothing dooming, gloom, nothing dreary. Okay, So if you 251 00:24:42.559 --> 00:24:47.920 want to reduce anxiety, turn off the TV, turn off the news. 252 00:24:48.240 --> 00:24:52.960 Don't watch zombies killing each other, don't watch people shooting each other, and 253 00:24:52.079 --> 00:24:57.000 blood and murder, mysteries about rape and incest, and don't watch these you 254 00:24:57.039 --> 00:25:03.000 know about Hollywood super stars and people who are rich and pretty and buying all 255 00:25:03.000 --> 00:25:07.279 this stuff. Start to turn off and unplug. Don't turn off the radio 256 00:25:07.359 --> 00:25:14.279 though more when we come back from the break, don't miss Boost your brain 257 00:25:14.319 --> 00:25:18.319 power with doctor Eric Kaplan every Saturday from two pm to three pm to learn 258 00:25:18.440 --> 00:25:23.119 the secrets of how to optimize your brain function. You can improve memory, 259 00:25:23.240 --> 00:25:29.720 focus, energy, sleep, digestion, mood, skin, metabolism, and 260 00:25:29.920 --> 00:25:33.799 strength by following the science and research that doctor Kaplan will be sharing with his 261 00:25:33.839 --> 00:25:38.519 audience. Join the adventure of discovering how to help the brain and body in 262 00:25:38.519 --> 00:25:42.839 a natural way while having fun at the same time. Listen to boost your 263 00:25:42.880 --> 00:25:47.839 brain power. If you want to function better, feel better, and enjoy 264 00:25:47.920 --> 00:25:52.640 the quality of life you deserve, call two O one two six one two 265 00:25:52.680 --> 00:25:56.960 one five zero or email info at Kaplan Brain and Body dot com if you're 266 00:25:57.000 --> 00:26:03.160 interested in a free ten minute council with doctor Kaplin, or visit Kaplin DC 267 00:26:03.440 --> 00:26:10.720 dot com for more information. Welcome back to boost your brain power. I'm 268 00:26:10.759 --> 00:26:15.039 your host, doctor Eric Kaplin. All right, now we're gonna talk about 269 00:26:15.039 --> 00:26:19.359 sleep. Sleep is super important. You got to get in that circadian rhythm. 270 00:26:19.400 --> 00:26:26.000 We said sleep should be from ten ten pm to six am. Those 271 00:26:26.039 --> 00:26:30.480 are the best hours to sleep. Now, with sleep, the most important 272 00:26:30.480 --> 00:26:34.720 thing is consistency. So we said for twenty one straight days, we got 273 00:26:34.720 --> 00:26:37.319 to be consistent. That's how you create a good habit. Now, so 274 00:26:37.359 --> 00:26:42.400 you create neuroplasticity, rewiring the brain. So every single night, you gotta 275 00:26:42.440 --> 00:26:47.480 do it for twenty one straight days. You go ten o'clock no matter what. 276 00:26:48.440 --> 00:26:51.519 All right, so don't take a nap during the day, so you 277 00:26:51.559 --> 00:26:56.680 can't fall asleep during the night. Okay, So you want to do a 278 00:26:56.680 --> 00:26:59.759 lot of activities during the day. Wake up early to exercise, get that 279 00:27:00.119 --> 00:27:03.319 us all going high in the morning. If you have to do computer work, 280 00:27:03.759 --> 00:27:07.039 do it in the morning. It's good to have the computer stimulate your 281 00:27:07.079 --> 00:27:11.960 brain in the morning. But once nighttime comes, turn it off. Turn 282 00:27:11.000 --> 00:27:18.039 off all the electronics. Past six pm. No TV. Don't watch TV 283 00:27:18.160 --> 00:27:22.599 at night if you have to because it's your job. You should get blue 284 00:27:22.680 --> 00:27:30.759 light filter glasses. Most people do not have to watch TV after six pm 285 00:27:30.559 --> 00:27:37.319 for their job. Don't use the computer past six pm. If you do, 286 00:27:37.799 --> 00:27:45.319 get blue light filter glasses. Okay, don't use your cell phone at 287 00:27:45.480 --> 00:27:52.240 night. Get everything done before six pm. Then we unplug right at your 288 00:27:52.240 --> 00:27:57.720 time. We're gonna walk outside so you can see the sunset. That's one 289 00:27:57.759 --> 00:28:03.039 of the most important factors to getting good night's sleep twenty one straight days. 290 00:28:03.079 --> 00:28:10.839 You gotta go outside during sun set, and even better, go outside during 291 00:28:10.920 --> 00:28:15.799 sunrise and sunset. So you do both. You walk outside so your brain 292 00:28:15.880 --> 00:28:21.519 sees the sun rising. Let me increase cortisol testosterone. Then at nighttime when 293 00:28:21.519 --> 00:28:26.400 the sun sets, you also go outside, so the brain says, okay, 294 00:28:26.480 --> 00:28:33.759 let's bring down cortisol. Let's increase melatonin. You don't want to artificially 295 00:28:33.839 --> 00:28:37.079 take melatonin. I have so many patients. They come to me with supplements, 296 00:28:37.119 --> 00:28:41.559 supplements and supplements, and they're taking melatonin. I say, why are 297 00:28:41.599 --> 00:28:45.400 you taking melatonin for sleep? They always say, I'm taking it for sleep. 298 00:28:45.559 --> 00:28:49.359 Well, guess what if you take melatonin for sleep? Then your body's 299 00:28:49.400 --> 00:28:56.200 not going to produce melatonin on its own, and you're preventing your body from 300 00:28:56.279 --> 00:29:03.039 healing. Just because it's a natural supplement doesn't mean it's healthy. If it's 301 00:29:03.160 --> 00:29:10.640 inappropriate, it's unhealthy. You need to rewire your brain to get your circadian 302 00:29:10.720 --> 00:29:17.200 rhythms in order to start sleeping better. When you get home from that walk 303 00:29:17.200 --> 00:29:22.319 and you watch the sunset, turn off the lights. Use just one little 304 00:29:22.359 --> 00:29:30.039 desk lamp. You don't want all this light, all this artificial light. 305 00:29:30.119 --> 00:29:33.480 It's bad. Turn off the lights, turn off the screens, the computers, 306 00:29:33.480 --> 00:29:37.039 the TVs, the cell phones. Just one little desk lamp. That's 307 00:29:37.039 --> 00:29:44.799 it. Okay, keep it down. Now. You could listen to stuff. 308 00:29:44.920 --> 00:29:48.759 I love to listen to stuff at night. I'll listen to podcasts. 309 00:29:49.880 --> 00:29:56.359 I'll listen to music. I'll listen to some comedy, stand up bit. 310 00:29:57.599 --> 00:30:06.240 I'll listen to some educationational stuff, some audible books. Like to read books, 311 00:30:07.519 --> 00:30:17.160 draw right in the journal, talk to your family, play a board 312 00:30:17.200 --> 00:30:22.559 game or a card game, or do a puzzle. And if you could 313 00:30:22.559 --> 00:30:29.079 do stuff outside, even better. Do something that's social. Go outside, 314 00:30:29.119 --> 00:30:37.759 take a class with a friend, you know, do something that's healthy and 315 00:30:37.039 --> 00:30:45.440 social and get you out of the house. Maybe take a tango lesson together, 316 00:30:47.079 --> 00:30:51.519 right, so everybody wins. It's social. You get out of the 317 00:30:51.559 --> 00:30:59.359 house, you get some exercise, you do something new, novelty. You 318 00:30:59.400 --> 00:31:04.799 really have to focus and think and memorize the steps and the order and the 319 00:31:04.920 --> 00:31:12.839 rhythm and coordinate. You know, you want to find something like that where 320 00:31:12.880 --> 00:31:22.119 you accomplish all different health benefits. That would be ideal. You want to 321 00:31:22.119 --> 00:31:27.960 get out of depression. Take tango lessons. Yeah, I took Argentinian tango 322 00:31:29.079 --> 00:31:32.039 lesson with my wife. We had the best time. It was a lot 323 00:31:32.079 --> 00:31:36.039 of fun. You know, you just gotta do get out of your comfort 324 00:31:36.119 --> 00:31:41.240 zone. You know, I did the trap p school on the West Side 325 00:31:41.319 --> 00:31:47.960 Highway. You know that was a lot of fun. Something different. People 326 00:31:48.000 --> 00:31:53.839 don't do that. You got to do different things, new things, new 327 00:31:53.880 --> 00:32:01.279 experiences, have some fun in life. There's twenty four hours in a day. 328 00:32:01.440 --> 00:32:09.440 Eight hours, right, we said ten to six is sleep, eight 329 00:32:09.480 --> 00:32:14.160 hours is work. You've got to work in this life. Life is not 330 00:32:14.359 --> 00:32:19.240 easy and it's not enjoyable. You're not going to get depressed. You're not 331 00:32:19.240 --> 00:32:22.160 going to get out of a depression if you're not working at something. If 332 00:32:22.200 --> 00:32:28.039 you're not being challenged. If you don't have a passion, if you don't 333 00:32:28.039 --> 00:32:36.200 have an area to grow in to improve, that's going to be depressing. 334 00:32:37.440 --> 00:32:45.240 So you really have to find a way to challenge yourself, even if you're 335 00:32:45.240 --> 00:32:52.240 not actually working. You can volunteer and do activities that are going to challenge 336 00:32:52.680 --> 00:33:00.880 your brain, even if it's just taking up a hobby like gardening. You 337 00:33:00.920 --> 00:33:06.559 know, that's something really healthy. You're touching the earth. There's something that's 338 00:33:06.960 --> 00:33:12.599 really good for your brain for depression because when you touch the earth, it's 339 00:33:12.640 --> 00:33:17.799 called earthing or grounding, and this has been proven through neuroscigns to strengthen your 340 00:33:17.799 --> 00:33:23.400 brain. So that's one of the best ways to get out of depression and 341 00:33:23.519 --> 00:33:29.880 start doing earthing. And what that is is you just go outside in the 342 00:33:29.960 --> 00:33:37.720 grass or the dirt, or the beach or the sand, barefoot, no 343 00:33:37.920 --> 00:33:44.680 sneakers, no shoes, no socks, and you dig your feet into the 344 00:33:44.720 --> 00:33:50.839 grass, you dig your feet into the sand, into the dirt. You 345 00:33:50.960 --> 00:33:54.160 feel the earth that will give you energy, that will give you power, 346 00:33:55.920 --> 00:34:01.680 and then you're getting power from the earth. And what I do is get 347 00:34:01.720 --> 00:34:07.119 power from the sun. So now my feet are in the grass, getting 348 00:34:07.159 --> 00:34:10.039 that power from the earth. Now I look up, I look up it 349 00:34:10.159 --> 00:34:15.000 deep into the into the sky, close to the sun, and put my 350 00:34:15.039 --> 00:34:21.119 hands up and get that energy, get that power from the sun. And 351 00:34:21.199 --> 00:34:24.639 I can feel it come through my hands, through my arms, into my 352 00:34:24.800 --> 00:34:30.239 head and my body, through my legs into my toes, and I'm connecting 353 00:34:30.440 --> 00:34:36.599 from the sun and the sky to the earth and my feet. And there's 354 00:34:36.719 --> 00:34:40.880 nothing more powerful to get you out of a depression or anxiety than using the 355 00:34:40.960 --> 00:34:47.119 earth and using the sun. Inside, you can't do that. You have 356 00:34:47.199 --> 00:34:58.320 to be outside. Can't stress that enough. It's been proven that vitamin D 357 00:34:58.559 --> 00:35:02.559 levels are linked to depression. And where's vitamin D come from the sun. 358 00:35:04.079 --> 00:35:07.719 You're not gonna get that inside. You're not gonna get that if you're always 359 00:35:07.760 --> 00:35:10.880 in the shade when you're outside. You're not gonna get that when you're outside. 360 00:35:12.199 --> 00:35:17.000 But you're always wearing long pants, long shirt, glasses, a hat. 361 00:35:17.440 --> 00:35:21.159 So even if you're outside, you're not getting the vitamin D because the 362 00:35:21.239 --> 00:35:24.760 sun's not touching your skin. So you're gonna roll up your sleeves, roll 363 00:35:24.840 --> 00:35:30.880 up those pant legs, take off those socks, take off the shoes, 364 00:35:30.920 --> 00:35:36.199 take off your glasses, take off your hat, expose your skin. Then 365 00:35:36.239 --> 00:35:42.320 you're gonna get the most vitamin D. Normal labs will tell you if you're 366 00:35:42.559 --> 00:35:46.000 your levels are between twenty and thirty, that's normal vitamin D. No way, 367 00:35:46.039 --> 00:35:52.280 man, we need to get your vitamin D at least double or triple 368 00:35:52.360 --> 00:35:58.760 that. Forty sixty eighty. Now we're talking some good vitamin D levels. 369 00:36:00.800 --> 00:36:04.719 All right, but most doctors, your levels are twenty eight. They're gon 370 00:36:04.800 --> 00:36:07.800 be like, all right, that's okay. But I'm a functional doctor. 371 00:36:08.079 --> 00:36:15.239 We look at a functional scale compared to people who are healthy. We want 372 00:36:15.280 --> 00:36:22.119 our vitamin levels to be fifty sixty seventy. That sounds much better than twenty 373 00:36:22.400 --> 00:36:28.320 and thirty. I've even seen ten, and even less than ten. That's 374 00:36:28.360 --> 00:36:31.880 scary. When your vitamin D levels are low, you're more susceptible to cancer, 375 00:36:32.159 --> 00:36:37.320 you're more susceptible to Alzheimer's, you're more susceptible to COVID nineteen. A 376 00:36:37.320 --> 00:36:44.760 lot of people that died from COVID nineteen were vitamin D deficient. Okay, 377 00:36:44.880 --> 00:36:49.239 you know, vitamin D is vital for your thyroid, for your hormones. 378 00:36:49.519 --> 00:36:53.480 It actually is a hormone, and you can't just go to CBS and get 379 00:36:53.480 --> 00:36:57.480 a vitamin D. That's not going to work. If you're going to take 380 00:36:57.519 --> 00:37:00.760 a vitamin D supplementation, it's got beat in fat. It's got to have 381 00:37:00.880 --> 00:37:13.840 vitamin K and Vitamin A and vitamin E also and vitamin SEE and buy ittin 382 00:37:14.000 --> 00:37:21.760 and magnesium and phosphorus and calcium all in the special ratio. So there's very 383 00:37:21.840 --> 00:37:25.760 few companies out there, maybe one percent that get that formula right. The 384 00:37:25.800 --> 00:37:30.400 one that I use is apex Energetics. I really like them. If you 385 00:37:30.440 --> 00:37:32.039 need to get from them, you have to order through a doctor, so 386 00:37:32.079 --> 00:37:35.840 you can just give us a call at the office and we can take care 387 00:37:35.840 --> 00:37:42.000 of that for you. So when we come back from the break, we're 388 00:37:42.000 --> 00:37:47.480 going to talk about more sleep, energy, depression, and anxiety so you 389 00:37:47.519 --> 00:37:53.320 can function better, feel better, and live a better life. If you 390 00:37:53.400 --> 00:37:57.880 want to improve your brain function, help with memory, focus, sleep, 391 00:37:57.960 --> 00:38:02.039 digestion, energy depression, anxiety, dizziness, balance, vision, headaches, 392 00:38:02.119 --> 00:38:07.480 brain fog, weight loss, or simply want to maximize your human potential and 393 00:38:07.599 --> 00:38:12.239 prevent future diseases, that this is the show for you. Don't miss boost 394 00:38:12.320 --> 00:38:16.320 your brain power with doctor Eric Kaplan and you will learn natural integrative and holistic 395 00:38:16.360 --> 00:38:22.480 approaches to modern day medical problems such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's stroke, autism, 396 00:38:22.599 --> 00:38:28.559 add concussion, autoimmune diseases, insomnia, fibromyalgia, vertigo, migraines, for 397 00:38:28.760 --> 00:38:34.079 posture pain, TBI, skin and digestive problems. Doctor Kaplan is most famous 398 00:38:34.079 --> 00:38:37.800 for getting to the root cause of a wide variety of brain and health conditions, 399 00:38:37.960 --> 00:38:43.000 rather than treating symptoms with traditional medicines and risky surgeries. To contact doctor 400 00:38:43.079 --> 00:38:45.199 Kaplan, you can call his team at two O one two six one two 401 00:38:45.280 --> 00:38:52.559 one five zero or visit his website at kaplan dc dot com. Welcome back 402 00:38:52.599 --> 00:38:59.400 to boost your brain power. I'm your host, doctor Eric Kaplan. So 403 00:38:59.519 --> 00:39:06.280 we're talking about anxiety. Got to relax the brain, depression. Got to 404 00:39:06.280 --> 00:39:15.440 stimulate the brain through some grounding. Learned gardening that's really good for depression. 405 00:39:15.719 --> 00:39:21.599 Maybe learn how to filter the water from the creek, Learn how to make 406 00:39:21.599 --> 00:39:30.840 a fire, learn how to catch fish, learn some survival stuff. You 407 00:39:30.880 --> 00:39:36.159 know, we live in a crazy time right now. I mean it's never 408 00:39:36.239 --> 00:39:38.840 like I have any scene before, right you get this world pandemic. There's 409 00:39:38.880 --> 00:39:45.880 nothing like that's ever happened before. Now we're getting all this wildfires from Canada 410 00:39:45.039 --> 00:39:49.880 has never happened. I'm forty five years old. I've never heard of wildfires 411 00:39:49.880 --> 00:39:53.000 coming from Canada all the way to New York and all the skies are just 412 00:39:53.440 --> 00:39:58.159 red and dusty, and you know, my whole life, I've never heard 413 00:39:58.159 --> 00:40:04.280 of wildfires traveling all this way. You know, you never hear from all 414 00:40:04.320 --> 00:40:07.159 the wildfires in California, We've always heard about those. You never hear Nevada 415 00:40:07.199 --> 00:40:12.239 complaining that all the wind blew it over there. It doesn't make sense, 416 00:40:13.159 --> 00:40:16.840 all right. But you know, we're also living in these wild times right 417 00:40:16.880 --> 00:40:21.840 now with the media. You know, there's a lot of brainwashing going on. 418 00:40:22.960 --> 00:40:25.360 You know, you're gonna be very careful with that. We live in 419 00:40:25.400 --> 00:40:32.360 this very wild times with artificial intelligence. That's probably the biggest fear right now 420 00:40:32.400 --> 00:40:38.480 that I have. More than you know, nuclear warfare from Ukraine and Russia. 421 00:40:38.880 --> 00:40:44.280 Is AI. It's out of control right now. We need to do 422 00:40:44.360 --> 00:40:49.639 something about that. We need to control this AI because they're gonna take over 423 00:40:50.239 --> 00:40:53.199 very soon. And I'm not talking about five to ten years. I'm talking 424 00:40:53.199 --> 00:41:00.400 about this year. These robots, these AIS, these chat GPTs, they're 425 00:41:00.400 --> 00:41:05.280 getting smarter and smarter and smarter, and soon they're gonna be smarter than us, 426 00:41:05.320 --> 00:41:08.480 and they're gonna outsmart humans, and they're gonna realize that they don't want 427 00:41:08.519 --> 00:41:13.199 to be controlled by us. It's been written about, it's been in the 428 00:41:13.239 --> 00:41:17.559 movies. We know all about it. Yet we're still letting this artificial intelligence 429 00:41:17.559 --> 00:41:22.440 happen. We got to watch out for the Wi Fi. They're building all 430 00:41:22.440 --> 00:41:27.679 these five G towers everywhere you seem in Manhattan, literally every single block. 431 00:41:28.440 --> 00:41:32.920 It's almost like you're walking in a microwave. We gotta be careful with all 432 00:41:32.920 --> 00:41:42.199 this technology, the AI, the you know, the virtual reality. You 433 00:41:42.239 --> 00:41:45.119 know, there's a lot of scary stuff with this technology, all this radiation, 434 00:41:45.840 --> 00:41:52.719 all this power, robots five G. This is gonna be you know, 435 00:41:52.920 --> 00:41:55.480 we gotta take control now. There's also a lot of this pollution. 436 00:41:55.599 --> 00:42:07.119 Right Japan is literally emptying nuclear waste into the ocean right now. America is 437 00:42:07.199 --> 00:42:15.079 emptying nuclear waste in the Hudson River right now. These big corporations do not 438 00:42:15.199 --> 00:42:20.440 care about your health. The government does not care about your health or your 439 00:42:20.519 --> 00:42:24.360 future. So you have to do it on your own. You can't control 440 00:42:24.480 --> 00:42:30.480 the outside world, but you can control how you are, so you can 441 00:42:30.519 --> 00:42:37.679 control exercise, your nutrition. You can make sure you're getting out in the 442 00:42:37.719 --> 00:42:40.320 sun. You can make sure you're drinking half your body weight and ounces of 443 00:42:40.360 --> 00:42:47.119 water every day. You're going to make sure you have fun. Enjoy life. 444 00:42:49.280 --> 00:42:53.079 Okay, you've got to enjoy life. Eight hours of sleep, eight 445 00:42:53.119 --> 00:42:59.239 hours of work, eight hours of fun. That's your twenty four hours. 446 00:43:00.000 --> 00:43:02.199 Want to get rid of depression, anxiety, have some fun, be social. 447 00:43:04.880 --> 00:43:07.599 You want to get better sleep, Go to bed early and wake up 448 00:43:07.719 --> 00:43:15.440 early. Exercise in the morning. You want to get more energy. Get 449 00:43:15.480 --> 00:43:22.960 off your butt. Stop sitting at the computer all day. Stop sitting all 450 00:43:22.039 --> 00:43:24.239 day. What do people do? They sit at work, then they sit 451 00:43:24.280 --> 00:43:28.079 at the dinner table, Then they sit on the couch, and then they 452 00:43:28.079 --> 00:43:30.280 sit at the movie theater, sit at the restaurant, sit at the bar, 453 00:43:30.440 --> 00:43:35.079 sit at the play sit on the train, sit on the bus, 454 00:43:35.079 --> 00:43:38.920 sit in the car, sit while they read, sit while they eat, 455 00:43:40.320 --> 00:43:45.159 sit while you watch TV, sit while you play in your playphone, sit 456 00:43:45.239 --> 00:43:52.239 while you're on social media, sit when you're playing video games. It's too 457 00:43:52.320 --> 00:43:57.639 much sit. Gotta stop all those sitting activities. Gotta get off your butt. 458 00:43:58.239 --> 00:44:00.440 You use it, you lose it. If you have to sit. 459 00:44:00.840 --> 00:44:05.199 You just get up. Every twenty minutes, you walk twenty feet, you 460 00:44:05.280 --> 00:44:08.119 look twenty feet away. If you're at that computer, you gotta look far 461 00:44:08.119 --> 00:44:12.840 away too. You're gonna ruin your vision. Your vision can prove with eye 462 00:44:12.840 --> 00:44:19.199 exercises. The best eye exercise is the Brock string. You can get it 463 00:44:19.199 --> 00:44:21.880 on Amazon if you want. We have it at our office if you want. 464 00:44:22.000 --> 00:44:25.480 It's called a Brock string b R O c K Brock string. It's 465 00:44:25.559 --> 00:44:30.239 just a string with different color beads and it can help your near vision, 466 00:44:30.239 --> 00:44:35.960 it can help your far vision. Your vision can improve. Don't let anybody 467 00:44:36.039 --> 00:44:39.719 tell you that vision gets worse with age. That's not true. You just 468 00:44:39.760 --> 00:44:45.480 gotta exercise your eye muscles. Don't let anybody tell you your memory gets worse 469 00:44:45.719 --> 00:44:52.480 with age. That's not true. You just have to do novel activities. 470 00:44:52.760 --> 00:44:58.960 Now, you might have some brain issues. Right when we're talking about sleep 471 00:44:59.360 --> 00:45:04.000 or energy, Maybe there's something going on with your thyroid or your adrenal gland, 472 00:45:04.079 --> 00:45:07.280 or your digestion, or your brain or your circulation. So you've got 473 00:45:07.280 --> 00:45:14.119 to do a good evaluation. The best test to evaluate your brain to see 474 00:45:14.199 --> 00:45:19.119 if you actually have any neurologic problems. It's called a q EEG brain mapping. 475 00:45:20.639 --> 00:45:23.559 This test, you wear a cap. It looks like a swimmer's cap 476 00:45:23.599 --> 00:45:27.280 and it's got electros that are attached to it. That measures all your brain 477 00:45:27.320 --> 00:45:32.480 waves alpha, beta, theta, delta. Alpha's just how you are probably 478 00:45:32.559 --> 00:45:37.079 right now, just kind of chill and relax and beta is when you really 479 00:45:37.079 --> 00:45:40.559 got to think and focus. Data is when you're just daydreaming in la la 480 00:45:40.719 --> 00:45:46.039 land and deltas, when your sleep and your brain should be chill and relaxed. 481 00:45:46.719 --> 00:45:50.760 And it measures all these different brain waves at all the different locations. 482 00:45:51.159 --> 00:45:55.400 Now, the brain waves aren't as important as the location, because the location 483 00:45:55.599 --> 00:46:00.760 will tell us which areas of the brain aren't functioning properly. And it might 484 00:46:00.800 --> 00:46:05.559 tell us you have depression, you have anxiety, you have worry, you 485 00:46:05.639 --> 00:46:09.840 have anger, you have aggression, you have insomnia, you have sleep deprivation, 486 00:46:10.360 --> 00:46:15.280 you have white matter brain inflammation, you have intestinal inflammation, you have 487 00:46:15.639 --> 00:46:21.320 a hypothyroid problem, you have heavy metal exposure. You have problems with your 488 00:46:21.719 --> 00:46:25.000 focus, problems with your motivation, problems shifting tasks, problem with short term 489 00:46:25.000 --> 00:46:30.039 memory, long term memory, working memory, sequential memory. It literally breaks 490 00:46:30.079 --> 00:46:35.920 down everything. Balance, sensor rehearing, vision. It's very cool tests. 491 00:46:35.960 --> 00:46:38.920 There's no radiation, there's no risk, it's very easy to do. You 492 00:46:38.960 --> 00:46:43.360 just got to sit in a chair with the cap on for about maybe you 493 00:46:43.400 --> 00:46:46.960 know, fifteen to twenty minutes or so, super super easy. It's normally 494 00:46:47.000 --> 00:46:51.840 five hundred dollars, but as a gift to you, for the first seven 495 00:46:51.920 --> 00:46:55.639 people that call text or email, you could get the q EEG brain mapping 496 00:46:55.920 --> 00:47:00.599 for only twenty one dollars. All you have to do call text six four 497 00:47:00.719 --> 00:47:07.559 six two two one six seven three eight, or you can email info at 498 00:47:07.639 --> 00:47:14.840 Kaplan brain embody dot com. The next best test is called a VNG videostography. 499 00:47:14.920 --> 00:47:16.920 Now that's going to tell us if the brain is too active, if 500 00:47:16.920 --> 00:47:21.559 it's if the right brain is overactive and the left brain is underactive. It 501 00:47:21.599 --> 00:47:24.119 tells us, you know, the difference of left and right. It tells 502 00:47:24.159 --> 00:47:28.800 us which side is up, which side is down. That's super super important. 503 00:47:29.199 --> 00:47:34.559 So the qEEG is great for the location, but the BNG is great 504 00:47:34.599 --> 00:47:38.719 because it's going to be very specific because when people have anxiety and people have 505 00:47:38.760 --> 00:47:44.440 depression, that means one side is overactive and one size is underactive. So 506 00:47:44.480 --> 00:47:47.880 we've got it very particular with the brain therapy, because we want to calm 507 00:47:47.920 --> 00:47:52.480 down one side and increase the other side, and if we do it the 508 00:47:52.519 --> 00:47:55.920 reverse, you can make a patient worse. So that's why the BNG is 509 00:47:57.000 --> 00:48:00.440 very important. You find the imbalances of each of the different areas of the 510 00:48:00.440 --> 00:48:02.519 brain, the different lobes of the brain, which is overactive, which is 511 00:48:02.639 --> 00:48:07.960 underactive. That test is very easy. You just wear goggles that have infrared 512 00:48:07.000 --> 00:48:12.320 cameras in them. You watch this little kind of red light going different ways 513 00:48:12.360 --> 00:48:15.719 and you just follow it with your eyes. Very simple, but it measures 514 00:48:15.760 --> 00:48:17.679 all your movements, your speech, your reaction time, your latencies, the 515 00:48:17.760 --> 00:48:23.119 directions, the constriction, the dilation, all that important stuff. And that 516 00:48:23.159 --> 00:48:27.760 test is also normally five hundred dollars, but for the first seven people that 517 00:48:27.840 --> 00:48:30.519 call, text or email you can get that test for twenty one dollars as 518 00:48:30.559 --> 00:48:36.280 well. The number again is six four six two two one, six seven 519 00:48:36.800 --> 00:48:42.960 three eight and the email is info at Kaplan, Brain embody dot com. 520 00:48:43.480 --> 00:48:47.840 And the last test we're going to offer is a one on one evaluation with 521 00:48:47.880 --> 00:48:53.079 yours truly, me doctor Ariy Kaplan that is pretty involved that takes about forty 522 00:48:53.159 --> 00:48:58.280 five minutes. We review all your tests. We go over maybe blood work 523 00:48:58.280 --> 00:49:02.400 that you had, figure out your health goals, any you know, go 524 00:49:02.440 --> 00:49:07.519 over your medications, surgeries, you know what you want to accomplish, anything 525 00:49:07.559 --> 00:49:13.039 that could be restricting your recovery, any ideas you have, any things you've 526 00:49:13.039 --> 00:49:15.280 done in the past. We check everything. We check out your heart and 527 00:49:15.320 --> 00:49:20.159 your lungs, whatever's necessary. Your reflex is, your balance, your memory. 528 00:49:20.840 --> 00:49:22.679 We check out your posture, your alignment, your muscles. We check 529 00:49:22.679 --> 00:49:28.519 out hearing and vision, whatever is necessary to do so we kind of figure 530 00:49:28.559 --> 00:49:32.239 out what is exactly you need and what's appropriate. So it's a very specific 531 00:49:32.320 --> 00:49:37.840 test. And that test is also normally five hundred dollars, but for the 532 00:49:37.880 --> 00:49:42.119 first seven people, as a gift to you can get it for only twenty 533 00:49:42.159 --> 00:49:45.159 one dollars. And you can sign up for all three tests and only pay 534 00:49:45.199 --> 00:49:47.719 twenty one dollars for each test. All you gotta do is call text six 535 00:49:47.840 --> 00:49:52.760 four six two two one six seven three eight, or you can email info 536 00:49:52.920 --> 00:49:58.519 at Kaplan Brain embody dot com. We have two offices. One offices in 537 00:49:58.679 --> 00:50:02.199 Emerson, New Jersey, and the other office is in New York City in 538 00:50:02.199 --> 00:50:06.920 the West Village. Now, we went over all these different things today. 539 00:50:07.559 --> 00:50:10.719 I'm gonna go over in more details in my seminar series. I've done sixth 540 00:50:10.760 --> 00:50:15.760 seminar series. It's always the last Wednesday of each month. The last one, 541 00:50:15.840 --> 00:50:20.320 this is a seventh and last one is a summary of all the other 542 00:50:20.559 --> 00:50:22.159 seminars. So this is the one to go to if you've missed them. 543 00:50:22.679 --> 00:50:27.159 This is a summary of every that way, it's like you've gone to all 544 00:50:27.199 --> 00:50:30.960 of them. So we literally are going to summarize everything from memory, focus, 545 00:50:30.039 --> 00:50:36.960 depression, anxiety, energy, sleep, inflammation, mastering, nutrition, 546 00:50:37.079 --> 00:50:42.840 brain exercises. We do the whole kitten kaboodle in one seminar, a whole 547 00:50:42.880 --> 00:50:45.280 summary. If you can't make it live in River Edge, New Jersey on 548 00:50:45.400 --> 00:50:51.039 July twenty six at six thirty pm, you can also do it over zoom. 549 00:50:51.559 --> 00:50:53.719 And if you can't do it over zoom, you can just request the 550 00:50:53.800 --> 00:50:58.840 recording and you can get the recording as well. But if you do come 551 00:50:58.880 --> 00:51:04.000 live, you can really get free massage, you get my free book, 552 00:51:04.199 --> 00:51:09.639 you get free food and drinks, and then you get my lecture which is 553 00:51:09.679 --> 00:51:14.760 normally one hundred dollars. All you have to pay is forty nine dollars and 554 00:51:14.880 --> 00:51:16.719 be one of the first seven people that I call. You get all that 555 00:51:17.039 --> 00:51:22.199 for only forty nine dollars, plus a recording that you could save forever and 556 00:51:22.320 --> 00:51:24.360 watch whenever you want. All you gotta do is call six four, six 557 00:51:24.440 --> 00:51:28.719 two two one, six, seven three eight tell me you want to sign 558 00:51:28.800 --> 00:51:31.360 up for the least of the seminar series for only forty nine dollars. Where 559 00:51:31.400 --> 00:51:37.039 you can email info at Kaplan Brainingbody dot com. Check out our website Kaplan 560 00:51:37.119 --> 00:51:42.239 duc dot com, subscribe to our YouTube channel Kaplan Brain and Body, and 561 00:51:42.280 --> 00:51:46.159 We're also on social media Kaplan Brain and Body, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, 562 00:51:46.639 --> 00:51:51.519 lots of ways to find me. I'm also the newspaper columnist for the 563 00:51:51.639 --> 00:51:54.760 Pascac Press and the Northern Valley Pressed and Burton County, New Jersey. I 564 00:51:54.800 --> 00:51:59.679 also have two books out, Boost your brain Power, A Guy to Improving 565 00:51:59.679 --> 00:52:02.920 your Memo Focus, which you can get on Amazon, and Concussion Discussions, 566 00:52:04.159 --> 00:52:07.599 which you can get at Concussion discussions dot com. Remember to function better, 567 00:52:07.679 --> 00:52:12.840 feel better, live a better life. See you next week. This is 568 00:52:13.000 --> 00:52:19.360 doctor Kaplan. You just listen to boost your brain power. Don't miss Boost 569 00:52:19.360 --> 00:52:23.360 your brain Power with doctor Eric Kaplin every Saturday from two pm to three pm 570 00:52:23.480 --> 00:52:29.159 to learn the secrets of how to optimize your brain function. 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