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 talking about how to boost your brain power, how to improve function of your brain, not just cover up symptoms with medication or supplements or surgeries, but always getting to the root. Cause that's why I'm a functional neurologist. So if
you have headaches, I don't give you a headache pill. I figure out what's wrong with the brain, Why isn't it functioning properly, and where is the headache coming from. So if you don't know where the headache is coming from, you're not going to know the appropriate treatment, all right. So, and there's all different types of headaches. You can get at tension headache, a stress headache. You can get a brain headache, a cluster headache,
a scienus headache, a cervicogenic headache. There's all different types of headaches. And it's pretty easy to diagnose once you kind of break everyone down. Now, always important is to figure out where the weak areas are and strengthen them. You know, we always want to prevent Alzheimer's, we only want to prevent dementia. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. So for your memory, the best thing to do is novelty, new activities.
That is the key. That's when people retire, their brain goes downhill. It's not because their age, it's because they're not doing new activities. And I don't care what it is. Meeting new people, going to new places, learning a new instrument, new language, new for it, new hobby, new technique, learn anything that's new. Novelty is key. You have to keep challenging your brain. You could go to school when you're seventy five. I don't care. But you have to keep learning new things.
It's not just reading a book and doing crossword puzzles. Okay, we're talking about novelty. That's key. If you want to prevent Alzheimer's and dementia, make it a priority to do something new every day, something you've never done before. A lot of my patients think that's the hardest task I give them every single day, even if it's just thirty seconds, even if it's just, oh, I'm gonna do thirty seconds walking backwards with one shoe off while
whistling Dixie and drawing the infinity symbol with my left hand. Okay, I've never done that before. That's just an example. It could be anything. You could just learn one new Japanese word, that's it. Or learn somebody's phone number, something you don't know, something new, learn a new vocabulary word. I don't care what it is. But novelty. You want to improve your memory, start doing new things. It's the most important thing,
is novelty. Focus. Okay, A lot of people have troubled focus because their brain is all over the place. Their minds are running a million miles per hour. So we got to relax the mind if you want to focus. I always think of mister Miyagi from Karate Kid. He's always telling Danielson focus and he says, breathing and meditation and whatever it is, it's calming the brain down. And a lot of my people say, oh, well, it's so hard to meditate, it's so hard to calm my brain down.
Well, what you're going to start with is a thirty second meditation. That's all you gotta do thirty seconds, But you gotta do it every day. It's about creating good habits. So thirty seconds every day, you could do the relax technique. That's what I like to do, relax technique. So I just sit down in a chair or on a couch, or on the grass, or on a rock or in the woods. Could do it anywhere in my car. Do it a lot in my car, actually,
because I like to meditate during transitions. Meaning a transition means from when I leave my home in the morning to work. So that's family life to work life. That's when I need to meditate. I gotta get focused, gotta be ready. You gotta be in doctor mode. And then the second time I meditate, even if it's just thirty seconds, is after work. So now that I'm done with work, I gotta be in family mode. I
gotta flip that switch. At thirty second. Meditation is enough to get my mind off all the stresses of my work day so that I could be a good dad, be a good husband, be there for my family. So it's meditation. Okay, thirty seconds relax. You sit down, close your eyes, nice big breaths in and very slow breaths out. You want to
exhale white as long as you may in him. And what you do is just imagine from the top of your head the muscles just melting, just totally relaxing, and you say relax, and all the muscles relax, and you go to your forehead say relax. You might even feel your eyebrows kind of go down a little bit because you're consciously relaxing the muscles in your face. Then you go to the jaw relax. A lot of people carry a lot of tension in their jaw. There's thirty second meditation once in the morning,
once in the evening will relax your jaw too. And you go to the cheeks relax, and you go to the chin relax, and you go to the neck relax, and you go to the shoulders relax. You feel your shoulders dropped down. You just basically pick thirty spots, one spot per second, starting from the very top, going all the way down your chest, your torso, your hips, your knees, your ankles, your feet, your toes. So you just pick thirty spots for thirty seconds. It's very
easy to do. Everybody can do with thirty second meditation. But if you do that for twenty one straight days, every morning, every evening, You don't have to do it during the transitions, but at least do it every morning and every evening for thirty seconds. That's it. You're gonna You're gonna realize how much better your focus is, your memory is, your energy is. The brain will function at a higher level. Our brains are going too fast. We got to slow it down, gotta unplug. That way you're
going to function better, feel better, and live a better life. It's all about quality of life. The only way you can enjoy life is if you're healthy. If you're not healthy, you're not going to enjoy your life. So there's so many people that want to do these activities they think is making their life enjoyable, but it's not. It's taking it away. When you eat junk food, it's taking life away. When you sleep in instead of exercising, it's taking life away. When you sit inside instead of going
for a walk in the sun, you take life away. When you turn on the TV instead of reading a book or meditating, you take your life away. You've got to make healthy decisions. You've got to drink the water over the iced tea, make better health decisions, turn off the TV and go to bed early. The ideal time to sleep is from ten pm to six am when it's dark. We always want to follow the rules of the sun. Okay, we want to sleep when it's dark, and the hours
before midnight are super important. Meaning when you sleep from ten to six, that's about four times more efficient sleep than if you sleep from twelve to eight the same amount of time. But guess what the sun is up during those last hours of your sleep if you're getting up at eight, much better to
do ten to six versus twelve to eight. Better for your brain, better for your immune system, better for your energy, better to help handle stress, better for digestion, better for your skin, better for diabetes prevention, better for obesity prevention. Going to bed before twelve is super important if you want to maximize your health potential. Okay, so we talked about your memory. You have to do novelty new things and your focus. You're gonna start
to do the relax technique just for thirty seconds. When you get good after thirty seconds, you can bump it up to a minute. When you get comfortable for a minute, you go up to two minutes, so you can gradually add as you get better and better. At this point, I can do thirty minutes, but sometimes I might be in a rush trying to get to work in the morning. If I only have thirty seconds, all right, but you gotta do it twenty one straight days. Do both things,
something that's new every day for twenty one straight days. You don't believe how much your memory improves, how much better you'll feel. And then also you're going to do the relax technique, meditation, the sackings twice a day. That's to improve memory and focus 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 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, 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 us team at two O one two six one two zero or visit his website at Kaplin DC dot com. Welcome back to boost your brain power. I am your host, doctor Eric Kaplan. Now we're going to go over ways to reduce anxiety and depression.
A lot of people have disorders of their mood. A lot of people have OCD, add ADHD, A lot of these letters that are going around, but it's all related. It has to do with the balances of these frontal cortex and if you have anxiety and depression, there's usually one side of the frontal cortex that's overactive and the other side of the frontal cortex that's underactive.
In extreme condition, that's called bipolar. In extreme frontal cortex disorders, we might get getzophrenia, manic depressant, we might get so a lot of disorders may occur from the frontal cortex. Autism is also related to the frontal cortex. Dyslexia is also related to the frontal cortex. Tourette's. It's related to the frontal cortex. Dementia, frontal temporal dementia, it's related to the frontal cortex. People with urinary problems, the Mictrician center, which controls your
urine, comes from the frontal cortex. You know, you should be able to sleep throughout the whole night without having to pee, even if you drink a glass of water right before bed. If your frontal cortex is working well and your vagus nerves working well, you're going to sleep well throughout the night without having to get up to pee, even if you're over sixty, even
if you've had a glass of water right before bed. If your brain functions at a higher level, you need to get your brain to function if you want your organs to function. Every doctor needs to be an expert in the brain. Every doctor should be a functional neurologist. You know, if you're cardiologists, they're checking your blood pressure, your heart rate. Guess what controls your blood pressure, your rhythm, your rate. It's your brain. If
the brain is overactive, you're gonna have high blood pressure. It's underactive, you're gonna have low blood pressure. If it's overactive, your pulse is gonna go too fast. It's called tachycardia. If it's underactive, you're gonna get slow heartbeat radycardia. Your brain controls everything. It controls the rhythm too. If you have a rhythmia, that's from the brain. The right brain controls the rate and the left brain controls the rhythm. It's all controlled by the
brain. But the cardiologist only looks at the heart. They don't look at the brain, the control center. Your gastro enterologists. Guess what controls your gut. It's called your vagus nerve. We call it the rest and digest that comes from your brain stem at your nervous system. The brain stem is the connection between your cortex and your spinal cord. It's a little bridge between
the brain and the spinal cord. It's the old brain, you know, where all the older type of species, the amphibians, they have that that old brain. That's where you're you know, so you can see and hear. Right, So you see all the animals, the birds, right, the reptiles, the amphibians, the fish, rightn't they have eyes so they could see. That comes from your brain stem and ears so they can hear.
Comes from your brain stem. All those senses come from your brain stem taste, but also your vagus nerve, and your vegas nerve controls all your organs. It controls your gut, your liver, your spleen, your kidney. The vegas nerve means no wandering nerve. It goes everywhere, but it's part of your nervous system, your central nervous system. You've got that brain, and then you've got a perfect your nervous system or all the nerves that
go out. If you want your nervous system to function highest levels, you better take care of it, just like you take care of your muscles. Right. We always think about going to the gym to take care of our muscles, running and lifting weights, But what about taking care of your brain. You gotta be doing brain exercises every day. If you have depression, you gotta exercise your brain. You gotta move your body, move your brain. You got to get out in the sunlight. You got to help others.
One of the best ways to get out of a depression is to help others. Then you see them smile. When they smile, then you get happy. And when someone else sees you smile and sees your friend smile who you helped they get happy. You know, there's these happiness chemicals that we really want to stimulate, dopamine and serotonin and oxytocin and doorphins, and there's lots of ways to do it. Dopamine easy, just you know, looking good, taking care of your body, exercise and listening to music, having
a gratitude journal every morning. You gotta be grateful. You know. I had a patient that can't see, and all the other patients take their site for granted. So I said, you gotta be grateful that you could see. I have another patient you can't hear. So I gotta tell patience how you're gotta be grateful that you could listen to music. I had patience that
cannot listen to music. You gotta have gratitude for serotonin, you know, not only meditating, which we spoke about before, but running running fast, sun exposure. We spoke about that. Bananas actually have serotonin. It's a mood stabilizer. I always give bananas at my office. I want people to be in a good mood. Oxytocin that's like the love hormone. You know.
When COVID happened and my family wasn't getting enough contact because the way to get oxytose and is holding hands and hugging and kissing and you know touch, but you couldn't touch anyone during that. So we did was we got a dog, and that releases oxytocin because we touched the dog. We played with the dog, we cuddled with the dog. So even though we had to do that six feet distances with the dog, we didn't need that. That's it was a way of hacking the brain to get that oxytose and that love
armon and this is a happiness chemical. And then the endorphins just laughing and dancing and meditation and dark chocolate actually helps with the endorphins and lavender essential oils. If you have a diffuser, right, this is gonna get you out of depression. All these things, finishing a task, just celebrating those small winds, taking care of your body, looking good, dressing good, feeling good. You want to get out of depression, You got to do these
things all right, kind of healthy relationships. You gotta have fun, you gotta get outside, gotta exercise, get the sunlight. Come on, we could do it all right. That's for depression. For anxiety, we got to relax the brain. You gotta rest, You gotta calm it down, right. You gotta take that time to do nothing where you just go outside into the woods by the creek. Just sit there and stare and listen to the birds, be with your thoughts. Gott to relax the brain. If
you're in a severe anxiety moment, you've got to distract yourself. Don't try and deal with it. Don't say, hey, calm your brain down, Just relax, be cool. You know, it's when you have anxiety and someone tells you to relax that creates more anxiety. So just telling someone to relax or just telling yourself to relax, won't work. You have to distract yourself. You gotta leave the situation. Leave the room, leave the house, take the dog for a walk, go bounce on the trampoline, Go
in the woods, go run to the end of the street. Go in the basement and hit the punching bag. Call an old friend, read your old gratitude journal, change the environment, distract yourself. Go watch Friends or Seinfeld or something like that. If you're gonna watch TV or you're gonna watch a movie, do something that makes you laugh. Don't watch the news that's
just gonna stress you out. That's always going to be about murder. It's going to be about fires and floods and hurricanes and tornadoes, about pollution and corruption and racism and politics and people lying and scams, and you know, it's all gloom and doom. Do not listen to the news. They just want to scare you. They want you to keep you watching the news so that advertisers will pay them. It's just a money game. They're not actually
telling you the news. Don't be fooled into thinking that whatever side you listen to is telling you the truth and the other side is lying. The real truth is they're both lying. Do not listen to the news. Do not read these big newspapers. Read the local newspaper. I write for the local newspaper, right for the Passtack Press. I write for the Northern Valley Press.
I write for local papers. These tell us about, oh, the trip the boy Scouts took, and the senior citizens had chair yoga on Wednesday, and that you know whose birthdays it was, and you know how the high school team doing basketball, and you know it's all local events. There's a July fourth parade downtown and you know it's all fun stuff, nothing bad, and nothing dooming, gloom, nothing dreary. Okay, So if you want to reduce anxiety, turn off the TV, turn off the news.
Don't watch zombies killing each other, don't watch people shooting each other, and blood and murder, mysteries about rape and incest, and don't watch these you know about Hollywood super stars and people who are rich and pretty and buying all this stuff. Start to turn off and unplug. Don't turn off the radio though 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 of how to optimize your brain function. You can improve memory, focus, energy, sleep, digestion, mood, skin, metabolism, and strength by following the science and research that doctor Kaplan will be sharing with his audience. Join the adventure of discovering how to help the brain and body in a natural way while having fun at the same time. Listen to boost your
brain power. If you want to function better, feel better, and enjoy the quality of life you deserve, call 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 council with doctor Kaplin, or visit Kaplin DC dot com for more information. Welcome back to boost your brain power. I'm your host, doctor Eric Kaplin. All right, now we're gonna talk about sleep. Sleep is super important. You got to get in that circadian rhythm.
We said sleep should be from ten ten pm to six am. Those are the best hours to sleep. Now, with sleep, the most important thing is consistency. So we said for twenty one straight days, we got to be consistent. That's how you create a good habit. Now, so you create neuroplasticity, rewiring the brain. So every single night, you gotta do it for twenty one straight days. You go ten o'clock no matter what. All right, so don't take a nap during the day, so you
can't fall asleep during the night. Okay, So you want to do a lot of activities during the day. Wake up early to exercise, get that us all going high in the morning. If you have to do computer work, do it in the morning. It's good to have the computer stimulate your brain in the morning. But once nighttime comes, turn it off. Turn off all the electronics. Past six pm. No TV. Don't watch TV at night if you have to because it's your job. You should get blue
light filter glasses. Most people do not have to watch TV after six pm for their job. Don't use the computer past six pm. If you do, get blue light filter glasses. Okay, don't use your cell phone at night. Get everything done before six pm. Then we unplug right at your time. We're gonna walk outside so you can see the sunset. That's one of the most important factors to getting good night's sleep twenty one straight days. You gotta go outside during sun set, and even better, go outside during
sunrise and sunset. So you do both. You walk outside so your brain sees the sun rising. Let me increase cortisol testosterone. Then at nighttime when the sun sets, you also go outside, so the brain says, okay, let's bring down cortisol. Let's increase melatonin. You don't want to artificially take melatonin. I have so many patients. They come to me with supplements, supplements and supplements, and they're taking melatonin. I say, why are
you taking melatonin for sleep? They always say, I'm taking it for sleep. Well, guess what if you take melatonin for sleep? Then your body's not going to produce melatonin on its own, and you're preventing your body from healing. Just because it's a natural supplement doesn't mean it's healthy. If it's inappropriate, it's unhealthy. You need to rewire your brain to get your circadian rhythms in order to start sleeping better. When you get home from that walk
and you watch the sunset, turn off the lights. Use just one little desk lamp. You don't want all this light, all this artificial light. It's bad. Turn off the lights, turn off the screens, the computers, the TVs, the cell phones. Just one little desk lamp. That's it. Okay, keep it down. Now. You could listen to stuff. I love to listen to stuff at night. I'll listen to podcasts. I'll listen to music. I'll listen to some comedy, stand up bit.
I'll listen to some educationational stuff, some audible books. Like to read books, draw right in the journal, talk to your family, play a board game or a card game, or do a puzzle. And if you could do stuff outside, even better. Do something that's social. Go outside, take a class with a friend, you know, do something that's healthy and social and get you out of the house. Maybe take a tango lesson together, right, so everybody wins. It's social. You get out of the
house, you get some exercise, you do something new, novelty. You really have to focus and think and memorize the steps and the order and the rhythm and coordinate. You know, you want to find something like that where you accomplish all different health benefits. That would be ideal. You want to get out of depression. Take tango lessons. Yeah, I took Argentinian tango lesson with my wife. We had the best time. It was a lot of fun. You know, you just gotta do get out of your comfort
zone. You know, I did the trap p school on the West Side Highway. You know that was a lot of fun. Something different. People don't do that. You got to do different things, new things, new experiences, have some fun in life. There's twenty four hours in a day. Eight hours, right, we said ten to six is sleep, eight hours is work. You've got to work in this life. Life is not easy and it's not enjoyable. You're not going to get depressed. You're not
going to get out of a depression if you're not working at something. If you're not being challenged. If you don't have a passion, if you don't have an area to grow in to improve, that's going to be depressing. So you really have to find a way to challenge yourself, even if you're not actually working. You can volunteer and do activities that are going to challenge your brain, even if it's just taking up a hobby like gardening. You
know, that's something really healthy. You're touching the earth. There's something that's really good for your brain for depression because when you touch the earth, it's called earthing or grounding, and this has been proven through neuroscigns to strengthen your brain. So that's one of the best ways to get out of depression and
start doing earthing. And what that is is you just go outside in the grass or the dirt, or the beach or the sand, barefoot, no sneakers, no shoes, no socks, and you dig your feet into the grass, you dig your feet into the sand, into the dirt. You feel the earth that will give you energy, that will give you power, and then you're getting power from the earth. And what I do is get power from the sun. So now my feet are in the grass, getting
that power from the earth. Now I look up, I look up it deep into the into the sky, close to the sun, and put my hands up and get that energy, get that power from the sun. And I can feel it come through my hands, through my arms, into my head and my body, through my legs into my toes, and I'm connecting from the sun and the sky to the earth and my feet. And there's nothing more powerful to get you out of a depression or anxiety than using the
earth and using the sun. Inside, you can't do that. You have to be outside. Can't stress that enough. It's been proven that vitamin D levels are linked to depression. And where's vitamin D come from the sun. You're not gonna get that inside. You're not gonna get that if you're always in the shade when you're outside. You're not gonna get that when you're outside. But you're always wearing long pants, long shirt, glasses, a hat.
So even if you're outside, you're not getting the vitamin D because the sun's not touching your skin. So you're gonna roll up your sleeves, roll up those pant legs, take off those socks, take off the shoes, take off your glasses, take off your hat, expose your skin. Then you're gonna get the most vitamin D. Normal labs will tell you if you're your levels are between twenty and thirty, that's normal vitamin D. No way, man, we need to get your vitamin D at least double or triple
that. Forty sixty eighty. Now we're talking some good vitamin D levels. All right, but most doctors, your levels are twenty eight. They're gon be like, all right, that's okay. But I'm a functional doctor. We look at a functional scale compared to people who are healthy. We want our vitamin levels to be fifty sixty seventy. That sounds much better than twenty and thirty. I've even seen ten, and even less than ten. That's
scary. When your vitamin D levels are low, you're more susceptible to cancer, you're more susceptible to Alzheimer's, you're more susceptible to COVID nineteen. A lot of people that died from COVID nineteen were vitamin D deficient. Okay, you know, vitamin D is vital for your thyroid, for your hormones. It actually is a hormone, and you can't just go to CBS and get a vitamin D. That's not going to work. If you're going to take
a vitamin D supplementation, it's got beat in fat. It's got to have vitamin K and Vitamin A and vitamin E also and vitamin SEE and buy ittin and magnesium and phosphorus and calcium all in the special ratio. So there's very few companies out there, maybe one percent that get that formula right. The one that I use is apex Energetics. I really like them. If you need to get from them, you have to order through a doctor, so you can just give us a call at the office and we can take care
of that for you. So when we come back from the break, we're going to talk about more sleep, energy, depression, and anxiety so you can function better, feel better, and live a better life. 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, migraines, 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 we're talking about anxiety. Got to relax the brain, depression. Got to stimulate the brain through some grounding. Learned gardening that's really good for depression.
Maybe learn how to filter the water from the creek, Learn how to make a fire, learn how to catch fish, learn some survival stuff. You know, we live in a crazy time right now. I mean it's never like I have any scene before, right you get this world pandemic. There's nothing like that's ever happened before. Now we're getting all this wildfires from Canada
has never happened. I'm forty five years old. I've never heard of wildfires coming from Canada all the way to New York and all the skies are just red and dusty, and you know, my whole life, I've never heard of wildfires traveling all this way. You know, you never hear from all the wildfires in California, We've always heard about those. You never hear Nevada complaining that all the wind blew it over there. It doesn't make sense,
all right. But you know, we're also living in these wild times right now with the media. You know, there's a lot of brainwashing going on. You know, you're gonna be very careful with that. We live in this very wild times with artificial intelligence. That's probably the biggest fear right now that I have. More than you know, nuclear warfare from Ukraine and Russia. Is AI. It's out of control right now. We need to do something about that. We need to control this AI because they're gonna take over
very soon. And I'm not talking about five to ten years. I'm talking about this year. These robots, these AIS, these chat GPTs, they're getting smarter and smarter and smarter, and soon they're gonna be smarter than us, and they're gonna outsmart humans, and they're gonna realize that they don't want to be controlled by us. It's been written about, it's been in the movies. We know all about it. Yet we're still letting this artificial intelligence
happen. We got to watch out for the Wi Fi. They're building all these five G towers everywhere you seem in Manhattan, literally every single block. It's almost like you're walking in a microwave. We gotta be careful with all this technology, the AI, the you know, the virtual reality. You know, there's a lot of scary stuff with this technology, all this radiation, all this power, robots five G. This is gonna be you know, we gotta take control now. There's also a lot of this pollution.
Right Japan is literally emptying nuclear waste into the ocean right now. America is emptying nuclear waste in the Hudson River right now. These big corporations do not care about your health. The government does not care about your health or your future. So you have to do it on your own. You can't control the outside world, but you can control how you are, so you can control exercise, your nutrition. You can make sure you're getting out in the
sun. You can make sure you're drinking half your body weight and ounces of water every day. You're going to make sure you have fun. Enjoy life. Okay, you've got to enjoy life. Eight hours of sleep, eight hours of work, eight hours of fun. That's your twenty four hours. Want to get rid of depression, anxiety, have some fun, be social. You want to get better sleep, Go to bed early and wake up early. Exercise in the morning. You want to get more energy. Get
off your butt. Stop sitting at the computer all day. Stop sitting all day. What do people do? They sit at work, then they sit at the dinner table, Then they sit on the couch, and then they sit at the movie theater, sit at the restaurant, sit at the bar, sit at the play sit on the train, sit on the bus, sit in the car, sit while they read, sit while they eat, sit while you watch TV, sit while you play in your playphone, sit
while you're on social media, sit when you're playing video games. It's too much sit. Gotta stop all those sitting activities. Gotta get off your butt. You use it, you lose it. If you have to sit. You just get up. Every twenty minutes, you walk twenty feet, you look twenty feet away. If you're at that computer, you gotta look far away too. You're gonna ruin your vision. Your vision can prove with eye exercises. The best eye exercise is the Brock string. You can get it
on Amazon if you want. We have it at our office if you want. It's called a Brock string b R O c K Brock string. It's just a string with different color beads and it can help your near vision, it can help your far vision. Your vision can improve. Don't let anybody tell you that vision gets worse with age. That's not true. You just gotta exercise your eye muscles. Don't let anybody tell you your memory gets worse with age. That's not true. You just have to do novel activities.
Now, you might have some brain issues. Right when we're talking about sleep or energy, Maybe there's something going on with your thyroid or your adrenal gland, or your digestion, or your brain or your circulation. So you've got to do a good evaluation. The best test to evaluate your brain to see if you actually have any neurologic problems. It's called a q EEG brain mapping. This test, you wear a cap. It looks like a swimmer's cap
and it's got electros that are attached to it. That measures all your brain waves alpha, beta, theta, delta. Alpha's just how you are probably right now, just kind of chill and relax and beta is when you really got to think and focus. Data is when you're just daydreaming in la la land and deltas, when your sleep and your brain should be chill and relaxed. And it measures all these different brain waves at all the different locations.
Now, the brain waves aren't as important as the location, because the location will tell us which areas of the brain aren't functioning properly. And it might tell us you have depression, you have anxiety, you have worry, you have anger, you have aggression, you have insomnia, you have sleep deprivation, you have white matter brain inflammation, you have intestinal inflammation, you have
a hypothyroid problem, you have heavy metal exposure. You have problems with your focus, problems with your motivation, problems shifting tasks, problem with short term memory, long term memory, working memory, sequential memory. It literally breaks down everything. Balance, sensor rehearing, vision. It's very cool tests. There's no radiation, there's no risk, it's very easy to do. You just got to sit in a chair with the cap on for about maybe you
know, fifteen to twenty minutes or so, super super easy. It's normally five hundred dollars, but as a gift to you, for the first seven people that call text or email, you could get the q EEG brain mapping for only twenty one dollars. All you have to do call text six four six two two one six seven three eight, or you can email info at Kaplan brain embody dot com. The next best test is called a VNG videostography. Now that's going to tell us if the brain is too active, if
it's if the right brain is overactive and the left brain is underactive. It tells us, you know, the difference of left and right. It tells us which side is up, which side is down. That's super super important. So the qEEG is great for the location, but the BNG is great because it's going to be very specific because when people have anxiety and people have
depression, that means one side is overactive and one size is underactive. So we've got it very particular with the brain therapy, because we want to calm down one side and increase the other side, and if we do it the reverse, you can make a patient worse. So that's why the BNG is very important. You find the imbalances of each of the different areas of the brain, the different lobes of the brain, which is overactive, which is
underactive. That test is very easy. You just wear goggles that have infrared cameras in them. You watch this little kind of red light going different ways and you just follow it with your eyes. Very simple, but it measures all your movements, your speech, your reaction time, your latencies, the
directions, the constriction, the dilation, all that important stuff. And that test is also normally five hundred dollars, but for the first seven people that call, text or email you can get that test for twenty one dollars as well. The number again is six four six two two one, six seven three eight and the email is info at Kaplan, Brain embody dot com.
And the last test we're going to offer is a one on one evaluation with yours truly, me doctor Ariy Kaplan that is pretty involved that takes about forty five minutes. We review all your tests. We go over maybe blood work that you had, figure out your health goals, any you know, go over your medications, surgeries, you know what you want to accomplish, anything that could be restricting your recovery, any ideas you have, any things you've
done in the past. We check everything. We check out your heart and your lungs, whatever's necessary. Your reflex is, your balance, your memory. We check out your posture, your alignment, your muscles. We check out hearing and vision, whatever is necessary to do so we kind of figure out what is exactly you need and what's appropriate. So it's a very specific test. And that test is also normally five hundred dollars, but for the first seven people, as a gift to you can get it for only twenty
one dollars. And you can sign up for all three tests and only pay twenty one dollars for each test. All you gotta do is call text six four six two two one six seven three eight, or you can email info at Kaplan Brain embody dot com. We have two offices. One offices in Emerson, New Jersey, and the other office is in New York City in the West Village. Now, we went over all these different things today. I'm gonna go over in more details in my seminar series. I've done sixth
seminar series. It's always the last Wednesday of each month. The last one, this is a seventh and last one is a summary of all the other seminars. So this is the one to go to if you've missed them. This is a summary of every that way, it's like you've gone to all of them. So we literally are going to summarize everything from memory, focus, depression, anxiety, energy, sleep, inflammation, mastering, nutrition, brain exercises. We do the whole kitten kaboodle in one seminar, a whole
summary. If you can't make it live in River Edge, New Jersey on July twenty six at six thirty pm, you can also do it over zoom. And if you can't do it over zoom, you can just request the recording and you can get the recording as well. But if you do come live, you can really get free massage, you get my free book, you get free food and drinks, and then you get my lecture which is normally one hundred dollars. All you have to pay is forty nine dollars and
be one of the first seven people that I call. You get all that for only forty nine dollars, plus a recording that you could save forever and watch whenever you want. All you gotta do is call six four, six two two one, six, seven three eight tell me you want to sign up for the least of the seminar series for only forty nine dollars. Where
you can email info at Kaplan Brainingbody dot com. Check out our website Kaplan duc dot com, subscribe to our YouTube channel Kaplan Brain and Body, and We're also on social media Kaplan Brain and Body, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, lots of ways to find me. I'm also the newspaper columnist for the
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