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The following is a paid podcast.
iHeartRadio's hosting of this podcast constitutes neither an

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endorsement of the products offered or the
ideas expressed. Hello, when welcome to

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boost your brain power. I'm your
host, doctor Eric Kaplan. Hope everyone

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is having a great day so far. Hope you're doing something with movement.

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If you want to be healthy,
if you want to have the best brain

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function and feel best, you want
your immune system to be strong. You

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want a good posture. You want
to have strong muscles, strong bones,

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good circulation, good digestion, good
sleep. The cure is movement. Movement

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is the cure for every condition.
I don't care. If it's cancer,

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you gotta exercise, got to move
the body. I don't care. If

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it's heart disease, you gotta exercise. You gotta move the boy. I

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don't care. If it's diabetes,
Gotta exercise, Gotta move the body.

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Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, multiple sclerosis,
autism, add anxiety, depression, concussion,

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you have to move the body.
You know, see so many patients

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with concussion and the doctors tell them, hey, just rest, don't do

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anything that's dangerous. You know what
if your your muscle is damaged. Are

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you gonna say just rest, don't
do anything, don't move it. No,

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you're gonna say do physical therapy,
get it stronger. You're not gonna

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do nothing and let your brain get
worse. So we see a lot of

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patients with concussion, but it's an
art you can't do too much therapy where

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it aggravates their symptoms because their brain
can't handle it. That's called exceeding the

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metabolic capacity. A lot of these
concussion clinics they do too much and they

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cause more problems. Conversely, some
places underdo it. They just tell patients

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to do nothing and rest. That's
not good either. We need to find

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that happy median. We need to
do neurologic testing to figure out what areas

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of the brain are damaged with the
concussion, and then come up with appropriate

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therapy that's going to improve those areas
of the brain function without risking any harmful

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aggravation of the condition. And we're
going to give a special gift at the

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end of the show on these special
tests that analyze your brain. So stick

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around for the end. Now,
movement starts from the beginning of your day.

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The best time to exercise is in
the morning, that's when testosterone is

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highest. That's when your cortisol levels
are high. That's when you get good

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brain function, good heart function,
good circulation, good muscle tone. The

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morning is when you want to work
out. And don't tell me you don't

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have time in the morning. If
you have to, you wake up a

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half hour earlier. All right,
you need to move your body. You

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need to get that body strong.
You need a combination of aerobic and anaerobic

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exercises. What that means is doing
exercises that get your heart beating fast where

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you're sweating, where you're really challenged, and then also doing exercise where you're

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strengthening those muscles. Weight resistant exercises
or you know, stuff where you need

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to contract your muscles or hold your
muscles. So we want exercises that get

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your heart rate going fast and sweaty, but then exercises that get you strong

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and use those muscles and contract them
and strengthen them as well. If you

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want to prevent osteoporosis, the best
cure for osteoporosis is weight resistant exercises.

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The best cure is not a medicine, it's weight resistant exercises. You know,

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medicine doesn't cure symptoms, it hides
symptoms. Right, you don't want

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to take the medicine to make your
bones strong, or you want to figure

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out how con my bones aren't strong
to begin with. Do I have osteoporosis

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because of a nutritional deficiency? It
is my vitamin D levels low, or

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my magnesium levels null, or my
phosphorus. Those are the most common nutritional

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deficiencies that cause osteoporosis. It's not
calcium. I don't know where this came

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from, this whole obsession with calcium, But calcium is usually not the factor

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that makes your bones weak. It's
usually vitamin D or magnesium or phosphorus,

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or lack of physical exercise, lack
of movement, lack of weight resistant training.

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That's the bigger issue. I don't
know why everyone's just told take calcium

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and they think that that's going to
just fix their bones. In fact,

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it's the exact opposite. It might
cause more problems, might lead to osteoporosis

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or osteopenia, or even worse.
If you take calcium supplements and you don't

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need this calcium, or it's synthetic, or it's filled with all these impurities.

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What's going to happen, is your
body's going to deposit this calcium in

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some bad places, maybe in your
arteries and clog them, or maybe in

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your breast tissue and cause cancer,
or maybe in your brain cause neurologic problems.

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It's got to go somewhere. So
calcium is the most dangerous supplement you

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can take. You only want to
take calcium supplements if you do blood work

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and your calcium levels are really really
low. But just don't do it because

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you're older. Don't just do it
because you have osteoporosis. Don't just do

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it because you don't drink milk.
I can't believe how many people think that

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drinking milk gives you these great levels
of calcium and makes your bone strong.

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People have been brainwashed for decades.
There's no evidence that shows milk increases your

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calcium levels or makes your bone strong. There is evidence that people who tend

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to drink higher levels of milk and
have dairy products have a higher incident of

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osteoporosis and osteopenia versus people who don't
consume high amounts of dairy products. Interesting,

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it's the op with everybody's told,
Okay, so don't take calcium supplements

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unless you are deficient or else it
could cause major problems. I will tell

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you almost everyone that I've seen for
the last twenty three years in practice has

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been vitamin D deficient. That is
very common, you know, not to

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the point where you know, we're
seeing all these ricket patients. However,

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it's very common to have a deficiency, very common to be under thirty.

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And the reason why is everyone's always
inside. Right, So you wake up,

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you're inside, You eat breakfast,
you're inside. You commute to work,

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you're inside. You work all day, you're inside. You come home

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and eat dinner, you're inside,
sitting on the couch, watch TV.

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You're inside, You go to sleep, you're inside. Everybody is vitamin D

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deficient. We don't have too many
farmers around here and set. You know,

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I see all these farms closing for
strip malls, and you know,

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I wish we were building more farms, but we're just getting rid of these

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great farms. It's very sad to
see we have all this great land and

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there and they're chopping it down.
We could feed the world with all this

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land and just growing food, but
yet we need, you know, strip

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malls restaurants, shopping. You know, Americans love to eat and shop.

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You know, it's it's a things
of excess. I gotta tone it down.

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We gotta consume less, eat less, I gotta buy less things.

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Don't be materialistic. The only thing
in life that matters is your health.

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I spent all my money on my
health. I don't need any materials.

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It's all about the health. But
guess what health is. Vacation that's your

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health. You know, health club
membership, Orange theory membership, signing up

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for a basketball league, tennis league, exercise classes, those are all health.

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Buying organic food, getting a massage, it's all health. It's all

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health related. That's what you spend
your money on. Healthy food, ways

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to exercise, get your body moving, do stuff that you like, enjoy,

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and hopefully do it outside. That
way you'll get your vitamin D.

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You gotta do things outside. Start
running outside, walking outside, hiking outside,

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go into the beach, going for
a walk with your friends, taking

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the dog for a walk. Go
outside during sunrise during sunset to get the

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most vitamin D. You want to
go outside during lunchtime. You know,

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between twelve and two that's when the
sun's going to be most powerful. Go

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outside during your lunch. I don't
care if it's just for twenty minutes,

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but get outside and take off your
coat, roll up your sleeves, roll

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up your pants, take off your
glasses, take off your hat. You've

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got to get that sunlight connected to
your skin and your eyes. Your eyes

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will improve if you let the sun
and don't look directly at the sun,

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but let those sun rays hit your
eyes out of the shadows, don't hide

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behind the buildings. Get out in
the sun, especially if it's only for

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twenty thirty minutes during your lunch break. You're not gonna get sunburned or anything.

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And especially in the winter. It's
definitely not happening now in the winter.

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Definitely want to look into supplementation of
vitamin D. With vitamin D supplementation,

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you got to make sure it's with
fat. Also, it's calcium,

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magnesium, phosphorus to help. Those
are cofactors to help with the absorption,

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but they got to be in certain
ratios, right. You never find a

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vitamin by itself, so people always
take this vitamin C. You don't find

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vitamin C by itself. An orange, Yes, it has lots of vitamin

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C, but it's got other vitamins
along with it. That's why I like

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the vitamin D supplement from Apex Energetics. They have it in fat because it's

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a fat soluble vitamin with all the
cofactors including A and E and K because

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those are important cofactors for absorption.
Okay, we're going to continue the talk

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for more information. Welcome back to
boost your brain power. I am your

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host, doctor Eric Kaplan. We're
talking about movement. You need to move

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your body, and we were also
talking about vitamin D. So the best

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thing to do is a combination of
movement and being outside. Doesn't get better

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than that. Even more so,
do it with a friend or a family

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member. You have to be social. Having good movement and being social are

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going to boost your brain power.
That's going to help with depression anxiety,

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especially if you're around someone who's positive. Don't hang out with people who are

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negative, who are always complaining.
Don't hang out with them. They're always

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you know, the end of the
world is coming. You know, it's

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World War three. Everybody's evil,
there's racism, the police are brutality,

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and you know, you don't want
to hang out with people who are just

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complainers and they're negative. You know, you want to be realistic, right

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so, you know, but you
want to do it in a good way.

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You know, you don't You don't
have to trash other people or other

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things to make your point. That's
the problem with modern day politics. Nobody's

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actually talking about stuff they're passionate about. They're just making fun of the other

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side. And telling you why they're
wrong. You know, it would be

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like if I just said all the
bad things that all these doctors do,

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right, if I just spoke about, you know, how many people medicine

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kills, and how many people die
and serve inuries, and you know all

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the you know, people that were
killed in COVID from the doctors, and

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you know iatrogenic causes or the third
which is caused by the doctor. It's

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a third leading cause in America.
You know, we could talk about that

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all day long, all the harmful
side effects of medicine. But I don't

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want to waste this show just talking
about all the bad side effects of medicine.

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I want to give you solutions.
So the medicine is trying to hide

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symptoms. What I'm trying to do
is improve your function so you don't need

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medicine. You get to the root
cause of the problem rather than treating the

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problem. An ounce of prevention is
worth a pound of cure. So we

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don't need to tell you why everything
doesn't work. I just need to tell

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you the solutions. Because if you
do what was if you do what does

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work, then you're not going to
need medicine. If you do it does

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work, you're not gonna need surgeries. And I don't care if you have

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genetic predispositions. If you have this
past history, your body can change,

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your brain can change. That's called
neuroplasticity, and you could rewire your brain.

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You know, bones, heel,
muscles repair, and your brain can

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get rewired. But you got a
movement, right, So when I get

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brain exercises in my office, they're
off. There are certain exercises that involve

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movement. You're not just gonna be
sitting playing a computer game to challenge your

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brain. That's not the way to
do it. You're not just gonna be

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sitting down doing a crossword puzzle or
Sudoku. Sitting is the worst thing for

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your brain. So everyone thinks they're
doing all these great things by doing all

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these computer games and memory tests and
wordle and crossword puzzles Sudoku. You know,

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those things are good, but they're
only good when you're stuck seat where

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you can't do anything else, you
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Right, So in the beginning,
they're like, all right, everyone has

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to sit down. You know they'll
arrest you if you get up, so

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you know you have to sit down. You gotta put on your seatbelt,

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you know, and so you so
you're stuck sitting down for that takeoff right

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until they take off the light.
So what you gotta do during that time,

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that's when you do a brain exercise
where you sit. Okay, but

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usually you want to do them standing. You want to get them walking.

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You gotta get them moving, you
gotta get them running. So, for

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example, do a brain a brain
test while you're standing is called the crosscrawl

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exers. So you can try this
at home right now. What you do

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is you stand up and you start
marching in place, bringing your legs up

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really high. And then you tap
your right hand to your left leg as

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you march, and then you tap
your left hand to your right leg,

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so you go opposite you cross.
It's called a cross crawl. And then

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as you do that, now do
some sort of mental exercise. Do different

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categories. So you might say,
okay, I'm gonna do and you know,

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pick one where you can come up
with a lot of different things like

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colors, and then you tap your
opposite leg and you go red and blue

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and orange and yellow and green and
blue and purple and violet and pink,

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and you keep going, and the
idea is to try and get at least

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fifteen different colors within thirty seconds.
As you're marching in place, tapping your

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opposite leg. That's a movement.
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draw the infinity like a figure eight
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in the opposite direction with your left
leg. Now that's a balance exercise too,

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it next to the kitchen knives.
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out from the corner so that if
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if you go left, there's a
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the corner, and have like a
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So it's very safe, especially if
you have balance problems. But this is

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one of the best brain treatments for
balance problem because it activates your cerebellum,

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and your cerebellum is going to be
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It helps prevent falls. It also
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of these people who twist their ankles
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balance. This is the area of
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It's called your cerebellum, and the
best cerebellum therapy that you could do

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are these infinity symbols. They're very
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the opposite direction. That makes it
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with the left leg, or you
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the left leg, but you go
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arm goes right, the leg goes
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the middle of the body. Crossing
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important to get your brain functioning better
because it creates more connection. That's why

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we do the cross crawl that crosses
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taking your right hand to your left
leg, but then these infinities you want

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to cross over. Always imagine like
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over that belly button. That's a
movement test that's going to increase in your

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brain function the area called your seramalum. Now, if you're stuck seated and

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you want to do a movement,
you could do what we call slap chop

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fist where you just take your right
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chop it and make it a fist
and hit it. So you slap it,

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chop it, fist it, slap
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and you do that over and over
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day. When you get really good
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then you go slap, fist,
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good at that, you go slap
scissors, fist chop. So that you

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could do that in a chair while
you're seated. Let's say you're in a

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you know, morning commute. You're
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and you want to be productive because
you're stuck seated for that commute into the

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city. You do this slap chop
fist. You know, that's something that

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you can really do. Movement and
increase input into your brain. Or you

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do an eye exercise where you just
you know, find a point on the

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headrest in front of you and focus
on that point and slowly turn your head

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right and left, so you're moving
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you're using your focus. There's millions
and millions of brain exercises you can do,

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but the key is to figure out
which brain exercises are most important for

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your brain. So the way to
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your brain is to do a brain
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called a qEEG brain mapping, and
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Welcome back to boost your brain power.

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I'm your host, doctor Eric Kaplan. We're talking about the best ways to

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improve your brain function and improve your
body function just through movement. Doesn't matter

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what condition you have. You got
to get the body move them. But

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you gotta do something that you like. You know, something that's fun.

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Right. Some of my patients do
belly dancing, they love it. Some

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do line dancing. Those are good
because you've got to memorize the order and

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you're moving your body and you're being
social and you're getting out of the house.

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That's what we like. Social movement, get out. Those are the

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best brain exercises. You know,
have some fun in life. There's twenty

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four hours in a day. Eight
hours should be sleep, eight hours should

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be work, and eight hours should
be fun, all right, And now

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if you can combine them where work
is fun, right, that's that's the

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ideal way. You gotta have fun. It's too serious these days. Unplug,

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turn off the news, turn off
social media. You know, read

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your local newspaper. Don't read these
big newspapers. You know. That's why

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I write for the Pascak Press,
which is a local newspaper here in New

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Jersey. I write for the Northern
Valley Press. You know, these are

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good newspapers because they're giving you,
you know, good, feel good stories.

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They're not telling you about all the
trauma, all the horror, all

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the death and disasters in the world. I don't want to hear about that.

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You know. I'm gonna help a
lot of people through community, through

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charity. That's how you get involved. You're not helping by just listening and

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watching travesties. You want to help
people, you know, help them in

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real life. Just being informed about
all the depths that's happening isn't helping anybody,

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and especially it's not helping you.
And if you're telling other people about

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it, you're not helping those other
people either. If you're gonna do something,

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if you're gonna do a charity,
Okay, get involved that way.

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You're gonna volunteer, Get involved that
way. You know, if you want

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to help others, great, I'm
all for that. That is key to

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boost your brain power. And if
you can do it with movement, even

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better. Right, if you can
do a movement even better. Say,

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you know, if you're you know, a good swimmer, you know,

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teach underprivileged kids how to swim.
Right, if you're a good dancer,

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you know, go to the senior
City and Center and teach you know,

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the elderly people that had a tango. Right, That's how you volund That's

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how you help people. You know, volunteer in your communities. You're not

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helping anyone by being knowledgeable that all
the people that are causing death and destruction.

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You know. You know, if
you went during nine to eleven to

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help clean up downtown, help look
for people, then you're being helpful.

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It's not helpful just to keep watching
the planes hit the building. That's not

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helpful. That causes nightmares. Right, you want to help somebody that lost

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their parents in that you know terrorism
acts, Okay, help these kids man

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who are now orphaned. Right,
that's taking action. That's gonna boost your

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brain power. But if you're watching
the news at night and you're learning about

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Israel and Ukraine and Taiwan's being invaded
by China, and you're watching these wildfires

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in Hawaii and Canada, and you're, you know, learning about tornadoes and

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earthquakes, and people in Chicago being
murdered and homeless in San Francisco, and

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you know, New York so dirty
and the crime and people are getting stabbed

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and shot, and you know you're
gonna have nightmares. Your cortisol levels are

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gonna go through the roof. You
gotta turn off the news, you know,

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at nighttime. Find something where you're
moving, Get off your butt,

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take that dog for a walk,
you know, like I said, go

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and do something with a person.
Be social, Join a book club,

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get out of the house, take
a sewing class. Get your body move

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and move those hands, you know, do something fun. Stop this repetition

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of work, eat TV, computer
phone sleep, work, eat TV,

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computer phone sleep. That is a
recipe for disaster. There's no movement there,

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right, And even when people are
being social, it's usually not movement.

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They're going to the bar and sitting
right. They're going to the movies

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and sitting. They're going to the
opera and sitting. They're going to the

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ballet and sitting. They're going to
Broadway and sitting. They're going to the

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restaurant and sitting. They're driving to
the restaurant and sitting. They're driving home

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from the restaurant and sitting. It's
always sitting. Start doing activities that get

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your body moving, and everybody's different. I mean, I'm so thankful that

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I love to do all these active
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biking, I love rollerblading. I
love tennis and soccer and football, and

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you know, I love baseball.
I love things that make us move.

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You know, I love taking my
dogs for a walk. That's the most

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amazing thing in the world, and
I always try and do it. Sunrise

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and sunset. That way, you
get your hormones in order. When your

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brain sees the sun rise, you're
gonna get cortisol. That's gonna increase,

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that's gonna get you going for the
day. It's gonna give you that energy

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you need. You don't need a
cup of coffee. You need movement,

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you need sunlight, you need oxygen. You do not need coffee. I

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don't get it. I don't get
it. While people are obsessed with Starbucks

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and Dunkin Donuts, I don't get
it. Why are you wasting so much

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money? Why you Oh my god, it gets me so frustrated. You

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don't need this coffee. Everyone thinks
they need it. It's a drug.

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Right You Start exercising, start eating
a healthy breakfast. You start watching the

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sunrise, you start breathing better,
meditating, start spending some quality time with

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your family in the morning. You
don't need a cup of coffee. I'm

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telling you now, it's in the
beginning. If you want to quit coffee,

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it's gonna be tough. You're gonna
get headaches, you're gonna be cranky,

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you're gonna have low energy, you're
gonna be irritable. But you're gonna

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prevent Parkinson's. You're gonna prevent cancer. You're gonna prevent heart disease, you

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gonna prevent dementia. You gotta take
care of your body now. If you

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want to have a healthy future,
an ounce of prevention is worth a pound

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of cure. And I know people
like coffee, and I know people like

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to drink alcohol, and I know
people like to eat pizza, and I

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know, people like ice cream and
cake. I get it. People like

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these things because what happens is you
get this dopamine hit in your brain.

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However, you can get that same
dopamine hit in your brain by doing the

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activities I'm telling you, By exercising, by being social, by taking the

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dog for a walk, by getting
some sunlight, by taking vacations. These

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all give you dopamine. So you
can get it a healthy way, or

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you can get it in an unhealthy
way. You can get it through gambling,

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but is that healthy. You could
get it from taking prescription medications,

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but is that healthy. You can
get it by creational drugs, but is

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that healthy. You want to get
to the point where you don't need anything.

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You don't need coffee, you don't
need wine, you don't need chocolate,

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you don't need dessert. You know, if you're having fun and it's

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a wedding, it's a celebration,
it's a birthday party, all right,

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have your piece of cake, no
big deal. But for the most part,

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you want to create good habits.
Don't just have cookies in your house

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and brownies in your house and cake
in your house. Have your house full

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of healthy stuff, fruits and vegetables
and nuts and seeds and lentils and beans,

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and organic you know, chicken and
turkey and fish and eggs, grass

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fed meat. You know, simple
stuff, healthy stuff, Not all the

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process stuff in boxes and cans and
bags. You want stuff that you could

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just grab directly from the earth.
One ingredient food and colorful. Eat all

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the colors of the rainbow. All
right, Try and eat in season if

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possible. Try and eat where your
genetics have eaten for many years. You

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know, if you're from Puerto Rico, eat some of the foods that you

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know they eat in Puerto Rico.
If you're from you know, Ireland,

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eat some of the foods that they
have in Ireland. So it's not only

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eating during the season, but also
eating to your jeans as well. That's

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very very important there. Now.
As far as movement during the day,

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I call it the twenty rule.
So if you have to sit during work,

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every twenty minutes, you set an
alarm, you get up for twenty

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seconds, walk twenty feet, just
walk around your desk and then you could

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sit back down, or just go
sit to standing twenty times, or look

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up and roll your shoulders back for
twenty seconds, or do twenty push ups

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or twenty sit ups or twenty jumping
jacks or twenty squats. Just for twenty

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seconds move your body. That's the
twenty rule. Every twenty minutes, you

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get up for twenty seconds, move
your body, and then also look twenty

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feet away for your eyes. You
gotta save your eyes. If you're just

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looking at a screen all day,
that's no good. So you just do

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it for twenty minutes twenty seconds,
move and look twenty feet away more when

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we come back from the break.
Don't miss boost your brain power with doctor

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Eric Kaplan every Saturday from two pm
to three pm to learn the secrets of

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how to optimize your brain function.
You can improve memory, focus, energy,

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sleep, digestion, mood, skin, metabolism, and strength by following

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the science and research that doctor Caplan
will be sharing with his audience. Join

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the adventure of discovering how to help
the brain and body in a natural way

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while having fun at the same time. Listen to boost your brain power.

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If you want to function better,
feel better, and enjoy the quality of

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life you deserve. Called two oh
one two six' one two one five

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zero or email info at Kaplan Brain
and Body dot com. If you're interested

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in a free ten minute consultation with
doctor Kaplan, or visit kaplindc dot com

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for more information. Welcome back to
boost your brain power. I'm your host,

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doctor Eric Kaplan, talking about movement. You use it or you lose

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it. We help a lot of
people with dementia and Alzheimer's, and I

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tell them that's one of the top
three most important things is movement. Is

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getting your body off the butt and
action, heavy weights, resistance. You

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gotta be uncomfortable, all right.
Everyone's too comfortable right now. I told

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you your heart's got to beat a
little bit. You gotta start sweating.

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That muscle's gotta work a little bit. You gotta strain it. You gotta

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challenge it. You know you don't. Everything's too easy right now. And

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a lot of technology is to blame. It's controlling our brains. Right.

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You don't have to know how to
spell things. Everything's fixed for you.

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Everything fixes your grammar. You don't
need to add things, you don't need

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to find things. You got,
you know, Google maps. You don't

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have to remember people's phone numbers.
You got your address book and your phone

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book. Everything's made for you.
I mean now, even with you know

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chat GPT. You know, you
don't have to even read books anymore.

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You could say, hey, chat
PT, summarize you know, of mice

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and of men for me and in
uh you know, three hundred words and

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then bam, you know you have
that. You got your little cliff notes

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just made for you. Nobody has
to do anything anymore. It's sad.

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So you got to purposely challenge your
brain. You got to purposely memorize stuff

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that you don't have to. When
when you can't think of something, don't

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google it right away. I don't
care if it takes you five minutes to

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think of you know, that word
you were trying to think of, or

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that name or that place, whatever
it is, that movie, that book,

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don't google it, think of it. Challenge yourself. Stop using the

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technology because it's making your brain weaker. You know what you do is if

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you can't think of something, start
doing something. Movement, Do that crosscrawl

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exercise, do those infinities you know, walk around the block, do some

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push up, some jumping jacks.
That's gonna boost your brain power, and

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all of a sudden, you start
thinking better. If you're sitting all day

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and not moving, your brain will
teary. And that's why I'm so passionate

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about this. I saw this with
my grandma daddy. You know, when

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she lived in Brooklyn when I was
growing up. Her brain was amazing,

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very healthy. You know. She
always used to make us dinner and she

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would always have the family over.
She would always go dancing, She played

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tennis. She was always social.
You know, she always played cards with

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her friends. Marjah On. She
always you know, made this chopped liver

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that I loved, and I hate
child. I've never you know, she's

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the only chop liver that I like
is from my grandma Daddy. You know,

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she used to look so beautiful,
always dressed up. She always immaculate

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with her makeup and her clothes,
and always so smiling and laughing and always

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so active and social. They hit
at a party. Everybody loved her there,

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so sweet and special. But then
what happened is she moved down to

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Florida. So they retired with a
lot of people doing, especially in New

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York, lie down to Florida like
the heat. But then what happened is

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she just sat on the couch all
day watching TV. That was the worst

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retirement. And when you sit on
the couch. Everything deteriorates, especially your

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brain. And it happened slowly.
You know. At first was oh,

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you know, when she comes into
the kitchen, Wait, what was I

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getting in here? When I come
into the kitchen, you know, and

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then now she would forget my you
know, best friend's name. You know

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that she's known, you know forever, right, and then you know,

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her house started getting a little bit
dirtier, and then she stopped cooking,

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and then you know, the memory
started going. So it was gradual.

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And then eventually she got into a
wheelchair and a diaper and had to go

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to the nursing home. But it
wasn't overnight, you know, it was

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over thirty forty years. She lived
a long life, right, she lived

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her midday nineties. But you know, from sixty to ninety, it kept

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getting worse and worse and worse.
You know, a lot of these diseases

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like Parkinson's and Alzheimer's and dementia,
they literally take thirty to forty years to

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develop. So that's why you've got
to start now, because if you wait

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forty years, that's so much,
that's too much deterioration. It's a lot

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harder to reverse. Now it still
can be done. You know. That's

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the good news is there's hope.
But it's a lot easier if we start

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earlier. You know, it all
depends, right, So it might take

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you know, a few weeks to
improve if you start thirty years earlier.

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It might take a few months to
improve if you start ten to twenty years

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earlier, And it might take a
few years to improve if you wait thirty

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to forty years. But it can
always improve. It's just you know,

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the younger you start, the easier
it is. As long as you change

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your bad habits and increase your good
habits, your brain will function better,

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feel better, and you'll live a
better life. But all starts with the

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function. I am a functional neurologist. I practice functional medicine. That means

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we get to the root cause of
the problem. Where is the dysfunction happening,

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where's the breakdown, where's the interference? So I'm like a detective.

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We got to figure out where the
problems are. Because once we figure out

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where the problems are, now we
can give you the appropriate solution. Whether

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it's getting your body to move more, whether it's eating healthier, whether it's

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drinking more water, getting better sleep, working on your posture, working on

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your alignment. Maybe you need to
do breathing exercises. Maybe you need to

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do eye exercises. Maybe you need
to do balance exercise. Maybe you need

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to do memory exercises. Maybe you
need to work on your inflammation. Maybe

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you need to work on your leaky
gut. Maybe you have autoimmune disease.

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Maybe you have having metal poisoning and
we need to detox. Maybe you don't

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have good absorption and you don't have
enough stomach acid. There could be a

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million things that are causing your symptoms
that are the reason why your body's not

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functioning at optimal levels. But you
don't want to just say, oh I

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have inflammation, let me take steroids. Oh I have pain, let me

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take a pain killer. Oh I
can't sleep, let me take a sleeping

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pill. Oh I have depress and
let me take an anti depress and oh

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I get sick all the time,
Let me take antibiotics. Oh I have

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anxiety, Let me take a xanax. You don't want to just treating all

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your symptoms with pills and worse is
surgery. You don't want to be like,

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00:46:55.800 --> 00:46:59.639
oh my shoulder hurts, I'm gonna
get shoulder surgery. My hipurts,

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I'm gonna hip surgery. Oh I
got golstones. Let me take out my

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gall bladder. Oh I got you
know, uh, menstrual problems. Let

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me take out my uterus. I
got intestinal problems. Let's take out the

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colon. Let's, you know,
chop out this part of the lung.

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Let's chop out this diroid. Let's
radiate this. You know, it's like

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it's too much intervention. Let's start
with conservative care first. That's what we

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do in our office is a capital
and brain and body. I have two

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offices, one in Emerson, New
Jersey, and one in New York City,

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and we also help a lot of
people virtual. You know, we

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just got to get you on the
right track. The key is to find

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out where this interference is. So
we have to do a proper neurologic evaluation.

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One of the best tests is called
a VNG. It's called video and

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nostography. There's no radiation. What
you do is where these goggles they're infrared

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goggles, and they have these cameras
and the measure eye movements, and these

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different eye movements correlate to different areas
of your brain. Your eyes are your

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window into your nervous system. You
could tell if you have heart disease from

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your eyes. You can tell if
you have liver disease from your eyes.

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You could tell if you have anxiety
from your eyes. You could tell each

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of the lobes of the brain.
My frontal cortex not working, is it

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my parietal is at my occipital lobe. You can tell if it's your cerebellum,

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your brain stem, the eyes.
Can literally break down each area of

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the brain and tell which areas are
working well and which areas are not.

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It could actually tell us in balances
of the left and right brain. When

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we have these imbalances in the left
and right brain, that causes a lot

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of problems such as you know add
ADHD, even scoliosis problems, spinal problems,

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depression, anxiety, people who have
highs and lows, people who have

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difficulty with focus or they get distracted
easily, people have troums with motivation,

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low energy. A lot of these
are these disconnect syndromes between the left and

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the right side. The VNG is
perfect for that, you know, we

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see these disconnecting childhood developmental delays,
autism, dyslexia, threats. We see

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a lot of patients with ticks and
movement orders. So these are these neurologic

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problems in the brain. That's the
great test for that. It's called the

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VNG. It's normally five hundred dollars, but as a gift to my listeners,

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the first seven people that call can
get this VNG instead of paying five

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00:49:30.159 --> 00:49:35.320
hundred dollars for only twenty one dollars. If you're want of the first seven

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people to call, text or email
the number is six four six two two

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one six seven three eight, or
you can email info at kaplinbraininbody dot com.

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Just say you want to be one
of the first seven people that listen

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to my show and want to do
the VNG for only twenty one dollars.

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If nobody picks up, because a
lot of people are gonna be calling right

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now, just even message and say
hey, I want to be one of

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the first seven people. And you
can, like I said, email as

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well or text us tip. The
other test that's super important is a one

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on one evaluation with me. This
is where we go over your blood work,

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we go over your neurologic testing,
we do memory tests, We check

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out your heart, your lungs,
your gut, We review your health goals.

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We come up with, you know, figuring out where your interference is.

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We come up with a good diagnosis, We come up with treatment plan

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recommendations. That is quite involved.
It's a little bit longer than the other

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tests. This one takes about forty
forty five minutes. It's a one on

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one with me. It's normally five
hundred dollars, but for the first seven

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people that call you can get this
one on one session when made doctor CAVLM

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for only twenty one dollars. Right. All you have to do is call,

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text or email. The number is
six four six two two one six

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seven three eight, or you can
email info at Kaplinbrain Andbody dot com.

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You can also get information by going
to our website kaplindc dot com. And

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you can also follow us on social
media on Facebook Caplin Brain and Body.

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You can also do Instagram Caplin Brain
and Body. We're on TikTok Caplin Brain

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and Body. And we also have
a YouTube channel with over one hundred videos

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that is also Caplin Brain and Body. So we have a lot of good

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free information. I also have a
couple of books out. I have a

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book called Boost Your Brain Power,
a Guide to improving your memory and focus.

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You can get that on Amazon or
you can call the office and order

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00:51:45.960 --> 00:51:52.039
it through us and we can get
you assigned copy as well. And that

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is it for today. Hope you
learned a lot on how to function better,

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feel better, and live a better
life. This is doctor Eric Caplan.

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You're listening to boost your brain power
and we will see you next week.

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If you want to improve your brain
function, help with memory, focus,

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sleep, digestion, energy, depression, anxiety, dizziness, balance,

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00:52:19.639 --> 00:52:22.599
vision, headaches, brain fog,
weight loss, or simply want to maximize

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your human potential and prevent future diseases, that this is the show for you.

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Don't misboost your brain power with doctor
Eric Caplan and you will learn natural,

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integrative and holistic approaches to modern day
medical problems such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's

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stroke, autism, add concussion,
autoimmune diseases, insomnia, fibromyalgia, vertigo,

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migraines, four posture pain, TBI, skin and digestive problems. Doctor

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Caplin is most famous for getting to
the root cause of a wide variety of

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brain and health conditions, rather than
treating symptoms with traditional medicines and risky surgeries.

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To contact to doctor Kaplan, you
can call his team at two oh

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one two six one two one five
zero, or visit his website at kaplandc

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dot com. The preceding was a
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