WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.160 --> 00:00:03.919 The following is a paid podcast. iHeartRadio's hosting of this 2 00:00:04.000 --> 00:00:07.799 podcast constitutes neither an endorsement of the products offered or 3 00:00:07.879 --> 00:00:09.199 the idea is expressed. 4 00:00:09.320 --> 00:00:11.039 The following is a paid program. 5 00:00:11.400 --> 00:00:15.160 Wor's airing of this program constitutes neither an endorsement of 6 00:00:15.199 --> 00:00:17.480 the products offered or the ideas expressed. 7 00:00:17.679 --> 00:00:22.120 Function better, feel better, and live a better life. This 8 00:00:22.399 --> 00:00:25.920 is doctor Eric Kaplan, and you're listening to boost your 9 00:00:25.920 --> 00:00:29.280 brain power. A lot of my patients come to me 10 00:00:30.000 --> 00:00:36.240 with high stressed anxiety, panic, worry. The minds raising a 11 00:00:36.280 --> 00:00:39.880 million miles per hour. They can't sleep, they wake up 12 00:00:39.960 --> 00:00:43.759 all stressed out. Their cortisol levels are high, they can 13 00:00:43.920 --> 00:00:48.159 lose the weight. So everything is overactive. Even their muscles 14 00:00:48.200 --> 00:00:52.359 are in spasm. Their joints are emplaned. The immune system 15 00:00:52.399 --> 00:00:55.600 can be overactive. It's called autoimmune disease. So when the 16 00:00:55.640 --> 00:00:59.840 brain's overactive, the immune system becomes overactive and starts a 17 00:01:00.000 --> 00:01:04.200 attacking your thyroid and can create hashimotos, and it can 18 00:01:04.239 --> 00:01:08.480 attack your joints creating rheumatoid arthritis. You can attack your 19 00:01:08.519 --> 00:01:14.000 gut causing siliac disease, or your brain causing MSS or 20 00:01:14.079 --> 00:01:19.840 pain all over calling fibromyalgia, or skin problems or hair 21 00:01:19.879 --> 00:01:27.120 problems like psoriasis or lupis exima. These are all autommune 22 00:01:27.439 --> 00:01:33.280 diseases because the brain is overactive. When the brain is overactive, 23 00:01:33.959 --> 00:01:38.000 we need to calm it down. It's not rocket science. 24 00:01:38.480 --> 00:01:43.079 Most people's brains are overactive. They're in stress mode. And 25 00:01:43.120 --> 00:01:45.359 what the worst thing to do is to have a stimulant. 26 00:01:46.239 --> 00:01:49.000 So a lot of people who have anxiety or difficulties 27 00:01:49.000 --> 00:01:54.159 sleeping actually drink coffee or have energy drinks, or eat 28 00:01:54.200 --> 00:01:57.280 a lot of sugar. These are all stimulants and the 29 00:01:57.480 --> 00:02:02.319 stimulants will increase in over active brain. So if you 30 00:02:02.359 --> 00:02:08.759 do have anxiety difficulties, sleeping, stress, panic, ADHD, the mind's going. 31 00:02:08.840 --> 00:02:13.120 You get distracted, can't focus, you can't think, you have 32 00:02:13.199 --> 00:02:17.879 negative rumination. We got to calm down your brain. And 33 00:02:17.960 --> 00:02:21.879 the good news is there's a process called neuroplasticity where 34 00:02:21.919 --> 00:02:25.960 you could actually rewire your brain to get it in 35 00:02:26.120 --> 00:02:29.479 a more relaxed state. And what that means instead of 36 00:02:29.479 --> 00:02:32.319 being in the fight or flight mode, you're in a 37 00:02:32.360 --> 00:02:37.759 more relaxed, rest and digest state. And so that means 38 00:02:38.280 --> 00:02:45.159 we need to actually strengthen what's called your parasympathetic nervous system. 39 00:02:45.680 --> 00:02:49.599 The parasympathetic nervous system is gonna get you in a 40 00:02:49.759 --> 00:02:56.000 more relaxed state. There's four nerves that you can activate 41 00:02:56.599 --> 00:03:01.159 that's going to relax your brain to reduce your stress 42 00:03:01.759 --> 00:03:04.919 and get you out of that fight or flight mode 43 00:03:05.319 --> 00:03:10.800 into a calm, relaxed, rest and digest state. So the 44 00:03:10.840 --> 00:03:16.240 four nerves that are going to relax your nervous system, 45 00:03:16.719 --> 00:03:21.159 it's called the ocular motor nerve, the facial nerve, the 46 00:03:21.199 --> 00:03:26.159 glossopharyngeal nerve, and the vegas nerve. Now you don't have 47 00:03:26.199 --> 00:03:29.199 to memorize them because I'll explain to what each these 48 00:03:29.240 --> 00:03:35.199 nerves dick. So the ocular motor is your eye exercises. 49 00:03:35.280 --> 00:03:39.120 There's lots of eye exercises that you could do to 50 00:03:39.240 --> 00:03:46.120 strengthen this cranial nerve. Number three called the ocular motor nerve. Now, 51 00:03:46.199 --> 00:03:51.120 you could do a few things such as near far exercises, 52 00:03:51.719 --> 00:04:02.400 brock string exercises, no no, yes yes exercises, microscods, visual pursuits, 53 00:04:02.479 --> 00:04:09.400 vestibular ocular reflexes, optokinetic eye exercises. There's all these different 54 00:04:09.479 --> 00:04:14.319 eye exercises and they could be applied different ways to 55 00:04:14.360 --> 00:04:18.680 stimulate the ocular mode or nerve to get you out 56 00:04:18.720 --> 00:04:24.240 of that stress mode. So the eyes are very important 57 00:04:24.920 --> 00:04:28.199 to heal the brain. The eyes are the only part 58 00:04:28.199 --> 00:04:31.680 of the brain we can actually see. Right, I can't 59 00:04:31.720 --> 00:04:37.279 see your brain. I can't see your spinal cord. I 60 00:04:37.319 --> 00:04:41.360 can't see your central nervous system. I can't see your 61 00:04:41.480 --> 00:04:45.240 peripherle nerves. We can't see any of that part of 62 00:04:45.279 --> 00:04:48.560 the nervous system. But the eyes we can actually see. 63 00:04:48.720 --> 00:04:52.839 So we could diagnose and treat lots of conditions through 64 00:04:52.879 --> 00:04:55.199 the eyes and not just for the brain. You can 65 00:04:55.240 --> 00:04:57.879 actually tell if there's a liver problem by looking at 66 00:04:57.920 --> 00:05:01.879 your eyes if they become yellow jaundice. You could tell 67 00:05:02.000 --> 00:05:05.240 if there's a heart problem. You can actually look inside 68 00:05:05.720 --> 00:05:10.120 the eyes and look at the red arteries and the 69 00:05:10.240 --> 00:05:12.600 veins and look at the size of them and see, 70 00:05:12.839 --> 00:05:17.319 you know, is there increased tension or pressure. You can 71 00:05:17.399 --> 00:05:25.439 see if there's issues with increased pressure, you know, like 72 00:05:25.480 --> 00:05:30.160 a tumor or something like that. You could see how 73 00:05:30.240 --> 00:05:36.319 the circulation is going. You could see so many things 74 00:05:36.399 --> 00:05:39.160 through the eyes. The eyes are the window into the 75 00:05:39.199 --> 00:05:41.920 brain and the nervous system. So in our offices in 76 00:05:41.920 --> 00:05:44.879 New York and New Jersey, we do lots of eye 77 00:05:44.920 --> 00:05:49.720 exercises but specific to the weak areas, and we can 78 00:05:49.839 --> 00:05:53.800 use eyes to stimulate different areas of the brain. The 79 00:05:53.839 --> 00:05:57.279 one we're talking about now, it's called the ocular motor nerve, 80 00:05:57.439 --> 00:06:01.480 and there's different specific exercise that can strengthen that nerve 81 00:06:01.839 --> 00:06:05.879 to increase input into your parasympathetic nervous system to get 82 00:06:05.920 --> 00:06:09.399 you out of that stress mode into a calm, relaxed state. 83 00:06:09.800 --> 00:06:13.240 So that's cranial nerve three. That's the first of four 84 00:06:13.319 --> 00:06:17.560 nerves that will relax your nervous system. The second nerve 85 00:06:18.360 --> 00:06:23.319 is called the facial nerve, and that's pretty self explanatory. 86 00:06:23.399 --> 00:06:28.000 It innervates your face, So we could do different sensory 87 00:06:28.079 --> 00:06:33.519 types of stimulation, motor types of stimulation. Even the ear 88 00:06:33.639 --> 00:06:36.639 rubbing on what's called your tragus will stimulate the facial nerve. 89 00:06:37.040 --> 00:06:40.800 The optic blink reflex where you blow air into the 90 00:06:40.839 --> 00:06:44.720 eye to elicit a blink that actually stimulates the facial nerve. 91 00:06:46.560 --> 00:06:50.920 Taste sweet sour, salty on the tip of the tongue 92 00:06:51.040 --> 00:06:54.920 actually activates the facial nerve, So we can do sensory 93 00:06:55.079 --> 00:06:58.519 motor We could work on the ear, the eyes, the tongue, 94 00:06:58.600 --> 00:07:01.879 all to stimulate this face nerve, just like you could 95 00:07:01.920 --> 00:07:05.120 go to the gym and do weightlifting and bicep curls. 96 00:07:05.480 --> 00:07:08.519 I am a functional neurologist and a brain expert who 97 00:07:08.560 --> 00:07:13.160 teaches you neurologic exercises that you could do to improve 98 00:07:13.199 --> 00:07:17.040 your brain function. Now, don't come to me if you 99 00:07:17.079 --> 00:07:20.040 want medication, if you want a XANX, if you want 100 00:07:20.040 --> 00:07:25.160 anti anxiety antidepressants, alexa pro, if you want lithium, if 101 00:07:25.199 --> 00:07:29.000 you want all these horrible drugs that have lots of 102 00:07:29.079 --> 00:07:32.399 side effects that shut off your brain. We don't want 103 00:07:32.399 --> 00:07:34.839 to shut off your brain. All we want to do 104 00:07:35.399 --> 00:07:39.480 is relax the overactive areas of the brain. But the 105 00:07:39.480 --> 00:07:42.639 areas of the brain that are working well, we don't 106 00:07:42.720 --> 00:07:45.720 want to shut those off. So when you take those 107 00:07:46.360 --> 00:07:50.439 medications to reduce your anxiety, you might be reducing your 108 00:07:50.480 --> 00:07:53.560 anxiety or depression, but you're also shutting off the good 109 00:07:53.639 --> 00:07:57.240 parts of your brain that create happiness and joy and 110 00:07:57.319 --> 00:08:00.480 love and passion and energy. You don't want to be 111 00:08:00.519 --> 00:08:03.639 walking around like a zombie. So if you want to 112 00:08:03.680 --> 00:08:07.079 actually get to the root cause of your neurological condition, 113 00:08:07.680 --> 00:08:11.639 if you're sick of hiding symptoms with medication, then this 114 00:08:11.680 --> 00:08:14.519 is the show for you. We are the people that 115 00:08:14.560 --> 00:08:17.959 are gonna help you out. All our offices in New Jersey, 116 00:08:18.079 --> 00:08:20.920 New York. If you're far away, we do virtual visits, 117 00:08:21.120 --> 00:08:24.279 resume or phase time or whats that. We are here 118 00:08:24.360 --> 00:08:28.720 for you to teach you exercises you could do to 119 00:08:28.959 --> 00:08:32.799 calm down your stressed out brain. To reduce anxiety, reduce 120 00:08:32.879 --> 00:08:36.279 your cordis all your stress hormone, get better sleep, get 121 00:08:36.360 --> 00:08:40.120 rid of that fatigue, improve brain function, no more brain fog. 122 00:08:40.399 --> 00:08:42.799 Because we want to get your nervous system in a 123 00:08:42.879 --> 00:08:46.919 relaxed state. All right, So we got the oculo motor 124 00:08:47.600 --> 00:08:50.799 cranial nerve three, that's the first nerve, the facial nerve 125 00:08:50.919 --> 00:08:54.440 cranial nerve seven, that's the second nerve. Now, the third 126 00:08:54.519 --> 00:08:57.440 nerve that you could activate to relax your nervous system. 127 00:08:57.440 --> 00:09:03.200 It's called the glosso pharyngeal nerve. The glosso pharyngeal is 128 00:09:03.360 --> 00:09:06.440 basically your tongue and your back of your throat like 129 00:09:06.480 --> 00:09:10.960 your palate. You can activate that with the gag reflex, 130 00:09:11.440 --> 00:09:14.039 so you get your toothbrush, get a tongue depressed, or 131 00:09:14.039 --> 00:09:16.240 go all the way to back of your throat and 132 00:09:16.360 --> 00:09:18.000 hit the back of your throat, not to the point 133 00:09:18.000 --> 00:09:20.600 where you throw up, but where you will listen a gag, 134 00:09:20.679 --> 00:09:25.840 like a big gag reflex that will stimulate this glosso 135 00:09:25.960 --> 00:09:31.879 pharyngeal nerve. You could also do taste bitter in the 136 00:09:32.000 --> 00:09:34.519 back of the tongue. If you put bitter in the 137 00:09:34.559 --> 00:09:39.919 back of the tongue, that also activates cranial nerve nine, 138 00:09:40.039 --> 00:09:43.039 the glosso fyryngeal nerve, which is gonna get you in 139 00:09:43.039 --> 00:09:45.200 a relaxed state. And to get better, you could do 140 00:09:45.360 --> 00:09:47.960 dark chocolate, You could do some bitter herbs. You could 141 00:09:47.960 --> 00:09:51.159 do coffee grinds. Don't swallow it, but just hold it 142 00:09:51.200 --> 00:09:55.080 in the back of your tongue for thirty seconds and 143 00:09:55.120 --> 00:09:58.799 then spit it out. That will literally activate this glosso 144 00:09:58.840 --> 00:10:03.559 pharyngeal nerve, which you in a more relaxed state. And 145 00:10:03.600 --> 00:10:05.919 the fourth nerve that gets you in a relaxed state 146 00:10:06.559 --> 00:10:10.440 is the vagus nerve. The vegus nerve you can stimulate 147 00:10:10.480 --> 00:10:14.360 by gargling really intensely for thirty seconds. You could do 148 00:10:14.440 --> 00:10:17.000 a big swallow, get a bunch of saliva on your 149 00:10:17.039 --> 00:10:21.000 tongue and just do one big gollf ball swallow. Imagine 150 00:10:21.000 --> 00:10:24.240 a golf ball that you're swallowing, make a loud sound, 151 00:10:24.919 --> 00:10:32.360 different humming sounds, different animal noises, different tongue noises, anything 152 00:10:32.399 --> 00:10:38.120 with the back of your throat, screaming, coughing, sneezing, something 153 00:10:38.159 --> 00:10:41.440 where you use your mouth, throat, make different noises. That's 154 00:10:41.559 --> 00:10:45.759 going to help with your vegus nerve. All right, So 155 00:10:45.840 --> 00:10:50.720 those are the four nerves part of your parasympathetic nervous 156 00:10:50.759 --> 00:10:54.919 system that are going to relax your brain get you 157 00:10:55.080 --> 00:10:58.879 out of that stress mode. So we got the oculo motor, 158 00:10:58.919 --> 00:11:03.000 the facial, the glossopharyngel, and the vegas. And if you 159 00:11:03.120 --> 00:11:06.799 activate all four of those nerves together and you do 160 00:11:06.840 --> 00:11:10.080 them for thirty seconds, three times a day for twenty 161 00:11:10.120 --> 00:11:13.440 one straight days, you start to rewire your brain in 162 00:11:13.480 --> 00:11:16.720 a process called neuroplasticity to get you out of that 163 00:11:16.799 --> 00:11:20.279 stress mode, that fight or flight mode, into a relaxed 164 00:11:20.320 --> 00:11:23.399 rest and digest. When you're in that fighter flight mode, 165 00:11:23.440 --> 00:11:26.000 it could cause high blood pressure, it could lead to cancer, 166 00:11:26.720 --> 00:11:31.759 cause diabetes from the pancreas, digestive problems from your esophagus 167 00:11:31.799 --> 00:11:35.480 and your stomach and your intestines. It could cause acid reflux, 168 00:11:35.559 --> 00:11:41.240 gas stritis, also rate of colitis, ibs, urinary urgency, urinary 169 00:11:41.240 --> 00:11:47.320 in continence, a rectile dysfunction, hormonal issues, period issues, menstrual issues, 170 00:11:47.360 --> 00:11:51.159 fertility issues. All of this can be affect by you 171 00:11:51.360 --> 00:11:54.960 being in stress mode. So it doesn't just cause you know, 172 00:11:55.080 --> 00:11:59.200 muscle tension and spasm and back pain, but actually affects 173 00:11:59.200 --> 00:12:03.000 your organ So if you want to really have the 174 00:12:03.120 --> 00:12:07.759 highest quality of life, start working on your parasympathetic nervous 175 00:12:07.759 --> 00:12:12.600 system so you function better, feel better, and live a 176 00:12:12.639 --> 00:12:17.519 better life. This is doctor Eric Kaplan, and you're listening 177 00:12:17.720 --> 00:12:21.080 to boost your brain power more when we come back 178 00:12:21.320 --> 00:12:22.080 from the break. 179 00:12:22.879 --> 00:12:31.840 If you want to improve your brain function, help with memory, focus, sleep, digestion, energy, depression, anxiety, dizziness, balance, vision, headaches, 180 00:12:31.879 --> 00:12:35.159 brain fog, weight loss, or simply want to maximize your 181 00:12:35.240 --> 00:12:38.720 human potential and prevent future diseases, that this is the 182 00:12:38.840 --> 00:12:42.120 show for you. Don't mis boost your brain power with 183 00:12:42.279 --> 00:12:45.559 doctor Eric Kaplan and you will learn natural, integrative, and 184 00:12:45.600 --> 00:12:49.440 holistic approaches to modern day medical problems such as Alzheimer's, 185 00:12:49.480 --> 00:12:57.200 Parkinson's stroke, autism, add concussion, autoimmune diseases, insomnia, fibromyalgia, vertigo, migraines, 186 00:12:57.279 --> 00:13:02.000 four posture pain, TBI, skin and digestive problems. Doctor Kaplin 187 00:13:02.080 --> 00:13:04.320 is most famous for getting to the root cause of 188 00:13:04.360 --> 00:13:07.240 a wide variety of brain and health conditions, rather than 189 00:13:07.320 --> 00:13:11.320 treating symptoms with traditional medicines and risky surgeries. To contact 190 00:13:11.360 --> 00:13:13.679 the Doctor Kamplin, you can call his team at two 191 00:13:13.679 --> 00:13:16.279 are one two six one two one five zero or 192 00:13:16.360 --> 00:13:21.200 visit his website at kaplindc dot com. 193 00:13:21.480 --> 00:13:25.960 Function better, feel better and live a better life. This 194 00:13:26.240 --> 00:13:30.200 is doctor Eric Kaplan and you're listening to boost your 195 00:13:30.200 --> 00:13:35.159 brain power. A lot of our patients come for help 196 00:13:35.399 --> 00:13:39.120 with their brain. A specific part of the brain that 197 00:13:39.279 --> 00:13:45.080 is very common is the frontal cortex. When the frontal 198 00:13:45.120 --> 00:13:48.559 cortex has an imbalance from left to right, we can 199 00:13:48.639 --> 00:13:53.360 see a variety of symptoms. For example, a lot of 200 00:13:53.360 --> 00:13:58.919 the childhood developmental delays come from a functional disconnect of 201 00:13:58.960 --> 00:14:10.759 the frontal cortex that includes autism, Aspergers, dyslexia, add ADHD 202 00:14:11.320 --> 00:14:17.159 Turet syndrome. These are these developmental delays and a lot 203 00:14:17.200 --> 00:14:20.840 of times it's because there's an imbalance of the frontal cortex. 204 00:14:22.039 --> 00:14:26.799 So just like you could strengthen your muscle by working out, 205 00:14:27.000 --> 00:14:34.120 doing weightlifting, exercising, you could actually fix your brain that's 206 00:14:34.240 --> 00:14:39.799 underdeveloped by doing neurological treatments. So there's a process called 207 00:14:39.840 --> 00:14:45.200 neuroplasticity where you could rewire the brain through neurologic exercises, 208 00:14:45.840 --> 00:14:47.799 but if it's one of these conditions, we'd have to 209 00:14:47.840 --> 00:14:52.320 be very specific for that frontal cortex, and the frontal 210 00:14:52.360 --> 00:14:55.360 cortex is activated with a lot of different types of 211 00:14:55.399 --> 00:15:00.960 brain exercises. What's called ciccads, which are fa eye movements, 212 00:15:01.279 --> 00:15:06.000 is really good for the frontal cortex, little finger movements, 213 00:15:07.679 --> 00:15:10.960 smell you know, these are all really good for the 214 00:15:11.000 --> 00:15:14.799 frontal core tex. But if you have a developmental delay 215 00:15:14.919 --> 00:15:19.960 such as autism, where the brain's underdeveloped, before you even 216 00:15:20.039 --> 00:15:23.440 work on the motor and the sensory aspect, you have 217 00:15:23.440 --> 00:15:29.480 to work on what's called primitive reflexes. Primitive reflexes with 218 00:15:29.679 --> 00:15:35.480 autism kids or add or ADHD or dyslexia or turetts. 219 00:15:36.480 --> 00:15:39.159 Basically what happens is you have these reflexes that are 220 00:15:39.200 --> 00:15:43.200 supposed to be gone after one year of age, but 221 00:15:43.320 --> 00:15:47.840 with children with these developmental delays, these primitive reflexes are retained. 222 00:15:48.480 --> 00:15:50.720 So the first step is to catch up the brain 223 00:15:50.759 --> 00:15:54.960 to development is to do these neurologic exercises which get 224 00:15:55.080 --> 00:15:59.399 rid of or eliminate these primitive reflexes. Now the brain 225 00:16:00.120 --> 00:16:05.360 can develop properly. The problem is the modern approach seems 226 00:16:05.360 --> 00:16:12.320 to be, Okay, let's do speech pathology, occupational therapy, physical therapy, 227 00:16:12.440 --> 00:16:16.960 behavioral therapy. So but that's the third stage. You have 228 00:16:17.080 --> 00:16:20.799 to do the primitive reflexes first. Then you can do 229 00:16:20.840 --> 00:16:25.639 the motor and sensory second, and then third would be 230 00:16:25.679 --> 00:16:29.639 the cognitive, the behavioral, the speech. So you know, you 231 00:16:29.720 --> 00:16:32.320 have to do that in the correct order or the 232 00:16:32.399 --> 00:16:36.120 brain will not ever function on the way it's supposed to. 233 00:16:36.279 --> 00:16:38.440 But the good news is if you do it in 234 00:16:38.480 --> 00:16:43.120 the appropriate way primitive reflexes first, motor, sensory second, and 235 00:16:43.159 --> 00:16:47.639 then cognitive, behavioral, speech, physical, third, then it starts to 236 00:16:47.679 --> 00:16:52.360 work much better. All right. Now, other things that can 237 00:16:52.440 --> 00:16:59.039 happen with the frontal cortex are anxiety and depression. And 238 00:16:59.120 --> 00:17:04.960 when you have depression, that means your frontal cortex is underactive, 239 00:17:05.480 --> 00:17:08.559 and when you have anxiety, that means your frontal cortex 240 00:17:08.680 --> 00:17:12.759 is overactive. And you might have both. It's like a 241 00:17:12.799 --> 00:17:16.519 bipolar or a manic depressant. So we have one side 242 00:17:16.640 --> 00:17:20.920 underactive and one side overactive. Stick around at the end 243 00:17:20.960 --> 00:17:22.960 of the show, and I'll tell you what you could 244 00:17:22.960 --> 00:17:27.799 do about that. Now, when you have these imbalances of 245 00:17:27.839 --> 00:17:32.559 the frontal cortex, you're going to have areas that are 246 00:17:32.799 --> 00:17:37.200 underactive that need to be stimulated. Right, So if you 247 00:17:37.200 --> 00:17:41.359 have depression, we need to strengthen your brain activate it, 248 00:17:42.319 --> 00:17:46.039 you know, especially right now in December. It's a very 249 00:17:46.960 --> 00:17:52.400 common time for seasonal affect disorder SAD. And that's where 250 00:17:52.440 --> 00:17:56.519 people get depressed in the winter because they're vitamin D deficient. 251 00:17:57.599 --> 00:18:01.759 If you want a good vitamin D recommendation, please email 252 00:18:01.839 --> 00:18:06.519 me info at Kaplanbrainobody dot com. Ninety nine percent of 253 00:18:06.519 --> 00:18:09.880 the vitamin d's out there are crap. Don't go to 254 00:18:10.079 --> 00:18:14.240 CBS or Whole Foods or Vitamin Shop or GNC to 255 00:18:14.240 --> 00:18:17.799 get a vitamin D. That is crap. They're full of impurities, 256 00:18:18.079 --> 00:18:23.319 they don't get absorbed, they're contaminants. We don't want those fillers, Okay, 257 00:18:24.240 --> 00:18:28.920 So don't ever get a vitamin D at the store, right, 258 00:18:29.039 --> 00:18:31.400 and if you want the good one, just email me right. 259 00:18:31.839 --> 00:18:35.880 Very important during the winter. I personally take ten thousand 260 00:18:35.920 --> 00:18:39.240 on you during the winter and fat five thousand during 261 00:18:39.279 --> 00:18:43.480 the summer. Everybody's vitamin D defishient in the Northeast. You 262 00:18:43.519 --> 00:18:47.039 know it's and even when you're outside, you gotta wearing 263 00:18:47.079 --> 00:18:51.279 the hat, glasses, your long sleeves, long pans, everything's covered. 264 00:18:51.319 --> 00:18:54.039 There's not a lot of skin exposure, all right, So 265 00:18:54.079 --> 00:18:57.160 we sometimes we need to supplement if there's deficiency, but 266 00:18:57.240 --> 00:19:01.039 most people over supplement. So you don't need all the multivitamins. 267 00:19:01.039 --> 00:19:03.839 You don't want to take B twelve and vitamin C 268 00:19:04.039 --> 00:19:08.480 and zinc and magnesium and calcium, and it's oh no, no, no, no, 269 00:19:08.960 --> 00:19:13.240 stop taking all the vitamins. Only only take vitamins if 270 00:19:13.279 --> 00:19:17.440 you have evidence that you're decreased in it in your 271 00:19:17.440 --> 00:19:20.920 blood work, and you know that there's no other reason 272 00:19:21.319 --> 00:19:24.759 that you are a decreased. For example, you don't want 273 00:19:24.759 --> 00:19:27.799 to take iron because you're anemic. You might be anemic 274 00:19:27.839 --> 00:19:30.920 because you don't have enough stomach acid. Right. You don't 275 00:19:30.920 --> 00:19:34.640 want to take melatonin because you can sleep. Maybe you 276 00:19:34.640 --> 00:19:39.599 can't sleep because your sympathetic nervous system is over firing. Right, 277 00:19:39.640 --> 00:19:42.000 So you gotta be careful of what you take. You 278 00:19:42.039 --> 00:19:46.160 need analysis of your blood work done properly so you 279 00:19:46.200 --> 00:19:49.559 could figure out what exactly you're deficient in. What you 280 00:19:49.640 --> 00:19:51.279 need what you need more of? Do you need to 281 00:19:51.359 --> 00:19:53.640 drink more water? Do you need to get more sunlight? 282 00:19:53.839 --> 00:19:56.880 You need to eat these different foods to avoid these foods. 283 00:19:57.079 --> 00:19:59.400 Do you have too much inflammation, you have poor absorption, 284 00:19:59.519 --> 00:20:02.279 you need more bacteria. Whatever it is, we gotta do 285 00:20:02.319 --> 00:20:05.960 a thorough investigation. Don't just take supplements because something you 286 00:20:06.079 --> 00:20:11.240 read is good for you. Everybody's an individual. Most people 287 00:20:11.519 --> 00:20:16.640 are taking way too many supplements. You should only have 288 00:20:16.680 --> 00:20:19.240 to take a supplement is absolutely necessary that the vitamin 289 00:20:19.319 --> 00:20:23.000 D is pretty much the only one I take right. 290 00:20:23.440 --> 00:20:26.680 And you know, most people also need probiotics because you know, 291 00:20:26.720 --> 00:20:32.000 they're always taking antibiotics, and they're taking antibacterial lotions and 292 00:20:32.039 --> 00:20:37.599 antibacterial sprays and antibacterial soaps, and then I mean everything's antibacterial. 293 00:20:37.680 --> 00:20:42.240 That's not good. I'm probiotics. I like pro bacteria. Body 294 00:20:42.319 --> 00:20:47.680 is mostly bacteria. So let's seasonal affect disorder. When your 295 00:20:47.680 --> 00:20:51.799 frontal cortex is weak. You don't need lexapro lithium. You 296 00:20:51.839 --> 00:20:55.039 don't need all these medications. Maybe you just need some 297 00:20:55.200 --> 00:21:00.279 more sunlight, some more exercise, some progression in your life. 298 00:21:01.559 --> 00:21:05.160 Make progression in your life. That's the key to depression 299 00:21:05.319 --> 00:21:10.599 is progression, right, and sometimes you can get depressed. Like 300 00:21:10.640 --> 00:21:14.599 my wife just lost her father. She's depressed, she's crying. 301 00:21:15.599 --> 00:21:17.960 Then her doctor's like, oh, take some anti depressed, And 302 00:21:18.000 --> 00:21:20.880 I'm like, what, You're supposed to be depressed when you 303 00:21:20.920 --> 00:21:24.039 lose your father, You're supposed to cry, You're supposed to 304 00:21:24.079 --> 00:21:28.359 be sad, feel those emotions, Let those tears out of 305 00:21:28.400 --> 00:21:32.440 your body, and I'm just there for her. Just give 306 00:21:32.440 --> 00:21:35.240 her a hug and say anything that's gonna make her 307 00:21:35.240 --> 00:21:38.720 feel better. No magic word that gets rid of, you know, 308 00:21:38.759 --> 00:21:43.640 a depression from losing a loved one. Then she's got 309 00:21:43.640 --> 00:21:47.079 to make progression in her life, make progression in her relationships, 310 00:21:47.440 --> 00:21:50.720 make progression in her health, working out how much water 311 00:21:50.839 --> 00:21:53.720 she drinks. Then she starts to feel better about herself, 312 00:21:55.240 --> 00:22:00.160 getting more socials, getting out in the real world, helping others, 313 00:22:00.160 --> 00:22:03.319 doing charity. That's how you get out of a depression. 314 00:22:04.519 --> 00:22:07.759 Right now. The opposite is the anxiety, right, that's the 315 00:22:07.880 --> 00:22:13.359 overactive frontal cortex, all right, That's where people have the ADHD. 316 00:22:13.400 --> 00:22:16.240 Either their mind's going so fast they can't get those 317 00:22:16.279 --> 00:22:20.079 thoughts out of their head. They always get worried, they 318 00:22:20.200 --> 00:22:24.799 fear and anger. It's overactive. You gotta calm it down. 319 00:22:25.880 --> 00:22:29.039 Easy way to calm down your overactive nervous system is 320 00:22:29.079 --> 00:22:32.200 to do figure eight infinity symbols. You do that for 321 00:22:32.279 --> 00:22:34.880 thirty seconds, three times a day. That has been proven 322 00:22:34.920 --> 00:22:38.240 through neuroscience to reduce anxiety. Make sure you keep your 323 00:22:38.359 --> 00:22:40.680 arms straight and cross over the middle of the body. 324 00:22:41.000 --> 00:22:47.000 Middle of the body, drawing figure eights thirty seconds, three 325 00:22:47.079 --> 00:22:51.839 times a day, very good for anxiety. Now what else? 326 00:22:51.920 --> 00:22:56.559 Helpings in the frontal cortex. That's where dementia starts. Frontal 327 00:22:56.680 --> 00:23:00.640 temporal dementia. You don't want dementia, You better start doing 328 00:23:00.680 --> 00:23:04.960 frontal cortex exercises. You better start doing smell. If you 329 00:23:05.079 --> 00:23:08.319 lost your smell from covid or from the vaccine, this 330 00:23:08.440 --> 00:23:12.240 is an issue. You're gonna have a weak frontal cortex 331 00:23:13.720 --> 00:23:16.880 if you lost it from smoking or drugs. You gotta 332 00:23:16.920 --> 00:23:19.880 work on that. You gotta rewire your brain. It means 333 00:23:19.880 --> 00:23:25.079 your frontal cortex is weak. You gotta really work on that. 334 00:23:26.440 --> 00:23:31.720 You gotta prevent dementia. So to bred dementia, you gotta 335 00:23:31.759 --> 00:23:38.480 do novelty new things. You gotta stimulate your brain purposely. 336 00:23:38.519 --> 00:23:43.200 Start remembering your grocery list, remember people's phone numbers, remember addresses. 337 00:23:45.359 --> 00:23:48.799 Start learning different languages, learning a musical instrument, learning different 338 00:23:48.839 --> 00:23:51.759 dance moves. You gotta meet new people, go to new places. 339 00:23:51.880 --> 00:23:54.680 Novelty is the key. If you want to prevent Alzheimer's 340 00:23:54.680 --> 00:23:58.680 in dementia, which starts from your frontal cortex, you better 341 00:23:58.720 --> 00:24:02.839 start doing new things. You better be uncomfortable. You better 342 00:24:02.920 --> 00:24:06.960 go out of your daily routine and do new things 343 00:24:06.960 --> 00:24:10.920 that your body's not used to doing. Start eating with 344 00:24:11.000 --> 00:24:15.599 your left hand, start playing a new sport, taking out 345 00:24:15.640 --> 00:24:19.559 a new hobby, joining a new club. You have to 346 00:24:19.640 --> 00:24:24.880 do new things. You got to challenge your brain. And 347 00:24:24.920 --> 00:24:28.200 then you've got to feed it all the energy it needs. 348 00:24:29.000 --> 00:24:34.119 The sunlight, the oxygen, the water, the food give the 349 00:24:34.200 --> 00:24:37.960 brain the fuel delivery it needs to reach optimal potential. 350 00:24:40.640 --> 00:24:44.720 Parkinson's disease also occurs in the frontal cortex. But we 351 00:24:44.759 --> 00:24:47.480 could pick this up early on and look at your 352 00:24:47.519 --> 00:24:50.279 gate and see if your arms swinging properly, or how 353 00:24:50.279 --> 00:24:54.319 your facial expressions are, or how your pupil sizes, or 354 00:24:55.559 --> 00:24:59.160 how your balance is, how your posture is, how your 355 00:24:59.240 --> 00:25:03.880 gut motil is all right, We can analyze the brain 356 00:25:03.920 --> 00:25:07.920 and the body to figure out if you're predisposed to Parkinson's, 357 00:25:07.920 --> 00:25:11.880 which usually starts in that frontal cortex. Same thing with Alzheimer's, 358 00:25:11.880 --> 00:25:18.240 same thing with dementia, anxiety, depression, autism, add ADHD, dyslexia, 359 00:25:19.400 --> 00:25:24.200 aspergers to rats. That all starts from the frontal cortex. 360 00:25:24.319 --> 00:25:26.119 So we have to make sure we take care of 361 00:25:26.200 --> 00:25:30.000 our brains so we function better, feel better, and live 362 00:25:30.279 --> 00:25:34.039 a better life. This is doctor Eric Kaplan and you're 363 00:25:34.200 --> 00:25:36.200 listening to boost your brain power. 364 00:25:37.960 --> 00:25:41.480 Don't miss boost your brain power with doctor Eric Kamplin 365 00:25:41.680 --> 00:25:44.640 every Saturday from two pm to three pm to learn 366 00:25:44.680 --> 00:25:48.200 the secrets of how to optimize your brain function. You 367 00:25:48.200 --> 00:25:54.759 can improve memory, focus, energy, sleep, digestion, mood, skin, metabolism, 368 00:25:54.920 --> 00:25:58.599 and strength by following the science and research that doctor 369 00:25:58.680 --> 00:26:01.960 Kaplan will be sharing with audience. 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Now a lot of people have different 381 00:26:48.079 --> 00:26:54.119 types of brain. Problems some people have what's called proprioceptive 382 00:26:54.279 --> 00:26:59.559 issues that comes from your parietal cortex of your. Brain 383 00:27:00.880 --> 00:27:05.440 and we can analyze the parietal cortext by doing different 384 00:27:05.480 --> 00:27:12.359 types of. Tests one of the tests is called. Graphsthesia 385 00:27:13.400 --> 00:27:15.000 AND i used to do this as a. Kid ACTUALLY 386 00:27:15.039 --> 00:27:16.920 i didn't know it was a neurologic, test but where 387 00:27:16.960 --> 00:27:20.720 you would draw different letters on your back or draw 388 00:27:21.359 --> 00:27:23.480 different numbers and you'd have to, say, okay what Letter 389 00:27:23.519 --> 00:27:25.440 oh that was the LETTER, b or that was the LETTER. 390 00:27:25.599 --> 00:27:32.599 M that is measuring your, propioception your sensory. Input that's 391 00:27:32.599 --> 00:27:35.680 actually a good neurologic. Exercise so you could do that 392 00:27:35.759 --> 00:27:37.960 with your friends and family and, say, Okay i'm gonna 393 00:27:38.000 --> 00:27:39.400 draw a letter on your, back you tell me what 394 00:27:39.480 --> 00:27:40.839 letter it, is Or i'm gonna draw it on your 395 00:27:41.079 --> 00:27:42.960 arm or your, leg and you tell me what letter it. 396 00:27:43.039 --> 00:27:47.200 Is and if you're, inaccurate that means that area of 397 00:27:47.240 --> 00:27:51.640 your brain is Weak NOW i am a brain, expert 398 00:27:51.960 --> 00:27:54.599 and WHAT i do is analyze the brain and IF 399 00:27:54.599 --> 00:27:57.680 i find a weak, AREA i can actually give you 400 00:27:57.759 --> 00:28:01.799 neurologic exercises to strengthen. It think of me like a physical, 401 00:28:01.920 --> 00:28:06.559