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is having a great day so far. Hope you're doing something with movement.
If you want to be healthy, if you want to have the best brain
function and feel best, you want your immune system to be strong. You
want a good posture. You want to have strong muscles, strong bones,
good circulation, good digestion, good sleep. The cure is movement. Movement
is the cure for every condition. I don't care. If it's cancer,
you gotta exercise, got to move the body. I don't care. If
it's heart disease, you gotta exercise. You gotta move the boy. I
don't care. If it's diabetes, Gotta exercise, Gotta move the body.
Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, multiple sclerosis, autism, add anxiety, depression, concussion,
you have to move the body. You know, see so many patients
with concussion and the doctors tell them, hey, just rest, don't do
anything that's dangerous. You know what if your your muscle is damaged. Are
you gonna say just rest, don't do anything, don't move it. No,
you're gonna say do physical therapy, get it stronger. You're not gonna
do nothing and let your brain get worse. So we see a lot of
patients with concussion, but it's an art you can't do too much therapy where
it aggravates their symptoms because their brain can't handle it. That's called exceeding the
metabolic capacity. A lot of these concussion clinics they do too much and they
cause more problems. Conversely, some places underdo it. They just tell patients
to do nothing and rest. That's not good either. We need to find
that happy median. We need to do neurologic testing to figure out what areas
of the brain are damaged with the concussion, and then come up with appropriate
therapy that's going to improve those areas of the brain function without risking any harmful
aggravation of the condition. And we're going to give a special gift at the
end of the show on these special tests that analyze your brain. So stick
around for the end. Now, movement starts from the beginning of your day.
The best time to exercise is in the morning, that's when testosterone is
highest. That's when your cortisol levels are high. That's when you get good
brain function, good heart function, good circulation, good muscle tone. The
morning is when you want to work out. And don't tell me you don't
have time in the morning. If you have to, you wake up a
half hour earlier. All right, you need to move your body. You
need to get that body strong. You need a combination of aerobic and anaerobic
exercises. What that means is doing exercises that get your heart beating fast where
you're sweating, where you're really challenged, and then also doing exercise where you're
strengthening those muscles. Weight resistant exercises or you know, stuff where you need
to contract your muscles or hold your muscles. So we want exercises that get
your heart rate going fast and sweaty, but then exercises that get you strong
and use those muscles and contract them and strengthen them as well. If you
want to prevent osteoporosis, the best cure for osteoporosis is weight resistant exercises.
The best cure is not a medicine, it's weight resistant exercises. You know,
medicine doesn't cure symptoms, it hides symptoms. Right, you don't want
to take the medicine to make your bones strong, or you want to figure
out how con my bones aren't strong to begin with. Do I have osteoporosis
because of a nutritional deficiency? It is my vitamin D levels low, or
my magnesium levels null, or my phosphorus. Those are the most common nutritional
deficiencies that cause osteoporosis. It's not calcium. I don't know where this came
from, this whole obsession with calcium, But calcium is usually not the factor
that makes your bones weak. It's usually vitamin D or magnesium or phosphorus,
or lack of physical exercise, lack of movement, lack of weight resistant training.
That's the bigger issue. I don't know why everyone's just told take calcium
and they think that that's going to just fix their bones. In fact,
it's the exact opposite. It might cause more problems, might lead to osteoporosis
or osteopenia, or even worse. If you take calcium supplements and you don't
need this calcium, or it's synthetic, or it's filled with all these impurities.
What's going to happen, is your body's going to deposit this calcium in
some bad places, maybe in your arteries and clog them, or maybe in
your breast tissue and cause cancer, or maybe in your brain cause neurologic problems.
It's got to go somewhere. So calcium is the most dangerous supplement you
can take. You only want to take calcium supplements if you do blood work
and your calcium levels are really really low. But just don't do it because
you're older. Don't just do it because you have osteoporosis. Don't just do
it because you don't drink milk. I can't believe how many people think that
drinking milk gives you these great levels of calcium and makes your bone strong.
People have been brainwashed for decades. There's no evidence that shows milk increases your
calcium levels or makes your bone strong. There is evidence that people who tend
to drink higher levels of milk and have dairy products have a higher incident of
osteoporosis and osteopenia versus people who don't consume high amounts of dairy products. Interesting,
it's the op with everybody's told, Okay, so don't take calcium supplements
unless you are deficient or else it could cause major problems. I will tell
you almost everyone that I've seen for the last twenty three years in practice has
been vitamin D deficient. That is very common, you know, not to
the point where you know, we're seeing all these ricket patients. However,
it's very common to have a deficiency, very common to be under thirty.
And the reason why is everyone's always inside. Right, So you wake up,
you're inside, You eat breakfast, you're inside. You commute to work,
you're inside. You work all day, you're inside. You come home
and eat dinner, you're inside, sitting on the couch, watch TV.
You're inside, You go to sleep, you're inside. Everybody is vitamin D
deficient. We don't have too many farmers around here and set. You know,
I see all these farms closing for strip malls, and you know,
I wish we were building more farms, but we're just getting rid of these
great farms. It's very sad to see we have all this great land and
there and they're chopping it down. We could feed the world with all this
land and just growing food, but yet we need, you know, strip
malls restaurants, shopping. You know, Americans love to eat and shop.
You know, it's it's a things of excess. I gotta tone it down.
We gotta consume less, eat less, I gotta buy less things.
Don't be materialistic. The only thing in life that matters is your health.
I spent all my money on my health. I don't need any materials.
It's all about the health. But guess what health is. Vacation that's your
health. You know, health club membership, Orange theory membership, signing up
for a basketball league, tennis league, exercise classes, those are all health.
Buying organic food, getting a massage, it's all health. It's all
health related. That's what you spend your money on. Healthy food, ways
to exercise, get your body moving, do stuff that you like, enjoy,
and hopefully do it outside. That way you'll get your vitamin D.
You gotta do things outside. Start running outside, walking outside, hiking outside,
go into the beach, going for a walk with your friends, taking
the dog for a walk. Go outside during sunrise during sunset to get the
most vitamin D. You want to go outside during lunchtime. You know,
between twelve and two that's when the sun's going to be most powerful. Go
outside during your lunch. I don't care if it's just for twenty minutes,
but get outside and take off your coat, roll up your sleeves, roll
up your pants, take off your glasses, take off your hat. You've
got to get that sunlight connected to your skin and your eyes. Your eyes
will improve if you let the sun and don't look directly at the sun,
but let those sun rays hit your eyes out of the shadows, don't hide
behind the buildings. Get out in the sun, especially if it's only for
twenty thirty minutes during your lunch break. You're not gonna get sunburned or anything.
And especially in the winter. It's definitely not happening now in the winter.
Definitely want to look into supplementation of vitamin D. With vitamin D supplementation,
you got to make sure it's with fat. Also, it's calcium,
magnesium, phosphorus to help. Those are cofactors to help with the absorption,
but they got to be in certain ratios, right. You never find a
vitamin by itself, so people always take this vitamin C. You don't find
vitamin C by itself. An orange, Yes, it has lots of vitamin
C, but it's got other vitamins along with it. That's why I like
the vitamin D supplement from Apex Energetics. They have it in fat because it's
a fat soluble vitamin with all the cofactors including A and E and K because
those are important cofactors for absorption. Okay, we're going to continue the talk
about movement when we come back from the break. Don't miss boost your brain
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for more information. Welcome back to boost your brain power. I am your
host, doctor Eric Kaplan. We're talking about movement. You need to move
your body, and we were also talking about vitamin D. So the best
thing to do is a combination of movement and being outside. Doesn't get better
than that. Even more so, do it with a friend or a family
member. You have to be social. Having good movement and being social are
going to boost your brain power. That's going to help with depression anxiety,
especially if you're around someone who's positive. Don't hang out with people who are
negative, who are always complaining. Don't hang out with them. They're always
you know, the end of the world is coming. You know, it's
World War three. Everybody's evil, there's racism, the police are brutality,
and you know, you don't want to hang out with people who are just
complainers and they're negative. You know, you want to be realistic, right
so, you know, but you want to do it in a good way.
You know, you don't You don't have to trash other people or other
things to make your point. That's the problem with modern day politics. Nobody's
actually talking about stuff they're passionate about. They're just making fun of the other
side. And telling you why they're wrong. You know, it would be
like if I just said all the bad things that all these doctors do,
right, if I just spoke about, you know, how many people medicine
kills, and how many people die and serve inuries, and you know all
the you know, people that were killed in COVID from the doctors, and
you know iatrogenic causes or the third which is caused by the doctor. It's
a third leading cause in America. You know, we could talk about that
all day long, all the harmful side effects of medicine. But I don't
want to waste this show just talking about all the bad side effects of medicine.
I want to give you solutions. So the medicine is trying to hide
symptoms. What I'm trying to do is improve your function so you don't need
medicine. You get to the root cause of the problem rather than treating the
problem. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. So we
don't need to tell you why everything doesn't work. I just need to tell
you the solutions. Because if you do what was if you do what does
work, then you're not going to need medicine. If you do it does
work, you're not gonna need surgeries. And I don't care if you have
genetic predispositions. If you have this past history, your body can change,
your brain can change. That's called neuroplasticity, and you could rewire your brain.
You know, bones, heel, muscles repair, and your brain can
get rewired. But you got a movement, right, So when I get
brain exercises in my office, they're off. There are certain exercises that involve
movement. You're not just gonna be sitting playing a computer game to challenge your
brain. That's not the way to do it. You're not just gonna be
sitting down doing a crossword puzzle or Sudoku. Sitting is the worst thing for
your brain. So everyone thinks they're doing all these great things by doing all
these computer games and memory tests and wordle and crossword puzzles Sudoku. You know,
those things are good, but they're only good when you're stuck seat where
you can't do anything else, you know, like an airplane for example.
Right, So in the beginning, they're like, all right, everyone has
to sit down. You know they'll arrest you if you get up, so
you know you have to sit down. You gotta put on your seatbelt,
you know, and so you so you're stuck sitting down for that takeoff right
until they take off the light. So what you gotta do during that time,
that's when you do a brain exercise where you sit. Okay, but
usually you want to do them standing. You want to get them walking.
You gotta get them moving, you gotta get them running. So, for
example, do a brain a brain test while you're standing is called the crosscrawl
exers. So you can try this at home right now. What you do
is you stand up and you start marching in place, bringing your legs up
really high. And then you tap your right hand to your left leg as
you march, and then you tap your left hand to your right leg,
so you go opposite you cross. It's called a cross crawl. And then
as you do that, now do some sort of mental exercise. Do different
categories. So you might say, okay, I'm gonna do and you know,
pick one where you can come up with a lot of different things like
colors, and then you tap your opposite leg and you go red and blue
and orange and yellow and green and blue and purple and violet and pink,
and you keep going, and the idea is to try and get at least
fifteen different colors within thirty seconds. As you're marching in place, tapping your
opposite leg. That's a movement. Or you can try standing up and you
draw the infinity like a figure eight with your right arm and try and draw
in the opposite direction with your left leg. Now that's a balance exercise too,
So if you try this at home, be very careful. Don't do
it next to the kitchen knives. Pick a corner and just kind of face
out from the corner so that if you go right, there's a wall,
if you go left, there's a wall, if you go back, there's
the corner, and have like a chair the couch in front of you.
So it's very safe, especially if you have balance problems. But this is
one of the best brain treatments for balance problem because it activates your cerebellum,
and your cerebellum is going to be involved with your balance, your coordination.
It helps prevent falls. It also controls your muscle tone. If you're one
of these people who twist their ankles all the time or has bed coordination or
balance. This is the area of the brain that you need to work on.
It's called your cerebellum, and the best cerebellum therapy that you could do
are these infinity symbols. They're very easy, but try and do them in
the opposite direction. That makes it harder. So you do the right arm
with the left leg, or you do the left arm with the right leg,
and then when you get really good, you do the left arm with
the left leg, but you go in the opposite direction, so as the
arm goes right, the leg goes left, and you want to cross over
the middle of the body. Crossing over the middle of the body is very
important to get your brain functioning better because it creates more connection. That's why
we do the cross crawl that crosses over the body. Obviously, if you're
taking your right hand to your left leg, but then these infinities you want
to cross over. Always imagine like a belly button. You got to cross
over that belly button. That's a movement test that's going to increase in your
brain function the area called your seramalum. Now, if you're stuck seated and
you want to do a movement, you could do what we call slap chop
fist where you just take your right hand, slap your left hand, then
chop it and make it a fist and hit it. So you slap it,
chop it, fist it, slap it, chop it, fist it,
and you do that over and over for thirty seconds, three times a
day. When you get really good and you don't mess up the order,
then you go slap, fist, chop, and then when you get really
good at that, you go slap scissors, fist chop. So that you
could do that in a chair while you're seated. Let's say you're in a
you know, morning commute. You're you know, sitting on the bus,
and you want to be productive because you're stuck seated for that commute into the
city. You do this slap chop fist. You know, that's something that
you can really do. Movement and increase input into your brain. Or you
do an eye exercise where you just you know, find a point on the
headrest in front of you and focus on that point and slowly turn your head
right and left, so you're moving your head, you're moving your eyes,
you're using your focus. There's millions and millions of brain exercises you can do,
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I'm your host, doctor Eric Kaplan. We're talking about the best ways to
improve your brain function and improve your body function just through movement. Doesn't matter
what condition you have. You got to get the body move them. But
you gotta do something that you like. You know, something that's fun.
Right. Some of my patients do belly dancing, they love it. Some
do line dancing. Those are good because you've got to memorize the order and
you're moving your body and you're being social and you're getting out of the house.
That's what we like. Social movement, get out. Those are the
best brain exercises. You know, have some fun in life. There's twenty
four hours in a day. Eight hours should be sleep, eight hours should
be work, and eight hours should be fun, all right, And now
if you can combine them where work is fun, right, that's that's the
ideal way. You gotta have fun. It's too serious these days. Unplug,
turn off the news, turn off social media. You know, read
your local newspaper. Don't read these big newspapers. You know. That's why
I write for the Pascak Press, which is a local newspaper here in New
Jersey. I write for the Northern Valley Press. You know, these are
good newspapers because they're giving you, you know, good, feel good stories.
They're not telling you about all the trauma, all the horror, all
the death and disasters in the world. I don't want to hear about that.
You know. I'm gonna help a lot of people through community, through
charity. That's how you get involved. You're not helping by just listening and
watching travesties. You want to help people, you know, help them in
real life. Just being informed about all the depths that's happening isn't helping anybody,
and especially it's not helping you. And if you're telling other people about
it, you're not helping those other people either. If you're gonna do something,
if you're gonna do a charity, Okay, get involved that way.
You're gonna volunteer, Get involved that way. You know, if you want
to help others, great, I'm all for that. That is key to
boost your brain power. And if you can do it with movement, even
better. Right, if you can do a movement even better. Say,
you know, if you're you know, a good swimmer, you know,
teach underprivileged kids how to swim. Right, if you're a good dancer,
you know, go to the senior City and Center and teach you know,
the elderly people that had a tango. Right, That's how you volund That's
how you help people. You know, volunteer in your communities. You're not
helping anyone by being knowledgeable that all the people that are causing death and destruction.
You know. You know, if you went during nine to eleven to
help clean up downtown, help look for people, then you're being helpful.
It's not helpful just to keep watching the planes hit the building. That's not
helpful. That causes nightmares. Right, you want to help somebody that lost
their parents in that you know terrorism acts, Okay, help these kids man
who are now orphaned. Right, that's taking action. That's gonna boost your
brain power. But if you're watching the news at night and you're learning about
Israel and Ukraine and Taiwan's being invaded by China, and you're watching these wildfires
in Hawaii and Canada, and you're, you know, learning about tornadoes and
earthquakes, and people in Chicago being murdered and homeless in San Francisco, and
you know, New York so dirty and the crime and people are getting stabbed
and shot, and you know you're gonna have nightmares. Your cortisol levels are
gonna go through the roof. You gotta turn off the news, you know,
at nighttime. Find something where you're moving, Get off your butt,
take that dog for a walk, you know, like I said, go
and do something with a person. Be social, Join a book club,
get out of the house, take a sewing class. Get your body move
and move those hands, you know, do something fun. Stop this repetition
of work, eat TV, computer phone sleep, work, eat TV,
computer phone sleep. That is a recipe for disaster. There's no movement there,
right, And even when people are being social, it's usually not movement.
They're going to the bar and sitting right. They're going to the movies
and sitting. They're going to the opera and sitting. They're going to the
ballet and sitting. They're going to Broadway and sitting. They're going to the
restaurant and sitting. They're driving to the restaurant and sitting. They're driving home
from the restaurant and sitting. It's always sitting. Start doing activities that get
your body moving, and everybody's different. I mean, I'm so thankful that
I love to do all these active things. I love hiking, I love
biking, I love rollerblading. I love tennis and soccer and football, and
you know, I love baseball. I love things that make us move.
You know, I love taking my dogs for a walk. That's the most
amazing thing in the world, and I always try and do it. Sunrise
and sunset. That way, you get your hormones in order. When your
brain sees the sun rise, you're gonna get cortisol. That's gonna increase,
that's gonna get you going for the day. It's gonna give you that energy
you need. You don't need a cup of coffee. You need movement,
you need sunlight, you need oxygen. You do not need coffee. I
don't get it. I don't get it. While people are obsessed with Starbucks
and Dunkin Donuts, I don't get it. Why are you wasting so much
money? Why you Oh my god, it gets me so frustrated. You
don't need this coffee. Everyone thinks they need it. It's a drug.
Right You Start exercising, start eating a healthy breakfast. You start watching the
sunrise, you start breathing better, meditating, start spending some quality time with
your family in the morning. You don't need a cup of coffee. I'm
telling you now, it's in the beginning. If you want to quit coffee,
it's gonna be tough. You're gonna get headaches, you're gonna be cranky,
you're gonna have low energy, you're gonna be irritable. But you're gonna
prevent Parkinson's. You're gonna prevent cancer. You're gonna prevent heart disease, you
gonna prevent dementia. You gotta take care of your body now. If you
want to have a healthy future, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound
of cure. And I know people like coffee, and I know people like
to drink alcohol, and I know people like to eat pizza, and I
know, people like ice cream and cake. I get it. People like
these things because what happens is you get this dopamine hit in your brain.
However, you can get that same dopamine hit in your brain by doing the
activities I'm telling you, By exercising, by being social, by taking the
dog for a walk, by getting some sunlight, by taking vacations. These
all give you dopamine. So you can get it a healthy way, or
you can get it in an unhealthy way. You can get it through gambling,
but is that healthy. You could get it from taking prescription medications,
but is that healthy. You can get it by creational drugs, but is
that healthy. You want to get to the point where you don't need anything.
You don't need coffee, you don't need wine, you don't need chocolate,
you don't need dessert. You know, if you're having fun and it's
a wedding, it's a celebration, it's a birthday party, all right,
have your piece of cake, no big deal. But for the most part,
you want to create good habits. Don't just have cookies in your house
and brownies in your house and cake in your house. Have your house full
of healthy stuff, fruits and vegetables and nuts and seeds and lentils and beans,
and organic you know, chicken and turkey and fish and eggs, grass
fed meat. You know, simple stuff, healthy stuff, Not all the
process stuff in boxes and cans and bags. You want stuff that you could
just grab directly from the earth. One ingredient food and colorful. Eat all
the colors of the rainbow. All right, Try and eat in season if
possible. Try and eat where your genetics have eaten for many years. You
know, if you're from Puerto Rico, eat some of the foods that you
know they eat in Puerto Rico. If you're from you know, Ireland,
eat some of the foods that they have in Ireland. So it's not only
eating during the season, but also eating to your jeans as well. That's
very very important there. Now. As far as movement during the day,
I call it the twenty rule. So if you have to sit during work,
every twenty minutes, you set an alarm, you get up for twenty
seconds, walk twenty feet, just walk around your desk and then you could
sit back down, or just go sit to standing twenty times, or look
up and roll your shoulders back for twenty seconds, or do twenty push ups
or twenty sit ups or twenty jumping jacks or twenty squats. Just for twenty
seconds move your body. That's the twenty rule. Every twenty minutes, you
get up for twenty seconds, move your body, and then also look twenty
feet away for your eyes. You gotta save your eyes. If you're just
looking at a screen all day, that's no good. So you just do
it for twenty minutes twenty seconds, move and look twenty feet away more when
we come back from the break. Don't miss boost your brain power with doctor
Eric Kaplan every Saturday from two pm to three pm to learn the secrets of
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If you want to function better, feel better, and enjoy the quality of
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zero or email info at Kaplan Brain and Body dot com. If you're interested
in a free ten minute consultation with doctor Kaplan, or visit kaplindc dot com
for more information. Welcome back to boost your brain power. I'm your host,
doctor Eric Kaplan, talking about movement. You use it or you lose
it. We help a lot of people with dementia and Alzheimer's, and I
tell them that's one of the top three most important things is movement. Is
getting your body off the butt and action, heavy weights, resistance. You
gotta be uncomfortable, all right. Everyone's too comfortable right now. I told
you your heart's got to beat a little bit. You gotta start sweating.
That muscle's gotta work a little bit. You gotta strain it. You gotta
challenge it. You know you don't. Everything's too easy right now. And
a lot of technology is to blame. It's controlling our brains. Right.
You don't have to know how to spell things. Everything's fixed for you.
Everything fixes your grammar. You don't need to add things, you don't need
to find things. You got, you know, Google maps. You don't
have to remember people's phone numbers. You got your address book and your phone
book. Everything's made for you. I mean now, even with you know
chat GPT. You know, you don't have to even read books anymore.
You could say, hey, chat PT, summarize you know, of mice
and of men for me and in uh you know, three hundred words and
then bam, you know you have that. You got your little cliff notes
just made for you. Nobody has to do anything anymore. It's sad.
So you got to purposely challenge your brain. You got to purposely memorize stuff
that you don't have to. When when you can't think of something, don't
google it right away. I don't care if it takes you five minutes to
think of you know, that word you were trying to think of, or
that name or that place, whatever it is, that movie, that book,
don't google it, think of it. Challenge yourself. Stop using the
technology because it's making your brain weaker. You know what you do is if
you can't think of something, start doing something. Movement, Do that crosscrawl
exercise, do those infinities you know, walk around the block, do some
push up, some jumping jacks. That's gonna boost your brain power, and
all of a sudden, you start thinking better. If you're sitting all day
and not moving, your brain will teary. And that's why I'm so passionate
about this. I saw this with my grandma daddy. You know, when
she lived in Brooklyn when I was growing up. Her brain was amazing,
very healthy. You know. She always used to make us dinner and she
would always have the family over. She would always go dancing, She played
tennis. She was always social. You know, she always played cards with
her friends. Marjah On. She always you know, made this chopped liver
that I loved, and I hate child. I've never you know, she's
the only chop liver that I like is from my grandma Daddy. You know,
she used to look so beautiful, always dressed up. She always immaculate
with her makeup and her clothes, and always so smiling and laughing and always
so active and social. They hit at a party. Everybody loved her there,
so sweet and special. But then what happened is she moved down to
Florida. So they retired with a lot of people doing, especially in New
York, lie down to Florida like the heat. But then what happened is
she just sat on the couch all day watching TV. That was the worst
retirement. And when you sit on the couch. Everything deteriorates, especially your
brain. And it happened slowly. You know. At first was oh,
you know, when she comes into the kitchen, Wait, what was I
getting in here? When I come into the kitchen, you know, and
then now she would forget my you know, best friend's name. You know
that she's known, you know forever, right, and then you know,
her house started getting a little bit dirtier, and then she stopped cooking,
and then you know, the memory started going. So it was gradual.
And then eventually she got into a wheelchair and a diaper and had to go
to the nursing home. But it wasn't overnight, you know, it was
over thirty forty years. She lived a long life, right, she lived
her midday nineties. But you know, from sixty to ninety, it kept
getting worse and worse and worse. You know, a lot of these diseases
like Parkinson's and Alzheimer's and dementia, they literally take thirty to forty years to
develop. So that's why you've got to start now, because if you wait
forty years, that's so much, that's too much deterioration. It's a lot
harder to reverse. Now it still can be done. You know. That's
the good news is there's hope. But it's a lot easier if we start
earlier. You know, it all depends, right, So it might take
you know, a few weeks to improve if you start thirty years earlier.
It might take a few months to improve if you start ten to twenty years
earlier, And it might take a few years to improve if you wait thirty
to forty years. But it can always improve. It's just you know,
the younger you start, the easier it is. As long as you change
your bad habits and increase your good habits, your brain will function better,
feel better, and you'll live a better life. But all starts with the
function. I am a functional neurologist. I practice functional medicine. That means
we get to the root cause of the problem. Where is the dysfunction happening,
where's the breakdown, where's the interference? So I'm like a detective.
We got to figure out where the problems are. Because once we figure out
where the problems are, now we can give you the appropriate solution. Whether
it's getting your body to move more, whether it's eating healthier, whether it's
drinking more water, getting better sleep, working on your posture, working on
your alignment. Maybe you need to do breathing exercises. Maybe you need to
do eye exercises. Maybe you need to do balance exercise. Maybe you need
to do memory exercises. Maybe you need to work on your inflammation. Maybe
you need to work on your leaky gut. Maybe you have autoimmune disease.
Maybe you have having metal poisoning and we need to detox. Maybe you don't
have good absorption and you don't have enough stomach acid. There could be a
million things that are causing your symptoms that are the reason why your body's not
functioning at optimal levels. But you don't want to just say, oh I
have inflammation, let me take steroids. Oh I have pain, let me
take a pain killer. Oh I can't sleep, let me take a sleeping
pill. Oh I have depress and let me take an anti depress and oh
I get sick all the time, Let me take antibiotics. Oh I have
anxiety, Let me take a xanax. You don't want to just treating all
your symptoms with pills and worse is surgery. You don't want to be like,
oh my shoulder hurts, I'm gonna get shoulder surgery. My hipurts,
I'm gonna hip surgery. Oh I got golstones. Let me take out my
gall bladder. Oh I got you know, uh, menstrual problems. Let
me take out my uterus. I got intestinal problems. Let's take out the
colon. Let's, you know, chop out this part of the lung.
Let's chop out this diroid. Let's radiate this. You know, it's like
it's too much intervention. Let's start with conservative care first. That's what we
do in our office is a capital and brain and body. I have two
offices, one in Emerson, New Jersey, and one in New York City,
and we also help a lot of people virtual. You know, we
just got to get you on the right track. The key is to find
out where this interference is. So we have to do a proper neurologic evaluation.
One of the best tests is called a VNG. It's called video and
nostography. There's no radiation. What you do is where these goggles they're infrared
goggles, and they have these cameras and the measure eye movements, and these
different eye movements correlate to different areas of your brain. Your eyes are your
window into your nervous system. You could tell if you have heart disease from
your eyes. You can tell if you have liver disease from your eyes.
You could tell if you have anxiety from your eyes. You could tell each
of the lobes of the brain. My frontal cortex not working, is it
my parietal is at my occipital lobe. You can tell if it's your cerebellum,
your brain stem, the eyes. Can literally break down each area of
the brain and tell which areas are working well and which areas are not.
It could actually tell us in balances of the left and right brain. When
we have these imbalances in the left and right brain, that causes a lot
of problems such as you know add ADHD, even scoliosis problems, spinal problems,
depression, anxiety, people who have highs and lows, people who have
difficulty with focus or they get distracted easily, people have troums with motivation,
low energy. A lot of these are these disconnect syndromes between the left and
the right side. The VNG is perfect for that, you know, we
see these disconnecting childhood developmental delays, autism, dyslexia, threats. We see
a lot of patients with ticks and movement orders. So these are these neurologic
problems in the brain. That's the great test for that. It's called the
VNG. It's normally five hundred dollars, but as a gift to my listeners,
the first seven people that call can get this VNG instead of paying five
hundred dollars for only twenty one dollars. If you're want of the first seven
people to call, text or email the number is six four six two two
one six seven three eight, or you can email info at kaplinbraininbody dot com.
Just say you want to be one of the first seven people that listen
to my show and want to do the VNG for only twenty one dollars.
If nobody picks up, because a lot of people are gonna be calling right
now, just even message and say hey, I want to be one of
the first seven people. And you can, like I said, email as
well or text us tip. The other test that's super important is a one
on one evaluation with me. This is where we go over your blood work,
we go over your neurologic testing, we do memory tests, We check
out your heart, your lungs, your gut, We review your health goals.
We come up with, you know, figuring out where your interference is.
We come up with a good diagnosis, We come up with treatment plan
recommendations. That is quite involved. It's a little bit longer than the other
tests. This one takes about forty forty five minutes. It's a one on
one with me. It's normally five hundred dollars, but for the first seven
people that call you can get this one on one session when made doctor CAVLM
for only twenty one dollars. Right. All you have to do is call,
text or email. The number is six four six two two one six
seven three eight, or you can email info at Kaplinbrain Andbody dot com.
You can also get information by going to our website kaplindc dot com. And
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You can also do Instagram Caplin Brain and Body. We're on TikTok Caplin Brain
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that is also Caplin Brain and Body. So we have a lot of good
free information. I also have a couple of books out. I have a
book called Boost Your Brain Power, a Guide to improving your memory and focus.
You can get that on Amazon or you can call the office and order
it through us and we can get you assigned copy as well. And that
is it for today. Hope you learned a lot on how to function better,
feel better, and live a better life. This is doctor Eric Caplan.
You're listening to boost your brain power and we will see you next week.
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