WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.120 --> 00:00:05.759 The following is a paid podcast. iHeartRadio's hosting of this podcast constitutes neither an 2 00:00:05.839 --> 00:00:10.640 endorsement of the products offered or the ideas expressed. Hello, and welcome to 3 00:00:10.960 --> 00:00:17.280 Boost your brain Power. I'm your host, doctor Eric Gaplan. Hope everyone's 4 00:00:17.280 --> 00:00:21.640 having a great day today. We're going to talk about how to boost your 5 00:00:21.640 --> 00:00:26.559 brain power, how to improve your memory and focus. I'm going to go 6 00:00:26.559 --> 00:00:31.800 over some brain exercises you can do. Just like you could go to the 7 00:00:32.079 --> 00:00:37.679 gym to strengthen your muscles, you could strengthen your brain. It's a process 8 00:00:37.759 --> 00:00:46.119 called neuroplasticity where you could rewire your brain. Even if you have damaged areas 9 00:00:46.119 --> 00:00:56.240 from a stroke or Parkinson's or MS or Alzheimer's disease, you can actually rewire 10 00:00:56.359 --> 00:01:03.119 your brain to make it stronger. The three most important things to keep your 11 00:01:03.159 --> 00:01:11.120 brain strong our food, oxygen, and activation. We talked about before, 12 00:01:11.879 --> 00:01:18.920 how food is very colorful. When you eat all your nutrients, you want 13 00:01:18.959 --> 00:01:23.640 to eat each color of the rainbow red, orange, yellow, green, 14 00:01:23.439 --> 00:01:29.319 blue, purple. If you eat all the colors of the rainbow, you're 15 00:01:29.319 --> 00:01:34.359 gonna get all your nutrients. Stay away from all the white foods, the 16 00:01:34.560 --> 00:01:42.280 salt, the sugar bread, the dairy, all the carbs, all the 17 00:01:42.439 --> 00:01:48.159 grains. Stay away from the white food. Eat all the colorful food that 18 00:01:48.319 --> 00:01:53.760 gives you all your nutrients. For oxygen, you want to make sure that 19 00:01:53.799 --> 00:01:59.200 you do proper breathing exercises where you inhale for four seconds, hold it for 20 00:01:59.280 --> 00:02:04.560 seven seconds, and exhale for eight seconds. You want to breathe as you 21 00:02:04.760 --> 00:02:08.280 inhale, push your bet push your diaphragm down and out like you're a pregnant 22 00:02:08.319 --> 00:02:14.319 belly, and then when you exhale, everything comes in to squeeze that carbon 23 00:02:14.360 --> 00:02:19.439 dioxide out. We always want to get rid of the carbon dioxide and maximize 24 00:02:19.479 --> 00:02:24.240 the oxygen intake. You can also buy some plants or your house or your 25 00:02:24.280 --> 00:02:31.199 apartment. Spider plants, snake plants, money plants, allow air plants. 26 00:02:31.319 --> 00:02:37.400 They have the most oxygen, so if you want to increase your oxygen levels, 27 00:02:37.439 --> 00:02:42.479 you can always purchase some plants. You can make sure you go out 28 00:02:42.520 --> 00:02:50.479 in nature, hang out in the trees the forest. One tree has enough 29 00:02:50.520 --> 00:02:54.840 oxygen for five people, so you know, if you hopefully live near the 30 00:02:54.879 --> 00:03:00.360 woods, then you're getting a lot of oxygen. The more woods around you, 31 00:03:00.439 --> 00:03:06.039 the more trees around you, the more oxygen. We also want to 32 00:03:06.360 --> 00:03:09.319 work on your posture. Posture is very important, especially people who work at 33 00:03:09.319 --> 00:03:14.639 a computer. They're always forward on their cell phone. They're always looking down. 34 00:03:15.879 --> 00:03:21.000 Feel right and looking down. Most jobs you're looking down. So you're 35 00:03:21.000 --> 00:03:23.439 gonna start looking up. Look up at the skies, look up at the 36 00:03:23.479 --> 00:03:28.800 heavens, look up at the sun, look up at the moon, look 37 00:03:28.919 --> 00:03:32.960 up, roll your shoulders back, improve your posture, keep yourself upright. 38 00:03:34.000 --> 00:03:37.759 You don't want to become one of these You know old people are hunched over 39 00:03:37.879 --> 00:03:42.479 and you got a big bone sticking out the top of your upper back, 40 00:03:42.560 --> 00:03:46.800 and your head's all forward, and you know that does not do well for 41 00:03:46.879 --> 00:03:52.080 your health. Even depression. You see somebody's depressed, their health, their 42 00:03:52.120 --> 00:03:57.479 heads are down. See somebody's happy, energetic, their heads are up. 43 00:03:58.560 --> 00:04:02.360 One of the most common complaints I get and my office is people have low 44 00:04:02.520 --> 00:04:08.599 energy. They need more energy. Now, back in high school, we 45 00:04:08.759 --> 00:04:15.079 learn that energy cannot be created nor destroyed. So you have that energy in 46 00:04:15.120 --> 00:04:21.079 you. You don't need coffee, you don't need energy drinks, you don't 47 00:04:21.120 --> 00:04:29.000 need caffeine to keep you going. All the energy you have is withinside of 48 00:04:29.120 --> 00:04:32.519 you. But you need to boost your brain power. Maybe you need to 49 00:04:33.079 --> 00:04:39.360 exercise in the morning. That'll boost your energy. Maybe you need to do 50 00:04:39.439 --> 00:04:45.199 some breathing exercises and increase your oxygen levels. That's what we just spoke about. 51 00:04:46.240 --> 00:04:50.360 Maybe that'll increase your energy. Maybe you need to eat healthier food. 52 00:04:51.040 --> 00:04:56.439 Maybe you need to go to bed a little bit earlier. So there's lots 53 00:04:56.480 --> 00:05:03.120 of ways to increase your energy. The most important ways physical exercise. You 54 00:05:03.160 --> 00:05:10.879 need to physically exercise every single day. You gotta have non negotiables. I 55 00:05:10.879 --> 00:05:14.480 always have non negotiables every day. I exercise every day, I do a 56 00:05:14.519 --> 00:05:20.079 cold shower. Those are nonnegotiables. Every single day. You gotta have one 57 00:05:20.160 --> 00:05:25.079 or two. Whether it's you eat each color of the rainbow, you drink 58 00:05:25.120 --> 00:05:29.720 the right amount of water you're breathing, exercise, get your physical exercise, 59 00:05:29.759 --> 00:05:34.120 do your brain exercise, write in your gratitude journal, reading your book, 60 00:05:34.639 --> 00:05:41.759 do something that's a good habit every single day, no matter what, whether 61 00:05:41.800 --> 00:05:45.600 you're sick, you're on vacation. You know, I don't care what the 62 00:05:45.680 --> 00:05:51.399 deal is. You always have to do these non negotiables every single day, 63 00:05:51.439 --> 00:05:59.040 all right, So what else can we do besides oxygen? What else can 64 00:05:59.079 --> 00:06:04.720 we do. He says, eating healthy is brain activation. We got to 65 00:06:04.800 --> 00:06:11.079 challenge the brain. You got to make the brain work. You'll use it 66 00:06:11.480 --> 00:06:17.160 or you'll lose it. You gotta make those brain activation patterns increase. We 67 00:06:17.240 --> 00:06:29.759 want more synapses, we want more mitochondrial more atp, more neurotransmitters. So 68 00:06:29.839 --> 00:06:34.079 we can make our brain stronger by getting it more blood flow, more oxygen, 69 00:06:34.600 --> 00:06:41.240 more activation. And there's lots of stuff you could do at home to 70 00:06:41.600 --> 00:06:45.759 increase the activation. But you got to challenge yourself. You gotta do stuff 71 00:06:45.920 --> 00:06:50.560 that you're not used to doing. The brain likes new things. I don't 72 00:06:50.600 --> 00:06:57.600 care if it's meaning a new person, visiting a new place, learning a 73 00:06:57.600 --> 00:07:03.360 new musical instrument, learning a new language, reading a new book, learning 74 00:07:03.399 --> 00:07:10.639 a new skill, learning a new dance. It doesn't matter what it is, 75 00:07:10.639 --> 00:07:16.240 but you gotta do something new. You could walk backwards with one foot 76 00:07:16.680 --> 00:07:21.439 as you're whistling Dixie. I don't care what it is, just sues do 77 00:07:21.639 --> 00:07:29.839 something different. You challenge yourself. You could. Good brain exercise to do 78 00:07:30.240 --> 00:07:35.279 is take your left leg and draw clockwise circles. Then take your left hand 79 00:07:35.720 --> 00:07:46.240 and draw the number six at the same time they do clockwise circles with your 80 00:07:46.360 --> 00:07:50.480 left leg that's to the right, and at the same time draw the number 81 00:07:50.519 --> 00:07:56.839 six with your left hand. Make sure when you draw the number six with 82 00:07:56.920 --> 00:08:03.040 your left hand, the leg doesn't reverse and start going counterclockwise instead of clockwise. 83 00:08:05.480 --> 00:08:13.120 That is a brain challenge. We got to exercise the brain. Or 84 00:08:13.160 --> 00:08:16.279 you could do what's called a cross crawl exercise. That's where you stand up 85 00:08:16.720 --> 00:08:24.399 kind of march in place, but touch your opposite knee with your opposite hand, 86 00:08:24.800 --> 00:08:30.399 meaning your right hand goes to your left knee and your left hand goes 87 00:08:30.480 --> 00:08:33.600 to your right knee. As you lipped up those legs. Each time you 88 00:08:33.639 --> 00:08:39.320 tap, you come up with a mental exercise. So you say, okay, 89 00:08:39.360 --> 00:08:41.559 today I'm gonna do countries, and every time you tap, you say 90 00:08:41.600 --> 00:08:46.759 a different country, and then you say France, it's main, Ortugal, 91 00:08:48.320 --> 00:08:52.639 Germany, Italy, and you keep going over and over and over. You 92 00:08:52.639 --> 00:08:58.200 want to get at least fifteen of each category within thirty seconds. So one 93 00:08:58.279 --> 00:09:01.480 day you do countries, the next day you do cities. The next day 94 00:09:01.480 --> 00:09:05.840 you do colors. The next day you do animals, the next day you 95 00:09:05.879 --> 00:09:11.399 do cars, the next day you do sports, next day you do body 96 00:09:11.480 --> 00:09:18.120 parts. It's unlimited on what you could do. You do presidents, you 97 00:09:18.120 --> 00:09:22.080 could do animals, you could do things in a bathroom, things in a 98 00:09:22.159 --> 00:09:28.440 kitchen. You always just have to do something different. Keep challenging your brain, 99 00:09:28.600 --> 00:09:33.320 keep thinking of different categories to do that way, not only do you 100 00:09:33.399 --> 00:09:37.120 connect the left and the rents, the left brain and the right brain, 101 00:09:37.840 --> 00:09:43.200 but also you challenge that frontal cortex. The frontal cortex, that's the frontal 102 00:09:43.240 --> 00:09:46.559 part of your brain, is where a lot of dementia starts from. That's 103 00:09:46.559 --> 00:09:54.840 why it's called frontal temporal dementia. The frontal cortex is responsible for focus, 104 00:09:56.159 --> 00:10:05.120 motivation, punctuality, organ inization, time management, planning, depression, anxiety, 105 00:10:05.879 --> 00:10:16.600 social behavior being. It's also your movement, your thoughts, your executive 106 00:10:16.639 --> 00:10:22.559 functions, all comes from your frontal cortex. If you want to keep your 107 00:10:22.600 --> 00:10:28.279 memory, to keep your focus, to keep your motivation, your movements, 108 00:10:30.360 --> 00:10:39.039 you have to keep your frontal cortex strong. The frontal cortex loves little finger 109 00:10:39.120 --> 00:10:43.679 movements, fine finger movements, tapping each finger, you know, playing the 110 00:10:43.720 --> 00:10:50.039 piano, playing the guitar, using those fingers, drawing, writing, eating, 111 00:10:50.720 --> 00:10:54.720 Try eating with your opposite dominant hand. If you're right, eat with 112 00:10:54.759 --> 00:10:58.200 your left hand. If you're right he try brushing your teeth with your left 113 00:10:58.200 --> 00:11:03.759 hand, by shaving with your left hand, by brushing your hair with your 114 00:11:03.879 --> 00:11:11.519 left hand. Try putting on your makeup with your left hand. Challenge the 115 00:11:11.600 --> 00:11:18.720 brain, make it work right now, everything's too easy with all the electronics, 116 00:11:18.720 --> 00:11:22.879 the smartphones, the smart devices, the eyepads, the computers. We 117 00:11:24.000 --> 00:11:28.159 need to purposely challenge our brain. Remember, you use it or you lose 118 00:11:28.200 --> 00:11:37.679 it. So just like you want to strengthen your muscles and exercise and work 119 00:11:37.720 --> 00:11:41.799 out and go to the gym and play sports and go for daily walks and 120 00:11:41.759 --> 00:11:50.840 do resistant exercises and bands and weights and using your own body weight, sweating, 121 00:11:50.919 --> 00:11:56.360 getting your heart beaten, you've got to challenge your brain. Got to 122 00:11:56.480 --> 00:12:00.000 challenge your heart. You don't want a heart attack. You gotta exercise. 123 00:12:00.840 --> 00:12:05.240 You reduce your stress levels, you know when Alzheimer's. Challenge your brain. 124 00:12:07.080 --> 00:12:13.639 And one diabetes and to eat healthy and avoid a sedentary lifestyle. You want 125 00:12:13.759 --> 00:12:20.039 cancer, Avoid all the chemicals, avoid the sugar, reduce your stress. 126 00:12:20.759 --> 00:12:26.480 All these diseases can be prevented if you do the right things. I'm going 127 00:12:26.519 --> 00:12:30.440 to review more of this when we come back from the break if you want 128 00:12:30.480 --> 00:12:33.519 to improve your brain function, help with memory, focus, sleep, digestion, 129 00:12:33.840 --> 00:12:37.919 energy, depression, anxiety, dizziness, balance, vision, headaches, 130 00:12:39.000 --> 00:12:43.360 brain fog, weight loss, or simply want to maximize your human potential and 131 00:12:43.480 --> 00:12:48.120 prevent future diseases, that this is the show for you. Don't miss boost 132 00:12:48.200 --> 00:12:52.519 your brain power with doctor Eric Kaplan and you will learn natural, integrative, 133 00:12:52.519 --> 00:12:56.600 and holistic approaches to modern day medical problems such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's stroke, 134 00:12:56.759 --> 00:13:03.320 autism, add concussion, autoimmune diseases, insomnia, fibromyalgia, vertigo, migrains 135 00:13:03.399 --> 00:13:09.279 for posture, pain, TBI, skin and digestive problems. Doctor Kaplan is 136 00:13:09.360 --> 00:13:11.840 most famous for getting to the root cause of a wide variety of brain and 137 00:13:11.919 --> 00:13:16.879 health conditions, rather than treating symptoms with traditional medicines and risky surgeries. To 138 00:13:18.000 --> 00:13:20.399 contact to doctor Kemplin, you can call his team at two O one two 139 00:13:20.399 --> 00:13:28.360 six one two one five zero or visit his website at kaplan DC dot com. 140 00:13:28.600 --> 00:13:33.519 Welcome back to boost your brain power. I'm your host, doctor Eric 141 00:13:33.600 --> 00:13:39.480 Kaplan. We're talking about ways to make your brains strong. Challenge your brain. 142 00:13:41.120 --> 00:13:48.600 The frontal cortex can be stimulated by doing finger movements or hand movements. 143 00:13:50.120 --> 00:13:56.440 There's another exercise that I teach my patients to strengthen their brain is called slap 144 00:13:56.679 --> 00:14:03.080 chop fist. So basically, you take your hand and you slap five to 145 00:14:03.120 --> 00:14:05.759 the other hand and you do like a little karate chop on the hand. 146 00:14:07.080 --> 00:14:09.960 Then you do a little fist on the hand. So it's three things, 147 00:14:11.120 --> 00:14:15.840 slap, chop, fist, and you do that over and over and over 148 00:14:15.919 --> 00:14:20.480 again, and once you get it, then you switch the order and then 149 00:14:20.480 --> 00:14:24.440 you go slap fist chop, And then after a few days of getting at 150 00:14:24.519 --> 00:14:30.559 and you're really good, then you add another thing and go slap scissors fist 151 00:14:30.759 --> 00:14:37.679 chop. Then you add a mental exercise as you do slap scissors fist chop. 152 00:14:39.320 --> 00:14:43.919 Then you do the alphabet backwards each time and it goes Z, y 153 00:14:45.159 --> 00:14:50.679 X and all the way to A, so you can actually challenge your brain 154 00:14:50.759 --> 00:14:56.559 more and more with each exercise. It becomes too easy, it's not effective. 155 00:14:58.039 --> 00:15:01.320 So when it becomes easy, that means it's time to change it up. 156 00:15:03.679 --> 00:15:05.919 It would be like if you go to the gym and you do, 157 00:15:05.159 --> 00:15:11.440 you know, weightlifting with one pound. If it's too easy, you're not 158 00:15:11.480 --> 00:15:13.879 going to gain muscle strength. So you got to go to the five pounds, 159 00:15:13.879 --> 00:15:16.480 and then the ten pounds, and then the twenty pounds and then the 160 00:15:16.559 --> 00:15:22.600 thirty pounds. You have to increase your load. Same thing with your brain. 161 00:15:24.519 --> 00:15:28.559 You've got to increase your brain load. That's why kids each grade gets 162 00:15:28.559 --> 00:15:33.879 a little bit harder. But for adults, we don't make it harder. 163 00:15:35.960 --> 00:15:41.000 We make it easier. But you've got to purposely challenge your brain to make 164 00:15:41.039 --> 00:15:46.519 it harder. And these exercises that I'm giving you are simple tools you can 165 00:15:46.639 --> 00:15:52.039 implement on a daily basis to challenge your brain. So the ones we spoke 166 00:15:52.080 --> 00:15:58.159 about already, clockwise circles with your left leg, number six with your left 167 00:15:58.159 --> 00:16:03.159 hand, the cross all exercise that's where you tap your opposite leg thinking of 168 00:16:03.200 --> 00:16:08.559 a mental exercise, or the frontal cortex. We said, do fine finger 169 00:16:08.639 --> 00:16:15.600 movements or little hand movements. We give an example of slap chop fist. 170 00:16:17.440 --> 00:16:22.440 Those are brain exercises that you can do. It's not just about doing things 171 00:16:22.519 --> 00:16:27.519 on the computer and doing word all on Facebook, or you know, doing 172 00:16:27.559 --> 00:16:33.120 a crossword puzzle. You gotta think differently. You can't just do a crossword 173 00:16:33.159 --> 00:16:38.200 puzzle every day. It has to be more challenging than that. You can't 174 00:16:38.200 --> 00:16:42.720 just you know, Redbook every day at a patient say oh, well, 175 00:16:44.279 --> 00:16:47.919 my husband and his brain is fine because he reads every day. And reading 176 00:16:48.039 --> 00:16:49.879 is great, don't get me wrong, but we got to do a lot 177 00:16:49.960 --> 00:16:59.919 more than just reading, especially moving your body. Try and find brain exercises 178 00:17:00.600 --> 00:17:03.640 that move your body. That's what I was doing with your exercise. Every 179 00:17:03.720 --> 00:17:11.319 every brain exercise I gave you today moves your body. You gotta keep your 180 00:17:11.319 --> 00:17:14.319 body moving, you know. One of the best things you could do is 181 00:17:14.519 --> 00:17:18.599 learn a new dance. Because you're moving your body, you're remembering the steps, 182 00:17:19.559 --> 00:17:26.000 you're activating your brain, you're contracting your muscles when you move your body. 183 00:17:26.039 --> 00:17:32.000 That makes your brain even stronger. So the worst thing is a sedentary 184 00:17:32.000 --> 00:17:37.119 lifestyle, and unfortunately, that's what most people are doing every single day of 185 00:17:37.119 --> 00:17:45.480 their life. They wake up and they go downstairs, sit at the kitchen 186 00:17:45.519 --> 00:17:51.079 table, have a cup of coffee, bowl of cereal, and they go 187 00:17:51.160 --> 00:17:56.160 sit in their car, drive to work, sitting on a train, commute 188 00:17:56.160 --> 00:18:00.880 to the city, and they get to work, sit on their computer desk 189 00:18:02.319 --> 00:18:08.440 at their workstation, then go to lunch, sit at lunch, then go 190 00:18:08.480 --> 00:18:15.599 back sit at the computer workstation. Then go sit in the car, drive 191 00:18:15.720 --> 00:18:19.640 back home and go home, sit at the dinner table, eat dinner, 192 00:18:22.799 --> 00:18:26.319 and after dinner go sitting on the couch, watch the sports game or Netflix 193 00:18:26.480 --> 00:18:34.880 or cable the news. You sit playing your cell phone, check social media, 194 00:18:34.960 --> 00:18:40.839 and then you go to bed. It's a typical day for most people. 195 00:18:41.279 --> 00:18:45.200 Sit, sit, sit, sit, sit, sit sit. Sitting 196 00:18:45.559 --> 00:18:52.680 is considered the new smoking. Sitting will kill you quicker than anything, So 197 00:18:52.720 --> 00:18:56.480 I call it the twenty rule. And move your body every twenty minutes. 198 00:18:56.640 --> 00:18:59.680 It's as much as you could sit at one time. Are you sitting a 199 00:18:59.759 --> 00:19:03.920 lar Every twenty minutes, you get up for twenty seconds, you walk twenty 200 00:19:03.960 --> 00:19:07.480 feet, you look twenty feet, and then you could go back to your 201 00:19:07.480 --> 00:19:14.000 workstation. You have to get up, though. You have to sit an 202 00:19:14.000 --> 00:19:17.279 alarm because you might not be used to it. It's very easy to just 203 00:19:17.319 --> 00:19:22.039 sit at the computer working for two hours and not even realize it. Your 204 00:19:22.079 --> 00:19:26.279 body does not like that. Even if you just get up, sit down, 205 00:19:26.359 --> 00:19:30.799 get up, sit down, sitting to standing exercise. You do it 206 00:19:30.839 --> 00:19:36.480 up for thirty seconds, twenty seconds every twenty minutes. It'll change your life. 207 00:19:36.680 --> 00:19:41.039 It'll increase your energy, increase your focus, increase your retention, help 208 00:19:41.079 --> 00:19:45.960 with your memory, help with your muscles, help with your posture, help 209 00:19:45.000 --> 00:19:49.279 with your bones, help with your eyesight, help with headaches, dizziness. 210 00:19:49.920 --> 00:19:56.000 Literally, just sitting to standing for twenty seconds every twenty minutes will change your 211 00:19:56.039 --> 00:20:02.839 life. Get a cooking timer or you know, get your phone to go 212 00:20:02.920 --> 00:20:10.559 off on vibration every twenty minutes. Do something to remind yourself to get up 213 00:20:11.400 --> 00:20:15.680 every twenty minutes under care if it's get a glass of water, open up 214 00:20:15.680 --> 00:20:19.960 a window, walk twenty feet around the desk, fit to stay in twenty 215 00:20:21.000 --> 00:20:23.880 feet, do twenty jumping jack's, do twenty push ups, do twenty sit 216 00:20:25.000 --> 00:20:29.799 ups, but just take that twenty seconds. If you're a student, it 217 00:20:29.880 --> 00:20:37.559 will help you study. Taking breaks helps you to absorb what you're studying and 218 00:20:37.720 --> 00:20:44.759 what you're reading. They did an experiment on these college kids and both there 219 00:20:44.799 --> 00:20:55.319 was two groups. Both groups took four hours every afternoon the study. One 220 00:20:55.400 --> 00:21:02.759 group studied from six pm to ten pm Sunday through Thursday, Sunday night, 221 00:21:02.759 --> 00:21:06.039 Monday night, Tuesday night, Wednesday night, Thursday night. It's five nights, 222 00:21:07.960 --> 00:21:12.839 four hours straight, no breaks, not getting up four hours. The 223 00:21:14.000 --> 00:21:21.119 second group, from six to ten also studied, but they took half hour 224 00:21:21.200 --> 00:21:26.119 breaks, so meaning they studied a half hour and then took a half hour 225 00:21:26.160 --> 00:21:29.960 break. They studied a half hour, then did a half hour break. 226 00:21:30.519 --> 00:21:33.359 They studied a half hour, then did a half hour break, so they 227 00:21:33.359 --> 00:21:38.000 did it four times, so actually their total study time was only two hours, 228 00:21:40.200 --> 00:21:45.799 so they studied half the amount of time but took breaks between each half 229 00:21:45.799 --> 00:21:49.680 hour session. And what they found, the group that took the breaks and 230 00:21:49.839 --> 00:21:53.319 only studied for a total of two hours, half the amount of time of 231 00:21:53.359 --> 00:22:00.319 the four hours actually did much better in school. They got pretty much straight 232 00:22:00.400 --> 00:22:03.359 a's and b's, while the other group pretty much got cs, ds and 233 00:22:03.559 --> 00:22:10.720 fs. So the group that studied more four hours straight without any breaks got 234 00:22:10.720 --> 00:22:15.359 the c's, d's, and f's, and the group that only studied two 235 00:22:15.359 --> 00:22:21.680 hours because they took half hour breaks actually got a's and b's. And the 236 00:22:21.759 --> 00:22:26.960 reason is because your brain can only get about three major concepts at once, 237 00:22:29.160 --> 00:22:33.000 so you study for a half hour. If you get those three major concepts, 238 00:22:33.599 --> 00:22:37.720 then you take a break. Now you're starting fresh again. Then when 239 00:22:37.759 --> 00:22:45.640 you do the next half hour, you could remember three new major concepts. 240 00:22:45.680 --> 00:22:49.480 However, if you never took a break after you learn those three major concepts. 241 00:22:49.519 --> 00:22:52.880 A lot of the other stuff you learn after that doesn't stick, doesn't 242 00:22:52.880 --> 00:22:59.519 absorb, you can't retain, you don't comprehend it. So for work, 243 00:23:00.200 --> 00:23:07.000 school, reading, you have to take lots of breaks. That's one of 244 00:23:07.039 --> 00:23:10.440 the major keys to your brain function. So if you want to improve your 245 00:23:10.480 --> 00:23:14.799 memory, or improve your focus, improve your energy, you got to depression 246 00:23:14.839 --> 00:23:19.319 anxiety, you gotta take a lot of breaks. You gotta move your body, 247 00:23:22.599 --> 00:23:29.440 you gotta keep challenging yourself physically in new ways. But it's good. 248 00:23:29.920 --> 00:23:34.720 You know, it's good to take breaks because you'll be more productive. So 249 00:23:34.839 --> 00:23:41.799 your boss will appreciate it. You know your teachers will appreciate it. So 250 00:23:41.960 --> 00:23:45.319 don't think that it's about the amount of time. It's about what you retain 251 00:23:45.839 --> 00:23:52.920 for your brain function. And everybody retains differently. Somebody retains while they write 252 00:23:52.960 --> 00:23:56.640 stuff, somebody when they say stuff, somebody when they read stuff, somebody 253 00:23:56.680 --> 00:24:00.920 when they see stuff. Everybody's are different learners. There's no magic way to 254 00:24:00.000 --> 00:24:04.000 learn. But what I do know as a functional neurologist is we need to 255 00:24:04.000 --> 00:24:10.480 take lots of breaks, and we see lots of people with brain disorders. 256 00:24:10.480 --> 00:24:14.519 I have two offices. I have one in New Jersey and one in New 257 00:24:14.640 --> 00:24:18.480 York City. We also do a lot of virtual appointments if you want to 258 00:24:18.559 --> 00:24:23.960 learn about our offices where we help people in natural ways without any drugs or 259 00:24:25.079 --> 00:24:30.599 surgeries. So I'm the type of functional neurologist that doesn't prescribe medicine. So 260 00:24:30.599 --> 00:24:33.599 if you have anxiety, I don't give you an anxiety pill, or if 261 00:24:33.599 --> 00:24:36.960 you have trouble with sleep, I don't give you a sleeping pill, or 262 00:24:36.960 --> 00:24:40.359 if your trouble is with focus, I don't give you riddle in but I 263 00:24:40.480 --> 00:24:45.920 teach you how to rewire your brain through a process called neuroplasticity. Just like 264 00:24:45.000 --> 00:24:49.200 you can exercise your muscles, you can exercise your brain, but you might 265 00:24:49.240 --> 00:24:56.039 have to do more than just eat healthy, exercise and do some brain exercise. 266 00:24:56.519 --> 00:25:00.720 Those are the big three to boost your brain power, but there's a 267 00:25:00.759 --> 00:25:06.000 lot more which will review when we come back from the break. Don't miss 268 00:25:06.039 --> 00:25:11.119 boost your brain power with doctor Eric Kaplan every Saturday from two pm to three 269 00:25:11.119 --> 00:25:15.759 pm to learn the secrets of how to optimize your brain function. You can 270 00:25:15.799 --> 00:25:19.960 improve memory, focus, energy, sleep, digestion, mood, skin, 271 00:25:21.359 --> 00:25:26.799 metabolism, and strength by following the science and research that doctor Kaplan will be 272 00:25:26.839 --> 00:25:30.240 sharing with his audience. Join the adventure of discovering how to help the brain 273 00:25:30.319 --> 00:25:34.640 and body in a natural way while having fun at the same time. Listen 274 00:25:34.680 --> 00:25:38.839 to boost your brain power. If you want to function better, feel better, 275 00:25:40.000 --> 00:25:44.319 and enjoy the quality of life you deserve, call two O one two 276 00:25:44.359 --> 00:25:48.799 six one two one five zero or email info at Kaplan Brain and Body dot 277 00:25:48.839 --> 00:25:53.480 com if you're interested in a free ten minute consultation with doctor Kaplan, or 278 00:25:53.599 --> 00:26:02.519 visit Kaplan DC dot com for more information. Welcome back to boost your brain 279 00:26:02.559 --> 00:26:07.119 power. I am your host, doctor Eric Kaplan. We were talking about 280 00:26:07.200 --> 00:26:11.079 ways to improve your memory and focus, improve brain function, improve energy. 281 00:26:11.680 --> 00:26:17.440 We said the big three are a healthy diet, getting a proper amount of 282 00:26:17.480 --> 00:26:23.039 oxygen, and doing brain activation challenging your brain. But there's a lot of 283 00:26:23.039 --> 00:26:27.680 other things. For example, heavy metals. We have to avoid heavy metals 284 00:26:29.039 --> 00:26:37.000 and avoid aluminum, lead, mercury. Got of a fluoride that's a neurotoxin, 285 00:26:37.319 --> 00:26:42.160 and fluorides everywhere. They even put it in your drinking water. The 286 00:26:42.279 --> 00:26:48.319 dentist gives it to you, it's in your toothpaste, it's even put in 287 00:26:48.519 --> 00:26:55.200 baby water. Don't give your baby water. Fluoride water going to mess up 288 00:26:55.240 --> 00:26:59.640 their brain development. Now, most people will tell you that the fluoride helps 289 00:26:59.640 --> 00:27:06.000 with yours. I'd like to see some evidence of that. I haven't seen 290 00:27:06.119 --> 00:27:15.480 any current research that shows the drinking fluoridated water prevents cavities, prevents bone fractures. 291 00:27:17.839 --> 00:27:21.920 Show me that evidence. I need to see the research. I do 292 00:27:22.119 --> 00:27:27.960 see the evidence that florida is a neurotoxin. So I have avoided personally for 293 00:27:29.079 --> 00:27:33.400 the past twenty five years, and I've never had a cavity in my life, 294 00:27:33.720 --> 00:27:37.680 and I've had a broken bone in my life. I don't let my 295 00:27:37.759 --> 00:27:42.160 kids have it. My wife doesn't have it. They're all very healthy, 296 00:27:42.240 --> 00:27:48.160 all strong, healthy bones. We got to make sure we avoid mercury. 297 00:27:49.319 --> 00:27:55.319 Mercury can be found in fish. The bigger the fish, the more the 298 00:27:55.359 --> 00:28:02.799 mercury. So make sure you have smaller fish macar roll sardines, salmon, 299 00:28:03.920 --> 00:28:12.519 anchovies, herring, small fish. Stay away from the big fish, whitefish, 300 00:28:12.599 --> 00:28:21.480 that tuna. More mercury. All right, Some medications have mercury or 301 00:28:21.599 --> 00:28:25.119 it's found in the form of thimerosol. Be careful what you put in your 302 00:28:25.119 --> 00:28:32.880 body. Lead. Lead is in some of the old houses with the paint 303 00:28:33.000 --> 00:28:37.920 chips you found in some of the pipes and the water might need a big 304 00:28:37.000 --> 00:28:42.359 water filter. Get one of those ones that install under the sink and get 305 00:28:42.440 --> 00:28:49.920 in your shower head. We gotta make sure that the water we drink as 306 00:28:49.920 --> 00:28:57.960 a nice filter. Get a Burkey filter, Canon filter. There's you know, 307 00:28:59.039 --> 00:29:02.680 some reasonable filters out there that take out a lot of this bad stuff. 308 00:29:03.880 --> 00:29:11.319 Arsenic that can be found in even apple juice and brown rice, Aluminum, 309 00:29:11.000 --> 00:29:17.400 aluminum foil, you can get it just from touching it, aluminum pans, 310 00:29:17.440 --> 00:29:23.519 aluminum cans. Aluminum can be found in your antiperspirant. Aluminum can be 311 00:29:23.559 --> 00:29:33.960 found in the air. We gotta be careful bringing down aluminum. Now, 312 00:29:33.960 --> 00:29:40.160 if you have exposure to somebody's there are natural ways to klate or take these 313 00:29:40.200 --> 00:29:44.519 metals out of your body. I do not suggest keelation therapy, which takes 314 00:29:44.519 --> 00:29:48.720 a lot of good stuff out of your body, unless your levels are extremely 315 00:29:48.799 --> 00:29:55.119 high and dangerous, then it's appropriate. Most people not appropriate, but they're 316 00:29:55.240 --> 00:29:59.920 natural ways to take out these metals. You know, there's a detox head 317 00:30:00.000 --> 00:30:06.480 metal smoothie that I suggest for my patients. If you're interested in that detox 318 00:30:07.279 --> 00:30:14.400 smoothie for heavy metal exposure. Just give me an email info at Kaplinbradenbody dot 319 00:30:14.480 --> 00:30:19.960 com, or you could call or text us six four six two two one 320 00:30:21.319 --> 00:30:23.920 six seven three eight. Just tell them you listen to my show and you 321 00:30:23.960 --> 00:30:30.000 want to copy of the Heavy Metal Detox. Shake them. We'll give it 322 00:30:30.000 --> 00:30:37.599 to you for free at no charge. Yeah, what else besides heavy metals 323 00:30:37.440 --> 00:30:47.039 can cause issues in your brain? Even plastic exposure BPA's so a lot of 324 00:30:47.039 --> 00:30:52.799 plastics. Don't store your food and plastic containers. Storm in glass containers. 325 00:30:53.559 --> 00:30:59.759 Don't drink your water in a plastic water bottle. Use glass water bottle. 326 00:31:00.160 --> 00:31:03.119 I don't know if you're worried that's gonna break. Cover it with a rubber 327 00:31:04.599 --> 00:31:11.599 covering, or you could use stainless steel, which stay away from the plastics. 328 00:31:11.720 --> 00:31:18.720 The average American eats about a credit card where the plastic every year of 329 00:31:18.720 --> 00:31:23.640 their life. Scary. Got to stay away from those plastics. They're everywhere. 330 00:31:26.359 --> 00:31:32.640 Everything stored in plastic, it's covered in plastic. That plastic leaks into 331 00:31:32.680 --> 00:31:37.680 the food and you end up eating it. So start using glass, start 332 00:31:37.799 --> 00:31:45.000 using stainless steel. Even your cookwear, don't use those teflon don't use those 333 00:31:45.559 --> 00:31:55.480 non stick pans, there's aluminum pans, use stainless steel and does not leach 334 00:31:55.599 --> 00:32:01.160 into the food. Stainless steel cookwear. It's more if it's harder to clean, 335 00:32:02.440 --> 00:32:07.519 but it's worth it. There's lots of easy ways to get rid of 336 00:32:07.559 --> 00:32:12.519 that sticky stuff off your pan, you know, just using vinegar and baking 337 00:32:12.599 --> 00:32:17.160 soda and lemon and you know, there's so many easy natural solutions. We 338 00:32:17.240 --> 00:32:23.599 don't have to use these chemicals to clean your stuff. All right, Now, 339 00:32:23.720 --> 00:32:28.759 what else can we get chemicals besides the plastics? And be careful with 340 00:32:28.799 --> 00:32:34.440 the plastics. Even if it says BPA free, they're using some other crappy 341 00:32:34.519 --> 00:32:38.720 thing for those plastics. It could be BPP or BPC or something else. 342 00:32:39.799 --> 00:32:44.720 So that's why you got to use glass or stainless steel. All right. 343 00:32:45.400 --> 00:32:49.559 Get a water filter. Stop using those water bottles. You will save lots 344 00:32:49.559 --> 00:32:55.759 of money. You will save the environment. You'll save your health. You 345 00:32:55.880 --> 00:33:00.680 get rid of those plastic water bottles, get a nice filter, and start 346 00:33:00.799 --> 00:33:07.839 storing in glass and stainless steel. You will literally save money, you will 347 00:33:07.920 --> 00:33:15.640 save the environment, you will save your health. You can't beat those three 348 00:33:15.680 --> 00:33:22.440 things. The initial investment, Yes, it is more expensive than buying a 349 00:33:22.519 --> 00:33:30.200 two dollars plastic water bottom. The initial investment is more money, but after 350 00:33:30.920 --> 00:33:37.119 a few months you've made your money back plus more. All right, So 351 00:33:37.559 --> 00:33:44.319 avoid those plastics. When you buy food at the supermarket and they're stored in 352 00:33:44.440 --> 00:33:49.759 plastic containers, take them out and storm in glass. You will be shocked 353 00:33:50.240 --> 00:33:57.119 on how much longer your food lasts when you store it in glass containers as 354 00:33:57.160 --> 00:34:04.119 opposed to plastic. We take those foods aft, you boom out of the 355 00:34:04.160 --> 00:34:08.840 plastic bags, added the plastic storage containers and start putting them in glass. 356 00:34:10.159 --> 00:34:19.119 Try to avoid using any storage containers. So you want to buy everything fresh, 357 00:34:19.280 --> 00:34:22.119 don't buy the stuff that's already in the plastic, don't buy the stuff 358 00:34:22.119 --> 00:34:27.199 that's in the bags. Don't buy the stuff that's in the boxes, that's 359 00:34:27.360 --> 00:34:30.639 in the cans. You want to stand the outside of the supermarket where everything's 360 00:34:30.719 --> 00:34:37.920 fresh, there's no preservatives, everything is organic. You don't want any pesticides 361 00:34:37.360 --> 00:34:45.039 sprayed on your food. There is a chemical that they spray on the food 362 00:34:45.280 --> 00:34:50.920 round up glyph estate to make sure that the bugs don't eat your food. 363 00:34:51.960 --> 00:34:54.440 But since they kill the bugs, guess what they're killing A lot of good 364 00:34:54.480 --> 00:34:59.639 healthy bugs inside of you as well. They're causing a lot of autoimmune disease. 365 00:35:00.800 --> 00:35:08.679 Unfortunately, America has not bound banned round up or gliphastate. Most countries 366 00:35:09.079 --> 00:35:15.320 are not allowed to use these peticides and herbicides, which has been proven to 367 00:35:15.400 --> 00:35:22.480 cause cancer, but in America they still allow it. Unfortunately, we have 368 00:35:22.639 --> 00:35:28.639 one of the unhealthiest countries in the world. We have our food products are 369 00:35:28.679 --> 00:35:34.639 full of these food dyes that are banned in other countries. Even our crappy 370 00:35:34.719 --> 00:35:40.960 food is worse here. Now. You want to avoid food dyes, artificial 371 00:35:42.079 --> 00:35:49.880 flavors, preservatives. You know, you've got to be very careful with the 372 00:35:49.920 --> 00:35:54.760 food that you eat because it's full of toxins in there. And not just 373 00:35:54.800 --> 00:36:00.599 the food you eat, even supplements that you take. So a lot of 374 00:36:00.639 --> 00:36:09.599 supplements have impurities, have contaminants, have fillers, even food dyes, sugar 375 00:36:10.760 --> 00:36:20.840 sweeteners. So just because it's quote unquote natural and it's not a medicine doesn't 376 00:36:20.840 --> 00:36:25.079 mean it's healthy. I mean have patients that come to me with over twenty 377 00:36:25.119 --> 00:36:32.679 supplements. That is not healthy. You should not need to take twenty supplements. 378 00:36:35.119 --> 00:36:38.760 That is super dangerous. There's something wrong if you're taking twenty supplements. 379 00:36:38.760 --> 00:36:45.199 This isn't the jetsins. We're just eating pills for nutrition. Eat real food, 380 00:36:45.559 --> 00:36:50.719 Eat whole foods. It's even better to like not even break them down, 381 00:36:50.840 --> 00:36:53.519 let alone in a tiny pill. You know, you want to eat 382 00:36:53.559 --> 00:37:00.920 that whole leaf of lettuce, not chop it up. Eat a carrot, 383 00:37:00.920 --> 00:37:04.719 Take that whole carrocter. You don't necessarily need to chop it up into little 384 00:37:04.760 --> 00:37:09.320 pieces. The more whole the food, the better. And if you want 385 00:37:09.360 --> 00:37:14.760 an easy way to wash up all these chemicals from your food, all you 386 00:37:14.800 --> 00:37:19.880 gotta do is take a big ball fill with water, put in some baking 387 00:37:19.960 --> 00:37:24.920 soda and put your fruit in it. And literally the baking SODA's gonna drain 388 00:37:24.960 --> 00:37:31.280 all those chemicals all and then you just take it out. That's a good 389 00:37:31.400 --> 00:37:37.840 natural way to clean your food. There's so many natural ways to clean food. 390 00:37:37.960 --> 00:37:42.360 Baking soda and baking soda can clean everything. Clean your house. It 391 00:37:42.440 --> 00:37:45.880 can clean your clothes, and can clean your carpet. It can clean your 392 00:37:45.920 --> 00:37:50.920 teeth. It could be deodorant. I mean, baking soda does everything you 393 00:37:51.000 --> 00:37:57.239 know, vinegar does everything you know, lemon does everything. These things are 394 00:37:57.239 --> 00:38:01.760 amazing. You have all these natural products that you can use all the time, 395 00:38:01.840 --> 00:38:07.679 Yet we're buying all these toxic chemicals and bleaches and antibacterial crap. You're 396 00:38:07.679 --> 00:38:13.039 gonna be careful with all this cleaning stuff because there's a lot of chemicals and 397 00:38:13.119 --> 00:38:19.239 that could cause brain inflammation more when we come back from the break. If 398 00:38:19.320 --> 00:38:22.960 you want to improve your brain function, help with memory, focus, sleep, 399 00:38:22.039 --> 00:38:27.599 digestion, energy, depression, anxiety, dizziness, balance, vision, 400 00:38:27.639 --> 00:38:30.840 headaches, brain fog, weight loss, or simply want to maximize your human 401 00:38:30.840 --> 00:38:36.599 potential and prevent future diseases, that this is the show for you. Don't 402 00:38:36.679 --> 00:38:40.679 misboost your brain power with doctor Eric Kaplan and you will learn natural, integrative, 403 00:38:40.679 --> 00:38:45.800 and holistic approaches to modern day medical problems such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's stroke, 404 00:38:45.920 --> 00:38:52.800 autism, add concussion, autoimmune diseases, insomnia, fibromyalgia, vertigo, 405 00:38:52.920 --> 00:38:58.480 migrains for posture pain, TBI, skin and digestive problems. Doctor Kaplan is 406 00:38:58.519 --> 00:39:01.320 most famous for getting to the cause of a wide variety of brain and health 407 00:39:01.320 --> 00:39:07.599 conditions, rather than treating symptoms with traditional medicines and risky surgeries. To contact 408 00:39:07.639 --> 00:39:09.760 to doctor Kamplin, you can call his team at two h one two six 409 00:39:09.840 --> 00:39:16.760 one two one five zero or visit his website at Kaplan DC dot com. 410 00:39:17.000 --> 00:39:22.480 Welcome back to boost your brain power. I am your host, doctor Eric 411 00:39:22.599 --> 00:39:30.599 Kaplan. So we're talking about using some natural products and baking soda that even 412 00:39:30.599 --> 00:39:37.079 helps with some stomach problems. I mean, baking soda is so cheap yet 413 00:39:37.320 --> 00:39:45.960 can cure a lot of diseases, a lot of conditions. Lemon h we 414 00:39:45.039 --> 00:39:53.719 got all these natural cures in your house that you already have hydrogen peroxide. 415 00:39:54.159 --> 00:40:00.639 I mean, there's so many cool stuff that you could use natural stuff to 416 00:40:00.840 --> 00:40:07.239 clean to improve your health. You know, there's a lot of you know, 417 00:40:07.440 --> 00:40:10.760 stuff that they're not going to tell you because it's cheap and inexpensive. 418 00:40:13.960 --> 00:40:19.119 But the good news is can be done, all right. So what other 419 00:40:19.159 --> 00:40:23.800 things do we need to avoid? We need to avoid stress. Stress is 420 00:40:23.840 --> 00:40:30.320 the silent killer. If you are stressed out, your brain is not going 421 00:40:30.360 --> 00:40:36.320 to function at optimal levels. If you are in stress mode, you're more 422 00:40:36.360 --> 00:40:39.880 likely to get cancer. If you're in stress mode, you're more likely to 423 00:40:39.880 --> 00:40:45.880 get Alzheimer's disease. If you're in stress mode, you're more likely to get 424 00:40:45.920 --> 00:40:52.719 diabetes. You're more likely to get obesity, you're more likely to get heart 425 00:40:52.840 --> 00:40:59.840 disease. The number one time where people get heart attacks and stroke Monday morning, 426 00:41:00.639 --> 00:41:05.079 nine am. Stress. You know they were off all weekend. Now 427 00:41:05.119 --> 00:41:10.000 they got to go to a job that they don't like. Stress the silent 428 00:41:10.159 --> 00:41:16.400 killer. You know, one cancer, Gotta get rid of sugar chemicals and 429 00:41:16.559 --> 00:41:22.840 stress. You know, one heart disease. Got to exercise, gotta eat 430 00:41:22.840 --> 00:41:31.719 healthy, gotta get rid of stress. Stress will kill you. So how 431 00:41:31.760 --> 00:41:36.039 do you get rid of stress? You know a lot of people say meditate, 432 00:41:36.719 --> 00:41:40.800 and my patients will say, my brain doesn't let me meditate. I 433 00:41:40.880 --> 00:41:44.880 can't sit down for a half hour and shut off my brain. My brain's 434 00:41:44.880 --> 00:41:49.639 going a million miles per hour because you're in stress mode. So maybe you 435 00:41:49.639 --> 00:41:53.320 could just start off with a thirty second meditation. That's all you gotta do. 436 00:41:54.239 --> 00:42:00.159 And I call it the release technique. Starting to top your head us 437 00:42:00.199 --> 00:42:04.519 to imagine all your muscles melting, and you say release. Go to your 438 00:42:04.559 --> 00:42:09.679 forehead release, Go to your jaw release, go to your neck release, 439 00:42:10.079 --> 00:42:15.639 go to your shoulders release. You just do about thirty spots and go all 440 00:42:15.679 --> 00:42:22.159 the way down to your toes. It only takes thirty seconds. Anybody can 441 00:42:22.199 --> 00:42:23.840 do it for thirty seconds. And then when you get to go to thirty 442 00:42:23.880 --> 00:42:28.000 seconds, then you go up to a minute. You can't go in a 443 00:42:28.039 --> 00:42:30.480 minute, and you go up to two minutes, but just start off at 444 00:42:30.519 --> 00:42:34.880 thirty seconds. Make it a non negotiable every day, I'm gonna do thirty 445 00:42:34.920 --> 00:42:40.599 seconds of a meditation. You got to relax the brain. You're gonna chill 446 00:42:40.679 --> 00:42:47.719 it out and gonna reduce stress. Exercise is another way to reduce stress levels 447 00:42:50.480 --> 00:42:57.719 and burn off that energy. You're feeling stressed, leave, get out of 448 00:42:57.719 --> 00:43:00.280 that scenario. Get out of the room and go exercise. Go for a 449 00:43:00.360 --> 00:43:05.480 nice little run. Hi can take the dog for a walk, Go to 450 00:43:05.559 --> 00:43:12.440 the gym, go on the basement and punch the boxing bag. Do something 451 00:43:13.280 --> 00:43:21.280 to exercise and release that stress. Right, You've got to relieve the stress. 452 00:43:22.119 --> 00:43:25.360 Avoid caffeine. That's gonna cause more stress. If you have anxiety, 453 00:43:25.840 --> 00:43:30.559 you have difficulty to sleep, You've got to avoid the caffeine. Avoid those 454 00:43:30.559 --> 00:43:36.440 stimulants, avoid those food dies, those preservatives. If you have high stress, 455 00:43:37.639 --> 00:43:40.079 m I gotta work on your sleeping habits. You gotta work on your 456 00:43:40.119 --> 00:43:46.320 circadian rhythms. The best time to sleep ten pm to six am, your 457 00:43:46.360 --> 00:43:52.920 best eight hours during the dark. Best time to eat ten am to six 458 00:43:53.000 --> 00:43:59.760 pm during the daylight hours. It's not rocket science. We eat during the 459 00:43:59.800 --> 00:44:07.079 day for energy and we sleep during the night when it's dark outside. That's 460 00:44:07.119 --> 00:44:09.760 the way your body wants it. That's the way it's been done for thousands 461 00:44:09.760 --> 00:44:16.679 of years. Don't change it. All this modern technology and these lights. 462 00:44:16.679 --> 00:44:23.639 Food can be available at any time rows off your brain. To reduce stress. 463 00:44:24.679 --> 00:44:29.000 Now, one of the best ways to reduce stress is to work on 464 00:44:29.000 --> 00:44:35.239 what's called your vegas nerve. Your vegas nerve relaxes you. So one way 465 00:44:35.239 --> 00:44:39.639 to reduce stress is to stimulate your vegas nerves through goggling and your goggle really 466 00:44:39.800 --> 00:44:45.599 intensely. The louder the goggle, the more activation of the vegas nerve. 467 00:44:47.719 --> 00:44:52.320 Now, another way to stimulate the vegas nerve is through the gag reflex. 468 00:44:52.599 --> 00:44:55.000 Now, if you have a history of bolimia, do not do it. 469 00:44:55.079 --> 00:45:00.559 We don't want to trigger anything. But other than eating disorder would be pretty 470 00:45:00.559 --> 00:45:02.039 safe. And you just do it once. Take your toothbrush for a tongue 471 00:45:02.079 --> 00:45:07.119 depressor. Go with the back of your throat in that little punching bag that 472 00:45:07.159 --> 00:45:10.000 epigloss, and you just tap it and you'll get like a little gag a 473 00:45:10.000 --> 00:45:15.360 little, a gag just once, very powerful stimulation of the vegas nerve. 474 00:45:15.039 --> 00:45:21.199 And all doctors are taught this in school, that the gag reflex will check 475 00:45:21.239 --> 00:45:27.760 the vegas nerve, but very few doctors use it as therapy. All we 476 00:45:27.840 --> 00:45:31.400 do is functional rologists is use the science that's already been researched, and we 477 00:45:31.480 --> 00:45:36.320 say, okay, we know the vegas nerve isn't working, and we know 478 00:45:36.400 --> 00:45:39.639 the neuroscience has shown these exercises stimulate the vegas nerve, so we're gonna work 479 00:45:39.760 --> 00:45:44.639 on those exercise Now, how do you figure out if you have a vegas 480 00:45:44.679 --> 00:45:49.480 nerve problem? How do you figure out where your brain's not working? How 481 00:45:49.519 --> 00:45:52.960 do you figure out is it the frontal cortex which those exercises be giving you 482 00:45:52.000 --> 00:45:57.960 before. There's lots of different areas of the brain. In my opinion, 483 00:45:58.400 --> 00:46:00.840 if it's not broke, we don't fix it. So the first step is 484 00:46:00.880 --> 00:46:07.679 to figure out where you have the problems. The best test to figure out 485 00:46:07.719 --> 00:46:14.880 where your brain problems are it's called a q EG brain mapping. It's non 486 00:46:14.920 --> 00:46:20.039 invasive, there's no radiation, you don't have to, you know, sit 487 00:46:20.119 --> 00:46:24.599 in some small MRI tube for forty five minutes and not move. You have 488 00:46:24.679 --> 00:46:30.199 no chemicals, you don't have any contrast fluid that you need. There's no 489 00:46:30.920 --> 00:46:37.159 risk at all. It's super quick, it's non invasive, and it tells 490 00:46:37.280 --> 00:46:44.000 us exactly what areas of the brain are not functioning at optimal levels. It 491 00:46:44.079 --> 00:46:47.159 measures all your brain waves from the front to the side to the back, 492 00:46:47.360 --> 00:46:52.760 all the different areas of your brain. It's really cool because it maps out 493 00:46:52.760 --> 00:46:55.239 of your brain and it's going to tell us do you have anxiety? Do 494 00:46:55.280 --> 00:47:00.760 you have depression? You have short term memory problems, you have quential memory 495 00:47:00.760 --> 00:47:06.079 problems, you have troubles with motivation, you have troubles with your dopamine levels. 496 00:47:06.400 --> 00:47:10.079 Do you have white matter inflammation? Do you have heavy metal poisoning? 497 00:47:10.159 --> 00:47:16.000 Do you have concussion? You have sleep deprivation? Do you have difficulty shifting 498 00:47:16.159 --> 00:47:22.159 tasks? Do you have problems with your thyroid? Do you have intestinal inflammation? 499 00:47:22.760 --> 00:47:29.119 This brain map literally picks all this up. It is so quick and 500 00:47:29.320 --> 00:47:31.119 easy to do. All you have to do is wear this little cap it 501 00:47:31.119 --> 00:47:38.159 looks like a swimmer's cap, and basically just sit there in the swimmer's cap 502 00:47:38.400 --> 00:47:43.639 for about ten to fifteen minutes and all the brain waves are measured and then 503 00:47:43.679 --> 00:47:50.119 it will tell us exactly where your weaknesses are. This test is normally five 504 00:47:50.239 --> 00:47:52.760 hundred dollars, but if you're one of the first seven people that call or 505 00:47:52.880 --> 00:47:57.519 email, you can get this vat. You can get this q EEG brain 506 00:47:57.559 --> 00:48:04.119 mapping for only twenty one dollars. It's literally normally five hundred dollars. But 507 00:48:04.239 --> 00:48:07.400 if you want to find out how your brain is functioning, for only twenty 508 00:48:07.519 --> 00:48:12.440 one dollars. To get this entire brain mapping, all you have to do 509 00:48:13.000 --> 00:48:17.000 is call or text. Our number is six four six two two one six 510 00:48:17.079 --> 00:48:23.480 seven three eight. Again that's six four six two two one six seven three 511 00:48:23.639 --> 00:48:30.199 eight. Or you can email info at Kaplan brain embody dot com. That's 512 00:48:30.239 --> 00:48:35.400 to get the QEG brain mapping, which is normally five hundred dollars, for 513 00:48:35.480 --> 00:48:40.280 only twenty one dollars. Now, the next best test is called a VG 514 00:48:42.119 --> 00:48:44.840 This test is a little bit different. You don't wear a cap, but 515 00:48:44.960 --> 00:48:49.280 you wear these goggles and they measure your eye movements, and these eye movements 516 00:48:49.280 --> 00:48:52.079 will tell us, hey, is there a difference in the left brain versus 517 00:48:52.119 --> 00:48:59.119 the right brain and the frontal cortex versus the parietal cortex. So it breaks 518 00:48:59.119 --> 00:49:04.880 it down a little bit more or specific. The best thing to do is 519 00:49:04.920 --> 00:49:10.480 to do the QEG brain mapping and also the v Now. The v no 520 00:49:10.719 --> 00:49:19.519 Radiation No Pain takes about fifteen minutes. It's basically just taking like a picture 521 00:49:19.760 --> 00:49:22.480 and recording your eye movement. So it's just like if you've ever taken a 522 00:49:22.519 --> 00:49:27.320 selfie the same thing and what it is. It graphs it out though, 523 00:49:27.559 --> 00:49:31.400 and it measures your speed, your accuracy, your delay, the difference from 524 00:49:31.480 --> 00:49:37.039 left to right. Is it overactive, is it underactive? Not just where 525 00:49:37.199 --> 00:49:43.360 the problems are, but which side is it more is less? The VNG 526 00:49:43.880 --> 00:49:47.119 gets us a little bit more specific than the QEG. Now. The VNG 527 00:49:47.320 --> 00:49:52.119 test is also five hundred dollars, but for the first seven people that call, 528 00:49:52.280 --> 00:49:55.920 text or email, they can get that test for twenty one dollars as 529 00:49:55.920 --> 00:50:00.679 well. All you have to do is call or at six four six two 530 00:50:00.719 --> 00:50:07.480 two one six seven three eight, or you can email info at kaplinbrained body 531 00:50:07.519 --> 00:50:09.400 dot com and just say you want to be one of the first seven people 532 00:50:09.440 --> 00:50:13.679 to do the VNG, and if you want, you could do both of 533 00:50:13.719 --> 00:50:15.199 them. We have lots of people that sign up for both of them, 534 00:50:15.519 --> 00:50:20.320 so you could do the q EG for only twenty one dollars. You could 535 00:50:20.320 --> 00:50:22.920 do the VNG for only twenty one dollars. You can do both of them, 536 00:50:23.199 --> 00:50:28.199 and if you want, you can also do a one on one with 537 00:50:28.440 --> 00:50:31.840 me for this week. Go over your blood work, we go over your 538 00:50:32.280 --> 00:50:36.599 muscles, your bones, We go over your heart, your lungs, We 539 00:50:36.639 --> 00:50:42.480 do a full physical evaluation. Those tests are the neurological evaluations. If you 540 00:50:42.480 --> 00:50:45.519 want a physical evaluation right check out your gay, your balance, your heart, 541 00:50:45.639 --> 00:50:50.480 your gut, your lungs, your muscles, your nerves, your ligaments, 542 00:50:50.480 --> 00:50:53.280 your reflex as, your memory. That is a one on one of 543 00:50:53.280 --> 00:50:57.679 me that takes a little bit longer. It's forty five minutes. That test 544 00:50:57.800 --> 00:51:00.840 is also normally five hundred dollars, but if you're for the first seven people, 545 00:51:00.840 --> 00:51:05.159 you can get that for twenty one dollars as well, So you can 546 00:51:05.159 --> 00:51:07.639 sign up for all three. You could do the twenty one dollars v the 547 00:51:07.760 --> 00:51:13.719 twenty one dollar QEG, and the twenty one dollar one on one with yours 548 00:51:13.760 --> 00:51:16.239 truly at my offices one in New York, one in New Jersey, or 549 00:51:16.280 --> 00:51:21.079 you can even do virtually as well. All you got to do is call 550 00:51:21.239 --> 00:51:25.800 six four six two to one six seven three eight or email info at Kaplan 551 00:51:25.880 --> 00:51:31.840 brain embody dot com. Also, we're doing a Boost your Brainpower seminar series 552 00:51:32.239 --> 00:51:37.519 where we're gonna go over for an hour just different brain exercises to stimulate each 553 00:51:37.559 --> 00:51:42.199 area of your brain. Today we just went over about three or four different 554 00:51:42.199 --> 00:51:46.079 exercises. If you come to this Boost your Brainpower Seminar series, you're gonna 555 00:51:46.159 --> 00:51:53.079 learn about thirty to forty exercises. 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