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. We're gonna be talking about how to improve your brain function. If you want to improve your memory, you want to prevent Alzheimer's, prevent dementia. The three most important things are food, a healthy diet, lots of colors of the rainbow.
Avoid all the white foods, the sugar, the bread, the dairy. And you want to eat all the colors of the rainbow red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple. That's nutrition. The second thing is oxygen. We always need a lot of oxygen. There's good breathing exercise you could do to improve your oxygen levels is to inhale for four seconds, hold it for seven seconds, and exhale for eight seconds. When you inhale, you want to breathe through your diaphragm, so you push your belly down
and out. That's going to maximize your lung capacity. On the exhale, everything comebacks in. And we always want to x out twice as long as we inhale. That's going to maximize oxygen. It's going to get rid of the carbon dioxide and the carbon caregreate, acidity in the environment, and all disease lives in an acidic environment. If you're environs more alkaline we're talking like pH levels, then you're going to be healthier. If it's more acidic,
you're more likely to get sick. So there is food, oxygen and activation. Activation is challenging your brain doing new activities. Learn a musical instrument, learn a new dance move, learn a new language. Learn how to put up a shelf, Learn how to change a tire, Learn how to filter your water, learn how to clean your food, learn how to guard and learn how to sew, learn how to build. Just learn something, and hopefully it's with getting your body involved too. And you gotta challenge your brain.
You got to memorize things. Don't use all the technology. We don't want digital dementia where our brains are getting worse because we look everything up on Google and YouTube. Start using your brain and unplug from all the technology. You have to challenge your brain. You use it or you'll lose it. And that's one of the most important aspects is doing novel activities, new activities, challenge yourself, but even just visiting new places, meeting new people,
okay, super important to improve memory. You can also do a brain exercise. Just like you can exercise a muscle, you can exercise your brain. And what you could do. A good exercise is called the crosscrawl exercise. That's where you sort of march in place and you take your right hand and tap your left knee as your marching and then you tap your left hand to the right knee and you go back and forth right mean left knee, right need left knee, and each time you tap you come up with some sort
of mental or cognitive exercise. So you say, okay, different colors, different animals, different states, different countries, different cars, different sports, different names, so anything. But every day you come up with something different. That's a brain exercise to challenge yourself. You're moving your body, you're working on your balance, you're working on your alignment, keep your body upright
for your posture, and then you're gonna cognitive exercise challenge your brain. The idea is to get fifteen of each category within thirty seconds, So to cross crawl exercise very good for the brain and to connect the left and the right side. Now, focus, focus is also very important. We have a lot of patients that come to us for focus, and people's minds are all
over the place. They're going a million miles per hour. So what we want to do is shut down the brain and you can practice Mindfulness is good. Mindfulness is when you only do one thing at a time. So when you're at the gym, you're focusing on your muscles. You're not watching TV. At the same time, you're not texting your friend, you're not talking to your body. You're in gym mode. You know, that's your time where you're focusing on your muscles, your heart, you're breathing, you're sweating.
That's what you want to do and you want to push. You gotta challenge yourself. Got to start your heart beating best. You gotta start sweating. I like HIT high intensity interval training, which is you go really hard and then you're rest. You go really hard and then you rest all right, So you could do a sprint and then a walk, a sprint and then a walk. You know, you can apply it to whatever type of exercise you like. So when you're in the gym. Be very mindful only
in the gym when you're eating dinner. Be mindful of eating dinner. Don't be watching TV, reading the newspaper, going to social media. You want to be smelling the food. You want to chew the food. Chew thirty times for each bite. You know, I just had a patient ask me about, you know some advice about acid reflux. I said, one of the best things to do is to chew your food a lot, break everything down in your mouth so that way your gut doesn't have to work as hard.
Feel that food, taste that food, Smell that food. It's better to use your hands than to use utensils. The digestive process starts from the second even before. Once you look at the food and your hand goes towards the food, the digestive process starts. So you want to touch the food. You want to feel the food. You want to slowly put it in your mouth, let your lips taste it, your tongue and taste to chew the food, over and over and over again. Focus on eating. Focus
on the colors of the rainbow that you're eating. Focus on the smells of the food, the texture of the food. Use all your senses. So when you're eating dinner, focus on eating dinner. That's mindfulness. Okay, when you're studying, right or reading, you don't want to be reading and then talking to your spouse and then reading with the TV in the background and reading and then you're texting somebody. So you want to turn your phone on
airplane mode, close the door in the private office. You want to say, Okay, for the next half hour, i am just reading. I'm not doing anything else. I'm focused on my book. I'm focused on my comprehension. I'm focused on my studying. That's practicing mindfulness. That's helps with your focus. When you're listening to music. A really good exercise to increase focus when listening to music is to focus on one instrument. So let's say
you're listening to a band play but only listen to the piano. Really focus on the piano, and theo will become louder, and all the other instruments, you know, whether it's the guitar or the bass, or the drums or the saxophone, that will all diminish and sound. If you're really practicing this exercise, well, you practice on the drums and you only hear the drums, and all of a sudden, the drums will become super loud, and the guitar becomes super soft, and the piano you can't hear as well
because you're focused only on one instrument. That will shut down these overactive areas of your brain. To help improve focus, there's so many good ideas to practice, folks. You could just be walking on the street of New York City and you could just listen to the person's heels hitting the payment in front of you, and you ignore the cars and the yelling and the screaming and the sirens and all the sounds of New York City showed all that off,
and just listen to the person's heel touching the ground. That's going to improve your focus. An easy brain exercise you could do for your focus is where you just look straight ahead at a painting or something on your wall about eye level arm's length, and you just slowly turn your head right and left ten times and up and down ten times, but keeping your eyes laser focus on
that one point. If it's a person, like on that one nostril or something, and you know something really, if it's a cat, just one little whisker. The end of the whisker like, focus on something and turn your head slowly ten times right and left, and then slowly ten times up and down. That's an exercise to improve your focus. Okay, now let's talk about anxiety. There's lots of exercise you could do to reduce anxiety. One of the most important things is to activate your vagus nerve. People's vegas
nerve isn't working. They're stuck in a stress mode. We call that the fight or flight mode. That means they're vegas nerve isn't working properly. So you could do exercises to stimulate the vegas nerve. One exercise is gargling. You want to goggle really intensely. The louder the goggle, the greater activation of that vegas nerve. Another exercise you could do is the gag reflex. Don't do that if you have a history of alimia or anything. You just
do it once and it stimulates this vegas nerve. That all doctors are taught this in school, But what we want to do is use it as therapy. We're taught this as a way to diagnosa problem. But what do you do if you diagnosed the weak muscle, you exercise it. So what are we going to do if we diagnose a weak nerve, we exercise it.
This is an exercise a vegas nerve. Could do thirty seconds of gargling really intensely the three times a day, and then you just do the gag reflex just once because it's really powerful to stimulate that vegas nerve and that in turn will help reduce anxiety. Sometimes you have to make life changes. Sometimes you might have to quit a bad job because your boss causes too much stress, or you have bad coworkers, or you're not passionate about the field you're in.
Sometimes you got to get a divorced because you know it's just not working out with your spouse. You know, you guys aren't meeting eye to eye, and you know it's always fighting and it's always yelling, and it's traumatic and it's screaming and it's emotional, and that could be a source of anxiety. You could have to maybe move out of stressful place. Maybe New York City is too much for you, got to move out into the suburbs of
New Jersey. Maybe that there's too much stress at your job. Maybe there's too much stress in your living. Maybe there's too much stress in your relationship. Sometimes you have to make life changes to reduce your anxiety. That's not always the case. I always, you know, suggest working on yourself first
to reduce anxiety. So that's why you know, when you listen to this radio show, I teach you things that you could work on yourself first, and hopefully you know your work situation gets better, or your relationship gets better, your living situation is easier to handle. So it's always best to deal
with from within because you can't necessarily change people or the outside world. So you always got to change from within so you can function better, feel better, and live a better life 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 miss 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 for 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 O one two six one two one five zero, or visit his website at kaplan dc dot com. Welcome back to boost your brain power. I'm your host,
doctor Eric Kaplan. So so far we've covered how to improve your brain function, how to increase your memory, how to improve your focus, how to reduce anxiety. Next, we're going to talk about depression. So there's a lot of depression, especially since COVID nineteen and all this isolation. Isolation is the worst thing for depression. So you got to be social. You gotta get out of the house and you gotta meet new people or spend time
with your family and friends. The worst thing for depression is sitting at home watching TV, going on social media, grows on YouTube, you know, just literally staying at home with no social interaction. You have to be social you gotta touch, hug somebody, hold somebody's hand, you know. So touch is very important for depression as well, even if you have to get a massage or something, but at least you're getting human contact, or get
a dog. Pet contact is good too. So one of the best ways to get out of a depress is to get a dog or a cat, someone that's going to cut all in love and play all right. So that's a good thing for depression. Another good thing for depression is the sun. Vitamin D is the easiest way to get out of a depression. You've got to get in that sun. You know. It's differently of a history of skin cancer, but for most people, we want you out in the sun
all the time. That actually prevents cancer, it prevents Alzheimer's, it prevents heart disease, prevents immune system problems. That boost your immune system so you don't get COVID nineteen and lime disease. And you know, one of the biggest ways to boost your immune system is to increase vitamin D levels. Very good for your hormones, your thyroid. There's so many people with thyroid problems. If your vitamin D is low, your thyroid isn't going to function at
the highest level and depression. You know, vitamin D has been proven through research to reduce symptoms of depression. Most people are vitamin D deficient, especially in New York and New Jersey. In fact, I haven't tested a person since two thousand that is not vitamin D deficient who lives up in New York and New Jersey unless they're taking a good supplement of vitamin DATE Like I used to be vitamin D deficient until I started supplementing properly. I like apex Energetics.
They're the most quality vitamin D. Nine Vitamin d's out there are crap. They're filled with fillers, contaminants, impurities. They don't get absorbed properly, so most vitamin d's do not work right. So be careful. Don't just run to CBS and get a vitamin D. It's not going to be good for you. Email me or text me if you're interested in the best, highest quality vitamin D very good for depression. And then exercise. You
gotta exercise every single morning. You gotta boost your brain power. I don't care if it's just two to five minutes, but you're gonna do something every day. Just even just sprint to the end of the block and sprint back, take a shower, get ready to go. I don't care if it's two minutes. But do something. Do ten pushups, ten jumping Jack's, ten sit ups. You don't need equipment, you don't need a gym, but do something. But every single day, every single morning of your life,
for the rest of your life, you have to exercise. If you don't want to be depressed, if you want to improve your memory, if you want to increase your focus, if you don't want to have anxiety, you have to exercise every single day. Okay, super important. All right, let's talk about sleep, your circadian rhythms. There's lots of rules for sleep. If you're gonna get proper brain function, you gotta get proper sleep.
So what we want to do. The ideal way is to eat from ten am to six pm and to sleep from ten pm to six am. That's your eight hours of sleep. During the summer, you can get away with seven hours because the sunlight is out, so you can get up a little bit earlier, you know, get up at five instead of six, so you go ten to five seven hours, but ten to six should be able to do it for most of the year. Right now, how do you do that? Number One, after six o'clock, no more eating.
We said, you're only eating from ten am to six pm. Eating increases cortisol, which is going to interrupt your sleep. It's the stress Harmone. You don't need to eat at night. The reason we eat is for energy. So why are we going to eat for energy when we just want to get a good night's sleep. So you want to eat like a king for breakfast, a prince for lunch, and a pauper for dinner. Done by
six pm. And even if you get hungry it's eight pm, just drink some lemon water with a pink pinch of pink m lay salt for your minerals. Eat. So anytime you get hungry, just drink water, go outside, distract yourself, Do not go in the kitchen, Do not go grazing. You have to get rid of the food after six pm. Also after six pm, we got to get rid of electronics. Turn off the TV, turn off, the computer, turn off, the cell phone, turn off, the iPad, turn off all these smart devices, computers, video
games. All that is going to increase cortisol. And that's going to interrupt your deep sleep. So not only do you not want to eat after six pm, you also do not want to use electronics after six pm. You gotta unplug now. The best thing to do during sunset is to go outside and literally take that twenty minutes to a half hour to watch the sun set.
Not only is it beautiful esthetically pleasing, good anxiety depression, but it also is good for your circadian rhythms to get you into good sleep patterns because your brain sees the sun go down and now says, Okay, I'm gonna bring down cortisol and I'm gonna increase melatonin so I can get that deep sleep. You shouldn't need to supplement with melatonin. All you need to do is use the sunlight. The sun will do the hormone release for you, but
you can't you're inside, you can't see the sun. So you have to go outside during sunset so your brain can see the sun go down and it will release melatonin. Conversely, when you wake up watch the sun rise. When you watch the sun rise, you're going to increase cortisol, increase testosterone, get your body ready for the day. So if we want good circadian rhythms and good sleep pattern. You walk outside during sunrise and you walk outside
and watch the sun set. Another very important thing for sleep is consistency. So you've got to be consistent. What I mean by that is we said you got to sleep from ten to six. So every single day, ten o'clock is your bedtime. It's not ten thirty, it's not ten fifteen, it's not ninety five, it's not eleven, it's not eleven fifteen. It's every single night it's ten o'clock. You got to do that for twenty one straight days for your brain to get rewired and to get in that good,
proper circadian room. Do all these habits for twenty one straight days, rewire your brain, and you will start to sleep better so your brain can get in those delta brain waves, replenish, reoxygenate, rejuvenate, detox, absorb, do all the proper bodily functions that need to occur while you're sleeping from ten pm to six am. You don't want to be rolling over, getting up to pee once or twice a night. You just want to be out
for eight straight hours. Your sleep as a rhythm of basically ninety minutes to two hours. So basically you want to train your brain to get these good sleeping patterns. Four deep sleep patterns every night. Twelve sorry, ten to twelve is the first one, twelve to two is the second one, two to four is the third, and four to six is the fourth. You get four good deep sleep patterns, you will feel like a million dollars when you wake up, rather than being all groggy and wanting to press the snooze
alarm and stay asleep. Okay, Now, when you get good sleep, you also improve your energy. So if you're looking to increase your energy, we got to do those circadium rhythm measures, so you can increase your oxygen levels increase your energy levels. Right, So there's lots of things to increase oxygen. We can do a hyperbaric oxygen chamber that really increases people's energy.
Hyperbaric oxygen chamber takes about an hour. It's really nice. You lie in this like little bed and you just kind of whatever you want to do, meditate, listen to some music. I like to just go to sleep and relax. But what it is. The normal atmosphere is twenty percent oxygen and the oxygen chamber is one hundred percent oxygen, so it takes out all that carbon dioxide, all that nitrogen, all the bad stuff and gives you one
hundred percent oxygen. It was originally invented for the bends people went deep sea diving and got dizzy and stuff. But then people start getting their skin lesions and scars started healing, and then people with lyme disease starting getting better. And now they use it for COVID nineteen. And you know, it's pretty
much used for everything. Anyone who just wants to boost their energy, boost their brain power, whether it's Parkinson's or stroke, or MS or aropathy or you know, immune system, thyroid problems, autism, it really doesn't matter. People just like to use this hyperbaric oxygen chamber just to increase their healing time, just to improve the function of their brain, just to increase their
energy. To me, I like it for it makes me stronger, it increases my sports performance, gets me better, sleep, more energy, I can think, clear less brain fog. So everybody uses it for a different purpose, all right, But that's one way to increase your energy. Getting up every twenty minutes super important. I call it the twenty rule. If you have a desk job, you gotta get up every twenty minutes, walk for twenty feet also look twenty feet away and just take twenty seconds every twenty
minutes. So it's not that hard to do, but to really increase your energy. Okay, that way you'll function better, feel better, live a better life. We'll see you when we get back from the brain. Don't miss boost your brain power with doctor Eric Kaplan every Saturday from two pm to
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better, and enjoy the quality of life you deserve. Called two O one two six one two one five zero or email info at Kaplan Brain and Body dot com if you're interested in a free ten minute consultation with doctor Kaplan, or visit Kaplin DC dot com for more information. Welcome back to boost your brain power. I am your host doctor Eric Kaplan. We're talking about how
to improve your brain function. You know, we talked about memory and focus, depression, anxiety, sleep, energy, all important factors for your health and your well being. Now, if you're interested in getting really in depth about this, I've been going over these topics for the last six months. I have the Boost your Brainpower Seminar series, which has been the last Wednesday
of every month, and we've covered all these topics. Now, if you've missed these seminars, there is one last seminar left and that is July twenty six at six thirty pm in River Edge, New Jersey. If you can't make it that last Wednesday in July at six thirty pm live in River Edge, New Jersey, you can also do it over Zoom. You just got to download the application and we could sign you up for that. And if you can't do it live over zoom wherever you are, you can also request
a recording of the seminars. So we're going to record it and you could get a copy over the recording so you could listen to it at your own time. And not only are we going to cover all those topics we just did in the first half of the show, but we're also going to cover a nutrition, inflammation, you know, exercises to improve your brain function. So we're going to review all six seminars in this last seminar, which is
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la m so Kaplin Brain and Body dot com. Just tell him you want to be one of the first seven people to sign up for the Boost your Brain Power boot Camp the last Wednesday of July six thirty pm or if you want to record and let them know as well. All right, So other stuff we're gonna be reviewing at the Boost your Brain Power boot Camp is nutrition. You know, that's very important. You know, to stay away from all the inflammatory foods. Inflammation is the cause of most dysfunction. So nutrition,
we're gonna go over what foods you should eat. Right, So we said all the colors of the rainbow every single day, just get them through your fruits and ve vestables. You know, you don't don't eat anything too much every day with nutrition, right. You don't want to eat kale every day. You don't want to eat broccoli every day. You don't want to eat chicken every day. You don't want to eat fish every day. You don't want to eat eggs every day. You don't want to eat nuts every
day. You gotta be careful when you think you're eating healthy food, but you keep eating the same foods over and over and over again. Your brain likes variety, so I want you to start having more of a variety in your diet because each of these different foods might have some different nutrients. They might have a little stuff that could add to other areas like your liver or your immune system, or your kidneys or you know, so you want to
eat all these different types of foods. If you keep eating the same foods over and over again, they're gonna lose their effect on your health. I have so many patients that keep taking vitamin C over and over and over again. You know, this isn't like a third world country where we have these people dying of scurvy, which is a vitamin C deficiency. There's so much
food in America, it's very rare to have a vitamin C deficiency. Now, what you want to do, Let's say, if you're feeling sick or run down or something, then it's time to really increase your vitamin C levels. Then it's going to become more effective. But if you're taking vitamin C all the time and then you get sick and then you're like, oh, I'm gonna take vitamin SAY, your body is so used to it, it's
not going to have any effect on it. But if you want to use vitamin C or zinc or something like that when you need a big boost or more importantly, when you're deficient. So that's why it's good to do blood work. If you want to master nutrition, you have to master your blood work. You got to do a full thyroid panel, a full anemia panel, we got to do full electrolyte panel, metabolic panel. We got to
get to the nit ingredient. Figure out what your problems are internally, where your deficiencies are, and only take supplements if it is a deficiency or there's a major problem that's found in your body. All right, you're not going to take a multivitamin. That's not smart. You're not deficient in all those vitamins. And like I said before, a lot of these supplements are full of contaminants, fillers, even heavy metals, you know, impurities, stuff
that doesn't get absorbed, food dies, even preservatives. It's bad. Don't oversupplement. Supplements can be dangerous, just like medication can be dangerous. But nobody's telling you the danger when you take these medications. Nobody's telling you the danger when you take these supplements. Everybody's telling you they're safe. I'm here to tell you they're not safe. And sometimes times the food isn't safe. If you're getting all this conventional food, you know, and if you're getting
all this stuff filled with glypha sate, which is round up. You know,
if that means you're not weighing organic. You know, if you're getting all this stuff full of pesticides and herbicides and you're eating meat that's you know, fed genetically modified corn, and it's you know, animals stuck with hormones and you know, antibiotics, and they're you know, raised in humanely and they're separated from their family and they're not allowed to exercise, and they're stuck in some cage or some room or some small part where they can't live their
life and they're you know, farm raised, And you know, you gotta be careful if you're eating all this crappy food. If you eat an anxiety cow, you're gonna get anxiety. If you eat an antibiotic egg, you're gonna get antibiotic. If you're going to eat a hormone pig, you're gonna get hormones. So you know, it's not just what you're eating, it's what is your food that you're eating eating, or what drugs are they taking, or how is their mental state? You know, if mom is anxious
when she's breastfeeding, she's going to give anxious milk to that baby. If you're drinking cow's milk, guess what. I guarantee that cow is anxious. That's going to create anxiety, that's going to create depression. Cow's milk has even been linked to Parkinson's in Alzheimer's disease. It's been linked to autoimmune disease.
If you have hashimotos, if you have siliac, if you have rheumatoid arthritis, if you have psoriasis orreatic arthritis, if you have fibromyalgia, if you have MS, multiple sclerosis, if you have Schougrin's disease, if you have any of these autoimmune disease lupus, ray nods, alopecia, X amount, these are all autoimmune responses. You have to stay away from dairy. You are not a cow. Our bodies cannot digest cow milk. You can't. I don't care. If it's butter yogurt, I don't care. If
it's stuff people tell you that it's healthy. If it's from a cow's utter, it is not healthy. It's going to create this function and inflammation in your body. It's one of the worst things that you could put in your body. Same things with the wheat, rye and barley products. They are sprayed. All these grains are sprayed with these chemicals. They cross breed these seeds, they use genetically modified materials. I mean, it's pretty insane.
All these autoimmune reactions when you have poor nutrition, all these allergies, all these skin diseases, hives and x amount. It all comes from the diet. So we got to be very careful with the foods that we're eating. So we have to get organic, wild grass fed, free roaming, free range. That's your nutrition. Super important to reduce inflammation, right, you gotta get rid of all the heavy metals. Gotta get rid of all the
plastics. Got to get rid of all the electromagnetic frequencies. We got to get rid of all the cleaning, the cleaning stuff, the dyes, the makeups, the suntan lotions, a lot of these toothpastes, all these candies and sports drinks. Anything in boxes and cans and bags is more likely to cause inflammation. All the white foods. Sugar causes inflammation, Milk causes inflammation, bread causes inflammation. You know, we got to reduce that inflammation.
Corn and soy, alcohol, coffee all causes inflammation, irritation. If you want to bring down the inflammation, you have to avoid all the products that cause inflammation. Your cookware, make sure you use stainless steel. Your water bottles, make sure you use glass or stainless steel. Stop using plastics that is highly inflammatory. Don't store your food in plastics. Don't cook your food in plastics. Don't eat your food out of plastic, don't drink your drinks
out of plastics. Start using glass and start using stainless steel. Don't use teflon, non stick. We gotta get rid of all those chemicals. Use more natural cleaning stuff lemon, baking, soda, vinegar. You could use cheap, easy effective stuff to clean your house, To clean your clothes that doesn't cause brain inflammation. Super important if you want to function better, feel better, and live a better life. We're talking about this because we want
to boost your brain power. And an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Don't wait till you get these problems to start doing these suggestions. And if you have these suggestions, I recommend starting asap. I don't care if it's Saturday. Don't wait till Monday morning. Start now. If you want you've got food in your refrigerator account of give it to homeless, tryborough give it to some shelter, You give it to a charity you know,
help some other people. But for you, we're getting healthy. Okay, more when we come back from the brain. 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, then this is the show for you. Don't miss 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 in some fibromyalgia, vertigo, migrains for posture pain, TBI, skin and digestive problems. Doctor Kemplin 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 to doctor Kemplin, you can call this team at two O one two six one two five zero or visit his website at Kaplan DC dot com. Welcome back to boost your brain power. I'm your host, doctor Eric Kaplan. We're talking about how to improve your brain function. The brain is like a muscle. You'll use it or you'll lose it. So a good brain exercise to strengthen your
brain. Everyone could try this at home. With your left legs to get straight out and draw clockwise circles in the air. Now keep drawing these clockwise circles with your left leg in the air. But at the same time, with your left hand, raw the number six in the air. As you're drawing clockwise circles. Now, be careful. Sometimes when you draw the number six with the left hand, the leg will automatically start going counterclockwise, So
keep an eye on that. So make sure the leg is going clockwise and the hand is going counterclockwise. That is a brain exercises to strengthen your brain. Now, it's always good to do brain exercises to strengthen your brain. Right, So a lot of my patients say, oh, let's do the crossword puzzle every day. But that's good, but you're not moving your body right, You're just sitting in a chair in the newspaper. This exercise I
gave you. You're moving your body. You're doing these circles with your legs, circles with the hand. The other exercise I gave you that crosscrawl, you're tapping your opposite leg. Even the eye exercise, you're moving your head. So it's always good to do brain exercises while you're moving your body. However, if you are doing brain exercises while you're sitting, switch it up
though. You know, if you do the crossword puzzle on Monday, do lumosity on Tuesday, and Sudoku on Wednesday, and a maze on Thursday, and a word jumble on Friday, and then play a poker game on Saturday, and then play Monopoly on Sunday, and then play chess on the Monday.
And so you get the idea. Every day you do a different type of brain game, something fun, maybe something social even better, play scrabble with your family, or you know, do something where you gotta think but it's fun and you're laughing and having a good time and social as well. So every day do a new type of brain activity, got it, that's going to boost your brain power. Now, it's very important to do these general brain exercises, But it's even more important to do specific brain exercises for
your brain function because everybody's brain is differently. I might have weak areas of my brain that I need to work on more, but that area of your brain might be very good and you don't necessarily need to work on it as much as I would. But you might need to work on a different part of your brain. So how are you going to figure out which part of your brain you need to work on the best way to do that is through a q EG brain mapping. This is a non invasive test with no radiation.
There's no risk. You don't have to sit in a small, claustrophobic tube for forty five minutes. You don't have to take any contrast fluid. There's no radiation like X rays or cat scans or pet scans or stuff like that. But what it does is measure your brain ways by analyzing each area of the brain. All you have to do is wear this little cap.
It looks like a swimmer's cap, and it's going to have electrodes and all different spots for all the different areas of the brain, and it reads all the different areas of your brain and actually tells us the location of the areas of dysfunction, and based on that location, it will tell us, Hey, do you have problems with insomnia, you have sleep deprivation? Do you have short term memory problems? You have long term do you have working memory
problems? You have chronological memory problems. Do you have troubles with focus? Do you have brain FID. Do you have anxiety? Do you have feared? You have worry? Do you have an anger? Do you have aggression? Do you have a thyroid problem. Do you have atestinal problem and there dopamine levels are low? Or your mitochondrial now working? Is your brain inflamed in the white manner? Did you have a concussion? Is there possible having
me I know poisoning? Is there a pathology of virus? So it really narrows everything down for you and gives us good answers of how your brain is functioning. It's one of the best tests you could do. It's normally five hundred dollars, but we're going to do a special For the first seven people that call, text or email, you could get the q EG brain mapping for only twenty one dollars. All you have to do is call six four six, two two, one, six, seven three eight, or you
can email info at Kaplan, brain embody dot com. The next BEX test is called a VNG videostography. This is also a non invasive test. It's
very quick that only takes about fifteen minutes. What you do is you wear these goggles and there's infrared cameras that measure your eye movements, and we measure fast eye movements and slow eye movements, and how you spun to light, and how you spond to a head turn and a body turn, and how you respond when the eyes go up and down and left and right, and how to respond when stuff comes over and over again, and what's your reaction
time and your speed. And it really tells us how the different areas of the brain are integrating and most importantly, are there imbalances of the left brain and the right brain. Is one brain overactive and that's creating the anxiety or the sleep problems, or is one part of the brain underactive and that's creating more of the depression and the brain fog and the lack of motivation and the trouble focusing in memory. So or maybe yeah, both maybe of areas that
are overactive in areas that are underactive. So the VNG is great. The qEEG kind of tells us where the problems and what area the brains are the problem. But the VNG tells us he is there imbalance of left to right? Do we have to decrease stimulation here? Do we have to increase stimulation
there? So it gives us more details. That's another great test. That test is also normally five hundred dollars, but for the first seven people that sign up for the v and you can also get that for only twenty one dollars, and you could do both. You could do the q EEG brain mapping as well as the VG. All you have to do is call, text or email. The number again is six four six two two one six seven three eight, or you can email info at Kaplan, Brain embody dot
com. The last test that I'm going to suggest is a one on one test with me, yours truly, doctor Eric Kaplan. And this is a forty five minute test. So we spend a lot of time together. We go over your history, we go over your health goals, go over any past test you've done, any blood work, any MRIs. Then we do an evaluation we do a physical evaluation, a neurologic evaluation, So we might check your heart, check your lungs, check your blood pressure, check your
pulse, your oxygen. We might check your balance, check your memory, check your coordination, your gate, how you walk, how you talk, how you move your muscles, your nerves, your bones. It's a pretty thorough evaluation, focusing on the areas that you need the most work on. And then you could tell me your health goals, and then after the evaluation, I would give you my suggestions as far as my recommendations to achieve those
health goals. A one on one evaluation with me is also normally five hundred dollars, but if you're one of the first seven people to call, text or email, you can get that as well for only twenty one dollars. You could do all three the q EG brain mapping to measure your brain waves, v infrared goggles to measure imbalances of the left and right brain, as well as overactive areas and underactive areas, and you can do a one on
one with me also for only twenty one dollars. All you have to do is call six four six, two two, one, six, seven, three eight or you can email info at Kaplan Brain embody dot com. Now don't call sign up if you're looking for an easy, quick fix. If you want a doctor to just write a prescription for a pill or some supplement that's going to magically cure everything, there is no magic supplement, there is
no magic medication. But there is the magic of the human body. And what I do is teach you, through a process or called neuroplasticity, how to rewire your brain to function better, feel better, live a better life. But you got to put the work in. I'm going to figure out what areas of your brain or your nervous system aren't functioning properly, and then teach you what you need to do. Remember, the brain controls everything.
If you have high blood pressure, you better sign up for this evaluation because your brain controls your blood pressure. If you have gastrotensitional bonds, you better sign up for this evaluation because guess what controls the stomach distance is your brain. If you have a thyroid problem, you check this because your brain controls your thyroid. Your brain controls your liver, your kidneys, your adrenal gland,
your lungs, your immune system. So if you have any health concern, This is what you want to take advantage if you are otivated and ready to put into work. I'm not gonna do it for you, but I'm going to teach you how to do it, which I believe is a better because it's a permanent solution. It's not just a band aid covering up symptoms or problems. We always get to the root cause in a every holistic and natural way, without any drugs, without any surgeries, without any inject actions.
We don't have to radiate you. It's all natural, holistic, and integratetive because that's how the body was formed, That's how the body was functioned, and that's how the body will heal itself. If you're interested, you can also check out I have a couple of books out. One book is called Boost your Brain Power, a Guide to improving your memory and Focus. You can get that on Amazon, or you can call the office and we can get you a copy if you want to sign copy. I also have
a book called Concussion Discussions. You can get that through Concussion Discussions dot com. I'm a co author in that. It's a bunch of doctors that heal people with concussion and traumatic Brain Injuries. That's a great book as well. And if you're interested in our social media, we have Facebook, Capitalin Brain, Body, have Instagram, Mony, TikTok, Kaplan, Brain and Body.
We're on YouTube Kaplan Body have offices one in Emerston, New Jersey, and we have lots of good great assistance and staff and team members and equipment and high tech stuff and all up to date. So patients really love our Emerson office and my original office. My baby I love New York City and
we're in the West Village. It's a great neighborhood just to not only come to get your brain evaluated, but also just to enjoy the wonders of New York City, the greatest city in the world, great neighborhood, very safe and happy there. So we always love seeing our patients in New York City as well, and we also see a lot of people virtually, so for people listening to this show from California and Florida and people in Italy and France.
I know we got some people listening in Australia. You could do this one on one with me virtually over Zoom, FaceTime, WhatsApp, whenever you have access to we can make it happen, so we can improve your function and take care of your health goals in a natural way without any risks or side effects. Hope you enjoined the show. We look forward to seeing you next week. This is doctor Eric Kaplan. You are listening to boost your
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