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. This month is Alzheimer's Awareness Month, so we want to be aware on how to prevent Alzheimer's as well as how to reverse Alzheimer's. When I was growing up, I witnessed my grandma daddy brain slowly deteriorate into dementia and Alzheimer's disease. Now,
everybody asked me, what's the difference between dementia and Alzheimer's disease. So, dementia is basically when you're having memory loss, and one of the conditions that cause is memory loss is Alzheimer's disease. Alzheimer's disease is when you have these beta amyloid plaques, this little sticky, gluey substance that prevents signals from connecting in your left and right brain, specifically in your frontal cortex and your
temporal cortex. That's frontal temporal dementia as a result from beta amyloid platts. That is called Alzheimer's disease. You can have other different types of plaques that might cause Parkinson's disease, and you might have a Parkinsonian dementia. But those are different types of plaques, all right. So Alzheimer's disease can cause dementia, Parkinson's can cause dementia. You can get it from concussion. You can get it from a stroke. You can get it from a traumatic brain injury.
You can get it from heavy metal poisoning, or lime disease or COVID nineteen different viruses, or bacteria, mold exposure. There are so many different causes of dementia. Alzheimer's is just one of the most common causes of dementia, and it's the most frightening one. You know, when I was witnessing my grandma Daddy passed away from Alzheimer's disease, she was so miserable the last ten years of life. She'd always say, Oh, Eric, I just want to die. I just want to die. I want it all over.
You know. She was in a wheelchair, she was in a diaper, she was in a nursing home. She kept forgetting more and more every year. She was getting more miserable. She had low quality of life, and I don't want that for you guys. I want you guys to have a high quality of life. You know, everyone, you know, everyone says, oh, you know, I don't want to live to one hundred. Guess what, you might live to one hundred, but you don't want
the last twenty years of your life being miserable. That's why you have to do things now. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. You know, my Grandma Dotty, she was so popular, she had so many friends. She was a great cook, she was a great dresser, she was always wearing the highest fashioned clothes. She always had the best mega mom. She was a great tennis player, she played great cards. She was always having so much fun, you know, dancing, going out for
dinner, socializing. And then she moved to Brookly. Then she moved from Brooklyn to Florida. And once she moved to Florida, you know, she stopped a lot of her activities. She stopped, you know, dancing, she stopped playing tennis, she stopped playing cards, she stopped cooking, and her brain went worse and worse and worse. And then she stopped dressing up and stoped putting on her makeup and carrying what she looks like, stop cleaning
the house, getting more forgetful. And every year her brain got worse, her balance got worse, her strength got worse. She had morerightis, more degeneration and more memory loss, troubles with focus, confusion, brain fog. Every year worse and worse and worse because all she did was sit on the couch and watch TV. If you want your brain to die off, just sit on the couch, watch TV, sit on your chair, play in the computer, sit down, playing on your cell phone. Then your brain
is going to die off. If you want to prevent Alzheimer's, get off your butt, start participating in life, start doing activities, start being more social, start helping others, Start taking care of your health. And it starts with your nutrition. If you want to prevent Alzheimer's disease, you can't have diabetes. Diabetes is one of the number one calls of Alzheimer's disease. In fact, they're contemplating changes the name of Alzheimer's disease to diabetes type three
because it's so similar of how it affects your brain. So if you look at your blood work and you have a fasting glucose over one hundred, you better start working on that immediately. If you have a hebid glow at a one C in your blood work that's above five point seven percent, that's too high on your way to diabetes. You have to reverse it. And it's easy. And when I say it's easy, because there's a formula, and the formula is eating healthy, exercising, and going to bed early. That's
the formula. Those are the big three. You want to eat from ten am to six pm, that's intermittent fasting, and you want to sleep from ten pm to six am. You can actually reduce your diabetes numbers. By going to bed earlier. You're getting your rest and digest you activate your vegus
nerve, which controls your pancreas. But if you're up it's ten o'clock at night, you're watching TV, you're snacking on some popcorn, you're looking at the news, or you're watching some zombie apocalypse, you're going to put yourself in stress mode and that's going to affect your autonomic nervous system and your vegus nerve, which will influence your pancreas. So you want to eat from ten am to six pm. And you want to sleep from ten pm to six
am. That's getting your body in good circadium rhythms. That's gonna help reverse diabetes. Then we gotta exercise. You get up at six am, you have time to exercise. I don't care if it's twenty minutes. But you gotta exercise every day. I don't care if you just go for a walk, go to the gym, take a bike ride, go hiking, Do some pushups, some jumping jacks, some sit ups, some lunges, some squats. Use your body weight, get a little band, get some free
weights. You can do it at home if you want, but move your body. You use it, or you lose it. Your muscles will become weak, and your brain will come weak. Your muscles are walking pharmacy. If you have depression, start exercising. Your brain functions at a higher level. You have anxiety, start working out. Your anxiety reduces. So exercise is the cure for diabetes, but it's also the cure for Alzheimer's disease. It's also the cure for depression and anxiety. It's also the cure for heart
disease and cancer and obesity. Exercise is the cure for every single disease. You gotta move your body. And as the years go on, people are becoming more and more sedentary. Sitting is considered the new smoking. You cannot sit all day. You can't wake up and sit at the table, play on your cell phone, sit at the kitchen table and eat your breakfast and sit on your car, drive to work, or sit on the bus and train and commute to work and sit at the computer. You're at work all
day and come home and sit on the couch and watch TV. Then sit at the dinner table and eat dinner, and sit at the computer and go on YouTube and Facebook and then go to bed. Sitting all day, your brain will deteriorate. It'll lead to many neurologic and physical problems. And the screen time, excessive screen time is no good. There's too much blue light and that stimulates cortisol, which is the stress hormone that creates more stress,
more tension, high blood pressure. So many people with high blood pressure because they're nervous systems in stress mode. Well, you gotta do stuff to distress. Don't watch TV. TV does not distress you. It puts more stress because of the blue light because of the subject matter. I don't care if it's real or fake. You know, the news will put you in stress mode. Or you're gonna watch Law and Order about murders and rapes. Are you gonna watch some zombie show. Are you gonna watch some war movie?
Are you gonna watch some killer you know John Wick, and you know we're scary movies and murderers, and you know, everything is It's not lighthearted anymore. There's too much death and shootings and killings and stabbings and blood and gore. And the real stuff's even worse. There's war in Israel and Ukraine, and there's wildfires, and there's inflation and political corruption and racism and you know, fraud and hurricanes and volcanoes and earthquakes and typhoons and money crisises and the
environmental crisis and pollution and you know political tensions. I mean, everything is stress, right. We gotta de stress. We gotta unplugged. Turn off your phone, turn off your TV, turn off your computer and your iPads. Stay away from all those screens that will decrease. Cortisol is the stress hormone which will increase the function of your brain and body. This is doctor
Eric Kplan. You're listening to boost your brain power. 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 misboost your brain power with doctor Eric Caplan 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 Caplin 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 sir inuries. To contact the Doctor Kaplan, you can call his team at two O one two six one two five zero or visit his website at kaplindc dot com. This is doctor Eric Kaplan and you're listening to boost your brain power. This month is Alzheimer's Disease Awareness Month, so we want to make sure that you do what
you need to do to prevent Alzheimer's. The three most important factors for prevention of Alzheimer's disease is getting the proper nutrition, getting enough oxygen, and getting enough activation. Okay, now let's start from the beginning. Okay, the nutrition. So we know that diabetes is linked to Alzheimer's disease, and we know the best way to reverse Alzheimer's disease. Number one is exercise, and number two is eating the right foods. If you want to prevent or reverse
diabetes, you gotta stay away from the white foods. The sugar, the flour, the bread, the rice, the potatoes, the cereals, the crackers, the oatmeal, the croissants, the muffins, the bread, the bagels, the candy, the cakes, the cookies, the pastries, the milk, the dairy, the cheese. That's all going to be bad. Stay away from the white foods. Those are gonna aggravate diabetes. Now, what we want to do is eat a lot of the colorful foods red,
orange, yellow, green, blue, purple. Eat fruits and vegetables that cover the rainbow. Okay, that's getting your brain the proper nutrition. If you eat all the colors of the rainbow, then you get all your nutrients.
If you avoid the white foods, then you're not going to irritate your nervous system because the brain and nerves have a miling sheet, which is basically fat, insulated fat that will get destroyed by all those white foods, the dairy, the sugar, sodas, juices, lemonades, all the bread products, all the pasta, all the noodles, all those carbi stuff, rice, potatoes, crackers, all that stuff that's gonna make diabetes worse. We got to avoid that. Then you get the proper fuel delivery to your brain.
That's the food and the oxygen. And how do you get the oxygen. You got to keep your posture upright. Everybody's slouching down these days. They're looking down at their cell phone, and you're getting these big hunchbacks. This is like the reverse of evolution. You give us, see that picture of evolution where they go with the animals that are that are on fours, and then they get up a little bit more upright, and the posture keeps
on getting better and better till eventually we're completely upright. And that's a human being However, currently we instead of being upright, are now slouched forward, So we're de evolving. It's reversing, and our brains are getting worse. We're getting stupider. People who head is down don't have weak brains. People who have good posture and head up have good brains. So posture is directly related to brain function. So if you have to do a lot of sitting,
you gotta take a lot of breaks. You gotta stand up, look up, roll those shoulders back, stand up, look up, reach for the ceiling. You got to combat it. You got to reverse these poor posture, this text neck, this digital dementia. It's creating a lot of problems. These devices are controlling us and they're ruining our health. You have to unplug, or you have to change the way you use these devices.
Keep the device in front of you. Don't look down at the screens, don't have your computer monitor below eye level, don't look at your phone below eye level. Keep your chin upright and parallel to the floor, and look straight ahead at whatever device you're using. Whether it's the computer, iPad, cell phone, I don't care if it's a book, a magazine, a newspaper. Look straight ahead stop looking down all the time. It makes your posture worst. Do you want to be one of these old ladies or old
men all hunched forward? You've seen that, right. You can reverse it, but it's much easier to prevent it. Now. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. It's so much easier to fix it when you're younger. But you gotta figure out which areas are weak and which areas are strong. So most people do too much of stuff in front of them and not a stuff in the back. So what do I mean by that? You know, let's say if you're doing exercises, Let's say a lot
of people do biceps curls. That's the muscle in the front. And do you know bench pressed or push ups, that's the muscles in the front. We want to start doing exercises for the muscles in the back. Do the rowing machine, do shoulder poles, do back exercises, do extensions. So bring your body back, look up, do those shoulder rolls backwards. Don't roll your shoulders forward, they're already to forward. Start rolling them back.
That's going to open up your lungs so you can breathe better. It's much harder to breathe. If your chin's down and your shoulders are rolled in, you're going to decrease your oxygen. You're going to decrease your fuel delivery to your brain. The more you keep your chin upright, the better you breed, and the more oxygen you get. You have to make sure your ribs are in a good position. If your ribs are in a good position, then you're gonna be able to breathe better. But how many people check their
rib position or even know how they would check that. How many doctors check that They don't. They don't try and help you with your oxygen levels. They might put that pulse ox on you. So what a pulse ox siminar. That's a little thing you put on your finger that measures your oxygen levels. And there's a few things that it can measure, but mostly what you kind of hear about is the percentage. And they want your percentage to be
ninety eight, ninety nine or one hundred. Okay. Now, many doctors and hospitals and books will say, hey, if you're above ninety four ninety five, your doom pretty good. In my clinics at Caplin Brain and Body, and we have clinics in New York and New Jersey. We do a virtual practice as well. We want your oxygen levels to be at least ninety eight percent, ninety nine percent, ideally one hundred percent. And what that means is that the oxygen that's in your body is going to bind to hemoglobe
in and be distributed properly. Because the oxygen by itself is useless, It can't do anything, So it has to be connected to a hemoglobe. And so the hemoglobe and can transport it to the appropriate organ or body function or whatever. It needs to be accomplixed, whether it's your brain that needs to think, or your heart that needs to pump, or your digestive system that needs to break down food, or you're pancreas that needs to prevent diabetes.
So it needs to work on those weak areas. We need to get that those signals to work better. And if you get the oxygen bound to hemoglomin you're gonna be able to heal quicker. In fact, oxygen kills off viruses and bacteria. If you have COVID nineteen, you're a long hauler. If you have chronic lime disease, or you have a history of epstein bar virus or H. Pylori infections or herpies or these are just very common bacteria and
virus infections that we see. We want to oxygen eate these bodies so that kills off all the viruses. And we do that with hyperbaric oxygen chamber, which is a tank you lion that's one hundred percent oxygen. People love this. Hyperbaric oxygen chamber gives you energy, gives your brain function higher levels, It makes your heart be more efficient, it helps with your digestion. It's good for Alzheimer's, for Parkinson's, for stroke, for autism, for a
multiple sclerosis. It's not just for inner ear problems anymore. It used to be for the bends when people went deep sea diving and they got dizzy and because the pressure changes, so repressurized the inner ear and got rid of dizziness
and headaches and stuff like that. But then when people are going in the chamber started crying, skin conditions, healing scars and lesions, and then people started getting more energy, and people started performing better in sports, and they better digestion and better memory, and better focus and less anxiety and depression and better motivation and focus and all these great things that people started benefiting from,
and lately even COVID nineteen. Now they're putting these Hyperbarrack oxygen chambers in the hospitals because it helps to kill COVID Longhuler syndrome. All right, So this hyperbaric oxygen jaber, you know, has so many things, and every year that gets more you know, approved benefits for the FDA. A lot of it's you know, unapproved, like it's not necessarily can't be you know, paid for and by Medicare and Medicaid for stuff like that. But you know,
it has so many benefits and people love the results they get. I personally do it just for sports performance, for mental clarity, for energy, for mood boosting, and I love it. You know, I love the hyperbaric oxygen chamber. It's one hundred percent oxygen. The normal in the air oxygen is twenty percent because it's mostly nitrogen carbon dioxide. But in the chamber it's one hundred percent oxygen and it squeezes the oxygen into the cells to increase
mitochondria on ATP production. We're gonna give a gift to all my listeners. The first seven people that call can get one free hyperbaric oxygen chamber session. If you've never done it at my office, you could literally get it for free. It's normal only one hundred and seventy five dollars. All you have to do is want to be the first seven people to call texter or email the phone numbers six four, six, two two, one, six,
seven three eight. Let them know you want one free hyperbaric oxygen chamber. You want to be the first seven people to call, text or email. You can email info at Kaplan Braininbody dot com more when we come back from the break. This is doctor Eric Kaplan. You're listening to boost your brain power. Don't miss boost your brain power with doctor Eric Kaplan every Saturday from two pm to three pm to learn the secrets of how to optimize your brain
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big three are food, oxygen, and activation. To increase oxygen levels, you have to do breeding exercises. The best breeding exercise to increase your oxygen levels is to inhale for four seconds, hold it for seven seconds, and exhale for eight seconds. You want to breathe for your diaphragm, So when you inhale, push your diaphragm down and out, and when you exhale, suck it in to push out all that carbon dioxide. Also, get some plants in your home. Spider plants, snake plants, alo vera plants,
money plans. Those are going to increase oxygen levels. So your brain needs to increase oxygen levels. Now, how do you know if you have decrease oxygen levels. When we look at a good pulse oximeter instrument, it's not only going to tell us the percentage like that ninety eight, ninety nine or one hundred percent, but it's also going to tell us the profusion index. All right. Now, most doctors don't check that perfusion index, but we
wanted above three. So we always check that in our offices to make sure it's above three, so we know if your oxygen levels are low. And if your oxygen levels are low, we got to do something about that right away. A lot of times it has to do with your autonomic nervous system. The autonomic nervous system controls your respiration, controls your lungs, it controls all of the things we don't think about. It's the automatic nervous system.
So with the automatic nervous system or the autonomic nervous system, it controls your breathing, your blood pressure, diabetes, digestion, if you have digestive problems, it wridal bow syndrome, Chrohn's disease, also rate of colitis, cebow acid reflux. You better work on your autonomic nervous system. And what do I mean, work on your autonomic nervous system. Well, just like you could work on your muscles and go to the gym and do weightlifting and stretching
and exercises, you can do brain exercise. It's specific for the autonomic nervous system. So brain exercise. What does that mean. Well, there's four nerves that are linked to what's called your parasympathetic nervous system. So if you're one of these people that are in stress mode, you're in this spight or flight mode. You're always on edge, your mind's racing a million miles per
hour, you have anxiety. You're in stress mode all the time. You can't sleep well, you're a light sleeper, You get up to p a lot, or you wake up all groggy, and that means your autonomic nervous system isn't working properly. I had a patient yesterday. She's a virtual patient, so we don't see her at the office. We do it online, and I've only seen her about four or five times, and yesterday I was
so great. She goes, she goes doctor Kaplan. This is the first time in twenty years that I woke up and had energy that I wasn't groggy. I didn't need a cup of coffee. I woke up on my own accord, without an alarm clock, with no drugs, no medication, no surgery. All she did was this process that we taught her called neuroplasticity, where we rewired the brain to get yet more activity. If we want the brain to prevent Alzheimer's, we need good food, we need proper oxygen,
and we need proper activation. The activation can occur by doing brain exercises. The best brain exercises that are going to help you with your autonomic nervous system to get out of this stress mode to function at a higher level are linked to these four nerves of the parasympathetic nervous system. The first nerve is called the ocular motor nerve, and that's eye muscles. So we got to move
our eyes very specific eye exercises. One of the exercises you could do at home that are very easy to do are called no No, Yes, Yes exercise. And what this is You just take a post a note, put a dot, tape it on your wall, stand eye all arm's length away, Look at that dot. Slowly turn your head forty five degrees to the right, forty five degrees to the left, back and forth, right and left very slowly, ten times left and right, and then ten times up
and down. That's called a no, no, yes, yes exercise, and it's going to strengthen your brain, your eyes, and your autonomic nervous system. The second nerve is the facial nerve, and we can do lots of different exercises, different sensory exercises, motor exercise. We could stimulate this
tragus part of your ear, which is linked to the facial nerve. We could do the optic blink reflexes where we just blow air into the eye and that stimulates cranial nerve seven, which is called the facial nerve link to this parasympathetic nervous system. These are literally brain exercises that you could do just by using the neurosigns to strengthen your weak area if it is the autonomic nervous system.
The fourth nerve or the third nerve in the paris empathetic nervous system is called the glosso pharyngeal that's the tongue, so we could do a lot of tongue exercises. We could do even taste like if you put bitter on the back of your tongue that activates this glosso pharyngeal nerve. The gag reflex or gargling will activate this nerve to make your autonomic nervous system work better. That
actually relaxes your brain. If you're in stress mode, you can actually do the gag reflex or gargle, and that helps to relax your nervous system. That's a neurologic exercise using a process called neuroplasticity to rewire the brain specific to the areas of weakness. And that was only appropriate for you. If you are in this whole stress moved this spiight or flight mode, your autonomic nervous
system isn't working properly. Your vegus nerve isn't working, so you can't sleep and you can't digest, and you feel these heart palpitations and you're always nervous and panic. Then it's probably appropriate for you, but we got to make sure we figure out first if it's appropriate for you. Other people might need to strengthen their brain. The might need to do memory exercise and balance exercises,
so you might need more stimulation and focus exercises. Right, all right, So what's the fourth nerve for This parasympathetic nervous system is called your vegus nerve. A lot of people have heard this vegas nerve and we talked about it before. That's linked to the diabetes and the pancreas. It's linked to digestive issues that rest and digest. It's linked to insomnia. So this vegas nerve is very important and there's there's lots of ways that we could activate it.
I do. It's called this corotid massage or these little swallowing exercises. Vegas nervous kind of located in the next There be a lot of that has to do with the neck. But we can activate this vagus nerve through this neuroplasticity of rewiring the brain. But we gotta figure out where the problems are first. One of the best tests you could do to figure out where the problems are is called a qEEG brain mapping. This is a great test because
there's no radiation, there's no contrast fluid. You don't have to lie in some small claustrophobic tube for forty minutes with all these loud sounds that are gonna make your brain more stressed. All you do is sit in a chair wear this little cap that sort of looks like a swimmer's cap. It's got electrodes attached to all the different areas of your brain and it measures your your brain
waves. Your alpha brain waves, which is how you kind of normally are during the day, and your beta brain waves, which is when we need to really think and focus and concentrate, or your theta brain waves that's what you're just kind of daydreaming in La la land. Then you got your delta brain waves that's when you're sleeping and your brain isn't resting and relaxing. So it measures all these different brain waves and based on the location of the abnormal
brain waves, will determine where your dysfunction is. And this will tell us, Hey, do you have insomnia, Do you have anxiety? Do you have depression? Do you have difficulties shifting tasks? Do you have problems with acetocholine or dopamine. Do you have a concussion or having metal poisoning. Do you have problems with working memory, short term memory, long term memory,
sequential memory. Do you have anger or aggression? Do you have punctuality problems, motivation problems, problems with your eyes or your ears or your balance. It literally breaks down all the different parts of your brain and it analyzes it and con locate which parts of the brains are functioning well and which parts of the brains aren't not functioning well. So, based on this qEEG brain mapping, we could literally analyze the brain in a natural, holistic way and come
up with strategies on how to increase the function of those weak areas. But the first step is to do a qee G brain mapping. And we're gonna give a gift to the first seven listeners that call text email us. Okay, instead of paying the normal five hundred dollars for qee G brain mapping, all you have to do is pay twenty one dollars. That is it, call us or text us. The number is six four six two two one six seven three eight, or you can email info at Kaplinbrain Andbody dot com.
Just tell them that you're one of the listeners of my show and you want to be one of the first seven people to do the qu uk you EEG brain mapping for only twenty one dollars. 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 misboost your brain power with doctor Eric Caplan 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 Caplin 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 Caplin, you can call it team at two O one two six one two zero or visit his website at kaplindc dot com. Welcome back to boost your brain power. I'm your host, Doctor Eric Kaplan. This month is Alzheimer's Disease Awareness Month, and we want to give you the best strategies to prevent or reverse dementia
Alzheimer's disease. The three most important factors are fuel delivery number one, which is nutrition, and number two oxygen, and then the third is activation. You gotta activate your brain. You gotta work your brain, especially on your weak areas. Most people are comfortable doing the stuff they're good at. You gotta start doing the stuff you're not good at. Change it up. Brush your teeth with your left hand instead of your right hand. Eat your dinner
with your left hand instead of your right hand. Brush your hair with your left hand, shave with your left hand. Practice hitting a tennis ball with your left hand, shooting a basketball with your left hand, throwing a baseball with your left hand. Switch it up. Don't take the same root to work every day. Take a new route. Don't sit on the same side of the subway every day. Sit on the other side. Don't be a creature of habit. Repetition can make the brain weak. Novelty doing new things
will strengthen your brain. People blame age for their memory getting worse. It's novelty. They're not doing anything new. You have to do new things every single day of your life until you die. Start doing new things. Everyone's jealous of kids' brains because kids learn so easily. It's because they're always learning new things. Their brain is highly active. An adult brain is dead. It's sick. If you look at these functional Mriyes, you know, the
adult brain looks looks black. Kid's brain looks red and orange and yellow, all this activity. You know, if you weren't trained, you would think like, an adult brain is just a dead brain, and a child's brain isn't a live brain. An adult brain looks dead because it's never active, it's never challenged, and especially with all the technology, it's even worse. Right, I'm forty five years old. When I was growing up, I knew everybody's phone number, all my friends, even people I didn't even wasn't
friends, and I still knew their phone numbers too, right. How many phone numbers do you know now? Not too many? Right? When I was growing up and I'd say, Mom, how do you spell this? Say look it up, I'd have to go and look it up in the dictionary. There was no spell check. You know. When I need to learn something, we went to the library and looked it up in an encyclopedia, and you read it and you memorized it. You learned it wasn't just
Google. Google has become your brain. And when I was growing up, if you had to find directions, you would open up a map, trace it out, figure out the best directions, memorize landmarks, street names. Now just put in your GPS. You don't have to do anything. The brains are becoming weaker and weaker because of the technology, so you have to do stuff to challenge your brain. You have to learn new things and not just doing a crossword puzzle or wordle every day. Let's thinking the same way.
You gotta change it up. Play some games you don't do. Play chess, checkers, connect for monopoly, clue, scrabble, lay texas, hold them. Play stuff that's social, that's fun, that's new. If you could do something that's active, even better. Take a dancing lesson, learn how to play the drums, learn some gardening. So stuff where you could learn stuff and move your body at the same time is even better. Movement is key. You don't want to just be playing brain games on the
computer. We said we got to unplug. You could do like what's called a crosscrawl exercise. That's where you sort of just march in place, lifting those legs up really high, and then tap your right hand to your left knee when the knee comes up, and then tap your left hand to the right knee when the knee comes up, and you just hit each leg right, left, right, left, and as you do it, you do
a mental exercise, you know. So you would do different countries, different states, different sports, different cars, different names, different colors, different body parts, different clothes, you know, just kind of every day you do a different category and you make your brain think, and you do that for thirty seconds and try and come up with fifteen different things of each category.
That's a brain game. Or try this exercise you do with your left leg, draw clockwise circles and keep doing it over and over and over again, and at the same time, without stopping moving your left leg and the clockwise circle direction, draw a big number six with your left hand in the air. And usually what happened, the legs automatically reverses and try to kind of mimics the six. But the idea is to resist that and keep doing
those clockwise circles as you draw the number six. That's a new exercise that you've never done. That's going to challenge your brain. And we got thousands of them, right, but we got to figure out which part of the brain we need to analyze. One of the best tests to figure out which brain part of the brain to analyze and to stimulates called a VNG video and astography. This test is great because there's no radiation. Also, there's no
two, there's no contrast fluid, there's no risk. You wear these infrared goggles that measure your eye movements and can tell us which parts of the brain are overactive and which are underactive. If the brain's overactive, you're gonna have like ADHD. Your mind's racing all the time. You might even get heart palpitations. You might get anxiety, you might have difficulty with sleeping or digestive problems. You might worry all the time, or have these negative thoughts in
your head. Are always being stressed out. That's overactive brain. The vg is gonna pick that up. Or you might have an underactive brain, low energy, fatigue, low motivation, depression, can't think brain fog. It's an underactive brain. The VNG will pick up. Hey, is the right
side underactive or is the left side that's underactive. Is it the right side that's overactive or is it the left It also breaks it down, is it more in the frontal cortex, which are from more fast eye movements or cycads, Or is it from the more the sensory the parietal core text which are a little bit slower eye movements. Or does it have to do with your cerebellum, which has to do with you know, the way uh you respond to movement? Or is it from your brain stem how do you respond to
light? So we could literally analyze all these different areas of the brain using the eyes and come up with a good diagnosis of which areas are weak, in which areas are strong, which areas are underactive, which areas are overactive. You know, is the left brain connecting to the right brain. This is a great test that's not invasive. And we're gonna give a gift to
my listeners for the first seven people that call. Instead of paying the normal five hundred dollars for VNG, you only have to pay twenty one dollars. You just have to be one of the first seven people to call. Text or email The number is six four six two two one six seven three eight, or you can email info at kaplanbrainembody dot com. Another gift we're gonna give to you is a one on one evaluation with me. This takes about
forty five minutes. You can come to my office in New Jersey, which is in Bergen County and Emerson by sort of by paramise near all the malls. Or you can come to my office in New York City, which is in the West Village of Manhattan, sort of by West fourth Washington Square Park, Greenwich Village area. Very great neighborhood. We love it. So we can do that one on one evaluation with me as well in the New York office, or you could even do it virtually if you're not local as well,
and we do everything. We check your history, We look at any blood work you've done, your brain tests. We look at your posture, your alignment, your heart, your lungs, your gut, We look at your health goals, We come up with strategies, We look at your nutrition. It's a very holistic approach. Don't come to me if you're looking for quick fix, if you're looking at prescription medication surgeries, that's not the doctor
that I am. I'm not going to write you prescription for pills to cover up symptoms, okay, But what we do is get to the root cause of the problem and when we do a one on one evaluation, we could figure out what the root cause of the problem is, so that way you get a permanent solution, not just hide symptoms with a little band aid and
cover it up with pills and stuff like that. But so, okay, where is this coming from and what's the best natural, holistic and integrative strategy we could come up with to get the body to heal itself rewire the brain through neuroplasticity. But we got to do the one on one evaluation. The gift is it's normally five hundred dollars to do a one on one evaluation with
me that takes about forty five minutes. If you're one of the first seven people to call, text or email, you could get it for only twenty one dollars call a text six four six two two one six seven three eight, or you can email info at Caplanbrainbody dot com. For more information about what our practice is and the services we offer, you can go to our website kaplindc dot com, or you can subscribe to our YouTube channel Caplin Brain
and Body. Also follow us, like comment on our social media where we're on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, just look up at Caplin Brain and Body and you can find us there. I'm also a newspaper columnist for the Pascat Press. You could go to Pascak Press just google it if you want to subscribe. You can get it digitally if you're not local as well. And also I'm author of a couple of books. You could get one of my books on Amazon. It's called Oosed Your Brain Power, A Guide to Improving
your Memory and Focus by doctor Eric Kaplan. It's a great book. It's only about seventy three pages. It's the seventeen most important strategies to utilize and implement immediately to improve memory and improve focus. So we always teach you in holistic and natural ways how to function better, feel better, and live a better life more. When we continue this conversation next week, this is doctor
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