Speaker 1: It's Night Side with Dan Ray. I'm telling you easy
Speaker 1: Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: All right, welcome back a little bit after ten o'clock.
Speaker 2: Thanks very much, Al Griffith. As we had as a
Speaker 2: guest a couple of weeks ago during the eight o'clock hour,
Speaker 2: my guest was going to join us tonight, doctor Patrick Porter.
Speaker 2: He's a brain health and neuroplasticity expert. So doctor Porter,
Speaker 2: welcome back to Night's Side. And I know we're going
Speaker 2: to talk about sleep and sleep solutions, and then maybe
Speaker 2: some people who want to get some information from you,
Speaker 2: and they're welcome to call us at six one, seven, two, five,
Speaker 2: four ten thirty or six one seven, nine three one
Speaker 2: ten thirty. First of all, welcome back to Night's Side.
Speaker 3: How are you tonight, sir.
Speaker 4: I'm doing great. Thanks hearing me, Dan, great to be better.
Speaker 3: Welcome and explain to me.
Speaker 2: What is a brain health and neuroplasticity expert. I think
Speaker 2: I know what is meant by that, but I'd love
Speaker 2: to make sure that I really do know what is
Speaker 2: meant by that.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Well, I've spent my career here, especially in the
Speaker 4: last fifteen years, of showing that you can your brain
Speaker 4: at any age, and you can increase its function by
Speaker 4: using different technologies and different lifestyle practices. And so they've
Speaker 4: kind of coined that neuroplasticity. So I guess I'm an
Speaker 4: expert at that. That's okay.
Speaker 2: So you dropped out of me there for a second
Speaker 2: and you said you could do something with your brain
Speaker 2: at any age, and we missed what it was you
Speaker 2: could do with your brain at any age?
Speaker 4: Yeah, what what we find? Maybe I have to turn
Speaker 4: up my WiFi and my phone or something.
Speaker 3: Whatever.
Speaker 2: If you're having trouble hearing us, Rob, why don't you
Speaker 2: jump on with him and make sure that he's he's okay.
Speaker 2: We're talking with doctor Patrick Porter, and what we're doing
Speaker 2: is we're talking essentially about your sleep and how you
Speaker 2: can get a good night's rest and how you can
Speaker 2: maximum as your sleep and how much sleep you need
Speaker 2: depending upon what stage of life you find yourself. Uh,
Speaker 2: doctor Porter, I think I got you back. I think
Speaker 2: Rob has cleaned things up for.
Speaker 3: You a little bit.
Speaker 4: Go right ahead, Yeah, I'm here.
Speaker 3: Go sure.
Speaker 2: So what you started off with a comment about something
Speaker 2: about how you could fix your brain at any age,
Speaker 2: and I missed what the verb was.
Speaker 3: So if you could just repeat that for us.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you can. You can with lifestyle changes and also technology,
Speaker 4: you can increase your brain function. You don't have to
Speaker 4: let your brain just kind of wither away as we age.
Speaker 4: A lot of people think that as we age, we're
Speaker 4: supposed to lose our lose our memories, and have dysfunction
Speaker 4: as we age and lose our balance and distibutor system.
Speaker 4: But the truth is that there are things you can
Speaker 4: do in your life that are very simple changes that
Speaker 4: if you start doing them early enough, you can have
Speaker 4: a great memory, great great function to the day you
Speaker 4: pass away.
Speaker 2: Okay, so there's no reason let's talk about those because
Speaker 2: I'm sure you've got the attention of a lot of
Speaker 2: people on that. What can people do at what age
Speaker 2: do they need to start to do some of these
Speaker 2: things to make sure that age does not adversely impact
Speaker 2: their memory or their balance, which I think most people
Speaker 2: as they get older assume that's just part of the
Speaker 2: aging process.
Speaker 4: Yeah, first of all, let me just address the balance thing,
Speaker 4: because we've proven that it's not about muscles in your balance,
Speaker 4: it's about your brain function. There's a brain wave called
Speaker 4: SMR between our awaking brain and like our creative brain
Speaker 4: is called the alpha brain. There's a brain wave called
Speaker 4: SMR sensory motorithm, and that's the one that atrophies as
Speaker 4: we age, and so it's when we lose that we
Speaker 4: lose our ability to balance. So we've proven that by
Speaker 4: training that brain wave by using tools like light, sound,
Speaker 4: and vibration like we do at brain Tap, and those
Speaker 4: are three different technologies you can use. But the main
Speaker 4: thing that I think people are missing, there's two factors
Speaker 4: that you can start doing at any age that you
Speaker 4: need to start doing it, because there's never an age
Speaker 4: too early to start working on your brain. So number
Speaker 4: one is drink half your body's weight and ounces of
Speaker 4: water and get what they call like Celtic salts. That
Speaker 4: it's not table salt. It's actually when you see this,
Speaker 4: this salt has twelve minerals in it. Most people are
Speaker 4: demineralized and the brain needs these minerals to process. So
Speaker 4: if you just put a little pinch of the salt
Speaker 4: in your water, and you should do it with every
Speaker 4: glass of water you have, and so it's almost like
Speaker 4: drinking it's not quite like drinking salt water, but your
Speaker 4: brain needs those minerals.
Speaker 2: So where do they get Celtic salt. Celtic is spelled
Speaker 2: like Celtic, like celtic.
Speaker 3: Okay, where do they get it?
Speaker 4: You can get it. Any grocery store will have it,
Speaker 4: and usually you have to grind it. You know, it'll
Speaker 4: come with a grinder. And it's important that you get
Speaker 4: that salt or what if you might find something that
Speaker 4: says full full full mineralized salt. But that's the easiest
Speaker 4: one you can find out there. And as you can
Speaker 4: get it at any grocery store. And you put a
Speaker 4: little bit of that in your water and drink. So
Speaker 4: let's say you weigh one hundred and twenty pounds. You're
Speaker 4: going to drink sixty ounces of water a day, and
Speaker 4: you want to drink it throughout the day, and you
Speaker 4: want to stop drinking that water at least two hours
Speaker 4: before bedtime. Just water, right, Yeah, if you drink anything else.
Speaker 4: For instance, I give you an idea. If you drink
Speaker 4: a cup of coffee that's eight ounces, you actually need
Speaker 4: to drink three more glasses of water to offset the
Speaker 4: dehydration that happened from that cup of coffee. Really, the
Speaker 4: same thing is true if you drink a soda pop.
Speaker 4: So Let's say you drink sixty ounces of soda, you
Speaker 4: need three times that amount of water to regain the
Speaker 4: water you lost. Most people are dehydrated. There's actually a
Speaker 4: really good book out called Your Money. Your Body's mini
Speaker 4: cries for water, and most people don't realize how dehydrated
Speaker 4: they are. And this is one of the things they're
Speaker 4: looking at now in the medical field because a lot
Speaker 4: of people there cells are not absorbing the water because
Speaker 4: they don't have the minerals. You need to think of
Speaker 4: it like a magnet in order to attract the iron fibers.
Speaker 4: We need the magnetic attraction we need. We need the
Speaker 4: minerals in our cells to attract the water into the cell.
Speaker 4: So it actually works. A lot of people drink water,
Speaker 4: but then they just eliminate it out. They're not really
Speaker 4: getting the benefit of the water. That's why you want
Speaker 4: to put the mineralize. You want to mineralize that water
Speaker 4: so your body has the magnetic charge to absorb that
Speaker 4: water and give you the nutrients that that water is
Speaker 4: supposed to provide you.
Speaker 2: And again you're suggesting celtic salt, which you can buy
Speaker 2: at a grocery store, or if you confind that what
Speaker 2: was the second suggestion.
Speaker 4: There's a salt called pull Spectrum salt. But I mean
Speaker 4: they can always go online and find it, you know,
Speaker 4: but I think every grocery store. You'll find it anywhere
Speaker 4: in the Boston area grocery store that's worth its salt, right.
Speaker 3: I like that. I like that.
Speaker 2: Okay, so let me come back to the water intake.
Speaker 2: A lot of people will will be intimidated by that
Speaker 2: because let's say that you are a normal sized male
Speaker 2: and you weigh somewhere around one hundred and eighty pounds. Okay,
Speaker 2: a woman could weigh, you know, one hundred and fifty
Speaker 2: pounds pretty easily. But if you're a mail and your
Speaker 2: weigh one hundred eighty pounds, you got to drink ninety
Speaker 2: ounces of water a day.
Speaker 4: That's well, that's what I recommend. Yeah, there's an easy
Speaker 4: way to do that though. What you do is every
Speaker 4: time you eliminate, before you go back to work, before
Speaker 4: you go back to whatever you're doing, drink ten ounces
Speaker 4: of water.
Speaker 3: Okay, Okay, no, I go.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Then what you'll find is, and some people will
Speaker 4: actually put posted notes at the door just whenever, if
Speaker 4: you can just get in the habit when you eliminate. Yeah,
Speaker 4: you need to replenish, So think of it. You know,
Speaker 4: you're you're dumping the waste, you bring in more to
Speaker 4: process and you know, and maybe you can't drink that
Speaker 4: much at first, but a little bit of something's better
Speaker 4: than hold out of nothing. And if you're drinking, no.
Speaker 3: That's fair, that's that's fair.
Speaker 2: Now again we're talking here primarily about about you know,
Speaker 2: brain health and all of that. Let's assume someone is
Speaker 2: in their sixties or seventies and they have noticed that
Speaker 2: maybe their memory is slipping.
Speaker 3: But they say, well, you know, that's what's what happens.
Speaker 2: Every once in a while you lose your keys or
Speaker 2: you can't find your glasses or something like that.
Speaker 3: Is it still.
Speaker 2: Advised that that someone who is you know, that far
Speaker 2: along or is this something that that you have to
Speaker 2: start when you're in your thirties and and stay ahead.
Speaker 3: Of the curve.
Speaker 4: Well, it's always better to start early. But any age
Speaker 4: you want to start doing this, because you're the body
Speaker 4: you're existing in right now, yep is no more than
Speaker 4: two years old. So we sell and your body has
Speaker 4: been replaced, the bones, the cells, I mean, some sub
Speaker 4: parts of your body might take seven years. But most
Speaker 4: of your I'd say ninety eight percent of your body
Speaker 4: has changed over the last two years. Now, what's the
Speaker 4: problem is just like making a copy back if you
Speaker 4: remember the old cassettes, or you'd make a copy of
Speaker 4: cassette from a cassette, it doesn't make it doesn't replicate
Speaker 4: so well. So if you don't have if your body
Speaker 4: isn't highly charged with energy, and like when we're young,
Speaker 4: what I think we talked about it on the show.
Speaker 4: When we're young, our brain is really high voltage. We
Speaker 4: have about eighteen point one volts. As we age, that
Speaker 4: voltage goes down. If that when we're twenty seven, it
Speaker 4: becomes about ten point one and remains there until we
Speaker 4: start to diminish and decline. And we find that when
Speaker 4: that brain voltage goes below six, people will start to
Speaker 4: experience dementia. When it goes below four, they start to
Speaker 4: have Alzheimer's. So we need to increase that energy. So
Speaker 4: think of your body like a battery.
Speaker 2: Every time you good analogy. So let me ask you,
Speaker 2: how do you how do do you find out what
Speaker 2: the voltage of your brain is. I go to my
Speaker 2: doctor every year and they do blood work and they
Speaker 2: do tests and all of that, But how do you
Speaker 2: find out and does the voltage in people's brains? Does
Speaker 2: that differ between men and women, between people who weigh
Speaker 2: two hundred and fifty pounds and people weigh hundred and
Speaker 2: fifty pounds or is it all just how do you
Speaker 2: determine how much vaulted is in the brain? Is the
Speaker 2: test that can be done?
Speaker 4: Well? Yeah, there is what they call EEG electrosophograph. Now
Speaker 4: they have technology we use at our research lab. We
Speaker 4: use a product called the Lobby and basically it's a
Speaker 4: skull cap that you put on and it measures not
Speaker 4: only brain voltage, but it measures different brain waves and
Speaker 4: things of that. They call it brain mapping. So there's
Speaker 4: probably a hundred places in Boston that do it. You know,
Speaker 4: if you call them up and say, hey, I want
Speaker 4: to get a brain map and I want to find
Speaker 4: out what my brain voltage is. I think I think
Speaker 4: within ten years it will be as common as doing
Speaker 4: a blood test because they're finding out so many things
Speaker 4: about the brain that early detection is better, right, just
Speaker 4: like everything else.
Speaker 2: Sure, Okay, so let's just someone has a brain voltage
Speaker 2: test and the doctor says, hey, guess what your brain
Speaker 2: voltage at your age?
Speaker 3: You know it, you know it should be.
Speaker 2: Somewhere in the range of ten and it's seven ken.
Speaker 2: What can be done to reverse that decline?
Speaker 4: Well, there's quite a few things you can do. Number
Speaker 4: one is you can change your diet. You can put
Speaker 4: get a little bit more fats and get that water
Speaker 4: and take up you need essential fats. So one of
Speaker 4: the things you can do, even starting today, even if
Speaker 4: you don't know your voltage is down, is the simplest
Speaker 4: thing is to start adding in omega threes, like having
Speaker 4: like olive oil. You can have at least if you
Speaker 4: just state one tablespoon of olive oil a day, they
Speaker 4: say you're tan of Alzheimer's just went down forty percent. Wow,
Speaker 4: So you and you can put that on your salads
Speaker 4: or you can just eat it with a spoon. You know,
Speaker 4: but there's and you can have avocados. You know, there's
Speaker 4: also instead of in real butter, not margarine, real butter.
Speaker 4: And you can and you when you think about coconut oil,
Speaker 4: get rid of the seed oils. Feat oils they now
Speaker 4: say are as bad as sugar for the brain. Though
Speaker 4: you want to get you want to minimize the sugar
Speaker 4: and take as much as you can for the brain.
Speaker 4: And then those are things you can do just when
Speaker 4: you're shopping. Then you can also do we we, of course,
Speaker 4: what we do at brain Tap. We did a study
Speaker 4: in Florida. In the book is called Saving Your Brain.
Speaker 4: It was by doctor Kelly Miller. He has a chapter
Speaker 4: in this says brain Tap to the rescue because what
Speaker 4: we do is we bring light energy into the brain.
Speaker 4: And doctor Cousins about twenty years ago said the most
Speaker 4: underprescribed nutrient on Earth is light. So you know, when
Speaker 4: you're living up north and I heard the I'm down
Speaker 4: here in the south out so we have a lot
Speaker 4: more sunlight. You know, there's something called seasonal effective disorder.
Speaker 4: Of course, because the seasonal effective disorder is like from
Speaker 4: the north. I grew up in Michigan, so people would
Speaker 4: get depressed in the winter.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, we're very, very familiar with that. As a
Speaker 2: matter of fact, there's some well known people who have
Speaker 2: been impacted about that. Doctor parter Port, I got to
Speaker 2: just take a break here. It's amazing the amount of
Speaker 2: information that you have shared with us in the first
Speaker 2: fifteen minutes here. I want to cycle back to sleep questions.
Speaker 2: I know that I have audience members who tell me
Speaker 2: they aren't able to establish a good sleep pattern. I have.
Speaker 2: I guess I'm the exception. I can sleep at the
Speaker 2: drop of a hat. But I also want to talk
Speaker 2: to you about naps. Are naps good for you or
Speaker 2: bad for you? Is there such a thing as too
Speaker 2: much napping? We'll get to all of this, I promise,
Speaker 2: And I also want to get people an opportunity. When
Speaker 2: we talked a couple of weeks ago, we were in
Speaker 2: that short segment for about ten minutes or so that
Speaker 2: we did. We do not take phone calls during the
Speaker 2: eight o'clock hours, So people tonight, if you want to
Speaker 2: talk with doctor Porter and ask a question about your
Speaker 2: sleep pattern, you got to dial now six one, seven, two, five,
Speaker 2: four ten thirty six months seven nine, three one ten thirty.
Speaker 2: I know we talked a lot of politics, a lot
Speaker 2: of national politics during the last week or so. Uh,
Speaker 2: And this is a Friday night. We're trying to get
Speaker 2: you information that can help you.
Speaker 3: UH.
Speaker 2: And if you've listened to what he said in the
Speaker 2: first fifteen minutes, has been a tremendous amount of information
Speaker 2: that should be able to help you. We'll take a
Speaker 2: quick break. Coming back on night Side, you have the
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Speaker 1: Night Side with Dan Ray. I'm telling you Bzy Boston's
Speaker 1: News Radio.
Speaker 3: My guess is doctor Patrick Porter. Uh.
Speaker 2: He obviously has a lot of great information here.
Speaker 3: Let's let's keep rolling with this.
Speaker 2: We started that whole conversation just talking about brain health
Speaker 2: and neuroplasticity, but I also want to talk about sleep patterns.
Speaker 2: And I have, you know, listeners who will tell me
Speaker 2: that they can't sleep, or when they sleep, they sleep
Speaker 2: different hours. What is the key to getting a regular
Speaker 2: and a predictable good night's sleep or is there a
Speaker 2: specific key, And maybe it differs from people to people.
Speaker 4: If it does differ from people to people, but I
Speaker 4: think that what you do the hours leading up to
Speaker 4: sleep are very important, Like especially two to three hours
Speaker 4: before sleep, go around the house turning off lights, because
Speaker 4: we're not Our brain needs to know it's time for sleep.
Speaker 4: And if the house is bright in your Let's say
Speaker 4: you're watching television and you're watching some show that's that's
Speaker 4: an adjutant, you know, maybe it's a mystery show that's
Speaker 4: getting brain to think too much. You want to do
Speaker 4: things that are pretty much mindless, you know, and they
Speaker 4: do things that are or read you know, things like that.
Speaker 4: If you're having problems sleeping, there's a few rules. One
Speaker 4: is don't eat any solid food three to four hours
Speaker 4: before bad because your body can't sleep and digest at
Speaker 4: the same time. So some people can do it fine,
Speaker 4: it just doesn't matter they eat. Now if you can't
Speaker 4: help it. Sometimes you just have to eat and then
Speaker 4: you go to sleep. But if you can plant it
Speaker 4: that way and then also eliminate all liquids, And what
Speaker 4: I should have said earlier in the show was you
Speaker 4: could also drink herbal teas. Herbal teas can count as water.
Speaker 4: So if you can't drink like what I tell people
Speaker 4: is to get like peppermint tea or something like that,
Speaker 4: you can also do that to get the water intake
Speaker 4: I was talking about earlier. So if people are saying
Speaker 4: I don't think they need a little flavor to it,
Speaker 4: you know, you can drink the herbal teas and that
Speaker 4: will not doesn't have a diuretic effect. I'm not talking
Speaker 4: about black teas now, I'm talking about like the herbal
Speaker 4: kind of like peppermint tea or kind of meal tea,
Speaker 4: or there's also a tea called sleepy time tea. You know,
Speaker 4: you might want to have that tea a couple hours
Speaker 4: before bed and you'll start to calm down and then
Speaker 4: when you're in when you're in bed, your bedroom should
Speaker 4: just be for sleep and for whatever other recreation you
Speaker 4: want to have in there. But it's not. It's not
Speaker 4: a place where you should be doing your work. Like
Speaker 4: you shouldn't bring your laptop in there. You know, don't
Speaker 4: confuse your brain with the bedroom being anything other than
Speaker 4: a sanctuary for sleep. And if you can. A lot
Speaker 4: of people will need to have like knockout curtains where
Speaker 4: they block out all the light because sometimes just even
Speaker 4: a little bit of light, if you're light sensitive, it
Speaker 4: can it can stop you from getting into that deep
Speaker 4: circadian rhythm.
Speaker 2: I am a huge fan of dark curtains, and I
Speaker 2: gotta tell you, I think that for.
Speaker 3: Me is the key.
Speaker 2: I'm in a situation where I do a talk show
Speaker 2: from eight to.
Speaker 3: Midnight East Coast time. I take about an hour just
Speaker 3: to unwind.
Speaker 2: And one of the things that I do is we
Speaker 2: do a little postgame show on the Internet to tell
Speaker 2: people how the show went, which probably is not the
Speaker 2: smartest thing for me to do personally, but I do
Speaker 2: it because I'd like to just talk to my listeners
Speaker 2: who want to find me on Facebook and I give
Speaker 2: them a little recap of the show and I'll say
Speaker 2: I'm happy with it, or we could have done better,
Speaker 2: and I'm pretty candid with it. But what I will do,
Speaker 2: what I try to do is I'll try to put
Speaker 2: the Boston Globe crossword puzzle aside and start that at
Speaker 2: twelve thirty and it doesn't take me long. I never
Speaker 2: complete the crossword puzzle because halfway through I can feel
Speaker 2: my eyes are drooping and at that point I'm ready
Speaker 2: to go to bed.
Speaker 3: So that's my.
Speaker 2: System, and it works for me. I think you got
Speaker 2: to find a system that works for you, is really
Speaker 2: my point.
Speaker 3: And I assume you would agree.
Speaker 4: With that, Oh yes, And then what they can do
Speaker 4: if they don't have a system right now. You can
Speaker 4: do a breeding technique that's worked magical for my clients
Speaker 4: over the years. And you actually just do a breeding technique.
Speaker 4: You breath into the count of four and you breathe
Speaker 4: out to the kind of eight and you just don't
Speaker 4: worry about what you're thinking about. You know your day
Speaker 4: is going to roll through your mind. But like you're
Speaker 4: doing the crossword puzzle is good because you're kind of
Speaker 4: stressing your brain a little bit, but it's probably fun
Speaker 4: for you to do it. So it's some people, if
Speaker 4: you gave him a crossword puzzle, they would probably fall
Speaker 4: asleep minute they took out the pen and the paper,
Speaker 4: you know. But if you're the type of person that
Speaker 4: does that, Like some people will do puzzles before they
Speaker 4: go to sleep because it's something that their brain has
Speaker 4: to think. It has to you know, sue something creative,
Speaker 4: but it's also logical. So the brain gets a little
Speaker 4: bit of stress, but that's enough to eliminate the sympathetic
Speaker 4: drive that happened every day or the stress that build
Speaker 4: up during the day.
Speaker 2: So this breeding technique, the stress is dress is the killer. Uh,
Speaker 2: Doctor Patrick Porter, Doctor Porter, we got to take about
Speaker 2: a three minute newscast. We go back on and go
Speaker 2: to phone calls. I've got a bunch of calls in
Speaker 2: the line, Foy, You have no idea what they want
Speaker 2: to talk about. But that's the best part about Nightside
Speaker 2: and I can tell from talking to you for just
Speaker 2: a few minutes that you know your stuff and you
Speaker 2: are a font of valuable information. And I really thank
Speaker 2: you for taking the time tonight to talk to my audience.
Speaker 2: So any question, As I've often said, there are no
Speaker 2: questions that are dumb questions. The only dumb questions are
Speaker 2: the questions you don't have the courage to ask. Six one, seven, two, five, four,
Speaker 2: ten thirty. One line there and one line and six
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Speaker 2: going with questions right after the break. Here on night Side,
Speaker 2: my name is Dan Ray. Listening WBZ Boston ten thirty
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Speaker 2: Anywhere east of the Mississippi River works for us. Can
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Speaker 2: on Nightside, It's Night Side with Dan Ray's Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 2: My guest doctor Patrick Porter. Let's get to the phone calls. Doctor,
Speaker 2: Let's go to Helen in Canton, Massachusetts. Helen, you were first.
Speaker 3: This hour with doctor Porter.
Speaker 4: Go right ahead, Helen, Hi got the point. Thank you, Dan,
Speaker 4: You're very welcome. Hello.
Speaker 5: I work overnights for twenty three years now, and I'm
Speaker 5: heading into work right now, and I don't sleep well.
Speaker 5: I haven't slept well for twenty three years, so I
Speaker 5: just don't know what this point. Can I do anything
Speaker 5: to help me sleep?
Speaker 2: What time you get off work? I'm seven in the morning.
Speaker 2: What time you get off well?
Speaker 5: What did I get out of work at nine thirty
Speaker 5: in the morning.
Speaker 3: Okay, you're a nurse.
Speaker 5: I know I'm in vebiology, babeology.
Speaker 3: Text in the medical field. Doctor Portego, right.
Speaker 4: Ahead, Yeah, yeah, I think that. Yeah, you're You're definitely
Speaker 4: out of sync with the circadian rhythms, so you're gonna
Speaker 4: have a problem. But what you can do is you
Speaker 4: want to maybe get some kind of music. What we
Speaker 4: do is, of course, we use an algorithm that teaches
Speaker 4: you to get into the state of delta, but you
Speaker 4: can get like white noise. Have you tried that before
Speaker 4: using that?
Speaker 6: Yes?
Speaker 5: I use that every single time I go to bed,
Speaker 5: so it doesn't affect my brain. I wanted to make
Speaker 5: sure on that right.
Speaker 4: Yeah, oh no, it's gonna it's what it does. It's
Speaker 4: gonna block out the day. But the main thing that
Speaker 4: I think you need to do is practice that breathing
Speaker 4: technique that I was talking about before you go to bed. Yeah,
Speaker 4: we need to get you into a deep state. Your
Speaker 4: brain's going against the natural rhythm of our body. Right.
Speaker 4: There's there's very few people that in our history and
Speaker 4: their ancestry, they would stay up all night. And I
Speaker 4: know because my my family was all in the medical field.
Speaker 4: Grandmother was a nurse, and my nurses and they would
Speaker 4: get jacked around. You know, one week they'd be working
Speaker 4: days and next week they'd be working nights. And this
Speaker 4: is that good for your circadian rhythms. So the other
Speaker 4: is that even though you're going to bed, do you
Speaker 4: go right to bed or do you do something else
Speaker 4: before you go to bed In the.
Speaker 5: Morning, sometimes I do other stuff and then I go
Speaker 5: to bed around two or three o'clock and then I
Speaker 5: can't sleep well.
Speaker 4: At all them. But if I go to.
Speaker 5: Bed, usually right after work, I take a quick shot.
Speaker 5: When I go to bed, usually I take trasiton. They
Speaker 5: doctor recommend trasiton, So I take trasiton to go to
Speaker 5: sleep and it actually does help.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean those kind of things will help, But
Speaker 4: I think the main thing is is, just like I
Speaker 4: was saying earlier in the show, you want to not
Speaker 4: eat anything within four hours of going to sleep. That's
Speaker 4: what I really suggest.
Speaker 5: Sure I do that. I'm really bad at that, So
Speaker 5: I have to stop doing that.
Speaker 4: Yes, and then also with the water, and then practice
Speaker 4: that breeding technique, and then make your room as dark
Speaker 4: as possible. You're we're going to have to trick your
Speaker 4: body into thinking it's midnight instead of you know, nine
Speaker 4: thirty ten Oclos morning. In many the reality, The reality
Speaker 4: is it's not about time in bed. Remember that it's
Speaker 4: about getting If you get a sleep watch or way
Speaker 4: to measure your sleep, if you can start getting an
Speaker 4: hour of deep sleep, which we we treat people to do.
Speaker 4: You can get some tips at brain tap dot com
Speaker 4: that can teach you how to do that, because we
Speaker 4: have an app that actually will put you to sleep
Speaker 4: at any time in the day. We work at coal
Speaker 4: miners and we showed that that's possible. But you'll need
Speaker 4: you'll need to get as quickly as possible into the
Speaker 4: first level of sleep, and then if we can get
Speaker 4: you an hour of deep sleep, you're going to find
Speaker 4: that you're going to wake up, recharge, even if you
Speaker 4: only sleep four and a half five hours.
Speaker 5: Oh okay, because I do. Look at I said that,
Speaker 5: and if I say I usually sleep up, a deep
Speaker 5: sleep is like an hour and a few minutes. So
Speaker 5: that's not bad that I thought it was bad.
Speaker 4: Okay, No, no, that's good. I mean if you get
Speaker 4: two hours of rim sleep. So if it's telling you
Speaker 4: an hour of deep sleep, two hours of rim sleep,
Speaker 4: you're getting the sleep that you need. Now, what you
Speaker 4: might need to do is do something to activate the
Speaker 4: system when because your body's going to actually want to
Speaker 4: go to sleep when you're working, so you've got to
Speaker 4: kind of trick the brain at that point.
Speaker 5: Okay, all right, thank.
Speaker 2: You, Thank you, Helen, and thank you for what you do.
Speaker 3: Thank you for what you do.
Speaker 5: Thank you for what you do.
Speaker 4: Thank you doctor you.
Speaker 3: Let's keep rolling here.
Speaker 2: Six one seven, A couple of lines there at six
Speaker 2: one seven, ed you were next one nights. I appreciate
Speaker 2: you calling it.
Speaker 3: Go right ahead, bye.
Speaker 4: I had two questions relating to liquids. The first is
Speaker 4: this the temperature of the water matter, is ice water
Speaker 4: or hot water better or worse? And the second thing
Speaker 4: is I'm assuming you're against coffee completely, but if you
Speaker 4: have to drink at what's the best kind to drink
Speaker 4: and what time of day? Okay, I'll answer the first question. First.
Speaker 4: The water is a preference, but they find that most
Speaker 4: people cannot tolerate ice water. It actually kills some of
Speaker 4: the digestive that you need in the system. But if
Speaker 4: you tolerate ice water, it's fine. Hot water with lemon
Speaker 4: is probably the best because it's alkalizing the water, just
Speaker 4: like the salt would do. So a lot of people
Speaker 4: will add like limon to their water, you know, squeeze
Speaker 4: a slice a limon or something into it. But no
Speaker 4: water in any form is going to be better than
Speaker 4: no water. So I have a saying, a little bit
Speaker 4: of something's better than a whole lot of nothing, you know,
Speaker 4: So however you get it in and with coffee. I'm
Speaker 4: not totally against coffee. I love coffee myself, but I
Speaker 4: don't drink coffee first thing in the morning. When first
Speaker 4: thing in the morning you have something called the Cortisolt trough.
Speaker 4: And if you need coffee first thing in the morning.
Speaker 4: That's a sign that you have a neurological disorder because
Speaker 4: your body is now your brain is inherently lazy. If
Speaker 4: it can get something else to do the work for it,
Speaker 4: it will. And what coffee does. It's spikes near perneffrin, cortisol,
Speaker 4: and dopamine. Now, these are three things you need in
Speaker 4: the morning to get you up out of bed, but
Speaker 4: your brain needs to create those. So think in terms.
Speaker 4: You have the world's greatest pharmacy between your ears, but
Speaker 4: you're not using that pharmacy. You're dumping coffee into it.
Speaker 4: So what I always recommend people do is drink their coffee.
Speaker 4: You can have You can have a cup of cups
Speaker 4: of coffee. Just have one at ten o'clock and you
Speaker 4: can have another one after you do your whatever you're
Speaker 4: gonna do in the afternoon. You know you don't need to.
Speaker 4: If you drink more than one cup of coffee too,
Speaker 4: you're gonna be at a deficit. I said that earlier,
Speaker 4: because you're gonna have you're gonna be in a dehydrated state.
Speaker 4: So I always recommend that before you drink your coffee,
Speaker 4: you have six or eight ounces of water and then
Speaker 4: if it's possible, after you're done drinking your coffee, you
Speaker 4: have another six or ten glasses, you know, ounces of water.
Speaker 4: That way, at least you're not at a deficit. And
Speaker 4: then what will happen is pretty soon you'll find out
Speaker 4: you don't need as much coffee. You'll just drink coffee
Speaker 4: because you enjoy it, not because it's still emulating you
Speaker 4: to stay awake. Your body can stay awake as long
Speaker 4: as it's mineralized water. You're gonna you're gonna have more
Speaker 4: energy than you thought possible. Because the coffee is a
Speaker 4: synthetic stimulant, it's not really doing anything for you. Your
Speaker 4: brain has to work twice as hard to give you
Speaker 4: that energy. And that's why you have to chase the
Speaker 4: coffee with another coffee maybe, or you have those downtimes
Speaker 4: during the day after you drink coffee. Okay, great, thank
Speaker 4: you very much.
Speaker 2: Well did you have a second question there or was
Speaker 2: that cover of both of them?
Speaker 4: Yeah, that was the quest. No, that's about Ed.
Speaker 2: Good, Thank you, Ed, appreciate your call. Thank you much.
Speaker 2: Let me get one more in here before the break.
Speaker 3: Gonna go to.
Speaker 2: Lee in Quincy, Massachusetts. Lee, how are you tonight, Jo,
Speaker 2: I'm with doctor Patrick Porter. Go ahead, Lee, okay, Ted.
Speaker 4: I just wanted to say the doctor was talking about
Speaker 4: olive oil and avocados. I was a tour guide for
Speaker 4: better years. I once had a doctor in my car
Speaker 4: from China. He was eighty years old, and he wanted
Speaker 4: me to take him to a health food store and
Speaker 4: I did. If he bought a bottle of this EBCT oil,
Speaker 4: and I would do it. They're pretty good and it
Speaker 4: sounds pretty good. I wanted his opinion on EBCT oil. Yeah,
Speaker 4: that's very good. That's the coconut oil. So what I
Speaker 4: was talking about. You can buy cocone oil at the
Speaker 4: grocery store too, but MCT oil is refined. And then
Speaker 4: a lot of people, I mean, even like Dave Affley
Speaker 4: is really big in something called biohacking. He actually has
Speaker 4: a whole coffee. He puts the mct coil oil in
Speaker 4: the coffee, so that person who's nice about coffee earlier.
Speaker 4: A good thing you could do for your coffee to
Speaker 4: help it work even better is put you know, real butter,
Speaker 4: or you can put mcte oil in. It's a good
Speaker 4: way to drink the coffee and it's there well they're dark.
Speaker 4: To all these guys who do vocto, the Keto guy whatever.
Speaker 4: They have something called the bulletproof Coffee. At the Boy.
Speaker 4: They put butter in the coffee. They put emctea oil,
Speaker 4: you know, maybe a fake sugar. They call that a
Speaker 4: bulletproof coffee. Yeah. Yeah, because it's gonna it's gonna activate
Speaker 4: that fat in the coffee is going to activate the
Speaker 4: it's gonna actually liberate fat and the cells will give
Speaker 4: you energy. So it's a it's a really good way
Speaker 4: to do it. I think, yeah. Good. Can you take
Speaker 4: it in a in a powdered form. I've always had
Speaker 4: a liquid and I it tastes white butter. Sometimes I'll
Speaker 4: take a table's food, but I see the sewing it
Speaker 4: now in a powdered form. Yeah, I think the liquid
Speaker 4: is better. But even bulletproof, the company you're talking about,
Speaker 4: they actually sell mct oil and bulletproof. You can find
Speaker 4: it in the and the like the help food section
Speaker 4: of your grocery store. It'll say bulletproof, but it will
Speaker 4: be mct oiled. It's powder, and I I actually take
Speaker 4: that with me when I travel, So it's okay because
Speaker 4: it's it's easier to travel with than the liquid, but
Speaker 4: at home, I'll use the liquid. Okay, it's good for
Speaker 4: the braid. Yeah, those kind of fat because there's short
Speaker 4: team that acids. Those are omega threes, so the brain
Speaker 4: loves those, and your brain is made up of fat
Speaker 4: in water. So you can't really overdo those. I mean
Speaker 4: you probably could, but I don't think anybody could eat
Speaker 4: that much to do that.
Speaker 2: And did these things that both you and Lee are
Speaker 2: talking about do they impact weight loss? Either either add
Speaker 2: pound you're throwing some butter in your coffee, or does it.
Speaker 4: They'll actually have you lose weight because fat. The old
Speaker 4: story that fat makes you fat is not true at all.
Speaker 4: Sugar makes you fat. So the most of the don't
Speaker 4: realize that. When you're eating seed oils, that's different. We're
Speaker 4: talking about short chain amino acids omega threes. MCT oil
Speaker 4: is one, olive oil is one, real butter is one,
Speaker 4: gee is one. There's there's there's a whole series you
Speaker 4: know that they go online and they just say short
Speaker 4: chain fatty acids omega threes. Those are what you eat.
Speaker 4: Now if you're eating the complex like the seed oils
Speaker 4: that are out there, or like vegetable oil or things
Speaker 4: like that. Those are bad for you. They're gonna make
Speaker 4: you fat because they're toxic to the body, and they're
Speaker 4: already ramcid. You know, mostly you don't realize that most
Speaker 4: oils on the shelf are already ramcid. They're not any good.
Speaker 4: They might taste good, but there's no value in them.
Speaker 4: And most of the research done on things like even
Speaker 4: canola oil. Most canola oil is garbage. They did the
Speaker 4: studies on real con oil, but they didn't do it
Speaker 4: on the refined As soon as you get seated up
Speaker 4: over one hundred and sixty degrees, that oil is no
Speaker 4: good anymore.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 2: How long did it take you to develop this compendium
Speaker 2: of knowledge? Obviously this is something that you have studied,
Speaker 2: I assume for a long time.
Speaker 4: Doctor. Yeah. Well, my mother actually, when I was twelve
Speaker 4: years old, went to a nutritionalist and found out that
Speaker 4: we are family we shouldn't have We were brought up Catholics,
Speaker 4: so our family we were Spazes and you found out
Speaker 4: that we shouldn't be eating sugar and dies and we
Speaker 4: were actually if you remember ul Gibbons, I was told
Speaker 4: in high school that I was going to replace jul
Speaker 4: Gibbons and grape nuts commercials. So I've been doing it
Speaker 4: a long time. Wow.
Speaker 3: Okay, Hey Lee, great, great questions. Thank you so much.
Speaker 4: Okay, Dad, have a great night, good night, have a
Speaker 4: good weekend.
Speaker 2: Take very quick break here you get to take a
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Speaker 2: Okay, we're gonna get more questions and comments for doctor
Speaker 2: Patrick Porter.
Speaker 3: Let me go to Christian in Peabody. Christian, how are
Speaker 3: you tonight? Welcome?
Speaker 4: Doing well? Welcome?
Speaker 6: I say you're from all that's going on.
Speaker 2: I'll have a question, fead, doctor Porter.
Speaker 4: Go ahead, yep.
Speaker 6: I take a Omega three six nine triple Omega. Is
Speaker 6: it necessary to buy all three? Or is the Omega
Speaker 6: three the one you need to focus on.
Speaker 4: But if you're getting, if you're feeling energized and it's
Speaker 4: working for you, then you know, I'd say it's a
Speaker 4: personal preference. You know, the the the others, the three
Speaker 4: will make the sixes and nine that your body needs.
Speaker 4: And sometimes yeah, yes, that makes sense.
Speaker 6: Okay, no, because sometimes it's about product being sold instead
Speaker 6: of what you really need. Yeah, but anyway, this is
Speaker 6: not a fish oil. It's some flat seeds and staff
Speaker 6: flower and.
Speaker 4: Olive oil, and so used to that part.
Speaker 6: The other thing is, well, go.
Speaker 4: Ahead, I was gonna say Blackfeet oil is now they're
Speaker 4: touting it is like the best out there right now.
Speaker 4: And I've been I've been trying a couple of different brands,
Speaker 4: and I've been doing getting some really good results with
Speaker 4: our with my clients and things. So I really that
Speaker 4: is a good ball. Okay.
Speaker 6: The other question I had was, I am now sixty
Speaker 6: five years old, and because of stress, up work and
Speaker 6: other things, I find my sleeping goally. I actually still
Speaker 6: go to sleep at the drop of a hat. I
Speaker 6: can set my arm in five minutes and I'll.
Speaker 4: Pay you a dream state when when it goes off. So
Speaker 4: that's not an issue.
Speaker 6: My problem is is that.
Speaker 7: I'm witching up every couple of hours and it's just
Speaker 7: like what happened to my eight hours sleep solid?
Speaker 4: Right? Well, that that diffregulated brain, you're actually going to
Speaker 4: sleep too quickly. Think in terms of like your That's
Speaker 4: why I say that that breathing technique, that four aid breath,
Speaker 4: you need to unwind your body. If you go to
Speaker 4: sleep too quickly, too, you don't go through the sleep
Speaker 4: cycle you need, so you're dropping the want too quickly.
Speaker 4: So so take okay, actually act like you know how
Speaker 4: you're getting pulled like a a maggot pulling metal or
Speaker 4: something like that. You want to you want to feel
Speaker 4: your body relaxed into it and release the tension in
Speaker 4: your body. And when you release that tension in the body,
Speaker 4: you can go through the sleep cycle and you're gonna
Speaker 4: find you're gonna sleep longer and deeper.
Speaker 7: Okay, Well, the reason why I say this is because
Speaker 7: Frontilvey friendly, your mouths professional driving all over the country.
Speaker 6: You that's why I tried back. My body's been trained
Speaker 6: when you need to sleep, you have a moment.
Speaker 4: It's of course right into it. Because just that was.
Speaker 7: A pattern that built over the decades.
Speaker 6: I no longer try to, but because of my situation.
Speaker 7: It's very successful that I find I can release distress
Speaker 7: by going to the gym. But I really.
Speaker 6: Needed some guidance on getting.
Speaker 7: Something you saying you're breathing technique is anything, yeah, you
Speaker 7: things like this.
Speaker 4: Tom Brady is one of our he's one of our
Speaker 4: guys with brain tap. We work with him all the time.
Speaker 4: He already says that for every one minute of exertion,
Speaker 4: you need two minutes of recovery. True. So even though
Speaker 4: you're going to the gym and you're working out hard,
Speaker 4: you're you're actually creating something called B D and S.
Speaker 4: But if you don't take the time to relax after that,
Speaker 4: it's almost useless. So maybe after you're done doing your
Speaker 4: workout and you're releasing the stress, take a moment just
Speaker 4: to sit down and do some even just sitting in
Speaker 4: the locker room, do do three or four minutes of
Speaker 4: breeding just to get the body to learn how to
Speaker 4: regulate that relaxation. Because when you're driving on the road,
Speaker 4: your body is trained to have a high stress. That's
Speaker 4: most people don't realize the stress that those truckers are
Speaker 4: under are driving down the road and you get used
Speaker 4: to it when you're driving. But if we were to
Speaker 4: measure your stress levels, they're crazy, They're off the chart.
Speaker 2: Okay, gentlemen, we're getting tied on time. Christian, I gotta
Speaker 2: let you go. Thank you much.
Speaker 4: We're going to try to get in here. Joy, thank you,
Speaker 4: thank you.
Speaker 3: Christian Lil.
Speaker 2: You called late. I can give you about a minute.
Speaker 2: What can you do with it?
Speaker 4: Wow?
Speaker 8: Thank you so much. What type of doctor are you?
Speaker 8: Number one? I need that. Number two. If someone is
Speaker 8: an anti coagulant and have to watch their fat content,
Speaker 8: can they take coconuts? Because when you read they said
Speaker 8: it's okay and it's not okay. And also what type
Speaker 8: of butter is real butters? What is your brand name?
Speaker 3: Okay?
Speaker 2: Real?
Speaker 3: Quickly?
Speaker 2: Doctor Lil obviously has not heard the entire rob give
Speaker 2: her a quick What type of doctor?
Speaker 4: Then?
Speaker 3: If you can answer those questions quickly, I appreciate it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm a I'm a psychologist by name, by by training,
Speaker 4: but I've been doing a lot with brain work. But
Speaker 4: I would say is any water is good, but felt
Speaker 4: salt water is best, and I would check with your
Speaker 4: doctor on the essential fats. Usually they're not going to
Speaker 4: be a problem. But if you're working with a doctor
Speaker 4: right now, I don't want to do counter to his
Speaker 4: advice or her advice. So that's one of those things
Speaker 4: that it should not hurt you because it's a natural
Speaker 4: thing that our body needs.
Speaker 2: Well, I wish it called early, but I'm flat out
Speaker 2: of time. Thank you so much, doctor Porter. Thank you
Speaker 2: very much. How can folks either follow you, get in
Speaker 2: touch with you, read something I've written?
Speaker 3: What could you leave with us?
Speaker 4: Yeah? They can get some free advice over at braintap
Speaker 4: dot com or go to doctor Drpatrickporter dot com and
Speaker 4: they can see on my social media. I have a
Speaker 4: lot of free videos there is.
Speaker 3: It brain tap? Is that what it is? Brain tap
Speaker 3: dot com?
Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, that's great, doctor, Thank you so much
Speaker 2: for your time tonight. Maybe we'll do something again a
Speaker 2: little bit later on during the year. I thought it
Speaker 2: was a fascinating hour.
Speaker 4: All right, thank you, I'm here for you.
Speaker 2: Let me thank you very much. Great tonight, that's for sure.
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