WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:03.759 The following is a paid podcast. iHeartRadio's hosting of this 2 00:00:03.839 --> 00:00:07.679 podcast constitutes neither an endorsement of the products offered or 3 00:00:07.719 --> 00:00:09.080 the ideas expressed. 4 00:00:09.240 --> 00:00:14.240 Function better, feel better, and live a better life. This 5 00:00:14.560 --> 00:00:19.000 is doctor Eric Kaplan and you're listening to boost your 6 00:00:19.039 --> 00:00:23.280 brain power. One of the best ways to improve your 7 00:00:23.399 --> 00:00:30.440 brain function is called intermittent fasting. And what intermittent fasting 8 00:00:30.719 --> 00:00:35.600 is when you only eat for eight hours of the 9 00:00:35.719 --> 00:00:42.600 day and you fast for sixteen hours. Most people do 10 00:00:42.799 --> 00:00:47.320 the opposite, where they eat for sixteen hours and fast 11 00:00:47.520 --> 00:00:48.479 for eight hours. 12 00:00:49.320 --> 00:00:50.280 That is not good. 13 00:00:50.640 --> 00:00:56.560 We need more hours to digest our nutrients. 14 00:00:56.240 --> 00:00:58.679 To absorb the food. 15 00:00:58.399 --> 00:01:04.280 That we eat, to detox from the bad chemicals that 16 00:01:04.319 --> 00:01:09.319 have gone into our bodies during the day, to replenish 17 00:01:09.840 --> 00:01:15.480 our bad brain cells, to kill off the bad bacteria 18 00:01:15.640 --> 00:01:21.640 and viruses. So we need sixteen hours of fasting. When 19 00:01:21.640 --> 00:01:26.159 you fast for sixteen hours, now the bacteria that's in 20 00:01:26.200 --> 00:01:29.799 your system has nothing to feed on and it dies off. 21 00:01:30.159 --> 00:01:33.959 The viruses have nothing to feed on, they die off. 22 00:01:34.359 --> 00:01:39.079 The parasites, the worms they got nothing to feed on 23 00:01:40.439 --> 00:01:45.680 because you're starving the body. The more you starve the body, 24 00:01:46.239 --> 00:01:51.159 the quicker you will heal. In fact, the Nobel Prize 25 00:01:51.159 --> 00:01:56.159 for Medicine a few years ago was on autophogy. Autophogy 26 00:01:56.359 --> 00:02:01.040 means to eat yourself. Auto is self, face is eat. 27 00:02:01.280 --> 00:02:06.560 So autophogy is when you actually don't put food in 28 00:02:06.680 --> 00:02:12.560 your body, and now you could cleanse the bad stuff out. 29 00:02:12.879 --> 00:02:17.080 So your brain has what's called glial cells, and I 30 00:02:17.159 --> 00:02:20.199 call them the nurses of the body, and their job 31 00:02:20.280 --> 00:02:23.199 is to clean everything up, flush out all the bad stuff, 32 00:02:23.560 --> 00:02:28.319 disinfect the brain, cleanse out the negative stuff that's going 33 00:02:28.360 --> 00:02:31.479 on in your brain. The glial cells clean up all 34 00:02:31.520 --> 00:02:35.960 those bad brain cells. We have lots of cells in 35 00:02:36.000 --> 00:02:40.039 our body that kill off the bad cells. For example, 36 00:02:40.039 --> 00:02:43.759 in your gut you have good bacteria that fight off 37 00:02:43.840 --> 00:02:48.840 the bad bacteria. In your cardiovascular system you have good 38 00:02:48.919 --> 00:02:53.039 cholesterol that fights off your bad cholesterol. And in your 39 00:02:53.080 --> 00:02:56.639 brain you have these glial cells that kill off the 40 00:02:56.879 --> 00:03:01.319 bad brain cells. But the only way these glile cells 41 00:03:01.599 --> 00:03:06.360 will start to work is when your fasting, is when 42 00:03:06.400 --> 00:03:09.919 you're not putting any food in your body. The more 43 00:03:10.000 --> 00:03:14.919 you fast, the quicker your brain will cleanse. To get 44 00:03:14.960 --> 00:03:20.039 a real good fast and create autophogy, you have to 45 00:03:20.080 --> 00:03:24.120 do more than a forty eight hour fast, So I 46 00:03:24.159 --> 00:03:27.039 typically like to do I'll do it once or twice 47 00:03:27.039 --> 00:03:30.039 a year, just for a cleanse, for a detox, to 48 00:03:30.080 --> 00:03:33.240 get rid of the heavy metals, the mold, all the 49 00:03:33.599 --> 00:03:37.199 chemicals that we're exposed to. So I'll do it where 50 00:03:37.599 --> 00:03:43.719 you fast starting Friday night after dinner, and the next 51 00:03:43.719 --> 00:03:47.240 time you eat is Monday morning breakfast. So you have 52 00:03:47.360 --> 00:03:51.039 no food on Saturday, no food on Sunday. So it's 53 00:03:51.120 --> 00:03:54.840 more than a forty eight hour fast. So now autopogy 54 00:03:55.240 --> 00:03:58.919 can start to kick in, and this has been proven 55 00:03:59.240 --> 00:04:06.360 to help even there's a beer neurological disorders such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, concussion, 56 00:04:06.800 --> 00:04:13.840 traumatic brain injury, stroke. Autophogy can heal the brain. But 57 00:04:13.919 --> 00:04:17.519 you have to fast when you're resting. You're not going 58 00:04:17.600 --> 00:04:20.600 to do a fast when you gotta you know, exercise, 59 00:04:20.720 --> 00:04:23.279 and you gotta go to work, and you gotta read 60 00:04:23.360 --> 00:04:27.480 your essays, and you gotta present something, and you gotta 61 00:04:28.199 --> 00:04:30.560 drive for many hours. So if you have a lot 62 00:04:30.680 --> 00:04:33.759 on your plate, that is not the time to do 63 00:04:33.839 --> 00:04:36.800 your fasting because you might be weak, you might get 64 00:04:36.800 --> 00:04:40.959 some lightheaded, you might not be exactly one hundred percent 65 00:04:41.279 --> 00:04:45.120 energy and strength and cardiovascular function like you're supposed to. 66 00:04:45.839 --> 00:04:49.519 So when you do autopogy and you are fasting, now 67 00:04:49.560 --> 00:04:52.879 it's a good time to rest. Same thing with the 68 00:04:52.920 --> 00:04:56.240 intermittent fasting. The best time to do it is where 69 00:04:56.240 --> 00:05:02.480 you eat from ten am to six that's your eight hours. 70 00:05:02.800 --> 00:05:05.240 So intermit and fast and you want to eat from 71 00:05:05.439 --> 00:05:11.279 ten am to six pm, and you want to sleep 72 00:05:11.639 --> 00:05:15.439 from ten pm to six am. 73 00:05:15.600 --> 00:05:17.160 And before you're sleeping. 74 00:05:16.720 --> 00:05:22.160 Eight hours, you're eating eight hours and you're fasting sixteen hours. 75 00:05:22.319 --> 00:05:27.639 That is a recipe to improve your health and your 76 00:05:27.639 --> 00:05:32.519 brain function, and you want to do it consistently every 77 00:05:32.560 --> 00:05:36.800 single day. You only eat from ten to six. Why 78 00:05:36.839 --> 00:05:41.240 do we eat. The reason we eat is for energy. 79 00:05:42.240 --> 00:05:45.759 That's why you're gonna eat during the day. It doesn't 80 00:05:45.839 --> 00:05:50.319 make sense to eat at eight o'clock at night when 81 00:05:50.319 --> 00:05:55.160 we just want to relax and go to bed. It's 82 00:05:55.279 --> 00:05:59.399 paradoxyl that's why you want to eat like a king 83 00:05:59.560 --> 00:06:03.279 for breadakfast, a prince for lunch, and a pauper for dinner. 84 00:06:04.279 --> 00:06:08.079 So you got a big breakfast at ten, decent sized 85 00:06:08.160 --> 00:06:12.360 lunch twelve thirty one o'clock, and then you get your 86 00:06:12.399 --> 00:06:17.160 dinner at five point thirty, being the smallest meal so 87 00:06:17.199 --> 00:06:19.680 you want the most food when you need the most energy, 88 00:06:19.759 --> 00:06:22.040 which is during the daylight hours, and you want the 89 00:06:22.120 --> 00:06:25.160 least food at night when we want to chill out 90 00:06:25.160 --> 00:06:27.879 our brain and we want to relax. So if you 91 00:06:27.920 --> 00:06:31.680 have troubles with sleep, either falling asleep or staying asleep, 92 00:06:32.079 --> 00:06:35.720 make sure you do intermitten fasting where you only eat 93 00:06:35.800 --> 00:06:39.360 from ten am to six pm, so you're eating eight 94 00:06:39.360 --> 00:06:43.519 hours and don't eat eight hours from one pm to 95 00:06:43.639 --> 00:06:46.240 nine pm. That is not the eight hours you want 96 00:06:46.279 --> 00:06:49.879 to eat because you're eating half of those hours it's 97 00:06:49.959 --> 00:06:53.600 dark outside. You don't want to eat when it's dark outside. 98 00:06:53.680 --> 00:06:57.839 That ruins your circadium rhythms coming from your pineal gland 99 00:06:58.120 --> 00:07:00.959 or what people call it the third eye. Your pineal 100 00:07:01.120 --> 00:07:05.759 gland controls your circadium rhythms. So that's gonna increase melatonin 101 00:07:05.839 --> 00:07:08.879 at night, and it's gonna decrease cortisol at night to 102 00:07:08.920 --> 00:07:12.360 get you to sleep. However, people who have difficulties sleeping 103 00:07:12.680 --> 00:07:14.920 are gonna have increased cortisol at night. 104 00:07:15.079 --> 00:07:16.199 That's not good. 105 00:07:16.439 --> 00:07:19.279 Then you're gonna wake up all groggy like you're not 106 00:07:19.399 --> 00:07:24.000 well rested, you're not high energy, So you wanna wake 107 00:07:24.079 --> 00:07:27.879 up with high energy you wanna wake up after a 108 00:07:27.959 --> 00:07:30.879 deep sleep and like what time is it? How long 109 00:07:31.279 --> 00:07:35.240 have I been out? That's a deep sleep and it 110 00:07:35.319 --> 00:07:40.519 starts with intermittent fasting. So after you're done eating by 111 00:07:40.560 --> 00:07:43.399 six pm, now what you want to do to aid 112 00:07:43.439 --> 00:07:47.240 in digestion is walk outside, take a walk after dinner. 113 00:07:47.439 --> 00:07:49.839 The worst thing is to eat dinner and go right 114 00:07:49.920 --> 00:07:53.240 on the couch. That's a no no, not good for 115 00:07:53.279 --> 00:07:57.720 your digestion, not good for your brain. So after your 116 00:07:57.800 --> 00:08:01.839 six o'clock, after six o'clock and you're done eating, now 117 00:08:01.879 --> 00:08:03.639 what you have to do is go for a walk. 118 00:08:03.680 --> 00:08:07.279 That helps with the digestion, and look up in the sky. 119 00:08:07.959 --> 00:08:11.079 When you look up in the sky, now your brain says, 120 00:08:11.079 --> 00:08:15.800 oh it's darker outside. Now I got to increase melotonin 121 00:08:15.920 --> 00:08:19.600 and get my body ready for sleep. But if it's 122 00:08:19.839 --> 00:08:23.759 eight o'clock at night, you're eating food, your lights are on, 123 00:08:24.000 --> 00:08:28.079 your TV's on, your computers on, you're going through your 124 00:08:28.120 --> 00:08:32.440 cell phone, you're watching the news. This is going to 125 00:08:32.759 --> 00:08:36.960 increase cortisol. You want to decrease cortisol at night, do 126 00:08:37.120 --> 00:08:40.480 not watch the news. You want to decrease cortisol night, 127 00:08:40.759 --> 00:08:44.240 do not turn on the television. You don't want to watch, 128 00:08:44.600 --> 00:08:48.360 you know, breaking bed with some drug dealer, or a 129 00:08:48.480 --> 00:08:53.360 special victims unit where they're looking at rapist, or you know, 130 00:08:53.559 --> 00:08:57.799 some TV show about zombies killing you. What is that 131 00:08:57.879 --> 00:09:00.759 The Waking Dead or something like that. You don't want 132 00:09:00.759 --> 00:09:03.799 to watch about these murder mysteries and these cop shows 133 00:09:03.799 --> 00:09:07.559 where they're killing everybody, and you know, and all these 134 00:09:07.799 --> 00:09:12.679 shows are stressful, and the more stressful a show you watch, 135 00:09:13.080 --> 00:09:17.480 the more stimulation of cortisol. And that's just watching a 136 00:09:17.480 --> 00:09:20.440 stressful show is going to increase cortosol, not even including 137 00:09:20.440 --> 00:09:23.759 the increased cortosol that comes from the blue light that's 138 00:09:23.879 --> 00:09:27.679 emitted from all these smart devices, just as your computer, 139 00:09:28.000 --> 00:09:31.919 your TV, your cell phone, and your iPad. The more 140 00:09:31.919 --> 00:09:35.960 blue light, the more increase in cortisol, and you increase 141 00:09:35.960 --> 00:09:39.120 in cortisol. That's the stress hormone that's going to interrupt 142 00:09:39.120 --> 00:09:42.679 your circadium rhythms and you're not going to sleep properly. 143 00:09:44.360 --> 00:09:46.279 So what you want to do is not only. 144 00:09:46.279 --> 00:09:52.080 Intermittent fast where you stop eating at six pm, but 145 00:09:52.639 --> 00:09:57.720 after you come home from your ten minute walk after dinner. 146 00:09:58.039 --> 00:09:59.720 So after dinner, you want to do a ten minute 147 00:09:59.759 --> 00:10:03.720 walk outside and look up into the sky, so you 148 00:10:03.759 --> 00:10:09.240 see that it's dark, and now your brain's gonna increase melatonin. 149 00:10:10.320 --> 00:10:12.960 So you want to intermittent fast from food, be done 150 00:10:13.039 --> 00:10:13.799 by six pm. 151 00:10:14.159 --> 00:10:15.120 And then when you come. 152 00:10:15.000 --> 00:10:20.679 Home, you want to actually not have any electronics and 153 00:10:20.720 --> 00:10:23.480 you want to dim your lights. So turn off the 154 00:10:23.559 --> 00:10:26.720 lights or just use a desk lamp. Turn off the TV, 155 00:10:27.240 --> 00:10:30.720 turn off the Wi Fi, turn up the computer, turn 156 00:10:30.759 --> 00:10:36.200 off your cell phone, turn off your iPad. This is 157 00:10:36.240 --> 00:10:40.639 the time to relax. So play a board game, play 158 00:10:40.679 --> 00:10:44.960 some monopoly, play some cards if you're by yourself, play solitaire. 159 00:10:46.440 --> 00:10:50.440 You can play Jenga. You can draw a picture. You 160 00:10:50.480 --> 00:10:54.200 can write a poem. You can write in your journal. 161 00:10:54.879 --> 00:10:58.360 You could learn some music. Learn how to play the piano, 162 00:10:58.480 --> 00:11:01.240 learn how to play the guitar, learn how to play 163 00:11:01.320 --> 00:11:04.559 the harmonica. You could join a book club. You could 164 00:11:04.639 --> 00:11:08.360 join a sewing class. You could take a yoga class. 165 00:11:08.480 --> 00:11:12.559 You could do a meetup with your friends that have 166 00:11:12.639 --> 00:11:16.159 common interests. You can learn how to sew, learn how 167 00:11:16.240 --> 00:11:19.000 to put up a shelf, learn how to change a tire. 168 00:11:19.440 --> 00:11:22.279 You can learn a new language. You could talk to 169 00:11:22.320 --> 00:11:25.240 your family. You could listen to some music. You could 170 00:11:25.279 --> 00:11:29.080 put on a podcast, listen to an audible book, but 171 00:11:29.240 --> 00:11:32.519 just stay away from the screens. So you want to 172 00:11:32.559 --> 00:11:37.399 do intermittent fasting where you only eat from ten am 173 00:11:37.440 --> 00:11:41.399 to six pm. And you want to do only using 174 00:11:41.440 --> 00:11:45.759 your electronics during the day. So if you have emails, 175 00:11:46.039 --> 00:11:49.519 text messages, you want to scroll on Facebook and YouTube, 176 00:11:50.159 --> 00:11:57.039 just get it done before six pm. After six pm, unplug, 177 00:11:57.559 --> 00:12:03.120 turn off the electronics. Then you'll function better, feel better, 178 00:12:03.519 --> 00:12:08.080 and live a better life. This is doctor Eric Kaplan 179 00:12:08.399 --> 00:12:10.840 and you're listening to boost your brain power. 180 00:12:11.840 --> 00:12:16.279 If you want to improve your brain function, help with memory, focus, sleep, digestion, 181 00:12:16.679 --> 00:12:22.320 energy depression, anxiety, dizziness, balance, vision, headaches, brain fog, weight loss, 182 00:12:22.440 --> 00:12:25.639 or simply want to maximize your human potential and prevent 183 00:12:25.720 --> 00:12:29.320 future diseases. That this is the show for you. Don't 184 00:12:29.360 --> 00:12:32.600 mis boost your brain power with doctor Eric Caplan and 185 00:12:32.639 --> 00:12:36.120 you will learn natural, integrative and holistic approaches to modern 186 00:12:36.159 --> 00:12:41.759 day medical problems such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's stroke, autism, add concussion, 187 00:12:41.879 --> 00:12:48.000 autoimmune diseases, insomnia, fibromyalgia, vertigo, migraines, four posture pain, TBI, 188 00:12:48.240 --> 00:12:51.879 skin and digestive problems. Doctor Caplin is most famous for 189 00:12:51.960 --> 00:12:54.279 getting to the root cause of a wide variety of 190 00:12:54.320 --> 00:12:57.879 brain and health conditions, rather than treating symptoms with traditional 191 00:12:57.879 --> 00:13:01.399 medicines and risky surgeries. To contack to doctor Kaplan, you 192 00:13:01.399 --> 00:13:03.519 can call his team at two are one two six 193 00:13:03.519 --> 00:13:06.480 one two one five zero or visit his website at 194 00:13:06.600 --> 00:13:10.559 kaplandc dot com. 195 00:13:10.840 --> 00:13:15.600 Function better, feel better, and live a better life. This 196 00:13:15.840 --> 00:13:20.159 is doctor Eric Kaplan, and you're listening to boost your 197 00:13:20.200 --> 00:13:21.039 brain power. 198 00:13:22.360 --> 00:13:22.600 Now. 199 00:13:22.720 --> 00:13:27.720 One way to make sure your brain function at optimal 200 00:13:27.840 --> 00:13:30.600 levels is to make sure you're hydrated. 201 00:13:31.879 --> 00:13:32.639 Think of your. 202 00:13:32.440 --> 00:13:38.039 Brain like a grape. When a grape gets dehydrated, it 203 00:13:38.279 --> 00:13:42.360 shrivels up into a raisin. Now do you want your 204 00:13:42.399 --> 00:13:45.799 brain to shrivel up like a raisin? Or do you 205 00:13:45.840 --> 00:13:51.440 want a nice and full and juicy and soft and 206 00:13:51.480 --> 00:13:55.039 better connections and more oxygen and more atp and more 207 00:13:55.080 --> 00:13:57.759 minochondria Or do you want all the brain sells to 208 00:13:57.799 --> 00:14:01.440 die off and be dry all these spaces and no 209 00:14:01.600 --> 00:14:04.240 connections unless oxygen and blood flow. 210 00:14:05.039 --> 00:14:07.159 Right. I want to make sure my brain. 211 00:14:06.960 --> 00:14:11.919 Gets all the nutrients that needs, and it starts with water. Now, 212 00:14:11.919 --> 00:14:16.000 you're supposed to drink half your body weight in ounces, 213 00:14:16.759 --> 00:14:19.600 So if you weigh two hundred pounds, you need to 214 00:14:19.679 --> 00:14:23.000 drink one hundred ounces of water. If you weigh one 215 00:14:23.080 --> 00:14:26.360 hundred pounds, you only need to drink fifty ounces of water. 216 00:14:26.639 --> 00:14:29.279 So does not drink eight glasses a day. It's drink 217 00:14:29.639 --> 00:14:33.360 half your body weight in ounces, because someone who's really 218 00:14:33.360 --> 00:14:36.480 big has to drink more than someone who's really small. 219 00:14:37.200 --> 00:14:37.799 Makes sense. 220 00:14:39.000 --> 00:14:42.799 Now, Also that's important is to make sure your water 221 00:14:42.960 --> 00:14:47.679 gets absorbed. Most people drink water and that doesn't get absorbed. 222 00:14:48.639 --> 00:14:50.720 They drink it and then pee it out. They drink 223 00:14:50.759 --> 00:14:52.679 it and then pee it out, And I hear these 224 00:14:52.679 --> 00:14:54.600 stories all the time. Oh, I can't drink water because 225 00:14:54.600 --> 00:14:57.399 then I got to pee right away. That means you're 226 00:14:57.399 --> 00:15:01.960 not absorbing it. If you drink a glass of water 227 00:15:02.120 --> 00:15:07.120 right before bed, you're supposed to be able to sleep 228 00:15:07.279 --> 00:15:11.159 the entire night without waking up to peat. Even if 229 00:15:11.200 --> 00:15:15.279 you drink a full glass of water right before bed, 230 00:15:16.720 --> 00:15:21.639 as long as it's getting absorbed. So most people aren't 231 00:15:21.679 --> 00:15:25.919 absorbing the water properly. Now, there's a few tricks to 232 00:15:26.120 --> 00:15:30.480 make sure you absorb the water. The first trick is salt, 233 00:15:32.000 --> 00:15:35.360 Celtic salt or pink ameleine salt. And if you put 234 00:15:35.399 --> 00:15:39.799 a pinch of the Celtic salt in your water, it's 235 00:15:39.840 --> 00:15:45.759 gonna deposit about eighty six minerals, and these minerals help 236 00:15:45.919 --> 00:15:49.720 the water to get absorbed. So you don't just drink 237 00:15:49.759 --> 00:15:52.639 it and then pee it out. You want to drink 238 00:15:52.679 --> 00:15:55.080 the water and make sure that water gets to your brain, 239 00:15:55.600 --> 00:15:58.919 gets to your heart, gets to your digestive track, gets 240 00:15:58.919 --> 00:16:01.919 to your muscles, get to your joints, to where it 241 00:16:02.080 --> 00:16:06.360 needs to go to hydrate properly. If you get cramps, 242 00:16:07.240 --> 00:16:13.639 whether it's menstrual cramps or cats, cramps in your calf, 243 00:16:14.759 --> 00:16:18.879 cramps in your legs, cramps in your feet, in your hands, 244 00:16:19.720 --> 00:16:24.159 if you're getting these cramps, that means you're dehydrated. The 245 00:16:24.200 --> 00:16:29.279 most common cause of cramps is dehydration. So if you're 246 00:16:29.320 --> 00:16:32.279 female and you know your period's coming, you better load 247 00:16:32.360 --> 00:16:35.240 up on water those few days before. Put the salt 248 00:16:35.279 --> 00:16:39.080 in so you get absorbed. You will decrease your chances 249 00:16:39.120 --> 00:16:43.759 of getting cramps. If you get cramps at night, because 250 00:16:43.759 --> 00:16:48.480 your calves tighten up. You better start getting hydration, and 251 00:16:48.519 --> 00:16:51.360 you better start putting salt in your water. And it's 252 00:16:51.399 --> 00:16:54.440 just a pinch. If you taste the salt, it's too much. 253 00:16:54.759 --> 00:16:57.279 You don't want to overdo it, but you do want 254 00:16:57.360 --> 00:16:59.639 to put the salt in because if you just drink 255 00:16:59.679 --> 00:17:04.920 the water without the salt, then it's what's called acidic water, 256 00:17:05.559 --> 00:17:09.400 and it doesn't get absorbed. We want alkaline water that's 257 00:17:09.559 --> 00:17:14.759 full of minerals. If you drink acidic water, that actually 258 00:17:14.759 --> 00:17:15.799 can make you sick. 259 00:17:16.640 --> 00:17:19.119 Because all disease loves an. 260 00:17:19.039 --> 00:17:26.519 Acidic environment, whether it's heart disease, cancer, Alzheimer's, diabetes, they 261 00:17:26.640 --> 00:17:29.359 want the acidic environment, so they don't want you to 262 00:17:29.440 --> 00:17:32.400 drink your water with minerals. If you have a virus 263 00:17:32.400 --> 00:17:37.039 of bacteria, mold exposure, parasites, worms, they love. 264 00:17:37.279 --> 00:17:40.319 An acidic environment. But if you have an. 265 00:17:40.240 --> 00:17:42.880 Alkaline environment because you're putting the salt in the water 266 00:17:43.960 --> 00:17:48.599 and you're eating alkaline foods, then you're gonna become a 267 00:17:48.640 --> 00:17:51.440 lot healthier. You're gonna kill off the virus, you're going 268 00:17:51.440 --> 00:17:54.240 to reverse diabetes, your blood pressure is gonna go down, 269 00:17:54.279 --> 00:17:58.720 your heart disease is gonna decrease, your brain function is 270 00:17:58.720 --> 00:18:04.759 going to improve. I see severe parkins and severe Alzheimer's, 271 00:18:04.799 --> 00:18:09.920 severe dementia, and they're always worse on the days they're dehydrated, 272 00:18:11.079 --> 00:18:13.400 and I can touch eup how much water do you 273 00:18:13.480 --> 00:18:16.440 drink today, Ah, doc, I know it's bad yesterday, it's 274 00:18:16.480 --> 00:18:20.599 bad today. I could tell. Because the brain doesn't function 275 00:18:20.640 --> 00:18:24.759 how it's supposed to. We need to hydrate. And if 276 00:18:24.759 --> 00:18:26.759 you're not doing it for your brain, do it for 277 00:18:26.880 --> 00:18:30.559 static purposes, because guess what, when you drink more water, 278 00:18:30.839 --> 00:18:35.160 you get less wrinkles. When you drink more water, your 279 00:18:35.200 --> 00:18:38.400 hair looks better when you drink more water, Your skin's 280 00:18:38.480 --> 00:18:42.039 less dry. When you drink more water, your digestive systems better. 281 00:18:42.079 --> 00:18:45.319 You lose some weight. So if you want to get 282 00:18:45.400 --> 00:18:48.480 rid of those wrinkles, get rid of your dry skin, 283 00:18:49.680 --> 00:18:54.359 better hair and joints, lose some weight. Then you start 284 00:18:54.400 --> 00:18:57.119 drinking water. So if you don't do it for medical purposes, 285 00:18:57.200 --> 00:19:02.039 at least do it for static purposes. The water that 286 00:19:02.160 --> 00:19:07.119 most people drink is from a water bottle. We don't 287 00:19:07.160 --> 00:19:11.759 want to drink water from a water bottle because the 288 00:19:11.920 --> 00:19:16.839 plastics in the water bottle leak into the water. So 289 00:19:16.880 --> 00:19:20.160 when you're drinking out of those plastic water bottles, you're 290 00:19:20.279 --> 00:19:25.960 actually taking plastic inside your system, and the plastic is toxic, 291 00:19:26.720 --> 00:19:31.799 causes brain inflammation, causes problems with your digestive system, your 292 00:19:31.839 --> 00:19:36.839 cardiovascular system, we don't want all these microplastics in our bloodstream, 293 00:19:37.200 --> 00:19:42.359 in our cells, in our body, in our stomach. These 294 00:19:42.359 --> 00:19:45.519 microplastics are everywhere. They're even in the clothes we wear. 295 00:19:45.960 --> 00:19:50.359 Those polyester clothes that everyone wears, those workout clothes, those 296 00:19:50.440 --> 00:19:55.559 span decks, those you tight clothes that the women wear. 297 00:19:55.599 --> 00:19:59.880 They're full of plastics and they get absorbed through your skin. 298 00:20:01.480 --> 00:20:06.200 So you might be drinking water and getting plastics. You 299 00:20:06.279 --> 00:20:12.240 might be wearing polyester getting plastics. You might be storing 300 00:20:12.359 --> 00:20:16.680 your food in plastics that then the food gets the plastics. 301 00:20:16.680 --> 00:20:21.640 Now you're eating plastics. You might microwave stuff in a 302 00:20:21.680 --> 00:20:26.680 plastic container, Then that plastic goes into the food. So 303 00:20:26.720 --> 00:20:31.160 you microwave plastics. No good. You store your food with plastics, 304 00:20:31.160 --> 00:20:35.160 no good. You drink your water in plastic containers, no good. 305 00:20:35.400 --> 00:20:40.079 You know, wear clothes that have plastics, no good. So 306 00:20:40.160 --> 00:20:43.480 start staying away from these plastics. You don't have to 307 00:20:43.519 --> 00:20:47.319 do it. You could drink out of a glass water bottle, 308 00:20:47.680 --> 00:20:51.279 you could drink out of a stainless steel water bottle, 309 00:20:51.599 --> 00:20:57.079 but stop using the plastics. The plastics are endocrine disruptors 310 00:20:57.880 --> 00:21:01.079 and they'll cause you to gain weight. I've had patients 311 00:21:01.200 --> 00:21:06.799 lose weight just by eliminating plastics from their life. So 312 00:21:06.920 --> 00:21:11.440 not only are you improving your brain function and preventing 313 00:21:11.559 --> 00:21:13.759 heart disease and cancer, but you're actually gonna lose a 314 00:21:13.799 --> 00:21:18.839 few pounds and actually look healthier too. These endo cringe 315 00:21:18.839 --> 00:21:21.720 disruptors can mess up your thyroid, can mess up your hormones, 316 00:21:21.839 --> 00:21:24.359 can affect you, know, if you're trying to get pregnant, 317 00:21:24.440 --> 00:21:27.640 or if you have a rectile dysfunction or lack of libido, 318 00:21:27.839 --> 00:21:32.640 lack of arousal. We don't want all these hormonal issues 319 00:21:32.640 --> 00:21:37.880 where you get menstrual cramps and morning sickness and night 320 00:21:37.960 --> 00:21:41.799 sweats and hot flashes. If you have any of these symptoms, 321 00:21:42.079 --> 00:21:44.640 stay away from those plastics. And if you want to 322 00:21:44.680 --> 00:21:49.880 prevent those symptoms, stay away from plastics. Start using glass, 323 00:21:50.279 --> 00:21:54.839 start using stainless steel. And you gotta be careful when 324 00:21:54.839 --> 00:21:57.799 you buy the stainless steel. Some of them actually they'll 325 00:21:57.799 --> 00:21:59.799 say stainless steel, but they got a lot of nickel 326 00:21:59.799 --> 00:22:02.759 in it or something, and you have to get I 327 00:22:03.000 --> 00:22:07.240 usually say like eighteen zero and that means zero nickel 328 00:22:07.359 --> 00:22:11.000 and it's all stainless steel. But if it's like eighteen 329 00:22:11.319 --> 00:22:14.279 five or eighteen one or eighteen two or eighteen six. 330 00:22:14.359 --> 00:22:18.559 That means they're adding other stuff besides the stainless steel. 331 00:22:19.480 --> 00:22:21.759 And the same thing. When you bring your lunch to 332 00:22:22.000 --> 00:22:25.480 work or school, store it in the stainless steel or 333 00:22:25.519 --> 00:22:29.119 the glass. I have a stainless steel lunch box, very light, 334 00:22:29.720 --> 00:22:33.000 but there's no plastic containers which are gonna leach into 335 00:22:33.000 --> 00:22:36.200 my food. The glass is good too, but it's a 336 00:22:36.240 --> 00:22:38.960 little heavy, and that's fine, and then obviously it's fragile. 337 00:22:38.960 --> 00:22:41.720 It could break, so you gotta be careful. But glass 338 00:22:41.720 --> 00:22:45.359 container or stainless steel container. Therefore you don't get any 339 00:22:45.400 --> 00:22:49.799 of these microplastics leaking into the food. And stop using 340 00:22:49.839 --> 00:22:54.359 the microwave. There's no reason to use the microwave. If 341 00:22:54.359 --> 00:22:56.960 you need to heat up food, use a toaster oven 342 00:22:57.480 --> 00:22:59.839 and just put it on bake or warm it up. 343 00:23:00.240 --> 00:23:04.640 But don't use the microwave. It's radiation. You get a decreased. 344 00:23:04.119 --> 00:23:09.319 Amount of radiation you're exposed to. Now, in regards to water, 345 00:23:09.640 --> 00:23:12.759 you want to drink on an empty stomach, so don't 346 00:23:12.839 --> 00:23:15.519 drink water with your meal. You want to drink first 347 00:23:15.559 --> 00:23:17.680 thing in the morning on an empty stomach. Then you 348 00:23:17.720 --> 00:23:21.200 want to drink half hour before breakfast, then a half 349 00:23:21.240 --> 00:23:24.880 hour before lunch, a half hour before dinner, and one 350 00:23:24.960 --> 00:23:28.359 more drink at night. So that's five glasses of water 351 00:23:28.759 --> 00:23:32.119 every single day. If you weigh two hundred pounds and 352 00:23:32.160 --> 00:23:34.319 you need to get one hundred ounces of water, each 353 00:23:34.359 --> 00:23:36.759 of those five glasses will be twenty ounces. 354 00:23:37.039 --> 00:23:37.720 It's doable. 355 00:23:38.119 --> 00:23:40.759 Twenty ounce glass right in the morning, twenty ounce glass 356 00:23:40.759 --> 00:23:44.799 a half hour before breakfast, twenty ounce glass before lunch, 357 00:23:44.839 --> 00:23:47.400 twenty ounce glass before dinner, and a twenty ounce glass 358 00:23:47.440 --> 00:23:50.039 at night. If you're one hundred pounds, you only need 359 00:23:50.079 --> 00:23:53.960 ten ounce glass. Just do the math for whatever your 360 00:23:54.000 --> 00:23:56.559 weight is. So it needs to be half your body 361 00:23:56.559 --> 00:23:58.559 weight in ounces, and it needs to be on an 362 00:23:58.599 --> 00:23:59.400 empty stomach. 363 00:23:59.599 --> 00:24:02.839 And you need to put the Celtic salt to get absorbed. 364 00:24:02.880 --> 00:24:05.319 And if you want, squeeze some lemon or some lime 365 00:24:05.440 --> 00:24:09.200 or some orange just to give it some flavor. But 366 00:24:09.319 --> 00:24:12.319 do it on an empty stomach. Don't wake up and 367 00:24:12.440 --> 00:24:15.240 drink coffee on an empty stomach. That's the worst thing 368 00:24:15.319 --> 00:24:22.160 you could do. Coffee causes a lot of inflammation, acid reflux, anxiety, difficulties, sleep, 369 00:24:22.440 --> 00:24:28.799 autoimmune disease, and panic, tachycardia, my heart rate, muscle spasm. 370 00:24:29.160 --> 00:24:31.319 Stay away from that first thing in the morning. Start 371 00:24:31.440 --> 00:24:35.519 drinking water in the morning with your Celtic salt with 372 00:24:35.640 --> 00:24:38.400 a squeeze of lemon a little bit warm so it 373 00:24:38.480 --> 00:24:44.200 gets absorbed. That way, you'll function better, feel better, and 374 00:24:44.400 --> 00:24:48.960 live a better life. This is doctor Eric Kaplan. 375 00:24:49.559 --> 00:24:51.720 More when we come back from the. 376 00:24:51.720 --> 00:24:56.880 Break, don't miss boost your brain power with doctor Eric 377 00:24:56.920 --> 00:25:00.200 Kaplan every Saturday from two pm to three pm to 378 00:25:00.279 --> 00:25:03.720 learn the secrets of how to optimize your brain function. 379 00:25:03.960 --> 00:25:10.640 You can improve memory, focus, energy, sleep, digestion, mood, skin, metabolism, 380 00:25:10.759 --> 00:25:14.440 and strength by following the science and research that doctor 381 00:25:14.519 --> 00:25:17.680 Caplan will be sharing with his audience. Join the adventure 382 00:25:17.720 --> 00:25:20.640 of discovering how to help the brain and body in 383 00:25:20.680 --> 00:25:23.480 a natural way while having fun at the same time. 384 00:25:23.799 --> 00:25:26.480 Listen to boost your brain power. If you want to 385 00:25:26.559 --> 00:25:30.240 function better, feel better, and enjoy the quality of life 386 00:25:30.400 --> 00:25:33.319 you deserve. Called two oh one two six 't one 387 00:25:33.519 --> 00:25:37.960 two one five zero or email info at Kaplan, brainanbody 388 00:25:38.039 --> 00:25:40.759 dot com if you're interested in a free ten minute 389 00:25:40.799 --> 00:25:45.279 consultation with doctor Caplan, or visit kaplandc dot com for 390 00:25:45.440 --> 00:25:46.119 more information. 391 00:25:48.880 --> 00:25:53.759 Function better, feel better, and live a better life. This 392 00:25:54.200 --> 00:25:58.200 is doctor Eric Kaplan and you're listening to boost your 393 00:25:58.200 --> 00:26:05.119 brain power. One of the most important ways to improve 394 00:26:05.160 --> 00:26:09.279 your brain function is to make sure you have proper 395 00:26:09.440 --> 00:26:13.519 vitamin D levels, and you will not know unless you 396 00:26:13.559 --> 00:26:16.279 get blood work. So you have to get blood work 397 00:26:16.359 --> 00:26:20.519 and analyze your vitamin D. Now, not all doctors analyze 398 00:26:20.559 --> 00:26:24.079 vitamin D. So if you do your you know, yearly physical, 399 00:26:24.160 --> 00:26:27.119 just make sure say, hey, doc, please check my vitamin 400 00:26:27.200 --> 00:26:30.559 D levels. It's very important, and they'll do it for you. 401 00:26:30.640 --> 00:26:32.519