WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.160 --> 00:00:05.799 The following is a paid podcast. iHeartRadio's hosting of this podcast constitutes neither an 2 00:00:05.879 --> 00:00:11.519 endorsement of the products offered or the ideas expressed. Function better, feel better, 3 00:00:12.039 --> 00:00:18.679 and live a better life. This is doctor Eric Kaplan, and you're 4 00:00:18.760 --> 00:00:24.920 listening to boost your brain power. This week, we're going to talk about 5 00:00:25.280 --> 00:00:31.679 how to boost your mood. A guide to preventing depression and anxiety. But 6 00:00:31.800 --> 00:00:37.960 the good news is, even if you do have depression or anxiety, there's 7 00:00:38.000 --> 00:00:45.000 a process called neuroplasticity, and what that means is that we can rewire your 8 00:00:45.039 --> 00:00:52.640 brain. And if we rewire your brain, you can strengthen the weak areas. 9 00:00:52.960 --> 00:00:58.840 That's what depression is. It's a weak area of your brain. It's 10 00:00:59.000 --> 00:01:03.039 usually the frontal cortex. Now, what would you do with a muscle's weak. 11 00:01:03.479 --> 00:01:07.400 That's right, You're going to exercise. So what are you going to 12 00:01:07.439 --> 00:01:12.400 do if your brain's weak. You have to exercise. Yes, you've got 13 00:01:12.439 --> 00:01:21.280 to physically exercise, but you also have to mentally exercise, cognitively exercise, 14 00:01:22.280 --> 00:01:29.239 socially exercise, So there's all different types of exercises. Right, if you 15 00:01:29.280 --> 00:01:33.560 want to get out of depression, you need to exercise your brain. You 16 00:01:33.640 --> 00:01:38.519 might also need vitamin D. That's where seasonal affect disorder comes from. Low 17 00:01:38.599 --> 00:01:44.680 vitamin D people get depressed in the winter. Right, we need to strengthen 18 00:01:45.319 --> 00:01:49.519 your brain. Now, when do people get depression and when do people get 19 00:01:49.560 --> 00:01:57.400 anxiety? People get depression when they think about the past, and people get 20 00:01:57.439 --> 00:02:02.439 anxiety when they think about the future. So what are we gonna do about 21 00:02:02.439 --> 00:02:07.560 that? We have to live in the moment, live in today. There's 22 00:02:07.599 --> 00:02:13.360 a famous saying in AA one day at a time. Right, So if 23 00:02:13.400 --> 00:02:17.479 you're trying to quit alcohol, you're going to be depressed about all the stuff 24 00:02:17.520 --> 00:02:22.400 that happened in the past, but then you're also going to be anxious about 25 00:02:22.439 --> 00:02:27.319 the future. So what you do is you have to live one day at 26 00:02:27.319 --> 00:02:32.120 a time, one hour at a time, one minute at a time. 27 00:02:32.639 --> 00:02:39.039 That's when you're really living in the moment. That's practicing mindfulness, and that's 28 00:02:39.039 --> 00:02:46.840 one of the best ways to boost your mood. Mindfulness. Mindfulness is being 29 00:02:46.960 --> 00:02:50.919 in the moment. Okay, if you're listening to this show right now, 30 00:02:51.439 --> 00:03:01.599 but then you're cooking or cleaning, or exercising or watching your kids or you 31 00:03:01.639 --> 00:03:07.759 know, doing driving, I get okay, driving is good, So I 32 00:03:07.800 --> 00:03:13.000 have a lot of listeners that do it while they're driving, and I have 33 00:03:13.039 --> 00:03:17.719 a lot of listeners that do it while they're just on a couch or in 34 00:03:17.759 --> 00:03:23.560 bed. But if you're trying to, you know, read the newspaper and 35 00:03:23.639 --> 00:03:27.280 listen to the show, you're trying to do your homework and listen to the 36 00:03:27.360 --> 00:03:31.080 show, and you're trying to, you know, just in the background noise 37 00:03:31.159 --> 00:03:34.759 with other things, then you're not gonna be able to remember all the stuff 38 00:03:35.360 --> 00:03:38.199 that we're talking about. So when you're practicing mindfulness, it's like, Okay, 39 00:03:38.639 --> 00:03:42.080 let me sit at my desk, let me listen to the show, 40 00:03:42.479 --> 00:03:46.000 let me take a bunch of notes during the commercial break, let me try 41 00:03:46.039 --> 00:03:53.439 and repeat the most important things. Your brain can store three important facts at 42 00:03:53.479 --> 00:03:58.520 a time. So what I like to do during the show is give you 43 00:03:58.599 --> 00:04:01.840 three good facts, let your brain absorb it. Then there's a break. 44 00:04:02.199 --> 00:04:05.439 Then i'm gonna give you three more good facts. There's a break, and 45 00:04:05.400 --> 00:04:09.360 then i'm gonna give you three more good facts. Then there's a break. 46 00:04:09.400 --> 00:04:12.039 Then i'm gonna give you three more good facts. So you can hopefully get 47 00:04:12.360 --> 00:04:16.800 twelve good facts that you could utilize to boost your brain power. Each and 48 00:04:16.920 --> 00:04:23.959 every show every week. But if you're not practicing mindfulness and you're not focused 49 00:04:24.000 --> 00:04:27.240 on the show, you're not gonna get it. And I do repeat myself, 50 00:04:27.560 --> 00:04:29.800 and that's a good thing. I'll say a lot of things over and 51 00:04:29.839 --> 00:04:32.040 over and over again, because yes, not everybody's gonna get it on the 52 00:04:32.040 --> 00:04:35.680 first try. But you gotta practice. You know, my son, he 53 00:04:35.720 --> 00:04:40.680 gets frustrated practicing basketball. He's like, Daddy, I can't I can't get 54 00:04:40.680 --> 00:04:44.519 the ball in the hoop. He said, you gotta keep practicing. Nobody 55 00:04:44.560 --> 00:04:46.279 gets it in the hoop on the first try and the second try and a 56 00:04:46.360 --> 00:04:50.439 third try. You gotta do things over and over and over again. Just 57 00:04:50.519 --> 00:04:57.240 don't beat yourself up. That'll create more anxiety, more depression. The key 58 00:04:57.920 --> 00:05:03.000 and I spoke about this before. Depression is progress. You have to make 59 00:05:03.079 --> 00:05:09.279 progress. So when he's playing basketball, instead of missing every shot on the 60 00:05:09.279 --> 00:05:11.800 first day, maybe on the second day he hits at least one shot, 61 00:05:12.120 --> 00:05:15.319 and then on the third and fourth day he hits two shots, and then 62 00:05:15.399 --> 00:05:17.639 three shots, and then it ends up being ten shots and twenty shots and 63 00:05:17.720 --> 00:05:21.800 thirty shots and fifty shots. And it's all up to him if he wants 64 00:05:21.879 --> 00:05:25.639 to be Kobe Bryan. He's got to do it every single day, hour 65 00:05:25.839 --> 00:05:30.519 after hour after hour, until it's fifty shots, sixty shots, one hundred 66 00:05:30.519 --> 00:05:33.360 shots, two hundred shots, a thousand shots. So whatever your goal is 67 00:05:33.399 --> 00:05:38.560 in life, you got to have that Kobe Bryant mentality. Kobe Bryant is 68 00:05:38.560 --> 00:05:42.600 a great basketball player. He's no longer with us, unfortunately, but when 69 00:05:42.639 --> 00:05:47.680 he was playing basketball, he was an inspiration because he practiced more than anybody. 70 00:05:47.959 --> 00:05:51.879 He tried harder than anybody. You know, he was in LA everyone 71 00:05:51.920 --> 00:05:58.480 was going out partying, clubbing, drinking drugs, and he was just practice, 72 00:05:58.480 --> 00:06:00.920 practice, practice, and that's why he was always the best. He 73 00:06:00.040 --> 00:06:04.079 was committed to his craft. What's your craft? You want to improve your 74 00:06:04.079 --> 00:06:08.519 memory, you gotta work at it. You gotta work at it every day. 75 00:06:08.759 --> 00:06:12.279 Are you doing memory exercises every day? Do you want to improve your 76 00:06:12.360 --> 00:06:16.040 vision, you gotta work at it. You gotta do vision exercises every single 77 00:06:16.120 --> 00:06:20.279 day. You want to get your muscle stronger, you gotta do weight resistant 78 00:06:20.319 --> 00:06:26.000 exercises every day. It's not rocket science. Whatever your weakness is, whatever 79 00:06:26.040 --> 00:06:28.759 your goal is, that's what you gotta do. But you gotta do it 80 00:06:28.839 --> 00:06:34.040 consistently every single day. If you're not consistent, you won't get the results. 81 00:06:34.600 --> 00:06:38.439 Life is not easy. If you want results, you've got to work 82 00:06:38.480 --> 00:06:41.800 for it. What do you want to work for? Do you want to 83 00:06:41.839 --> 00:06:46.120 work on your depression, then you gotta follow these suggestions. You want to 84 00:06:46.160 --> 00:06:49.519 work on your anxiety, you gotta follow these suggestions. Next week, I'm 85 00:06:49.519 --> 00:06:54.839 gonna talk about sleep and energy, right, So if that's something you want 86 00:06:54.879 --> 00:06:59.560 to improve, listen to the show next week, but be prepared. Like 87 00:06:59.639 --> 00:07:02.360 I said, get a piece of paper, write everything down. I'm gonna 88 00:07:02.399 --> 00:07:09.560 give you twelve facts on how to improve your sleep and your energy. That's 89 00:07:09.639 --> 00:07:13.839 next week. This week we're talking about boosting your mood, how to prevent 90 00:07:13.920 --> 00:07:21.639 depression and anxiety. Right. Mindfulness is key, especially for anxiety. So 91 00:07:21.759 --> 00:07:28.680 when you're eating dinner, don't be scrolling on your cell phone on social media. 92 00:07:29.199 --> 00:07:32.120 When you're eating dinner, look at the colorful food that you have. 93 00:07:32.959 --> 00:07:41.560 Smell the aromas, taste everything, the sweet, the sour, the salty, 94 00:07:41.720 --> 00:07:48.680 the bitter. Imagine those flavors, the pungent smells. Chew your food 95 00:07:49.240 --> 00:07:55.600 thirty five times. Chew, chew, chew. You don't want to swallow 96 00:07:56.480 --> 00:08:01.720 your food with big whole chunks. You want to chew it into such small 97 00:08:01.800 --> 00:08:07.480 pieces to make it easier in digestive system. There's so many people with digestive 98 00:08:07.519 --> 00:08:13.279 problems these days. You got to start chewing your food. I really like 99 00:08:13.399 --> 00:08:18.920 ier Vedic medicine. They teach you to eat with your hands. That's part 100 00:08:18.959 --> 00:08:22.720 of your digestive system. When you use a knife and a fork and a 101 00:08:22.759 --> 00:08:28.839 spoon, you're bypassing part of the digestive system. You want to eat with 102 00:08:28.879 --> 00:08:33.279 your hands. You want to feel the food because when you touch the food, 103 00:08:33.320 --> 00:08:37.399 then your brain starts releasing the proper enzymes, the stomach acid, the 104 00:08:37.519 --> 00:08:43.279 bile, the bacteria needs to break down the food to absorb your nutrients to 105 00:08:43.519 --> 00:08:48.960 utilize everything properly. You don't want to eat but not absorb your nutrients because 106 00:08:48.960 --> 00:08:54.440 of poor digestion. So an Iervedic medicine they have you eat with your hands. 107 00:08:54.159 --> 00:08:58.720 They also sit on the ground when you eat. When you poop, 108 00:09:00.480 --> 00:09:05.960 you should put your feet up higher than the floor, so you get like 109 00:09:05.000 --> 00:09:11.320 a little stool that helps with the digestive process based on the position of the 110 00:09:11.320 --> 00:09:16.720 intestines. Okay, so these are good things to practice. So when you're 111 00:09:16.720 --> 00:09:24.440 practicing mindfulness and you're eating feel the food, taste the food, touch the 112 00:09:24.480 --> 00:09:30.039 food, smell the food, feel the food, don't be on Facebook, 113 00:09:30.919 --> 00:09:37.360 start focusing on your food and chew thirty five times. Also, don't drink 114 00:09:37.440 --> 00:09:41.600 water with your meal. You want to drink water a half hour before your 115 00:09:41.639 --> 00:09:48.279 meal. That makes it harder to digest your food as well. And another 116 00:09:48.279 --> 00:09:52.879 thing to aid in digestion if you have digestive problems is food combining. This 117 00:09:52.039 --> 00:09:58.200 is where you only eat proteins by themselves. You won't eat proteins with a 118 00:09:58.200 --> 00:10:01.919 carbohydrate, and you won't eat proteins with a fruit. When you eat a 119 00:10:01.919 --> 00:10:07.519 carbohydrate, you only eat a carbohydrate. You don't eat that with a protein, 120 00:10:07.559 --> 00:10:11.679 and you don't eat a carbohydrate with a fruit. And then when you 121 00:10:11.720 --> 00:10:15.799 eat a fruit, you eat a fruit by itself. And you always want 122 00:10:15.840 --> 00:10:20.399 to have fruit as an appetizer before the meal. Fruit are very easy to 123 00:10:20.440 --> 00:10:26.159 digest. It only takes twenty minutes, so it's a great appetizer. Many 124 00:10:26.279 --> 00:10:28.679 people will eat fruit at the end of the meal. That's the worst thing 125 00:10:28.720 --> 00:10:35.559 to do because that will mess up your whole Enzymes. Proteins have certain enzymes, 126 00:10:35.600 --> 00:10:41.519 carbohydrates have certain enzymes, fruit have other enzymes, so that's why it's 127 00:10:41.600 --> 00:10:46.639 good to separate your food and not combine the different types of enzymes. Now, 128 00:10:46.759 --> 00:10:50.080 vegetables, those are good. They can really be eaten with anything, 129 00:10:50.159 --> 00:10:54.559 and they help with digestion because of their high water content. So you can 130 00:10:54.679 --> 00:11:01.200 have vegetables. But things with seeds those are fruit. So anything with seeds 131 00:11:01.240 --> 00:11:05.600 those are fruit. Eat those first and don't eat the seeds, but just 132 00:11:05.679 --> 00:11:09.399 eat the fruit part. And then if you have a protein, you can 133 00:11:09.440 --> 00:11:11.440 have that with a vegetable, and then if you have a carbohydrate, you 134 00:11:11.480 --> 00:11:16.919 could have that with a vegetable as well. That's food combining that aids in 135 00:11:16.000 --> 00:11:22.480 digestion. So you're practicing mindfulness by being really focused on the food and how 136 00:11:22.519 --> 00:11:28.360 you eat and what you eat and when you eat it. That's practicing mindfulness. 137 00:11:28.480 --> 00:11:31.320 When you go to the gym, you practice working at the gym. 138 00:11:31.399 --> 00:11:37.200 You're focused on the muscles, your heartbeat, you're breathing, you're sweating, 139 00:11:37.799 --> 00:11:41.000 you're focused on your form. You're focusing on the different areas you're trying to 140 00:11:41.080 --> 00:11:50.159 work on. Anaerobic exercises, aerobic exercises, calisthenics, body weights. So 141 00:11:50.320 --> 00:11:56.759 focus on exercise, not on your emails. Don't check your emails between sets, 142 00:11:58.159 --> 00:12:03.120 focus on the gym. When you're on date night with your spouse or 143 00:12:03.120 --> 00:12:07.440 your girlfriend or boyfriend or whoever it is. You're taking your kids out, 144 00:12:07.519 --> 00:12:11.080 you're hanging out with your brother, your sister, or going out with a 145 00:12:11.159 --> 00:12:16.159 friend. So when you go out, you're focused on those people. Don't 146 00:12:16.200 --> 00:12:20.279 have your cell phone on the table at all. Practicing mindfulness is being totally 147 00:12:20.320 --> 00:12:26.919 about being with that person and ask them questions about their lives. People love 148 00:12:26.000 --> 00:12:30.279 to talk about themselves, So when you're practicing mindful, as you go out 149 00:12:30.320 --> 00:12:33.720 with someone, ask people about their lives and you'll find most people have a 150 00:12:33.759 --> 00:12:39.440 lot of interesting things to talk about and you'll actually enjoy it. But be 151 00:12:39.600 --> 00:12:43.399 with that person. Don't be checking your text messages or looking what time it 152 00:12:43.480 --> 00:12:46.679 is, and you know, telling them where you got to go after this. 153 00:12:48.320 --> 00:12:52.000 Be in the moment. That's mindfulness. With your friends and family members. 154 00:12:52.399 --> 00:12:58.320 When you're at church or temple or praying, be with God, be 155 00:12:58.759 --> 00:13:03.600 in the moment. Be spiritual as you can. When you're playing sports, 156 00:13:03.679 --> 00:13:07.440 be focused. When you're reading a book, focus only on that book. 157 00:13:09.039 --> 00:13:13.159 When you're in school, be the best student ever. When you're doing your 158 00:13:13.279 --> 00:13:16.120 job, be in work mode. Say I'm going to be the best worker 159 00:13:16.200 --> 00:13:22.120 ever. Don't do the bare minimum. Be in that moment. So if 160 00:13:22.159 --> 00:13:26.279 you're at work but you're checking your emails, you're on social media, you're 161 00:13:26.320 --> 00:13:31.759 on Facebook, you're not practicing mindfulness. If you get away from all those 162 00:13:31.759 --> 00:13:35.679 distractions, you're going to be the best worker ever. And then when you 163 00:13:35.720 --> 00:13:39.679 come home after work and you're at home with the family, you got to 164 00:13:39.720 --> 00:13:45.440 be in dad mode. You're not in work mode anymore. Don't do work 165 00:13:45.480 --> 00:13:48.240 emails. When you come home and you're supposed to be with your wife and 166 00:13:48.320 --> 00:13:54.159 kids, you have to be in family mode. That's mindfulness. If I'm 167 00:13:54.200 --> 00:13:58.080 practicing soccer with my kid, I'm practicing soccer with my kid. I'm not 168 00:13:58.120 --> 00:14:03.519 worried about, you know, this patience report, or that I got to 169 00:14:03.559 --> 00:14:09.600 go shopping and get bananas, or that I have to you know, clean 170 00:14:09.639 --> 00:14:15.600 my closet, or I have to you know, take my wife out on 171 00:14:15.679 --> 00:14:20.440 day night. Later, I'm playing soccer with my kid. That's practicing mindfulness. 172 00:14:20.919 --> 00:14:26.759 Being in the moment. Remember, depression is worrying about the past, 173 00:14:28.279 --> 00:14:33.960 and anxiety is worrying about the future. We have to worry less and live 174 00:14:35.039 --> 00:14:41.120 more. So you function better, feel better and live a better life. 175 00:14:41.360 --> 00:14:48.279 You're listening to doctor Eric Kaplan. This is who's your brain power more when 176 00:14:48.279 --> 00:14:52.799 we come back from the break. If you want to improve your brain function, 177 00:14:52.960 --> 00:14:56.960 help with memory, focus, sleep, digestion, energy, depression, 178 00:14:56.120 --> 00:15:01.519 anxiety, dizziness, balance, vision, headaches, brain fog, weight loss, 179 00:15:01.639 --> 00:15:05.039 or simply want to maximize your human potential and prevent future diseases, that 180 00:15:05.200 --> 00:15:11.120 this is the show for you. 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Function Better, feel better, and live 189 00:15:52.240 --> 00:16:00.440 a better life. This is doctor Eric Kaplan and you're listening to boost your 190 00:16:00.519 --> 00:16:04.480 brain power. We're talking about how to boost your mood. We want to 191 00:16:04.519 --> 00:16:11.399 get rid of any depression, any anxiety. So what we talked about was 192 00:16:11.440 --> 00:16:18.000 a few different things, but most important importantly was practicing mindfulness. Mindfulness is 193 00:16:18.039 --> 00:16:22.320 doing one thing at a time. So a lot of people come to me 194 00:16:22.360 --> 00:16:26.639 and say, hey, I can't meditate because my mind is all over the 195 00:16:26.679 --> 00:16:30.799 place. It's going a million miles per hour. I can't shut off my 196 00:16:30.000 --> 00:16:37.519 brain and meditate. So what I do with these patients is we start out 197 00:16:37.559 --> 00:16:42.200 with a very easy meditation. And when I say easy, I'm talking about 198 00:16:42.399 --> 00:16:49.320 thirty seconds. Everybody can do a thirty second meditation. What you do is 199 00:16:49.399 --> 00:16:55.360 just start at the top of your head. And I call this the relaxed 200 00:16:55.440 --> 00:17:00.279 technique, because we got to relax our brain. We got to calm down 201 00:17:00.360 --> 00:17:04.480 that brain. People's brains are overactive. They're in stress mode. They have 202 00:17:04.519 --> 00:17:12.240 anxiety and panic and bear and anger, and they have trouble with sleep and 203 00:17:12.559 --> 00:17:18.480 energy. Their brain can't shut down. It's inflamed, it's on fire. 204 00:17:19.000 --> 00:17:23.440 You gotta cool it down, right. So one way to calm down the 205 00:17:23.480 --> 00:17:32.680 brain is through meditation and with the relaxed technique. We're gonna start at the 206 00:17:32.720 --> 00:17:37.680 top of our heads. So you just imagine you have all these muscles here, 207 00:17:37.759 --> 00:17:41.480 and we're gonna relax all the muscles in your whole body, from the 208 00:17:41.519 --> 00:17:47.240 top of your head all the way down to your toes, and you close 209 00:17:47.279 --> 00:17:52.279 your eyes. I personally like to cross my hands. I like to cross 210 00:17:52.359 --> 00:17:59.319 my hands and sometimes cross my feet by the ankles. I like to connect 211 00:17:59.359 --> 00:18:02.400 the left in the right brain when I do this. But you could be 212 00:18:02.400 --> 00:18:03.559 in a seated position. You can be on the ground, you can be 213 00:18:03.599 --> 00:18:07.920 on a chair, you could be on the edge of your bed or a 214 00:18:07.039 --> 00:18:11.519 couch. You could be you know, wherever it's comfortable for you. You 215 00:18:11.559 --> 00:18:14.920 can lie down even if you want to do it. But I like to 216 00:18:15.000 --> 00:18:18.680 use gravity to help. That's why it's seating is probably the best way. 217 00:18:18.079 --> 00:18:22.559 So what you do. You start at the top of your head and you 218 00:18:22.640 --> 00:18:27.400 say a mantra will say is relax, and you say relax, and you 219 00:18:27.480 --> 00:18:33.599 imagine the muscles on the top of your head relaxing. Now we got thirty 220 00:18:33.599 --> 00:18:37.599 spots to do, because it's gonna do one relax every second. So now 221 00:18:37.640 --> 00:18:42.519 I'll go to the forehead and you say, relax, and you relax your 222 00:18:42.519 --> 00:18:47.960 forehead. Then you go to your temples relax, and then you go to 223 00:18:48.000 --> 00:18:55.319 your eyebrows. Relax your eyelids, relax, your cheeks, relax, your 224 00:18:55.480 --> 00:19:02.559 jaw, relax your ears, relax, your back of your skull relax, 225 00:19:03.119 --> 00:19:15.200 the neck relax, the mouth relax, the chin relax, the shoulders relax, 226 00:19:15.359 --> 00:19:18.480 and you'll feel a lot of these muscles literally relax. You'll feel your 227 00:19:18.480 --> 00:19:23.079 eyes relax, You'll feel your jaw relax, your shoulders relax. You go 228 00:19:23.480 --> 00:19:27.519 and you go to your chest, and then you go to your stomach, 229 00:19:27.680 --> 00:19:33.680 and then you go to your hips and your back and your spine, and 230 00:19:33.720 --> 00:19:37.000 you go to your thighs, and you go to your knees, and at 231 00:19:37.039 --> 00:19:44.160 each point you're just saying relax, relax, relax, all the way down 232 00:19:44.200 --> 00:19:48.480 to your ankles and feed and toes. And each time you relax your muscles, 233 00:19:49.319 --> 00:19:55.160 you do that for thirty seconds and things might come into your mind and 234 00:19:55.200 --> 00:19:57.880 that's okay, but then you go relax and you go on to the next 235 00:19:57.960 --> 00:20:02.680 muscle thirty seconds. Do that for a week. It's a piece of cake. 236 00:20:03.079 --> 00:20:06.319 Do it even twice, three times a day, even better, But 237 00:20:06.359 --> 00:20:10.599 it's more about the consistency, right, I'd rather you do thirty seconds every 238 00:20:10.680 --> 00:20:15.119 day than just one day of thirty minutes and zero the other day. It's 239 00:20:15.200 --> 00:20:18.079 not about the quantity. It's about it's not about the quality, and it's 240 00:20:18.079 --> 00:20:22.599 not about how long you do it. It's about the quantity, and it's 241 00:20:22.599 --> 00:20:25.880 about creating the habits, all right. So it's the opposite of what we 242 00:20:26.000 --> 00:20:27.279 tell people a lot a lot of times you say, oh, it's about 243 00:20:27.279 --> 00:20:33.119 the quality, not the quantity. With meditation, it's actually more about the 244 00:20:33.279 --> 00:20:38.759 quantity. Then it becomes more effective because the quality will improve with quantity. 245 00:20:40.000 --> 00:20:42.279 So in the beginning, just focus on quantity, doing it over and over 246 00:20:42.279 --> 00:20:47.440 and over again, getting good habits. That's meditation. When you do the 247 00:20:47.440 --> 00:20:51.119 first week of thirty seconds, now the next week you can go up to 248 00:20:51.160 --> 00:20:53.799 a minute, and a minute will seem so easy. And then the third 249 00:20:53.799 --> 00:20:57.240 week you go up to three minutes, and then you go up to six 250 00:20:57.319 --> 00:21:02.519 minutes, and then you do ten minutes, then you do fifteen, and 251 00:21:02.559 --> 00:21:06.400 it gets easier and easier. But do it gradually. You could literally just 252 00:21:06.480 --> 00:21:10.440 add you know, one minute a week, right, and then you know 253 00:21:11.119 --> 00:21:15.720 in thirty weeks you'll be doing thirty minutes. Thirty minutes is good, and 254 00:21:15.839 --> 00:21:22.200 thirty weeks that's pretty quick, right, it's like a half a year. 255 00:21:23.400 --> 00:21:27.160 So if you get meditation to thirty minutes within a half a year, just 256 00:21:27.200 --> 00:21:33.519 by starting from thirty seconds, this could be the greatest year of your life. 257 00:21:33.799 --> 00:21:40.480 Right. That's meditation the relaxed technique, So you guys got to practice 258 00:21:40.519 --> 00:21:45.880 that. There's lots of ways to relax the nervous system. One of the 259 00:21:45.920 --> 00:21:51.119 best ways also is drawing figure eights the infinity symbols, and they've been doing 260 00:21:51.160 --> 00:21:56.279 that for thousands of years in Eastern Asian cultures. The infinities. Those are 261 00:21:56.359 --> 00:22:02.319 powerful, but that's been proven through a neurosign to reduce stress and anxiety. 262 00:22:02.839 --> 00:22:07.240 So draw the infinity for thirty seconds three times a day, to the thirty 263 00:22:07.279 --> 00:22:15.759 second meditation three times a day. Start practicing some mindfulness every single day, 264 00:22:17.559 --> 00:22:22.599 and if you follow these suggestions, you'll function better, feel better, and 265 00:22:22.759 --> 00:22:27.920 live a better life. This is doctor Eric Kaplan. You're listening to boost 266 00:22:27.920 --> 00:22:34.039 your brain power more when we come back from the break, don't miss boost 267 00:22:34.119 --> 00:22:40.200 your brain power with doctor Eric Kaplan every Saturday from two pm to three pm 268 00:22:40.240 --> 00:22:44.920 to learn the secrets of how to optimize your brain function. You can improve 269 00:22:45.039 --> 00:22:49.839 memory, focus, energy, sleep, digestion, mood, skin, metabolism, 270 00:22:49.960 --> 00:22:55.839 and strength by following the science and research that doctor Caplan will be sharing 271 00:22:55.880 --> 00:23:00.160 with his audience. Join the adventure of discovering how to help the brain and 272 00:23:00.240 --> 00:23:03.440 body in a natural way while having fun at the same time. Listen to 273 00:23:03.599 --> 00:23:07.559 boost your brain power. If you want to function better, feel better, 274 00:23:07.680 --> 00:23:12.200 and enjoy the quality of life you deserve, called two oh one two six 275 00:23:12.279 --> 00:23:18.480 ' one two one five zero or email info at Kaplan Brain and Body dot 276 00:23:18.480 --> 00:23:22.160 com if you're interested in a free ten minute consultation with doctor Kaplan, or 277 00:23:22.240 --> 00:23:30.400 visit kaplandc dot com for more information. Function better, feel better, and 278 00:23:30.640 --> 00:23:37.759 live a better life. This is doctor Eric Kaplan, and you're listening to 279 00:23:37.079 --> 00:23:44.799 boost your brain power. Now. When we're talking about anxiety or depression. 280 00:23:45.960 --> 00:23:51.839 I am not gonna be the doctor that writes you the prescription medications. I'm 281 00:23:51.839 --> 00:23:56.720 not gonna, you know, write anti depressant prescriptions, anti anxiety prescriptions. 282 00:23:57.039 --> 00:24:00.839 That's not the type type of doctor I am. What I am is called 283 00:24:00.839 --> 00:24:07.680 a functional neurologist, and what I do is not hide the symptoms with medication, 284 00:24:07.319 --> 00:24:11.160 but try and get to the root cause of the problem. Where is 285 00:24:11.240 --> 00:24:19.319 the disfunction, Where is the nervous system not functioning at optimal levels, Where 286 00:24:19.440 --> 00:24:30.440 is the interference. Many medications will actually deaden your nervousest and some of my 287 00:24:30.519 --> 00:24:34.839 patients describe it as they become like a zombie, because what it does is 288 00:24:34.880 --> 00:24:41.319 it shuts off your brain. So instead of feeling the depression, you feel 289 00:24:41.359 --> 00:24:48.799 nothing. Instead of feeling the anxiety, you feel nothing. And in emergency 290 00:24:48.839 --> 00:24:53.599 situations, right there's suicide that's about to happen, and we got to shut 291 00:24:53.599 --> 00:25:00.960 off the brain. Medication can save lives, but for chrime depression, chronic 292 00:25:02.079 --> 00:25:07.920 anxiety, it might not be the best option. There's a lot of things 293 00:25:07.920 --> 00:25:14.799 that could cause more problems. Sometimes the cure is worse than the condition. 294 00:25:15.960 --> 00:25:21.519 Have you ever looked at the side effects of some of these antidepressants or anti 295 00:25:21.599 --> 00:25:32.960 anxiety pills. It actually is depression or anxiety, or violent tendencies or suicidal 296 00:25:33.079 --> 00:25:40.319 thoughts. Sometimes the suicidal thoughts are as a result of the medication. Sometimes 297 00:25:40.400 --> 00:25:47.519 the violence is from the medication. Most of those school shootings where people go 298 00:25:47.680 --> 00:25:52.640 crazy and they kill everybody and then they kill themselves, those people are on 299 00:25:52.759 --> 00:25:57.519 medication. They never talk about that. They just talk about the guns, 300 00:25:59.480 --> 00:26:06.039 but they don't talk about why their brains are messed up, because that's not 301 00:26:06.079 --> 00:26:11.200 a normal thing to take a gun and start shooting people. But guess what, 302 00:26:11.279 --> 00:26:15.680 even if you took the guns away, because their brains are messed up, 303 00:26:15.200 --> 00:26:19.079 they're gonna find other ways to kill people, whether it's in a car 304 00:26:19.519 --> 00:26:25.000 and start running over people, or take a knife and start stamming people. 305 00:26:25.079 --> 00:26:27.920 And you know, so why don't we talk about the mental health and what 306 00:26:29.039 --> 00:26:34.160 medication that they're on when these horrific events happens. You're not going to hear 307 00:26:34.160 --> 00:26:41.240 about that because the news is sponsored by the pharmaceutical companies. Okay, so 308 00:26:41.279 --> 00:26:45.039 you might not hear that, but think about it, right, we never 309 00:26:45.160 --> 00:26:51.799 talk about what medication people are on. Are they on anti depressants? Are 310 00:26:51.799 --> 00:26:57.279 they on anti anxiety pills where they warned of the side effects? And make 311 00:26:57.319 --> 00:27:03.200 sure people that are on these medicals do not have access to guns. You 312 00:27:03.240 --> 00:27:07.440 know, that's the most important background check. Does anyone in your house have 313 00:27:08.680 --> 00:27:15.759 a prescription for anti anxiety anti depressants? Any medication that may cause violent tendencies, 314 00:27:17.319 --> 00:27:23.680 may cause anger, aggression, may cause suicidal thoughts. Right then, 315 00:27:23.720 --> 00:27:27.759 we don't let them have any guns in those houses, that's for sure. 316 00:27:29.279 --> 00:27:32.640 But we got to work on people's brains and say, hey, are you 317 00:27:32.759 --> 00:27:36.519 taking medicine that can affect you? And a lot of patients come to me 318 00:27:36.559 --> 00:27:40.200 because they don't want to be on these medications anymore, you know. And 319 00:27:40.279 --> 00:27:45.160 sometimes it's because it makes them gain weight. It's not necessarily, you know, 320 00:27:45.319 --> 00:27:48.640 because they want to get better. It's like, oh man, this 321 00:27:48.799 --> 00:27:52.880 medication makes me look heavier, so they want to fix their brain so they 322 00:27:52.880 --> 00:27:56.400 can get off the medication so they could lose the weight. That's some people's 323 00:27:56.480 --> 00:28:00.200 motivation. To me, as long as you're getting healthy. Whatever motivates you 324 00:28:00.240 --> 00:28:04.079 to get you healthy. If it's to lose weight, fine, that's great, 325 00:28:04.599 --> 00:28:10.160 you know. If it's to prove your posture great, to grow more 326 00:28:10.240 --> 00:28:14.119 hair great. You know. We have lots of people that just come to 327 00:28:14.200 --> 00:28:19.160 us to grow hair. It's actually very doable. You I have patience in 328 00:28:19.200 --> 00:28:25.200 their sixties and seventies that are growing hair. We have patients that with thyroid 329 00:28:25.240 --> 00:28:30.400 problems growing their hair back. We have patients with hormonal issues growing their hair 330 00:28:30.480 --> 00:28:37.279 back, stress issues growing their hairback, autoimmune disease, alopecia growing their hair 331 00:28:37.319 --> 00:28:41.680 back. It all depends on the costs, right, but it can happen. 332 00:28:44.279 --> 00:28:47.720 It's all about, you know, getting to the root. Cause, 333 00:28:48.000 --> 00:28:52.880 like I said, I'm a functional neurologist, hy practical functional medicine. You 334 00:28:52.960 --> 00:28:56.799 know, we're going to see where your problems are coming from. If it's 335 00:28:56.799 --> 00:29:00.920 a thyroid problem, boom, let's the thyroid. I'm not going to write 336 00:29:00.960 --> 00:29:07.559 you a prescription for you know, row gain or whatever. You know they 337 00:29:07.640 --> 00:29:15.359 have to grow hair these days, right, monoxidil I don't even know what 338 00:29:15.440 --> 00:29:19.440 it is, but you know there's lots of ways, little hints like Rosemary 339 00:29:21.160 --> 00:29:26.279 alo Vera. You know, there's a lot of stuff that grows hair if 340 00:29:26.319 --> 00:29:30.200 you want. But again, you gotta get to the root cause, you 341 00:29:30.200 --> 00:29:33.039 know those things I'm talking about. If it's like a genetic thing, the 342 00:29:33.079 --> 00:29:37.359 genetic ones are the hardest ones. But you could literally eat stuff and put 343 00:29:37.400 --> 00:29:41.279 stuff on there that can help regrow hair. If you want a list of 344 00:29:41.319 --> 00:29:47.720 all the top seven things you could take to regrow hair, just give me 345 00:29:47.759 --> 00:29:53.000 an email as my staff. The email's info at Kaplinbrain and Body dot com. 346 00:29:53.279 --> 00:29:59.039 Just say you want the list to help grow your hair back. But 347 00:29:59.039 --> 00:30:04.519 there's lots of ways to fix any issue, whether it's for aesthetics, but 348 00:30:04.599 --> 00:30:10.920 hopefully it's because you want to be healthier. Right So, and the less 349 00:30:10.960 --> 00:30:14.759 medication you're on, the healthier you're gonna be. The less doctors you see, 350 00:30:15.759 --> 00:30:19.119 the healthier gonna be. But how do you know? You know if 351 00:30:19.119 --> 00:30:23.680 your brain's depressed, if it's underactive, or it's anxiety, if it's overactive. 352 00:30:25.000 --> 00:30:27.240 I'm gonna give a little hint on how to figure that out at the 353 00:30:27.319 --> 00:30:30.519 end of the show. If you just stick around, there's a lot of 354 00:30:30.519 --> 00:30:33.039 ways you could figure that out. And we're gonna go over that at the 355 00:30:33.119 --> 00:30:38.200 end of the show. There but a lot of my patients who come to 356 00:30:38.240 --> 00:30:45.000 me with anxiety, we have to come up with strategies to calm down their 357 00:30:45.039 --> 00:30:49.119 overactive brain. Okay, so if the brain's overactive, it's overheated, it's 358 00:30:49.119 --> 00:30:56.119 inflamed. We want to cool it down. So there's something where you dip 359 00:30:56.200 --> 00:31:03.200 your head in a bucket of cold water. There's been neuroscience research that shows 360 00:31:03.200 --> 00:31:07.799 people with attachycardia, which is a really fast heartbeat. Right you ever been 361 00:31:08.200 --> 00:31:12.880 anxiety panic? What happens your heartbeat goes really fast. You start panicking, 362 00:31:12.880 --> 00:31:18.079 you start getting stressed, start getting anxious. Remember that uh Edgar Allan Poe 363 00:31:18.079 --> 00:31:22.279 the telltale heart, right. His heart's beating so fast when you're stressed, 364 00:31:22.359 --> 00:31:29.079 when you're nervous, when your cortisol's high and your brain has all these thoughts, 365 00:31:29.119 --> 00:31:30.799 it's going a million miles per hour. You're in that fight or flight 366 00:31:30.839 --> 00:31:36.880 mode. So when people have this high heartbeat, this tachycardia, the neuroscience 367 00:31:36.920 --> 00:31:40.920 has proved that if you dip your head in a bucket of cold water, 368 00:31:41.000 --> 00:31:47.039 and the neuroscience shaid fifty degrees fahrenheit, So you get a bucket with fifty 369 00:31:47.079 --> 00:31:49.160 degrees faheit, it's pretty cold. Put cold water in there. You probably 370 00:31:49.200 --> 00:31:52.319 have to even add ice. If you have a thermometer, check it out. 371 00:31:53.599 --> 00:31:57.079 And at fifty degrees fahrenheit, you dip your head in a bucket of 372 00:31:57.119 --> 00:32:01.039 cold water, and you'll see if you your heart rate is going really fast, 373 00:32:02.359 --> 00:32:07.000 it will slow it down. I've seen it many, many times, 374 00:32:07.640 --> 00:32:13.480 dozens and dozens of times where people would go from literally one hundred and sixty 375 00:32:13.480 --> 00:32:20.480 beats per minute to fifty beats per minute in less than a minute. People 376 00:32:20.480 --> 00:32:23.200 who are one hundred and twenty beats per minute right down to sixty beats to 377 00:32:23.240 --> 00:32:30.480 minute and thirty seconds. By doing this sometimes it works super quick. All 378 00:32:30.559 --> 00:32:35.359 right. The cold will bring down the heart rate because it cools down your 379 00:32:35.359 --> 00:32:39.519 nervous system. Your heart's overactive. We've got to slow it down. So 380 00:32:39.559 --> 00:32:45.960 you can actually dip your head in a bucket of cold water at fifty degrees 381 00:32:46.000 --> 00:32:52.720 fahrenheit. Now, if you need to breathe, you get up, all 382 00:32:52.799 --> 00:32:57.000 right, So don't try this at home. If you don't know what you're 383 00:32:57.039 --> 00:32:59.759 doing, ask your doctor if that's appropriate for you. If you have a 384 00:32:59.799 --> 00:33:04.640 lot of tachycardia and you say, hey, I heard this doctor on the 385 00:33:04.680 --> 00:33:07.359 show, he said for tachycardia which is a high heart rate, said the 386 00:33:07.480 --> 00:33:13.000 neuroscience showed you that I should dip my head in a bucket of cold water 387 00:33:14.640 --> 00:33:15.839 and then see what the doctor says. Hey, you know what, it's 388 00:33:15.880 --> 00:33:20.039 a good idea. I read that research that is appropriate for you. So 389 00:33:20.119 --> 00:33:22.119 anything you learned from my show, I'll always ask your doctor, because again, 390 00:33:22.319 --> 00:33:28.240 everybody's an individual, right, I don't know what your specific case is, 391 00:33:28.279 --> 00:33:34.240 and if you want for me to specifically analyze you, I'm gonna give 392 00:33:34.279 --> 00:33:36.960 a nice special a gift to you guys at the end of the show. 393 00:33:37.039 --> 00:33:40.640 So stick around and I'll let you know about that. But the bucket of 394 00:33:40.680 --> 00:33:45.480 cold water. What else is the neuroscience proven to relax your nervous system? 395 00:33:46.000 --> 00:33:52.599 Gargling? Gargling really intensely. Do that for thirty seconds, three times a 396 00:33:52.680 --> 00:34:00.359 day, and the gag reflects. Everyone learns this in medical school or and 397 00:34:00.480 --> 00:34:07.320 do school. The osteopaths, DC's school, chiropractors like any doctor, learns 398 00:34:07.400 --> 00:34:16.360 this that the gag reflex stimulates cranial nerves nine and ten, and those two 399 00:34:16.559 --> 00:34:23.480 nerves are linked to what's called your parasympathetic nervous system, which is then part 400 00:34:23.480 --> 00:34:30.000 of the nervous system that relaxes you. So it's not rocket science. If 401 00:34:30.039 --> 00:34:35.800 the part of the brain that relaxes you is activated by doing the gag reflex, 402 00:34:36.559 --> 00:34:40.960 maybe we can actually use the gag reflexes therapy. So a lot of 403 00:34:42.000 --> 00:34:50.920 doctors use it as analysis during their examination, their evaluations. But if it's 404 00:34:50.960 --> 00:34:55.519 abnormal during the evaluation, then you want to strengthen it. Right, We 405 00:34:55.599 --> 00:35:00.079 said, if your memory is bad, you gotta do memory exercise. If 406 00:35:00.079 --> 00:35:02.960 your vision's bad, you gotta do vision exercise. If your muscles are weak, 407 00:35:04.000 --> 00:35:09.639 you gotta do strengthening exercises. If your parasympathetic nervous system is weak, 408 00:35:10.480 --> 00:35:16.159 and that's why you have anxiety, you have to do parasympathetic nervous system exercises 409 00:35:17.559 --> 00:35:25.880 right. That's going to create what's called neuroplasticity, rewiring your brain to strengthen 410 00:35:27.480 --> 00:35:32.760 those areas that are not functioning at optimal levels. Because when you function better, 411 00:35:34.320 --> 00:35:39.480 you feel better and you live a better life. This is doctor eric 412 00:35:39.559 --> 00:35:45.519 Kaplan. You're listening to boost your brain power more when we come back from 413 00:35:45.599 --> 00:35:49.599 the break. 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Doctor Kaplan is most famous for getting to the root cause of 422 00:36:28.239 --> 00:36:31.800 a wide variety of brain and health conditions, rather than treating symptoms with traditional 423 00:36:31.840 --> 00:36:36.840 medicines and risky surgeries. To contact the doctor Caplin, you can call his 424 00:36:36.920 --> 00:36:39.599 team at two oh one two six one two one five zero or visit his 425 00:36:39.719 --> 00:36:49.800 website at kaplindc dot com. Function Banner Feel better and live a better life. 426 00:36:50.559 --> 00:36:55.119 This is doctor Eric Kaplan. You're listening to boost your brain power. 427 00:36:57.840 --> 00:37:00.840 So we're trying to figure out what can we do if we have depression. 428 00:37:01.920 --> 00:37:07.159 Physical exercise. That's very important. But you gotta do something that you like, 429 00:37:08.239 --> 00:37:12.079 right because if you don't like it, you're not gonna keep doing it. 430 00:37:13.039 --> 00:37:17.800 Remember what we said, it's about the quantity, not the quality. 431 00:37:20.039 --> 00:37:25.599 So if you do something every single day and over and over, down care. 432 00:37:25.599 --> 00:37:36.440 If it's biking or hiking or power walking, or the treadmill or yoga 433 00:37:36.920 --> 00:37:46.960 or pilates or orange theory or CrossFit or basketball or tennis or soccer, or 434 00:37:47.079 --> 00:37:58.079 rollerblading or ice skating or skiing, something that gets your body moving, something 435 00:37:58.119 --> 00:38:02.960 that's fun. I have patients that do pole dancing as an exercise. It's 436 00:38:02.960 --> 00:38:07.519 a really good work out, but it's fun for them. They didn't like 437 00:38:07.559 --> 00:38:10.360 to go to the gym, so they do pole dancing. I have other 438 00:38:10.400 --> 00:38:20.800 patients they do they do hip hop dancing. I have patients that do zoomba. 439 00:38:21.599 --> 00:38:28.039 I have patients that do belly dancing, patients that do insanity P ninety 440 00:38:28.280 --> 00:38:36.079 X, patients that do hot yoga. I mean there's a million things. 441 00:38:36.119 --> 00:38:39.360 There's cycle classes. I mean, there's stuff to do at home. There's 442 00:38:39.440 --> 00:38:46.239 YouTube videos. It's unlimited. But find what you like to do. You 443 00:38:46.239 --> 00:38:52.119 want to take Salca lessons, Take Salca lessons. That's social. You gotta 444 00:38:52.280 --> 00:38:57.199 use your brain to remember the steps. You're gonna have human contact, which 445 00:38:57.239 --> 00:39:01.920 is very therapeutic for the brain. Right. If you don't touch people, 446 00:39:01.960 --> 00:39:08.679 that's depressing. So you know, hold people's hands, hug people, kiss 447 00:39:08.719 --> 00:39:13.840 people, of course with permission. But if you have loved ones in your 448 00:39:13.880 --> 00:39:16.559 life, start being a little bit more affectionate. And if you don't get 449 00:39:16.559 --> 00:39:22.199 a dog, get a cat so you can be affectionate with them. And 450 00:39:22.280 --> 00:39:23.920 if you don't want to get a cat or a dog, and you don't 451 00:39:23.920 --> 00:39:30.079 have any friends or family, go get a massage. You know, there's 452 00:39:30.400 --> 00:39:32.320 if you can't if you don't have any money there is. You can get 453 00:39:32.320 --> 00:39:37.360 a really cheap massages. You could go to a massage school and get it 454 00:39:37.360 --> 00:39:42.079 for like twenty thirty bucks or something. So you can always think of something 455 00:39:42.159 --> 00:39:45.679 if you just get some human touch. There's acupuncture schools. If you need, 456 00:39:45.880 --> 00:39:49.639 you know, to find cheap places, you go to the schools and 457 00:39:49.679 --> 00:39:53.960 then you could get any type of therapy really cheap. You know, you 458 00:39:54.000 --> 00:39:58.800 want to go to a chiropractor, and you can go to chiropractic school. 459 00:39:58.800 --> 00:40:01.480 Just no, it might not the best quality, right, you know, 460 00:40:01.519 --> 00:40:05.239 you can go to a dentist at the you know, at the school and 461 00:40:05.239 --> 00:40:09.280 get much cheaper. But you know it's not gonna necessarily be the highest quality 462 00:40:09.360 --> 00:40:15.960 of care. But at least you get stuff done, right. So human 463 00:40:15.079 --> 00:40:20.199 touch is key, or at least a pet touch. But if you want 464 00:40:20.199 --> 00:40:23.000 to get rid of depression, yes, we need to have some human interaction. 465 00:40:23.119 --> 00:40:27.440 We need some we need some touch, all right. That's what we're 466 00:40:27.440 --> 00:40:30.960 made for. The worst punishment, the most depressing thing is isolation. So 467 00:40:31.039 --> 00:40:36.519 get up your butt, get out of the house. Book some social events. 468 00:40:36.960 --> 00:40:42.280 Call some friends, call some family members, make some dates, join 469 00:40:42.360 --> 00:40:52.440 some clubs, do some meetups, do some hobbies get something going where you 470 00:40:52.480 --> 00:40:58.199 get out of the house. You're social very important. Right, so we'll 471 00:40:58.199 --> 00:41:01.079 say you got to make progress. I don't care. You know a lot 472 00:41:01.119 --> 00:41:04.400 of people want to make progress at work. Right. Let me get a 473 00:41:04.480 --> 00:41:09.199 raise, Let me get a promotion. You know, let me step you 474 00:41:09.199 --> 00:41:15.800 know, climb the ladder to success. Right, So make more money, 475 00:41:15.840 --> 00:41:21.840 whatever it is, see more people, have more clients, you know, 476 00:41:22.559 --> 00:41:28.800 get more recognition, you know, whatever it is. Make progress. Make 477 00:41:28.840 --> 00:41:32.039 progress in your spirituality, you know, pray to God more, or be 478 00:41:32.159 --> 00:41:38.639 more charitable, you know, do more volunteer work. You know. Always 479 00:41:39.440 --> 00:41:44.360 progress with your health right when you go, you know, progresses. I'm 480 00:41:44.360 --> 00:41:46.519 doing a thirty second meditation. Now I'm going to a forty second meditation. 481 00:41:47.360 --> 00:41:51.679 You know progresses. I did one push up today. Tomorrow I'm going to 482 00:41:51.760 --> 00:41:53.320 do two push ups. It doesn't have to be a lot of progress. 483 00:41:54.280 --> 00:41:58.000 But with your health, you got to make a lot of You got to 484 00:41:58.039 --> 00:42:01.079 make consistent progress. You know. Oh, let me add an extra half 485 00:42:01.079 --> 00:42:06.639 a glass of water today. Let me go to bed five minutes earlier. 486 00:42:07.760 --> 00:42:12.079 Let me get rid of my turn off my phone ten minutes earlier than I 487 00:42:12.119 --> 00:42:15.559 usually do. Just make some progress in your health. Even if it's one 488 00:42:15.639 --> 00:42:20.800 percent. Every day. Progress is the key, all right. Progress is 489 00:42:20.840 --> 00:42:24.960 the key to getting on a depression. You know, physical exercise and mental 490 00:42:25.000 --> 00:42:32.440 progress. You gotta get out of the sitting at home feeling sorry for yourself. 491 00:42:34.079 --> 00:42:36.639 And like I said, one percent, I don't care what it is, 492 00:42:36.920 --> 00:42:39.679 but make some progress, all right. Now, How do you know 493 00:42:40.159 --> 00:42:45.480 if your brain's underactive? How do you know if it's overactive? One of 494 00:42:45.480 --> 00:42:50.920 the best tests is called a VNG video nostography. You wear these goggles. 495 00:42:50.920 --> 00:42:53.880 They have infrared cameras. They do all these different movements with your eyes with 496 00:42:54.079 --> 00:42:58.800 fast and slow and it goes up and down. It's non invasive, it 497 00:42:58.840 --> 00:43:04.760 doesn't hurt, there's no radiation at all, there's no risks. It's really 498 00:43:04.800 --> 00:43:09.239 cool technology. And what happens is we're able to see all the different lobes 499 00:43:09.239 --> 00:43:13.679 of the brain, the frontal, the parietal, even the cerebellum, the 500 00:43:13.800 --> 00:43:16.840 brain stem. So we're measuring all the different lobes of your brain, all 501 00:43:16.840 --> 00:43:21.960 the different areas. And with this VNG we could check out the eyes and 502 00:43:21.960 --> 00:43:24.920 see how the inner ears are working. It's a wide variety of different brain 503 00:43:25.000 --> 00:43:30.639 tests, and then we could see which areas are underactive, and which areas 504 00:43:30.679 --> 00:43:35.800 are overactive, because if the areas are underactive, we gotta give you therapeutic 505 00:43:35.880 --> 00:43:38.599 exercises that are gonna stimulate. And when people are underactive, they're gonna have 506 00:43:38.639 --> 00:43:46.199 depression, they're gonna have fatigue, they're gonna have low motivation or organization, 507 00:43:46.559 --> 00:43:52.119 poor social skills. They're gonna be you know, late, They're not gonna 508 00:43:52.119 --> 00:43:57.679 be punctual, they're gonna have a bad memory, can't focus, can't think. 509 00:43:58.960 --> 00:44:04.000 That's an underactive brain. Right, the V ANDNG will tell us which 510 00:44:04.119 --> 00:44:07.800 areas are underacted, Adam, is that the right and the left because we 511 00:44:07.880 --> 00:44:09.880 might have to do certain exercises on the right side and certain exercise on the 512 00:44:09.920 --> 00:44:15.519 left. Now, the V ANDNG will also tell us which areas are overactive. 513 00:44:16.519 --> 00:44:21.840 Right, So, these patients have anxiety, they might have insomnia, 514 00:44:21.920 --> 00:44:28.239 they have difficulties sleep, they might have panic. They might have their minds 515 00:44:28.360 --> 00:44:32.280 racing a million miles per hour. They might have ADHD. They always distracted, 516 00:44:32.599 --> 00:44:36.280 They're always trying to do one thing at a time. Can't do that, 517 00:44:36.360 --> 00:44:38.159 then they go into the next and then they forget about that. Always 518 00:44:38.239 --> 00:44:43.920 losing things, always worrying about things, always worried about others, worried about 519 00:44:43.960 --> 00:44:52.760 the future, worried about the past, very you know, even maybe you 520 00:44:52.840 --> 00:44:58.039 feel the heart beating the tech of cardio we were talking about. Before people 521 00:44:58.400 --> 00:45:04.840 even start breathing, you know, they get really nervous a lot. So 522 00:45:04.880 --> 00:45:10.000 these are the overactive brains right for them. We gotta give stuff to calm 523 00:45:10.000 --> 00:45:15.239 it down. So the VNG we'll see, okay, which areas are overactive, 524 00:45:15.239 --> 00:45:19.960 and then we got to come up with therapeutic exercises or suggestions on how 525 00:45:20.000 --> 00:45:24.039 to calm those down. So this VNG test, it only takes about a 526 00:45:24.079 --> 00:45:30.440 half an hour. It's normally five hundred dollars, but for the first seven 527 00:45:30.519 --> 00:45:34.679 people to call, text or email, you could get it for twenty one 528 00:45:34.800 --> 00:45:43.320 dollars. Now we're also gonna add another gift. Another good test to do 529 00:45:43.800 --> 00:45:51.159 is a qEEG brain mapping. A qEEG brain mapping is a test where you 530 00:45:51.199 --> 00:45:55.320 wear a cap. It looks like a swimmer's cap, and we put these 531 00:45:55.360 --> 00:46:01.079 electrodes attached to your brain. We have this little gel that's got a conduction 532 00:46:01.199 --> 00:46:07.320 fluid to help to analyze the different waves in your brain. And a lot 533 00:46:07.320 --> 00:46:12.119 of people have done that. EKG for the heart sort of like that, 534 00:46:12.320 --> 00:46:15.280 but instead of measuring your heart waves, this measures your brain waves. But 535 00:46:15.320 --> 00:46:21.400 there's no radiation. You don't have to sit in the MRI tube. You 536 00:46:21.400 --> 00:46:24.679 don't need any contrast fluid. You know, need any cat skin or X 537 00:46:24.800 --> 00:46:30.679 rays with radiation, So there's no radiation, no risk, super easy. 538 00:46:30.719 --> 00:46:36.000 You just sit down, wear this little cap takes about twenty to thirty minutes, 539 00:46:36.360 --> 00:46:39.440 and it measures all your brain waves or alpha beta, theta delta, 540 00:46:40.119 --> 00:46:44.719 and it tells us exactly which areas are not working well and which areas are 541 00:46:45.119 --> 00:46:47.679 If you have depression, anxiety, troubles with long term memory, short term 542 00:46:47.760 --> 00:46:52.599 memory, immediate memory, if you have difficulty with motivation, organization planning, 543 00:46:52.840 --> 00:46:58.239 if you have balance problems, hearing problems, visual problems, if you have 544 00:46:58.880 --> 00:47:01.920 problems with your back, if you have walking problems, if you have for 545 00:47:02.199 --> 00:47:06.679 circulation, do you have a thyroid problem, do you have intestinal inflammation, 546 00:47:07.079 --> 00:47:13.840 heavy metal poisoning, concussion, acetocholine, dopamine, checks all the neurotransmitters, 547 00:47:14.039 --> 00:47:19.119 checks if there's white matter problems. This test is amazing. It's non invasive, 548 00:47:19.239 --> 00:47:22.280 super quick, and tells us the results right away. That test is 549 00:47:22.440 --> 00:47:27.880 also normally five hundred dollars, but for the first seven people to call, 550 00:47:27.960 --> 00:47:31.119 text or email, you could get that test for only twenty one dollars. 551 00:47:31.639 --> 00:47:36.920 And there's even more. The best test is a one on one with me, 552 00:47:37.360 --> 00:47:40.800 yours truly, doctor Eric Kplam, where we spend about forty five minutes 553 00:47:40.840 --> 00:47:44.719 together, and if you do those tests, We're gonna go over your brain 554 00:47:44.800 --> 00:47:47.599 mapping, We're gonna go over your VNG. If you have blood work, 555 00:47:47.639 --> 00:47:52.199 we'll go over your blood work. I'm also gonna check out your memory, 556 00:47:52.599 --> 00:47:57.719 your lungs, your heart, your gut, your posture, your reflexes, 557 00:47:57.960 --> 00:48:04.280 your alignment, your in a nation, your reaction time, your balance. 558 00:48:04.760 --> 00:48:07.239 So we do a full forty five minute valuation one on one with me. 559 00:48:07.559 --> 00:48:12.840 It's normally five hundred dollars, but for the first twenty one, for the 560 00:48:12.840 --> 00:48:16.280 first seven people that call texture email, you can get it for twenty one 561 00:48:16.480 --> 00:48:22.199 dollars, And if you want, you could literally do all three twenty one 562 00:48:22.239 --> 00:48:28.840 dollars VNG, twenty one dollars q EEG, and a twenty one dollars one 563 00:48:28.880 --> 00:48:31.519 on one with me. You can do all three, or you could do 564 00:48:31.599 --> 00:48:35.440 one, or you can do two. It's all up to you. But 565 00:48:35.480 --> 00:48:37.880 you got to be one of the first seven people to call, text or 566 00:48:37.920 --> 00:48:44.440 email. The phone number is six four six two two one six seven three 567 00:48:44.559 --> 00:48:52.719 eight. The email is info at kaplinbrainebody dot com. Again call our text 568 00:48:52.039 --> 00:49:01.800 six four six two two one six seven three eight or email in at kaplanbrainanbody 569 00:49:02.480 --> 00:49:09.880 dot com. Lastly, I'm running a seminar series. It's called the Booshe 570 00:49:09.880 --> 00:49:16.320 of brain Power Seminar Series. We have a seminar this Tuesday, March twenty 571 00:49:16.360 --> 00:49:25.280 six, at six thirty pm in River Edge, New Jersey, on Kindercomack 572 00:49:25.440 --> 00:49:32.119 Road. If you can't make it to New Jersey on Tuesday at six thirty, 573 00:49:32.280 --> 00:49:37.679 you could do it over zoom live over zoom where you can actually ask 574 00:49:37.760 --> 00:49:43.559 questions as well. If you can't make it live, you can also do 575 00:49:44.519 --> 00:49:49.599 a recording so you can get it where you could listen at your own convenience, 576 00:49:49.960 --> 00:49:52.199 so you could come live. But this Tuesday's gonna be great. There's 577 00:49:52.239 --> 00:49:58.199 gonna be massage, laser, there's gonna be food and drinks, there's gonna 578 00:49:58.199 --> 00:50:01.559 be a free giveaway, There's gonna be a lot of fun people there, 579 00:50:01.559 --> 00:50:05.519 healthy people. So I would definitely if you can do it live, do 580 00:50:05.599 --> 00:50:07.440 it. If you can do it over zoom, do it that as well, 581 00:50:07.480 --> 00:50:09.559 and if you can't make it live over zoom, you can get the 582 00:50:09.599 --> 00:50:13.320 recording. And the good news is if you do come live, you're gonna 583 00:50:13.360 --> 00:50:16.159 get the recording as well as well. Now what we're gonna do. It's 584 00:50:16.199 --> 00:50:21.519 normally a two hundred dollars seminar for the first seven people to call, text 585 00:50:21.599 --> 00:50:27.239 or email, you only have to pay ninety seven dollars and the bonus is 586 00:50:27.679 --> 00:50:34.199 we're gonna give you the next four seminars, whether it's live, zoom or 587 00:50:34.280 --> 00:50:38.039 the recordings, completely free, so you don't have to pay two hundred dollars 588 00:50:38.119 --> 00:50:42.719 for the next four ones. They're literally completely free. So you're gonna pay 589 00:50:42.800 --> 00:50:47.239 ninety seven dollars and you get five seminars. Right, so it's basically nineteen 590 00:50:47.320 --> 00:50:52.280 dollars for each seminar, but you have to be one of the first seven 591 00:50:52.320 --> 00:50:57.800 people and say you want to be part of the seminar series, which starts 592 00:50:58.239 --> 00:51:05.119 Tuesday, March twenty six, and that occurs the last Tuesday of every month 593 00:51:05.599 --> 00:51:09.280 for the next five months six four six, two, two, one, 594 00:51:09.639 --> 00:51:17.199 six seven three eight or email info at Kaplinbrainebody dot com for more information. 595 00:51:17.360 --> 00:51:22.880 About our offices in Emerson, New Jersey and in the West Village of New 596 00:51:22.920 --> 00:51:28.800 York City, or our virtual appointments from all over the world and country. 597 00:51:29.239 --> 00:51:34.800 Just visit our website kaplindc dot com, or you can follow us on YouTube 598 00:51:35.239 --> 00:51:39.239 Caplin Brain and Body. 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