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boost your brain power. I'm your host, doctor Eric Kaplan. We're gonna
be talking about how to improve your brain function. If you want to improve
your memory, you want to prevent Alzheimer's, prevent dementia. The three most
important things are food, a healthy diet, lots of colors of the rainbow.
Avoid all the white foods, the sugar, the bread, the dairy.
And you want to eat all the colors of the rainbow red, orange,
yellow, green, blue, purple. That's nutrition. The second thing
is oxygen. We always need a lot of oxygen. There's good breathing exercise
you could do to improve your oxygen levels is to inhale for four seconds,
hold it for seven seconds, and exhale for eight seconds. When you inhale,
you want to breathe through your diaphragm, so you push your belly down
and out. That's going to maximize your lung capacity. On the exhale,
everything comebacks in. And we always want to x out twice as long as
we inhale. That's going to maximize oxygen. It's going to get rid of
the carbon dioxide and the carbon caregreate, acidity in the environment, and all
disease lives in an acidic environment. If you're environs more alkaline we're talking like
pH levels, then you're going to be healthier. If it's more acidic,
you're more likely to get sick. So there is food, oxygen and activation.
Activation is challenging your brain doing new activities. Learn a musical instrument,
learn a new dance move, learn a new language. Learn how to put
up a shelf, Learn how to change a tire, Learn how to filter
your water, learn how to clean your food, learn how to guard and
learn how to sew, learn how to build. Just learn something, and
hopefully it's with getting your body involved too. And you gotta challenge your brain.
You got to memorize things. Don't use all the technology. We don't
want digital dementia where our brains are getting worse because we look everything up on
Google and YouTube. Start using your brain and unplug from all the technology.
You have to challenge your brain. You use it or you'll lose it.
And that's one of the most important aspects is doing novel activities, new activities,
challenge yourself, but even just visiting new places, meeting new people,
okay, super important to improve memory. You can also do a brain exercise.
Just like you can exercise a muscle, you can exercise your brain.
And what you could do. A good exercise is called the crosscrawl exercise.
That's where you sort of march in place and you take your right hand and
tap your left knee as your marching and then you tap your left hand to
the right knee and you go back and forth right mean left knee, right
need left knee, and each time you tap you come up with some sort
of mental or cognitive exercise. So you say, okay, different colors,
different animals, different states, different countries, different cars, different sports,
different names, so anything. But every day you come up with something different.
That's a brain exercise to challenge yourself. You're moving your body, you're
working on your balance, you're working on your alignment, keep your body upright
for your posture, and then you're gonna cognitive exercise challenge your brain. The
idea is to get fifteen of each category within thirty seconds, So to cross
crawl exercise very good for the brain and to connect the left and the right
side. Now, focus, focus is also very important. We have a
lot of patients that come to us for focus, and people's minds are all
over the place. They're going a million miles per hour. So what we
want to do is shut down the brain and you can practice Mindfulness is good.
Mindfulness is when you only do one thing at a time. So when
you're at the gym, you're focusing on your muscles. You're not watching TV.
At the same time, you're not texting your friend, you're not talking
to your body. You're in gym mode. You know, that's your time
where you're focusing on your muscles, your heart, you're breathing, you're sweating.
That's what you want to do and you want to push. You gotta
challenge yourself. Got to start your heart beating best. You gotta start sweating.
I like HIT high intensity interval training, which is you go really hard
and then you're rest. You go really hard and then you rest all right,
So you could do a sprint and then a walk, a sprint and
then a walk. You know, you can apply it to whatever type of
exercise you like. So when you're in the gym. Be very mindful only
in the gym when you're eating dinner. Be mindful of eating dinner. Don't
be watching TV, reading the newspaper, going to social media. You want
to be smelling the food. You want to chew the food. Chew thirty
times for each bite. You know, I just had a patient ask me
about, you know some advice about acid reflux. I said, one of
the best things to do is to chew your food a lot, break everything
down in your mouth so that way your gut doesn't have to work as hard.
Feel that food, taste that food, Smell that food. It's better
to use your hands than to use utensils. The digestive process starts from the
second even before. Once you look at the food and your hand goes towards
the food, the digestive process starts. So you want to touch the food.
You want to feel the food. You want to slowly put it in
your mouth, let your lips taste it, your tongue and taste to chew
the food, over and over and over again. Focus on eating. Focus
on the colors of the rainbow that you're eating. Focus on the smells of
the food, the texture of the food. Use all your senses. So
when you're eating dinner, focus on eating dinner. That's mindfulness. Okay,
when you're studying, right or reading, you don't want to be reading and
then talking to your spouse and then reading with the TV in the background and
reading and then you're texting somebody. So you want to turn your phone on
airplane mode, close the door in the private office. You want to say,
Okay, for the next half hour, i am just reading. I'm
not doing anything else. I'm focused on my book. I'm focused on my
comprehension. I'm focused on my studying. That's practicing mindfulness. That's helps with
your focus. When you're listening to music. A really good exercise to increase
focus when listening to music is to focus on one instrument. So let's say
you're listening to a band play but only listen to the piano. Really focus
on the piano, and theo will become louder, and all the other instruments,
you know, whether it's the guitar or the bass, or the drums
or the saxophone, that will all diminish and sound. If you're really practicing
this exercise, well, you practice on the drums and you only hear the
drums, and all of a sudden, the drums will become super loud,
and the guitar becomes super soft, and the piano you can't hear as well
because you're focused only on one instrument. That will shut down these overactive areas
of your brain. To help improve focus, there's so many good ideas to
practice, folks. You could just be walking on the street of New York
City and you could just listen to the person's heels hitting the payment in front
of you, and you ignore the cars and the yelling and the screaming and
the sirens and all the sounds of New York City showed all that off,
and just listen to the person's heel touching the ground. That's going to improve
your focus. An easy brain exercise you could do for your focus is where
you just look straight ahead at a painting or something on your wall about eye
level arm's length, and you just slowly turn your head right and left ten
times and up and down ten times, but keeping your eyes laser focus on
that one point. If it's a person, like on that one nostril or
something, and you know something really, if it's a cat, just one
little whisker. The end of the whisker like, focus on something and turn
your head slowly ten times right and left, and then slowly ten times up
and down. That's an exercise to improve your focus. Okay, now let's
talk about anxiety. There's lots of exercise you could do to reduce anxiety.
One of the most important things is to activate your vagus nerve. People's vegas
nerve isn't working. They're stuck in a stress mode. We call that the
fight or flight mode. That means they're vegas nerve isn't working properly. So
you could do exercises to stimulate the vegas nerve. One exercise is gargling.
You want to goggle really intensely. The louder the goggle, the greater activation
of that vegas nerve. Another exercise you could do is the gag reflex.
Don't do that if you have a history of alimia or anything. You just
do it once and it stimulates this vegas nerve. That all doctors are taught
this in school, But what we want to do is use it as therapy.
We're taught this as a way to diagnosa problem. But what do you
do if you diagnosed the weak muscle, you exercise it. So what are
we going to do if we diagnose a weak nerve, we exercise it.
This is an exercise a vegas nerve. Could do thirty seconds of gargling really
intensely the three times a day, and then you just do the gag reflex
just once because it's really powerful to stimulate that vegas nerve and that in turn
will help reduce anxiety. Sometimes you have to make life changes. Sometimes you
might have to quit a bad job because your boss causes too much stress,
or you have bad coworkers, or you're not passionate about the field you're in.
Sometimes you got to get a divorced because you know it's just not working
out with your spouse. You know, you guys aren't meeting eye to eye,
and you know it's always fighting and it's always yelling, and it's traumatic
and it's screaming and it's emotional, and that could be a source of anxiety.
You could have to maybe move out of stressful place. Maybe New York
City is too much for you, got to move out into the suburbs of
New Jersey. Maybe that there's too much stress at your job. Maybe there's
too much stress in your living. Maybe there's too much stress in your relationship.
Sometimes you have to make life changes to reduce your anxiety. That's not
always the case. I always, you know, suggest working on yourself first
to reduce anxiety. So that's why you know, when you listen to this
radio show, I teach you things that you could work on yourself first,
and hopefully you know your work situation gets better, or your relationship gets better,
your living situation is easier to handle. So it's always best to deal
with from within because you can't necessarily change people or the outside world. So
you always got to change from within so you can function better, feel better,
and live a better life more when we come back from the break,
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dc dot com. Welcome back to boost your brain power. I'm your host,
doctor Eric Kaplan. So so far we've covered how to improve your brain
function, how to increase your memory, how to improve your focus, how
to reduce anxiety. Next, we're going to talk about depression. So there's
a lot of depression, especially since COVID nineteen and all this isolation. Isolation
is the worst thing for depression. So you got to be social. You
gotta get out of the house and you gotta meet new people or spend time
with your family and friends. The worst thing for depression is sitting at home
watching TV, going on social media, grows on YouTube, you know,
just literally staying at home with no social interaction. You have to be social
you gotta touch, hug somebody, hold somebody's hand, you know. So
touch is very important for depression as well, even if you have to get
a massage or something, but at least you're getting human contact, or get
a dog. Pet contact is good too. So one of the best ways
to get out of a depress is to get a dog or a cat,
someone that's going to cut all in love and play all right. So that's
a good thing for depression. Another good thing for depression is the sun.
Vitamin D is the easiest way to get out of a depression. You've got
to get in that sun. You know. It's differently of a history of
skin cancer, but for most people, we want you out in the sun
all the time. That actually prevents cancer, it prevents Alzheimer's, it prevents
heart disease, prevents immune system problems. That boost your immune system so you
don't get COVID nineteen and lime disease. And you know, one of the
biggest ways to boost your immune system is to increase vitamin D levels. Very
good for your hormones, your thyroid. There's so many people with thyroid problems.
If your vitamin D is low, your thyroid isn't going to function at
the highest level and depression. You know, vitamin D has been proven through
research to reduce symptoms of depression. Most people are vitamin D deficient, especially
in New York and New Jersey. In fact, I haven't tested a person
since two thousand that is not vitamin D deficient who lives up in New York
and New Jersey unless they're taking a good supplement of vitamin DATE Like I used
to be vitamin D deficient until I started supplementing properly. I like apex Energetics.
They're the most quality vitamin D. Nine Vitamin d's out there are crap.
They're filled with fillers, contaminants, impurities. They don't get absorbed properly,
so most vitamin d's do not work right. So be careful. Don't
just run to CBS and get a vitamin D. It's not going to be
good for you. Email me or text me if you're interested in the best,
highest quality vitamin D very good for depression. And then exercise. You
gotta exercise every single morning. You gotta boost your brain power. I don't
care if it's just two to five minutes, but you're gonna do something every
day. Just even just sprint to the end of the block and sprint back,
take a shower, get ready to go. I don't care if it's
two minutes. But do something. Do ten pushups, ten jumping Jack's,
ten sit ups. You don't need equipment, you don't need a gym,
but do something. But every single day, every single morning of your life,
for the rest of your life, you have to exercise. If you
don't want to be depressed, if you want to improve your memory, if
you want to increase your focus, if you don't want to have anxiety,
you have to exercise every single day. Okay, super important. All right,
let's talk about sleep, your circadian rhythms. There's lots of rules for
sleep. If you're gonna get proper brain function, you gotta get proper sleep.
So what we want to do. The ideal way is to eat from
ten am to six pm and to sleep from ten pm to six am.
That's your eight hours of sleep. During the summer, you can get away
with seven hours because the sunlight is out, so you can get up a
little bit earlier, you know, get up at five instead of six,
so you go ten to five seven hours, but ten to six should be
able to do it for most of the year. Right now, how do
you do that? Number One, after six o'clock, no more eating.
We said, you're only eating from ten am to six pm. Eating increases
cortisol, which is going to interrupt your sleep. It's the stress Harmone.
You don't need to eat at night. The reason we eat is for energy.
So why are we going to eat for energy when we just want to
get a good night's sleep. So you want to eat like a king for
breakfast, a prince for lunch, and a pauper for dinner. Done by
six pm. And even if you get hungry it's eight pm, just drink
some lemon water with a pink pinch of pink m lay salt for your minerals.
Eat. So anytime you get hungry, just drink water, go outside,
distract yourself, Do not go in the kitchen, Do not go grazing.
You have to get rid of the food after six pm. Also after
six pm, we got to get rid of electronics. Turn off the TV,
turn off, the computer, turn off, the cell phone, turn
off, the iPad, turn off all these smart devices, computers, video
games. All that is going to increase cortisol. And that's going to interrupt
your deep sleep. So not only do you not want to eat after six
pm, you also do not want to use electronics after six pm. You
gotta unplug now. The best thing to do during sunset is to go outside
and literally take that twenty minutes to a half hour to watch the sun set.
Not only is it beautiful esthetically pleasing, good anxiety depression, but it
also is good for your circadian rhythms to get you into good sleep patterns because
your brain sees the sun go down and now says, Okay, I'm gonna
bring down cortisol and I'm gonna increase melatonin so I can get that deep sleep.
You shouldn't need to supplement with melatonin. All you need to do is
use the sunlight. The sun will do the hormone release for you, but
you can't you're inside, you can't see the sun. So you have to
go outside during sunset so your brain can see the sun go down and it
will release melatonin. Conversely, when you wake up watch the sun rise.
When you watch the sun rise, you're going to increase cortisol, increase testosterone,
get your body ready for the day. So if we want good circadian
rhythms and good sleep pattern. You walk outside during sunrise and you walk outside
and watch the sun set. Another very important thing for sleep is consistency.
So you've got to be consistent. What I mean by that is we said
you got to sleep from ten to six. So every single day, ten
o'clock is your bedtime. It's not ten thirty, it's not ten fifteen,
it's not ninety five, it's not eleven, it's not eleven fifteen. It's
every single night it's ten o'clock. You got to do that for twenty one
straight days for your brain to get rewired and to get in that good,
proper circadian room. Do all these habits for twenty one straight days, rewire
your brain, and you will start to sleep better so your brain can get
in those delta brain waves, replenish, reoxygenate, rejuvenate, detox, absorb,
do all the proper bodily functions that need to occur while you're sleeping from
ten pm to six am. You don't want to be rolling over, getting
up to pee once or twice a night. You just want to be out
for eight straight hours. Your sleep as a rhythm of basically ninety minutes to
two hours. So basically you want to train your brain to get these good
sleeping patterns. Four deep sleep patterns every night. Twelve sorry, ten to
twelve is the first one, twelve to two is the second one, two
to four is the third, and four to six is the fourth. You
get four good deep sleep patterns, you will feel like a million dollars when
you wake up, rather than being all groggy and wanting to press the snooze
alarm and stay asleep. Okay, Now, when you get good sleep,
you also improve your energy. So if you're looking to increase your energy,
we got to do those circadium rhythm measures, so you can increase your oxygen
levels increase your energy levels. Right, So there's lots of things to increase
oxygen. We can do a hyperbaric oxygen chamber that really increases people's energy.
Hyperbaric oxygen chamber takes about an hour. It's really nice. You lie in
this like little bed and you just kind of whatever you want to do,
meditate, listen to some music. I like to just go to sleep and
relax. But what it is. The normal atmosphere is twenty percent oxygen and
the oxygen chamber is one hundred percent oxygen, so it takes out all that
carbon dioxide, all that nitrogen, all the bad stuff and gives you one
hundred percent oxygen. It was originally invented for the bends people went deep sea
diving and got dizzy and stuff. But then people start getting their skin lesions
and scars started healing, and then people with lyme disease starting getting better.
And now they use it for COVID nineteen. And you know, it's pretty
much used for everything. Anyone who just wants to boost their energy, boost
their brain power, whether it's Parkinson's or stroke, or MS or aropathy or
you know, immune system, thyroid problems, autism, it really doesn't matter.
People just like to use this hyperbaric oxygen chamber just to increase their healing
time, just to improve the function of their brain, just to increase their
energy. To me, I like it for it makes me stronger, it
increases my sports performance, gets me better, sleep, more energy, I
can think, clear less brain fog. So everybody uses it for a different
purpose, all right, But that's one way to increase your energy. Getting
up every twenty minutes super important. I call it the twenty rule. If
you have a desk job, you gotta get up every twenty minutes, walk
for twenty feet also look twenty feet away and just take twenty seconds every twenty
minutes. So it's not that hard to do, but to really increase your
energy. Okay, that way you'll function better, feel better, live a
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brain power. I am your host doctor Eric Kaplan. We're talking about how
to improve your brain function. You know, we talked about memory and focus,
depression, anxiety, sleep, energy, all important factors for your health
and your well being. Now, if you're interested in getting really in depth
about this, I've been going over these topics for the last six months.
I have the Boost your Brainpower Seminar series, which has been the last Wednesday
of every month, and we've covered all these topics. Now, if you've
missed these seminars, there is one last seminar left and that is July twenty
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want to record and let them know as well. All right, So other
stuff we're gonna be reviewing at the Boost your Brain Power boot Camp is nutrition.
You know, that's very important. You know, to stay away from
all the inflammatory foods. Inflammation is the cause of most dysfunction. So nutrition,
we're gonna go over what foods you should eat. Right, So we
said all the colors of the rainbow every single day, just get them through
your fruits and ve vestables. You know, you don't don't eat anything too
much every day with nutrition, right. You don't want to eat kale every
day. You don't want to eat broccoli every day. You don't want to
eat chicken every day. You don't want to eat fish every day. You
don't want to eat eggs every day. You don't want to eat nuts every
day. You gotta be careful when you think you're eating healthy food, but
you keep eating the same foods over and over and over again. Your brain
likes variety, so I want you to start having more of a variety in
your diet because each of these different foods might have some different nutrients. They
might have a little stuff that could add to other areas like your liver or
your immune system, or your kidneys or you know, so you want to
eat all these different types of foods. If you keep eating the same foods
over and over again, they're gonna lose their effect on your health. I
have so many patients that keep taking vitamin C over and over and over again.
You know, this isn't like a third world country where we have these
people dying of scurvy, which is a vitamin C deficiency. There's so much
food in America, it's very rare to have a vitamin C deficiency. Now,
what you want to do, Let's say, if you're feeling sick or
run down or something, then it's time to really increase your vitamin C levels.
Then it's going to become more effective. But if you're taking vitamin C
all the time and then you get sick and then you're like, oh,
I'm gonna take vitamin SAY, your body is so used to it, it's
not going to have any effect on it. But if you want to use
vitamin C or zinc or something like that when you need a big boost or
more importantly, when you're deficient. So that's why it's good to do blood
work. If you want to master nutrition, you have to master your blood
work. You got to do a full thyroid panel, a full anemia panel,
we got to do full electrolyte panel, metabolic panel. We got to
get to the nit ingredient. Figure out what your problems are internally, where
your deficiencies are, and only take supplements if it is a deficiency or there's
a major problem that's found in your body. All right, you're not going
to take a multivitamin. That's not smart. You're not deficient in all those
vitamins. And like I said before, a lot of these supplements are full
of contaminants, fillers, even heavy metals, you know, impurities, stuff
that doesn't get absorbed, food dies, even preservatives. It's bad. Don't
oversupplement. Supplements can be dangerous, just like medication can be dangerous. But
nobody's telling you the danger when you take these medications. Nobody's telling you the
danger when you take these supplements. Everybody's telling you they're safe. I'm here
to tell you they're not safe. And sometimes times the food isn't safe.
If you're getting all this conventional food, you know, and if you're getting
all this stuff filled with glypha sate, which is round up. You know,
if that means you're not weighing organic. You know, if you're getting
all this stuff full of pesticides and herbicides and you're eating meat that's you know,
fed genetically modified corn, and it's you know, animals stuck with hormones
and you know, antibiotics, and they're you know, raised in humanely and
they're separated from their family and they're not allowed to exercise, and they're stuck
in some cage or some room or some small part where they can't live their
life and they're you know, farm raised, And you know, you gotta
be careful if you're eating all this crappy food. If you eat an anxiety
cow, you're gonna get anxiety. If you eat an antibiotic egg, you're
gonna get antibiotic. If you're going to eat a hormone pig, you're gonna
get hormones. So you know, it's not just what you're eating, it's
what is your food that you're eating eating, or what drugs are they taking,
or how is their mental state? You know, if mom is anxious
when she's breastfeeding, she's going to give anxious milk to that baby. If
you're drinking cow's milk, guess what. I guarantee that cow is anxious.
That's going to create anxiety, that's going to create depression. Cow's milk has
even been linked to Parkinson's in Alzheimer's disease. It's been linked to autoimmune disease.
If you have hashimotos, if you have siliac, if you have rheumatoid
arthritis, if you have psoriasis orreatic arthritis, if you have fibromyalgia, if
you have MS, multiple sclerosis, if you have Schougrin's disease, if you
have any of these autoimmune disease lupus, ray nods, alopecia, X amount,
these are all autoimmune responses. You have to stay away from dairy.
You are not a cow. Our bodies cannot digest cow milk. You can't.
I don't care. If it's butter yogurt, I don't care. If
it's stuff people tell you that it's healthy. If it's from a cow's utter,
it is not healthy. It's going to create this function and inflammation in
your body. It's one of the worst things that you could put in your
body. Same things with the wheat, rye and barley products. They are
sprayed. All these grains are sprayed with these chemicals. They cross breed these
seeds, they use genetically modified materials. I mean, it's pretty insane.
All these autoimmune reactions when you have poor nutrition, all these allergies, all
these skin diseases, hives and x amount. It all comes from the diet.
So we got to be very careful with the foods that we're eating.
So we have to get organic, wild grass fed, free roaming, free
range. That's your nutrition. Super important to reduce inflammation, right, you
gotta get rid of all the heavy metals. Gotta get rid of all the
plastics. Got to get rid of all the electromagnetic frequencies. We got to
get rid of all the cleaning, the cleaning stuff, the dyes, the
makeups, the suntan lotions, a lot of these toothpastes, all these candies
and sports drinks. Anything in boxes and cans and bags is more likely to
cause inflammation. All the white foods. Sugar causes inflammation, Milk causes inflammation,
bread causes inflammation. You know, we got to reduce that inflammation.
Corn and soy, alcohol, coffee all causes inflammation, irritation. If you
want to bring down the inflammation, you have to avoid all the products that
cause inflammation. Your cookware, make sure you use stainless steel. Your water
bottles, make sure you use glass or stainless steel. Stop using plastics that
is highly inflammatory. Don't store your food in plastics. Don't cook your food
in plastics. Don't eat your food out of plastic, don't drink your drinks
out of plastics. Start using glass and start using stainless steel. Don't use
teflon, non stick. We gotta get rid of all those chemicals. Use
more natural cleaning stuff lemon, baking, soda, vinegar. You could use
cheap, easy effective stuff to clean your house, To clean your clothes that
doesn't cause brain inflammation. Super important if you want to function better, feel
better, and live a better life. We're talking about this because we want
to boost your brain power. And an ounce of prevention is worth a pound
of cure. Don't wait till you get these problems to start doing these suggestions.
And if you have these suggestions, I recommend starting asap. I don't
care if it's Saturday. Don't wait till Monday morning. Start now. If
you want you've got food in your refrigerator account of give it to homeless,
tryborough give it to some shelter, You give it to a charity you know,
help some other people. But for you, we're getting healthy. Okay,
more when we come back from the brain. If you want to improve
your brain function, help with memory, focus, sleep, digestion, energy,
depression, anxiety, dizziness, balance, vision, headaches, brain fog,
weight loss, or simply want to maximize your human potential and prevent future
diseases, then this is the show for you. Don't miss boost your brain
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approaches to modern day medical problems such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's stroke, autism,
add concussion, autoimmune diseases in some fibromyalgia, vertigo, migrains for posture pain,
TBI, skin and digestive problems. Doctor Kemplin is most famous for getting
to the root cause of a wide variety of brain and health conditions, rather
than treating symptoms with traditional medicines and risky surgeries. To contact to doctor Kemplin,
you can call this team at two O one two six one two five
zero or visit his website at Kaplan DC dot com. Welcome back to boost
your brain power. I'm your host, doctor Eric Kaplan. We're talking about
how to improve your brain function. The brain is like a muscle. You'll
use it or you'll lose it. So a good brain exercise to strengthen your
brain. Everyone could try this at home. With your left legs to get
straight out and draw clockwise circles in the air. Now keep drawing these clockwise
circles with your left leg in the air. But at the same time,
with your left hand, raw the number six in the air. As you're
drawing clockwise circles. Now, be careful. Sometimes when you draw the number
six with the left hand, the leg will automatically start going counterclockwise, So
keep an eye on that. So make sure the leg is going clockwise and
the hand is going counterclockwise. That is a brain exercises to strengthen your brain.
Now, it's always good to do brain exercises to strengthen your brain.
Right, So a lot of my patients say, oh, let's do the
crossword puzzle every day. But that's good, but you're not moving your body
right, You're just sitting in a chair in the newspaper. This exercise I
gave you. You're moving your body. You're doing these circles with your legs,
circles with the hand. The other exercise I gave you that crosscrawl,
you're tapping your opposite leg. Even the eye exercise, you're moving your head.
So it's always good to do brain exercises while you're moving your body.
However, if you are doing brain exercises while you're sitting, switch it up
though. You know, if you do the crossword puzzle on Monday, do
lumosity on Tuesday, and Sudoku on Wednesday, and a maze on Thursday,
and a word jumble on Friday, and then play a poker game on Saturday,
and then play Monopoly on Sunday, and then play chess on the Monday.
And so you get the idea. Every day you do a different type
of brain game, something fun, maybe something social even better, play scrabble
with your family, or you know, do something where you gotta think but
it's fun and you're laughing and having a good time and social as well.
So every day do a new type of brain activity, got it, that's
going to boost your brain power. Now, it's very important to do these
general brain exercises, But it's even more important to do specific brain exercises for
your brain function because everybody's brain is differently. I might have weak areas of
my brain that I need to work on more, but that area of your
brain might be very good and you don't necessarily need to work on it as
much as I would. But you might need to work on a different part
of your brain. So how are you going to figure out which part of
your brain you need to work on the best way to do that is through
a q EG brain mapping. This is a non invasive test with no radiation.
There's no risk. You don't have to sit in a small, claustrophobic
tube for forty five minutes. You don't have to take any contrast fluid.
There's no radiation like X rays or cat scans or pet scans or stuff like
that. But what it does is measure your brain ways by analyzing each area
of the brain. All you have to do is wear this little cap.
It looks like a swimmer's cap, and it's going to have electrodes and all
different spots for all the different areas of the brain, and it reads all
the different areas of your brain and actually tells us the location of the areas
of dysfunction, and based on that location, it will tell us, Hey,
do you have problems with insomnia, you have sleep deprivation? Do you
have short term memory problems? You have long term do you have working memory
problems? You have chronological memory problems. Do you have troubles with focus?
Do you have brain FID. Do you have anxiety? Do you have feared?
You have worry? Do you have an anger? Do you have aggression?
Do you have a thyroid problem. Do you have atestinal problem and there
dopamine levels are low? Or your mitochondrial now working? Is your brain inflamed
in the white manner? Did you have a concussion? Is there possible having
me I know poisoning? Is there a pathology of virus? So it really
narrows everything down for you and gives us good answers of how your brain is
functioning. It's one of the best tests you could do. It's normally five
hundred dollars, but we're going to do a special For the first seven people
that call, text or email, you could get the q EG brain mapping
for only twenty one dollars. All you have to do is call six four
six, two two, one, six, seven three eight, or you
can email info at Kaplan, brain embody dot com. The next BEX test
is called a VNG videostography. This is also a non invasive test. It's
very quick that only takes about fifteen minutes. What you do is you wear
these goggles and there's infrared cameras that measure your eye movements, and we measure
fast eye movements and slow eye movements, and how you spun to light,
and how you spond to a head turn and a body turn, and how
you respond when the eyes go up and down and left and right, and
how to respond when stuff comes over and over again, and what's your reaction
time and your speed. And it really tells us how the different areas of
the brain are integrating and most importantly, are there imbalances of the left brain
and the right brain. Is one brain overactive and that's creating the anxiety or
the sleep problems, or is one part of the brain underactive and that's creating
more of the depression and the brain fog and the lack of motivation and the
trouble focusing in memory. So or maybe yeah, both maybe of areas that
are overactive in areas that are underactive. So the VNG is great. The
qEEG kind of tells us where the problems and what area the brains are the
problem. But the VNG tells us he is there imbalance of left to right?
Do we have to decrease stimulation here? Do we have to increase stimulation
there? So it gives us more details. That's another great test. That
test is also normally five hundred dollars, but for the first seven people that
sign up for the v and you can also get that for only twenty one
dollars, and you could do both. You could do the q EEG brain
mapping as well as the VG. All you have to do is call,
text or email. The number again is six four six two two one six
seven three eight, or you can email info at Kaplan, Brain embody dot
com. The last test that I'm going to suggest is a one on one
test with me, yours truly, doctor Eric Kaplan. And this is a
forty five minute test. So we spend a lot of time together. We
go over your history, we go over your health goals, go over any
past test you've done, any blood work, any MRIs. Then we do
an evaluation we do a physical evaluation, a neurologic evaluation, So we might
check your heart, check your lungs, check your blood pressure, check your
pulse, your oxygen. We might check your balance, check your memory,
check your coordination, your gate, how you walk, how you talk,
how you move your muscles, your nerves, your bones. It's a pretty
thorough evaluation, focusing on the areas that you need the most work on.
And then you could tell me your health goals, and then after the evaluation,
I would give you my suggestions as far as my recommendations to achieve those
health goals. A one on one evaluation with me is also normally five hundred
dollars, but if you're one of the first seven people to call, text
or email, you can get that as well for only twenty one dollars.
You could do all three the q EG brain mapping to measure your brain waves,
v infrared goggles to measure imbalances of the left and right brain, as
well as overactive areas and underactive areas, and you can do a one on
one with me also for only twenty one dollars. All you have to do
is call six four six, two two, one, six, seven,
three eight or you can email info at Kaplan Brain embody dot com. Now
don't call sign up if you're looking for an easy, quick fix. If
you want a doctor to just write a prescription for a pill or some supplement
that's going to magically cure everything, there is no magic supplement, there is
no magic medication. But there is the magic of the human body. And
what I do is teach you, through a process or called neuroplasticity, how
to rewire your brain to function better, feel better, live a better life.
But you got to put the work in. I'm going to figure out
what areas of your brain or your nervous system aren't functioning properly, and then
teach you what you need to do. Remember, the brain controls everything.
If you have high blood pressure, you better sign up for this evaluation because
your brain controls your blood pressure. If you have gastrotensitional bonds, you better
sign up for this evaluation because guess what controls the stomach distance is your brain.
If you have a thyroid problem, you check this because your brain controls
your thyroid. Your brain controls your liver, your kidneys, your adrenal gland,
your lungs, your immune system. So if you have any health concern,
This is what you want to take advantage if you are otivated and ready
to put into work. I'm not gonna do it for you, but I'm
going to teach you how to do it, which I believe is a better
because it's a permanent solution. It's not just a band aid covering up symptoms
or problems. We always get to the root cause in a every holistic and
natural way, without any drugs, without any surgeries, without any inject actions.
We don't have to radiate you. It's all natural, holistic, and
integratetive because that's how the body was formed, That's how the body was functioned,
and that's how the body will heal itself. If you're interested, you
can also check out I have a couple of books out. One book is
called Boost your Brain Power, a Guide to improving your memory and Focus.
You can get that on Amazon, or you can call the office and we
can get you a copy if you want to sign copy. I also have
a book called Concussion Discussions. You can get that through Concussion Discussions dot com.
I'm a co author in that. It's a bunch of doctors that heal
people with concussion and traumatic Brain Injuries. That's a great book as well.
And if you're interested in our social media, we have Facebook, Capitalin Brain,
Body, have Instagram, Mony, TikTok, Kaplan, Brain and Body.
We're on YouTube Kaplan Body have offices one in Emerston, New Jersey,
and we have lots of good great assistance and staff and team members and equipment
and high tech stuff and all up to date. So patients really love our
Emerson office and my original office. My baby I love New York City and
we're in the West Village. It's a great neighborhood just to not only come
to get your brain evaluated, but also just to enjoy the wonders of New
York City, the greatest city in the world, great neighborhood, very safe
and happy there. So we always love seeing our patients in New York City
as well, and we also see a lot of people virtually, so for
people listening to this show from California and Florida and people in Italy and France.
I know we got some people listening in Australia. You could do this
one on one with me virtually over Zoom, FaceTime, WhatsApp, whenever you
have access to we can make it happen, so we can improve your function
and take care of your health goals in a natural way without any risks or
side effects. Hope you enjoined the show. We look forward to seeing you
next week. This is doctor Eric Kaplan. You are listening to boost your
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