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The following is a paid podcast.
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endorsement of the products offered or the
ideas expressed. Function better, feel better,

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and live a better life. This
is doctor Eric Kaplan. You're listening

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to boost your brain power. We
are going to discuss how to boost your

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mood, how to prevent depression and
anxiety. We see a lot of patience

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with these mood disorders, especially since
the pandemic four years ago. People were

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put into isolation. The gyms were
closed, the churches were closed, all

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social events were postponed. You couldn't
touch anyone, you had to be six

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feet away. You couldn't see any
facial expressions with the It was a disaster

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for people with mood disorders, and
it created mood disorders because every time you

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turned on the TV was all these
people dying. There's a pandemic, it's

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spreading, it's getting worse. So, starting four years ago, there's been

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more depression, more anxiety, more
drug abuse, more alcoholism, more suicide,

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more pharmaceutical abuse, more doctor's visits, more psychology visits, psychiatry visits.

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People's mood has been very poor these
past few weeks, for the last

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few years, the last few months, and it doesn't seem like it's getting

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any better. That is a big
problem, is that it's not getting better

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unless we start to change the way
we think. We have to treat these

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mood disorders as if it were a
condition, just like cancer or heart disease

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or diabetes, and not just say, oh, this person's crazy put them

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in a mental institute. That is
not the proper way to handle this situation.

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What we have to do is think
of the brain like a muscle.

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You use it or you lose it. So we have to do the reverse

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of what they did during this pandemic. Instead of them closing the gyms,

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we have to exercise more. Instead
of them closing the churches, we need

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to pray more. Instead of them
telling you don't go visit your grandparents,

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you have to visit your grandparents more. Instead of them saying, sit at

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home, eat dunkin Donuts and McDonald's, watch the news, we're going to

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say, turn off the television,
eat a fresh, no preservative home cook

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meal with your family, do social
events, start holding hands again, and

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start hugging. We need human interaction. Human touch is key. They just

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said a few months ago that the
six feet social distance was actually not based

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on any science, so they finally
admitted it four years later. But they

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put us in isolation, and they
didn't let us touch people, and they

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didn't let us hold hands, and
then let us hug and then let us

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shake hands and all this stuff that
kept our brain strong because human interaction,

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human touch, socialization is key for
upper brain function. That's why in jail,

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the worst punishment is solitary confinement.
Social isolation is the worst thing for

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your brain. So these people would
rather sleep next to a murderer or a

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child molester than be alone in solitary
confinement. There's no worst punishment to mankind

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than solitary confinement. Then isolation that
will make you go crazy. That will

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lead to depression, that will lead
to anxiety. So we need to be

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social. You need to be with
your family, be with your friends.

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So many people died because they were
in isolation. Don't be isolated. Turn

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off the electronics. Social media is
not social. They should call it anti

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social media because it actually he reduces
the amount of social activities you're gonna do

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because you're sitting at home thinking you're
social, as opposed to going out in

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the real world. We need to
meet new people. We need to be

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with our friends, our family members, We need to be in social situations.

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If you want to reduce depression and
anxiety, you need to be more

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social. And you might need to
be social with people you're comfortable with.

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You might need to be social with
people that are positive. You don't want

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to be social with people that are
complaining or they're mean to you, or

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they're always criticizing you. That's not
gonna help you. That's gonna create more

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anxiety. When you select the people
you hang with, it's more important to

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have quality people than quantity of people. We want good quality, positive people,

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supportive people, motivating people, healthy
people, successful people, spiritual people,

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people that are going to take you
to the next level. I want

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to be the dumbest person in the
room, because that means I'm going to

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learn from smarter people. I want
people that are healthier than me in the

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room so they could teach me how
to be more healthier. I want more

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successful people in the room so they
could teach me how to be successful.

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I want more spiritual people in the
room so they could teach me how to

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be more spiritual. I want more
charitable people in the room, so they

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will teach me how to be more
charitable. Surround yourself with people who already

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at the state that you want to
be. If you have certain goals that

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you want to achieve, you want
to hang around people who's achieved those goals.

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That is the key. You are
who you surround yourself with. So

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if you hang around with depressed people, you're going to be depressed. If

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you hang around with anxious people,
you're going to be anxious. So that's

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why I want to hang around with
spiritual, charitable, healthy, active,

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loving, giving, kind, motivating
people. That's the people that I want

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to be around. And it might
not be a lot, right because there's

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not a lot of those people,
But that's okay because it's about quality,

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not about quantity. Right. So
we want to reduce anxiety, we want

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to reduce depression, right, So
we need to boost our mood. Now,

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how are you going to do that? It depends what your goal is.

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If you have lots of anxiety,
that means your brain is overactive.

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So if it's overactive, we don't
want to take any stimulants. We don't

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want any energy drinks, coffee,
soda, juices, smoothies. We don't

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want any sports drinks. We don't
want these sugar drinks, they're going to

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be stimulants. We don't want caffeine
drinks, red bull. We don't like

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these energy drinks. We don't want
a Starbucks coffee or a Dunkin Donuts.

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We don't want these espressos and lattes
and all these drinks and caffeine and energy

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drinks and stuff to boost you up. You have all the energy you need

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within your own body. You don't
need false, fake energy. When you

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get caffeine, that's not real energy. And if you do it every day,

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your brain is gonna depend on it
like a drug. Don't create a

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habit of relying on caffeine every day
to get your brain and body going.

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And if you get a headache when
you don't have caffeine, that's even worse.

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That's an addiction. You better stop
that immediately. But if you have

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anxiety, you gotta think about this. If you have anxiety, do you

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want to add stimulants? Do you
need sugar and caffeine and food dyes and

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preservatives, all these chemicals, artificial
flavors. Stay away from splendid sweet and

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low. Stay away from aspartain,
diet snapple, and diet sodas. Stay

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away from all these sugar replacements,
artificial sweeteners, artificial flavors, food dyes,

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preservatives. Those are all stimulants.
Stay away from the stimulants. If

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you have anxiety, don't make it
worse. Don't put all these chemicals in

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your body. And that includes pesticides
and herbicides from conventional fruits and vegetables.

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If you have fruit and veggies and
you want to get rid of all the

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crap on them, what you do
after you come home from the supermarket.

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Put it in a big bowl,
fill it up with water, add some

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baking soda. Let it be in
there for an hour and the baking so

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it will help leach out all the
chemicals and all the bad stuff on those

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fruits and veggies. Then pour out
the water, rinse everything off. Store

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it in glass containers to make it
last longer, and that will reduce your

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chemical exposure. But try and buy
organic. But do this process even with

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organic, because there's chemicals on organic
as well. And if you can't afford

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to buy everything organic, make sure
you get this stuff where you eat the

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entire fruit or vegetable organic, you
know, like a grape you're gonna eat

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the whole thing, and a strawberry
and a blueberry, So make sure you

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buy those organic. Something with a
big, large peel that you're not gonna

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eat, like an avocado, a
banana, a watermelon, a canalope,

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honeydew, an orange, something like
that. Not as important to buy organic

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because it is harder for those chemicals
to go all the way through those big

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peels into the fruit. And so
if you do want to save a few

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bucks by organic where you eat the
peel, and you can buy conventional where

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you take off the peel before you
eat it, and that way you're reducing

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your chemical exposure and you're reducing your
overactivation of your nervous system. To boost

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your mood to function better, feel
better, and live a better life,

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and live a better life. That
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better and feel better and live a
better life, all you have to do

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is get to the root cause of
your problems. I am a functional neurologist,

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which is different than a medical neurologist. So if you have anxiety,

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I'm not gonna give you an anti
anxiety pill. I'm gonna figure out why

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is your nervous system overactive. If
you have depression, I'm not gonna give

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you an anti depressant. I'm gonna
figure out why is your brain underactive.

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If you have a headache, I'm
not gonna give you a headache pill.

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I'm gonna figure out where's this headache
coming from. Is it a tention headache,

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is it a stress headache. Is
it a cluster headache? Is it

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a migraine headache? Is it a
cervicogenic headache? Is it a dehydration headache?

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Is it a nutritional deficiency headache?
Is it a thyroid headache? I

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mean, there are you know,
dozens and dozens of things that can cause

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a headache. So my job as
a functional doctor is get to the bottom,

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be detective and figure out where is
this coming from. And we do

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the same thing with depression and anxiety. You know, I had a patient

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a couple of months ago and they
lost their father, and he was pretty

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young, and she was depressed,
and she went to her doctor and the

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doctor gave our antidepressants. And I
said, well, you're supposed to be

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depressed. If you weren't depressed when
you lose your father, especially at a

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young age, then that's a problem. You know, you're supposed to be

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depressed when you lose a loved one. That's normal. So maybe you don't

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want to take an antidepressant. Maybe
you don't want to hide the symptoms.

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Medication hides symptoms, right, What
if you have a fever and you take

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medication to lower your fever, not
realizing that the reason your body is heating

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up is to kill off the virus
in the bacteria because they can't live in

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high heat. So when you bring
your temperature down, you're actually letting your

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virus or bacteria thrive and they don't
get eliminated. What if you have an

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infection and you take antibiotics, but
those antibiotics kill off all the good bacteria,

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and your good bacteria is your best
defense against bad bacteria. So now

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that after you've taken antibiotics, your
gut microbiome is ruined. You don't have

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good bacteria, So now you can't
fight bacteria and viruses in the future because

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you've ruined your immune system. What
if you have bad acid reflux and you

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start taking thumbs or roll aids or
prescriptions or an acids to reduce your stomach

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acid. Now you can't absorb your
nutrients. Now your immune system is weaker

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because that acid fights off certain worms
and parasites and mold and fungies and viruses

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and bacteria. Your stomach is where
your immune system starts. And if you

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don't have enough stomach acid because you've
taken an acids, that's going to be

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a health risk. So if you've
taken an acids ever in your life,

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that could be a problem. It
can make you more susceptible to future issues

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digested problems, constipation, diarrhea,
ibs, crones ulci, rate of colitis,

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siliac disease, cebo colitis. There
are lots of problems that result from

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medicine, from antacids, from antibiotics
that ruin your digestive track. And if

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you have your guts all inflamed,
now you go what's called a leaky gut.

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Then you can have viruses of bacteria
enter your bloodstream and start attacking your

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brain. And now you're all anxious, and now you have brain fog,

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and now you're depressed, and you
lost motivation. It could all be coming

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from your gut because of the medication
you took previously. You might have taken

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medication years ago that's affecting you.
Now. You might have had a concussion

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year years ago that's affecting your brain, your mood to this day. So

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you got to get to the root
cause of the problem. So I'm not

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the doctor that's going to write a
prescription for an acids. I'm gonna say,

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hey, why do you have this
acid reflux? Maybe you have to

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change your diet. Maybe you're going
to bed too close to dinner time.

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Maybe you have an allergy. Maybe
your autonomic nervous system is dysfunctional. There's

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a lot of reasons that you could
have acid reflux. But we got to

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get to the root cause of the
problem, not treat the symptoms. It's

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not that you have too much acid, it's that your acid is going the

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wrong way. Your systems aren't working
properly. The same thing can happen in

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your brain. If your systems aren't
working properly, you might have anxiety.

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You might be stuck in what we
call the fighter flight mode instead of a

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relaxed rest and digest and you might
have troubles with sleep or digestion, bloating,

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nausea, all those conditions we just
listed. It might be an issue

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in your brain. Now, how
are we gonna know that? We have

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to figure that out. Stick around
to the end of the show, and

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I'm gonna give you a secret on
how to do that. But you gotta

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calm down your overactive nervous system.
An easy exercise that you could do anyone

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can do at home that helps to
calm down the nervous system is gargling.

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It stimulates what's called your vaguesst nerve
to get you out of that fighter flight

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mode more into relaxed rest and digest. So just take a bunch of water,

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and it could be hot water,
it could be cold water, could

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be salt water, it could be
lemon water, it could be a lot

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of water, little water. But
the most important part is to gargle intensely.

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Gargle so loud that you wake your
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That helps reduce anxiety. Another good
exercise to reduce anxiety is the relaxation

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breeding exercises. That's the exercise where
you inhale for four seconds, hold it

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for seven seconds, and exhale for
eight seconds. That has been proven through

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neuroscience to relax your nervous system.
The more you exhale, the more you

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could reduce anxiety. So a lot
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me someone to calm down. A
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Don't tell people to calm down,
distract them, say hey, come into

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this room over here, let's do
X, Y and Z. Hey,

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let's go outside for a walk.
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water. Hey, let's go in
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Hey, let's go take out the
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Just do something to distract that person. But telling an ancient person a pat

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of hey, calm down, calm
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it usually doesn't work if you're trying
to calm yourself down. Tip you're saying,

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if you're having an anxiety down and
just say calm down, calm down,

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that doesn't work. You gotta distract
yourself. You gotta get your mind

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off it. Maybe even help somebody
else, you know. If I'm having

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stress, Oh, let me go
help my kid with his math homework.

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All right, that's easy. I
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I can. I can still handle
their math. That's not going to stress

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me out. Some people that will
stress them out. I'm actually pretty good

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at math, so I like doing
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all right, Or I'll have my
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but when he used to get stressed
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to the basement and and hit the
punching bag. We got like a big

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boxing bag. You punch that bag
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So you gargle, you do your
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remember, don't focus on the inhale, focus on the exhale. The exhale

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is gonna calm down your nervous system. So try and do a lot of

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exhale types of exercises like blowing your
breath out in a straw, blow bubbles,

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or blow air out into a pinwheel
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over and over. See how long
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relax. A lot of people tell
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to big exhale. That's more relaxing. Inhaling is more stimulating. Exhaling is

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more common. So if you have
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If you have depression, then you're
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So we got to strategize. We
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a good way. So we got
to figure out which areas are overactive,

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which areas are underactive to rewire your
brain in a process called neuroplasticity. Just

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like you could strengthen your muscles,
you could strengthen your brain. And what

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I do as a function neurologist is
teach you how to rewire your brain to

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boost your mood so you could function
better, feel better, and live a

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better life. If you want to
improve your brain function, help with memory,

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focus, sleep, digestion, energy, depression, anxiety, dizziness,

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balance, vision, headaches, brain
fog, weight loss, or simply want

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to maximize your human potential and prevent
future diseases, that this is the show

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for you. Don't misboost your brain
power with doctor Eric Kaplan and you will

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learn natural, integrative, and holistic
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Alzheimer's, Parkinson's stroke, autism,
add concussion, autoimmune diseases, insomnia,

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fibromyalgia, vertigo, migraines, four
posture pain, TBI, skin and digestive

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problems. Doctor Kaplan is most famous
for getting to the root cause of a

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wide variety of brain and health conditions, rather than treating symptoms with traditional medicines

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and risky surgeries. To contact the
doctor Kaplan, you can call his team

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at two oh one two six one
two one five zero or visit his website

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at kaplandc dot com. Function better, feel better and live a better life

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now. The reason I became a
functional doctor has to do when I was

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thirteen years old, I had chronic
bronchitis. The pediatrician put me on steroids

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and antibiotics, and the medication made
me worse. It ruled my digestive process.

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I had low energy rain fog made
me really nauseous. I would literally

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throw up ten to twenty times a
day. I couldn't play sports, I

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couldn't go to Halloween. I remember
I was so sick from the medication.

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I couldn't even go trick or treating
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old, and I was like,
this is horrible. I can't even enjoy

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my life. And the pediatrician was
making me more sick than my condition of

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chronic bronchitis. The cure was worse
than the condition. I thought to myself,

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something is wrong. This does not
make sense. How is this help.

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I feel the worst I've ever am
and I'm on more medication than I've

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ever taken. This is not the
solution. Luckily, at the time,

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my dad went on a health kick
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so he said, hey, why
don't you join me at the seminar.

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I might learn a few things on
how to improve your health. And I

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was desperate. Did I want to
spend my weekend? You know, as

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a as a teenager with my dad
had a seminar. You know, I

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was in school all week. Finally
it's the weekend off. Did I really

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want to go to a seminar?
I know, but I was desperate,

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So I thought, I gotta do
it. I gotta do something. Desperate

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times caused for desperate measures. So
I went to the seminar. It's called

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Natural Hygiene Society, and I learned
about dairy products, that dairy products caused

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a lot of congestion in the lungs. And I had dairy every single day.

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I had dairy with the eggs.
I had dairy on my sandwiches.

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I had pizza and cheeseburgers. And
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and ice cream and yogurt and so
much bagels and cream cheese, and someone

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butter on toast and milk in the
cereal. The dairy everywhere drank milk.

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There's a lot of dairy products,
multiple dairy products every single day. But

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after that seminar, I said no
more and I quit dairy and within one

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month I cured my own disease.
I didn't need a doctor, I didn't

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need a medicine. All I needed
was the knowledge on how to heal myself.

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And was at that moment that I
realized I needed to share my knowledge

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with other people and teach them how
to heal themselves. So my job is

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to teach you how to heal yourself, so you don't get anxiety, you

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don't get depression, you don't get
Alzheimer's or Parkinson's or heart disease or cancer

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or diabetes, or neuropathy or headaches
or dizziness or autism or add or ADHD

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or stroke, aneurysms or hypothyroidism or
autoimmune disease or fibomyalgye or chronic fatigue syndrome,

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memory problems, focus problems, motivation
problems. I have the best job

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in the world because I help people
help themselves so they don't have those problems

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anymore. Every day I get to
help people help themselves. So I'm a

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functional neurologist. Do not come to
me if you want surgery, if you

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want medicine, if you want injections, come to me. If you want

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the knowledge on how to heal yourself. The power that made the body heals

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the body. But we got to
get rid of the interference. You stick

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around to the end of the show, I'll give it secrets on how we

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figure that out. We have to
figure out what the root causes the problem.

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Don't treat it with a band aid. You know, if you have

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a pebble in your shoe and you're
walking around, you got this pain in

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your foot because there's a pebble in
your shoe. Are you gonna take a

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pain killer to get rid of that
pain? Yeah, a lot of people

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might do that. Are you gonna
cut off your foot? A lot of

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people might do that. But I'm
a different type of doctor. I'm a

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functional doctor. I'm gonna say,
hey, why do you have this pain.

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Let's take off your shoe. Let's
get rid of that pebble. Now,

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let's put the shoe back on.
Let's see how you walk, and

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look, the pain's gone because you
got to the root cause of the problem.

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So, if you have pain,
I'm not gonna give you a pain

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killer. I'm gonna say, hey, is that from the nerve? Is

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that from the muscle, except from
the bone, except from the disk,

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except from an injury? Are you
inflamed? You need more oil in those

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joints. What's wrong with your cartilage? Do you need more circulation? Lack

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of oxygen? We got to get
to the cause of the pain. Don't

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treat the symptoms. A lot of
people are in that mindset where you have

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a problem and then you take a
pill to treat those symptoms. There's never

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been a disease that's been cured by
medicine by taking pills. Never in the

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history of mankind. You know,
everyone just had a patient today goes how

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close are they to a cure for
Parkinson's. They're not cure. They're not

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close at all, gonna be close. There's never gonna be a cure.

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There's not gonna be a cure for
heart disease. There's never gonna be a

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cure for cancer. It's not gonna
be cure for diabetes. It's not gonna

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be a cure for Alzheimer's. I
hate to break it to you. There's

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not gonna be a cure to Parkinson's
or stroke or heart attack or pneumonia.

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The cure is prevention. It's always
been prevention. You cannot cure disease.

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You have to reverse it and prevent
it. It's the only solution. But

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the power is within you. You
don't need all these doctors and pills.

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The healthiest people are the ones that
see the least doctors, through the least

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tests, take the least medicine.
They're gonna live the longest. The people

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who are on the most medicine,
see the most doctors and the most hospital

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visits, they're the ones that die
earliest. Yes, I guess that's common

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sense. But stop going to the
doctor for every little thing. You know,

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when I was growing up, if
you were sick, you stayed home.

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That was it. You know.
Now, if you have a little

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sniffle, a little cough, you
gotta go the doctor. You gotta go

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get tested, you gotta get some
prescription medicine, you gotta isolate, you

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gotta do all these things. You
got all these things rather than just stay

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home until your fever's gone and then
twenty four hours after your fever's gone,

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go back to school, go back
to work. Keep it simple, use

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common sense. If you're sick,
you stay home. It's not that complicated,

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right, But don't use medicine to
hide all these symptoms. If you

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have pain, your body's telling you
there's something wrong. If you have back

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pain and you take a pain killer. By the way, these painkillers lead

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to addiction, especially the opioids,
perkistet bike it in, you know,

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oxycodine, all this stuff. It's
basically heroin in a pill. It's called

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the opioid epidemic. The two biggest
epidemics or this opioid epidemic and this mood

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disorder epidemic. It's not covid,
it's mood disorders that is the true epidemic.

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It's also autoimmune disease. I've never
seen so much autoimmune disease. People's

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immune systems are going haywire, right, So we have a lot of people

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on these opioids we have that causes
addiction dependence, all right. So if

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we can withstand the pain, you
don't want to go down that road.

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So if you have low back pain, I recommend not even taking the title

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on the ibuprofen because if you take
the tilet on the ibuprofen, which aren't

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even the opioids, it's going to
hide your symptoms, and now because you're

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in less pain, now you might
bend down and pick up some box on

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the ground that you weren't supposed to
do because the pain would have prevented you

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from doing that. But now that
your brain thinks you're okay because the medication

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shut those signals off, you're going
to further injure yourself. Whatever it is.

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If it's a disc problem, a
nerve problem, a muscle strain,

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a bone misalignment, whatever the problem
is, that pain was protecting you,

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but now you took a pain keller
and now there's no more protection. That

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fever that you have is protecting you. If you take an anti fever medication,

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now you cannot protect yourself. So
you've got to be careful trying to

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hide the symptoms. Maybe a better
alternative is to figure out what is the

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cause of the symptoms. So if
you have depression or anxiety, we need

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to get to the root cause of
your depression or anxiety so that you function

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better, feel better, and live
a better life. Don't miss boost your

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brain power with doctor Eric Kaplan every
Saturday from two pm to three pm to

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learn the secrets of how to optimize
your brain function. You can improve memory,

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and strength by following the science and
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his audience. Join the adventure of
discovering how to help the brain and body

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in a natural way while having fun
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enjoy the quality of life you deserve. Called two oh one two six't

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Function better, feel better, and live

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a better life. Now, what
can be the cause of depression? A

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lot of times it's an underactive frontal
cortex. An underactive frontal cortex, it's

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the frontal lobe part of your brain
which sits right in the front and if

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that part of your brain is underactive, that can cause depression. And think

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about it like a muscle. What
would you do if a muscle's weak,

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You're going to strengthen it by doing
exercises, So what should we do if

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your brain is weak? The same
answer we need to exercise it. But

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instead of doing bicep curls, you're
gonna do a frontal cortex exercise. An

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easy frontal cortex exercise is to use
little fingers. The frontal cortex likes the

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little finger movements. So with your
right hand, make a peace sign,

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you know, like two fingers up, and with your other side, make

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an okay symbol, like where you
touch your thumb and your pointer and hold

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the other three fingers up. And
then what you do at the same time

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one two three you switch and you
do the P sign on one side and

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the ok sign on the other side, and you say one two three switch,

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one two three switch, So you
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That's a good frontal cortex exercise that
stimulates your brain. That's if it's

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underactive. Right. What's another cause
of depression of vitamin D deficiency. We

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see this a lot. It's called
seasonal affect disorder, where people, especially

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in the winter, become depressed because
of vitamin D deficiency. Where do we

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get vitamin D from the sun.
In the winter, the sun is weaker

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and when you're outside you're covered,
so the sun doesn't get any sin skin

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exposure. You wear hat, long
sleeves, long pants, so even when

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you are outside, there's less exposure. In the winter, the sun is

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out less, so it's less powerful. There's less time when you are outside

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it is covered, your skin's covered, and when it's cold, people go

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outside less anyway, so your vitamin
D is going to be decreased. Almost

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every single person is vitamin D deficient. I've been doing this for twenty four

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years. I've never seen, especially
in New York and New Jersey, anyone

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who's not vitamin D deficient. And
the levels and the scales they use in

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most labs are wrong. You know, they say, oh, you got

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to be over thirty. You know, I have a lot of patients that

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are depressed at thirty, but then
when they go to fifty sixty, their

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depression goes away. We see it
all the time, and there's even some

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research that shows vitamin D supplementation is
even more effective than antidepressants. It's natural,

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holistic, there's no side effects.
But vitamin d's tricky. You don't

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just get vitamin D from the store, CBS Vitamin Shop, GNC, Whole

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Foods. Be very careful getting vitamins
at places that are mass produced. Vitamin

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d's tricky. You need vitamin K
for absorption. You need to be with

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vitamin A and E and C,
and you need calcium, magnesium and phosphorus.

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And it's got to be in fat. It's a fat's valuable vitamin.

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It's gotta be taken with fat.
So you need always cofactors for it to

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get absorbed. If it's not absorbed, then you're just wasting your time and

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your money. Right, So,
vitamin D deficiency can cause depression. We

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also set isolation, so if you
just sit at home, your depression is

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gonna get worse. The more you
isolate, the worse your depression gets.

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So you could have an underactive frontal
cortex. You could have a vitamin D

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deficiency. You could have too much
isolation. You can have a lot of

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brain inflammation that causes depression. Brain
inflammation could be caused by anything, because

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by heavy metals, because by mole
because by lime disease, COVID nineteen,

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chemical exposure, electromagnetic radiation. A
lot of things cause brain inflammation. But

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brain inflammation can lead to depression.
Sometimes we have to reduce the inflammation.

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We might have to, you know, work on supplementation. Maybe resveratrol or

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tumeric, which are the two best
natural anti inflammatories. You can't take these

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if you're on blood thinners because that
is too thin blood. We don't want

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that either you can bleed out.
So anything you learn on my show,

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just double check with your doctors just
to make sure. Or you could set

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up, you know, time to
speak with me where we could discuss it

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as well. All right, but
we got to get to the root cause

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of the problem. How do you
get to the root cause of the problem.

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You gotta do a proper neurologic evaluation, the best neurologic evaluation. It's

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called a q EEG brain mapping.
This is a test where you wear a

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cap and it's got all these different
electrodes attached to it. It measures your

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different brain waves alpha brain waves,
beta, beta, delta. The alpha

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brain wave that's how you normally are
every day most of the day. Beta

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is when you really got focus and
think and you gotta concentrate. Beta is

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when you're just kind of daydreaming in
la la land, and delta's when you

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got to rest, you're sleeping,
everything's calm, So it measures all these

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brain waves. The q EEG brain
mapping, and based on the location of

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the abnormal brain mapping, it could
tell us which areas of brain are functioning

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well and which area the brains are
not functioning well. Might say, your

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frontal cortex isn't working well. That's
motivation, shifting tasks, executive functions,

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depression, anxiety, focus, memory, getting distracted, punctuality, organization planning.

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These are all frontal cortex. Might
say, you got an issue with

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your parietal cortex, which is more
sensory proprioception, understanding your body. People

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feel disconnected, confuse lefts and rights, They get lost easily, They feel

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weird things on their skin, They
clumsy, they bump into things, They

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got weird sensations. They might have
tonightis or sensitivity to light or floaters in

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the eyes. It'll tell us if
you have a temporal lobe problems. You

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might have hearing problems, lums or
balance problems, or long term or short

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term memory problems. If it's a
short term memory problem, it's a different

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part of the temple cortex versus a
long term The long term memory is a

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little bit lower on the temporal cortex
and the short term memory is a little

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bit higher. All right, So
they're coming to different parts of your brain.

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It wud be an occipital cortex sexture
that's the visual might get visual problems,

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or you might get blurry vision,
or it might be loss of intensity.

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I can't tell you how many patients
when we fix their brains, they

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just say, the world looks so
much more clearer, more brighter, more

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vibrant. A lot of times you
don't even realize that because your occipital cortex

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isn't working. It's more dull,
and your eyes aren't working like they should.

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Or we might find a problem in
your cellabellum balance with your brain stem.

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You might have a heart problem,
or stomach problem, breathing problem,

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kidney problem, adriminal gland problemyroid problem. This q ee G mapping picks up

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all of this stuff. That's one
good test. Another good test it's called

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a VNG video nostography. That's where
you wear these goggles and that's the best

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test to measure which areas are overactive, in which wareas are underactive. Right,

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so if it's overactive, that's gonna
be more anxiety, insomnia, heart

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palpitations, You're gonna have high blood
pressure, you're gonna be nervous, you're

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gonna have a panic, you're gonna
have ADHD. Your mind's raising. You

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know, you're always going a million
miles per hour, You're always stress intense.

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That's the overactive brain. Now the
VNG will also pick up the underactive

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brain. That's the low motivation,
the depression, the low energy, the

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I just want to sit at home
and do nothing, the laziness, lack

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of focus, lack of organization or
planning. That's an underactive brain. So

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the VNG is best to pick up
which areas are underactive and which areas are

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overactive, because that way we could
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calm this area up, and now
we got to stimulate this area. So

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the first good test is the qEEG
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the VNG, and the third good
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That's where I check your memory,
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lungs, your reflexes, your posture, your muscle strength, how you walk,

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your gate, your head, your
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