WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.160 --> 00:00:05.799 The following is a paid podcast. iHeartRadio's hosting of this podcast constitutes neither an 2 00:00:05.879 --> 00:00:11.279 endorsement of the products offered or the ideas expressed. Function better, feel better, 3 00:00:11.720 --> 00:00:17.440 and live a better life. This is doctor Eric Kaplan, and you're 4 00:00:17.760 --> 00:00:23.120 listening to boost your brain power. This week, we're going to talk about 5 00:00:23.399 --> 00:00:31.239 how to improve your sleep. The most important thing with your sleep is using 6 00:00:31.440 --> 00:00:37.000 the daylight, the sun, the sun sets, what's called your circadian rhythms, 7 00:00:38.200 --> 00:00:45.119 and your circadian rhythms are going to increase melatonin at night to get you 8 00:00:45.240 --> 00:00:50.399 that deep, RESTful sleep. It's not just being in bed, it's getting 9 00:00:50.399 --> 00:00:56.560 a deep sleep. We have to get into the delta brain waves. There's 10 00:00:56.600 --> 00:01:00.359 all different types of brain waves. There's alpha brain waves that's how we normally 11 00:01:00.399 --> 00:01:07.799 are during the day. There's beta brain waves that's when you really got to 12 00:01:07.840 --> 00:01:11.439 focus and think, or you're performing, or you're speaking in front of an 13 00:01:11.480 --> 00:01:15.599 audience, or you're studying or you're reading, where you really got to focus. 14 00:01:15.640 --> 00:01:19.200 Your brain's got to be in the tip top shape. That's using your 15 00:01:19.840 --> 00:01:26.640 beta brain waves. Beta brain waves that's basically just kind of day dreaming. 16 00:01:26.920 --> 00:01:33.200 You're looking out the window, looking at the birds, basically in La la 17 00:01:33.439 --> 00:01:40.879 land. That's the theta daydreaming now delta. That's when we're sleeping. That's 18 00:01:40.959 --> 00:01:46.000 we want our brain to be totally calm, relaxed, because when we sleep, 19 00:01:46.239 --> 00:01:51.239 that's when we detox. When we sleep, that's when we digest all 20 00:01:51.280 --> 00:01:57.280 the food from the day. When we sleep, that's when we reoxygenate, 21 00:01:57.680 --> 00:02:01.840 give ourselves the energy that we're going to need for the next day. When 22 00:02:01.840 --> 00:02:07.400 we sleep, that's when we get rid of all the bad cells in our 23 00:02:07.480 --> 00:02:14.199 body, whether it's a bad brain cell, a skin cell, a stomach 24 00:02:14.360 --> 00:02:20.360 cell, a lung cell. We get rid of the bad cells. Your 25 00:02:20.439 --> 00:02:23.840 body is constantly getting rid of the bad cells. But what we don't want 26 00:02:24.000 --> 00:02:27.560 is to get rid of the good cells. And we want to make the 27 00:02:27.599 --> 00:02:31.199 good cells as strong as possible, and we want to create more connections and 28 00:02:31.280 --> 00:02:38.000 interactive and integration with all the different areas of the brain and the body. 29 00:02:38.759 --> 00:02:46.400 Once we're sleeping, then our brains can chill out because during the day they're 30 00:02:46.520 --> 00:02:52.960 very active. But if you are not in a good state, your brain 31 00:02:53.240 --> 00:02:57.680 is not going to calm down even when you're sleeping, and you might have 32 00:02:57.800 --> 00:03:02.759 night terras, you might have have a restless leg syndrome. You might have 33 00:03:02.840 --> 00:03:07.800 to wake up to go to the bathroom. You might have to wake up 34 00:03:07.800 --> 00:03:13.280 to roll over. Your mind might be raising, you might have trouble falling 35 00:03:13.280 --> 00:03:19.400 asleep or staying asleep. We don't want that. That's not healthy. A 36 00:03:19.439 --> 00:03:25.199 third of your life should be sleeping. You need rest. You need to 37 00:03:25.360 --> 00:03:30.680 let your body recover every day so then you could take more action the next 38 00:03:30.759 --> 00:03:40.360 day. The key is taking action, and it starts with sunlight. Now, 39 00:03:40.400 --> 00:03:46.520 what you want to do is every day, during sun rise, go 40 00:03:46.599 --> 00:03:53.599 outside and during sun set go outside. And it doesn't have to be long. 41 00:03:54.400 --> 00:04:01.599 Ten minutes is good enough. But not peaking head out the window or 42 00:04:01.719 --> 00:04:08.560 look out the window. Actually go outside physically. You need to see everything. 43 00:04:08.639 --> 00:04:14.960 You need to see the entire sky. If you're inside, the walls 44 00:04:14.960 --> 00:04:17.680 are blocking you, the roof's blocking you. You're just looking out a little 45 00:04:17.720 --> 00:04:24.319 window. It's basically like watching TV. You need to go outside and experience 46 00:04:24.360 --> 00:04:31.720 the real world. So you go outside during sunrise for ten minutes if it's 47 00:04:31.759 --> 00:04:38.000 sunny, if it's cloudy, twenty minutes. Just double it. But every 48 00:04:38.160 --> 00:04:47.240 day you go outside during sunrise and sunset for ten minutes. Watch the sunrise, 49 00:04:47.879 --> 00:04:55.000 watch the sunset. When you watch the sun rise, you're going to 50 00:04:55.480 --> 00:05:02.680 increase cortisol. That's gonna get you going. That's gonna really improve your brain 51 00:05:02.759 --> 00:05:08.240 function. It's give you the energy you need. You want to do most 52 00:05:08.240 --> 00:05:14.920 of your work during the morning in the afternoon. That way, your cortisol, 53 00:05:14.959 --> 00:05:16.439 which is a stress wulme, can handle the stress of the day. 54 00:05:18.720 --> 00:05:26.600 At nighttime, we want our cortisol levels down. When our cortosour levels are 55 00:05:26.680 --> 00:05:31.079 down and our melatonin levels are up, then we could get a good RESTful 56 00:05:31.120 --> 00:05:39.160 sleep. But if it's nighttime and your cortisol levels are high, you're not 57 00:05:39.199 --> 00:05:44.519 gonna get in that deep sleep. You're not gonna produce those delta brain waves. 58 00:05:45.319 --> 00:05:49.879 You're not gonna get the r E M, the rapid eye movements. 59 00:05:51.040 --> 00:05:57.839 That's gonna help you get good efficient sleep. Where you detox, reoxygenate, 60 00:05:59.199 --> 00:06:03.879 hit your body, gest your food, absorb your nutrients, get ready to 61 00:06:03.920 --> 00:06:13.360 eliminate all the bad stuff when you sleep and you wake up in the morning 62 00:06:13.680 --> 00:06:18.639 because your body's been detoxing. The first thing you should do is urinate and 63 00:06:18.720 --> 00:06:24.519 have a bowel movement. If you urinate and have a bowel movement, you're 64 00:06:24.560 --> 00:06:28.279 getting rid of the bad stuff. Your body's amazing at getting rid of the 65 00:06:28.319 --> 00:06:33.720 bad stuff. Whether it's through urination, whether it's through your bowel movements, 66 00:06:34.240 --> 00:06:41.839 whether it's through your period. Maybe it's through your earwax, could be through 67 00:06:41.879 --> 00:06:48.519 your boogers, could be through your tears, your eye crust, your sweat, 68 00:06:48.800 --> 00:06:55.160 could be through your skin, could be through your spit, your saliva, 69 00:06:55.319 --> 00:07:01.800 your drool. Your body's constantly getting rid of bad stuff. We don't 70 00:07:01.839 --> 00:07:06.560 want to keep the bad stuff inside of us. When we keep the bad 71 00:07:06.600 --> 00:07:15.920 stuff inside of us, then it stays longer and you create bacteria, viruses, 72 00:07:15.560 --> 00:07:21.800 parasites, worms, They love the bad stuff. They feed on the 73 00:07:21.839 --> 00:07:30.680 bad stuff, right, They feed on an acidic environment. An acidic environment 74 00:07:32.360 --> 00:07:40.720 is bad and an alkaline environment is good. Outside of your stomach. So 75 00:07:40.800 --> 00:07:44.519 if you have in your stomach, you do want acid. That's the only 76 00:07:44.560 --> 00:07:48.439 place where it's really important. There because your stomach acid kills off the bacteria, 77 00:07:48.519 --> 00:07:54.120 kills off the viruses. Your stomach is your immune system. That's where 78 00:07:54.160 --> 00:08:01.360 it starts from. Your stomach is the second brain. Your stomach produces more 79 00:08:01.399 --> 00:08:07.000 serotonin than any place in your body. Ninety percent of the serotonin is produced 80 00:08:07.040 --> 00:08:09.560 in your stomach. So you've got to make sure you have good gut health, 81 00:08:09.879 --> 00:08:16.959 and that means good stomach acid, good bile, good enzymes. Means 82 00:08:16.959 --> 00:08:22.240 we need your vagus nerve to work properly. You want good peristalsis contractions. 83 00:08:22.839 --> 00:08:26.879 You want to open up that ilio secal valve. That way you prevent cebo 84 00:08:28.000 --> 00:08:39.720 or colitis or iridal bowel syndrome, siliac disease, or gastritis. So we 85 00:08:39.799 --> 00:08:46.519 see a lot of people in our office that has decreased stomach acid. That's 86 00:08:46.559 --> 00:08:54.159 called hypochlorohedria, and you'll get that from taking ant acids, coums, rolaids. 87 00:08:54.840 --> 00:08:58.960 We don't like that. If you've ever taken that stuff, you might 88 00:08:58.000 --> 00:09:03.080 have depleted stuff acid. And when you have depleted stomach acid, you're not 89 00:09:03.120 --> 00:09:07.679 gonna absorb your nutrients properly. Your immune system is gonna be weak. Viruses, 90 00:09:07.759 --> 00:09:11.279 bacteria, worms, and parasites can take over. So let's say you 91 00:09:11.320 --> 00:09:15.240 touch a bacteria and then touch your mouth, then you swallow it. It 92 00:09:15.360 --> 00:09:20.879 goes in your stomach. Usually the stomach acid will kill it off. Well, 93 00:09:20.960 --> 00:09:26.080 let's say you eat something that's got some parasite in there. Usually the 94 00:09:26.120 --> 00:09:33.000 stomach acid will kill it off. We're all exposed to parasites and worms and 95 00:09:33.039 --> 00:09:39.000 bacteria and viruses every single day. You can't avoid that stuff. But what 96 00:09:39.039 --> 00:09:45.080 you need to do is make your system stronger so that they can eliminate it 97 00:09:45.120 --> 00:09:50.840 properly, whether it's through the bowel movement right, the urination, just like 98 00:09:50.840 --> 00:09:54.799 we're speaking about before. Your body is amazing at getting rid of the bad 99 00:09:54.840 --> 00:09:58.200 stuff. But if your systems aren't working properly, then you're not gonna be 100 00:09:58.240 --> 00:10:01.600 able to get rid of the bad stuff. All right, So we got 101 00:10:01.600 --> 00:10:09.120 to make sure that we detox. We eliminate by having a good RESTful sleep. 102 00:10:09.919 --> 00:10:13.799 It all starts from sleep. If you don't sleep properly, you're gonna 103 00:10:13.840 --> 00:10:22.480 lose hours off your life. You're gonna lose years off your life. You're 104 00:10:22.519 --> 00:10:30.799 gonna be low quality of life, all right. Don't sacrifice your sleep when 105 00:10:30.799 --> 00:10:35.960 you're young, because then when you're older, you're not gonna be as strong. 106 00:10:37.799 --> 00:10:41.879 Your brain's gonna be weaker, your gut's gonna be weaker, immune system 107 00:10:41.960 --> 00:10:45.759 is gonna be weaker, You're gonna have lower energy. It's not worth it. 108 00:10:46.039 --> 00:10:52.120 Got to measure the risk versus the reward. So if you've ever taken 109 00:10:52.240 --> 00:10:58.120 an ascids. There's a way to check through blood work to see if you're 110 00:10:58.159 --> 00:11:03.840 not producing enough stomach acid, and if you're not, then we might want 111 00:11:03.879 --> 00:11:09.279 to supplement, and you can supplement with what's called hydrochloric acid, but you 112 00:11:09.320 --> 00:11:16.480 also need to neutralize the acid with bile. So you'll go to a lot 113 00:11:16.480 --> 00:11:20.639 of places where you can buy vitamins and they'll sell this hydrochloric acid, But 114 00:11:20.720 --> 00:11:26.240 don't do that because most of these places aren't going to have it with the 115 00:11:26.360 --> 00:11:30.679 bile, and then it won't be neutralized. Then it's not as effective. 116 00:11:31.960 --> 00:11:37.559 And not only do you need bile, you need enzymes as well. So 117 00:11:37.559 --> 00:11:41.720 there's a lot of stuff that goes on in your gut bacteria, enzymes and 118 00:11:41.919 --> 00:11:52.919 acid, bile and contractions and openings and closings and dilation constriction. It's very 119 00:11:52.960 --> 00:11:58.559 complicated, but it's unbelievably perfect how it works as long as you don't have 120 00:11:58.639 --> 00:12:05.879 interface appearance. My job is a functional neurologist and functional medicine practitioner is to 121 00:12:05.960 --> 00:12:09.879 figure out where you have the interference, and if we could teach you how 122 00:12:09.919 --> 00:12:13.840 to get rid of that interference, then you're gonna function better, feel better 123 00:12:13.840 --> 00:12:18.679 and live a better life. But again it comes down to sleep. Right 124 00:12:18.759 --> 00:12:24.519 during our sleep, we're gonna rest, we're gonnaest, we're gonna break it 125 00:12:24.600 --> 00:12:31.080 down. And the key to sleep is using the sun. So we walk 126 00:12:31.120 --> 00:12:35.799 outside for ten minutes during sunrise, get cortisol going. You know, if 127 00:12:35.799 --> 00:12:39.279 you gotta do computer work, you do it in the morning. It's that 128 00:12:39.360 --> 00:12:45.120 blue light stimulates cortisol. You have to do computer work, do it the 129 00:12:45.159 --> 00:12:48.960 morning, in the afternoon. Do not do computer work at night. If 130 00:12:48.960 --> 00:12:54.519 it's eight o'clock at night and the lights are on, your computer's on, 131 00:12:54.600 --> 00:13:00.440 your TV's on, you're checking your cell phone, your brain, it's gonna 132 00:13:00.480 --> 00:13:03.080 stimulate cortosolt. It's gonna think it's the day and you're not gonna get a 133 00:13:03.200 --> 00:13:09.240 deep, full sleep. To get that rest, to get that deep sleep, 134 00:13:09.039 --> 00:13:13.840 you've got to turn off the lights at night. So once you come 135 00:13:13.919 --> 00:13:20.879 home after doing your ten minute outside activity of watching the sunset, now you're 136 00:13:20.879 --> 00:13:24.559 gonna start to dim the lights. You're gonna not come into bright lights. 137 00:13:24.720 --> 00:13:30.000 You're gonna turn off your computer, turn off your TV, turn off your 138 00:13:30.039 --> 00:13:35.159 cell phone, turn off all the bright lights and keep it dim so your 139 00:13:35.200 --> 00:13:41.000 brain starts to relax and then you'll get a deeper sleep. We're gonna continue 140 00:13:41.000 --> 00:13:46.559 this conversation when we come back from the break. This is doctor Eric Kaplan, 141 00:13:46.840 --> 00:13:50.240 and you're listening to boost your brain power. If you want to improve 142 00:13:50.279 --> 00:13:54.559 your brain function, help with memory, focus, sleep, digestion, energy 143 00:13:54.679 --> 00:13:58.960 depression, anxiety, dizziness, balance, vision, headaches, brain fog, 144 00:14:00.200 --> 00:14:05.120 weight loss, or simply want to maximize your human potential and prevent future diseases, 145 00:14:05.240 --> 00:14:09.320 that this is the show for you. Don't mis boost your brain power 146 00:14:09.480 --> 00:14:13.159 with doctor Eric Caplan and you will learn natural, integrative and holistic approaches to 147 00:14:13.279 --> 00:14:20.240 modern day medical problems such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's stroke, autism, add concussion, 148 00:14:20.360 --> 00:14:24.840 autoimmune diseases, insomnia, fibromyalgia, vertigo, migraines, four posture pain, 149 00:14:26.000 --> 00:14:30.720 TBI, skin and digestive problems. Doctor Kaplan is most famous for getting 150 00:14:30.759 --> 00:14:33.399 to the root cause of a wide variety of brain and health conditions, rather 151 00:14:33.519 --> 00:14:39.639 than treating symptoms with traditional medicines and risky surgeries. To contact doctor Kaplin, 152 00:14:39.759 --> 00:14:41.960 you can call his team at two oh one two six one two one five 153 00:14:43.039 --> 00:14:50.200 zero or visit his website at kaplindc dot com. Function Better, Feel Better, 154 00:14:50.679 --> 00:14:58.399 and live a better life. This is doctor Eric Caplan, and you're 155 00:14:58.440 --> 00:15:05.440 listening to boost your brain. Now we're talking about when you come home, 156 00:15:05.159 --> 00:15:11.639 after you go outside to watch the sun set, you don't want too much 157 00:15:11.679 --> 00:15:18.000 stimulation, so we want to turn off all the electronics. You don't want 158 00:15:18.000 --> 00:15:22.759 too much light, so you want to start to dim the light. And 159 00:15:22.840 --> 00:15:26.799 if you really want to get creative, every hour you dim it light darker 160 00:15:26.799 --> 00:15:31.200 and darker. So seven o'clock you dim the lights, and an eight o'clock 161 00:15:31.240 --> 00:15:35.679 you dim it even more, and then at nine o'clock you're really low, 162 00:15:35.720 --> 00:15:39.840 and then ten o'clock it's black and you can go to sleep. So your 163 00:15:39.840 --> 00:15:43.879 brain starts to relax, Relax, relax, relax. So light stimulates your 164 00:15:43.919 --> 00:15:48.879 brain at night, which is going to affect your sleep. So the more 165 00:15:48.960 --> 00:15:52.519 light you see at night, the worser sleep is. The darker it is 166 00:15:52.559 --> 00:15:58.679 at night, the better you sleep. And again it's not just dark outside, 167 00:15:58.720 --> 00:16:00.960 because if you're inside and the lights are on, the TV's on, 168 00:16:02.039 --> 00:16:07.240 and you're watching your cell phone and computer, then your brain is confused. 169 00:16:07.320 --> 00:16:11.200 It literally is, and it stimulates cortisol and then you can't sleep. So 170 00:16:11.240 --> 00:16:17.200 you turn off the electronics, dim the lights. If you want to do 171 00:16:17.279 --> 00:16:22.960 something you know interesting. You could listen to a podcast, could read a 172 00:16:23.000 --> 00:16:30.759 book, play a board game. You could talk to a family member. 173 00:16:33.960 --> 00:16:38.039 You can draw, You could do something creative and write in your journal. 174 00:16:40.679 --> 00:16:45.279 You could take a class, take a book club. Maybe take up a 175 00:16:45.360 --> 00:16:56.080 sport or a dance class, or a music lesson or some art lesson, 176 00:16:56.639 --> 00:17:03.160 some club or group, be a part of maybe a church study group, 177 00:17:04.640 --> 00:17:12.240 you know, maybe join a charity, volunteer. Start doing good things at 178 00:17:12.359 --> 00:17:18.759 night with your life, not watching TV and not going through Facebook, and 179 00:17:18.799 --> 00:17:25.079 not going on YouTube videos or TikTok. Start being in the real world. 180 00:17:26.279 --> 00:17:30.920 You know, when you're in the real world, life is so joyful. 181 00:17:32.920 --> 00:17:37.640 The more you're in the tech world, the more depression and anxiety you're gonna 182 00:17:37.680 --> 00:17:45.240 have. So what we want to do is make sure that you enjoy life. 183 00:17:45.279 --> 00:17:49.920 So you gotta be social, you gotta be active, you gotta get 184 00:17:49.960 --> 00:17:56.240 outside. You gotta see the sun. Remember we said the sun is key 185 00:17:57.480 --> 00:18:03.920 for sleep, but it's also key for depression. People who have vitamin D 186 00:18:03.079 --> 00:18:11.920 deficiency are depressed. People who have vitamin D deficiency are more likely to get 187 00:18:11.960 --> 00:18:19.519 COVID nineteen. People who have vitamin D deficiency are more likely to develop Alzheimer's 188 00:18:19.519 --> 00:18:26.839 disease. People with vitamin D deficiency are more likely to have a thyroid problem. 189 00:18:27.559 --> 00:18:33.279 This is all written in the literature, So I definitely do not want 190 00:18:33.400 --> 00:18:38.920 vitamin D deficiency. So what I do is I take ten thousand IU during 191 00:18:38.960 --> 00:18:45.160 the winter and five thousand IU during the summer. But you always got to 192 00:18:45.240 --> 00:18:48.400 monitor your blood work. You don't want it too high. You know, 193 00:18:48.480 --> 00:18:52.319 we have patients that come in taking way too much vitamin day and then it's 194 00:18:52.359 --> 00:18:59.559 excessive. You don't want too little, but you don't want too much with 195 00:18:59.640 --> 00:19:03.319 your health. If it's always about that healthy balance. You don't want your 196 00:19:03.359 --> 00:19:10.640 cholesterol too high, but you also don't want your cholesterol too low. A 197 00:19:10.720 --> 00:19:15.240 lot of people have high cholesterol. The most common medication taken in America is 198 00:19:15.400 --> 00:19:22.880 high cholesterol medication. Lippitoor is usually the big one. But these statin drugs 199 00:19:22.880 --> 00:19:29.319 are called can also lead to dementia. So if you have high cholesterol and 200 00:19:29.359 --> 00:19:33.720 you're taking a statin drug, it can actually lead to dementia. So what 201 00:19:33.759 --> 00:19:37.240 you want to do is make sure your cholesterol is good so you don't need 202 00:19:37.279 --> 00:19:41.079 to take a statin drug. But it's not about your total cholesterol. That's 203 00:19:41.079 --> 00:19:45.400 what most doctors look at. You got to also look at your good cholesterol, 204 00:19:45.400 --> 00:19:51.319 which is your AHDL, because if your HDL is really high, then 205 00:19:52.039 --> 00:19:56.039 a total cholesterol being high is not as big a deal because your best defense 206 00:19:56.119 --> 00:20:02.119 events bad cholesterol is good cholesterol. So if you have really high good cholesterol, 207 00:20:02.640 --> 00:20:07.960 you're gonna help counteract the bad cholesterol. So if you have a high 208 00:20:08.119 --> 00:20:11.400 HDL, which is a good cholesterol, it's not a big deal. If 209 00:20:11.440 --> 00:20:17.119 your cholesterol is too high. Now, when you take statin drugs, it's 210 00:20:17.119 --> 00:20:22.480 actually gonna bring down your good cholesterol as well as your bad cholesterol, and 211 00:20:22.599 --> 00:20:26.680 you need that cholesterol for normal bodily functions. If you take antibiotics, it's 212 00:20:26.680 --> 00:20:30.079 gonna kill the bad bacteria, but it's also gonna kill the good bacteria, 213 00:20:30.960 --> 00:20:37.920 and we use those bacteria for other healthy things in our bodies. So sometimes 214 00:20:37.960 --> 00:20:44.119 the cure is actually worse than in condition. Okay, so what we want 215 00:20:44.200 --> 00:20:49.839 to do is make sure that we get your body and what's called homeostasis right. 216 00:20:49.880 --> 00:20:52.920 We don't want it too high, we don't want it too low. 217 00:20:52.319 --> 00:20:56.880 If your brain's overactive, it's more anxiety. If your brain's underactive. It's 218 00:20:56.920 --> 00:21:03.319 more depression. We need that homeostasis. We don't want your blood pressure too 219 00:21:03.400 --> 00:21:07.920 high. That's not good. You can get heart attack or stroke. But 220 00:21:07.960 --> 00:21:11.279 we also don't want your blood pressure too low. That's not good either. 221 00:21:11.319 --> 00:21:15.759 You can get light headed, headaches, dizziness. You can pass out. 222 00:21:17.240 --> 00:21:22.799 That's not good either. You don't want your blood glucose too high. That's 223 00:21:22.880 --> 00:21:30.480 diabetes. Diabetes can lead to neuropathy, blindness, you get your limbs amputated 224 00:21:30.880 --> 00:21:36.440 at least to Alzheimer's disease. They're changing the name of Alzheimer's disease to diabetes 225 00:21:36.519 --> 00:21:40.640 type three. So you don't want your sugar levels too high, but you 226 00:21:40.720 --> 00:21:45.240 also don't want them too low. If your sugar levels are too low, 227 00:21:47.240 --> 00:21:52.279 then you're gonna have hypo glycemia. That's when if you don't eat for a 228 00:21:52.279 --> 00:21:56.480 long time, you get light headed. You might even pass out. It's 229 00:21:56.519 --> 00:22:00.680 not good either. Right, So everything's about a happy back. You got 230 00:22:00.680 --> 00:22:06.200 to be right in the middle. You don't want your thyroid too high, 231 00:22:06.319 --> 00:22:11.240 you don't want your thyroid too low, right, But you got to make 232 00:22:11.279 --> 00:22:18.720 sure you take care of your environment. And what do I mean by your 233 00:22:18.759 --> 00:22:22.240 environment? Are you doing this stuff on the outside like you're supposed to. 234 00:22:22.319 --> 00:22:26.480 Are you eating healthy, are you exercising, are you drinking enough water? 235 00:22:26.880 --> 00:22:30.799 Are you getting your sunlight? Are you not exposed to too many chemicals? 236 00:22:32.279 --> 00:22:36.880 And what we're talking about is getting good sleep, right, So your environment 237 00:22:36.960 --> 00:22:40.880 is going to dictate how good sleep you get. And it's not only the 238 00:22:41.000 --> 00:22:44.680 light, right, So we want to avoid light at night, so we 239 00:22:45.240 --> 00:22:48.960 increase melatonin so you can get that deep sleep. But we also want to 240 00:22:48.000 --> 00:22:56.599 avoid food at night. When you eat food, that stimulates cortisol again and 241 00:22:56.680 --> 00:23:00.839 that's going to interrupt your sleep. So the worst thing is eating before bed. 242 00:23:02.359 --> 00:23:08.880 I suggest four hours before bedtime to stop eating. So idealistically, if 243 00:23:08.920 --> 00:23:12.680 you're going to bed at ten, right, if you sleep from ten to 244 00:23:12.799 --> 00:23:18.400 six to good eight hours, you want to stop eating at six pm. 245 00:23:18.519 --> 00:23:23.559 No more food after six pm. So we want to have no light and 246 00:23:23.640 --> 00:23:27.799 we want to have no food. Then your brain can be really relaxed. 247 00:23:29.559 --> 00:23:33.400 All right, So what you want to do is eat from ten am to 248 00:23:33.559 --> 00:23:41.920 six pm and you want to sleep from ten pm to six am. That 249 00:23:41.960 --> 00:23:45.160 will get you in a good circadium rhythm. Now, one of the keys 250 00:23:45.160 --> 00:23:48.920 to sleep is consistency, So if you're gonna go to sleep at ten, 251 00:23:49.119 --> 00:23:55.400 do ten every night. Don't do Monday ten o'clock, Tuesday, ten fifteen, 252 00:23:56.079 --> 00:24:02.599 Wednesday ten oh five, Thursday nine forty five, Friday eleven thirty, 253 00:24:03.119 --> 00:24:06.839 Saturday ten thirty. Not We want to go ten o'clock, ten o'clock, 254 00:24:06.880 --> 00:24:11.200 ten o'clock, ten o'clock, ten o'clock. And you sleep in ninety minute 255 00:24:11.240 --> 00:24:15.160 cycles, so you want to get at least four or five of those cycles 256 00:24:15.240 --> 00:24:22.480 every single night to be efficient there, okay, because your brain needs that 257 00:24:22.720 --> 00:24:27.319 rest. When you get that good deep sleep, the delta waves the ram, 258 00:24:29.559 --> 00:24:33.720 you're going to really reoxygenate, You're going to digest all your food, 259 00:24:33.759 --> 00:24:38.519 you're gonna eliminate your toxins, you're gonna get rid of all the bad stuff. 260 00:24:40.640 --> 00:24:47.440 You're gonna rebalance your hormones. Everything will perform at a higher level, 261 00:24:48.599 --> 00:24:55.200 and therefore you're going to function better, feel better, and live a better 262 00:24:55.279 --> 00:25:00.559 life. This is doctor Eric Kaplan. You're listening to boost your brain power 263 00:25:00.920 --> 00:25:07.400 more when we come back from the break. Don't miss Boost your brain power 264 00:25:07.599 --> 00:25:11.240 with doctor Eric Kaplan every Saturday from two pm to three pm to learn the 265 00:25:11.319 --> 00:25:17.519 secrets of how to optimize your brain function. You can improve memory, focus, 266 00:25:17.759 --> 00:25:22.119 energy, sleep, digestion, mood, skin, metabolism, and strength 267 00:25:22.279 --> 00:25:27.039 by following the science and research that doctor Caplan will be sharing with his audience. 268 00:25:27.279 --> 00:25:32.359 Join the adventure of discovering how to help the brain and body in a 269 00:25:32.480 --> 00:25:36.880 natural way while having fun at the same time. Listen to boost your brain 270 00:25:36.920 --> 00:25:40.720 power. If you want to function better, feel better, and enjoy the 271 00:25:40.799 --> 00:25:45.319 quality of life you deserve. Called two oh one two six' one two 272 00:25:45.440 --> 00:25:49.720 one five zero, or email info at Kaplan, brainanbody dot com if you're 273 00:25:49.720 --> 00:25:56.400 interested in a free ten minute consultation with doctor Caplan, or visit caplandc dot 274 00:25:56.440 --> 00:26:03.039 com for more information. Function better, feel better, and live a better 275 00:26:03.160 --> 00:26:08.759 life. This is doctor Eric Kaplan, and you're listening to boost your brain 276 00:26:08.920 --> 00:26:15.519 power. So we're talking about how to brain hack your way into getting a 277 00:26:15.559 --> 00:26:19.319 deep sleep. Everybody want that good night's sleep and a good night's sleep and 278 00:26:19.400 --> 00:26:23.359 when you wake up and you're like, how long have I been sleeping? 279 00:26:25.359 --> 00:26:29.599 What day is it? Where you're just like totally out of it. That's 280 00:26:29.640 --> 00:26:33.640 a deep sleep, and when's the last time you had one of those? 281 00:26:33.200 --> 00:26:37.279 You got to get that really deep sleep, and keep in mind you should 282 00:26:37.279 --> 00:26:42.480 be able to drink a tall glass of so lay water that's water with pink 283 00:26:42.519 --> 00:26:48.680 kimeleyan salt, and not get up at all during the night to pee. 284 00:26:49.319 --> 00:26:56.640 Everyone thinks that if you drink water before bed that you're always going to get 285 00:26:56.720 --> 00:27:00.759 up to pee. That's not true. If you're getting up to p there's 286 00:27:00.799 --> 00:27:07.000 a weakness in there. A lot of times, it's actually eating at night 287 00:27:07.440 --> 00:27:12.240 that will get you up to pee. Because remember we said eating increases cortisol. 288 00:27:12.440 --> 00:27:18.079 Cortisol is distress hormone. Then your vegus nerve isn't gonna work properly, 289 00:27:18.200 --> 00:27:23.200 and your micturition center, which controls your bladder isn't going to send the proper 290 00:27:23.240 --> 00:27:27.079 signals in the efficient way. Therefore, your brain's gonna say, up, 291 00:27:27.160 --> 00:27:32.400 you gotta get up and pee, rather than hey, it's nighttime. I 292 00:27:32.440 --> 00:27:36.920 need my melatonin high, my cortisol low, I need to reoxygenate, I 293 00:27:37.039 --> 00:27:41.799 need to detox. So I'm gonna hold the urine in my bladder until the 294 00:27:41.880 --> 00:27:47.319 morning and then I can get rid of it. That is when your brain's 295 00:27:47.319 --> 00:27:52.440 functioning at high levels. But you gotta make sure you don't eat at night. 296 00:27:52.599 --> 00:27:59.640 Eating at night will mess up your systems. And actually I said four 297 00:27:59.759 --> 00:28:06.759 hours, so bedtimes ten pm. We don't want to eat after six pm. 298 00:28:06.920 --> 00:28:11.559 Hey, we don't want that stimulation. It just goes back to the 299 00:28:11.640 --> 00:28:15.640 when they were the hunter gatherers, right. You would wake up and you 300 00:28:15.680 --> 00:28:21.480 would need cortisol because you gotta, you know, find your food, got 301 00:28:21.559 --> 00:28:26.920 a hunt to gather and you'd eat during the day and then at nighttime people 302 00:28:26.920 --> 00:28:33.400 would relax and go to bed because there was no light. But if it's 303 00:28:34.039 --> 00:28:38.839 nighttime and you have all these lights on, that's gonna put your brain in 304 00:28:38.920 --> 00:28:45.920 stress mode. I know it's gonna be, you know, a paradigm shift 305 00:28:45.200 --> 00:28:51.200 if you watch TV every night. But I promise you, I promise you, 306 00:28:51.200 --> 00:28:56.599 you will enjoy life more if you turn off those electronics at night, 307 00:28:59.279 --> 00:29:07.119 especially so social media that literally causes anxiety and depression, especially mainstream media that 308 00:29:07.279 --> 00:29:15.519 also causes severe anxiety. You can be informed about the world without watching the 309 00:29:15.559 --> 00:29:21.519 news, But what do you want to be informed about? Do you just 310 00:29:21.599 --> 00:29:26.000 want to be informed about all the wars and the disasters and the destructions and 311 00:29:26.039 --> 00:29:32.880 the death and all the violence and the rape and the racism and the corruption 312 00:29:33.119 --> 00:29:38.079 and the theft. Is that what you want to focus on or do you 313 00:29:38.119 --> 00:29:45.039 want to focus on the loving people, the charitable people, the giving people. 314 00:29:45.559 --> 00:29:49.960 Why can't you be informed about good things? Why do you always want 315 00:29:51.000 --> 00:29:56.000 to be informed about bad things? I want to learn about good things. 316 00:29:56.480 --> 00:30:00.640 I want to learn about people that are changing the world and a good way. 317 00:30:00.799 --> 00:30:06.960 Wait, how can we know more about you know, the Kardashians than 318 00:30:07.039 --> 00:30:12.839 the Nobel Prize winners? Right? How can we know more about athletes than 319 00:30:12.960 --> 00:30:22.480 doctors? You can't name any famous doctors, and doctor Oz and doctor Phil 320 00:30:22.599 --> 00:30:26.839 do not count. You know, you don't know doctors that are changing the 321 00:30:26.960 --> 00:30:33.720 world because there's lots of them, But we don't know about that because we 322 00:30:33.759 --> 00:30:41.079 want to know about actors and singers and athletes. To me, I don't 323 00:30:41.079 --> 00:30:48.480 think that's important. You know, I stopped going to the movies. I 324 00:30:48.519 --> 00:30:52.799 don't have cable. I don't watch sports anymore. I used to spend my 325 00:30:52.839 --> 00:30:57.599 whole Sunday, you know, watching football. And then if you put the 326 00:30:57.680 --> 00:31:02.720 math together, it's like you're just row in your life away. Each game's 327 00:31:02.759 --> 00:31:07.799 three to four hours. Your whole days. Every Sunday is ruined. I 328 00:31:07.839 --> 00:31:11.960 got my Sunday's back. It's a whole day. You know sports. You 329 00:31:11.960 --> 00:31:18.920 know, people watch the Yankees. It's one hundred and sixty two games for 330 00:31:18.039 --> 00:31:23.240 three to four hours. It's almost every night. How is that productive for 331 00:31:23.279 --> 00:31:29.319 your health? Maybe it's just a distraction from reality. But do you really 332 00:31:29.319 --> 00:31:34.880 want a distraction from reality or do you want to improve reality? Do you 333 00:31:34.880 --> 00:31:44.039 want to make progression? The key to depression is progression, meaning you need 334 00:31:44.079 --> 00:31:47.920 to make progress in your life, whether it's through you know, lifting more 335 00:31:47.920 --> 00:31:53.720 weights, running a faster mile, whether it's going to the gym more days, 336 00:31:55.200 --> 00:31:59.960 eating healthier, getting better sleep, drinking more water, going to church 337 00:32:00.119 --> 00:32:06.200 more, doing more charity, volunteering more, helping others more, doing better 338 00:32:06.240 --> 00:32:08.880 at work, getting a promotion, getting paid more, being more successful, 339 00:32:10.079 --> 00:32:15.319 improving your intellect, taking more classes, reading more books. Okay, you 340 00:32:15.440 --> 00:32:21.559 got to progress. If you're not making progression in your life, that's going 341 00:32:21.599 --> 00:32:28.039 to lead to depression. The key to depression is progression. Make progress in 342 00:32:28.079 --> 00:32:31.599 your life and write it down and celebrate the small winds. When you celebrate 343 00:32:31.640 --> 00:32:37.359 the small winds, you increase your dopamine. Most people are always looking for 344 00:32:37.480 --> 00:32:43.519 dopamine. That's why they go on social media for likes and comments. That's 345 00:32:43.519 --> 00:32:46.839 why they drink a glass of wine at night. That's why they have a 346 00:32:46.920 --> 00:32:54.160 piece of chocolate cake after their meal. That's why they go gambling or cheat 347 00:32:54.200 --> 00:33:00.519 on their wives or whatever it may be. These are all bad habits that 348 00:33:00.559 --> 00:33:07.279 are looking for that dopamine hit. But you could get it naturally through celebrating 349 00:33:07.319 --> 00:33:15.319 small winds, doing a checklist, exercising, going out in the sunlight, 350 00:33:15.119 --> 00:33:22.599 helping others. You could get these brain chemicals stimulated on your own. But 351 00:33:22.720 --> 00:33:28.720 you need to do the work right. It's not a magic pill. Don't 352 00:33:28.720 --> 00:33:34.480 come to me if you want some magic pill. I have patience all the 353 00:33:34.519 --> 00:33:37.160 time. What can I take to fix this? What can I take to 354 00:33:37.200 --> 00:33:40.400 sleep better? What can I take for my depression? What can I take 355 00:33:40.400 --> 00:33:45.759 for my anxiety? What can I take for more energy? What can I 356 00:33:45.839 --> 00:33:50.440 take to improve my focus and memory? And I say no, don't come 357 00:33:50.480 --> 00:33:53.920 to me. That's what you want. And I'm talking about you know, 358 00:33:54.039 --> 00:34:00.279 herbs, supplements, medicine, pharmaceuticals, injections. I don't want it. 359 00:34:00.319 --> 00:34:05.359 I don't want to give it to you. I want to teach you how 360 00:34:05.400 --> 00:34:12.599 to improve your own brain and body. I am a functional neurologist and a 361 00:34:12.719 --> 00:34:20.840 functional medicine practitioner. We help patients to help themselves. I have two offices. 362 00:34:21.360 --> 00:34:24.159 I have one in Bergen County, New Jersey, and one in the 363 00:34:24.199 --> 00:34:29.440 West Village of New York City. We also see a lot of people virtually, 364 00:34:30.639 --> 00:34:36.079 people from the West Coast and from other countries and from different time zones, 365 00:34:36.159 --> 00:34:42.199 and you know, people with the modern technology, we can help people 366 00:34:42.199 --> 00:34:45.800 all over the world now, So even if you're not local to New Jersey, 367 00:34:45.800 --> 00:34:47.800 New York, we can take care of you Caplin, brain and body. 368 00:34:47.880 --> 00:34:52.320 If you're looking for the doctor that's going to be a little detective, 369 00:34:53.159 --> 00:34:58.840 I'm a functional doctor. I'm going to discover where the root causes. I 370 00:34:58.960 --> 00:35:02.199 don't want to give you a pill to hide the symptoms. I'm not gonna 371 00:35:02.239 --> 00:35:07.800 give you melatonin to help you sleep. But I'm gonna say, why isn't 372 00:35:07.840 --> 00:35:13.679 your body producing melatonin at night? And maybe we could teach you these strategies 373 00:35:14.599 --> 00:35:20.159 to increase melatonin at night, decrease cortisol at night, so that you don't 374 00:35:20.239 --> 00:35:23.719 need to take an ambient. You don't need a sleeping pill, you don't 375 00:35:23.760 --> 00:35:30.920 need melatonin, you don't need some sleepy time tea. You don't mean to 376 00:35:31.000 --> 00:35:37.559 take things to get good sleep. The power of good rest and good sleep 377 00:35:37.800 --> 00:35:43.840 is withinside of you. We just need to unleash its potential by a process 378 00:35:43.880 --> 00:35:50.400 called neuroplasticity, and we rewire your brain to get the pineal gland working properly, 379 00:35:51.119 --> 00:35:55.800 to get your autonomic nervous system functioning at a higher level, to get 380 00:35:55.800 --> 00:36:02.360 the hormones to be released at the appropriate your time, to get into that 381 00:36:02.480 --> 00:36:12.599 rest digest by working on your sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system. The good news 382 00:36:12.760 --> 00:36:16.119 is, I don't care if you haven't slept well your whole life. You 383 00:36:16.199 --> 00:36:22.280 can change your brain. Don't let anyone tell you that you can't change your 384 00:36:22.320 --> 00:36:25.320 brain. And I don't care if you're eighty years old, if you're fifty 385 00:36:25.400 --> 00:36:30.960 years old, if you're twenty years old. Your brain can change, but 386 00:36:31.000 --> 00:36:37.280 you've got to do the work. It's called neuroplasticity. Your genetics can change. 387 00:36:37.639 --> 00:36:43.719 You could turn off bad jeans. That's called epigenetics. If everyone in 388 00:36:43.760 --> 00:36:49.239 your family has diabetes, but you never drink soda, you never overload on 389 00:36:49.320 --> 00:36:53.360 bread and rice and potatoes and crackers and cereals, You stop eating at night, 390 00:36:53.800 --> 00:36:58.880 you exercise every day. You don't have a sedentary lifestyle. You're gonna 391 00:36:58.880 --> 00:37:04.880 turn off that diabetes. I have an alcoholic gene. But if I don't 392 00:37:04.920 --> 00:37:07.639 go to the bar on Friday night and I don't drink that beer or have 393 00:37:07.719 --> 00:37:13.360 that glass of wine after dinner, then I'm gonna turn off my alcoholic gene. 394 00:37:13.639 --> 00:37:16.559 I'm only going to become an alcoholic if I drink alcohol, But if 395 00:37:16.559 --> 00:37:21.280 I avoid it, I turn off that gene and then it doesn't control me. 396 00:37:22.400 --> 00:37:29.519 Got it. That's called epigenetics. If there is cancer in your family, 397 00:37:29.880 --> 00:37:32.039 if you have a cancer gene, it doesn't mean you have to do 398 00:37:32.119 --> 00:37:39.440 the Angelina Jolie where she literally chopped off her breast because she had that breast 399 00:37:39.480 --> 00:37:44.840 cancer gene. I say, hey, you can turn it off by changing 400 00:37:44.880 --> 00:37:46.840 your lifestyle. If you have the gene. Yes, you might have to 401 00:37:46.880 --> 00:37:51.559 work harder than the average person, but you can do it. All you 402 00:37:51.559 --> 00:37:54.199 gotta do is find your weakness. And that's what we do, is find 403 00:37:54.199 --> 00:38:00.679 the weakness and teach you how to function better, feel better, and a 404 00:38:00.679 --> 00:38:05.280 better life. This is doctor Eric Kaplan more when we come back from the 405 00:38:05.280 --> 00:38:08.320 break. If you want to improve your brain function, help with memory, 406 00:38:08.400 --> 00:38:14.480 focus, sleep, digestion, energy, depression, anxiety, dizziness, balance, 407 00:38:14.639 --> 00:38:16.920 vision, headaches, brain fog, weight loss, or simply want to 408 00:38:17.039 --> 00:38:22.320 maximize your human potential and prevent future diseases that this is the show for you. 409 00:38:22.679 --> 00:38:28.280 Don't misboost your brain power with doctor Eric Caplan and you will learn natural, 410 00:38:28.440 --> 00:38:32.079 integrative, and holistic approaches to modern day medical problems such as Alzheimer's, 411 00:38:32.119 --> 00:38:38.599 Parkinson's stroke, autism, add concussion, autoimmune diseases, insomnia, fibromyalgia, 412 00:38:38.760 --> 00:38:44.719 vertigo, migraines, four posture pain, TBI, skin and digestive problems. 413 00:38:44.880 --> 00:38:47.840 Doctor Caplin is most famous for getting to the root cause of a wide variety 414 00:38:47.880 --> 00:38:52.639 of brain and health conditions, rather than treating symptoms with traditional medicines and risky 415 00:38:52.679 --> 00:38:57.440 surgeries. To contact doctor Caplin, you can call his team at two oh 416 00:38:57.480 --> 00:39:00.159 one two six one two one five zero, or is it his website ed 417 00:39:00.280 --> 00:39:08.719 kaplindc dot com. Function better, feel better and live a better life. 418 00:39:09.519 --> 00:39:15.039 This is doctor Eric Kaplan, and you're listening to boost your brain power. 419 00:39:15.360 --> 00:39:20.400 We're talking about how to improve your sleep, and the way to improve your 420 00:39:20.400 --> 00:39:24.679 sleep starts from the sun, so you have to use the sun, go 421 00:39:24.760 --> 00:39:30.519 outside as much as possible. If you travel and you have jet lag, 422 00:39:31.440 --> 00:39:36.880 the key to jet leg is the sun. So if you go, let's 423 00:39:36.920 --> 00:39:45.079 say to California, which is a three hour time zone difference, right when 424 00:39:45.119 --> 00:39:50.159 you land, you have to stay outside for three hours. That's all you 425 00:39:50.159 --> 00:39:54.360 gotta do. If you stay outside for three hours, then your brain readapts 426 00:39:54.400 --> 00:40:00.960 readjusts, changes that paneal gland activation pattern, stimulating cortisol and melatonin at the 427 00:40:01.000 --> 00:40:06.639 appropriate time. So anytime you travel, and even if it's at night, 428 00:40:06.880 --> 00:40:13.400 let's say, if you land at nine o'clock at night, go outside and 429 00:40:13.440 --> 00:40:16.719 you can see the moon, and then your brain says, okay, the 430 00:40:16.719 --> 00:40:27.039 moon's out right. It knows how to figure it out because it's been in 431 00:40:27.079 --> 00:40:31.159 our genes for thousands of thousands of years. The brain knows, okay, 432 00:40:31.199 --> 00:40:36.199 when the sun's here, it's this time, it's this time of year, 433 00:40:36.320 --> 00:40:42.000 the moon's here. Your brain has all these instincts. It's all automatic. 434 00:40:42.519 --> 00:40:47.400 Most of your brain is working without you even realizing it's automatic. When people 435 00:40:47.440 --> 00:40:50.679 say, oh, we don't use our all of our brain, we do 436 00:40:50.800 --> 00:40:52.920 use all of our brain, which is have no idea what's going on. 437 00:40:53.039 --> 00:41:00.000 It's just doing it without our permission. In fact, a lot of times 438 00:40:59.679 --> 00:41:02.679 you're making a decision that you think you made. Your brain already made it 439 00:41:02.679 --> 00:41:07.239 for you. Your brain makes the decision before you do. They've actually proven 440 00:41:07.280 --> 00:41:10.760 that through neuroscience, which is a little scary. So it's like, are 441 00:41:10.800 --> 00:41:15.320 you actually making your own decisions or not? Because your brain makes the decision, 442 00:41:16.079 --> 00:41:20.159 and then you get up because your brain told you to. You didn't 443 00:41:20.159 --> 00:41:22.119 make that decision to get up. Your brain told you to get up. 444 00:41:23.559 --> 00:41:30.079 That's pretty weird. That's one of the most things that gets me most confused 445 00:41:30.119 --> 00:41:37.400 with neurology is how powerful the brain is. That we have no idea how 446 00:41:37.480 --> 00:41:42.559 much it controls us, you know. But the good news is you can 447 00:41:42.599 --> 00:41:46.719 rewire it through neuroplasticity. You got to take care of your brain. You 448 00:41:46.760 --> 00:41:52.519 only get one brain, so you got to take care of it. People 449 00:41:52.559 --> 00:41:54.239 say, oh, you only have one life, so I want to enjoy 450 00:41:54.320 --> 00:42:00.079 life, Well, guess how you enjoy life with a good brain. You 451 00:42:00.119 --> 00:42:05.360 don't want to be you know, let's say from eighty to ninety years old, 452 00:42:06.320 --> 00:42:13.000 and I have Alzheimer's disease and being a wheelchair and being a diaper and 453 00:42:13.039 --> 00:42:19.719 being a nursing home just because oh, I wanted to enjoy life, so 454 00:42:19.800 --> 00:42:23.639 I drank every night and I ate fast food, and I didn't sleep at 455 00:42:23.639 --> 00:42:28.519 all, and I never drank water and only had soda. So you lived 456 00:42:28.519 --> 00:42:34.639 your life. But now the last ten twenty years of your life is going 457 00:42:34.679 --> 00:42:37.679 to be miserable. It's going to be poor quality of life. It's not 458 00:42:37.840 --> 00:42:43.079 about the amount of years that you live, it's the quality of life you 459 00:42:43.320 --> 00:42:49.159 have while you're alive. You don't want to be sick, you don't want 460 00:42:49.159 --> 00:42:52.280 to be in fear mode. You don't have anxiety, you don't have low 461 00:42:52.480 --> 00:42:57.000 energy, you don't have a band memory. That's not quality of life. 462 00:42:57.559 --> 00:43:00.880 You need quality of life. But you gotta figure out where your weaknesses are. 463 00:43:01.599 --> 00:43:05.679 Where are your weaknesses? How do you know what part of your brain's 464 00:43:05.719 --> 00:43:10.760 not functioning properly? How do you know whether you need to work on your 465 00:43:12.039 --> 00:43:19.800 alignment, on your muscle spasm, on your inflammation, on your posture, 466 00:43:20.519 --> 00:43:25.280 on your eyesight, on your teeth, your gum health, on your skin 467 00:43:25.400 --> 00:43:30.199 or your hair or your nails, on your heart function and your digestion, 468 00:43:30.360 --> 00:43:37.320 on your respiration. How do you know what areas or your weaknesses and which 469 00:43:37.360 --> 00:43:42.039 areas you need to work on to improve your quality of life? Well that's 470 00:43:42.079 --> 00:43:46.599 where I come in. I'm a functional neurologist and a functional medicine practitioner. 471 00:43:47.400 --> 00:43:52.079 And what I would suggest for you is to do a one on one evaluation 472 00:43:52.159 --> 00:43:54.760 with me. Right, go over your blood work, go over all your 473 00:43:54.800 --> 00:44:00.199 brain tests, go over your memory, your alignment, your your reflexes, 474 00:44:00.239 --> 00:44:06.559 your eyes, your teeth, your ears, your smell, your gut, 475 00:44:06.639 --> 00:44:09.960 your lungs, your heart, your circulation, your inflammation. Takes about forty 476 00:44:10.000 --> 00:44:15.960 five minutes. We get to the knit and gritty, figure out exactly what's 477 00:44:16.000 --> 00:44:21.960 going on, where your weaknesses are. We check out your balance, how 478 00:44:22.000 --> 00:44:27.000 you walk, how you talk, how you swallow, how your tongue deviates 479 00:44:27.000 --> 00:44:30.199 when you stick it out, your reflexes, your muscle strength, you range, 480 00:44:30.199 --> 00:44:36.679 your motion, Gotta do it all. It's a very holistic and integrative 481 00:44:36.719 --> 00:44:42.199 evaluation. Takes about forty five minutes to an hour. Its normally five hundred 482 00:44:42.239 --> 00:44:50.320 dollars. Comes with a diagnosis as well as a prognosis and treatment recommendations normally 483 00:44:50.360 --> 00:44:53.119 five hundred dollars. But we're gonna give a healthcare gift to everyone listening today. 484 00:44:54.199 --> 00:44:59.639 If you're one of the first seven people to call, text, or 485 00:44:59.719 --> 00:45:05.559 email, you can get the entire one on one evaluation in me ors truly, 486 00:45:06.079 --> 00:45:09.480 doctor Eric Kaplan. Instead of paying the five hundred dollars, you only 487 00:45:09.519 --> 00:45:15.800 have to pay twenty one dollars. All you have to do is call or 488 00:45:15.880 --> 00:45:21.760 text six four six two two one six seven three eight, or you can 489 00:45:21.840 --> 00:45:29.760 email info at Kaplan Brain and Body dot com. There's another gift I'm gonna 490 00:45:29.760 --> 00:45:36.760 give you, okay. It's called a qEEG brain mapping. This is non 491 00:45:36.760 --> 00:45:40.320 invasive, there's no radiation. You wear a swimmers cap looks like a swimmers 492 00:45:40.320 --> 00:45:45.000 cap. It's got electrodes attached to it, and it measures your brain waves 493 00:45:45.000 --> 00:45:50.840 that we spoke about before, the alpha, beta, theta delta, and 494 00:45:50.920 --> 00:45:53.800 based on the brain waves and the location of the abnormal brain waves, it 495 00:45:53.880 --> 00:45:59.480 can tell us which areas of your brain are functioning good and which areas are 496 00:45:59.599 --> 00:46:02.599 weak and need help. Can tell us do you have depression, anxiety, 497 00:46:04.480 --> 00:46:10.519 sleep deprivation, insomnia, a thyroid problem and intestinal inflammation. Do you have 498 00:46:10.639 --> 00:46:15.119 a problem with dopamine or acetocholine. Do you have heavy metal poisoning? Do 499 00:46:15.199 --> 00:46:21.880 you have a concussion? It tells us do you have memory long term memory, 500 00:46:21.960 --> 00:46:24.719 short term memory, working memory deficits? It tells us do you have 501 00:46:24.960 --> 00:46:31.840 difficulty shifting tasks, motivation, planning, depression, anxiety. It tells us 502 00:46:31.840 --> 00:46:37.599 do you have trouble with executive functions, with balance, problems with your eyes 503 00:46:37.639 --> 00:46:47.519 and your ears. It analyzes everything. It's literally no radiation, no risk, 504 00:46:49.079 --> 00:46:52.360 super quick. You don't have to sit in some small MRI tube. 505 00:46:52.440 --> 00:46:57.280 You don't have to take any contrast fluid, you don't need to take any 506 00:46:57.480 --> 00:47:04.800 dies, any chemicals, non invasive, no risk. This qEEG brain mapping 507 00:47:04.880 --> 00:47:08.639 is the best test to measure your brain waves. It's normally five hundred dollars, 508 00:47:08.920 --> 00:47:13.559 but for the first seven people to call, text or email you could 509 00:47:13.559 --> 00:47:20.400 get the qEEG Brain mapping for only twenty one dollars. We're also going to 510 00:47:20.440 --> 00:47:25.599 give another gift. This is called a VNG video nstography. This is where 511 00:47:25.599 --> 00:47:30.239 you measure your differences of your left and right brains. So it tells us 512 00:47:30.280 --> 00:47:35.159 which areas are overactive, that we got to calm down, which areas are 513 00:47:35.280 --> 00:47:38.199 underactive. And we measure from the left and the right and up and down 514 00:47:38.239 --> 00:47:43.920 and quick and slow, so we analyze which areas we need to slow down 515 00:47:44.239 --> 00:47:47.159 and which areas we need to increase. This is very important for your brain 516 00:47:47.280 --> 00:47:52.400 function. This test is also normally five hundred dollars, but for the first 517 00:47:52.480 --> 00:47:57.679 seven people to call text or email, you can get that test for only 518 00:47:57.719 --> 00:48:00.400 twenty one dollars as well, And if you want, you can get all 519 00:48:00.440 --> 00:48:04.599 three one on one with me, the qee G, Brain Mapping, and 520 00:48:04.679 --> 00:48:09.760 the VNG all for only twenty one dollars each. Just call text or email 521 00:48:10.360 --> 00:48:17.840 six four six two two one six seven three eight six four six two two 522 00:48:17.920 --> 00:48:29.440 one six seven three eight, or you can email info at kaplanbrainanbody dot com. 523 00:48:29.480 --> 00:48:34.119 Another gift we're gonna give you is the gift of our seminar series. 524 00:48:35.320 --> 00:48:39.159 I have a seminar series coming up. It's gonna be the last Tuesday in 525 00:48:39.360 --> 00:48:47.039 April, and it's gonna be the next four months. There's gonna be four 526 00:48:47.079 --> 00:48:53.559 seminars. Okay, each seminar is two hundred dollars. But what we're gonna 527 00:48:53.559 --> 00:48:59.639 do is a gift if you pay ninety seven dollars for the next seminar, 528 00:49:00.039 --> 00:49:05.239 which is the last Tuesday of April, and it'd be six thirty pm to 529 00:49:05.360 --> 00:49:09.840 seven thirty pm in River Edge, New Jersey. If you can't make it 530 00:49:09.880 --> 00:49:15.079 to New Jersey, you could take the seminar series over Zoom and if you 531 00:49:15.119 --> 00:49:20.400 don't do zoom, you could have a recording to listen and whenever you want 532 00:49:20.480 --> 00:49:25.039 at your own convenience. Okay, the seminar series are two hundred dollars each, 533 00:49:25.159 --> 00:49:29.840 so for the next four ones, it's eight hundred dollars. But the 534 00:49:29.920 --> 00:49:35.039 special we're gonna do is if you pay ninety seven dollars and you're one of 535 00:49:35.079 --> 00:49:38.440 the first seven people that get this, you will get not only this April 536 00:49:38.480 --> 00:49:44.920 seminar, but you're gonna get all four seminars included. Right, So it's 537 00:49:44.920 --> 00:49:50.280 basically like you know, nineteen dollars a seminar or something like that. All 538 00:49:50.400 --> 00:49:55.599 right, So what you want to do is just call, text or email. 539 00:49:57.159 --> 00:50:00.559 Right. All you gotta do is pay ninety seven dollars dollars for the 540 00:50:00.559 --> 00:50:06.239 next seminar, which is on sleep and energy. If you want to improve 541 00:50:06.280 --> 00:50:09.760 your sleep and you want to increase your energy, this is the seminar for 542 00:50:09.840 --> 00:50:13.679 you. So instead of paying the normal two hundred, you get it for 543 00:50:13.800 --> 00:50:20.039 ninety seven dollars plus you're gonna get the next three seminars completely for free at 544 00:50:20.039 --> 00:50:22.320 no extra charge. For the first seven people. All you gotta do is 545 00:50:22.360 --> 00:50:30.239 call six four six two two one six seven three eight. Again, the 546 00:50:30.239 --> 00:50:36.639 phone number is six four six two two one six seven three eight, or 547 00:50:36.679 --> 00:50:43.639 you can email info at Kaplinbraininbody dot com. For more information about our services, 548 00:50:43.679 --> 00:50:46.920 you can go to our website kaplindc dot com. If you're interested in 549 00:50:46.960 --> 00:50:52.119 my book, it's called Boost your Brain Power, a Guide to improving your 550 00:50:52.159 --> 00:50:55.719 memory and focus. Brain Power is one word. You can get that at 551 00:50:55.760 --> 00:51:00.239 Amazon or you can call our office if you're int On social media, we 552 00:51:00.280 --> 00:51:06.920 have a Facebook group Caplin Brain and Body. We have Instagram page Caplin Brain 553 00:51:06.960 --> 00:51:10.639 and Body. We have TikTok Doctor Eric Kaplan, and then we have a 554 00:51:10.679 --> 00:51:17.559 YouTube channel which is also Kaplin Brain and Body and join us, subscribe, 555 00:51:19.199 --> 00:51:23.719 like comment, get my book. If you want to function better, feel 556 00:51:23.719 --> 00:51:30.119 better and live a better life, this is doctor Eric Kaplan. You just 557 00:51:30.199 --> 00:51:37.880 listen to Boost your brain Power see next week. Don't miss Boost your Brain 558 00:51:37.920 --> 00:51:42.960 Power with doctor Eric Kaplan every Saturday from two pm to three pm to learn 559 00:51:43.000 --> 00:51:46.719 the secrets of how to optimize your brain function. You can improve memory, 560 00:51:46.840 --> 00:51:52.440 focus, energy, sleep, digestion, mood, skin, metabolism, and 561 00:51:52.519 --> 00:51:58.400 strength by following the science and research that doctor Caplan will be sharing with his 562 00:51:58.440 --> 00:52:02.199 audience join the adventure of discovering how to help the brain and body in a 563 00:52:02.320 --> 00:52:07.719 natural way while having fun at the same time. Listen to boost your brain 564 00:52:07.800 --> 00:52:10.559 power. If you want to function better, feel better, and enjoy the 565 00:52:10.639 --> 00:52:15.239 quality of life you deserve. Called two oh one two six' one two 566 00:52:15.280 --> 00:52:22.159 one five zero, or email info at kaplanbrainanbody dot com if you're interested in 567 00:52:22.239 --> 00:52:27.760 a free ten minute consultation with doctor Kaplan, or visit kaplandc dot com for 568 00:52:27.920 --> 00:52:34.320 more information. 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