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, when welcome to boost your brain Power. I'm your host, doctor Eric Kaplan. I hope everyone is having a great day today. Unfortunately, a lot of patients have been coming to me recently with these mood disorders, with a lot of depression
and a lot of anxiety. Now, especially as the falls calming and are going into winter, a lot of people get what's called seasonal affect disorder SAD seasonal affect disorder, And what that means is that people when the fall and winter come, they get more depressed. So during the spring and summer,
their mood's okay, but during the fall and winter they get depressed. And the reason we get this seasonal affect disorder is because in the fall and in the winter, there's less vitamin D and we get vitamin D from the sun. So in the spring and summer, you're outside in the sun. And even if you are outside in the fall, in the winter, you're actually wearing long sleeves, long pants, maybe a hat, maybe glasses. So even in the winter when you are outside, you're not getting any sun to
skin. And if the sun doesn't hit the skin, then you can't absorb vitamin D. So it's not just about being outside, it's about having skin exposure. So when you do go outside and try and do it when the sun is most powerful between twelve and two, roll up your sleeves, roll up your pant legs, take off your hat, take off your glasses. Your eyes need sunlight too. I have so many people that come to me to improve their vision. And guess what, you can improve your vision.
You can improve your near vision and far vision. I improve my vision every year my life for the past eight to ten years by doing eye exercises. You have to do the exercises though. One of the best eye exercises is called a Brock string exercise. We could get that for you or you can order it on Amazon. There's these little colored beads that are on a string
and you have to change your focus from near to far. The problem is with all these technologies, all these smartphones and the iPads and the computers and the TVs and the flat screens and all this technology, we're looking at two dimensional flat screens and we're not looking at three dimensions, and the three dimensions is how we get our depth perception. So you need to do near far exercises, very important for your vision, very important for your brain. Your
eyes can improve. If you want to improve your near vision, you hold the beads on the brock string a lot closer to you. If you want to improve the far vision, you hold the beads on the brox strings further away. Your eye muscles can be strengthened, just like your biceps or your triceps, just like you could go to the gym and do weightlifting. If you do eye exercises, you can actually improve your vision, your near vision, your far vision, your night vision. So there are ways to improve
your vision. But you have to figure out your weaknesses. So we're very good at our offices in Caplin Brain and Body it figuring out where the weaknesses are. So we check each of the different eye muscles. There's different eye muscles. Stuff that goes fast and quick and left and right and up and down and near and far, so there's lots of different muscles stuff to contract, constrict your pupils and dilate your pupils. And you know, there's what's
called a vestibular ocular reflex, and optokinetic reflex. So these all need to be evaluated. And if you guys wait till the end of the show, we're going to offer a gift of a certain evaluation that you can do to really increase the function of your eyes by figuring out where your weaknesses are so we can let you know which type of therapy you would need. So the eyes can improve through eye exercises. Your vision can improve through eye exercise,
just like your memory can improve if you do memory exercises. Your muscles can get stronger if you do weightlifting. Your diabetes numbers can go down if you eat a healthy diet. Your vision can improve if you do I exercises. Everything in your health can improve if you do the work, and that includes your mood. So if you want to get out of a depression, start with sunlight. That's number one. And if you can't get enough sunlight,
you might need to supplement. However, most of the supplements for vitamin D are really bad. Never get a vitamin D supplement from CBS or from the Vitamin Shop or GNC or Whole Foods, or you do not want to buy these. Mass produce vitamins. They are usually full of different contaminants, impurities, fillers, preservatives, even food dyes, chemicals, stuff that we do
not need in our body. You want to go with a company that works with doctors and that doctors prescribe, not ones that you could just buy on Amazon where you can get it, you know, at the pharmacy, at the Wayne Reed or something like that. You want to go to a company that only works with doctors because then they have the best quality control and the
doctors are going to tell you what you need. We don't want you taking vitamins if you don't need it. You know, there's so many my patients that come to the office they're already on you know, twelve to twenty vitamins. It's not good. We don't need all these vitamins. If you eat real food, real whole raw fruits and vegetables, and you cover all the colors of the rainbow, you're gonna get on your nutrients. You don't need
any multi vitamin. You don't need calcium because you are in menopause or you're getting older. You don't need BE twelve because your energy is low. You don't need to take iron because you don't eat red and meat. You don't have to fall for all these scams. Okay, you don't need B twelve because you're a vegetarian, you don't need magnesium because you're constipated. You've got
to figure out what you need by doing blood work. And if you stick around by the end of the show, we're gonna give you a gift on blood work and how to interpret it. So stick around to the very end of the show where you could take advantage of this nice gift that we're gonna give out. But here's the deal. We can boost your mood with vitamin D supplementation, but it needs to be set up properly with a company that works with the doctors, such as apex Energetics. And the reason I like
apex Energetics is because they put it in fat. There are certain fat soluble vitamins A, D, EK, and they all get absorbed in fat. So the vitamin D that I recommend at my offices in Manhattan and New Jersey are ones that are already in the fat, and they have vitamin A and E and vitamin K to help with D absorption. D does not get absorbed without these other vitamins. A, E, and K. Now they also need certain ratios of calcium, magnesium and phosphorus. So it's a formula.
If you just take vitamin D by itself, it won't work. But if you take the proper vitamin D that's in the fat, that has the other fat soluble vitamins, it has the calcium, magnesium, phosphor, that has the biotin and all the other stuff it needs to get absorbed. So it has the proper cofactors, and you have to do it with food. That way the vitamin D will get absorbed. That's the most important one today.
Vitamin D must be done with food, So it's best to do in the morning or in the afternoon because you don't want to have a lot of food at night that's going to increase cortisol. Cortisol is the stress hormone that'll interrupt your sleep and you'll wake up all grogging and fatigue because you don't get the
deep sleep. So you don't want to cortisol high at night. And you get cortisol high at night by eating a late dinner and by watching electronics blue lights, cell phones, computers, iPads, smart TVs, stuff like that, right lights, So the key to bring down cortisol is to have no
food and no electronics for the four hours before bedtime. So if you go to bed at ten, by six o'clock, you want to be done with your food, done with your electronics, get your work done before that, get your dinner done before that, and then after six o'clock, go outside, take a little walk, watch the sun set. You want to get good sleep, high energy, good mood. You go for a walk every day during sunset, so your cortisol goes down. And conversely, go outside
for a walk every day during sunrise. That will increase your testoster, increase your cortisol, increase your energy, help you to focus. You don't need coffee in the morning. You need sunlight. You need your vitamin D. You need good healthy breakfast. You need to exercise. Start boosting your own energy without relying on caffeine. You need to start exercising. We need to
start taking vitamin D, good healthy breakfast. You want to eat like a king for breakfast, a prince for lunch, and a pauper for dinner. That means your biggest meal is breakfast, second biggest meal is lunch, and your smallest meal is dinner. What do most people do, you know, skip breakfast, have a cup of coffee and a little sandwich or salad for lunch, and then come home big dinner. Eight o'clock at night, all the lights are on, TV's on, scrolling through your phone, on the
computer. That's a recipe for disaster. You want to be sick, you do what everyone else does. Coffee for breakfast, sandwich for lunch, big dinner, and TV after then watch the news. That'll really cause major health issues. The news causes stress, anxiety, high blood pressure could lead to
bad things like obesity, cancer, brain fog, we commune system. So you've got to keep your brain in a good mood by having a good morning routine and if you need to supplement with vitamin D. But nothing's better than the sun. So get outside, roll up your sleeves, roll up those pant legs, take off your glasses, take off your hat, get skin eye exposure to that sun to increase your vitamin D levels, which is great for your thyroid, great for your brain function, great for depression and mood,
great for your immune system. It's unbelievable how many benefits this vitamin D has. This hormone vitamin D, it is unbelievable, and we're going to come back after the break to discuss more ways to boost your brain power and improve your mood. This is doctor Eric Kaplan 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, migrains, four postures, 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 Kaplan, you can call his team at two are one two six one two one five zero or visit his website at kaplindc dot com. Welcome back to boost your brain power. I'm your host, doctor Eric Kaplan. Okay, we're talking about ways to boost your mood, ways to get out of a depression, to reduce anxiety, to boost your brain power in a natural, holistic ways without any drugs, no medications, no surgeries, no lobotomies, no electrical shock therapy. I mean
this stuff still goes on, actually electrical shock therapy. I mean there's a lot of you know, stuff that we know about the brain to help with mood, but nobody's teaching you this and it's easy, free stuff. Maybe that's why they're not teaching that to you. Maybe they want you on these mood stabilizers. Maybe the pharmaceutical companies who get very rich off you being sick, want you to take their anti anxiety pills, want you to take their
anti depressants. I mean, it is a big business. So if your mood improves and you don't need you know, your xanax anymore, right, you don't need your antidepressants or your lithium or you know, your different different type of mood stabilizers, your SSRIs. You know, there's so many drugs out there that people are taking. In some of these drugs and medication cause more harm than the actual condition, and you can read it on the label.
Somebody's antidepressants cause depression. Some of these anti anxiety pills cause anxiety, or cause violent tendencies, or cause suicidal thoughts, or cause hallucinations. I mean, it's pretty crazy the risk we might take just to boost our mood a little bit, when there are so many risk free activities that you can do to boost your mood, so you don't need to take antidepressants or anti anxiety pills or sleeping pills and stuff like that. So we got to talk
about dopamine. Dopamine is the reward chemical. It is the motivation chemical. And how do we get this. We could get it one way is by finishing a tasks. So you make like a little checklist of ten things right, and you say, okay, today, I'm gonna do these ten things. I'm gonna make my bed, I'm gonna clean my closet, i'm gonna read two chapters of my book. I'm gonna exercise at the gym for forty five minutes. I'm going to prepare a healthy meal. I'm going to write
in my gratitude journal. I'm going to do oil pulling. I'm going to call a friend and give them a compliment. I'm going to pay some of my debt off. So you just pick up ten good things to do. He say, Okay, I'm gonna do a little bit of these every day, and then you check them off. For every check mark you get off, you release dopamine. We like that checklist. Dopamine loves checklists. But make a good healthy stuff, you know, take a dog for the walk,
you know, write birthday card for your aunt. You know, something that's gonna do good in the world. Right. Another way to help increased OPENMA is celebrating the small winds. You know. It's like people do these small winds, but then they just move on to the next thing. People do big things, big wins, and just move on to the next thing. We don't celebrate enough. You know, if you got that promotion,
celebrate, you know, if you read that full book, celebrate. You know, if you went to the gym three times this week, celebrate. If you didn't drink that glass of wine every night, celebrate, if you went two weeks without having any coffee, celebrate. Do these health things, but then celebrate. Give yourself a reward. You know, if you write in your gratitude journal three days in a row, celebrate, you know, if you drink the proper amount of water, you got to celebrate. You
gotta pat yourself on the back. Everyone's too harsh on themselves, everyone's too critical. You got to give yourself a break. Don't be upset with not getting the results for the work you didn't do. Start doing the work, and start checking the list, and then start rewarding yourself. When you accomplish small little goals, that will increase your dopamine. That will boost your mood.
Another thing that boosts dopamine is self care activities. Getting a nice clean shape for the guys, getting your hair done for the girls, Dressing up really nice, you know, showering, smelling nice, brush your teeth look nice and neat, make sure you're you know, no wrinkles in your shirt, and you know your ties properly set up, and you know everything's tucked in properly, and you know you want to look good. Look the part you ald tract more energy. I mean, I was, I had this
event over the weekend. I was in a suit and then I got so many compah. My god, doctor Kaplin, you look so good. I love the suit, and I was getting so many compliments that even when I got home and I had to do little errands around my town, I kept the suit on felt good because I was getting that dopamine hit. Every time I passed some mirror, I was like, oh, I look good. It's good to look good, to feel good, and then it's even better
when you get compliments from other people as well. Exercise is another way to increase dopamine. You want to exercise first thing in the morning. That's when testosterone and cortisol are high. But that's when people say, oh, I got that runners high. It's that dopamine. It's like a drug. You got to work out. You gotta exercise every day. Every day. You got to exercise and don't work so hard that you're so sore the next day. That you can exercise every day. So exercise is the key to boost
your mood. Listening to music will increase dopamine. You know, get your little Spotify playlist. You know, I'm fo Back in the day, we had like that little mixtape, you know, you would just tape your favorite songs, and then we had CDs. But now you got these MP three's and you know, you can make all this music and just listening to all your favorite songs anytime you want. We used to have to kind of like
listen to the radio and just hope your song would come on. Now we have access to everything, so you know, you make your own little playlists, and you know when you hear good song, especially when it's has memories of your friends and family and good experiences in your life, and you know, you get that dopamine hit from listening to music that you love and then gratitude. Showing gratitude increases dopamine. Dopamine is the reward chemical, the motivational
chemical. Have a gratitude journal. Every day you write in your gratitude journal, what are you grateful for? Grateful for everything. I'm grateful for my wife. I'm grateful for my kids. I'm grateful from my dog, from my house, for my cars. I'm grateful for my offices in New York. My office is in New Jersey. I'm grateful for my neighbors. I'm grateful for my town that I live, and I'm grateful that I live in America. I'm grateful that I have online business that I could see patients.
Now I'm grateful that I have two books out. I'm grateful that I have a newspaper article that I write for. I'm grateful I have two radio shows, I have podcasts, I have YouTube channel, I have social media. I'm grateful that I healthy. I'm grateful that I can buy food. I'm grateful that I can read books, I can see a sunset, I could listen to music. I have great friends and family, And so just be thankful for all the basic things in your life that everyone else takes for granted.
Be grateful that you could walk. Be grateful that you could talk and see and hear, and that you can have a bowel movement, and that you could pee, and that your heart's beating and your lungs are working. Be grateful that you wake up every single morning. Be grateful that you feel good, that you have energy. Be grateful that you have a job. Be grateful that you have money. Be grateful that you live in America.
You know, you could be in Israel and Ukraine, or you could be in the Middle East where girls can't read or write, or drive cars or show skin. You know, you can be in all these other countries where people are starving and people are getting malaria, and they have dirty water and they get polio, and you know, we have so much great things to be grateful for, but everyone likes to complain. So you got to unplug. Turn off social media where everybody's complaining, turn off the news where everyone's
negative. Don't hang out with people who are doomsday people. Hang out with positive, energetic people that are gonna compliment you, that are gonna help you, that are gonna support you, that are gonna be healthy, that are gonna, you know, not be a bad influence. And hey, hey, let's go get drunk, or let's go eat some fast food, or let's complain about the government, or let's you know, worry about how everybody's so evil and all the crime, and let's talk about all the murders and
all the fires. And no, don't be around those people. Being around positive people, be around people that are charitable, that help, being around people that are smiling, be around people that are going to compliment you, being around people that are happy, being around people that love their life, that love their job, that love their spouse and their family and their kids, not that are complaining about their life every day. I weed out those
people. I'd rather have a few good friends that are going to be positive influence in my life than a bunch of bad friends that are going to have a negative influence in my life. Right, the key is to surround yourself with healthy people, smart people, successful people, positive people, because that will you know, that's what you will become. You are going to be around people you hang around with. You know, my mom is a recovering
alcoholic and she's sober and she does great now. She's a counselor. She helps people get sober. But what she had to do is change her scenery. She couldn't go to the bar anymore. She had to change her friends for all they did is drink, because then she wanted to be around sober people and people who didn't go to the bar. Because if you're around healthy people, then you'll be healthy people. If you're around sick people, then you'll be sick. If you're around smart people, you become smarter. If
you around stupid people, you become stupider. So you're going to go around people that are going to be a positive influence in your life, and that way you'll function better, feel better, and live a better life more. When we come back from the break, don't miss Boost your brain power with doctor Eric Kaplan every Saturday from two pm to three pm to learn the secrets
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of life you deserve. Called two oh one two six' one two one five zero or email info at kaplanbrainanbody dot com if you're interested in a free ten minute consultation with doctor Caplan, or visit kaplindc dot com for more information. Welcome back to boost your brain power. I'm your host, Doctor Eric Kplan. We're talking about ways to boost your mood. Vitamin D is always a priority. Exercise, we said, is going to help with dopamine.
Finishing a task, celebrating the small wins, taking care care of yourself, self care activities, looking good, feeling good, listening to music, having a gratitude journal, those are all good for dopamine. Now what about serotonin. That's the mood stabilizer. A lot of medications are based on that because they want to stabilize the mood. But guess what bananas are a mood stabilizer. I always have bananas in my office. Everyone say, what do you
have bananas? I said, it's the mood stabilizer. You know a lot of times we'll have oranges. Those are good for vitamin SED. Well. You know another good thing, another super food is avocado of very healthy, good fat. The berries are a good super food. You know, you wanna have a wide variety of food. You know, you gotta have colorful food, green food, and different green every day. You don't wanna have
kale every day. You don't have broccoli every day, but maybe Monday have kale, Tuesday have broccoli, Wednesday, have spinach, Thursday have gallard greens. Friday have romaine, Saturday have ridicia. You know, every day you could come up with a different green. Sunday have some celery or cucumbers or string beans that you know, every day you can have a different green color, right, but you want to have different colors every day. Something that's
red orange, yellow, green, blue, or purple. So every single day, if you eat all the colors of the rainbow, you're gonna get all your nutrients. You don't need multi vitamins. I'm sick of all these doctors and patients taking multi vitamins. We do not need multivitamins. You are not deficient in all these vitamins. You have to do thorough blood work to
figure out what you're deficient, and that's what you focus on. That's why vitamin D so important, because almost everyone we test is vitamin D deficient. But be careful. Taking supplements can be dangerous too, So you have to do thorough blood work to figure out where your deficiencies are. And we're gonna get you a good way to do that. Stick around for the an. I'm gonna give you a special deal for all my radio listeners. We got some good gifts at the end of the show. All right, So what
else is good for serotonin, the mood stabilize or sun exposure? Right, we just said that we got to get sunlight, We got to roll up the sleeves, we gotta get skin exposure. And if you have to, hey, take a vacation. You know, I'm a New Yorker, New Jersey person, but flying down to Florida next week. So you know, the kids are on a little school break. All right, let's go to
Florida. Let's get some vitamin D. You know. And I know not everybody could do that, but you know we're only going for a few days, you know, so see if you can go down south get some vitamin D. Running. Running is the best way for stabilizing your mood. So you want to, you know, start off, just run to the end of the block. And you know when I when they closed the gym because of COVID nineteen, I said, I got to work out, but my gym is closed. And I was never a big runner, but I said
I have to. I got to work out. How am I going to exercise? So the first day I just ran to the end of the block. Took ten seconds. I was like, okay, that was easy. Then the second day I ran two blocks. It took about a minute. All right, that wasn't too hard either. And then the third day did three blocks. I took about three minutes, right, And I kept adding four blocks, five blocks, ten blocks, quarter of a mile, a half a mile, one mile to two mile, three mile. Now I
can run twelve to fifteen miles and that's not even that hard. But before just one mile, as fard, So you're gonna start with baby steps, and then running will become addicted because it's like a drug. You want that runners high, you want that serotonin, You want that mood stabilizer, you want that dopamine. So you gotta start running. You know, our bodies are meant to run to either capture food or escape danger. All right, to start running, I said, even if it's just to the end of
the block, Start somewhere, all right. What else increases serotonin? The mood stabilizer is deep breathing. Deep breathing. The best way to breathe is to inhale for four seconds, hold it for seven seconds, and exhale for eight seconds. Big deep breaths. Inhale for four hold for seven, exhale for eight And as you get better and you get deeper breathing, you just count slower. So instead of counting one, two, three four, you count one two, three four. So you inhale for four seconds, hold
it for seven seconds, exhale for eight seconds. When you inhale, push your belly down and out and when you exhale, suck it in when you are breathing. Keep your posture upright. You don't want your chin down and your shoulders rolled forward. Want your shoulders roll back. You want your chin up. You want to breathe from your diaphragm, and you want to breathe in that proper ratio that is deep breathing. It's going to increase your oxygen
and it's going to get rid of the carbon dioxide. Now what else will increase serotonin? Yoga? Yoga is very good. Now I'm more of the Eastern yoga like they did in the Asian countries for thousands of years. The American yoga, I think is too much. It's too hard, it's too many weird positions, and it's too aggressive. In my opinion, yoga should be a more relaxation type of thing. But that's not the way this in
America. Everything's bigger, better. You know, let's go in a thousand degrees and let's sweat it all out, and let's put your body in all these weird contortive positions where you know, I really like the more meditation type of yoga that's going to really get our serotonin going. Where you're more relaxed and breathing and meditating and calm and not so hard and intense where it's struggle and it's stressful and you know you can't do it and it's disappointing and you're
you know, it's like, it's more to relax. That's the type of yoga, that's the type of meditation. It's going to get us really high levels of serotonin. Deep breathing, relax meditation, relax yoga, calming stuff that's very good for serotonin, the mood stabilizer. Now you have a love hormone, that's oxytocin. The love hormone. We need that. We need
to have healthy relationships. There are too many people fighting these days. They're fighting over religion, they're fighting over politics, they're fighting over money, they're fighting. You know, it's over so much of this crap. So let's kind of keep that stuff to ourself. Try not to talk religion too much for people, Try not to talk politics. Everyone's very very sensitive. So let's have positive relationships. Talk about things that are going to put people in
a good mood. Don't try and stress people out. Be the type of person that brings the joy to the party that brings the fun, not the one that's miserable. You want to be happy, you want to be charitable, you want to volunteer, you want to you know, be good friends, and you want to be the one that puts everyone in a good mood. You want to be around people that are positive and healthy. You gotta have healthy relationships, and sometimes you might need to break up with someone.
You might need to get a divorce, you might need to quit a job. You've got to prioritize your relationships. If you have a bad relationship at work, sometimes you need to quit. If you have a bad relationship at home, sometimes you need a divorce. If you have, you know, a bad relationship with a friend, sometimes you need to break up. You know it. Sometimes you got to make life changes. But surround yourself with
healthy relationships that will booth oxytocin, the love hormone. Hugging people, you know, it's like when COVID happened and we stop hugging and we still up touching, and that was really bad. That caused a lot of anxiety, a lot of depression. Now people are getting all these brain fogs and memory
problems and confusion, and we get this COVID nineteen long Hailer syndrome. We're getting, you know, people with lime disease, people with mold exposure, heavy metal exposure, concussion where you know, they really have these mood problems and it's going to be a problem if they can't touch other people. So hugging is one of the best things you could do for your brain. So
you know, start coming back with the hugging again. I know, you know COVID happened, but now you know it's time to bring back some of that oxytocin and start holding hands. Holding hands increases oxytocin. Hugging people increases oxytocin, Kissing sex. I mean we have to have touch and feel obviously. You know you gotta have consent, right, So you want to hug people that want to be hugged, right, So you know, don't go, oh, doctor Goblin told me to go around hugging everybody. No,
you got to go around hugging people. I know that sounds pretty obvious to most, but I'm just gonna make sure we get that out of the way. You know, you got to have it both ways, So I gotta go hold hands with people that want to hold their hands and hug people that wanna hug, you know, but we gotta make sure that we do do that, that we do touch and we hug and we hold hands, because
that's very important. You know, when when COVID nineteen happened, I remember my kid came home one day and said, Daddy, they won't even you know, let us play tag, and we can't hug our friends and we can't hold hands with our friends. And so what did I do. I said, Okay, I gotta get these kids oxytocin. I'm gonna hug them, I'm gonna kiss them, but I'm not around all day, so let me get a dog. And getting a dog and playing with the dog actually
increase oxytocin. And they can hug the dog and they can play with the dog, and you know, there's no issue with that. So playing with a dog is one of the best ways to increase your brain function. That was one of the best things we did for our family is get a dog. I have a dog. Roma she's a beagle. We love her. She's definitely addicted to food, so she's always looking for food, she's always
hunting. But she's the best. Everyone loves her. She loves to cuddle, and she you know, she loves to kiss and hold and so if you don't have you know, a person to hug her kiss, just get a dog. They all love to hug and kiss you and hold the hands and stuff like that. Or hold pause right. Helping others will also release oxytocin. And get this, not only will it release oxytocin for you, but to release oxytocin for the person you help, and ton't release oxytocin for
anyone who observes you helping people. So start helping others, stop volunteering, start doing charity. Doing easy things, you know, buy something a little gift, open a door, help someone lift up their bag up the stairs, you know, little things. You can do big things. Helping somebody move, drive somebody the airport, you know, give somebody alone. You know, so you could do major things, but it doesn't even have to be major. Just you know, give someone a nice little compliment, you
know, help someone you know figure out the math problem. Help so, give somebody directions. You know, somebody's got to go shopping. Do some of that. Oh can I pick you up something? I'm going to the supermarket. You know, it's like just do little plain things every day. Helping others will increase oxytocin to boost your power to function better, feel better, and live a better life. This is doctor Eric Kaplan. You're listening
to boost your brain power more when we come back on 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 Kaplan, you can call his team at two oh one two six one two one five zero, or visit his website at kaplindc dot com. Welcome back to boost your brain power. I'm your host, doctor
Eric Kaplan. We're talking about the different happiness chemicals and how to hack them, little brain hacks. So we don't have to take drugs, armful medications, risky surgeries. We don't want to have to do that stuff. We don't want to have to see doctors and psychiatrists and psychologists and we have to take all these medications and we have to see all these tests, and we don't have to do that. You get a walking pharmacy in your body.
Just lifting weights is going to increase your brain chemicals. And it's not a chemical you could take with a medication. There's nothing more powerful than lifting weights that will boost your mood. Okay, we want endorphins. That's the natural pain killer. Everyone's looking for those endorphins. Get that with laughter. You know, if you're gonna watch TV, don't watch the news. You know
that's all bad stuff. Fires, racism, wars, inflation, political corruption, police brutality, hurricanes, tornadoes, stabbings, gunshots, shootings in the schools. It's always bad. If you're gonna watch TV, don't watch You know these shows where there's drug dealers, and there's rape victims that they gotta find, and there's zombies killing each other. I mean, I don't even
know what these shows are called, but they're very popular. Of all these wars and killings and vampires and monsters and zombies and murders and rapes and crime and shootings. And that's what these popular shows are about, you know, being in jail and people getting killed. And how about we watch something that makes us laugh? You know, how about you watch a comedian. How about you watch a sitcom. How about you watch a funny movie. Do
something that's gonna get you laughing. I like George Carlin and Chris Rock and I like TV shows like Seinfeld and Friends and the Office and stuff that's gonna make me laugh. I don't want to come home from a stressful day at work and then watch all these people killing each other on the TV. That's not gonna be good for me to get a good, RESTful sleep. All
right, if you're going to watch something, watch something that's funny. If you're going to listen to something, listen to something that's funny that will increase endorphins, which is a natural painkiller. Another way, to naturally increase endorphins is dancing. All right, So remember we said at nighttime, you don't want to have electronics, you don't want to eat food. So how about you take a dance class, Go get a tango lesson, sALS a lesson,
do some line dancing. I have patients that do pole dancing, belly dancing, hip hop dancing, zoomba class. Or you just listen to music and just dance on your own, but go crazy dancing, have some fun. Dancing is one of the best ways to increase your endorphins. Now, if you could dance with somebody else, that's even better. So let's say if you're holding somebody else's hands while you're dancing, or get the oxytocin plus
the endorphins. Now, if you dance outside in the sun holding hands, Now you're getting endorphins from the dancing, the oxytocin from holding hands, and the serotonin from the sun exposure. And get the exercise because if you're really dancing and then you can get the dopamine hit that whey, you get all all of the chemicals that you need. Right. Another way to increase in doorphins. I know a lot of people are gonna like, this is dark
chocolate. Don't eat the milk. Chocolate. Milk is very bad. Dairy is the worst thing you can put in your body. Dairy is made for baby cows. Milk is made for babies, so we shouldn't have milk when we're not babies. So as kids are adults, nobody needs milk. Don't don't give your kids milk. Don't yourself drink milk. We don't need milk after we stop breastfeeding, and especially we don't need cow's milk. If you're gonna have milk, only have human milk because that's what we can absorb and
digest. So don't have any dairy products. That's cheese, yogurt. Yogurt's not healthy. Don't be fooled into thinking yogurt is healthy. You know, I have these patience They think, oh, yogurt and oatmeal and a cup of coffee is a great breakfast. It's like, no, that's one of the worst things you can have. All three things we'll make you sick. Okay, But dark chocolate that can be pretty healthy. Cacao chips can be
pretty healthy. So the dark chocolate actually releases endorphins. That's a natural painkiller meditation, and not everybody can meditate. So why don't you start off just like we started off with the running. We just run to the end of the block. Start off with a thirty second meditation. I call it the relax technique, where I start off at the top of my head and I relax all the muscles on the top of my head and I say one every
second I say relax. So I just say it thirty times and I'm relaxing the top of my head and then I say relax, and I relax my forehead. Then I relax, I relax my temples. So I have thirty spots. I relax my eyebrows, I relax my eyes, I relax my cheek, relax my jaw, relax my mouth, relax my chin, relax my neck, relax my shoulders, relax my back. Tourists sell hips, knees, feet, toes, go all the way down and you just do
one spot a second. It only takes thirty seconds. You just sit down, legs crossed, has crossed internally saying the Mancha relax, relax, relax, and visually relaxing each muscle starting from the top of the head to the bottom of the head. That's the relaxed technique for meditation. And when you get better, you go to one minute meditation, then you go to two minute and you can increase your meditation. Essential oils. Get a diffuser.
Stop using candles, incense, fabreeze, glades, sprays. If you want to make your house smell nice, use some essential oils. Use a diffuser. A lavender essential oil is good, or vanilla essential oil is good to release those endorphins much better than lighting incense, lighting toxic chemicals, spraying these crappy sprays. Start using a diffuser with natural essential oils such as vanilla or
lavender to release those endorphins. Those are good natural ways to increase those happiness chemicals, increase that dopamine, that serotonin, that oxytocin, those endorphins. To see how to boost your mood. Now, what you want to do is see also why your mood isn't as good. The best test that will check your brain function it's called a qEEG brain mapping, and that is this test where you wear a swimmers cap. It looks like a swimmer's cap.
It's got all these electrodes attached to it and it measures all your different brain ways, the alpha, the beta, the theta, the delta, and based on the location, it tells us where the problem is. Do you have a problem in your frontal cortex or your parietal Is it your cerebellum, is it your brain stem? So it can literally tell us a do you have anger, aggression, anxiety? Do you have problems mood stabilized? Do you have memory problems you have do you have issues shifting tests? You have
low dopamine levels? Do you have low acetyl colling? Do you have issues in your gut? Do you have intestinal inflammation, you have a thyroid problem, you have heavy metal poisoning, you have concussion. It literally breaks down all the different things sleeping problems, Do you have troubles with focus confusion? Do you have balance problems, eye problems, ear problems? You know? Do you have troubles with digestion? So it really breaks down everything pretty efficiently.
It's normally five hundred dollars, but I told you guys, we're going to give you a gift. For the first seven people that call, text or email. Instead of paying the normal five hundred dollars, you can get the entire qEEG brain mapping for only twenty one dollars. All you have to do is call our texts six four six two two one sixty seven three eight, or you can email info at Kaplinbrain and Body dot com. Now, a lot of these brain imbalances occur because one side of the brain isn't working.
That's called a functional disconnect. So these are people who get depression, anxiety, or they get bipolar, you know, schizophrenia, a different mood disc orders, personality disorders. So we want to check if there's an imbalance of the left and right brain. If you have add ADHD, if you have developmental delays, autism, touretts, if you have memory problems, dementia, Alzheimer's, if you have a stroke or Parkinson's, or if you have
MS. This is the best test for you. It's called a VNG Video and listography, and it's where you wear these infrared goggles and we do these different eye movements are fast and slow, and you go up and down. It responds to light and different head movements. That test is also normally five hundred dollars, but for the first seven people that call, text or email, you can also get that test for only twenty one dollars. Again, the number is six four six two two one six seven three eight, or
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