WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.160 --> 00:00:03.919 The following is a paid podcast. iHeartRadio's hosting of this 2 00:00:04.000 --> 00:00:07.799 podcast constitutes neither an endorsement of the products offered or 3 00:00:07.879 --> 00:00:09.199 the ideas expressed. 4 00:00:09.560 --> 00:00:14.000 Function better, feel better, and live a better life. This 5 00:00:14.279 --> 00:00:17.760 is doctor Eric Kaplan and you're listening to Boosh your 6 00:00:17.800 --> 00:00:21.160 brain power. A lot of my patients come to me 7 00:00:21.879 --> 00:00:28.120 with high stress, anxiety, panic, worry, the minds raising a 8 00:00:28.199 --> 00:00:31.760 million miles per hour. They can't sleep, they wake up 9 00:00:31.839 --> 00:00:35.640 all stressed out. Their cortisol levels are high. They can 10 00:00:35.799 --> 00:00:40.079 lose the weight, so everything is overactive. Even their muscles 11 00:00:40.079 --> 00:00:44.240 are in spasm, their joints are inmplained. Their immune system 12 00:00:44.280 --> 00:00:47.520 can be overactive. It's called autoimmune disease. So when the 13 00:00:47.520 --> 00:00:51.759 brain's overactive, the immune system becomes overactive, and it starts 14 00:00:51.799 --> 00:00:56.079 attacking your thyroid and can create hashimotos, and it can 15 00:00:56.119 --> 00:01:02.719 attack your joints, creating rheumatoid arthritis, your gut causing silliac disease, 16 00:01:02.840 --> 00:01:07.480 or your brain causing MSS or pain all over calling 17 00:01:07.719 --> 00:01:13.519 fibromyalgia or skin problems or hair problems like psoriasis or 18 00:01:13.599 --> 00:01:20.959 lupis exima. These are all autommune diseases because the brain 19 00:01:21.200 --> 00:01:26.519 is overactive. When the brain is overactive, we need to 20 00:01:26.640 --> 00:01:31.439 calm it down. It's not rocket science. Most people's brains 21 00:01:31.439 --> 00:01:35.640 are overactive. They're in stress mode. And what the worst 22 00:01:35.680 --> 00:01:38.319 thing to do is to have a stimulant. So a 23 00:01:38.319 --> 00:01:41.879 lot of people who have anxiety or difficulty sleeping actually 24 00:01:42.120 --> 00:01:46.280 drink coffee or have energy drinks, or eat a lot 25 00:01:46.280 --> 00:01:50.640 of sugar. These are all stimulants, and the stimulants will 26 00:01:50.920 --> 00:01:55.040 increase an overactive brain. So, if you do have anxiety, 27 00:01:55.319 --> 00:02:02.079 difficulty sleeping, stress, panic, ADHD, the going you get distracted, 28 00:02:02.719 --> 00:02:07.120 can't focus, you can't think, you have negative rumination. We 29 00:02:07.239 --> 00:02:10.560 got to calm down your brain. And the good news 30 00:02:10.639 --> 00:02:14.680 is there's a process called neuroplasticity where you could actually 31 00:02:14.840 --> 00:02:19.240 rewire your brain to get it in a more relaxed state. 32 00:02:20.240 --> 00:02:22.400 And what that means instead of being in the fighter 33 00:02:22.520 --> 00:02:27.240 flight mode, you're in a more relaxed rest and digest state. 34 00:02:28.520 --> 00:02:33.439 And so that means we need to actually strengthen what's 35 00:02:33.479 --> 00:02:40.360 called your parasympathetic nervous system. The parasympathetic nervous system is 36 00:02:40.439 --> 00:02:44.360 going to get you in a more relaxed state. There's 37 00:02:44.599 --> 00:02:49.840 four nerves that you can activate that's going to relax 38 00:02:49.919 --> 00:02:54.719 your brain to reduce your stress and get you out 39 00:02:54.719 --> 00:02:59.599 of that fighter flight mode into a calm, relaxed, rest 40 00:02:59.680 --> 00:03:06.159 and deyes state. So the four nerves that are going 41 00:03:06.240 --> 00:03:10.400 to relax your nervous system, it's called the ocular motor nerve, 42 00:03:11.039 --> 00:03:16.759 the facial nerve, the glossopharyngeal nerve, and the vegas nerve. 43 00:03:17.520 --> 00:03:19.919 Now you don't have to memorize them because I'll explain 44 00:03:20.159 --> 00:03:24.120 to what each these nerves dick. So the ocular motor 45 00:03:24.759 --> 00:03:29.919 is your eye exercises. There's lots of eye exercises that 46 00:03:30.039 --> 00:03:33.800 you could do to strengthen this cranial nerve number three 47 00:03:34.199 --> 00:03:39.400 called the ocular motor nerve. Now, you could do a 48 00:03:39.439 --> 00:03:46.039 few things such as near far exercises, brock string exercises, 49 00:03:47.120 --> 00:03:56.560 no no yes yes exercises, microscods, visual pursuits, vestibular ocular reflexes, 50 00:03:56.719 --> 00:04:02.759 optokinetic I exercises. There's all these different eye exercises and 51 00:04:02.800 --> 00:04:07.639 they could be applied different ways to stimulate the ocular 52 00:04:07.759 --> 00:04:12.039 mode or nerve to get you out of that stress mode. 53 00:04:13.159 --> 00:04:18.439 So the eyes are very important to heal the brain. 54 00:04:18.879 --> 00:04:21.040 The eyes are the only part of the brain we 55 00:04:21.120 --> 00:04:25.519 can actually see, right, I can't see your brain. I 56 00:04:25.560 --> 00:04:31.839 can't see your spinal cord. I can't see your central 57 00:04:31.879 --> 00:04:35.759 nervous system. I can't see your peripherle nerves. We can't 58 00:04:35.759 --> 00:04:38.079 see any of that part of the nervous system. But 59 00:04:38.120 --> 00:04:41.879 the eyes we can actually see. So we could diagnose 60 00:04:42.079 --> 00:04:45.759 and treat lots of conditions through the eyes, and not 61 00:04:45.920 --> 00:04:47.920 just for the brain. You can actually tell if there's 62 00:04:47.920 --> 00:04:50.639 a liver problem by looking at your eyes, if they 63 00:04:50.680 --> 00:04:54.439 become yellow or jaundice. You could tell if there's a 64 00:04:54.439 --> 00:04:58.480 hard problem. You can actually look inside the eyes and 65 00:04:58.519 --> 00:05:02.839 look at the red arteries and the veins and look 66 00:05:02.879 --> 00:05:05.079 at the size of them and see, you know, is 67 00:05:05.120 --> 00:05:10.000 there increased tension or pressure. You can see if there's 68 00:05:10.879 --> 00:05:16.959 issues with increase pressure, you know, like a tumor or 69 00:05:16.959 --> 00:05:24.079 something like that. You could see how the circulation is going. 70 00:05:25.519 --> 00:05:27.920 You could see so many things through the eyes. The 71 00:05:27.959 --> 00:05:31.439 eyes are the window into the brain and the nervous system. 72 00:05:31.519 --> 00:05:33.639 So in our offices in New York and New Jersey, 73 00:05:33.720 --> 00:05:38.279 we do lots of eye exercises but specific to the 74 00:05:38.319 --> 00:05:43.079 weak areas, and we can use eyes to stimulate different 75 00:05:43.160 --> 00:05:45.759 areas of the brain. The one we're talking about now, 76 00:05:45.800 --> 00:05:49.639 it's called the ocular motor nerve, and there's different specific 77 00:05:49.720 --> 00:05:53.839 exercise that can strengthen that nerve to increase input into 78 00:05:53.920 --> 00:05:57.240 your parasympathetic nervous system to get you out of that 79 00:05:57.319 --> 00:06:02.120 stress mode into a calm relax So that's cranal nerve three. 80 00:06:02.199 --> 00:06:05.639 That's the first of four nerves that will relax your 81 00:06:05.639 --> 00:06:11.439 nervous system. The second nerve is called the facial nerve, 82 00:06:11.639 --> 00:06:16.279 and that's pretty self explanatory. It innervates your face. So 83 00:06:16.319 --> 00:06:20.800 we could do different sensory types of stimulation, motor types 84 00:06:20.839 --> 00:06:25.480 of stimulation. Even the ear rubbing on what's called your 85 00:06:25.560 --> 00:06:29.560 tragus will stimulate the facial nerve. The optic blink reflex 86 00:06:29.600 --> 00:06:32.600 where you blow air into the eye to elicit a 87 00:06:32.639 --> 00:06:39.480 blink that actually stimulates the facial nerve. Taste sweet sour, 88 00:06:39.639 --> 00:06:43.079 salty on the tip of the tongue actually activates the 89 00:06:43.120 --> 00:06:46.680 facial nerve. So we can do sensory motor We could 90 00:06:46.680 --> 00:06:49.800 work on the ear, the eyes, the tongue all to 91 00:06:49.879 --> 00:06:52.839 stimulate this facial nerve, just like you could go to 92 00:06:52.920 --> 00:06:56.360 the gym and do weight lifting and bicep curls. I 93 00:06:56.399 --> 00:06:59.720 am a functional neurologist and a brain expert who teaches 94 00:06:59.759 --> 00:07:04.120 you neurologic exercises that you could do to improve your 95 00:07:04.160 --> 00:07:08.639 brain function. Now, don't come to me if you want medication, 96 00:07:08.800 --> 00:07:12.839 if you want a xanax, if you want anti anxiety antidepressants, 97 00:07:12.879 --> 00:07:17.000 Alexa pro, if you want lithium, if you want all 98 00:07:17.120 --> 00:07:20.600 these horrible drugs that have lots of side effects that 99 00:07:20.759 --> 00:07:23.800 shut off your brain. We don't want to shut off 100 00:07:23.800 --> 00:07:27.199 your brain. All we want to do is relax the 101 00:07:27.439 --> 00:07:30.839 overactive areas of the brain. But the areas of the 102 00:07:30.839 --> 00:07:34.120 brain that are working well, we don't want to shut 103 00:07:34.240 --> 00:07:38.560 those off. So when you take those medications to reduce 104 00:07:38.600 --> 00:07:42.560 your anxiety, you might be reducing your anxiety or depression, 105 00:07:42.560 --> 00:07:45.079 but you're also shutting off the good parts of your 106 00:07:45.079 --> 00:07:49.319 brain that create happiness and joy and love and passion 107 00:07:49.399 --> 00:07:52.240 and energy. You don't want to be walking around like 108 00:07:52.279 --> 00:07:54.959 a zombie. So if you want to actually get to 109 00:07:55.040 --> 00:07:59.079 the root cause of your neurological condition, if you're sick 110 00:07:59.120 --> 00:08:03.000 of hiding symptoms with medication, then this is the show 111 00:08:03.079 --> 00:08:06.000 for you. We are the people that are gonna help 112 00:08:06.040 --> 00:08:09.199 you out. All our offices in New Jersey, New York. 113 00:08:09.279 --> 00:08:12.600 If you're far away, we do virtual visits, resume or 114 00:08:12.639 --> 00:08:15.560 phase time or whats that We are here for you 115 00:08:15.639 --> 00:08:20.360 to teach you exercises you could do to calm down 116 00:08:20.439 --> 00:08:24.319 your stressed out brain, to reduce anxiety, reduce your cordis 117 00:08:24.360 --> 00:08:27.360 all your stress hormone, Get better sleep, get rid of 118 00:08:27.360 --> 00:08:31.480 that fatigue, improve brain function, no more brain fog, because 119 00:08:31.480 --> 00:08:34.440 we want to get your nervous system in a relaxed state. 120 00:08:35.919 --> 00:08:39.200 All right, So we got the oculo motor cranial nerve three, 121 00:08:39.240 --> 00:08:42.759 that's the first nerve, the facial nerve, cranial nerve seven 122 00:08:43.000 --> 00:08:46.120 that's the second nerve. Now the third nerve that you 123 00:08:46.159 --> 00:08:48.679 could activate to relax your nervous system. It's called the 124 00:08:48.720 --> 00:08:54.919 glosso pharyngeal nerve. The glosso for angel is basically your 125 00:08:54.960 --> 00:08:57.799 tongue and your back of your throat like your palate. 126 00:08:58.279 --> 00:09:02.480 You can activate that with the gag reflex. So you 127 00:09:02.480 --> 00:09:05.279 get your toothbrush, get a tongue depressed, or go all 128 00:09:05.320 --> 00:09:07.440 the way to back of your throat and hit the 129 00:09:07.440 --> 00:09:09.080 back of the throat, not to the point where you 130 00:09:09.120 --> 00:09:11.559 throw up, but where you will listen a gag, like 131 00:09:12.120 --> 00:09:17.840 a big gag reflex that will stimulate this glosso pharyngeal nerve. 132 00:09:18.600 --> 00:09:23.200 You could also do taste bitter in the back of 133 00:09:23.240 --> 00:09:25.679 the tongue. If you put bitter in the back of 134 00:09:25.720 --> 00:09:31.720 the tongue, that also activates cranial nerve nine, the glosso 135 00:09:31.799 --> 00:09:34.559 fyryngeal nerve, which is gonna get you in a relaxed state. 136 00:09:34.919 --> 00:09:37.080 And to get better, you could do dark chocolate, you 137 00:09:37.080 --> 00:09:39.960 could do some bitter herbs, you could do coffee grinds. 138 00:09:40.039 --> 00:09:42.559 Don't swallow it, but just hold it in the back 139 00:09:42.600 --> 00:09:46.879 of your tongue for thirty seconds and then spit it out. 140 00:09:47.080 --> 00:09:51.000 That will literally activate this glosso pharyngeal nerve, which gets 141 00:09:51.000 --> 00:09:55.360 you in a more relaxed state. And the fourth nerve 142 00:09:55.399 --> 00:09:59.080 that gets you in a relaxed state is the vagus nerve, 143 00:09:59.559 --> 00:10:03.159 the vague nerve. You can stimulate by gargling really intensely 144 00:10:03.240 --> 00:10:06.600 for thirty seconds. You could do a big swallow, get 145 00:10:06.600 --> 00:10:08.879 a bunch of saliva on your tongue, and just do 146 00:10:09.000 --> 00:10:12.879 one big goff ball swallow. Imagine a golf ball that 147 00:10:12.960 --> 00:10:17.639 you're swallowing. Make a loud sound, different humming sounds, different 148 00:10:17.840 --> 00:10:23.960 animal noises, different tongue noises, anything with the back of 149 00:10:24.000 --> 00:10:29.960 your throat, screaming, coughing, sneezing something where you use your 150 00:10:30.000 --> 00:10:33.679 mouth throat make different noises. That's going to help with 151 00:10:33.840 --> 00:10:37.759 your vegus nerve. All right, So those are the four 152 00:10:37.840 --> 00:10:43.200 nerves part of your parasympathetic nervous system that are going 153 00:10:43.279 --> 00:10:47.000 to relax your brain get you out of that stress mode. 154 00:10:47.480 --> 00:10:51.440 So we got the oculo motor, the facial, the glossal 155 00:10:51.480 --> 00:10:55.000 far angel, and the vegas. And if you activate all 156 00:10:55.039 --> 00:10:57.919 four of those nerves together and you do them for 157 00:10:58.000 --> 00:11:01.879 thirty seconds, three times a day, for twenty one straight days, 158 00:11:02.120 --> 00:11:05.000 you start to rewire your brain in a process called 159 00:11:05.080 --> 00:11:08.759 neuroplasticity to get you out of that stress mode, that 160 00:11:08.840 --> 00:11:12.279 fight or flight mode, into a relaxed rest and digest. 161 00:11:12.600 --> 00:11:14.679 When you're in that fighter flight mode, it could cause 162 00:11:14.720 --> 00:11:18.639 high blood pressure, it could lead to cancer, cause diabetes 163 00:11:18.639 --> 00:11:22.879 from the pancreas, digestive problems from your esophagus and your 164 00:11:22.919 --> 00:11:27.240 stomach and your intestines. It could cause acid reflux, gas stritus, 165 00:11:27.279 --> 00:11:32.720 also a rate of colitis, ibs, urinary urgency, urinary incontinence, 166 00:11:32.879 --> 00:11:39.440 a rectile dysfunction, hormonal issues, period issues, menstrual issues, fertility issues. 167 00:11:40.159 --> 00:11:42.679 All of this can be affected by you being in 168 00:11:42.840 --> 00:11:46.879 stress mode. So it doesn't just cause muscle tension and 169 00:11:47.000 --> 00:11:51.480 spasm and back pain, but actually affects your organs. So 170 00:11:51.559 --> 00:11:55.679 if you want to really have the highest quality of life, 171 00:11:55.799 --> 00:11:59.960 start working on your parasympathetic nervous system so you fuck 172 00:12:00.000 --> 00:12:04.919 function better, feel better, and live a better life. 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Function better, feel better and live a 189 00:13:15.600 --> 00:13:20.320 better life. This is doctor Eric Kaplan and you're listening 190 00:13:20.480 --> 00:13:24.840 to boost your brain power. A lot of our patients 191 00:13:25.000 --> 00:13:29.559 come for help with their brain. A specific part of 192 00:13:29.559 --> 00:13:33.720 the brain that is very common is the frontal cortex. 193 00:13:34.360 --> 00:13:38.480 When the frontal cortex has an imbalance from left to right, 194 00:13:38.519 --> 00:13:43.240 we can see a variety of symptoms. For example, a 195 00:13:43.240 --> 00:13:48.279 lot of the childhood developmental delays come from a functional 196 00:13:48.320 --> 00:13:56.360 disconnect of the frontal cortext that includes autism, Aspergers, dyslexia, 197 00:13:57.240 --> 00:14:06.360 add ADHD Turet's syndrome. These are these developmental delays and 198 00:14:06.440 --> 00:14:08.960 a lot of the times it's because there's an imbalance 199 00:14:09.000 --> 00:14:13.600 of the frontal cortex. So just like you could strengthen 200 00:14:13.679 --> 00:14:20.519 your muscle by working out, doing weightlifting exercising, you could 201 00:14:20.559 --> 00:14:27.000 actually fix your brain that's underdeveloped by doing neurological treatments. 202 00:14:27.679 --> 00:14:30.960 So there's a process called neuroplasticity where you could rewire 203 00:14:31.000 --> 00:14:35.600 the brain through neurologic exercises. But if it's one of 204 00:14:35.600 --> 00:14:38.039 these conditions, we'd have to be very specific for that 205 00:14:38.159 --> 00:14:42.840 frontal cortex, and the frontal cortex is activated with a 206 00:14:42.879 --> 00:14:47.879 lot of different types of brain exercises. What's called ciccads, 207 00:14:48.279 --> 00:14:51.159 which are fast eye movements, is really good for the 208 00:14:51.159 --> 00:14:57.440 frontal cortex, little finger movements, smell you know, these are 209 00:14:57.519 --> 00:15:01.600 all really good for the frontal core. But if you 210 00:15:01.679 --> 00:15:07.039 have a developmental delay such as autism, where the brain's underdeveloped, 211 00:15:07.320 --> 00:15:11.320 before you even work on the motor and the sensory aspect, 212 00:15:11.399 --> 00:15:14.919 you have to work on what's called primitive reflexes. Primitive 213 00:15:14.960 --> 00:15:22.120 reflexes with autism kids or add or ADHD, or dyslexia 214 00:15:22.240 --> 00:15:26.440 or turets. Basically, what happens is you have these reflexes 215 00:15:26.440 --> 00:15:29.120 that are supposed to be gone after one year of 216 00:15:29.200 --> 00:15:33.440 each but with children with these developmental delays, these primitive 217 00:15:33.559 --> 00:15:37.279 reflexes are retained. So the first step is to catch 218 00:15:37.320 --> 00:15:39.960 up the brain to development is to do these neurologic 219 00:15:40.039 --> 00:15:45.240 exercises which get rid of or eliminate these primitive reflexes. 220 00:15:45.480 --> 00:15:50.320 Now the brain can develop properly. The problem is the 221 00:15:50.360 --> 00:15:55.080 modern approach seems to be okay, let's do speech pathology, 222 00:15:55.759 --> 00:16:00.679 occupational therapy, physical therapy, behavioral therapy. 223 00:16:01.559 --> 00:16:04.440 So, but that's the third stage. You have to do 224 00:16:04.519 --> 00:16:08.360 the primitive reflexes first. Then you can do the motor 225 00:16:08.399 --> 00:16:13.360 and sensory second, and then third would be the cognitive, 226 00:16:13.399 --> 00:16:17.000 the behavioral, the speech. So you know, you have to 227 00:16:17.039 --> 00:16:20.279 do that in the correct order or the brain will 228 00:16:20.320 --> 00:16:23.360 not ever function on the way it's supposed to. But 229 00:16:23.440 --> 00:16:25.600 the good news is if you do it in the 230 00:16:25.639 --> 00:16:33.639 appropriate way primitive reflexes first, motor, sensory second, and then cognitive, behavioral, speech, physical, third, 231 00:16:33.720 --> 00:16:37.559 then it starts to work much better. All right. Now, 232 00:16:37.799 --> 00:16:42.840 other things that can happen with the frontal cortex are 233 00:16:43.360 --> 00:16:49.000 anxiety and depression. And when you have depression, that means 234 00:16:49.039 --> 00:16:53.840 your frontal cortex is underactive, and when you have anxiety 235 00:16:53.960 --> 00:16:58.320 that means your frontal cortex is overactive. And you might 236 00:16:58.399 --> 00:17:01.879 have both. It's like a bi polar or manic depressant. 237 00:17:02.039 --> 00:17:05.440 So we have one side underactive and one side overactive. 238 00:17:07.079 --> 00:17:09.079 Stick around for the end of the show and I'll 239 00:17:09.079 --> 00:17:12.440 tell you what you could do about that. Now, when 240 00:17:12.440 --> 00:17:17.880 you have these imbalances of the frontal cortex, you're going 241 00:17:17.960 --> 00:17:23.880 to have areas that are underactive that need to be stimulated. Right, 242 00:17:23.920 --> 00:17:27.039 So if you have depression, we need to strengthen your 243 00:17:27.079 --> 00:17:32.119 brain activate it, you know, especially right now in December, 244 00:17:32.160 --> 00:17:38.960 it's a very common time for seasonal affect disorder SAD, 245 00:17:39.000 --> 00:17:41.880 and that's where people get depressed in the winter because 246 00:17:41.920 --> 00:17:45.839 they're vitamin D deficient. If you want a good Vitamin 247 00:17:45.920 --> 00:17:52.039 D recommendation, please email me info at Kaplanbrain Imbody dot com. 248 00:17:52.559 --> 00:17:55.319 Ninety nine percent of the vitamin d's out there are crap. 249 00:17:55.799 --> 00:18:00.400 Don't go to CBS or Whole Foods or Vitamin Chop 250 00:18:00.440 --> 00:18:03.559 or GNC to get a vitamin D. That is crap. 251 00:18:03.559 --> 00:18:08.000 They're full of impurities, they don't get absorbed, they're contaminants. 252 00:18:08.119 --> 00:18:12.400 We don't want those fillers, okay, So don't ever get 253 00:18:12.400 --> 00:18:16.559 a vitamin D at the store, right. If you want 254 00:18:16.559 --> 00:18:20.839 the good one, just email me right. Very important during 255 00:18:20.839 --> 00:18:24.240 the winter. I personally take ten thousand on you during 256 00:18:24.240 --> 00:18:28.079 the winter and fat five thousand during the summer. Everybody's 257 00:18:28.160 --> 00:18:31.000 vitamin D. To fishing in the Northeast, you know, it's 258 00:18:31.079 --> 00:18:35.160 and even when you're outside, you gotta wearing the hat, glasses, 259 00:18:35.279 --> 00:18:38.759 your long sleeves, long pans, everything's covered. There's not a 260 00:18:38.759 --> 00:18:41.839 lot of skin exposure, all right, so we sometimes we 261 00:18:41.920 --> 00:18:45.680 need to supplement if there's deficiency, but most people over supplement. 262 00:18:46.200 --> 00:18:48.319 So you don't need all these multi vitamins. You don't 263 00:18:48.319 --> 00:18:51.599 want to take B twelve and vitamin C and zinc 264 00:18:51.720 --> 00:18:55.519 and magnesium and calcium. It's no, no, no, no, no, 265 00:18:56.000 --> 00:19:00.160 Stop taking all the vitamins. Only only take vitamin is 266 00:19:00.200 --> 00:19:04.240 if you have evidence that you're decreased in it in 267 00:19:04.279 --> 00:19:07.480 your blood work and you know that there's no other 268 00:19:07.559 --> 00:19:11.599 reason that you are a decreased. For example, you don't 269 00:19:11.640 --> 00:19:14.359 want to take iron because you're anemic. You might be 270 00:19:14.359 --> 00:19:17.799 anemic because you don't have enough stomach acid. Right. You 271 00:19:17.799 --> 00:19:21.559 don't want to take melatonin because you can sleep. Maybe 272 00:19:21.599 --> 00:19:26.640 you can't sleep because your sympathetic nervous system is over firing. Right, 273 00:19:26.680 --> 00:19:29.039 So you gotta be careful with what you take. You 274 00:19:29.079 --> 00:19:33.200 need analysis of your blood work done properly so you 275 00:19:33.240 --> 00:19:36.880 could figure out what exactly you're deficient in, what you need, 276 00:19:36.920 --> 00:19:38.640 what you need more of? Do you need to drink 277 00:19:38.680 --> 00:19:40.960 more water? Do you need to get more sunlight? You 278 00:19:41.000 --> 00:19:43.920 need to eat these different foods to avoid these foods. 279 00:19:44.119 --> 00:19:46.440 Do you have too much inflammation? You have poor absorption? 280 00:19:46.559 --> 00:19:49.319 You need more bacteria. Whatever it is, we gotta do 281 00:19:49.359 --> 00:19:53.000 a thorough investigation. Don't just take supplements because something you 282 00:19:53.119 --> 00:19:58.279 read is good for you. Everybody's an individual. Most people 283 00:19:58.559 --> 00:20:03.680 are taking way too many supplements. You should only have 284 00:20:03.720 --> 00:20:06.279 to take a supplement is absolutely necessary. That's the vitamin 285 00:20:06.319 --> 00:20:10.039 D is pretty much the only one I take, right. 286 00:20:10.480 --> 00:20:13.720 And you know most people also need probiotics because you know, 287 00:20:13.759 --> 00:20:19.039 they're always taking antibiotics, and they're taking antibacterial lotions and 288 00:20:19.079 --> 00:20:24.640 antibacterial sprays and antibacterial soaps, and then I mean everything's antibacterial. 289 00:20:24.720 --> 00:20:29.279 That's not good. I'm probiotics. I like pro bacteria. Body 290 00:20:29.359 --> 00:20:34.519 is mostly bacteria, right, So that's seasonal affect disorder. When 291 00:20:34.559 --> 00:20:38.759 your frontal cortex is weak, you don't need lexapro lithium. 292 00:20:38.799 --> 00:20:41.759 You don't need all these medications. Maybe you just need 293 00:20:42.000 --> 00:20:47.200 some more sunlight, some more exercise, some progression in your life. 294 00:20:48.559 --> 00:20:52.200 Make progression in your life. That's the key to depression 295 00:20:52.319 --> 00:20:57.440 is progression, all right, And sometimes you can get depressed, 296 00:20:57.519 --> 00:21:01.640 like my wife just lost her father. She's depressed, she's crying. 297 00:21:02.640 --> 00:21:05.319 Then her doctor's like, oh, take some antidepressants. I'm like, 298 00:21:05.359 --> 00:21:08.680 what you're supposed to be depressed when you lose your father, 299 00:21:08.759 --> 00:21:12.400 You're supposed to cry, You're supposed to be sad, feel 300 00:21:12.440 --> 00:21:18.240 those emotions, Let those tears out of your body, and 301 00:21:18.279 --> 00:21:19.960 I'm just there for he. Just give her a hug 302 00:21:20.240 --> 00:21:23.720 and say anything that's gonna make her feel better. No 303 00:21:23.839 --> 00:21:26.440 magic word that gets rid of, you know, a depression 304 00:21:26.519 --> 00:21:31.240 from losing a loved one. Then she's got to make 305 00:21:31.279 --> 00:21:34.640 progression in her life, make progression in her relationships, make 306 00:21:34.680 --> 00:21:38.440 progression in her health, working out how much water she drinks. 307 00:21:38.480 --> 00:21:43.359 Then she starts to feel better about herself, getting more socials, 308 00:21:43.519 --> 00:21:47.960 getting out in the real world, helping others do in charity. 309 00:21:48.960 --> 00:21:52.920 That's how you get out of a depression. Now. The 310 00:21:52.960 --> 00:21:56.759 opposite is the anxiety, right, that's the overactive frontal cortex, 311 00:21:58.240 --> 00:22:01.119 all right, that's where people have the eight hdther. Their 312 00:22:01.160 --> 00:22:03.839 mind's going so fast they can't get those thoughts out 313 00:22:03.839 --> 00:22:08.119 of their head. They always get worried, They fear and anger. 314 00:22:09.000 --> 00:22:13.519 It's overactive. You gotta calm it down. Easy way to 315 00:22:13.559 --> 00:22:17.160 calm down your overactive nervous system is to do figure 316 00:22:17.200 --> 00:22:20.240 eight infinity symbols. You do that for thirty seconds, three 317 00:22:20.279 --> 00:22:22.920 times a day. That has been proven through neurosigns. To 318 00:22:22.960 --> 00:22:26.279 reduce anxiety. Make sure you keep your arms straight and 319 00:22:26.319 --> 00:22:28.839 cross over the middle of the body, middle of the body. 320 00:22:29.480 --> 00:22:35.240 Drawing figure eights thirty seconds, three times a day. Very 321 00:22:35.279 --> 00:22:40.640 good for anxiety. Now what else? Helpings in the frontal cortex. 322 00:22:41.000 --> 00:22:46.480 That's where dementia starts, frontal temporal dementia. You don't want dementia. 323 00:22:46.720 --> 00:22:51.000 You better start doing frontal cortex exercises. You better start 324 00:22:51.000 --> 00:22:54.079 doing smell. If you lost your smell from covid or 325 00:22:54.079 --> 00:22:57.799 from the vaccine, this is an issue. You're gonna have 326 00:22:57.839 --> 00:23:02.119 a weak frontal cortex if you lost it from smoking 327 00:23:02.279 --> 00:23:05.240 or drugs. You gotta work on that. You gotta rewire 328 00:23:05.319 --> 00:23:10.599 your brain. It mean your frontal cortex is weak. You 329 00:23:10.720 --> 00:23:16.519 gotta really work on that. You gotta prevent dementia. So 330 00:23:16.640 --> 00:23:22.920 to bred dementia, you gotta do novelty, new things. You 331 00:23:22.920 --> 00:23:27.559 gotta stimulate your brain purposely. Start remembering your grocery list, 332 00:23:27.599 --> 00:23:34.000 remember people's phone numbers, remember addresses. Start learning different languages, 333 00:23:34.039 --> 00:23:36.960 learning a musical instrument, learning different dance moves. You gotta 334 00:23:37.119 --> 00:23:39.880 meet new people, go to new places. Novelty is the 335 00:23:39.960 --> 00:23:43.480 key if you want to prevent Alzheimer's In dementia, which 336 00:23:43.480 --> 00:23:47.079 starts from your frontal cortex, you better start doing new things. 337 00:23:47.079 --> 00:23:51.160 You better be uncomfortable. You better go out of your 338 00:23:51.640 --> 00:23:54.880 daily routine and do new things that your body's not 339 00:23:55.039 --> 00:24:01.160 used to doing. Start eating with your left hand, start 340 00:24:01.200 --> 00:24:03.640 playing a new sport, taking out a new hobby, joining 341 00:24:03.720 --> 00:24:08.519 a new club. You have to do new things. You're 342 00:24:08.519 --> 00:24:12.839 gonna challenge your brain. And then you've got to feed 343 00:24:12.880 --> 00:24:17.480 it all the energy it needs. The sunlight, the oxygen, 344 00:24:17.559 --> 00:24:22.960 the water, the food. Give the brain the fuel delivery 345 00:24:23.000 --> 00:24:30.319 it needs to reach optimal potential. Parkinson's disease also occurs 346 00:24:30.359 --> 00:24:32.480 in the frontal cortex. But we could pick this up 347 00:24:32.519 --> 00:24:35.319 early on and look at your gate and see if 348 00:24:35.359 --> 00:24:38.960 your arms swinging properly, or how your facial expressions are, 349 00:24:39.039 --> 00:24:43.799 or how your pupil size is, or how your balance is, 350 00:24:43.960 --> 00:24:49.440 how your posture is, how your gut motility is. All right, 351 00:24:49.519 --> 00:24:52.480 we can analyze the brain and the body to figure 352 00:24:52.519 --> 00:24:55.960 out if you're predisposed to Parkinson's, which usually starts in 353 00:24:55.960 --> 00:25:00.319 that frontal cortex. Same thing with Alzheimer's, same thing with dementia, 354 00:25:00.519 --> 00:25:09.519 anxiety depression autism add ADHD to dyslexia, aspergers to rats 355 00:25:09.559 --> 00:25:11.839 that all starts from the frontal cortex, so we have 356 00:25:12.000 --> 00:25:14.119 to make sure we take care of our brains so 357 00:25:14.160 --> 00:25:18.359 we function better, feel better, and live a better life. 358 00:25:18.759 --> 00:25:22.400 This is doctor Eric Kaplan and you're listening to boost 359 00:25:22.400 --> 00:25:23.279 your brain power. 360 00:25:24.839 --> 00:25:28.359 Don't miss boost your brain power with doctor Eric Kaplan 361 00:25:28.599 --> 00:25:31.559 every Saturday from two pm to three pm to learn 362 00:25:31.599 --> 00:25:35.079 the secrets of how to optimize your brain function. 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Called two oh one two six one two 371 00:26:04.880 --> 00:26:08.519 one five zero or email info at Kaplan Brain and 372 00:26:08.680 --> 00:26:11.480 Body dot com if you're interested in a free ten 373 00:26:11.519 --> 00:26:16.240 minute consultation with doctor Kaplin, or visit kaplandc dot com 374 00:26:16.279 --> 00:26:17.200 for more information. 375 00:26:20.599 --> 00:26:25.720 Function better, feel better, and live a better life. This 376 00:26:26.039 --> 00:26:30.079 is doctor Eric Kaplan and you're listening to boost your 377 00:26:30.119 --> 00:26:34.119 brain power. Now, a lot of people have different types 378 00:26:34.160 --> 00:26:40.559 of brain problems. Some people have what's called proprioceptive issues 379 00:26:41.720 --> 00:26:45.880 that comes from your parietal cortext of your brain. And 380 00:26:45.960 --> 00:26:50.759 we can analyze the parietal cortext by doing different types 381 00:26:50.920 --> 00:26:57.319 of tests. One of the tests is called uh graphesthesia, 382 00:26:58.279 --> 00:26:59.880 and I used to do this as a kid. Actually 383 00:27:00.200 --> 00:27:02.799 know is a neurologic test. But where you would draw 384 00:27:02.920 --> 00:27:07.200 different letters on your back or draw different numbers and 385 00:27:07.240 --> 00:27:08.839 you'd have to say, okay, what letter that was the 386 00:27:08.920 --> 00:27:11.839 letter B or that was the letter M. That is 387 00:27:12.000 --> 00:27:17.480 measuring your propioception, your sensory input. That's actually a good 388 00:27:17.519 --> 00:27:20.480 neurologic exercise. So you could do that with your friends 389 00:27:20.480 --> 00:27:22.640 and family and say, Okay, I'm gonna draw a letter 390 00:27:22.680 --> 00:27:24.000 on your back. You tell me what letter it is, 391 00:27:24.079 --> 00:27:26.039 or I'm gonna draw it on your arm or your leg, 392 00:27:26.079 --> 00:27:28.680 and you tell me what letter it is. And if 393 00:27:28.680 --> 00:27:32.559 you're inaccurate, that means that area of your brain is weak. 394 00:27:33.200 --> 00:27:36.000 Now I am a brain expert, and what I do 395 00:27:36.079 --> 00:27:40.039 is analyze the brain and if I find a weak area, 396 00:27:40.160 --> 00:27:43.160 I could actually give you neurologic exercises to strengthen it. 397 00:27:43.839 --> 00:27:46.799 Think of me like a physical therapist, but for the brain. 398 00:27:47.400 --> 00:27:49.680 So if we have these sensory issues, we have to 399 00:27:49.720 --> 00:27:56.200 do sensory different types of input. Okay, So graphesthesia is 400 00:27:56.319 --> 00:28:03.000 one neurologic exercise to test your parietal core text. Another 401 00:28:03.200 --> 00:28:11.200