The following is a paid podcast. iHeartRadio's hosting of this podcast constitutes neither an endorsement of the products offered or the ideas expressed. Hello, when welcome to Boost your brain Power. I'm your host, doctor Eric Kaplan. Hope everyone is having a great day so far. We're going to talk about how to improve your immune system. So when you boost your brain power, you boost your immune system. However, sometimes your immune system can be overactive and sometimes
it can be underactive. Both are bad. If your immune system is overactive, that's an autoimmune disease. If your immune system is underactive, that's immunosuppressed. Okay, but both are bad. Just like your brain function. You can have overactive brain that creates anxiety, stress, insomnia, and you can have an underactive brain or memory focus, low motivation, fatigue. So you can have both overactive, underactive. Neither are good. You gotta have what's
good homeostasis right in the middle. It's like those three bears want to be like the baby bear. This one is just right. We gotta do the same thing for the immune system. We don't want it overactive, we don't want it underactive. Now, which problems arise from an overactive immune system. Those are autoimmune diseases. Hashimoto's graves, those are from the thyroid silly act. It's gluten sensitivity in the gut, glumatoid arthritis. You see that with
pain and the joints. To attacking the joints, we have psoriasis, be the hair, the nails, skin, lupus, get a butterfly, rash ms, get white lesions in your brain. The immune system attacking the brain. Diabetes type one, hey chrias. Diabetes type one is an auto mute disease. Show brains, get dry mouth, dry eyes, try skin, autoimmune disease, overactive immune system, fibromyalgia, pain all over. These are
all autoimmune disease. Are overactive and if we want the immune system to calm down, we got to stop putting stuff in the body that creates a reaction. The big ones are dairy, gluten, corn, soy, coffee, alcohol, Those are the big six for autoimmune disease. However, you have to avoid a lot of other things heavy metals, mercury in the fish, in your teeth, lead in the water, and the pain chips. We got to avoid aluminum in some deodorants, medicine, aluminum pans, aluminum cans,
aluminum foil. Aluminium is everywhere. It's even in medicine. We got to avoid these chemicals. Arsenic. You can even find that in brown rice and apple juice. This stuff is everywhere, and a lot of people test high levels of these toxins and heavy metals. Got to stay away from fluoride. It's in the water. It's like the dentist, it's in your toothpaste. Right, got to avoid that's going to trigger your immune system. We don't want that, right. All these food dyes and candy has all these
food dies. Cakes have food dies. The preservatives that are used, the artificial sweetners, the artificial flavorings. The brain and body doesn't like that. That creates in a reaction, so give autoimmune disease. You've got to get a rid of all of these products. The pesticides, the herbicides round up glyphosate, so what they spray it's an herbicide. They spray all the foods with gott to avoid those foods that are sprayed with galiphosate around up. Don't
do it on your lawn either. All the cleaning products, now, there's so much natural stuff you could use, whether it's lemon or vinegar, baking soda. You know, there's so much great stuff out there that can be used to clean that doesn't use all these harsh chemicals. All right, your body's not used to it. You gotta live like a hunter gatherer one of neandrothals back in the day. Bodies not used to all these new chemicals and these products. We need to avoid it if we don't want to trigger our
immune system because we have autoimmune disease. Now, most people don't even test for that, so you're not going to know the way to test for those autoimmune diseases through blood work and you check for what's called antibodies. That the antibodies numbers are too high, then you have autoimmune condition and you definitely have to avoid that stuff. Okay, that's over active immune system. Those are
autoimmune diseases, very very common. Most common one that we see is hashimoto that's an underactive thyroid caused by autoimmune disease where the body's attacking its own thyroid. It's very very common Ashimoto's thyroid diets. And we could check the blood work to give it, you know, an official diagnosis. If your TSH is too high and all the other numbers that thyroid numbers are too low. Plus we have high antibodies. You gotta check for antibodies. Because you don't
check for antibodies, you'll never know. We can get you away to check all that in the blood work if you haven't already, just give me an email info at Kaplan Brain and Body dot com. They can just email us at info at Kaplanbrainenbody dot com and we could set up you to get some blood work. You know, we'll tell you which labs you can go to. So there's a lot of good labs that get you quick, easy results,
accurate, but you don't always trust the lab values. That's important because most of the people that are going to get blood work at these labs are sick. A typical American is obese. They might have heart disease, cancer, diabetes, they might have some sort of lung disease or liver disease,
or dementia, Alzheimer's or stroke or Parkinsons. That's a typical American. We're not a very healthy country unfortunately, So when they say you are normal in your blood work, they're comparing you to a typical American who is not very healthy. So you don't want to be quote unquote normal. You want to
be quote unquote healthy. So when we look at your past blood work in your current blood work, we take a functional medicine approach at Caplin Brain About and what that means is the scales that we use are for healthy people, not for typical American. The typical American is unhealthy. So you don't want to compare yourself to them. Oh I'm normal. Oh I'm just like a regular typical American. No, you don't want to be a typical American. You have to be that one percent. But you got to put the effort
in. You don't want to be like the ninety nine percent. You gotta be the top one percent. And it's pretty easy if you follow along with the suggestions of health and well being. It's not that complicated, you know, as long as you eat healthy and avoid those six foods and all those
autoimmune problems. We've spoke about it, all right. And if you exercise every day, even just a little walk, you go to bed early, you have some fun, you give to others, you drink some water, you get some good rest, reduce share emotional stress, and you're gonna live a long, healthy life with high quality of life and independence and freedom. You just gotta put in the effort. Your health is not given to you. You know, don't come to me if you want a doctor that's going
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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 risk ski surgeries. To contact to doctor Kaplan, 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 am your host, doctor Eric Caplan. We're talking about your immune system and how to maximize the function of your body, so your immune system is not overactive or it's not underactive. If it's overactive,
it's autoimmune disease. And you have to avoid the Big six gluten, dairy, corn, soy, coffee, and alcohol. Those are the big six for autoimmune disease. Now, what if your immune system is underactive? So we're coming upon quote unquote flu season. There's no such thing as flu season. The problem is people's immune system gets weak. And why does it get weak. The biggest cause of the weak immune system is vitamin D, which is a hormone but is related to your immune system. Also related to
your thyroid we were talking about. That's the most common autoimmune disease is hashimotos and if your vitamin D levels are low, you're more likely to have this autoimmune thyroid problem. Vitamin D is key to your immune system, to your thyroid function, and also to your brain function. Low vitamin D levels have been linked to Alzheimer's disease. During the whole COVID nineteen pandemic, the people that we're dying and had the worst outcomes had low vitamin D levels, and
we knew about that from the beginning. Yet nobody was reporting that. That's why I don't listen to the news. The news wasn't telling us, hey, you got to increase your vitamin D levels. The news wasn't telling us, hey, go outside and exercise. If you had good vitamin D levels, and you went outside and you exercise, and you drank water, and you were smart, you wash your hands when necessary. You can't touch your mouth and nose and eyes all the time. If you were just smart,
you're very low risk. And vitamin D was the source of it all. Your vitamin D levels have to be not normal, they have to be healthy. Normal is about twenty thirty something like that in your blood work. We want healthy. We want at least forty fifty sixty seventy. That is healthy. That's what we want for our vitamin D levels. Not normal at twenty or thirty. You know, they wait till you're like at ten and be like, oh, your vitamin D deficient. Do not wait till it's that
low. That is dangerous. And where do we get vitamin D. We get it from the sunlight. So you gotta go outside. You gotta roll up your sleeves, pull up your pant legs, take off your hat, take off your glasses. You need exposure. Your eyes needs sun exposure. Your skin needs sun exposure, not just your hands and your cheeks. You
gotta get it everywhere. That's your vitamin D very important. Now. If you can't get it through the sun, you know, take a vacation, you know, if you're working every day, go down South, go to the Caribbean, go to South America, go to Africa, go to India, go to some place where you get a lot of sunlight. Get that vitamin D boost to boost your brain, boost your immune system, boost your thyroid, your hormones, get everything functioning at a higher level. You can't
take a vacation. Sometimes you might have to supplement, but don't get a supplement, you know, from CVS. Don't get anything from CBS. There's no reason to go into a CVS. There's nothing healthy there. The best vitamin D supplement is from apex Energetics. You have to get that through a doctor. So if you're interested again, just email me info at Kaplan braininbody dot com and we can help you get in touch with that as well as
the blood work if you're interested in that as well. All right, So vitamin D also needs to be fat soluble, needs to be taken with fat, with vitamin K, with calcium, with magnesium phosphorus, with vitamin A and E as well, so it's there's a there's a formula for vitamin D absorption. So vitamin d's that you'll get at the vitamin shop, GNC, CBS, Dwayne Read, you know, Whole Foods, Trader Jos, most of these places. You're not going to get quality supplements just because it's natural.
Just because it's a vitamin and it's over the counter doesn't mean it's safe or healthy. You should only take supplements if you actually need them. If you're taking supplements and you don't need them, you're gonna trigger your autoimmune condition because you're making stuff that your body doesn't need and the brain's like, well, I don't need this, and it starts creating an overactive immune system. Goes Haywire. Supplements, vitamins, herbs, they could be dangerous, just
like medicine can. They can have contaminants, they can have impurities, they can have fillers. They could be not produced properly. They might not be in the natural state or ratio. They could create a lot of problems. Don't think they're all safe. Now, you want to be under a doctor's supervision, preferably somebody who's trained in functional medicine or functional neurology. A functional doctor is that different scale because the scales are super important, and also the
products are super important. You know, what you put in your body is keets, not just vitamindeeds. What's the source of it? With everything? You know, when you have a piece of steak, it's not just oh, it's red meat, good for you or not good for you. It's not that black and white. You know, you gotta look at the cow. The cows are very emotional. If they get separated from their family or their kids, or their parents, or their siblings or their friends, they
get depressed, they get anxious. If you eat a cow that's depressed or anxious, you become depressed or anxious. You are what you eat, and cows are very sensitive. So if you're eating a lot of products that come from cows, keep in mind you're eating their brain function as well. Okay, just like if a mother is super stressed and she's breastfeeding, so if the baby drinks milk that comes from an anxious mother, they are more likely
to get anxious if they drink milk that comes from an anxious cow. Not only are they going to get more anxious, you're also having dairy products, which creates autoimmune disease. You're also gonna call lung congestion brain issues. So we gotta avoid dairy at all costs. There's the worst thing you could put in your body. Milk is for babies. If you are not a baby, you shouldn't be drinking milk. And if you are a baby, the
only milk you should be drinking is from your mother's breast. That's the way nature intended it. If you don't want autoimmune disease, if you don't want your immune system messed up, you better stop drinking milk, stop having yogurt, stop having cream cheese, sour cream, cheese, ice cream, ranch, sour cream, blue cheese, all these dairy products. You've got to avoid it. Yes, that includes dairy and ghee and butter, yogurt,
all this stuff that you're told is healthy. If it's coming from a cow's utter, you know, the milk, then we got a problem if you're going to eat the meat. Now, that does occur in nature, but we've got to make sure it's it's the cow is raised in really good conditions. It's free roaming and an ice big farm keeping hanging out with its friends and family, having a good diet, grass fed, not full of steroids and antibiotics, living a good quality of life, quality food, quality,
sunlike quality, water, quality, family relationships. And have it once in a while. You know, people never eat cows every day. You know, maybe once or twice a month. You know, you have some cow once or twice a month, have some fish once or twice a month, have some chicken once or twice a month, some turkey once or twice a month, some eggs once or twice a month, some pig once or twice a month. So you can enjoy it all, but not often, not
every day. You know, Fruit, vegetables, that's for every day, every single day of your life. Water every single day of your life. But don't have the same fruits and vegetables every single day. You're not a patient. It's like, oh, I'm very healthy. I eat chicken and broccoli every day. So well that's not healthy. You're not getting all your
nutrients. You got a variety is key, you know, because what used to happen, you know, if they had an apple tree or something, then they'd have to move on and find a pear tree, and then a mango tree, and then a banana tree. So you have to keep changing it up. Different types of fruit, different types of vegetables, carrots and you know, cucumbers and celery and different lettuces, romaine. You don't have kale every day. You have kale one day, romaine the next day,
collared green's the next day. You know, you gotta keep changing it up. Then you have spinach, and you have ridicio. Keep switching it up. Then you have charred. Keep switching it up. You know, have the different colors, different color peppers, different colored cabbage, different color apple, different colored grapes, different colored berries. The variet eight key. You have to change up the color if you want to function better, feel better,
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talking about your immune system. Had a strength in your immune system. If you eat each color of the rainbow, then your immune system gets stronger. If you eat all the white foods, your immune system gets weaker. Where the white foods sugar, right, all the bread, all the dairy all right, all the pasta, the cereals right, there's not a lot of nutrients in there. All the crackers, the muffins, the croissans, the bagels, the muffins, the tortillas. All that was white foods with no
color, no life. We got to avoid those and eat all the colors of the rainbow. Now, we said to increase or boost your immune system. We got to make sure your vitamin D levels are good. That's super important. Okay. Not only are vitamin D super important, but your rest is very important. Okay, So you have twenty four hours in a day. Eight hours should be rest, eight hours should be work, and eight hours should be fun. That's to maximize your immune system. You need to
work to get your immune system strong. You gotta work for it. Got exercise, you gotta eat healthy, got a good brain function. Gotta have fun for your immune system. Gotta go on vacation, Gotta laugh, right you ever see that movie you know with Robin Williams, he goes to the hospital, makes all the kids laugh, right, Ever hear that expression? Laughter is the best medicine. You gotta have fun. If you have fun, your immune system becomes stronger. If you're too stressed out, your immune
system becomes weaker. If you're too serious, you're always working, you're not resting, you're not having fun, then your immune system is he gets suppressed. So not only get vitamin D, but we got to get our arrest. Eight hours the best eight hours or ten to six that's when it's darkest. So you want to sleep from ten pm to six am. There's your
eight hours to get the best sleep. Don't eat at night. You really want four hours before bedtime, meaning if you're going to bed at ten, last meal should be six and we got four hours to digest the food. Break it down, Relax. It's hard to go to sleep if there's food in your system. And proteins take about three to four hours to digest, carbodrates take about two to three hours. Fruit only takes twenty minutes, all
right, so that's not that big a deal. But most people don't have fruit for dinner, right, all right, So you want four hours to not eat because eating is for energy, and you don't want energy to get your proper rest. Got it. So we don't want to eat at night, and we don't want electronics at night. Electronics have cortsol. Cortisol is the stress hormone. The stress hormone is going to keep you up at night. If your cortisol levels are high, then your melotona levels are going to
be low, and now it's not going to get good sleep. You gotta get that good deep sleep. Get those brain waves in delta. I'm going to get in that RM. The rapid eye movement. Each sleep cycle takes about ninety minutes, so the key is to fall asleep at the same time every day just to get in a good rhythm. You don't want to be ten o'clock Monday, ten thirty Tuesday, eleven o'clock Wednesday, ten fifteen Thursday,
ten forty five Friday. It's not good. It's got to be ten o'clock, ten o'clock, ten o'clock, ten o'clock, ten o'clock, ten o'clock, ten o'clock. That way, the brain gets in a good rhythm they're called circadian rhythms, and you get your proper sleep, proper digestion, proper relaxation, Your immune system gets rebooted. That rest is key for your immune system. That's why people will get sick when they have little rest. It makes you more susceptible. So if you want your immune system to be
strong, you have to get consistent rest. Sleep is super important, right, So we said vitamin D is important. Sleep is important. Nutrition is important, good healthy food water. Their cells need water. You're supposed to drink half your body weight and ounces. However, make sure it has proper minerals so it's good to eat. To do distilled water, and then you could supplement with minerals pink and Malayan salt, Celtic sea salt. Squeeze some
lemon in there or limes or for some flavor. Get your minerals though. Don't be am by a lot of these plastic water drinks, these some electrolite drinks, a lot of its scam, Gatorade, p DLA. Just make your own, super easy. Just buy your own salt, put it in the water, give it some flavor, no food dye, no preservatives, no sugar, tons of minerals. That's what we gotta do, all right, super important for the water half your body weight and anounces. And you
want to do drink the water on an empty stomach. You don't want to drink water during your meal. That's not good for digestion and it's not good for absorption in the water. You want to m drink it on an empty stomach, first thing in the morning, before you eat any food. To drink water on an empty stomach. The sola water that's with the pink himlayan salt. Make sure it's warm, easy to digest. Lubricature and testine lining
helps you prevent overeating in your meals to come water. It should be on an empty stomach first thing in the morning and a half hour before each meal. Very good for the digestive process. Right, So if you weigh a one hundred pounds, you drink fifty ounces of water. You weigh two hundred pounds, you have to drink one hundred ounces of water. So it's not just eight glasses for everybody. It's according to your body weight. But make
sure you mineralize it and get into trouble. If you drink water without the minerals, you get overhydrated. Okay, that's not healthy either. Right. We said we don't want your brain overactive. Then you can't sleep and you get anxiety. You don't want your brain underactive, then you get low motivation, low focused, depression, low energy. You don't want your immune system overactive, right, and you get autoimmune disease, Hashimoto's ciliac disease, rheumatoid
authorietis, stuff like that. But you don't want your immune system underactive. That makes you more susceptible to pneumonia, the flu, getting sick, covid, coronavirus, all that stuff. You don't want it underactive either, all right, you don't want too much cholesterol, but you don't want too little cholesterol. You don't want too high blood pressure, but you don't want too low blood pressure. You want good homeostasis. But you got to get a
good idea of how you currently are. The way to figure out what your current status is to do testing. Before we were talking about blood work, right, So that's one type of testing you could do is blood work. The other type of testing, which I think is the best type of testing, is called a q EG brain mapping. Now, a q EG brain mapping is going to analyze all the different areas of the brain by measuring brain waves. Just like you could do an EKG for your heart, you could
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have troubles with organization planning? Do you have white matter inflammation in your brain. Do you have low dopamine levels or low acetal coline. Have you had a concussion or heavy metal poisoning or pathologies, viruses or bacteria, stuff like that. Do you have a thyroid problem or intestinal inflammation, heavy metal exposures.
This all comes up in the q EG brain mapping. It will tell us you have sensory problems, troubles you know, that's like ringing in the ears or floaters in the eyes, or balance problems, or headaches or dizziness. It'll tell us if you're not getting in a blood flow, circulation oxygen into the brain. It's an amazing test, and we're going to give a gift to every one of my listeners here, or at least the first seven
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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 Aplin. Okay, so we're gonna be talking about how to get your immune system to function best. We spoke about not wanting your immune system to be overactive and not wanting your immune system to
become underactive. Now, other things that can make your nervous system and your immune system underactive is stress. Stress is the silent killer. If you're in stress mode, your immune system is going to get suppressed. So we have to do our best to reduce stresses, physical stresses, emotional stresses, chemical stresses, electromagnetic frequency stresses. There's a lot of stresses in our life.
How do you get rid of the electromagnetic frequency? Turn your phone on airplane mode, turn your computer on airplane mode, turn your iPad on airplane mode. We don't need signals twenty four seven. We only need it when we're actually checking a new email or getting an update on something. But once you're updating and everything's refreshed, you could put it on airplane mode. We don't want Wi Fi, we don't want five G, you don't want Bluetooth.
You don't want to be sitting in Starbucks all day, or in a library or in a big city, or right next to a five G tower or an electricity tower. You don't want to sleep near outlets or plugs that have big machines attached to them, such as a refrigerator or a microwave or a TV something that uses a lot of electricity. You don't want to sleep near electricity. You don't want to sleep near your phone. Have your phone on
the opposite end of your room. And if your phone's an alarm clock, that's good because that forces you to get out of bed and go across the room to turn it off, especially when you're carrying the phone in your pocket. Put it on airplane mode or turn it off. You don't want to be radiating your prostate or your ovaries, because when it's in your pocket, it's very close to your organs, and you want to reduce radiation. You know, you don't need, you know, dental x rays every six months.
You don't need to go through the X ray machine at the airport. You don't need all these electromagnetic frequencies. Your only amount a certain amount of radiation in your life. So use it when you need it. If you have a real medical problem and you really need to do testing, that's when you do the radiation. But if you can avoid it, avoid it at all possibilities. Don't microwave your food and stand right next to it, especially
that's radiation. Turn off the signals, unplug, unplug everything, turn off your WiFi at night. You got to reduce that inflammation. You got to reduce that stress. I see women put their cell phone in their brob right next to their heart. That's gonna mess up the electrical signals of your heart. Like I'm gonna make you turn off your phone on the airplane, Imagine what it does to your body. We have to unplugug We have to get
rid of all these smart devices. It's too much electromagnetic frequencies. One of the other stresses physical stress. One of the worst physical stresses that's going to weaken your immune system is sitting. Sitting is the new smoking. The more you sit, the weaker your brain and body become. I call it the twenty rule. Every twenty minutes, you get up for twenty seconds, you
walk twenty feet, you look twenty feet, do twenty jumping. Jack's do twenty sit to stand, do twenty shoulder rolls, do twenty push ups, twenty sit ups. Anything to get your body moving for twenty seconds every twenty minutes. That we'll save your life. That will keep your immune system strong. That will keep your brain healthy. That will improve your digestion. That will increase your energy. That will improve your vision. The twenty rule.
Every twenty minutes, you get up for twenty seconds, you'll walk twenty feet and you'll look twenty feet. Exercise the eyes, exercise the body. That will help you to improve your focus, improve your productivity. Your brain's like a muscle. You'll use it or you'll lose it. So you gotta get off your butt. You gotta use your body, and I'll make your brain stronger. Sitting is the new smoking, so never sit for more than twenty
minutes. What other physical stress is just repetitive stress. Let's say if you're typing, you're on the mouse, you're using your phone. I don't care what your job is. If you're a dentist, if you cut hair, if you design clothes, if you're an architect, you're going to do something repetitive over and over and over again, and whatever that repetitive thing is over
and over again. Switch it up, all right. If you're a garbage man and you keep throwing the garbage over the right shoulder, switch it up and throw it over the left shoulder. If you carry your purse on the right shoulder, carry your purse on the left shoulder. If you brush your teeth with your right hand, brush your teeth with your left hand. If you always drive to work on this route, drive on another route, switch it up. If you always play golf ridy, start swinging the club lefty.
If you're dentists and are always on one side of the patient, stand on the other side of the patient. Balance it out. If the mouse is on the right hand, use the mouse on the left hand. If you talk on the phone on your right ear, talk on the phone with your left ear. You have to keep switching it up to maximize your potential to function at the highest level. That's physical stress. What about emotional stress.
Maybe you have to quit a job, maybe you have to get out of a bad relationship, maybe you have to move out of the city. Maybe you gotta get a new roommate. You know it doesn't Sometimes you gotta make big life changes to improve your health and your well being. And other times it doesn't have to be that big, but you got us start doing a little breathing exercise. The best relaxation breathing exercise is to inhale for four seconds, hold it for seven seconds, and exhale for eight seconds, or
maybe practice mindfulness. Mindfulness is where you just focus on one thing at a time. If you're working out at the gym, you're in gym mode. You're not texting anybody, You're not talking to your friends, you're not looking at girls. You're focused on the gym. Let's say you're having dinner with your family. Don't read the newspaper, don't turn on the television or the radio. Focus on your family. Focus on the meal, the smell of
the meal, the touch of the food, the taste. Talk to your family, you know, look at each other, laugh with each other. Unplug. It's a time to bond. Be in family mode, all right. If you're on work, be in work mode. Don't be checking your messages, don't be looking at social media. Be in work mode. When you're at church, be in church mode. You know, don't think about, Oh, I gotta go shopping after this, I gotta watch the football
game. Not be focused on God, be focused on Church. Wherever you are practicing, mindful now is being in that moment and not thinking about the next thing or other things, or where you gotta be, or who you're going to see or what you gotta do. You're just focused on that one thing. Or you could do a meditation. I do a thirty second meditation every day. I call it the Relax technique where I just pick thirty spots starting from the top of my head all the way down to my tippy does
and I relax each muscle, relax the top of my head. Then internally, I say relax and relax my forehead, Relax my temples, Relax my jaw, relax my cheeks, my chin, relax my neck, relax my shoulders. So I pick thirty spots and I just say relax at each spot. It's a great meditation. It works very well. You don't need thirty minutes of meditation, but you do need at least thirty seconds of meditation every single day to reduce your emotional stress, and that's going to make your immune
system stronger. You can also work on your nervous system. Now, but how do you know what part of the nervous system you need to work on. The best test is to do a one on one evaluation with me where we could check out your memory, your blood pressure, your oxygen levels. We check out your FOTE, so to listen to your gut, your lungs, your heart, your reflex is, your posture, your alignment, your circulation, your inflammation, your brain function, the right brain, the left
brain, the front on each of the lobes. So it's a one on one evaluation with me. Takes about forty five minutes, but we're going to give a gift to all my listeners. The first seven people that call, text or email you can get a one on one evaluation with me. What includes your history, your health goals, if you have any blood work or any test you need to go over it. It's all included on the forty
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figure out which is overactive and which is underactive. The other tests are good, but they don't tell us in details. Which is the right side overactive? Is the left side overactive? Is it the frontal that's overactive? Is it you're sympathetic? Is it you're cerebellum. So the best test for that is called the VANG. It's non invasive. You just wear these goggles.
That test is also normally five hundred dollars, but for the first seven people that call, text or email you can get it for only twenty one dollars. The number is six four six two two one six seven three eight, or you can email info at Kaplan, Brain and body dot com. If you want to do all three tests, you can do it. You can do a twenty one dollar qEEG brain mapping, You can do a VNG for twenty one dollars, and you can also do the one on one with me
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