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Speaker 2: Hello, and welcome to boost your brain power. I'm your host,
Speaker 2: doctor Eric Kaplan. Now is the perfect time to get
Speaker 2: into good habits. The best habit to begin is your
Speaker 2: morning power hour. During the morning power Hour, you're gonna
Speaker 2: get a lot of stuff done to start your day
Speaker 2: off in a good way. The worst thing to do
Speaker 2: is start your day off pressing the snooze alarm. That's
Speaker 2: literally starting your day with a failure. So you set
Speaker 2: an attention. I'm getting up at this time, and I
Speaker 2: couldn't do it all right, so don't press the snooze.
Speaker 2: I follow Mel Robbins and she does the five second rule.
Speaker 2: See your alarm goes off and you count down five, four, three, two,
Speaker 2: then you jump out of bed. Once you get out
Speaker 2: of bed, it's pretty easy to get your day going.
Speaker 2: But it's easy to stay underneath your covers, stay nice
Speaker 2: and warm, relax a little bit. But nope, once you
Speaker 2: set the alarm time to get up. The first thing
Speaker 2: you should do every single morning when you wake up.
Speaker 2: It's called oil pulling. What oil pulling is is where
Speaker 2: you take coconut oil. All right, it's morganic coconut oil.
Speaker 2: Swish it around in your mouth for thirty seconds. So
Speaker 2: you swish it all around, it's called oil pulling, and
Speaker 2: try and squeeze it in between aill, your teeth, use
Speaker 2: your tongue, use a toothbrush if you need, but get
Speaker 2: it all around your gums, your mouth, your teeth. What
Speaker 2: coconut oil is a natural antibiotic, and it kills off
Speaker 2: all your bead bacteria in your oral microbiome, the bad
Speaker 2: bacteria much better than listerine or mouthwire that has alcohol,
Speaker 2: because the alcohol kills off the good bacteria. And we
Speaker 2: want good bacteria in our mouth. It's called oral micro biome, okay,
Speaker 2: So we want more good bacteria and less bad bacteria.
Speaker 2: So you're gonna do oil pulling for thirty seconds every
Speaker 2: single morning, swish it around your mouth, and then spit
Speaker 2: it out in the garbage. Don't put it in the
Speaker 2: sink because that'll mess up your pipes. So just spit
Speaker 2: it out in the garbage, and don't swallow it either,
Speaker 2: because you don't want to swallow the bad bacteria. You
Speaker 2: want to get rid of the bad bacteria. Okay, so
Speaker 2: that's thirty seconds. Then right when you wake up, cold
Speaker 2: water on the face, splash your face with cold water.
Speaker 2: Then it's good to go to the bathroom, have a
Speaker 2: bowel movement, urinate. Then I like to read part of
Speaker 2: my book. So whatever it is, you can read one page,
Speaker 2: that's all you gotta do. But at least it's something.
Speaker 2: If you have time, read two pages, and if you
Speaker 2: have even more time, read three pages. But every single day,
Speaker 2: and hopefully it's like something that's helpful, like a self
Speaker 2: help book or a motivational book, or a business book,
Speaker 2: or a health book or a brain book, something that's
Speaker 2: going to improve your health, your well being, your quality
Speaker 2: of life. But you got to read every day, even
Speaker 2: if it's just one page. But get in that habit
Speaker 2: where every day you read something. And you got to
Speaker 2: do a gratitude journal. And I don't care if it's
Speaker 2: just write one thing. I'm grateful for a roof up
Speaker 2: over my head. I'm grateful for food being in my refrigerator.
Speaker 2: I'm grateful for clothes on my back. I'm grateful for
Speaker 2: my spouse, for my kids, or my parents, or my
Speaker 2: friends or my neighborhood, or my job, or my coworkers,
Speaker 2: or the term I live in, or the city I
Speaker 2: live in or the country I live in. Just be
Speaker 2: thankful for something. Be grateful for your life, for your health.
Speaker 2: Be grateful that you could see. I see lots of
Speaker 2: blind patients in my office. Be grateful that you can hear.
Speaker 2: There's lots of people that are deaf. Be grateful you
Speaker 2: could walk, lots of people in wheelchairs. Stop taking for
Speaker 2: granted stuff that will create your happiness. You know, I
Speaker 2: heard this one interview and the guy asks the person
Speaker 2: on the show. He says, hey, would you be happy
Speaker 2: if they gave you ten million dollars? And the guy's like, yep,
Speaker 2: I'd be very happy. Be hard for someone to get
Speaker 2: you in a bad mood if I just give you
Speaker 2: ten million dollars, And I goes, Yep, it'd be very
Speaker 2: tough to get me in a bad mood after giving
Speaker 2: me ten million dollars, I'd be really happy. But then
Speaker 2: the interviewer goes, now, what if I gave you that
Speaker 2: ten million dollars but you couldn't wake up next day?
Speaker 2: And the guy goes, no, I wouldn't take that ten
Speaker 2: million dollars if I couldn't wake up the next day.
Speaker 2: And so the inviewer says, so what you're saying is
Speaker 2: that waking up every morning is worth more than ten
Speaker 2: million dollars. And the guy goes, yeah, I didn't even
Speaker 2: think of that perspective. So it goes, why don't you
Speaker 2: wake up every morning like you just won ten million dollars.
Speaker 2: People don't do that. They don't wake up every morning.
Speaker 2: He say, oh, I could see, I can eat, I
Speaker 2: could pee, I could poop, I could walk, I could talk. Right,
Speaker 2: they don't say that. They're not grateful for what you have.
Speaker 2: You have to show gratitude. If you show gratitude, it's
Speaker 2: very hard to be anxious, it's very hard to be stressed.
Speaker 2: Show gratitude in your life. Every single morning when you
Speaker 2: wake up, you at least write one thing and say
Speaker 2: it out last out, I'm grateful, I have a dog,
Speaker 2: you know, whatever it is, just be grateful for something
Speaker 2: every single day. Right, So you wake up, you got
Speaker 2: your oil pulling, got your cold water on your face,
Speaker 2: have your bowel movement, go peep, read a page of
Speaker 2: your book. Write at least one thing you're grateful for.
Speaker 2: Then write at least one goal that you want to accomplish,
Speaker 2: either that day, that week, or that year. I want
Speaker 2: to get a raise, I want to make more money.
Speaker 2: I want to lose five pounds. I want to get
Speaker 2: bigger muscles. I want to learn a new language. I
Speaker 2: want to learn how to play a musical instrument. I
Speaker 2: want to have a better relationship with my wife. I
Speaker 2: want to get my kid something nice. Just have a goal,
Speaker 2: spend ten minutes with my son something. Have some goal
Speaker 2: that you're going to accomplish, and then when you check
Speaker 2: it off, celebrate the small wins. Those little check those
Speaker 2: small wins. Those release dopamine. We like dopamine. But then
Speaker 2: when you have long term goals, long term relationship, long
Speaker 2: term health habits, then it builds serotonin. That's the mood stabilizer.
Speaker 2: So we want dopamine and those quick hits. We want serotonin,
Speaker 2: those long lasting neurotransmitters. We want oxytocin, the love hormone.
Speaker 2: Start holding people's hands, start hugging people, kissing people. Human
Speaker 2: touch is very important and I don't care if you
Speaker 2: get it with the dog. Also pet a dog, puddle
Speaker 2: with a dog, but have some sort of affection, have
Speaker 2: some touch in your life. It's oxytocin, and you get
Speaker 2: it from holding hands, you get it from hugging, you
Speaker 2: get it from the sixth second kiss. From now on,
Speaker 2: when you kiss your spouse in the morning, and hopefully
Speaker 2: you do it instead of just kissing for one second,
Speaker 2: kiss for six seconds. Then you release all those love hormones. Okay,
Speaker 2: you could do it. You can get those endorphins going. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's when you go for a nice run that runners high.
Speaker 2: Even a piece of dark chocolate could get the endorphins going.
Speaker 2: Love relationships smiling, laughing. There's so many natural ways to
Speaker 2: boost your brain. All right, getting back to the morning
Speaker 2: power hour. Now it's time to meditate. And I don't
Speaker 2: care if it's a thirty second meditation, but start meditating
Speaker 2: every single day. I call it the relaxed technique. So
Speaker 2: I start at the top of my head and I
Speaker 2: say relax, and I relax all those muscles on the
Speaker 2: top of my head. Then I say relax, and I
Speaker 2: relax my forehead, and I say relax, and I relax
Speaker 2: my temples. I relax my eyebrows, relax my eye lids,
Speaker 2: relax my cheek, relax my jaw, relax my neck, my shoulders,
Speaker 2: my back, my hips, my knees, go all the way
Speaker 2: down to my toes. So I pick thirty spots. Each
Speaker 2: spot is a second. It's a thirty second meditation. Each spot.
Speaker 2: You're just saying relax, relax. Internally, it's called a mantra. Relax, relax, relax.
Speaker 2: Everybody could do thirty second meditation. That's your power hour.
Speaker 2: You do it every single morning. So I don't care
Speaker 2: if you read one page of a book, do a
Speaker 2: thirty second meditation, write one thing in your gratitude jenrenal.
Speaker 2: Just do something every day. Do something every day to exercise.
Speaker 2: I don't care if it's a ten second run down
Speaker 2: your block. Just run down to the edge of your
Speaker 2: block for ten seconds. But at leash you start breathing
Speaker 2: a little heavy and your heart started beating and maybe
Speaker 2: even a little sweat. But every day, do something active.
Speaker 2: I don't care. If it's ten pushups, ten sit ups,
Speaker 2: ten jumping jacks, a ten second run, ten second bike,
Speaker 2: just do something. If you got thirty seconds, do thirty seconds.
Speaker 2: If you got a minute, do a minute. If you
Speaker 2: got five minutes, do five minutes. But minimum do ten seconds.
Speaker 2: Don't say oh, I don't have time to do a
Speaker 2: ten second jumping jacks. Everybody's got ten seconds. But do
Speaker 2: something move your body every single morning before you leave
Speaker 2: to do your errands, to go to work, to go
Speaker 2: to school, take your kids, run, whatever you gotta do.
Speaker 2: But do ten seconds of an exercise every single morning.
Speaker 2: It's all about the consistency. And then get a meal. Prep.
Speaker 2: Don't go your house without eating and without food prepped.
Speaker 2: Because you want organic food. You want healthy food. You
Speaker 2: want colorful food. You want sta full of dare and
Speaker 2: sugar and cheese and cream and boxes and cans and bags.
Speaker 2: You want stuff with all these oils. You don't want
Speaker 2: takeout food. You want real food from the earth, fruits, veggies, nuts, eggs, fish, chicken, turkey,
Speaker 2: real food from the earth. Stop eating all this processed
Speaker 2: crap with food dies, artificial sweetness, artificial flavors. You want
Speaker 2: one ingredient food. So prep every morning. If you do
Speaker 2: all these things every morning, you food prep, You exercise
Speaker 2: your gratitude, You read, write, you cold water on your face,
Speaker 2: you oil pull, you go to the bathroom, You write
Speaker 2: down in your journal, you write your goals down. Then
Speaker 2: you are gonna conquer the day. But if you press
Speaker 2: your snooze alarm and you sleep in. You start off
Speaker 2: your day with a failure, so start doing the Morning
Speaker 2: Power Hour so you could function better, feel better, and
Speaker 2: live a better life. This is doctor Eric Aplan and
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Speaker 2: Function better, feel better, and live a better life. This
Speaker 2: is doctor Eric Kaplan and you're listening to boost your
Speaker 2: brain power. Sitting is considered the new smoking. Harvard came
Speaker 2: out with a study that showed sitting will kill you
Speaker 2: just as quick as smoking. Now that doesn't mean start smoking,
Speaker 2: because smoking will kill you, but sitting will cause obesity.
Speaker 2: Sitting too much will cause depression, anxiety. Sitting too much
Speaker 2: can cause diabetes, heart disease, cancer, Alzheimer's disease. Now I
Speaker 2: don't want any of those. I want to prevent it.
Speaker 2: So Luckily, my job is a job where I'm not sitting.
Speaker 2: I'm not sitting at a computer all day. I'm walking
Speaker 2: all day long. I'm working with patients, going to different rooms.
Speaker 2: I'm running a business, always moving, moving, moving, moving, So
Speaker 2: stop sitting. The worst thing you could do is sit
Speaker 2: all day. Right, So you wake up and then you
Speaker 2: sit at the breakfast table and you sit in the
Speaker 2: car driving to work, or you sit on the bus
Speaker 2: or the train commuting. Then you get to work and
Speaker 2: you sit at the computer all day long. Then it's lunchtime,
Speaker 2: Then you go to the cafeteria, sit at lunchtime. Then
Speaker 2: you finish work, sitting all day at the computer again,
Speaker 2: and you're done with work. Then you sit on the bus,
Speaker 2: train or car again. Then you get home you sit
Speaker 2: at the dinner table, and then you sit on the couch,
Speaker 2: and it's the weekend. You sit at the bar, you
Speaker 2: sit at the restaurant, you sit at the movie theater,
Speaker 2: you sit at the play, sit at the musical, you
Speaker 2: sit at the opera. Everything sitting, sit, sit, sit. Sitting
Speaker 2: is the new smoking. You must follow the twenty rule.
Speaker 2: The twenty rule is never sit for more than twenty minutes.
Speaker 2: Set an alarm, get a cooking timer. Right now, I'm
Speaker 2: writing a book, so after work, I do some sitting
Speaker 2: at my computer, but I put an alarm for twenty minutes.
Speaker 2: After twenty minutes and I hear the alarm, I finish
Speaker 2: my passage, I finish my paragraph, I finish my chapter.
Speaker 2: Whatever I'm doing, so it might be twenty twenty five minutes.
Speaker 2: But then I get up for twenty seconds and I
Speaker 2: walk twenty feet and I look twenty feet away. Or
Speaker 2: you do twenty jumping jacks, do twenty sit ups, do
Speaker 2: twenty pushups. I don't care what it is. Twenty lunges,
Speaker 2: twenty squats, twenty pull ups, but move your body for
Speaker 2: twenty seconds. Then you can go back to whatever you're doing,
Speaker 2: whether you're working at the computer, you're watching TV, you're
Speaker 2: reading a book, you're watching the Yankee game, don't care
Speaker 2: what it is, but you get up every twenty minutes
Speaker 2: for twenty seconds, move your body. You use it or
Speaker 2: you lose it. The more you sit, the greater chances
Speaker 2: of dementia, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, obesity, diabetes, cancer, heart disease, covid,
Speaker 2: lime disease, the flu, the depression, anxiety. They all are
Speaker 2: aggravated by sitting. So you gotta set an alarm. Not
Speaker 2: twenty minutes as quick. You're not gonna remember every twenty
Speaker 2: minutes to get up, So you gotta set an alarm.
Speaker 2: You gotta keep moving your body and get some exercise.
Speaker 2: Find something that you like to do. I love Orange Theory.
Speaker 2: It's this class where they do you go on the trail,
Speaker 2: then you go on the rowing machine, and you do weights,
Speaker 2: and you do the bosuit ball, then you do the
Speaker 2: TRX and you do squats at the bed. So there's
Speaker 2: all different types of exercises and every day it's a
Speaker 2: different workout. The worst thing when people exercise, but they
Speaker 2: do the same thing every week, same thing on Monday,
Speaker 2: same body parts, same weights, same raps, same gym, same people. Okay,
Speaker 2: exercise is good, but if you're doing the same exact
Speaker 2: exercise every time, it's not good. Right, So maybe do
Speaker 2: orange theory on Monday, then play basketball on Tuesday, then
Speaker 2: go for a run on Wednesday, then go for a
Speaker 2: bike ride on Thursday, and play soccer on Friday. Then
Speaker 2: do high intensity interval training on Saturday, then do some yoga,
Speaker 2: tai chi pilates on Sunday. Something like that, where every
Speaker 2: day you're doing something different. You know. I like to
Speaker 2: go to the gym, I like to do orange theory,
Speaker 2: I like to play basketball, I like to go bike riding.
Speaker 2: I like to play tennis. I like to play soccer.
Speaker 2: So I love so many activities. Start loving stuff that
Speaker 2: get your body moving. Could be a dance class. There
Speaker 2: could be a zumba class. I've had patients do belly dancing,
Speaker 2: hip hop dancing, pole dancing. I have seven year old
Speaker 2: women patients that are doing pole dancing. They love it.
Speaker 2: Get your body moving. I don't care if you're taking
Speaker 2: salsa lessons or tango lessons. Do something fun, do something social,
Speaker 2: use your brain, use your body, but keep that body moving.
Speaker 2: Find activities that you like to do and maybe you
Speaker 2: could do it with some young people. If you have
Speaker 2: kids around you, take your dog for a run, throw
Speaker 2: the ball. You don't have friends to play sports with,
Speaker 2: you know, join a club, join a yoga class. You
Speaker 2: know you'll meet people if you if you go every
Speaker 2: morning to your yoga class, you'll make some yoga friends. Right,
Speaker 2: But start choosing to do things that are more active,
Speaker 2: and start choosing to do less things that are sedentary. Right,
Speaker 2: Go for a hike, go camping, go rollerblading, go skiing,
Speaker 2: go snowboarding, go sledding, go surfing, go boogie boarding, go swimming.
Speaker 2: Do something that you like that it's not an erran
Speaker 2: that's having fun, but moving your body. You have to
Speaker 2: move your body and try and do weight resistant exercise,
Speaker 2: not just aerobic aerobics where you run and you sweat
Speaker 2: and your heart being going fast. But you want to
Speaker 2: add aerobic You want to use your muscle. You have
Speaker 2: a walking pharmacy inside your muscles, but you need resistance.
Speaker 2: So even if you walk every day, that's not getting
Speaker 2: weight resistant exercises. When you do weight resistant exercises, it
Speaker 2: deposits happiness chemicals in your brain. So not only will
Speaker 2: you get stronger and more fit, but you'll get in
Speaker 2: better mood. You'll get better memory, better focus, more energy,
Speaker 2: better sleep, better digestion. So start lifting weights, whether it's bars, dumbbells,
Speaker 2: I don't care what it is. I don't care if
Speaker 2: you just take a grocery bag and start doing bicep
Speaker 2: curls with that. But start doing weight resistant exercise and
Speaker 2: you could do your own body weight like push ups
Speaker 2: or pull ups, stuff like that. So you don't necessarily
Speaker 2: need any fancy equipment. You don't need a gym membership,
Speaker 2: but you need weight resistant exercise. You might have to
Speaker 2: maybe get some bands. Those are good too, so you
Speaker 2: can do everything at home if you need to. When
Speaker 2: they closed the gyms, I went in my backyard and
Speaker 2: I st do weight resistant exercises with big rocks and
Speaker 2: big branches and trunks of trees, and you know, I
Speaker 2: used nature outside to be my weight resistant exercise. I
Speaker 2: just ran down to my local elementary school and I
Speaker 2: used the jungle gym as my pull up bars. And
Speaker 2: you know, you can always find stuff outside to work
Speaker 2: out with, all right, so there's never an excuse. Oh,
Speaker 2: I get home and my gym's already closed. Okay, you
Speaker 2: could do it at your own house. You don't need
Speaker 2: any fancy equipment. Stop using excuses. Should never be an excuse,
Speaker 2: but is the worst word in the human dictionary. Stop
Speaker 2: using butt, start doing, Start taking action. You want your
Speaker 2: heart beating fast, you want sweating, You want your muscles
Speaker 2: getting bigger, and you gotta make progression. If you've been
Speaker 2: doing weights with five pounds, time to go up to
Speaker 2: ten pounds. If you've been doing ten pounds, time to
Speaker 2: go up to fifteen pounds. If you're doing fifteen pounds,
Speaker 2: time to go up to twenty pounds. You have to
Speaker 2: make progress. Stop using the same weights every time. It
Speaker 2: loses its effect. And if you don't increase weights, Let's
Speaker 2: say if you're using fifteen pound weights and you do
Speaker 2: ten reps, now you do eleven reps. If you're doing
Speaker 2: push ups and yesterday you did fifteen pushups, today you're
Speaker 2: gonna do sixteen push ups. If you went for a
Speaker 2: walk and walk the mile, today, you're gonna walk one
Speaker 2: point two five miles. You have to make progression. If
Speaker 2: you did one pull up yesterday, do two pull ups today.
Speaker 2: I don't care if you increase one percent, but just
Speaker 2: increase your load, Increase your reps. Increase your weight, increase
Speaker 2: your speed, increase your time. Just increase something. Make some
Speaker 2: progression while working out. If you play basketball and you
Speaker 2: made three shots in a row, now you can't leave
Speaker 2: the court until you make four shots in a row.
Speaker 2: Make progress. Your mood will be more stable when you
Speaker 2: make progress. Stop doing the same thing every day. That's
Speaker 2: the worst thing for your brain. Don't be a creature
Speaker 2: of habit. You have to switch it up. The brain
Speaker 2: loves new things. There's nothing more important for the brain
Speaker 2: than novelty. Do you want to prevent Alzheimer's dementia? Start
Speaker 2: thinking novelty, Start doing new things, meet new people, go
Speaker 2: to new places, do new exercises. Stop sitting down, working,
Speaker 2: eating and watching Netflix every day. Stop scrolling on Facebook
Speaker 2: and going on YouTube and TikTok every day. Switch it up.
Speaker 2: You have to do new things. Stop being a creature
Speaker 2: of habit and start doing new things novelty every day.
Speaker 2: It could be just starting to brush your teeth with
Speaker 2: your left hand, but do something new every single day
Speaker 2: so you function better, feel better, and live a better life.
Speaker 2: This is doctor Eric Caplan and you're listening to boost
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Speaker 2: Function better, feel better and live a better life. This
Speaker 2: is doctor Eric Kaplan and you're listening to boost your
Speaker 2: brain power now as we start the new year. Not
Speaker 2: only do we want to improve our physical activity, but
Speaker 2: we got to improve our mental activity. Right, so people
Speaker 2: in the beginning of the year, they start getting a
Speaker 2: little bit motivated and say, Okay, I'm gonna go to
Speaker 2: the gym, I'm gonna exercise a little bit more, I'm
Speaker 2: gonna eat a little bit healthier. I'm done with my
Speaker 2: Christmas cookies and all my holiday parties and all the
Speaker 2: Thanksgiving meals and all the alcoholic drink. So now it's
Speaker 2: time to start the new year fresh. But we talk
Speaker 2: about exercising new Nobody really talks about your mental stability
Speaker 2: or your brain power, right, So how about this year
Speaker 2: we start strengthening our brains. I find it interesting that
Speaker 2: every day people shower every day, people brush their teeth,
Speaker 2: every day, people wash their hands like without even thinking
Speaker 2: about it. It's just natural habits. But do they exercise
Speaker 2: their brains every day. No, In fact, it's the exact opposite.
Speaker 2: Most adults stop using their brains. Right once you're done
Speaker 2: with high school or college, they say, oh, I'm done learning,
Speaker 2: and they stop reading. Stop learning new subjects, learning new languages,
Speaker 2: stop learning musical instruments, I'm learning arts. Stop learning history,
Speaker 2: stop learning science and math. Why don't we continue that
Speaker 2: as we get older? Why don't we continue to learn
Speaker 2: as we get older. But people don't do that. They
Speaker 2: just like to complain and say, uh, my memory's getting worse.
Speaker 2: I'm just getting older. Wrong, that's a lie. Don't believe
Speaker 2: the lie. And doctors will tell you that. My patients
Speaker 2: will complain, Uh, my memory is not as good as
Speaker 2: it used to be. I guess I'm just getting older,
Speaker 2: and doctors just accept that. Well, I do not accept that.
Speaker 2: I'm a brain expert. I've seen over one hundred thousand patients.
Speaker 2: I've read thousands and thousands of research articles. I know
Speaker 2: what proves your brain function so that your memory could
Speaker 2: get stronger as you get older. But you gotta do
Speaker 2: the work. You gotta put in the effort. You have
Speaker 2: to learn new things, and I don't care what it is.
Speaker 2: You know. I had a patient a few months ago.
Speaker 2: They said they were inspired by my radio show and
Speaker 2: they decided to learn how to play the harmonica. I said,
Speaker 2: that's great. Harmonica is very cheap, very easy to use.
Speaker 2: You know, you could carry it around wherever you go.
Speaker 2: It's very small, it's not too loud or it's gonna
Speaker 2: oil your neighbors. But it's a musical instrument that you
Speaker 2: could learn. And that's gonna stimulate your brain. Learn some
Speaker 2: new exercises. All right, when you go to the gym,
Speaker 2: just don't do your you know, your leg presses and
Speaker 2: your bench presses and your bicep curls and your squats
Speaker 2: and lunges. Aren't learning different exercises different activities. I like
Speaker 2: to use every single machine in the gym. I like
Speaker 2: to go to Orange Theory, where every day it's a
Speaker 2: new class. I like to play basketball, where I'm going
Speaker 2: left and right and up and down and backwards and
Speaker 2: sprinting and jogging and walking and doing every activity. Same
Speaker 2: thing with soccer, left and right and up and down
Speaker 2: and backwards and sideways. Same with tennis. Those are the
Speaker 2: sports that I play. We're going up and down and
Speaker 2: left and right right. Baseball it's the same thing every time.
Speaker 2: Golf it's the same thing every time. Those are not
Speaker 2: good sports for you. The racket sports are the best.
Speaker 2: They did research on which activities create the healthiest, longest lifestyle,
Speaker 2: and it's racket sports. And this was even before pick
Speaker 2: a ball was popular. So tennis is numberumber one. Racketballs
Speaker 2: up there, even ping pong. It's that hand eye coordination.
Speaker 2: You're moving all directions you got to go have a
Speaker 2: good response time. Another good sport is swimming. I'd say
Speaker 2: racket sports are the best. Swimming a second, Rowing is third.
Speaker 2: But the most important thing is to do stuff that's fun.
Speaker 2: Have some fun, but do new things. Take a tango
Speaker 2: lesson if you've never learned tango. Learn how to play
Speaker 2: the drums. If you've never learned how to play the drums,
Speaker 2: learn some mandarin. You've never learned mandarin. Start learning new things,
Speaker 2: maybe stuff that's useful. If you want to keep your
Speaker 2: brain strong, you gotta keep learning new things. Learn how
Speaker 2: to change a tire, Learn how to make a fire,
Speaker 2: Learn how to filter water, learn how to cook, to
Speaker 2: make a new meal, learn how to put up a shelf.
Speaker 2: Learn how to make a desk. Learn how to garden.
Speaker 2: Learn how to plant food. Learn how to raise chickens.
Speaker 2: Start getting out of your comfort zone. If you want
Speaker 2: your brain to get stronger, you have to do things
Speaker 2: that is not used to doing. And the worst thing
Speaker 2: is retirement. People say, oh, I can't wait to retire. WHOA, No,
Speaker 2: I think that's not good. You don't want to retire
Speaker 2: because then you're gonna stop using your brain. Now you
Speaker 2: don't have to necessarily be in the job that you're
Speaker 2: currently in for the rest of your life. So you can,
Speaker 2: you know, retire from one job, but then you got
Speaker 2: to take on a new job, or you got to volunteer,
Speaker 2: or you got to help somebody else, or you got
Speaker 2: to do a new hobby, or you got to join
Speaker 2: a new club, or you gotta have a new meetup.
Speaker 2: You got to travel to new places. You don't want
Speaker 2: to just retire and then sit on the couch watch
Speaker 2: it Netflix, scrolling on Facebook. That is a recipe for disaster.
Speaker 2: So you got to do new things. You got to
Speaker 2: go to new places. You got to meet new people.
Speaker 2: You gotta do new activities that's novelty, new language, new
Speaker 2: musical instruments, new dances, read new books, new subjects. Get
Speaker 2: out of your comfort zone. You have to be uncomfortable.
Speaker 2: If you're not uncomfortable, you're not doing right. Complacency will
Speaker 2: kill your brain. You need challenge. You need to think.
Speaker 2: If you don't like numbers, start doing Sudoku. If you
Speaker 2: don't like letters, start doing the crossword puzzo. Just do
Speaker 2: something out of your comfort zone. You don't like to run,
Speaker 2: just sprint to the end of the block. You don't
Speaker 2: like to dance, take them a range lesson, get a
Speaker 2: little uncomfortable, push yourself a little bit more than you're
Speaker 2: used to. Your brain needs challenge, your body needs challenge,
Speaker 2: and maybe it could be at work. Take on a
Speaker 2: new project, maybe get a new client that's gonna really
Speaker 2: make you challenge that's gonna really work you good. Not
Speaker 2: to the point where you get stressed. Because stress is
Speaker 2: the silent killer. So you got to do something that
Speaker 2: makes you uncomfortable. But you're okay with failure. The best
Speaker 2: way to succeed is to fail many times so that
Speaker 2: you can learn from your mistakes. But if you don't
Speaker 2: take action, then you won't fail. If you never try,
Speaker 2: then you won't fail. The more you fail, the more
Speaker 2: successful you'll be. Right, you could fall down, but you
Speaker 2: gotta get up. Failure is good because that means you're
Speaker 2: trying stuff that's hard for you. So you have to
Speaker 2: get out of your comfort zone all the time. Get
Speaker 2: out of your comfort zone. Be resilient. Right, if it's
Speaker 2: cold outside, hey, go outside for thirty seconds and your
Speaker 2: short's and your t shirt. If it's hot outside, go
Speaker 2: outside for a minute and a hat and gloves and
Speaker 2: a winter coat. Challenge yourself. Don't eat every time you're hungry,
Speaker 2: Don't drink water every time you're thirsty. Don't put on
Speaker 2: the heat every time you're cold. Don't put on the
Speaker 2: air conditioner every time you're hot. Don't go to sleep
Speaker 2: every time you're tired. You gotta sell for a little bit.
Speaker 2: Suffer makes your brain stronger, makes you more resilient so
Speaker 2: you can handle the stress. Because you're never gonna get
Speaker 2: rid of stress. There's always gonna be stress in your life.
Speaker 2: But can your brain and body be strong so it
Speaker 2: can handle the stress, so you could be more resilient,
Speaker 2: so it doesn't cause anxiety, doesn't cause panic, doesn't cause
Speaker 2: heart attack, stroke, high blood pressure. You gotta be more resilient.
Speaker 2: But get out of that comfort zone. Visit a new place,
Speaker 2: go to a new restaurant, and everyone's always gone to
Speaker 2: the same restaurant they like, ordering the same food, cooking
Speaker 2: the same meals every week. You need variety. You need
Speaker 2: variety in food as well. Eat all the colors of
Speaker 2: the rainbow. So you need a writing exercise. You need
Speaker 2: the writing food, You need the writing education, You need
Speaker 2: the writing charity. Variety in your friends, variety and your activities,
Speaker 2: varieting in the places that you leave. You need variety, reading, novelty.
Speaker 2: You need to do new things. That way you'll function better,
Speaker 2: feel better, and live a better life. This is doctor
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Speaker 2: Function better, feel better, and live a better life. This
Speaker 2: is doctor Eric Kaplan and you're listening to boost your
Speaker 2: brain power. Now right Now, a lot of people are
Speaker 2: dealing with a lot of stress, emotional stress, anxiety, panic,
Speaker 2: People's minds racing a million miles per hour. They're worried
Speaker 2: about the holidays, worried about the family, end of the year, taxes, money,
Speaker 2: getting everything done, job, relationships. There's lots of stresses now.
Speaker 2: There are many ways to reduce emotional stress. If you
Speaker 2: have anxiety, the first thing you need to do is
Speaker 2: leave the room, right, So if you're stressed, just leave
Speaker 2: the room. If you're angry, it's okay to be angry
Speaker 2: and take that five minutes and yell or scream or
Speaker 2: cry or get frustrated, but then you gotta get over it.
Speaker 2: Then you gotta move on, So leave the room. It's
Speaker 2: hard when you're getting stressed and anxious to say, okay,
Speaker 2: calm down, relax, everything's gonna be okay. It's not that
Speaker 2: big a deal. That usually doesn't work. I'm sure you
Speaker 2: guys have tried it. It's not usually successful. But let's say,
Speaker 2: you know, I just had a little disagreement with my wife.
Speaker 2: What I did, I said, Okay, I'm just gonna leave.
Speaker 2: So instead of fighting and arguing when I'm emotional, I'm
Speaker 2: just gonna say, hey, I gotta take a break to
Speaker 2: go upstairs for a few minutes. All right, Then you
Speaker 2: come back calm, cool and collected. Then you're not too
Speaker 2: emotional because we don't make good decisions when we're emotional.
Speaker 2: So the more emotional you are, the less logical you'll become,
Speaker 2: and then you'll say things or do things that are
Speaker 2: not appropriate. So if you're really stressed and anxious, leave
Speaker 2: the room, do something new, change the subject. Go outside
Speaker 2: for a walk, go to the kitchen for a glass
Speaker 2: of water, go upstairs and listen to some music. You know,
Speaker 2: do something to distract you from the current thing that's
Speaker 2: stressing you out. The key for anxiety is distraction. The
Speaker 2: key for depression is progression. The key for memory is novelty.
Speaker 2: So we got to follow these suggestions. So next time
Speaker 2: you get anxious, you leave the room, maybe go to
Speaker 2: the bathroom and do some stress relieving activities. For example,
Speaker 2: gargling that stimulates your vagus nerve. That's gonna decrease stress
Speaker 2: and anxiety. But when you gargle, you gotta goggle really intensely.
Speaker 2: The louder the gurgle, the better. So you gotta wake
Speaker 2: your neighbors up, like I want you to gurgle so loud.
Speaker 2: Do it in the shower where you can like be
Speaker 2: messy and shoot up for the ceiling, and you want
Speaker 2: your neighbors by what noises are coming out of that
Speaker 2: guy's house. Then you know you're gargling really intensely. And
Speaker 2: if you start choking, gagging, coughing, then you know you're
Speaker 2: really doing it right. That's actually beneficial. So gagging, coughing,
Speaker 2: and choking all stimulate the vagus nerve, which you're going
Speaker 2: to help you reduce your stress. So you got a
Speaker 2: gargle really really intensely, really loud for thirty seconds, three
Speaker 2: times a day to help prevent stress and anxiety. Old
Speaker 2: water on the face that reduces stress. Do it first
Speaker 2: thing in the morning, right when you get up during
Speaker 2: your power hour. Then do right before bed cold water
Speaker 2: on the face. To get a good night's sleep, you
Speaker 2: have to be cold. And you guys probably notice what
Speaker 2: do you think it's easier to sleep if the room's
Speaker 2: really cold or if the room's really hot. Always much
Speaker 2: easier to sleep when the room's really cold. So sleep naked,
Speaker 2: be cold. Splash your face with cold water right before bed,
Speaker 2: keep the temperature cold, open up that window, keep it cold.
Speaker 2: That gets a deep sleep. Cold reduces stress anxiety. When
Speaker 2: you have anxiety, you're overheated, you're on fire, you're in flame.
Speaker 2: Your brain's going over and over and over again. We
Speaker 2: gotta cool you down. The best neuroscience has proved is
Speaker 2: dipping your head or your face in a bucket of
Speaker 2: ice water that's fifty degrees fahrenheit. I've seen it live
Speaker 2: with my patients. People coming in with panic attacks, tachycardia,
Speaker 2: the heart's beaten, you know, one hundred and ninety beats
Speaker 2: per minute, and then we dip their head in ice
Speaker 2: water and immediately the tachocardia, the fast heart rate goes
Speaker 2: down to sixty beats per minute within a minute. That's
Speaker 2: how powerful dipping your face in ice water is. No obviously,
Speaker 2: take time to breathe, but if having stress, if you're
Speaker 2: having panic, if you're having anxiety, cold water on the
Speaker 2: face will help to cool you down. Another thing you
Speaker 2: could do is called the tragus ear rub. The tragus
Speaker 2: is this little flap on your inner ear, like when
Speaker 2: you're trying to you know, the fire engines really loud,
Speaker 2: and you want to cover your ear drum. You take
Speaker 2: that tragus and you cover your ear so you don't
Speaker 2: hear it. That's the trage, is that little flap that
Speaker 2: covers your ears. So what you do is you rub.
Speaker 2: You just take your two fingers and you rub it.
Speaker 2: Not too hard, but that helps to relax your nervous system.
Speaker 2: In fact, I've had patients pierced that part of their
Speaker 2: ear and it's reduced their anxiety, reduced their migraines, reduces
Speaker 2: their stress, their panic, their ADHD. So this tragus is
Speaker 2: very powerful. Gargling can be very powerful. Cold water on
Speaker 2: the face can be very powerful. The tragus ear rub
Speaker 2: can be very powerful. Another good thing to do is
Speaker 2: a breathing exercise. Now to relax your nervous system. You
Speaker 2: always want to exhale longer than you inhale. Inhaling stimulate
Speaker 2: your heart. That's gonna make your heart go faster, it's
Speaker 2: gonna increase. Exhaling relaxes your nervous system. Therefore, the neuroscience
Speaker 2: has showed the best way to breathe to relax your
Speaker 2: nervous system is to inhale for four seconds, then hold
Speaker 2: your breath for seven seconds, then exhale for eight seconds.
Speaker 2: So to repeat inhale for four seconds, hold your breath
Speaker 2: for seven seconds, and exhale for eight seconds. And if
Speaker 2: you can rub your face at the same time, even
Speaker 2: more effective. And when you rub your face, there's three
Speaker 2: spots you want to rub to relax your nervous system.
Speaker 2: You go from your forehead to your ear, then you
Speaker 2: go from your cheek to your ear, Then you go
Speaker 2: from your chin to your ear. So you do little
Speaker 2: soft strokes on your face at the same time of
Speaker 2: doing your inhal for four seconds, hold your breath for
Speaker 2: seven seconds, and exhale for eight seconds. So those are
Speaker 2: always to reduce anxiety, stress, panic, overheated, over firing. Right,
Speaker 2: so we get those hot flashes, get those night sweats,
Speaker 2: you get those panics. Then we need to do your
Speaker 2: neurologic exercises. We're gonna get you out of that fight
Speaker 2: or flight mode into a more relaxed rest and digest.
Speaker 2: So we want to get rid of your increase sympathetic tone,
Speaker 2: which creates more stress, and then work on your power
Speaker 2: sympathetic nervous syste which is gonna get you in a
Speaker 2: more relaxed state. Now, how do you know which parts
Speaker 2: of your brain are functioning well? And which parts of
Speaker 2: your brain are not functioning well. The best test is
Speaker 2: called a q EEG brain mapping, and for this test,
Speaker 2: you wear a cap that has electrodes attached to it.
Speaker 2: Now there's no radiation, there's no pain, super quick, there's
Speaker 2: no contrast fluid, you don't have to sit in some
Speaker 2: claustrophobic tube. Super quick, super easy, non invasive. If it's
Speaker 2: called a q EEG brain mapping, and it measures your
Speaker 2: alpha brain waves, which is how you normally are. It
Speaker 2: measures your beta brain waves, which is when you gonna
Speaker 2: really think and focus. It measures your beta brain waves
Speaker 2: when you're just kind of daydreaming in la la land.
Speaker 2: And then it measures your delta, which is when you're
Speaker 2: sleeping and a relaxed state. But based on the location
Speaker 2: of the abnormal brain waves, it's gonna tell us which
Speaker 2: parts of the brain are functioning well and which are not.
Speaker 2: It's you gonna tell us do you have anxiety, do
Speaker 2: you have depression? Do you have short term memory loss,
Speaker 2: long term memory loss, working memory problems? Do you have
Speaker 2: troubles with focus? Do you have troubles shifting techy? Do
Speaker 2: you have troubles motivation organization? Do you have energy problems.
Speaker 2: Do you have sleep deprivation? Do you have insomnia? Do
Speaker 2: you have sensory problems, vision problems, hearing problems, dizzyness, headaches?
Speaker 2: Do you have problems with dopamine acetylcholine? Do you have
Speaker 2: having metal poisoning? Do you have a concussion. Do you
Speaker 2: have a thyroid problem. Do you have an intestinal inflammation?
Speaker 2: Do you have white matter inflammation in your brain? Do
Speaker 2: you have toxic stress? The qEEG Brain Mapping literally picks
Speaker 2: up all of this. It's an amazing test. It's my
Speaker 2: favorite test. It's normally five hundred dollars, but for the
Speaker 2: first seven people to call their text or email, you
Speaker 2: could get this qEEG brain mapping for only twenty one dollars.
Speaker 2: There's another gift we're gonna give. It's called a VNG
Speaker 2: Video nostography, And this is where you wear these goggles
Speaker 2: and they have infrared cameras on them and they measure
Speaker 2: eye movements left and right and up and down and
Speaker 2: dark and light and fast and slow. And based on
Speaker 2: this we could tell which areas the brains are overactive
Speaker 2: and which air the brains are underactive. If you're overactive,
Speaker 2: you're gonna get panics. You're gonna get anxiety, you're gonna
Speaker 2: have ADHD, you're gonna have insomnia, you have your mind racing,
Speaker 2: you're gonna be stressed out. And you got a muscle
Speaker 2: tension and pain and joints and all this stuff. Autoimmune disease, hashimotos, siliac, chogrins,
Speaker 2: soriatic arthritis, rheumatoid. This is all from an overactive brain.
Speaker 2: The VNG picks this up, or it picks up if
Speaker 2: you have an underactive brain lethargy, you have fatigue, you
Speaker 2: have poor memory, poor focus, you can't think, you have
Speaker 2: brain fog, you have low energy, you're just dragging it around,
Speaker 2: you can't think. This is if you're underactive. The VNG
Speaker 2: will pick this up. And this helps us because we
Speaker 2: gotta know is the right underactive, because then we're only
Speaker 2: gonna do exercise on the left side. Is the left overactive,
Speaker 2: then we got to do relaxation for that time, So
Speaker 2: the VNG picks that up. This test is also normally
Speaker 2: five hundred dollars, but for the first seven people to
Speaker 2: call a text or email you can get this test
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Speaker 2: the last and third test is a one on one
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Speaker 2: go over a complete physical and neurological evaluation. That's also
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