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listening to boost your brain power. This week, we're going to talk about
how to boost your mood. A guide to preventing depression and anxiety. But
the good news is, even if you do have depression or anxiety, there's
a process called neuroplasticity, and what that means is that we can rewire your
brain. And if we rewire your brain, you can strengthen the weak areas.
That's what depression is. It's a weak area of your brain. It's
usually the frontal cortex. Now, what would you do with a muscle's weak.
That's right, You're going to exercise. So what are you going to
do if your brain's weak. You have to exercise. Yes, you've got
to physically exercise, but you also have to mentally exercise, cognitively exercise,
socially exercise, So there's all different types of exercises. Right, if you
want to get out of depression, you need to exercise your brain. You
might also need vitamin D. That's where seasonal affect disorder comes from. Low
vitamin D people get depressed in the winter. Right, we need to strengthen
your brain. Now, when do people get depression and when do people get
anxiety? People get depression when they think about the past, and people get
anxiety when they think about the future. So what are we gonna do about
that? We have to live in the moment, live in today. There's
a famous saying in AA one day at a time. Right, So if
you're trying to quit alcohol, you're going to be depressed about all the stuff
that happened in the past, but then you're also going to be anxious about
the future. So what you do is you have to live one day at
a time, one hour at a time, one minute at a time.
That's when you're really living in the moment. That's practicing mindfulness, and that's
one of the best ways to boost your mood. Mindfulness. Mindfulness is being
in the moment. Okay, if you're listening to this show right now,
but then you're cooking or cleaning, or exercising or watching your kids or you
know, doing driving, I get okay, driving is good, So I
have a lot of listeners that do it while they're driving, and I have
a lot of listeners that do it while they're just on a couch or in
bed. But if you're trying to, you know, read the newspaper and
listen to the show, you're trying to do your homework and listen to the
show, and you're trying to, you know, just in the background noise
with other things, then you're not gonna be able to remember all the stuff
that we're talking about. So when you're practicing mindfulness, it's like, Okay,
let me sit at my desk, let me listen to the show,
let me take a bunch of notes during the commercial break, let me try
and repeat the most important things. Your brain can store three important facts at
a time. So what I like to do during the show is give you
three good facts, let your brain absorb it. Then there's a break.
Then i'm gonna give you three more good facts. There's a break, and
then i'm gonna give you three more good facts. Then there's a break.
Then i'm gonna give you three more good facts. So you can hopefully get
twelve good facts that you could utilize to boost your brain power. Each and
every show every week. But if you're not practicing mindfulness and you're not focused
on the show, you're not gonna get it. And I do repeat myself,
and that's a good thing. I'll say a lot of things over and
over and over again, because yes, not everybody's gonna get it on the
first try. But you gotta practice. You know, my son, he
gets frustrated practicing basketball. He's like, Daddy, I can't I can't get
the ball in the hoop. He said, you gotta keep practicing. Nobody
gets it in the hoop on the first try and the second try and a
third try. You gotta do things over and over and over again. Just
don't beat yourself up. That'll create more anxiety, more depression. The key
and I spoke about this before. Depression is progress. You have to make
progress. So when he's playing basketball, instead of missing every shot on the
first day, maybe on the second day he hits at least one shot,
and then on the third and fourth day he hits two shots, and then
three shots, and then it ends up being ten shots and twenty shots and
thirty shots and fifty shots. And it's all up to him if he wants
to be Kobe Bryan. He's got to do it every single day, hour
after hour after hour, until it's fifty shots, sixty shots, one hundred
shots, two hundred shots, a thousand shots. So whatever your goal is
in life, you got to have that Kobe Bryant mentality. Kobe Bryant is
a great basketball player. He's no longer with us, unfortunately, but when
he was playing basketball, he was an inspiration because he practiced more than anybody.
He tried harder than anybody. You know, he was in LA everyone
was going out partying, clubbing, drinking drugs, and he was just practice,
practice, practice, and that's why he was always the best. He
was committed to his craft. What's your craft? You want to improve your
memory, you gotta work at it. You gotta work at it every day.
Are you doing memory exercises every day? Do you want to improve your
vision, you gotta work at it. You gotta do vision exercises every single
day. You want to get your muscle stronger, you gotta do weight resistant
exercises every day. It's not rocket science. Whatever your weakness is, whatever
your goal is, that's what you gotta do. But you gotta do it
consistently every single day. If you're not consistent, you won't get the results.
Life is not easy. If you want results, you've got to work
for it. What do you want to work for? Do you want to
work on your depression, then you gotta follow these suggestions. You want to
work on your anxiety, you gotta follow these suggestions. Next week, I'm
gonna talk about sleep and energy, right, So if that's something you want
to improve, listen to the show next week, but be prepared. Like
I said, get a piece of paper, write everything down. I'm gonna
give you twelve facts on how to improve your sleep and your energy. That's
next week. This week we're talking about boosting your mood, how to prevent
depression and anxiety. Right. Mindfulness is key, especially for anxiety. So
when you're eating dinner, don't be scrolling on your cell phone on social media.
When you're eating dinner, look at the colorful food that you have.
Smell the aromas, taste everything, the sweet, the sour, the salty,
the bitter. Imagine those flavors, the pungent smells. Chew your food
thirty five times. Chew, chew, chew. You don't want to swallow
your food with big whole chunks. You want to chew it into such small
pieces to make it easier in digestive system. There's so many people with digestive
problems these days. You got to start chewing your food. I really like
ier Vedic medicine. They teach you to eat with your hands. That's part
of your digestive system. When you use a knife and a fork and a
spoon, you're bypassing part of the digestive system. You want to eat with
your hands. You want to feel the food because when you touch the food,
then your brain starts releasing the proper enzymes, the stomach acid, the
bile, the bacteria needs to break down the food to absorb your nutrients to
utilize everything properly. You don't want to eat but not absorb your nutrients because
of poor digestion. So an Iervedic medicine they have you eat with your hands.
They also sit on the ground when you eat. When you poop,
you should put your feet up higher than the floor, so you get like
a little stool that helps with the digestive process based on the position of the
intestines. Okay, so these are good things to practice. So when you're
practicing mindfulness and you're eating feel the food, taste the food, touch the
food, smell the food, feel the food, don't be on Facebook,
start focusing on your food and chew thirty five times. Also, don't drink
water with your meal. You want to drink water a half hour before your
meal. That makes it harder to digest your food as well. And another
thing to aid in digestion if you have digestive problems is food combining. This
is where you only eat proteins by themselves. You won't eat proteins with a
carbohydrate, and you won't eat proteins with a fruit. When you eat a
carbohydrate, you only eat a carbohydrate. You don't eat that with a protein,
and you don't eat a carbohydrate with a fruit. And then when you
eat a fruit, you eat a fruit by itself. And you always want
to have fruit as an appetizer before the meal. Fruit are very easy to
digest. It only takes twenty minutes, so it's a great appetizer. Many
people will eat fruit at the end of the meal. That's the worst thing
to do because that will mess up your whole Enzymes. Proteins have certain enzymes,
carbohydrates have certain enzymes, fruit have other enzymes, so that's why it's
good to separate your food and not combine the different types of enzymes. Now,
vegetables, those are good. They can really be eaten with anything,
and they help with digestion because of their high water content. So you can
have vegetables. But things with seeds those are fruit. So anything with seeds
those are fruit. Eat those first and don't eat the seeds, but just
eat the fruit part. And then if you have a protein, you can
have that with a vegetable, and then if you have a carbohydrate, you
could have that with a vegetable as well. That's food combining that aids in
digestion. So you're practicing mindfulness by being really focused on the food and how
you eat and what you eat and when you eat it. That's practicing mindfulness.
When you go to the gym, you practice working at the gym.
You're focused on the muscles, your heartbeat, you're breathing, you're sweating,
you're focused on your form. You're focusing on the different areas you're trying to
work on. Anaerobic exercises, aerobic exercises, calisthenics, body weights. So
focus on exercise, not on your emails. Don't check your emails between sets,
focus on the gym. When you're on date night with your spouse or
your girlfriend or boyfriend or whoever it is. You're taking your kids out,
you're hanging out with your brother, your sister, or going out with a
friend. So when you go out, you're focused on those people. Don't
have your cell phone on the table at all. Practicing mindfulness is being totally
about being with that person and ask them questions about their lives. People love
to talk about themselves, So when you're practicing mindful, as you go out
with someone, ask people about their lives and you'll find most people have a
lot of interesting things to talk about and you'll actually enjoy it. But be
with that person. Don't be checking your text messages or looking what time it
is, and you know, telling them where you got to go after this.
Be in the moment. That's mindfulness. With your friends and family members.
When you're at church or temple or praying, be with God, be
in the moment. Be spiritual as you can. When you're playing sports,
be focused. When you're reading a book, focus only on that book.
When you're in school, be the best student ever. When you're doing your
job, be in work mode. Say I'm going to be the best worker
ever. Don't do the bare minimum. Be in that moment. So if
you're at work but you're checking your emails, you're on social media, you're
on Facebook, you're not practicing mindfulness. If you get away from all those
distractions, you're going to be the best worker ever. And then when you
come home after work and you're at home with the family, you got to
be in dad mode. You're not in work mode anymore. Don't do work
emails. When you come home and you're supposed to be with your wife and
kids, you have to be in family mode. That's mindfulness. If I'm
practicing soccer with my kid, I'm practicing soccer with my kid. I'm not
worried about, you know, this patience report, or that I got to
go shopping and get bananas, or that I have to you know, clean
my closet, or I have to you know, take my wife out on
day night. Later, I'm playing soccer with my kid. That's practicing mindfulness.
Being in the moment. Remember, depression is worrying about the past,
and anxiety is worrying about the future. We have to worry less and live
more. So you function better, feel better and live a better life.
You're listening to doctor Eric Kaplan. This is who's your brain power more when
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or simply want to maximize your human potential and prevent future diseases, that
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skin and digestive problems. Doctor Kaplan is most famous for getting to the root
cause of a wide variety of brain and health conditions, rather than treating symptoms
with traditional medicines and risky surgeries. To contact doctor Kaplin, you can call
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a better life. This is doctor Eric Kaplan and you're listening to boost your
brain power. We're talking about how to boost your mood. We want to
get rid of any depression, any anxiety. So what we talked about was
a few different things, but most important importantly was practicing mindfulness. Mindfulness is
doing one thing at a time. So a lot of people come to me
and say, hey, I can't meditate because my mind is all over the
place. It's going a million miles per hour. I can't shut off my
brain and meditate. So what I do with these patients is we start out
with a very easy meditation. And when I say easy, I'm talking about
thirty seconds. Everybody can do a thirty second meditation. What you do is
just start at the top of your head. And I call this the relaxed
technique, because we got to relax our brain. We got to calm down
that brain. People's brains are overactive. They're in stress mode. They have
anxiety and panic and bear and anger, and they have trouble with sleep and
energy. Their brain can't shut down. It's inflamed, it's on fire.
You gotta cool it down, right. So one way to calm down the
brain is through meditation and with the relaxed technique. We're gonna start at the
top of our heads. So you just imagine you have all these muscles here,
and we're gonna relax all the muscles in your whole body, from the
top of your head all the way down to your toes, and you close
your eyes. I personally like to cross my hands. I like to cross
my hands and sometimes cross my feet by the ankles. I like to connect
the left in the right brain when I do this. But you could be
in a seated position. You can be on the ground, you can be
on a chair, you could be on the edge of your bed or a
couch. You could be you know, wherever it's comfortable for you. You
can lie down even if you want to do it. But I like to
use gravity to help. That's why it's seating is probably the best way.
So what you do. You start at the top of your head and you
say a mantra will say is relax, and you say relax, and you
imagine the muscles on the top of your head relaxing. Now we got thirty
spots to do, because it's gonna do one relax every second. So now
I'll go to the forehead and you say, relax, and you relax your
forehead. Then you go to your temples relax, and then you go to
your eyebrows. Relax your eyelids, relax, your cheeks, relax, your
jaw, relax your ears, relax, your back of your skull relax,
the neck relax, the mouth relax, the chin relax, the shoulders relax,
and you'll feel a lot of these muscles literally relax. You'll feel your
eyes relax, You'll feel your jaw relax, your shoulders relax. You go
and you go to your chest, and then you go to your stomach,
and then you go to your hips and your back and your spine, and
you go to your thighs, and you go to your knees, and at
each point you're just saying relax, relax, relax, all the way down
to your ankles and feed and toes. And each time you relax your muscles,
you do that for thirty seconds and things might come into your mind and
that's okay, but then you go relax and you go on to the next
muscle thirty seconds. Do that for a week. It's a piece of cake.
Do it even twice, three times a day, even better, But
it's more about the consistency, right, I'd rather you do thirty seconds every
day than just one day of thirty minutes and zero the other day. It's
not about the quantity. It's about it's not about the quality, and it's
not about how long you do it. It's about the quantity, and it's
about creating the habits, all right. So it's the opposite of what we
tell people a lot a lot of times you say, oh, it's about
the quality, not the quantity. With meditation, it's actually more about the
quantity. Then it becomes more effective because the quality will improve with quantity.
So in the beginning, just focus on quantity, doing it over and over
and over again, getting good habits. That's meditation. When you do the
first week of thirty seconds, now the next week you can go up to
a minute, and a minute will seem so easy. And then the third
week you go up to three minutes, and then you go up to six
minutes, and then you do ten minutes, then you do fifteen, and
it gets easier and easier. But do it gradually. You could literally just
add you know, one minute a week, right, and then you know
in thirty weeks you'll be doing thirty minutes. Thirty minutes is good, and
thirty weeks that's pretty quick, right, it's like a half a year.
So if you get meditation to thirty minutes within a half a year, just
by starting from thirty seconds, this could be the greatest year of your life.
Right. That's meditation the relaxed technique, So you guys got to practice
that. There's lots of ways to relax the nervous system. One of the
best ways also is drawing figure eights the infinity symbols, and they've been doing
that for thousands of years in Eastern Asian cultures. The infinities. Those are
powerful, but that's been proven through a neurosign to reduce stress and anxiety.
So draw the infinity for thirty seconds three times a day, to the thirty
second meditation three times a day. Start practicing some mindfulness every single day,
and if you follow these suggestions, you'll function better, feel better, and
live a better life. This is doctor Eric Kaplan. You're listening to boost
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boost your brain power. Now. When we're talking about anxiety or depression.
I am not gonna be the doctor that writes you the prescription medications. I'm
not gonna, you know, write anti depressant prescriptions, anti anxiety prescriptions.
That's not the type type of doctor I am. What I am is called
a functional neurologist, and what I do is not hide the symptoms with medication,
but try and get to the root cause of the problem. Where is
the disfunction, Where is the nervous system not functioning at optimal levels, Where
is the interference. Many medications will actually deaden your nervousest and some of my
patients describe it as they become like a zombie, because what it does is
it shuts off your brain. So instead of feeling the depression, you feel
nothing. Instead of feeling the anxiety, you feel nothing. And in emergency
situations, right there's suicide that's about to happen, and we got to shut
off the brain. Medication can save lives, but for chrime depression, chronic
anxiety, it might not be the best option. There's a lot of things
that could cause more problems. Sometimes the cure is worse than the condition.
Have you ever looked at the side effects of some of these antidepressants or anti
anxiety pills. It actually is depression or anxiety, or violent tendencies or suicidal
thoughts. Sometimes the suicidal thoughts are as a result of the medication. Sometimes
the violence is from the medication. Most of those school shootings where people go
crazy and they kill everybody and then they kill themselves, those people are on
medication. They never talk about that. They just talk about the guns,
but they don't talk about why their brains are messed up, because that's not
a normal thing to take a gun and start shooting people. But guess what,
even if you took the guns away, because their brains are messed up,
they're gonna find other ways to kill people, whether it's in a car
and start running over people, or take a knife and start stamming people.
And you know, so why don't we talk about the mental health and what
medication that they're on when these horrific events happens. You're not going to hear
about that because the news is sponsored by the pharmaceutical companies. Okay, so
you might not hear that, but think about it, right, we never
talk about what medication people are on. Are they on anti depressants? Are
they on anti anxiety pills where they warned of the side effects? And make
sure people that are on these medicals do not have access to guns. You
know, that's the most important background check. Does anyone in your house have
a prescription for anti anxiety anti depressants? Any medication that may cause violent tendencies,
may cause anger, aggression, may cause suicidal thoughts. Right then,
we don't let them have any guns in those houses, that's for sure.
But we got to work on people's brains and say, hey, are you
taking medicine that can affect you? And a lot of patients come to me
because they don't want to be on these medications anymore, you know. And
sometimes it's because it makes them gain weight. It's not necessarily, you know,
because they want to get better. It's like, oh man, this
medication makes me look heavier, so they want to fix their brain so they
can get off the medication so they could lose the weight. That's some people's
motivation. To me, as long as you're getting healthy. Whatever motivates you
to get you healthy. If it's to lose weight, fine, that's great,
you know. If it's to prove your posture great, to grow more
hair great. You know. We have lots of people that just come to
us to grow hair. It's actually very doable. You I have patience in
their sixties and seventies that are growing hair. We have patients that with thyroid
problems growing their hair back. We have patients with hormonal issues growing their hair
back, stress issues growing their hairback, autoimmune disease, alopecia growing their hair
back. It all depends on the costs, right, but it can happen.
It's all about, you know, getting to the root. Cause,
like I said, I'm a functional neurologist, hy practical functional medicine. You
know, we're going to see where your problems are coming from. If it's
a thyroid problem, boom, let's the thyroid. I'm not going to write
you a prescription for you know, row gain or whatever. You know they
have to grow hair these days, right, monoxidil I don't even know what
it is, but you know there's lots of ways, little hints like Rosemary
alo Vera. You know, there's a lot of stuff that grows hair if
you want. But again, you gotta get to the root cause, you
know those things I'm talking about. If it's like a genetic thing, the
genetic ones are the hardest ones. But you could literally eat stuff and put
stuff on there that can help regrow hair. If you want a list of
all the top seven things you could take to regrow hair, just give me
an email as my staff. The email's info at Kaplinbrain and Body dot com.
Just say you want the list to help grow your hair back. But
there's lots of ways to fix any issue, whether it's for aesthetics, but
hopefully it's because you want to be healthier. Right So, and the less
medication you're on, the healthier you're gonna be. The less doctors you see,
the healthier gonna be. But how do you know? You know if
your brain's depressed, if it's underactive, or it's anxiety, if it's overactive.
I'm gonna give a little hint on how to figure that out at the
end of the show. If you just stick around, there's a lot of
ways you could figure that out. And we're gonna go over that at the
end of the show. There but a lot of my patients who come to
me with anxiety, we have to come up with strategies to calm down their
overactive brain. Okay, so if the brain's overactive, it's overheated, it's
inflamed. We want to cool it down. So there's something where you dip
your head in a bucket of cold water. There's been neuroscience research that shows
people with attachycardia, which is a really fast heartbeat. Right you ever been
anxiety panic? What happens your heartbeat goes really fast. You start panicking,
you start getting stressed, start getting anxious. Remember that uh Edgar Allan Poe
the telltale heart, right. His heart's beating so fast when you're stressed,
when you're nervous, when your cortisol's high and your brain has all these thoughts,
it's going a million miles per hour. You're in that fight or flight
mode. So when people have this high heartbeat, this tachycardia, the neuroscience
has proved that if you dip your head in a bucket of cold water,
and the neuroscience shaid fifty degrees fahrenheit, So you get a bucket with fifty
degrees faheit, it's pretty cold. Put cold water in there. You probably
have to even add ice. If you have a thermometer, check it out.
And at fifty degrees fahrenheit, you dip your head in a bucket of
cold water, and you'll see if you your heart rate is going really fast,
it will slow it down. I've seen it many, many times,
dozens and dozens of times where people would go from literally one hundred and sixty
beats per minute to fifty beats per minute in less than a minute. People
who are one hundred and twenty beats per minute right down to sixty beats to
minute and thirty seconds. By doing this sometimes it works super quick. All
right. The cold will bring down the heart rate because it cools down your
nervous system. Your heart's overactive. We've got to slow it down. So
you can actually dip your head in a bucket of cold water at fifty degrees
fahrenheit. Now, if you need to breathe, you get up, all
right, So don't try this at home. If you don't know what you're
doing, ask your doctor if that's appropriate for you. If you have a
lot of tachycardia and you say, hey, I heard this doctor on the
show, he said for tachycardia which is a high heart rate, said the
neuroscience showed you that I should dip my head in a bucket of cold water
and then see what the doctor says. Hey, you know what, it's
a good idea. I read that research that is appropriate for you. So
anything you learned from my show, I'll always ask your doctor, because again,
everybody's an individual, right, I don't know what your specific case is,
and if you want for me to specifically analyze you, I'm gonna give
a nice special a gift to you guys at the end of the show.
So stick around and I'll let you know about that. But the bucket of
cold water. What else is the neuroscience proven to relax your nervous system?
Gargling? Gargling really intensely. Do that for thirty seconds, three times a
day, and the gag reflects. Everyone learns this in medical school or and
do school. The osteopaths, DC's school, chiropractors like any doctor, learns
this that the gag reflex stimulates cranial nerves nine and ten, and those two
nerves are linked to what's called your parasympathetic nervous system, which is then part
of the nervous system that relaxes you. So it's not rocket science. If
the part of the brain that relaxes you is activated by doing the gag reflex,
maybe we can actually use the gag reflexes therapy. So a lot of
doctors use it as analysis during their examination, their evaluations. But if it's
abnormal during the evaluation, then you want to strengthen it. Right, We
said, if your memory is bad, you gotta do memory exercise. If
your vision's bad, you gotta do vision exercise. If your muscles are weak,
you gotta do strengthening exercises. If your parasympathetic nervous system is weak,
and that's why you have anxiety, you have to do parasympathetic nervous system exercises
right. That's going to create what's called neuroplasticity, rewiring your brain to strengthen
those areas that are not functioning at optimal levels. Because when you function better,
you feel better and you live a better life. This is doctor eric
Kaplan. You're listening to boost your brain power more when we come back from
the break. If you want to improve your brain function, help with memory,
focus, sleep, digestion, energy, depression, anxiety, dizziness,
balance, vision, headaches, brain fog, weight loss, or simply want
to maximize your human potential and prevent future diseases. That this is the show
for you. Don't mis boost your brain power with doctor eric Caplan and you
will learn natural, integrative, and holistic approaches to modern day medical problems such
as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's stroke, autism, add concussion, autoimmune diseases, insomnia,
fibromyalgia, vertigo, migraines, four posture pain, TBI, skin and
digestive problems. Doctor Kaplan is most famous for getting to the root cause of
a wide variety of brain and health conditions, rather than treating symptoms with traditional
medicines and risky surgeries. To contact the doctor Caplin, you can call his
team at two oh one two six one two one five zero or visit his
website at kaplindc dot com. Function Banner Feel better and live a better life.
This is doctor Eric Kaplan. You're listening to boost your brain power.
So we're trying to figure out what can we do if we have depression.
Physical exercise. That's very important. But you gotta do something that you like,
right because if you don't like it, you're not gonna keep doing it.
Remember what we said, it's about the quantity, not the quality.
So if you do something every single day and over and over, down care.
If it's biking or hiking or power walking, or the treadmill or yoga
or pilates or orange theory or CrossFit or basketball or tennis or soccer, or
rollerblading or ice skating or skiing, something that gets your body moving, something
that's fun. I have patients that do pole dancing as an exercise. It's
a really good work out, but it's fun for them. They didn't like
to go to the gym, so they do pole dancing. I have other
patients they do they do hip hop dancing. I have patients that do zoomba.
I have patients that do belly dancing, patients that do insanity P ninety
X, patients that do hot yoga. I mean there's a million things.
There's cycle classes. I mean, there's stuff to do at home. There's
YouTube videos. It's unlimited. But find what you like to do. You
want to take Salca lessons, Take Salca lessons. That's social. You gotta
use your brain to remember the steps. You're gonna have human contact, which
is very therapeutic for the brain. Right. If you don't touch people,
that's depressing. So you know, hold people's hands, hug people, kiss
people, of course with permission. But if you have loved ones in your
life, start being a little bit more affectionate. And if you don't get
a dog, get a cat so you can be affectionate with them. And
if you don't want to get a cat or a dog, and you don't
have any friends or family, go get a massage. You know, there's
if you can't if you don't have any money there is. You can get
a really cheap massages. You could go to a massage school and get it
for like twenty thirty bucks or something. So you can always think of something
if you just get some human touch. There's acupuncture schools. If you need,
you know, to find cheap places, you go to the schools and
then you could get any type of therapy really cheap. You know, you
want to go to a chiropractor, and you can go to chiropractic school.
Just no, it might not the best quality, right, you know,
you can go to a dentist at the you know, at the school and
get much cheaper. But you know it's not gonna necessarily be the highest quality
of care. But at least you get stuff done, right. So human
touch is key, or at least a pet touch. But if you want
to get rid of depression, yes, we need to have some human interaction.
We need some we need some touch, all right. That's what we're
made for. The worst punishment, the most depressing thing is isolation. So
get up your butt, get out of the house. Book some social events.
Call some friends, call some family members, make some dates, join
some clubs, do some meetups, do some hobbies get something going where you
get out of the house. You're social very important. Right, so we'll
say you got to make progress. I don't care. You know a lot
of people want to make progress at work. Right. Let me get a
raise, Let me get a promotion. You know, let me step you
know, climb the ladder to success. Right, So make more money,
whatever it is, see more people, have more clients, you know,
get more recognition, you know, whatever it is. Make progress. Make
progress in your spirituality, you know, pray to God more, or be
more charitable, you know, do more volunteer work. You know. Always
progress with your health right when you go, you know, progresses. I'm
doing a thirty second meditation. Now I'm going to a forty second meditation.
You know progresses. I did one push up today. Tomorrow I'm going to
do two push ups. It doesn't have to be a lot of progress.
But with your health, you got to make a lot of You got to
make consistent progress. You know. Oh, let me add an extra half
a glass of water today. Let me go to bed five minutes earlier.
Let me get rid of my turn off my phone ten minutes earlier than I
usually do. Just make some progress in your health. Even if it's one
percent. Every day. Progress is the key, all right. Progress is
the key to getting on a depression. You know, physical exercise and mental
progress. You gotta get out of the sitting at home feeling sorry for yourself.
And like I said, one percent, I don't care what it is,
but make some progress, all right. Now, How do you know
if your brain's underactive? How do you know if it's overactive? One of
the best tests is called a VNG video nostography. You wear these goggles.
They have infrared cameras. They do all these different movements with your eyes with
fast and slow and it goes up and down. It's non invasive, it
doesn't hurt, there's no radiation at all, there's no risks. It's really
cool technology. And what happens is we're able to see all the different lobes
of the brain, the frontal, the parietal, even the cerebellum, the
brain stem. So we're measuring all the different lobes of your brain, all
the different areas. And with this VNG we could check out the eyes and
see how the inner ears are working. It's a wide variety of different brain
tests, and then we could see which areas are underactive, and which areas
are overactive, because if the areas are underactive, we gotta give you therapeutic
exercises that are gonna stimulate. And when people are underactive, they're gonna have
depression, they're gonna have fatigue, they're gonna have low motivation or organization,
poor social skills. They're gonna be you know, late, They're not gonna
be punctual, they're gonna have a bad memory, can't focus, can't think.
That's an underactive brain. Right, the V ANDNG will tell us which
areas are underacted, Adam, is that the right and the left because we
might have to do certain exercises on the right side and certain exercise on the
left. Now, the V ANDNG will also tell us which areas are overactive.
Right, So, these patients have anxiety, they might have insomnia,
they have difficulties sleep, they might have panic. They might have their minds
racing a million miles per hour. They might have ADHD. They always distracted,
They're always trying to do one thing at a time. Can't do that,
then they go into the next and then they forget about that. Always
losing things, always worrying about things, always worried about others, worried about
the future, worried about the past, very you know, even maybe you
feel the heart beating the tech of cardio we were talking about. Before people
even start breathing, you know, they get really nervous a lot. So
these are the overactive brains right for them. We gotta give stuff to calm
it down. So the VNG we'll see, okay, which areas are overactive,
and then we got to come up with therapeutic exercises or suggestions on how
to calm those down. So this VNG test, it only takes about a
half an hour. It's normally five hundred dollars, but for the first seven
people to call, text or email, you could get it for twenty one
dollars. Now we're also gonna add another gift. Another good test to do
is a qEEG brain mapping. A qEEG brain mapping is a test where you
wear a cap. It looks like a swimmer's cap, and we put these
electrodes attached to your brain. We have this little gel that's got a conduction
fluid to help to analyze the different waves in your brain. And a lot
of people have done that. EKG for the heart sort of like that,
but instead of measuring your heart waves, this measures your brain waves. But
there's no radiation. You don't have to sit in the MRI tube. You
don't need any contrast fluid. You know, need any cat skin or X
rays with radiation, So there's no radiation, no risk, super easy.
You just sit down, wear this little cap takes about twenty to thirty minutes,
and it measures all your brain waves or alpha beta, theta delta,
and it tells us exactly which areas are not working well and which areas are
If you have depression, anxiety, troubles with long term memory, short term
memory, immediate memory, if you have difficulty with motivation, organization planning,
if you have balance problems, hearing problems, visual problems, if you have
problems with your back, if you have walking problems, if you have for
circulation, do you have a thyroid problem, do you have intestinal inflammation,
heavy metal poisoning, concussion, acetocholine, dopamine, checks all the neurotransmitters,
checks if there's white matter problems. This test is amazing. It's non invasive,
super quick, and tells us the results right away. That test is
also normally five hundred dollars, but for the first seven people to call,
text or email, you could get that test for only twenty one dollars.
And there's even more. The best test is a one on one with me,
yours truly, doctor Eric Kplam, where we spend about forty five minutes
together, and if you do those tests, We're gonna go over your brain
mapping, We're gonna go over your VNG. If you have blood work,
we'll go over your blood work. I'm also gonna check out your memory,
your lungs, your heart, your gut, your posture, your reflexes,
your alignment, your in a nation, your reaction time, your balance.
So we do a full forty five minute valuation one on one with me.
It's normally five hundred dollars, but for the first twenty one, for the
first seven people that call texture email, you can get it for twenty one
dollars, And if you want, you could literally do all three twenty one
dollars VNG, twenty one dollars q EEG, and a twenty one dollars one
on one with me. You can do all three, or you could do
one, or you can do two. It's all up to you. But
you got to be one of the first seven people to call, text or
email. The phone number is six four six two two one six seven three
eight. The email is info at kaplinbrainebody dot com. Again call our text
six four six two two one six seven three eight or email in at kaplanbrainanbody
dot com. Lastly, I'm running a seminar series. It's called the Booshe
of brain Power Seminar Series. We have a seminar this Tuesday, March twenty
six, at six thirty pm in River Edge, New Jersey, on Kindercomack
Road. If you can't make it to New Jersey on Tuesday at six thirty,
you could do it over zoom live over zoom where you can actually ask
questions as well. If you can't make it live, you can also do
a recording so you can get it where you could listen at your own convenience,
so you could come live. But this Tuesday's gonna be great. There's
gonna be massage, laser, there's gonna be food and drinks, there's gonna
be a free giveaway, There's gonna be a lot of fun people there,
healthy people. So I would definitely if you can do it live, do
it. If you can do it over zoom, do it that as well,
and if you can't make it live over zoom, you can get the
recording. And the good news is if you do come live, you're gonna
get the recording as well as well. Now what we're gonna do. It's
normally a two hundred dollars seminar for the first seven people to call, text
or email, you only have to pay ninety seven dollars and the bonus is
we're gonna give you the next four seminars, whether it's live, zoom or
the recordings, completely free, so you don't have to pay two hundred dollars
for the next four ones. They're literally completely free. So you're gonna pay
ninety seven dollars and you get five seminars. Right, so it's basically nineteen
dollars for each seminar, but you have to be one of the first seven
people and say you want to be part of the seminar series, which starts
Tuesday, March twenty six, and that occurs the last Tuesday of every month
for the next five months six four six, two, two, one,
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