The following is a paid podcast. iHeartRadio's hosting of this podcast constitutes neither an endorsement of the products offered or the ideas expressed. Hello, and welcome to boost your brain power. I'm your host, doctor Eric Kaplan. Everyone is always trying to look for that easy, quick fix. However, that doesn't exist. There's no magic drug that you're going to take that's going to cure your memory problems or your focus problems. Right, there was a pill that
people could take and they wouldn't get dementia or Alzheimer's. Everyone would just take it and no one would have Alzheimer's. It just doesn't exist. Right, There's a there's vitamins and supplements out there. One of the most popular ones prevaging. All my patients are always asking me about that, Oh, should I take that to improve my memory? Well, when you're taking pills to improve your brain function, you have to figure out what areas are dysfunctional first,
So you might have to do some blood work. And if you do blood work and you see that you have a lot of inflammation. Okay, now it's time to take some natural anti inflammatories such as risveratrol or turmeric.
You know, mega threes, you know, rosemary something like that. Those are natural anti inflammatories, all right, but we're gonna have to look at the blood work first to see there's lots of markers such as homocysteen or CRP or ESR that could indicate that there's a lot of inflammation in your body. Now, if there's inflammation, okay, then maybe it's appropriate to take these natural anti inflammatories. If you're vitamin D deficient, then it is normal to
take by supplementation. Everybody that I've tested in New Jersey, New York is vitamin D deficient. Everybody, And I don't care. You know, if you're outside a lot, it's still January and there's still cold in the air. So when you go outside, you're wearing a coat, you're wearing pants,
everything's covered. There's not a lot of skin exposure. Plus, due to the angle that the sun is hitting the earth, it's at its weakest point right now, so you're getting the least amount of sun, you have the most skin coverage, and you're gonna be outside the least because it's cold. That is a recipe for vitamin D deficiency, and a lot of people get what's called sad seasonal affect disorder where in the winter they get depressed.
That's because of vitamin D deficiency. So one of the best ways to get out of a seasonal affect disorder depression is to take vitamin D and not just some random vitamin D from CVS or Dwyane Reed or the Vitamin Shop or GNC or Whole foods. Ninety nine percent of the vitamin d's out there are horrible. They do not get absorbed. They don't have cofactors, they're not in fat, they don't have the A and the E and the K and the
magnesium and the phosphorus to help with the absorption. People don't take it with food, so it doesn't get absorbed right. So percent of the time people are taking vitamin D, it's not really effective. In my opinion. It should be done during the daytime when the light is out, so you get your vitamin D from the sun. So take vitamin D when the sun is out. Don't take it at nighttime when you should be getting ready for bed. They get in the morning when the sun's coming up or in the afternoon
when the sun's strongest, and it has to be with food. And my favorite vitamin D product is from apex Energetics, and don't get that online because there's a lot of scammers out there who just use the label. So you have to get it from a doctor that's associated with apex Energetics. And we have these here at Kaplan Brain and Body. We have two offices, one in Manhattan in the West Village and one in Bergen County, New Jersey.
So if you're interested in vitamin D supplementation, we also have a big discount for all our radio callers for the month of January, So please give us an email at info at Kaplanmrainobody dot com or you could call or text us six four six two two one sixty seven three eight to take advantage of the fifteen percent discount for Vitamin D supplementation for the month of January. That is good for the first seven people that call, text or email. And this
is from apex Energetics. That's the best quality vitamin do you always want to get from the quality companies for probiotics? I like Claire Laboratories. They're the best. Now, a lot of people take probiotics over and over and over
all. I keep taking the same probiotics. That's not good. All the bacteria have different tests, different jobs, different ways of fighting different you know, some fight viruses, some fight bacteria, some fight some fight allergies, some help with absorption, some help get rid of bed brain cells, heart cells, skin cells. You know, you have all these bacteria that have
their individual tasks. You keep using the same bacteria over and over and over again, then your brain says, I don't need to keep producing this, and you're missing out on all the other strains. So it's not about how many billions of bacteria you take, but it's about the different variety that you take. So probiotics if you're supplementing with those because you've taken antibiotics in your past, or you take a lot of antibacterial lotions and sprays and soaps and
all this antibacterial and bleaches and all these cleaning products. That actually makes your bacteria worse because it's killing off all the good bacteria. Don't do mouthwash that kills off all the good bacteria. The alcohol kills off all the bad stuff. If you want to kill off only the bad bacteria but preserve the good bacteria, what you do it's called oil pulling. So in the morning that's when the bacteria are the worst. So in the morning, before you even
swallow, don't let it get into your before you even talk. You go straight to the bathroom, get your coconut oil, put it in your mouth, swish it all around your gums, your teeth, and then spit it out. You have to do thirty seconds, and if you have time, you can do up to two minutes, but minimum thirty seconds of oil pulling with coconut oil every morning. Don't spit it into the sink because it can
mess up your pipes, but just spit it out in the garbage. Don't swallow it either, because we don't want to swallow all the bacteria that you're killing. And if you really want to go for it, not only do you do the coconut oil pulling in the morning, but put just a drop of tea tree oil, which is also a natural antibiotic. That's the best way to start in the morning. Now with mouthwash that kills off all the
good bacteria. Do oil pulling coconut oil for thirty seconds every morning, and if you want, ad a drop of tea tree oil to help fight those bad bacteria and spit it out in the garbage. After you're done the first thing in the morning before you do anything else. Then you could get into your morning routine, whether it's you know, having your bowet movement and then going exercising, meal, prepping for your day, writing in your gratitude journal.
There's so many good habits you want to get into the morning. You have to drink water on an empty stomach, so you want to do that first thing in the morning. The best time to drink water is on an empty stomach. You don't want to drink water with your meal. You want to drink it before your meal, a half hour before each meal, plus right in the morning when you wake up, and in the evening on an empty stomach. So a typical meal might take about three to four hours to
digest. So let's say if you are done with eating at six pm, bedtimes at ten pm, so you could drink a big glass of water sometime between nine and ten. And don't think that drinking water at night is going to make you get up to p. It's actually more common to get up to P if you eat late at nights. That's why you want four hours from your last meal to bedtime. So idealistically, it's called intermittent fasting.
You want to eat from ten am to six pm, and you want to sleep from six From ten pm to six am, that is the best way to eat and sleep. That gets you in your circadian rhythms, that sleep cycle. Another way to help that is to walk outside during sunrise and walk outside during sunset. Therefore, the brain says, Okay, it's time to chill, it's time to relax, it's time to calm down, all right.
So getting back to seasonal affect disorder, you're gonna get that in the winter, especially right now, so you have to supplement with a vitamin D. Now. Another on way to help a ceialent affect its order is exercise. So a lot of people stop exercising the winter. You gotta exercise more in the winter, all right, You gotta. You gotta really not leave out on drinking the water, exercising, getting your vitamin D. Writing in
your gratitude journal, be thankful. There's so many things to be thankful in your life right now. But everyone likes to complain. Oh, let me complain about the Democrats or the Republicans, or let me complain about the inflation or gas prices. Let me complain about the war in Israel or Ukraine.
Let me complain about the government, or the natural disasters, or the crime in New York City, or the pollution or the you know, electrical cars and the global warming and the five G and it's so easy to complain and find out these bad things. But that's not healthy. You want to be the person that brings joy to the room and say, oh, it's such a great time to be alive. You know, there's it's not like you know, one hundred years ago, where you know, there were the gangs
of New York running the streets, the mafia was running the town. It's not like you was the one hundred years ago. We're in the you know, great Depression and there's no food on the table and you know there it's not like we're in a World War two where people are getting drafted and going to Vietnam and you know, if you think about it, this is the greatest time to be alive. I mean, we had uh, what was it, nine to eleven was over twenty years ago, you know, Pearl
Harbor was you know, ninety eighty years ago. I mean, we're protected by the Atlantic Ocean, We're protected by the Pacific Ocean. We have kind neighbors in Canada. And yes, you know there's a lot of possible people coming from the southern border that could be have some bad inten chains and there's you know, fentanyl getting through that border, and there's you know, drug dealers, and there's childhood trafficking. So yes, there is bad stuff that's
going on. But in the big scheme of things, you know, most people they lock their door at night. Most people they got a roof up overhead. Most people have clothes on their back. They know where their next meal is coming from. So there's not anyone trying to murder them or rape them or kill them. So every day you should wake up just thanking God. I could see, I could hear, I could eat, I could pee, I could poop, I could walk, I could talk. I
have people that love me. I have friends, I have family, I have a car, I have a house. Be thankful for all these things that we take for granted. Because I have patients that are blind, they can't see. I have patients that are deaf, they can't hear. I have patients and wheelchairs they can't walk. We have patients with Alzheimer's, they
can't remember their kids' names. We have patients with Parkinson's who have really bad tremors and balance problems, people with traumatic brain injury who have memory problems and headaches and dizziness and brain fog, and people with lime disease and COVID nineteen long haulers that are just miserable. They have burning mouth syndrome, they have chemical sensitivities, they have digestive problems. So there's so many horrible things that
people are experiencing now. But if you look at all the good things in your health and you say, hey, you know what, I'm doing pretty good. Most Americans are obese, they have heart disease, they have can answer, they have Alzheimer's disease. So if you don't have those things on your list, you're ahead of the game. Most people in America are dead by seventy seven, seventy eight years old. I have a lot of my patients they're in their eighties and nineties always complaining. It's like, hey,
man, you've outlived most of the country already. You could walk, you could spend time with your grandkids. Be grateful for all the things that you have, rather than focusing on the things that you don't have or the things that are making you sick. Don't focus on those, focus on the things that are making you healthy. That way, your function better, feel better, and live a better life. This is doctor Eric Kaplan More when we
come back from the break. Don't miss Boost your brain power with doctor Eric Kaplan every Saturday from two pm three pm to learn the secrets of how to optimize your brain function. You can improve memory, focus, energy, sleep, digestion, mood, skin, metabolism, and strength by following the science and research that doctor Caplan will be sharing with his audience. Join the adventure of discovering how to help the brain and body in a natural way while having
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to boost your brain power. I'm your host, doctor Eric Caplan. So we're talking about your mental attitude, all right, Stop focusing on the negative aspects of your health. The key is to ignore your symptoms and focus on things that make you feel better. Hey, when I wake up early and go to the gym, I have a lot of energy that day. Hey, when I eat a healthy diet, I don't get stuffed nose, or I don't get stomach pains, or I have better bowel movements. When I
drink the proper amount of water. Hey, I'm not getting my leg cramps in my calf anymore. My menstrual cramps aren't bad anymore. My headaches are gone because I'm staying dehydrated with pink Kimley and salt. So lay water. When I do my intermint fasting and I eat from ten to six and sleep from ten to six, I get a deeper sleep. I wake up with more energy. I feel less depressed and less anxiety. So focus all your energy on doing the habits that make you feel good. Don't think about what
makes you feel bad. Just ignore the symptoms that make you feel bad. If you bring your energy towards your symptoms, then your symptoms last longer. Right, So you don't want to say, oh, I have a bad memory. You want to say, oh, when I do X, Y and Z, my memory improves. You don't want to say, oh, I have a very sensitive digestive system, and you say oh, when I
eat these healthy foods, I have better bowel movements. You don't want to say, oh, at night time, I get all these horrible cramps in my caf You want to say, Hey, when I drink half my body weight and ounces of so lay water every day, I don't get cramps anymore. Focus all your energy on what makes you feel good as opposed to avoiding things that make you feel bad. All right, now, there's lots of cool stuff these days that can help you feel better that are beyond that we've
known for the past. Conger for example, hyper barrack oxygen chamber. We have those at our offices. So the hyper Barrack oxygen chamber was initially invented for the Bens people who went scuba diving, and then they came out and they were all messed up with their They had vertigo or they had these inner ear balance, these equilibrium problems. They have these uh what's called vestibular problems. You might get busy, you might have balance problems, even ringing in
the ears. So a lot of people when they have these pressure changes from like scuba diving, it affected their brains. So the chamber helped to treat people who got dizzy after going deep sea scuba diving. But what they started finding out that people went in to this oxygen chamber to heal their dizziness, but their skin lesions healed, their scars healed, their wounds healed. So then they said, oh, we could use the chamber for wound healing as
well. And then people with wounds started going in. Guess what, Their lime disease went away, Their brain function improved, their energy improved, their muscles became strong, and their balance was better. Their headaches went away. So by doing the hyperbaric oxygen chamber, other side effects occurred in a good way. Now people are using it for COVID nineteen. It's in hospitals. People are using it for pargin scenes and stroke, for all different types of
bacteria, line disease, pneumonia, lung disease, liver disease. It kills all bacteria viruses. People use it for mold exposure, heavy metal poisoning, detoxification. The oxygen kills bacteria. The oxygen kills viruses, the oxygen kills mold and yeast and parasites and worms and all these bad things that wreak havoc in our systems. So that's one of the technologies that it's even being used in hospitals now. Used to be just really famous people and rich people and
professional athletes would get it, but now it's affordable for everyday people. So if you're having neurologic problems like neuropathy or vertigo, or headaches, or muscle weakness, or low energy or fatigue or insomnia, anxiety, depression, this is something you might want to look into. And if you stick around to the end of the show, we're gonna give you guys a gift that includes the hyperbaric oxygen chamber. So just wait around for the end of the show
and we'll go over that as well. Another new technology that we have in our offices that works amazing is the infrared cold laser. The cold laser therapy is unbelievable. It helps reduce inflammation, helps reduce pain, helps with neuropathies brain function, helps with digestive problems, helps with burning mouth syndrome, helps with ibs. We can put that laser almost everywhere. I'm using it with
patients with als. They love it, so we can put it on the area of infection on the spinal cord and it actually helps them to walk better and move better. The infrared cold laser used to be just for pain, you know, like when I had I play a lot of sports and this guy hit me in the knee and I was having this knee problem and nothing
could help me. I did massage, and I did physical therapy, and I did acupuncture and chiropractic, and nothing worked like the cold laser that brought down that inflammation, got rid of the pain, speeds up the healing process. It's amazing how this cold laser therapy works and even works on the skin people with herpies, scarlesions, acne exima. So we could use this laser for a wide variety. So there's lots of hope out there for cures of
your condition that don't include surgery and medicine. When choosing a medical procedure, you always want to measure the risk versus the ward. The hyperbaryck oxygen chamber very little risk. You know, if you just had a retinal surgery, you don't do it. If you just had big dental surgery, you got these open gaps in your teeth, that's not the time to do it. But there's very few contra indications for the hyperbaric oxygen chamber. Same thing with
the cold cold laser therapy. We just don't want to get in your eyes, so we have glasses that you wear, so even if you do open up your eyes, it's not going to cause any damage. But for to cause damage, you have to be looking at the laser that's pointing directly at your eye. But the way we do it, we have your eyes closed, we have you wear these glasses. We make sure we don't push the
laser anywhere towards your eyes. That's the only risk. And then you've got to keep that laser moving, so it's very powerful, and we don't want to just keep it in one spot on the skin. That wouldn't be good either. But very low risk, very high reward. So sometimes medicines can be high risk and low reward, or surgeries high risk, lower board, so you always want the lowest risk and the highest reward. Those are the
therapies we choose. Hyperbaric oxygen chamber, infrared cold laser therapy, neuroplasticity using neuro feedback. So we have a machine called neurofeedback where you have these electrodes that are attached to your brain and you watch a video and as the video becomes brighter, your brain releases dopamine and then the body wants more dopamine. So it says these electrical signals through your brain to activate areas of dysfunction.
So people with Parkinson's it might have to go on your deep into that basal ganglion or the frontal cortext People with balance problems might have to work on the cerebellum. People with propial sceptive problems might have to work on the parietal cortext. Memory problems got to put it on the temporal or visual problems got to put it in the occipital. So depending on where you're having neurologic problems,
we can set up the neurofeedback machine to stimulate those weak areas. We're going to give a special deal with neurofeedback at the end of this lesson today, so be sure to stick around if you want to function better, feel better, and live a better life. This is doctor Eric Kaplan. You are listening to boost your brain power more when we come back from the break.
If you want to improve your brain function, help with memory, focus, sleep, digestion, energy, depression, anxiety, dizziness, balance, vision, headaches, brain fog, weight loss, or simply want to maximize your human potential and prevent future diseases, that this is the show for you.
Don't mis boost your brain power with doctor Eric Kaplan and you will learn natural, integrative, and holistic approaches to modern day medical problems such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's stroke, autism, add concussion, autoimmune diseases, insomnia, fibromyalgia, vertigo, migraines, four posture pain, TBI, skin and digestive problems.
Doctor Kaplan is most famous for getting to the root cause of a wide variety of brain and health conditions, rather than treating symptoms with traditional medicines and risky surgeries. To contact doctor Kaplin, you can call his team at two O one two six one two one five zero or visit his website at kaplindc dot com. Oh, and welcome back to boost your brain power. I am your host, doctor Eric Kaplan. We're talking about some modern technology that we
use in our offices to really help boost our brain power. And bring your brain to the next level. We have neurofeedback machines, we got hyperbarre oxygen chamber, we got infrared cold laser therapy. We have it's called the NSI, the Neurosensory Integrator. It's this big flat screen TV where check your memory, your focus. You have to memorize the order of different words, and you have to coordinate and you have to there's a soft light touch screen.
You got to touch different angles and it measures all your reaction time, your speed, how your brains function, how your memory is, your balance. So that's called the Neurosensory Integrator. It's high technology just to boost your brain power, improve memory, helps prevent dementia, Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, any type of focus issues add ADHD. So these technologies are great. We also have the interactive metronome that is made also for focus for add ADHD, be very
good for autistic children, dyslexic, Aspergers, Tourette's syndrome. So we have all this great technology without any medication, no surgeries, no lobottomies, no electrical shock therapy, nothing invasive, no side effects, just really up to date neuroscience technology that's proven to improve your brain function at a high level.
Now, of course, we also do a lot of the what's called functional neurology and neuroplasticity, all right, So with that, we do these neurologic tests and evaluations to figure out where the weak areas of are the brain. And just like if you have a weak muscle, you could go to the gym and strengthen your weak muscle, we do brain exercises to strengthen weak airs. If your brain, for example, let's say you have bad eyesight,
you could actually do eye exercises to improve your eyesight. You can improve your near vision and far vision. I used to have horrible eyesight and I used to have a worse prescription every year before I just discovered eye exercises, and I've had glasses since I've been in elementary school my whole life basically, and up until about seven eight years ago. Every year my vision would get worse until my eye doctor said, hey, soon you're gonna need glasses for near
vision. I said, what are you talking about, and he said, oh, as you get older, your near vision goes. And that triggered me because I do not like when doctors say things happen as you get older, because I know for a fact that's not true. And I prove to him that my vision would get better as I got older. So that's why I do these eye exercises. One of the best exercises I do, it's called a brock string exercise, and that's very good to improve your near vision
and your far vision. And I did all these exercise I do CICADs pursuits. I do what's called a vestibular ocular reflex optokinetic exercises. I do times one, viewing, times zero, viewing times two viewing. All these different eye exercises near far pencil pushups, verticals eye movements, horizontal e movements, angular eye movements. So there's a lot of different ways to improve your vision. But we have to figure out where your weakness is and then I could
give you specific exercises for your eyes. But stick around for the end of the show and we're gonna give you a little gift. How we can analyze that and let you know which exercises would be most appropriate for you. Your memory can improve as you get older. Don't let doctors tell you, oh, as you get older, your memory gets bad. That's not true. It's common. We see it a lot. But just because we see it a lot and it's common doesn't mean it's normal. If you do the right
things, your memory can improve. You could have a better memory at eighty than you did it seventy. You could have a better memory at ninety than you did it eighty, as long as you do the work. If you don't do the work and you just sit at home on the couch, yes,
your memory is going to get worse. If you rely on the technology and you don't remember anybody's phone numbers, and you don't know how to spell things anymore, and you don't do math anymore, and you don't look at a map and figure out directions anymore, and you don't memorize you know the lines of a show anymore, and you don't remember who the actor is, and you don't remember the lyrics to a song, and you just look everything
up on Google and YouTube. Because you don't remember how to do anything, your brain is going to die off. It's called digital dementia. The more you rely on the technology, your cell phone, your computer, your GPS, your iPad, the dumber you get. The less you rely on the technology, and the more you use your own brain power, the stronger your memory is. Now there's a test you could do. We do it our offices, but you can, you know, try it at home. It's
called the Mocha test. It's got to download it online. But that's the standard test that all neurologists do to see if you have any predisposition to demands, your Alzheimer's or anything like that. The score is out of a thirty. You need someone else to give it to you. So that's why we do it at our office where I can give it to you personally. And you want to get at least a twenty six or above for normal. If you're less than twenty six, that means you're already having some brain issues and
you get to take action. You don't want to wait with the brain. The sooner you take action, the easier it is to fix. The longer you wait, the harder it is to fix. Right, So, if you want to boost your brain power, you want to improve your memory, your energy, reduce any neurologic symptoms, you've got to do prevention. Announce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Now how do you do prevention? Is you got to do a neurologic test The best neurologic test is called
a q EEG brain mapping. A qEEG brain mapping is what you wear. This little cap looks like a swimmer's cap. It's got electrodes attached to it in all different spots, and it covers all the different areas of your brain your front door, your parietal, your cebellum, your temporal, your occipital, So it covers all the different areas of brain. It's gonna tell us. Do you have short term memory problems or long term memory problems or working
memory problems. Do you have low dopamine or low acetylcholine? Do you have a thyroid problem? Do you have intestinal inflammation? Have you had a concussion? Have you had a virus attack your brain? You have heavy metal poisoning? Do you have anger? Do you have aggression? Do you have problems with balance? Headaches, dizziness, floaters in the eyes, ringing in the ears. Do you bump into things? Are you clumsy? Do you have
problems with your impulse control? Do you have problems with motivation, organization, planning, executive function? Do you have depression? Do you have anxiety? Do you have any trouble shifting tests? Do you lose things easily. Do you have any problems with sleep? Insomnia, sleep deprivation, low energy. It literally breaks down every single area of your brain and it tells us where the abnormal brain waves are, and based on the location of the abnormal brain
waves, will tell us where the disconnect is. And once we find a disconnect, now we could recommend the appropriate therapy, whether it's the neural feedback, the hyperbaric oxygen chamber, the cold laser therapy, the NSI, the interactive metronome, or the functional neurology with neuroplasticity, and that's where you do brain exercises, balance exercises, eye exercises, different lights and sounds and smells,
different joint movements, coordination. We have this thing where you wear a laser and you have to trace things, and you have to do reaction time. You have to stand on one leg and you have to trail making exercises and you have to remember certain steps, and you have to do balance exercise and vestibular rehab and physical therapy. So it's more hands on, it's pretty interactive. All that other stuff. You don't really have to do anything except
kind of let the doctor do everything. But with the neuroplasticity. Yes, that's like you know you're going to the gym. It's like a brain boot camp and you're doing brain exercises. So just like you go to gym and exercise your muscles, we do these brain boot camps where you can actually exercise your brain. Each treatment takes about a half an hour, right, and all depends on where your weakness is, and the weaknesses will be determined by
the qEEG brain mapping. Now, this test is normally five hundred dollars, but for the first seven people that call, text or email you could get the q EEG brain mapping. Instead of paying five hundred dollars, you could get it for only twenty one dollars. All you have to do is call, text or email. The phone numbers six four six two two one six seven three eight. Again that's six four six two two one sixty seven three eight. You can call or text or you can email, and our email
is info at Kaplan braininbody dot com. Just say you want to be one of the first seven people to do the five hundred dollars qEEG brain mapping for only twenty one dollars. That's just a gift We're given to you to start off the new year in a good direction. Get your brain in order so a function better, feel better, and live a better life. This is
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and research that doctor Caplan will be sharing with his audience. Join the adventure of discovering how to help the brain and body in a natural way while having fun at the same time. Listen to boost your brain power. If you want to function better, feel better, and enjoy the quality of life you deserve. Called two oh one two six' one two one five zero or email info at Kaplan Brainandbody dot com if you're interested in a free ten minute
consultation with doctor Caplan, or visit kaplandc dot com for more information. Welcome back to boost your brain power. I'm your host, Doctor Eric Kaplan. We're just talking about all the ways to boost your brain power. We could use a lot of technology. There's a lot of technology these days. Some people are doing stem cell treatments that's a little bit more invasive. So I'm very conservative. I don't like to do invasive therapies. And they have beet
brain stimulation. Again I'm very conservative. I don't like to do anything too invasive. They have these IgG types of treatments also again a little invasive. You know, I'm not even a fan of the colonoscopies and the mamograms and you know, all these ultrasounds, and I don't want excess radiation if not necessary. I don't need a colonoscopy. I don't need enemas and calonics to take out all the bad stuff. There's a lot of technology that can be
helpful, but you know, it's a little bit invasive. So I like to do the least invasive possible. You know, It's like I want my own gut to poop out the fecal matter. I want my stomach and intestines to do what they're supposed to do. I don't want, you know, a colonic to do it, because then the brain says, oh, you're gonna take everything out for me. Then what do I have to do. That's why I don't believe in taking melatonin, because the brain says, oh,
you're taking melatonin to sleep. I don't have to produce melatonin on my own. It's much better to change your circainean rhythms on your own so that the melatonin increases at night. And it's super simple to do. You just got to do good habits for twenty one days. Spoke about them before. So you go outside during sunrise and sunset just for five to ten minutes. You also intermittent fast only eat from ten am to six pm. So you want four hours from six pm to ten pm for your bedtime, so you
don't want any food from six pm to ten pm. That's going to help get your serotonin or circadian rhythms in order, so your cornisol goes down and your melatonin goes up. In the morning, we want cortisol high. So that's the time ex size, that's the time to have sex or testosterone size. That's the time to do your computer work where you could have the blue
light and the screens and the computers and all the lights are on. The suns coming up the morning when testosterone cortisols hyes, that's the time to exercise, to have sex, to use the computer, to do your work, get your stuff done. Nighttime. Now you got to dim the lights, turn off the computer, turn off the TV, turn off your cell phone, no food, just turn off all the electronic exposure. Dim the lights down. So bring down stimulation at night. That's going to increase melatonin.
So, and you want to keep it consistent. So to get good sleep, you fall asleep at the same time every night, every single night. You don't fall asleep at ten o'clock one night, eleven o'clock the other night, then ten thirty, and then ten forty five, then ten to fifteen, then ten o'clock, then ten thirty and then eleven. That's not consistent. It has to be ten o'clock, ten o'clock, ten o'clock, ten o'clock, ten o'clock for twenty one straight days. And then keep in mind
ninety minute sleep cycle. So your first sleep sleep cycles from ten to eleven thirty. Then you get from eleven thirty to one, then one to two thirty, then two thirty to four, four to five thirty, and then if you want to get up at five thirty, great, And then if you need to wake up and you want to do another sleep cycle. Then you wake up at seven, so you want to do it in those ninety
minutes. So you're sleeping from you know, ten to five thirty. That's the ideal time to sleep to get into your good circadium rhythm for the ninety minute sleep cycle. So you fall asleep every day at ten and then you wake up either at five thirty or seven because they're ninety minute sleep cycles. There, got it, all right, that's for the melatonin to help you into that deep sleep. Don't have any electronics plugged in in your bedroom.
No TV, no computer, don't have your all phone plugged in that's right by your head. Just don't have on the other side of the wall. Have you know, your electronics exposed there. So you want nothing plug in near your head, especially at night. So even turn off the Wi Fi, you know, turn off all these smart devices. You know. If you use your phone for an alarm clock, put it on airplane mode. Put it on the opposite end of the room so when it does go off,
you have to get up. Anyway, if you're gonna do something at night, entertain read a book, listen to music, listen to a good podcast. Maybe take a lesson, join a club, a sewing club, a book club, a dance class, take up a hobby, a sport, you know, do something social, learn an instrument, learn a language, Start doing real activities at night. Stop going to work, coming home, eating dinner, watching Netflix, going to bed. That is a recipe for disaster. We do not want to do that. It's not a healthy
way to live, and that's not living life. You know, you have one life on this earth. Enjoy life, have experiences, meet up with people, do things that are social, your family, your friends, your kids, sign up for activities. Stop watching TV every night. That's the worst thing, especially if you're watching the news. If you want to get healthy, you got to stay away from the news. The news is the
worst. It's everything that's going to make you stressed out. Right now, there's a lot of other ways to figure out if you're stressed out, because sometimes you might not even realize it. I can't tell you how many patients I see that I'm like, you're in stressed, Moe. They don't even realize it. They're like, I don't feel like I'm stressed, and they watch the news and they think I don't feel like that affects me. But then again they don't even realize, Hey, maybe that's why your blood pressure
is high. Right, So almost everyone in America after fifty or sixty has high blood pressure and they're put on high blood pressure mats. We have the most medicated country in the world. We have the most doctors, the most hospitals, the most money in healthcare, the most pharmaceutical consumption. Now we're also one of the sickest countries. So even though we have the most doctors, the most hospitals, the most pharmaceuticals, the most medicine, most doctor
visits, we are the unhealthiest country. So that's why people it's confusing to me where people like, oh, we need all this universal healthcare to get our country healthier. It's like, actually, the people that are in the system are the unhealthiest. The people out of the system, they're the healthiest. The ones that don't see the doctors, don't take all the medicine, don't take the pills, don't do all these MRIs and cat skins and biopsies
and and colonoscopies and endoscopies and ultrasounds. If you dig deepep enough, you'll find something on everybody. But sometimes ignorance is bliss. Sometimes it's better not to dig so deep because then you might find something that you don't like. Now. Conversely, if you find something that you can do something about in a natural way, then it's beneficial. Right, So don't do a test
if it's not going to change the way you proceed. For example, right, if you don't want to do a back surgery, right, then it's not really necessary to get the MRI because it's not going to change your treatment. So let's say, Okay, the MRI says I have severe arthritis and her need a disk and stenosis and bone spurs and all this stuff. But you're like, hey, I don't want to do the surgery, Then why
do you do the test? Right now? If you're going to say, hey, you know what I've done, physical therapy, did chiropractic, I did massage. I feel like I've done a lot. Okay, now I'm ready for surgery. Okay, then you do the test. However, what
if the test causes problems? Right? So radiation is dangerous, so cat scans are dangerous, X rays, radiation, or what if you do the MRI and you have to take that contrast fluid that could cause problems, or what if you have hypercusis and the sound of the emerald that could cause problems for your ears. So you always want to do a medical procedure, measure the risk versus the reward. So don't do the test unless it's going to
change your treatment. Now, most people, you could do conservative therapy first before you even do the tests. Right, So, if you have back pain, we can do a lot of conservative therapy. I got the laser therapy. We do manipulation of the joints, I do manual traction. People come to move in neck pain, we work on the curve of their neck, We get the bones in the right position, we work on their posture. And so you can have a disc problem authritis and have no symptoms at
all if you do the right thing. So do your conservative therapy first. Then if that doesn't work, you can always try some medication. If that doesn't work, then you do some testing and look into the surgery. But the surgery should always be the last resort. Always start off with the conservative therapy first. Right, So if you have you know, a gas to intestinal problem, it's like, okay, you don't necessarily want to do a biopsy right away to see if there's you know, some cancer or something.
Biopsies can be dangerous, yeah, right, if you do a biopsy. Sometimes if there's let's say a cyst, and they pop the cyst and it is cancer. Now they spread it everywhere, So biopsy is a surgery too, that's not you know, without risk. I can't tell you how many patients we've seen where they did the biopsy and the biopsy got bursted and now they said it's cancer and the cancer spreading everywhere. So it was stage one cancer, but because they did the bioxy, now it's stage three cancer.
Now your outcomes even worse. So it canna be very careful with all these testing. The mammograms. Do they really save lives? That's debatable. You know a lot of times the cancer so fast that even if you did it every year, it's not going to catch it, or the cancer so slow doesn't pick up anything anyway. The tests that I like are non invasive, so there's no risk. One of the best tests is called a VNG or
VOG. It's where you wear these goggles and it measures all your different eye movements left, right, up and down, fast and slow and with life, and when in a dark and when that head turn and I can literally tell us what areas of the brain are overactive and what areas are underactive. This test is normally five hundred dollars, but for the first seven people to call, text or email you could get the VOG for only twenty one dollars. All you gotta do is call texts six four six two two one six
seven three eight, or you can email info at kaplanbraininbody dot com. Also, what I recommend is to do a one on one evaluation with me. If you do this, it takes about forty five minutes. We can look at your blood work, We could look at your brain test, look at your MRIs, We could look at your qEEG brain mapping, your VNG, your VOG. We go over all the results. It's normally five hundred dollars. For the first seven people that call text or email you can get it
for only twenty one dollars. And we check out your eyes, your memory, your balance, to check out your heart, your lungs, your stomach, your reflexes, your posture, your alignment, your coordination, and like I said, we go over your history, your blood work, all your test findings normally five hundred dollars. For the first seven people that call, text email, you can get it for twenty one dollars. Plus we're going to include if you sign up for the one on one with me, a
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