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Boost your brain Power. I'm your host, doctor Eric Gaplan. Hope everyone's
having a great day today. We're going to talk about how to boost your
brain power, how to improve your memory and focus. I'm going to go
over some brain exercises you can do. Just like you could go to the
gym to strengthen your muscles, you could strengthen your brain. It's a process
called neuroplasticity where you could rewire your brain. Even if you have damaged areas
from a stroke or Parkinson's or MS or Alzheimer's disease, you can actually rewire
your brain to make it stronger. The three most important things to keep your
brain strong our food, oxygen, and activation. We talked about before,
how food is very colorful. When you eat all your nutrients, you want
to eat each color of the rainbow red, orange, yellow, green,
blue, purple. If you eat all the colors of the rainbow, you're
gonna get all your nutrients. Stay away from all the white foods, the
salt, the sugar bread, the dairy, all the carbs, all the
grains. Stay away from the white food. Eat all the colorful food that
gives you all your nutrients. For oxygen, you want to make sure that
you do proper breathing exercises where you inhale for four seconds, hold it for
seven seconds, and exhale for eight seconds. You want to breathe as you
inhale, push your bet push your diaphragm down and out like you're a pregnant
belly, and then when you exhale, everything comes in to squeeze that carbon
dioxide out. We always want to get rid of the carbon dioxide and maximize
the oxygen intake. You can also buy some plants or your house or your
apartment. Spider plants, snake plants, money plants, allow air plants.
They have the most oxygen, so if you want to increase your oxygen levels,
you can always purchase some plants. You can make sure you go out
in nature, hang out in the trees the forest. One tree has enough
oxygen for five people, so you know, if you hopefully live near the
woods, then you're getting a lot of oxygen. The more woods around you,
the more trees around you, the more oxygen. We also want to
work on your posture. Posture is very important, especially people who work at
a computer. They're always forward on their cell phone. They're always looking down.
Feel right and looking down. Most jobs you're looking down. So you're
gonna start looking up. Look up at the skies, look up at the
heavens, look up at the sun, look up at the moon, look
up, roll your shoulders back, improve your posture, keep yourself upright.
You don't want to become one of these You know old people are hunched over
and you got a big bone sticking out the top of your upper back,
and your head's all forward, and you know that does not do well for
your health. Even depression. You see somebody's depressed, their health, their
heads are down. See somebody's happy, energetic, their heads are up.
One of the most common complaints I get and my office is people have low
energy. They need more energy. Now, back in high school, we
learn that energy cannot be created nor destroyed. So you have that energy in
you. You don't need coffee, you don't need energy drinks, you don't
need caffeine to keep you going. All the energy you have is withinside of
you. But you need to boost your brain power. Maybe you need to
exercise in the morning. That'll boost your energy. Maybe you need to do
some breathing exercises and increase your oxygen levels. That's what we just spoke about.
Maybe that'll increase your energy. Maybe you need to eat healthier food.
Maybe you need to go to bed a little bit earlier. So there's lots
of ways to increase your energy. The most important ways physical exercise. You
need to physically exercise every single day. You gotta have non negotiables. I
always have non negotiables every day. I exercise every day, I do a
cold shower. Those are nonnegotiables. Every single day. You gotta have one
or two. Whether it's you eat each color of the rainbow, you drink
the right amount of water you're breathing, exercise, get your physical exercise,
do your brain exercise, write in your gratitude journal, reading your book,
do something that's a good habit every single day, no matter what, whether
you're sick, you're on vacation. You know, I don't care what the
deal is. You always have to do these non negotiables every single day,
all right, So what else can we do besides oxygen? What else can
we do. He says, eating healthy is brain activation. We got to
challenge the brain. You got to make the brain work. You'll use it
or you'll lose it. You gotta make those brain activation patterns increase. We
want more synapses, we want more mitochondrial more atp, more neurotransmitters. So
we can make our brain stronger by getting it more blood flow, more oxygen,
more activation. And there's lots of stuff you could do at home to
increase the activation. But you got to challenge yourself. You gotta do stuff
that you're not used to doing. The brain likes new things. I don't
care if it's meaning a new person, visiting a new place, learning a
new musical instrument, learning a new language, reading a new book, learning
a new skill, learning a new dance. It doesn't matter what it is,
but you gotta do something new. You could walk backwards with one foot
as you're whistling Dixie. I don't care what it is, just sues do
something different. You challenge yourself. You could. Good brain exercise to do
is take your left leg and draw clockwise circles. Then take your left hand
and draw the number six at the same time they do clockwise circles with your
left leg that's to the right, and at the same time draw the number
six with your left hand. Make sure when you draw the number six with
your left hand, the leg doesn't reverse and start going counterclockwise instead of clockwise.
That is a brain challenge. We got to exercise the brain. Or
you could do what's called a cross crawl exercise. That's where you stand up
kind of march in place, but touch your opposite knee with your opposite hand,
meaning your right hand goes to your left knee and your left hand goes
to your right knee. As you lipped up those legs. Each time you
tap, you come up with a mental exercise. So you say, okay,
today I'm gonna do countries, and every time you tap, you say
a different country, and then you say France, it's main, Ortugal,
Germany, Italy, and you keep going over and over and over. You
want to get at least fifteen of each category within thirty seconds. So one
day you do countries, the next day you do cities. The next day
you do colors. The next day you do animals, the next day you
do cars, the next day you do sports, next day you do body
parts. It's unlimited on what you could do. You do presidents, you
could do animals, you could do things in a bathroom, things in a
kitchen. You always just have to do something different. Keep challenging your brain,
keep thinking of different categories to do that way, not only do you
connect the left and the rents, the left brain and the right brain,
but also you challenge that frontal cortex. The frontal cortex, that's the frontal
part of your brain, is where a lot of dementia starts from. That's
why it's called frontal temporal dementia. The frontal cortex is responsible for focus,
motivation, punctuality, organ inization, time management, planning, depression, anxiety,
social behavior being. It's also your movement, your thoughts, your executive
functions, all comes from your frontal cortex. If you want to keep your
memory, to keep your focus, to keep your motivation, your movements,
you have to keep your frontal cortex strong. The frontal cortex loves little finger
movements, fine finger movements, tapping each finger, you know, playing the
piano, playing the guitar, using those fingers, drawing, writing, eating,
Try eating with your opposite dominant hand. If you're right, eat with
your left hand. If you're right he try brushing your teeth with your left
hand, by shaving with your left hand, by brushing your hair with your
left hand. Try putting on your makeup with your left hand. Challenge the
brain, make it work right now, everything's too easy with all the electronics,
the smartphones, the smart devices, the eyepads, the computers. We
need to purposely challenge our brain. Remember, you use it or you lose
it. So just like you want to strengthen your muscles and exercise and work
out and go to the gym and play sports and go for daily walks and
do resistant exercises and bands and weights and using your own body weight, sweating,
getting your heart beaten, you've got to challenge your brain. Got to
challenge your heart. You don't want a heart attack. You gotta exercise.
You reduce your stress levels, you know when Alzheimer's. Challenge your brain.
And one diabetes and to eat healthy and avoid a sedentary lifestyle. You want
cancer, Avoid all the chemicals, avoid the sugar, reduce your stress.
All these diseases can be prevented if you do the right things. I'm going
to review more of this 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 miss boost
your brain power with doctor Eric Kaplan 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, migrains
for 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 to doctor Kemplin, you can call his team at two O one two
six one two one five zero or visit his website at kaplan DC dot com.
Welcome back to boost your brain power. I'm your host, doctor Eric
Kaplan. We're talking about ways to make your brains strong. Challenge your brain.
The frontal cortex can be stimulated by doing finger movements or hand movements.
There's another exercise that I teach my patients to strengthen their brain is called slap
chop fist. So basically, you take your hand and you slap five to
the other hand and you do like a little karate chop on the hand.
Then you do a little fist on the hand. So it's three things,
slap, chop, fist, and you do that over and over and over
again, and once you get it, then you switch the order and then
you go slap fist chop, And then after a few days of getting at
and you're really good, then you add another thing and go slap scissors fist
chop. Then you add a mental exercise as you do slap scissors fist chop.
Then you do the alphabet backwards each time and it goes Z, y
X and all the way to A, so you can actually challenge your brain
more and more with each exercise. It becomes too easy, it's not effective.
So when it becomes easy, that means it's time to change it up.
It would be like if you go to the gym and you do,
you know, weightlifting with one pound. If it's too easy, you're not
going to gain muscle strength. So you got to go to the five pounds,
and then the ten pounds, and then the twenty pounds and then the
thirty pounds. You have to increase your load. Same thing with your brain.
You've got to increase your brain load. That's why kids each grade gets
a little bit harder. But for adults, we don't make it harder.
We make it easier. But you've got to purposely challenge your brain to make
it harder. And these exercises that I'm giving you are simple tools you can
implement on a daily basis to challenge your brain. So the ones we spoke
about already, clockwise circles with your left leg, number six with your left
hand, the cross all exercise that's where you tap your opposite leg thinking of
a mental exercise, or the frontal cortex. We said, do fine finger
movements or little hand movements. We give an example of slap chop fist.
Those are brain exercises that you can do. It's not just about doing things
on the computer and doing word all on Facebook, or you know, doing
a crossword puzzle. You gotta think differently. You can't just do a crossword
puzzle every day. It has to be more challenging than that. You can't
just you know, Redbook every day at a patient say oh, well,
my husband and his brain is fine because he reads every day. And reading
is great, don't get me wrong, but we got to do a lot
more than just reading, especially moving your body. Try and find brain exercises
that move your body. That's what I was doing with your exercise. Every
every brain exercise I gave you today moves your body. You gotta keep your
body moving, you know. One of the best things you could do is
learn a new dance. Because you're moving your body, you're remembering the steps,
you're activating your brain, you're contracting your muscles when you move your body.
That makes your brain even stronger. So the worst thing is a sedentary
lifestyle, and unfortunately, that's what most people are doing every single day of
their life. They wake up and they go downstairs, sit at the kitchen
table, have a cup of coffee, bowl of cereal, and they go
sit in their car, drive to work, sitting on a train, commute
to the city, and they get to work, sit on their computer desk
at their workstation, then go to lunch, sit at lunch, then go
back sit at the computer workstation. Then go sit in the car, drive
back home and go home, sit at the dinner table, eat dinner,
and after dinner go sitting on the couch, watch the sports game or Netflix
or cable the news. You sit playing your cell phone, check social media,
and then you go to bed. It's a typical day for most people.
Sit, sit, sit, sit, sit, sit sit. Sitting
is considered the new smoking. Sitting will kill you quicker than anything, So
I call it the twenty rule. And move your body every twenty minutes.
It's as much as you could sit at one time. Are you sitting a
lar Every twenty minutes, you get up for twenty seconds, you walk twenty
feet, you look twenty feet, and then you could go back to your
workstation. You have to get up, though. You have to sit an
alarm because you might not be used to it. It's very easy to just
sit at the computer working for two hours and not even realize it. Your
body does not like that. Even if you just get up, sit down,
get up, sit down, sitting to standing exercise. You do it
up for thirty seconds, twenty seconds every twenty minutes. It'll change your life.
It'll increase your energy, increase your focus, increase your retention, help
with your memory, help with your muscles, help with your posture, help
with your bones, help with your eyesight, help with headaches, dizziness.
Literally, just sitting to standing for twenty seconds every twenty minutes will change your
life. Get a cooking timer or you know, get your phone to go
off on vibration every twenty minutes. Do something to remind yourself to get up
every twenty minutes under care if it's get a glass of water, open up
a window, walk twenty feet around the desk, fit to stay in twenty
feet, do twenty jumping jack's, do twenty push ups, do twenty sit
ups, but just take that twenty seconds. If you're a student, it
will help you study. Taking breaks helps you to absorb what you're studying and
what you're reading. They did an experiment on these college kids and both there
was two groups. Both groups took four hours every afternoon the study. One
group studied from six pm to ten pm Sunday through Thursday, Sunday night,
Monday night, Tuesday night, Wednesday night, Thursday night. It's five nights,
four hours straight, no breaks, not getting up four hours. The
second group, from six to ten also studied, but they took half hour
breaks, so meaning they studied a half hour and then took a half hour
break. They studied a half hour, then did a half hour break.
They studied a half hour, then did a half hour break, so they
did it four times, so actually their total study time was only two hours,
so they studied half the amount of time but took breaks between each half
hour session. And what they found, the group that took the breaks and
only studied for a total of two hours, half the amount of time of
the four hours actually did much better in school. They got pretty much straight
a's and b's, while the other group pretty much got cs, ds and
fs. So the group that studied more four hours straight without any breaks got
the c's, d's, and f's, and the group that only studied two
hours because they took half hour breaks actually got a's and b's. And the
reason is because your brain can only get about three major concepts at once,
so you study for a half hour. If you get those three major concepts,
then you take a break. Now you're starting fresh again. Then when
you do the next half hour, you could remember three new major concepts.
However, if you never took a break after you learn those three major concepts.
A lot of the other stuff you learn after that doesn't stick, doesn't
absorb, you can't retain, you don't comprehend it. So for work,
school, reading, you have to take lots of breaks. That's one of
the major keys to your brain function. So if you want to improve your
memory, or improve your focus, improve your energy, you got to depression
anxiety, you gotta take a lot of breaks. You gotta move your body,
you gotta keep challenging yourself physically in new ways. But it's good.
You know, it's good to take breaks because you'll be more productive. So
your boss will appreciate it. You know your teachers will appreciate it. So
don't think that it's about the amount of time. It's about what you retain
for your brain function. And everybody retains differently. Somebody retains while they write
stuff, somebody when they say stuff, somebody when they read stuff, somebody
when they see stuff. Everybody's are different learners. There's no magic way to
learn. But what I do know as a functional neurologist is we need to
take lots of breaks, and we see lots of people with brain disorders.
I have two offices. I have one in New Jersey and one in New
York City. We also do a lot of virtual appointments if you want to
learn about our offices where we help people in natural ways without any drugs or
surgeries. So I'm the type of functional neurologist that doesn't prescribe medicine. So
if you have anxiety, I don't give you an anxiety pill, or if
you have trouble with sleep, I don't give you a sleeping pill, or
if your trouble is with focus, I don't give you riddle in but I
teach you how to rewire your brain through a process called neuroplasticity. Just like
you can exercise your muscles, you can exercise your brain, but you might
have to do more than just eat healthy, exercise and do some brain exercise.
Those are the big three to boost your brain power, but there's a
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ways to improve your memory and focus, improve brain function, improve energy.
We said the big three are a healthy diet, getting a proper amount of
oxygen, and doing brain activation challenging your brain. But there's a lot of
other things. For example, heavy metals. We have to avoid heavy metals
and avoid aluminum, lead, mercury. Got of a fluoride that's a neurotoxin,
and fluorides everywhere. They even put it in your drinking water. The
dentist gives it to you, it's in your toothpaste, it's even put in
baby water. Don't give your baby water. Fluoride water going to mess up
their brain development. Now, most people will tell you that the fluoride helps
with yours. I'd like to see some evidence of that. I haven't seen
any current research that shows the drinking fluoridated water prevents cavities, prevents bone fractures.
Show me that evidence. I need to see the research. I do
see the evidence that florida is a neurotoxin. So I have avoided personally for
the past twenty five years, and I've never had a cavity in my life,
and I've had a broken bone in my life. I don't let my
kids have it. My wife doesn't have it. They're all very healthy,
all strong, healthy bones. We got to make sure we avoid mercury.
Mercury can be found in fish. The bigger the fish, the more the
mercury. So make sure you have smaller fish macar roll sardines, salmon,
anchovies, herring, small fish. Stay away from the big fish, whitefish,
that tuna. More mercury. All right, Some medications have mercury or
it's found in the form of thimerosol. Be careful what you put in your
body. Lead. Lead is in some of the old houses with the paint
chips you found in some of the pipes and the water might need a big
water filter. Get one of those ones that install under the sink and get
in your shower head. We gotta make sure that the water we drink as
a nice filter. Get a Burkey filter, Canon filter. There's you know,
some reasonable filters out there that take out a lot of this bad stuff.
Arsenic that can be found in even apple juice and brown rice, Aluminum,
aluminum foil, you can get it just from touching it, aluminum pans,
aluminum cans. Aluminum can be found in your antiperspirant. Aluminum can be
found in the air. We gotta be careful bringing down aluminum. Now,
if you have exposure to somebody's there are natural ways to klate or take these
metals out of your body. I do not suggest keelation therapy, which takes
a lot of good stuff out of your body, unless your levels are extremely
high and dangerous, then it's appropriate. Most people not appropriate, but they're
natural ways to take out these metals. You know, there's a detox head
metal smoothie that I suggest for my patients. If you're interested in that detox
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to you for free at no charge. Yeah, what else besides heavy metals
can cause issues in your brain? Even plastic exposure BPA's so a lot of
plastics. Don't store your food and plastic containers. Storm in glass containers.
Don't drink your water in a plastic water bottle. Use glass water bottle.
I don't know if you're worried that's gonna break. Cover it with a rubber
covering, or you could use stainless steel, which stay away from the plastics.
The average American eats about a credit card where the plastic every year of
their life. Scary. Got to stay away from those plastics. They're everywhere.
Everything stored in plastic, it's covered in plastic. That plastic leaks into
the food and you end up eating it. So start using glass, start
using stainless steel. Even your cookwear, don't use those teflon don't use those
non stick pans, there's aluminum pans, use stainless steel and does not leach
into the food. Stainless steel cookwear. It's more if it's harder to clean,
but it's worth it. There's lots of easy ways to get rid of
that sticky stuff off your pan, you know, just using vinegar and baking
soda and lemon and you know, there's so many easy natural solutions. We
don't have to use these chemicals to clean your stuff. All right, Now,
what else can we get chemicals besides the plastics? And be careful with
the plastics. Even if it says BPA free, they're using some other crappy
thing for those plastics. It could be BPP or BPC or something else.
So that's why you got to use glass or stainless steel. All right.
Get a water filter. Stop using those water bottles. You will save lots
of money. You will save the environment. You'll save your health. You
get rid of those plastic water bottles, get a nice filter, and start
storing in glass and stainless steel. You will literally save money, you will
save the environment, you will save your health. You can't beat those three
things. The initial investment, Yes, it is more expensive than buying a
two dollars plastic water bottom. The initial investment is more money, but after
a few months you've made your money back plus more. All right, So
avoid those plastics. When you buy food at the supermarket and they're stored in
plastic containers, take them out and storm in glass. You will be shocked
on how much longer your food lasts when you store it in glass containers as
opposed to plastic. We take those foods aft, you boom out of the
plastic bags, added the plastic storage containers and start putting them in glass.
Try to avoid using any storage containers. So you want to buy everything fresh,
don't buy the stuff that's already in the plastic, don't buy the stuff
that's in the bags. Don't buy the stuff that's in the boxes, that's
in the cans. You want to stand the outside of the supermarket where everything's
fresh, there's no preservatives, everything is organic. You don't want any pesticides
sprayed on your food. There is a chemical that they spray on the food
round up glyph estate to make sure that the bugs don't eat your food.
But since they kill the bugs, guess what they're killing A lot of good
healthy bugs inside of you as well. They're causing a lot of autoimmune disease.
Unfortunately, America has not bound banned round up or gliphastate. Most countries
are not allowed to use these peticides and herbicides, which has been proven to
cause cancer, but in America they still allow it. Unfortunately, we have
one of the unhealthiest countries in the world. We have our food products are
full of these food dyes that are banned in other countries. Even our crappy
food is worse here. Now. You want to avoid food dyes, artificial
flavors, preservatives. You know, you've got to be very careful with the
food that you eat because it's full of toxins in there. And not just
the food you eat, even supplements that you take. So a lot of
supplements have impurities, have contaminants, have fillers, even food dyes, sugar
sweeteners. So just because it's quote unquote natural and it's not a medicine doesn't
mean it's healthy. I mean have patients that come to me with over twenty
supplements. That is not healthy. You should not need to take twenty supplements.
That is super dangerous. There's something wrong if you're taking twenty supplements.
This isn't the jetsins. We're just eating pills for nutrition. Eat real food,
Eat whole foods. It's even better to like not even break them down,
let alone in a tiny pill. You know, you want to eat
that whole leaf of lettuce, not chop it up. Eat a carrot,
Take that whole carrocter. You don't necessarily need to chop it up into little
pieces. The more whole the food, the better. And if you want
an easy way to wash up all these chemicals from your food, all you
gotta do is take a big ball fill with water, put in some baking
soda and put your fruit in it. And literally the baking SODA's gonna drain
all those chemicals all and then you just take it out. That's a good
natural way to clean your food. There's so many natural ways to clean food.
Baking soda and baking soda can clean everything. Clean your house. It
can clean your clothes, and can clean your carpet. It can clean your
teeth. It could be deodorant. I mean, baking soda does everything you
know, vinegar does everything you know, lemon does everything. These things are
amazing. You have all these natural products that you can use all the time,
Yet we're buying all these toxic chemicals and bleaches and antibacterial crap. You're
gonna be careful with all this cleaning stuff because there's a lot of chemicals and
that could cause brain inflammation 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 Kaplan 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,
migrains for posture pain, TBI, skin and digestive problems. Doctor Kaplan is
most famous for getting to the cause of a wide variety of brain and health
conditions, rather than treating symptoms with traditional medicines and risky surgeries. To contact
to doctor Kamplin, you can call his team at two h one two six
one two one five zero or visit his website at Kaplan DC dot com.
Welcome back to boost your brain power. I am your host, doctor Eric
Kaplan. So we're talking about using some natural products and baking soda that even
helps with some stomach problems. I mean, baking soda is so cheap yet
can cure a lot of diseases, a lot of conditions. Lemon h we
got all these natural cures in your house that you already have hydrogen peroxide.
I mean, there's so many cool stuff that you could use natural stuff to
clean to improve your health. You know, there's a lot of you know,
stuff that they're not going to tell you because it's cheap and inexpensive.
But the good news is can be done, all right. So what other
things do we need to avoid? We need to avoid stress. Stress is
the silent killer. If you are stressed out, your brain is not going
to function at optimal levels. If you are in stress mode, you're more
likely to get cancer. If you're in stress mode, you're more likely to
get Alzheimer's disease. If you're in stress mode, you're more likely to get
diabetes. You're more likely to get obesity, you're more likely to get heart
disease. The number one time where people get heart attacks and stroke Monday morning,
nine am. Stress. You know they were off all weekend. Now
they got to go to a job that they don't like. Stress the silent
killer. You know, one cancer, Gotta get rid of sugar chemicals and
stress. You know, one heart disease. Got to exercise, gotta eat
healthy, gotta get rid of stress. Stress will kill you. So how
do you get rid of stress? You know a lot of people say meditate,
and my patients will say, my brain doesn't let me meditate. I
can't sit down for a half hour and shut off my brain. My brain's
going a million miles per hour because you're in stress mode. So maybe you
could just start off with a thirty second meditation. That's all you gotta do.
And I call it the release technique. Starting to top your head us
to imagine all your muscles melting, and you say release. Go to your
forehead release, Go to your jaw release, go to your neck release,
go to your shoulders release. You just do about thirty spots and go all
the way down to your toes. It only takes thirty seconds. Anybody can
do it for thirty seconds. And then when you get to go to thirty
seconds, then you go up to a minute. You can't go in a
minute, and you go up to two minutes, but just start off at
thirty seconds. Make it a non negotiable every day, I'm gonna do thirty
seconds of a meditation. You got to relax the brain. You're gonna chill
it out and gonna reduce stress. Exercise is another way to reduce stress levels
and burn off that energy. You're feeling stressed, leave, get out of
that scenario. Get out of the room and go exercise. Go for a
nice little run. Hi can take the dog for a walk, Go to
the gym, go on the basement and punch the boxing bag. Do something
to exercise and release that stress. Right, You've got to relieve the stress.
Avoid caffeine. That's gonna cause more stress. If you have anxiety,
you have difficulty to sleep, You've got to avoid the caffeine. Avoid those
stimulants, avoid those food dies, those preservatives. If you have high stress,
m I gotta work on your sleeping habits. You gotta work on your
circadian rhythms. The best time to sleep ten pm to six am, your
best eight hours during the dark. Best time to eat ten am to six
pm during the daylight hours. It's not rocket science. We eat during the
day for energy and we sleep during the night when it's dark outside. That's
the way your body wants it. That's the way it's been done for thousands
of years. Don't change it. All this modern technology and these lights.
Food can be available at any time rows off your brain. To reduce stress.
Now, one of the best ways to reduce stress is to work on
what's called your vegas nerve. Your vegas nerve relaxes you. So one way
to reduce stress is to stimulate your vegas nerves through goggling and your goggle really
intensely. The louder the goggle, the more activation of the vegas nerve.
Now, another way to stimulate the vegas nerve is through the gag reflex.
Now, if you have a history of bolimia, do not do it.
We don't want to trigger anything. But other than eating disorder would be pretty
safe. And you just do it once. Take your toothbrush for a tongue
depressor. Go with the back of your throat in that little punching bag that
epigloss, and you just tap it and you'll get like a little gag a
little, a gag just once, very powerful stimulation of the vegas nerve.
And all doctors are taught this in school, that the gag reflex will check
the vegas nerve, but very few doctors use it as therapy. All we
do is functional rologists is use the science that's already been researched, and we
say, okay, we know the vegas nerve isn't working, and we know
the neuroscience has shown these exercises stimulate the vegas nerve, so we're gonna work
on those exercise Now, how do you figure out if you have a vegas
nerve problem? How do you figure out where your brain's not working? How
do you figure out is it the frontal cortex which those exercises be giving you
before. There's lots of different areas of the brain. In my opinion,
if it's not broke, we don't fix it. So the first step is
to figure out where you have the problems. The best test to figure out
where your brain problems are it's called a q EG brain mapping. It's non
invasive, there's no radiation, you don't have to, you know, sit
in some small MRI tube for forty five minutes and not move. You have
no chemicals, you don't have any contrast fluid that you need. There's no
risk at all. It's super quick, it's non invasive, and it tells
us exactly what areas of the brain are not functioning at optimal levels. It
measures all your brain waves from the front to the side to the back,
all the different areas of your brain. It's really cool because it maps out
of your brain and it's going to tell us do you have anxiety? Do
you have depression? You have short term memory problems, you have quential memory
problems, you have troubles with motivation, you have troubles with your dopamine levels.
Do you have white matter inflammation? Do you have heavy metal poisoning?
Do you have concussion? You have sleep deprivation? Do you have difficulty shifting
tasks? Do you have problems with your thyroid? Do you have intestinal inflammation?
This brain map literally picks all this up. It is so quick and
easy to do. All you have to do is wear this little cap it
looks like a swimmer's cap, and basically just sit there in the swimmer's cap
for about ten to fifteen minutes and all the brain waves are measured and then
it will tell us exactly where your weaknesses are. This test is normally five
hundred dollars, but if you're one of the first seven people that call or
email, you can get this vat. You can get this q EEG brain
mapping for only twenty one dollars. It's literally normally five hundred dollars. But
if you want to find out how your brain is functioning, for only twenty
one dollars. To get this entire brain mapping, all you have to do
is call or text. Our number is six four six two two one six
seven three eight. Again that's six four six two two one six seven three
eight. Or you can email info at Kaplan brain embody dot com. That's
to get the QEG brain mapping, which is normally five hundred dollars, for
only twenty one dollars. Now, the next best test is called a VG
This test is a little bit different. You don't wear a cap, but
you wear these goggles and they measure your eye movements, and these eye movements
will tell us, hey, is there a difference in the left brain versus
the right brain and the frontal cortex versus the parietal cortex. So it breaks
it down a little bit more or specific. The best thing to do is
to do the QEG brain mapping and also the v Now. The v no
Radiation No Pain takes about fifteen minutes. It's basically just taking like a picture
and recording your eye movement. So it's just like if you've ever taken a
selfie the same thing and what it is. It graphs it out though,
and it measures your speed, your accuracy, your delay, the difference from
left to right. Is it overactive, is it underactive? Not just where
the problems are, but which side is it more is less? The VNG
gets us a little bit more specific than the QEG. Now. The VNG
test is also five hundred dollars, but for the first seven people that call,
text or email, they can get that test for twenty one dollars as
well. All you have to do is call or at six four six two
two one six seven three eight, or you can email info at kaplinbrained body
dot com and just say you want to be one of the first seven people
to do the VNG, and if you want, you could do both of
them. We have lots of people that sign up for both of them,
so you could do the q EG for only twenty one dollars. You could
do the VNG for only twenty one dollars. You can do both of them,
and if you want, you can also do a one on one with
me for this week. Go over your blood work, we go over your
muscles, your bones, We go over your heart, your lungs, We
do a full physical evaluation. Those tests are the neurological evaluations. If you
want a physical evaluation right check out your gay, your balance, your heart,
your gut, your lungs, your muscles, your nerves, your ligaments,
your reflex as, your memory. That is a one on one of
me that takes a little bit longer. It's forty five minutes. That test
is also normally five hundred dollars, but if you're for the first seven people,
you can get that for twenty one dollars as well, So you can
sign up for all three. You could do the twenty one dollars v the
twenty one dollar QEG, and the twenty one dollar one on one with yours
truly at my offices one in New York, one in New Jersey, or
you can even do virtually as well. All you got to do is call
six four six two to one six seven three eight or email info at Kaplan
brain embody dot com. Also, we're doing a Boost your Brainpower seminar series
where we're gonna go over for an hour just different brain exercises to stimulate each
area of your brain. Today we just went over about three or four different
exercises. If you come to this Boost your Brainpower Seminar series, you're gonna
learn about thirty to forty exercises. It is the last Wednesday of the month
of June. Of this month, it is at six thirty pm. It
is in River Edge, New Jersey. It's on June twenty eighth, six
thirty to seven thirty pm in River Edge, New Jersey. If you can't
make it in New Jersey, you could do it over zoom. And if
you can't make it live over zoom, you can also get a recording.
The seminar is normally one hundred dollars, but if you're one of the first
seven people let's sign up, you can get it for only forty nine dollars.
Plus we're gonna throw in the next seminar in July completely for free.
To actually get two seminars, only forty nine dollars for Boost your brain Power.
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