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how to improve your sleep. The most important thing with your sleep is using
the daylight, the sun, the sun sets, what's called your circadian rhythms,
and your circadian rhythms are going to increase melatonin at night to get you
that deep, RESTful sleep. It's not just being in bed, it's getting
a deep sleep. We have to get into the delta brain waves. There's
all different types of brain waves. There's alpha brain waves that's how we normally
are during the day. There's beta brain waves that's when you really got to
focus and think, or you're performing, or you're speaking in front of an
audience, or you're studying or you're reading, where you really got to focus.
Your brain's got to be in the tip top shape. That's using your
beta brain waves. Beta brain waves that's basically just kind of day dreaming.
You're looking out the window, looking at the birds, basically in La la
land. That's the theta daydreaming now delta. That's when we're sleeping. That's
we want our brain to be totally calm, relaxed, because when we sleep,
that's when we detox. When we sleep, that's when we digest all
the food from the day. When we sleep, that's when we reoxygenate,
give ourselves the energy that we're going to need for the next day. When
we sleep, that's when we get rid of all the bad cells in our
body, whether it's a bad brain cell, a skin cell, a stomach
cell, a lung cell. We get rid of the bad cells. Your
body is constantly getting rid of the bad cells. But what we don't want
is to get rid of the good cells. And we want to make the
good cells as strong as possible, and we want to create more connections and
interactive and integration with all the different areas of the brain and the body.
Once we're sleeping, then our brains can chill out because during the day they're
very active. But if you are not in a good state, your brain
is not going to calm down even when you're sleeping, and you might have
night terras, you might have have a restless leg syndrome. You might have
to wake up to go to the bathroom. You might have to wake up
to roll over. Your mind might be raising, you might have trouble falling
asleep or staying asleep. We don't want that. That's not healthy. A
third of your life should be sleeping. You need rest. You need to
let your body recover every day so then you could take more action the next
day. The key is taking action, and it starts with sunlight. Now,
what you want to do is every day, during sun rise, go
outside and during sun set go outside. And it doesn't have to be long.
Ten minutes is good enough. But not peaking head out the window or
look out the window. Actually go outside physically. You need to see everything.
You need to see the entire sky. If you're inside, the walls
are blocking you, the roof's blocking you. You're just looking out a little
window. It's basically like watching TV. You need to go outside and experience
the real world. So you go outside during sunrise for ten minutes if it's
sunny, if it's cloudy, twenty minutes. Just double it. But every
day you go outside during sunrise and sunset for ten minutes. Watch the sunrise,
watch the sunset. When you watch the sun rise, you're going to
increase cortisol. That's gonna get you going. That's gonna really improve your brain
function. It's give you the energy you need. You want to do most
of your work during the morning in the afternoon. That way, your cortisol,
which is a stress wulme, can handle the stress of the day.
At nighttime, we want our cortisol levels down. When our cortosour levels are
down and our melatonin levels are up, then we could get a good RESTful
sleep. But if it's nighttime and your cortisol levels are high, you're not
gonna get in that deep sleep. You're not gonna produce those delta brain waves.
You're not gonna get the r E M, the rapid eye movements.
That's gonna help you get good efficient sleep. Where you detox, reoxygenate,
hit your body, gest your food, absorb your nutrients, get ready to
eliminate all the bad stuff when you sleep and you wake up in the morning
because your body's been detoxing. The first thing you should do is urinate and
have a bowel movement. If you urinate and have a bowel movement, you're
getting rid of the bad stuff. Your body's amazing at getting rid of the
bad stuff. Whether it's through urination, whether it's through your bowel movements,
whether it's through your period. Maybe it's through your earwax, could be through
your boogers, could be through your tears, your eye crust, your sweat,
could be through your skin, could be through your spit, your saliva,
your drool. Your body's constantly getting rid of bad stuff. We don't
want to keep the bad stuff inside of us. When we keep the bad
stuff inside of us, then it stays longer and you create bacteria, viruses,
parasites, worms, They love the bad stuff. They feed on the
bad stuff, right, They feed on an acidic environment. An acidic environment
is bad and an alkaline environment is good. Outside of your stomach. So
if you have in your stomach, you do want acid. That's the only
place where it's really important. There because your stomach acid kills off the bacteria,
kills off the viruses. Your stomach is your immune system. That's where
it starts from. Your stomach is the second brain. Your stomach produces more
serotonin than any place in your body. Ninety percent of the serotonin is produced
in your stomach. So you've got to make sure you have good gut health,
and that means good stomach acid, good bile, good enzymes. Means
we need your vagus nerve to work properly. You want good peristalsis contractions.
You want to open up that ilio secal valve. That way you prevent cebo
or colitis or iridal bowel syndrome, siliac disease, or gastritis. So we
see a lot of people in our office that has decreased stomach acid. That's
called hypochlorohedria, and you'll get that from taking ant acids, coums, rolaids.
We don't like that. If you've ever taken that stuff, you might
have depleted stuff acid. And when you have depleted stomach acid, you're not
gonna absorb your nutrients properly. Your immune system is gonna be weak. Viruses,
bacteria, worms, and parasites can take over. So let's say you
touch a bacteria and then touch your mouth, then you swallow it. It
goes in your stomach. Usually the stomach acid will kill it off. Well,
let's say you eat something that's got some parasite in there. Usually the
stomach acid will kill it off. We're all exposed to parasites and worms and
bacteria and viruses every single day. You can't avoid that stuff. But what
you need to do is make your system stronger so that they can eliminate it
properly, whether it's through the bowel movement right, the urination, just like
we're speaking about before. Your body is amazing at getting rid of the bad
stuff. But if your systems aren't working properly, then you're not gonna be
able to get rid of the bad stuff. All right, So we got
to make sure that we detox. We eliminate by having a good RESTful sleep.
It all starts from sleep. If you don't sleep properly, you're gonna
lose hours off your life. You're gonna lose years off your life. You're
gonna be low quality of life, all right. Don't sacrifice your sleep when
you're young, because then when you're older, you're not gonna be as strong.
Your brain's gonna be weaker, your gut's gonna be weaker, immune system
is gonna be weaker, You're gonna have lower energy. It's not worth it.
Got to measure the risk versus the reward. So if you've ever taken
an ascids. There's a way to check through blood work to see if you're
not producing enough stomach acid, and if you're not, then we might want
to supplement, and you can supplement with what's called hydrochloric acid, but you
also need to neutralize the acid with bile. So you'll go to a lot
of places where you can buy vitamins and they'll sell this hydrochloric acid, But
don't do that because most of these places aren't going to have it with the
bile, and then it won't be neutralized. Then it's not as effective.
And not only do you need bile, you need enzymes as well. So
there's a lot of stuff that goes on in your gut bacteria, enzymes and
acid, bile and contractions and openings and closings and dilation constriction. It's very
complicated, but it's unbelievably perfect how it works as long as you don't have
interface appearance. My job is a functional neurologist and functional medicine practitioner is to
figure out where you have the interference, and if we could teach you how
to get rid of that interference, then you're gonna function better, feel better
and live a better life. But again it comes down to sleep. Right
during our sleep, we're gonna rest, we're gonnaest, we're gonna break it
down. And the key to sleep is using the sun. So we walk
outside for ten minutes during sunrise, get cortisol going. You know, if
you gotta do computer work, you do it in the morning. It's that
blue light stimulates cortisol. You have to do computer work, do it the
morning, in the afternoon. Do not do computer work at night. If
it's eight o'clock at night and the lights are on, your computer's on,
your TV's on, you're checking your cell phone, your brain, it's gonna
stimulate cortosolt. It's gonna think it's the day and you're not gonna get a
deep, full sleep. To get that rest, to get that deep sleep,
you've got to turn off the lights at night. So once you come
home after doing your ten minute outside activity of watching the sunset, now you're
gonna start to dim the lights. You're gonna not come into bright lights.
You're gonna turn off your computer, turn off your TV, turn off your
cell phone, turn off all the bright lights and keep it dim so your
brain starts to relax and then you'll get a deeper sleep. We're gonna continue
this conversation when we come back from the break. This is doctor Eric Kaplan,
and you're listening to boost your brain power. If you want to improve
your brain function, help with memory, focus, sleep, digestion, energy
depression, anxiety, dizziness, balance, vision, headaches, brain fog,
weight loss, or simply want to maximize your human potential and prevent future diseases,
that this is the show for you. Don't mis boost your brain power
with doctor Eric Caplan and you will learn natural, integrative and holistic approaches to
modern day medical problems such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's stroke, autism, add concussion,
autoimmune diseases, insomnia, fibromyalgia, vertigo, migraines, four posture pain,
TBI, skin and digestive problems. Doctor Kaplan is most famous for getting
to the root cause of a wide variety of brain and health conditions, rather
than treating symptoms with traditional medicines and risky surgeries. To contact doctor Kaplin,
you can call his team at two oh one two six one two one five
zero or visit his website at kaplindc dot com. Function Better, Feel Better,
and live a better life. This is doctor Eric Caplan, and you're
listening to boost your brain. Now we're talking about when you come home,
after you go outside to watch the sun set, you don't want too much
stimulation, so we want to turn off all the electronics. You don't want
too much light, so you want to start to dim the light. And
if you really want to get creative, every hour you dim it light darker
and darker. So seven o'clock you dim the lights, and an eight o'clock
you dim it even more, and then at nine o'clock you're really low,
and then ten o'clock it's black and you can go to sleep. So your
brain starts to relax, Relax, relax, relax. So light stimulates your
brain at night, which is going to affect your sleep. So the more
light you see at night, the worser sleep is. The darker it is
at night, the better you sleep. And again it's not just dark outside,
because if you're inside and the lights are on, the TV's on,
and you're watching your cell phone and computer, then your brain is confused.
It literally is, and it stimulates cortisol and then you can't sleep. So
you turn off the electronics, dim the lights. If you want to do
something you know interesting. You could listen to a podcast, could read a
book, play a board game. You could talk to a family member.
You can draw, You could do something creative and write in your journal.
You could take a class, take a book club. Maybe take up a
sport or a dance class, or a music lesson or some art lesson,
some club or group, be a part of maybe a church study group,
you know, maybe join a charity, volunteer. Start doing good things at
night with your life, not watching TV and not going through Facebook, and
not going on YouTube videos or TikTok. Start being in the real world.
You know, when you're in the real world, life is so joyful.
The more you're in the tech world, the more depression and anxiety you're gonna
have. So what we want to do is make sure that you enjoy life.
So you gotta be social, you gotta be active, you gotta get
outside. You gotta see the sun. Remember we said the sun is key
for sleep, but it's also key for depression. People who have vitamin D
deficiency are depressed. People who have vitamin D deficiency are more likely to get
COVID nineteen. People who have vitamin D deficiency are more likely to develop Alzheimer's
disease. People with vitamin D deficiency are more likely to have a thyroid problem.
This is all written in the literature, So I definitely do not want
vitamin D deficiency. So what I do is I take ten thousand IU during
the winter and five thousand IU during the summer. But you always got to
monitor your blood work. You don't want it too high. You know,
we have patients that come in taking way too much vitamin day and then it's
excessive. You don't want too little, but you don't want too much with
your health. If it's always about that healthy balance. You don't want your
cholesterol too high, but you also don't want your cholesterol too low. A
lot of people have high cholesterol. The most common medication taken in America is
high cholesterol medication. Lippitoor is usually the big one. But these statin drugs
are called can also lead to dementia. So if you have high cholesterol and
you're taking a statin drug, it can actually lead to dementia. So what
you want to do is make sure your cholesterol is good so you don't need
to take a statin drug. But it's not about your total cholesterol. That's
what most doctors look at. You got to also look at your good cholesterol,
which is your AHDL, because if your HDL is really high, then
a total cholesterol being high is not as big a deal because your best defense
events bad cholesterol is good cholesterol. So if you have really high good cholesterol,
you're gonna help counteract the bad cholesterol. So if you have a high
HDL, which is a good cholesterol, it's not a big deal. If
your cholesterol is too high. Now, when you take statin drugs, it's
actually gonna bring down your good cholesterol as well as your bad cholesterol, and
you need that cholesterol for normal bodily functions. If you take antibiotics, it's
gonna kill the bad bacteria, but it's also gonna kill the good bacteria,
and we use those bacteria for other healthy things in our bodies. So sometimes
the cure is actually worse than in condition. Okay, so what we want
to do is make sure that we get your body and what's called homeostasis right.
We don't want it too high, we don't want it too low.
If your brain's overactive, it's more anxiety. If your brain's underactive. It's
more depression. We need that homeostasis. We don't want your blood pressure too
high. That's not good. You can get heart attack or stroke. But
we also don't want your blood pressure too low. That's not good either.
You can get light headed, headaches, dizziness. You can pass out.
That's not good either. You don't want your blood glucose too high. That's
diabetes. Diabetes can lead to neuropathy, blindness, you get your limbs amputated
at least to Alzheimer's disease. They're changing the name of Alzheimer's disease to diabetes
type three. So you don't want your sugar levels too high, but you
also don't want them too low. If your sugar levels are too low,
then you're gonna have hypo glycemia. That's when if you don't eat for a
long time, you get light headed. You might even pass out. It's
not good either. Right, So everything's about a happy back. You got
to be right in the middle. You don't want your thyroid too high,
you don't want your thyroid too low, right, But you got to make
sure you take care of your environment. And what do I mean by your
environment? Are you doing this stuff on the outside like you're supposed to.
Are you eating healthy, are you exercising, are you drinking enough water?
Are you getting your sunlight? Are you not exposed to too many chemicals?
And what we're talking about is getting good sleep, right, So your environment
is going to dictate how good sleep you get. And it's not only the
light, right, So we want to avoid light at night, so we
increase melatonin so you can get that deep sleep. But we also want to
avoid food at night. When you eat food, that stimulates cortisol again and
that's going to interrupt your sleep. So the worst thing is eating before bed.
I suggest four hours before bedtime to stop eating. So idealistically, if
you're going to bed at ten, right, if you sleep from ten to
six to good eight hours, you want to stop eating at six pm.
No more food after six pm. So we want to have no light and
we want to have no food. Then your brain can be really relaxed.
All right, So what you want to do is eat from ten am to
six pm and you want to sleep from ten pm to six am. That
will get you in a good circadium rhythm. Now, one of the keys
to sleep is consistency, So if you're gonna go to sleep at ten,
do ten every night. Don't do Monday ten o'clock, Tuesday, ten fifteen,
Wednesday ten oh five, Thursday nine forty five, Friday eleven thirty,
Saturday ten thirty. Not We want to go ten o'clock, ten o'clock,
ten o'clock, ten o'clock, ten o'clock. And you sleep in ninety minute
cycles, so you want to get at least four or five of those cycles
every single night to be efficient there, okay, because your brain needs that
rest. When you get that good deep sleep, the delta waves the ram,
you're going to really reoxygenate, You're going to digest all your food,
you're gonna eliminate your toxins, you're gonna get rid of all the bad stuff.
You're gonna rebalance your hormones. Everything will perform at a higher level,
and therefore you're going to function better, feel better, and live a better
life. This is doctor Eric Kaplan. You're listening to boost your brain power
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power. So we're talking about how to brain hack your way into getting a
deep sleep. Everybody want that good night's sleep and a good night's sleep and
when you wake up and you're like, how long have I been sleeping?
What day is it? Where you're just like totally out of it. That's
a deep sleep, and when's the last time you had one of those?
You got to get that really deep sleep, and keep in mind you should
be able to drink a tall glass of so lay water that's water with pink
kimeleyan salt, and not get up at all during the night to pee.
Everyone thinks that if you drink water before bed that you're always going to get
up to pee. That's not true. If you're getting up to p there's
a weakness in there. A lot of times, it's actually eating at night
that will get you up to pee. Because remember we said eating increases cortisol.
Cortisol is distress hormone. Then your vegus nerve isn't gonna work properly,
and your micturition center, which controls your bladder isn't going to send the proper
signals in the efficient way. Therefore, your brain's gonna say, up,
you gotta get up and pee, rather than hey, it's nighttime. I
need my melatonin high, my cortisol low, I need to reoxygenate, I
need to detox. So I'm gonna hold the urine in my bladder until the
morning and then I can get rid of it. That is when your brain's
functioning at high levels. But you gotta make sure you don't eat at night.
Eating at night will mess up your systems. And actually I said four
hours, so bedtimes ten pm. We don't want to eat after six pm.
Hey, we don't want that stimulation. It just goes back to the
when they were the hunter gatherers, right. You would wake up and you
would need cortisol because you gotta, you know, find your food, got
a hunt to gather and you'd eat during the day and then at nighttime people
would relax and go to bed because there was no light. But if it's
nighttime and you have all these lights on, that's gonna put your brain in
stress mode. I know it's gonna be, you know, a paradigm shift
if you watch TV every night. But I promise you, I promise you,
you will enjoy life more if you turn off those electronics at night,
especially so social media that literally causes anxiety and depression, especially mainstream media that
also causes severe anxiety. You can be informed about the world without watching the
news, But what do you want to be informed about? Do you just
want to be informed about all the wars and the disasters and the destructions and
the death and all the violence and the rape and the racism and the corruption
and the theft. Is that what you want to focus on or do you
want to focus on the loving people, the charitable people, the giving people.
Why can't you be informed about good things? Why do you always want
to be informed about bad things? I want to learn about good things.
I want to learn about people that are changing the world and a good way.
Wait, how can we know more about you know, the Kardashians than
the Nobel Prize winners? Right? How can we know more about athletes than
doctors? You can't name any famous doctors, and doctor Oz and doctor Phil
do not count. You know, you don't know doctors that are changing the
world because there's lots of them, But we don't know about that because we
want to know about actors and singers and athletes. To me, I don't
think that's important. You know, I stopped going to the movies. I
don't have cable. I don't watch sports anymore. I used to spend my
whole Sunday, you know, watching football. And then if you put the
math together, it's like you're just row in your life away. Each game's
three to four hours. Your whole days. Every Sunday is ruined. I
got my Sunday's back. It's a whole day. You know sports. You
know, people watch the Yankees. It's one hundred and sixty two games for
three to four hours. It's almost every night. How is that productive for
your health? Maybe it's just a distraction from reality. But do you really
want a distraction from reality or do you want to improve reality? Do you
want to make progression? The key to depression is progression, meaning you need
to make progress in your life, whether it's through you know, lifting more
weights, running a faster mile, whether it's going to the gym more days,
eating healthier, getting better sleep, drinking more water, going to church
more, doing more charity, volunteering more, helping others more, doing better
at work, getting a promotion, getting paid more, being more successful,
improving your intellect, taking more classes, reading more books. Okay, you
got to progress. If you're not making progression in your life, that's going
to lead to depression. The key to depression is progression. Make progress in
your life and write it down and celebrate the small winds. When you celebrate
the small winds, you increase your dopamine. Most people are always looking for
dopamine. That's why they go on social media for likes and comments. That's
why they drink a glass of wine at night. That's why they have a
piece of chocolate cake after their meal. That's why they go gambling or cheat
on their wives or whatever it may be. These are all bad habits that
are looking for that dopamine hit. But you could get it naturally through celebrating
small winds, doing a checklist, exercising, going out in the sunlight,
helping others. You could get these brain chemicals stimulated on your own. But
you need to do the work right. It's not a magic pill. Don't
come to me if you want some magic pill. I have patience all the
time. What can I take to fix this? What can I take to
sleep better? What can I take for my depression? What can I take
for my anxiety? What can I take for more energy? What can I
take to improve my focus and memory? And I say no, don't come
to me. That's what you want. And I'm talking about you know,
herbs, supplements, medicine, pharmaceuticals, injections. I don't want it.
I don't want to give it to you. I want to teach you how
to improve your own brain and body. I am a functional neurologist and a
functional medicine practitioner. We help patients to help themselves. I have two offices.
I have one in Bergen County, New Jersey, and one in the
West Village of New York City. We also see a lot of people virtually,
people from the West Coast and from other countries and from different time zones,
and you know, people with the modern technology, we can help people
all over the world now, So even if you're not local to New Jersey,
New York, we can take care of you Caplin, brain and body.
If you're looking for the doctor that's going to be a little detective,
I'm a functional doctor. I'm going to discover where the root causes. I
don't want to give you a pill to hide the symptoms. I'm not gonna
give you melatonin to help you sleep. But I'm gonna say, why isn't
your body producing melatonin at night? And maybe we could teach you these strategies
to increase melatonin at night, decrease cortisol at night, so that you don't
need to take an ambient. You don't need a sleeping pill, you don't
need melatonin, you don't need some sleepy time tea. You don't mean to
take things to get good sleep. The power of good rest and good sleep
is withinside of you. We just need to unleash its potential by a process
called neuroplasticity, and we rewire your brain to get the pineal gland working properly,
to get your autonomic nervous system functioning at a higher level, to get
the hormones to be released at the appropriate your time, to get into that
rest digest by working on your sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system. The good news
is, I don't care if you haven't slept well your whole life. You
can change your brain. Don't let anyone tell you that you can't change your
brain. And I don't care if you're eighty years old, if you're fifty
years old, if you're twenty years old. Your brain can change, but
you've got to do the work. It's called neuroplasticity. Your genetics can change.
You could turn off bad jeans. That's called epigenetics. If everyone in
your family has diabetes, but you never drink soda, you never overload on
bread and rice and potatoes and crackers and cereals, You stop eating at night,
you exercise every day. You don't have a sedentary lifestyle. You're gonna
turn off that diabetes. I have an alcoholic gene. But if I don't
go to the bar on Friday night and I don't drink that beer or have
that glass of wine after dinner, then I'm gonna turn off my alcoholic gene.
I'm only going to become an alcoholic if I drink alcohol, But if
I avoid it, I turn off that gene and then it doesn't control me.
Got it. That's called epigenetics. If there is cancer in your family,
if you have a cancer gene, it doesn't mean you have to do
the Angelina Jolie where she literally chopped off her breast because she had that breast
cancer gene. I say, hey, you can turn it off by changing
your lifestyle. If you have the gene. Yes, you might have to
work harder than the average person, but you can do it. All you
gotta do is find your weakness. And that's what we do, is find
the weakness and teach you how to function better, feel better, and a
better life. This is doctor Eric Kaplan more when we come back from the
break. If you want to improve your brain function, help with memory,
focus, sleep, digestion, energy, depression, anxiety, dizziness, balance,
vision, headaches, brain fog, weight loss, or simply want to
maximize your human potential and prevent future diseases that this is the show for you.
Don't misboost your brain power with doctor Eric Caplan and you will learn natural,
integrative, and holistic approaches to modern day medical problems such as Alzheimer's,
Parkinson's stroke, autism, add concussion, autoimmune diseases, insomnia, fibromyalgia,
vertigo, migraines, four posture pain, TBI, skin and digestive problems.
Doctor Caplin is most famous for getting to the root cause of a wide variety
of brain and health conditions, rather than treating symptoms with traditional medicines and risky
surgeries. To contact doctor Caplin, you can call his team at two oh
one two six one two one five zero, or is it his website ed
kaplindc dot com. Function better, feel better and live a better life.
This is doctor Eric Kaplan, and you're listening to boost your brain power.
We're talking about how to improve your sleep, and the way to improve your
sleep starts from the sun, so you have to use the sun, go
outside as much as possible. If you travel and you have jet lag,
the key to jet leg is the sun. So if you go, let's
say to California, which is a three hour time zone difference, right when
you land, you have to stay outside for three hours. That's all you
gotta do. If you stay outside for three hours, then your brain readapts
readjusts, changes that paneal gland activation pattern, stimulating cortisol and melatonin at the
appropriate time. So anytime you travel, and even if it's at night,
let's say, if you land at nine o'clock at night, go outside and
you can see the moon, and then your brain says, okay, the
moon's out right. It knows how to figure it out because it's been in
our genes for thousands of thousands of years. The brain knows, okay,
when the sun's here, it's this time, it's this time of year,
the moon's here. Your brain has all these instincts. It's all automatic.
Most of your brain is working without you even realizing it's automatic. When people
say, oh, we don't use our all of our brain, we do
use all of our brain, which is have no idea what's going on.
It's just doing it without our permission. In fact, a lot of times
you're making a decision that you think you made. Your brain already made it
for you. Your brain makes the decision before you do. They've actually proven
that through neuroscience, which is a little scary. So it's like, are
you actually making your own decisions or not? Because your brain makes the decision,
and then you get up because your brain told you to. You didn't
make that decision to get up. Your brain told you to get up.
That's pretty weird. That's one of the most things that gets me most confused
with neurology is how powerful the brain is. That we have no idea how
much it controls us, you know. But the good news is you can
rewire it through neuroplasticity. You got to take care of your brain. You
only get one brain, so you got to take care of it. People
say, oh, you only have one life, so I want to enjoy
life, Well, guess how you enjoy life with a good brain. You
don't want to be you know, let's say from eighty to ninety years old,
and I have Alzheimer's disease and being a wheelchair and being a diaper and
being a nursing home just because oh, I wanted to enjoy life, so
I drank every night and I ate fast food, and I didn't sleep at
all, and I never drank water and only had soda. So you lived
your life. But now the last ten twenty years of your life is going
to be miserable. It's going to be poor quality of life. It's not
about the amount of years that you live, it's the quality of life you
have while you're alive. You don't want to be sick, you don't want
to be in fear mode. You don't have anxiety, you don't have low
energy, you don't have a band memory. That's not quality of life.
You need quality of life. But you gotta figure out where your weaknesses are.
Where are your weaknesses? How do you know what part of your brain's
not functioning properly? How do you know whether you need to work on your
alignment, on your muscle spasm, on your inflammation, on your posture,
on your eyesight, on your teeth, your gum health, on your skin
or your hair or your nails, on your heart function and your digestion,
on your respiration. How do you know what areas or your weaknesses and which
areas you need to work on to improve your quality of life? Well that's
where I come in. I'm a functional neurologist and a functional medicine practitioner.
And what I would suggest for you is to do a one on one evaluation
with me. Right, go over your blood work, go over all your
brain tests, go over your memory, your alignment, your your reflexes,
your eyes, your teeth, your ears, your smell, your gut,
your lungs, your heart, your circulation, your inflammation. Takes about forty
five minutes. We get to the knit and gritty, figure out exactly what's
going on, where your weaknesses are. We check out your balance, how
you walk, how you talk, how you swallow, how your tongue deviates
when you stick it out, your reflexes, your muscle strength, you range,
your motion, Gotta do it all. It's a very holistic and integrative
evaluation. Takes about forty five minutes to an hour. Its normally five hundred
dollars. Comes with a diagnosis as well as a prognosis and treatment recommendations normally
five hundred dollars. But we're gonna give a healthcare gift to everyone listening today.
If you're one of the first seven people to call, text, or
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give you, okay. It's called a qEEG brain mapping. This is non
invasive, there's no radiation. You wear a swimmers cap looks like a swimmers
cap. It's got electrodes attached to it, and it measures your brain waves
that we spoke about before, the alpha, beta, theta delta, and
based on the brain waves and the location of the abnormal brain waves, it
can tell us which areas of your brain are functioning good and which areas are
weak and need help. Can tell us do you have depression, anxiety,
sleep deprivation, insomnia, a thyroid problem and intestinal inflammation. Do you have
a problem with dopamine or acetocholine. Do you have heavy metal poisoning? Do
you have a concussion? It tells us do you have memory long term memory,
short term memory, working memory deficits? It tells us do you have
difficulty shifting tasks, motivation, planning, depression, anxiety. It tells us
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You don't have to take any contrast fluid, you don't need to take any
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but for the first seven people to call, text or email you could
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give another gift. This is called a VNG video nstography. This is where
you measure your differences of your left and right brains. So it tells us
which areas are overactive, that we got to calm down, which areas are
underactive. And we measure from the left and the right and up and down
and quick and slow, so we analyze which areas we need to slow down
and which areas we need to increase. This is very important for your brain
function. This test is also normally five hundred dollars, but for the first
seven people to call text or email, you can get that test for only
twenty one dollars as well, And if you want, you can get all
three one on one with me, the qee G, Brain Mapping, and
the VNG all for only twenty one dollars each. Just call text or email
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Another gift we're gonna give you is the gift of our seminar series.
I have a seminar series coming up. It's gonna be the last Tuesday in
April, and it's gonna be the next four months. There's gonna be four
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which is the last Tuesday of April, and it'd be six thirty pm to
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don't do zoom, you could have a recording to listen and whenever you want
at your own convenience. Okay, the seminar series are two hundred dollars each,
so for the next four ones, it's eight hundred dollars. But the
special we're gonna do is if you pay ninety seven dollars and you're one of
the first seven people that get this, you will get not only this April
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