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Now.
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This month is post Traumatic Stress Disorder Awareness Month. Lots
of my patients suffer from post traumatic stress disorder. And
there's lots of different reasons. It could be where they
got back from the military. You know, they were fighting
in Afghanistan or Ukraine, or Israel or Iraq, and they,
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you know, on these foreign countries and they've seen people die,
their friends get killed, people lose their limbs, they've seen
people bombed and shot and blood and guts and that's traumatic.
And when they come back to America and try and
live a normal life, they can't because their brain is
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wired in this stress mode. It's called post traumatic stress disorder. Now,
it doesn't just have to be you know, going to war.
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It could be even when you were.
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When you were born, right, So some kids have postumatic stress.
They had the court wrapped around their neck. Sometimes it's
at one years old they fell off the bed. Sometimes
it's two or three years old when they fell down
the stairs. Sometimes it's younger. They got raped. Sometimes they
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lost the loved one. Sometimes they've had, you know, emotional stress,
abused by their parents. Sometimes they've gotten to a trauma
like a car accident or you know, I had a
patient today they got hit in the head with the
baseball bat and they have post traumatic stress disorder.
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Right.
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It could be you know, you were exposed to chemicals.
It could be you know your spouse was cheating on
you for ten years. You know, there's so much different
types of trauma. There's emotional trauma, there's physical trauma, right,
there's chemical trauma, there's mental trauma. There's all different types
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of trauma. We were all traumatized with COVID.
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Right.
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Every day you turn on the TV. See all these
people dying.
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That's traumatic.
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See everyone running a mess, everyone's telling you we're all
going to die. That's traumatic. So we have this whole
generation of kids that are grown up in trauma, very scary,
never seen as much anxiety in young people, as I
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have the last four to five years. That's the true
epidemic for kids. It's not COVID, it's anxiety. It's the
mental disorders. It's the depression. They're traumatized and their brains
are wired that way, and this happened as their brains developed.
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So as adults, it's gonna be bad news unless we
rewire their brain, unless we use a process called neuroplasticity,
so we don't have post traumatic stress disorder. I have
to rewire your brain because right now, when you go
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to sleep at night, your door's locked, there's a roof
up over your head, you got clothes on your back,
you have food in the refrigerator, So.
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Your brain should be relaxed. You're not in Ukraine, you're
not getting bombed.
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You should be calm, cool and collected, and maybe consciously
you're not in stress mode, right, so you don't go
around thinking somebody's gonna hurt you or mug you or
rape you. But subconsciously, your brain's ready to be attacked
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by the lion. And these type of patients, they might
have sleep deprivation, they might have ADHD, they might worry
a lot, they might even have anger or aggression. They
might have anxiety, they might have pass disorder. These people
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say their mind's racing a million times a minute. It's
gotta slow down. The brain's overactive, right, it's not rocket science.
The brain's overactive. We gotta calm it down. So when
we see patients with post traumatic stress disorder, we're gonna
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calm down their brain. Through neuroplasticity, you can rewire your brain.
Just like you could get a muscle stronger, you can
get your brain stronger so it can handle stress. There's
lots of different ways to get your brain stronger so
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it can handle stress. One of the things you could
do is end your shower with cold. It's painful, it's tough.
I've been doing it for years. Still don't like it.
I like when I end it. But you gotta be uncomfortable.
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If you know how to be uncomfortable, you can handle
stress better. So every time it's cold, don't put on
your coat, you know, go outside in a T shirt
and shorts in the winter, you know, not all day long,
well maybe for a minute or two and suffer.
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Get your brain stronger, you.
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Know, as it gets hot out, don't always put on
the air condition Suffer a little bit. Maybe you sweat
a little bit, but that makes your brain stronger, you know,
But eight o'clock at night, don't eat, go to bed hungry, suffer.
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A little bit.
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That helps you deal with air anxiety and stress. Because
if every time you're cold you turn on the heat,
and every time you're hot, you turn on the air conditioner,
and every time you're hungry you eat, and every time
you're tired you take a nap. You got to push
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through it. You gotta be more resilient. You gotta be uncomfortable.
Then you can handle the stress better. But if only
activities are done that you're very comfortable with, then your
brain doesn't have to work. You got to do new challenges,
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meet new people, do new activities, take on new hobbies,
learn a new task. Get your brain stronger and more resilient.
Challenge yourself. Make the brain work for it. You can
handle stress better.
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You know.
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Memorize people's phone numbers. Challenge yourself. Memorize your grocery list,
memorize the address, memorize the directions. Challenge yourself. Don't be
so comfortable. You gotta be uncomfortable. Do things that you're
not used to all right, that's when your brain gets strong.
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When you're uncomfortable, Now do it in a way that's safe.
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All right. You gotta be safe, But.
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You gotta challenge yourself.
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Right. Imagine you went to the gym and all you
did was lift.
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Three pounds, and you never challenge yourself, and you never
got uncomfortable. You wouldn't gain any muscle mass. You know,
you gotta when you go to the gym, you gotta
sweat a little bit. Your heart has to beat a
little fast. Your muscle's gotta strain a little bit. You
gotta challenge yourself. You got to be uncomfortable.
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That's when you improve.
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Always be uncomfortable. Be uncomfortable in your relationship, Be vulnerable,
Be uncomfortable in your job. Work harder than you can
ever imagine. It will pay off. And I don't care
what you do. If you sweep the steps, make those
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steps look as beautiful as possible. Right, whatever you do,
take pride in your work. Be the best. If you
answer the phones, be the best phone answer. You take
out the garbage, be the best garbage person.
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Right.
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You got to have good customer service. Be the best customer.
I don't care what your job is right. I'm a doctor.
I want to be the best doctor ever. I want
to blow my patients away. I want to teach them
stuff that no doctors ever teach them. I want to
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get to the root cause of their problem instead of
hiding up symptoms. I want patience to know that I
care about them and that my team cares about them.
All right, we got to be the best. If you
try your hardest, which is being uncomfortable, you're gonna get
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those results. All right. Maybe you don't want to wake
up early Sunday morning to go to church. You gotta
be uncomfortable whatever it is. Maybe you don't want to
volunteer at eight o'clock at night. You got to be uncomfortable.
But that's when you get stronger. So if you have
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post traumatic stress disorder, one of the things you have
to do is rewire your brain through a process called neuroplasticity,
to make your brain stronger and more resilient. Because there's
always going to be stresses in your life. Right, we
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got to handle the stress. We don't want you to
end up like those veteran homeless people that can't get
their brain in order to function in normal society. So
When you have post traumatic stress disorder, you have to
rewire your brain. Just like if you injured a muscle,
you got to do physical therapy. If you have post
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traumatic stress disorder, you have to rewire your brain with
a functionalurologist so that you function better, feel better, and
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Information function better feel better and live a better. Life
this is Doctor Eric kaplan and you're listening to boost
your brain. Power so this month Is Post Dramatic Stress
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Disorder Awareness. Month we see tons of patients with post
dramatic stress disorder and this is a big problem which
could lead to major issues down the. Road it could
lead to, anxiety panic, disorders high blood, pressure heart, attack, stroke, cancer, headaches, insomnia,
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on immune. Disease the list goes on and. On post
traumatic stress disorder isn't just oh you hear you, know
the a loud sound and you think it's a gun
shooting At you could get a lot more. INTENSE i
have a patient who was raped as a little girl
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by her. Uncle she actually had to run away from
home because her parents didn't protect her when she was
like twelve years. Old and what happened, was when she
was a little, girl she would hear the door creak
open in the middle of the, night and she knew
when that door creaked, open that was her uncle coming
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to rape. Her as an, adult every time she heard
the door, creak she had post traumatic stress, disorder and
then she started getting flashbacks of her uncle and that
created panic, attack, anxiety, insomnia she couldn't hold down her,
job she couldn't hold a, relationship she lost all her
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quality of. Life so we had to rewire her, brain
and we have to teach, her, hey every time that door,
opens you're. Safe no one's trying to hurt you. Anymore
that was fifteen years. Ago right, now you're. Safe if
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we don't rewire the, brain it gets stuck in stress,
mode and we call that the fighter flight. Mode and
we're in that fighter flight, mode you're gonna have increased.
Cortisol and cortisol is the stress, hormone and that will
mess up a lot of, things can mess up your,
sleep your. Metabolism so a lot of people have that
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belly fat it's from. Cortisol so they're in stress. Mode
have a lot of people that, say, OH i, EXERCISE
i eat, healthy attack OF i can't lose this weight
because you're in stress. Mode you have too much. Cortisol
cortisol is the stress, hormone and so we've got to decrease,
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cortisol especially at. Night so at, night if we want
to decrease, cortosol we gotta make sure we're not WATCHING,
tv especially you, know if you're WATCHING, tv about the zombie,
apocalypse and you're watching the news about the murder in The,
bronx and you're watching you, know THE svu about you,
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know people getting, raped and you, know you're watching murders
and captions and traumas and you, know everything ON. Tv
it's pretty. Intense it's pretty. Scary it's not. Relaxing it's
meant to kind of uh peaque your. Interest so they're
not going to do, boring relaxation. Stuff they're gonna be
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more scary, thrillers, drama, murders, mysteries all this. Tension and
if you watch, that you, know an hour or two before, bedtime,
oh you're not gonna get good to deep. Sleep you're
gonna be traumatized all night. Long you're gonna dream in.
Drama so it starts with at. Night, now the ideal
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way at night is to have no electronics and no.
Food so if you can end dinner by six pm
and then you go outside watch the, sunset you're gonna
decrease your Cortisol and then when you come, home you're
gonna dim all the, lights turn off the, computer turn
off THE, tv turn off your cell, phone unplug you're
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gonna relax the brain you're gonna bring down. Cortisol don't
eat eating food increases. Cortisol why do you want to
eat at night when we just want to. Relax the
time to eat is during the day when You're the
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time to eat is morning and afternoon when you gotta
get stuff. Done the time to eat is not at
nighttime when you need to. Relax you need to chill,
out you need to calm. Down you need to bring
down your. Cortisol food increases. Cortisol THE tv increases, cortisol
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the cell phone increases. Cortisol your computer increases, Cortisol your
iPad increases. Cortisol all your smart, devices Your WiFi increases.
Cortisol your FIVE g data increases. Cortisol all, right so
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turn everything, off, unplug don't even Have Wi, fi use
Your ethernet, cable don't Use, bluetooth use wire headphones.
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Right stop using all These.
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Wi, Fi bluetooth, data all these signals you can't see
they have these electromagnetic frequencies that causes. Inflammation we don't want.
That if you have to carry your phone, on you
put it on airplane. Mode but if your data is
on FIVE, g Your Wi fi is, on and your
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phone is in your front. Pocket if you're, male you're
gonna get testicular. Cancer if you're, female you're gonna get ovarian.
Cancer you have to put it in your back. Pocket
you can get prostate cancer or colon. Cancer you put
it in your, chest you're gonna have a heart attack
or lung. Cancer and if you hold it next to your,
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ear you're gonna get brain. Cancer these smart devices are
like microwave. Ovens you're literally radiating whatever body part is
closest to your phone or your computer or your. iPad
you gotta.
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Unplug turn it off.
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If you want to bring down your, inflammation if you
want to decrease your overactive. Brain so if you have
post traumatic stress, disorder you gotta calm down your. Brain
you gotta cool.
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Down you're.
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Inflamed one of the best ways to cool your brain
down is to dip your head in a bucket of
ice water that's fifty degrees. Fahrenheit that will literally stimulate
your parasympathetic nervous system to get you out of that
fight or flight post traumatic stress. Disorder you want to
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be in the fight or flight mode.
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Like you're in the. Army we want to be in
a calm.
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Rael rest and digestate so you don't get a heart
attack or, stroke or anxiety or panic or, worry or
you get angry or. Aggressive gotta calm down the. Brain
got to relax the. Brain ice water on your face
will calm down the. Brain gurgling what it's called your vagus.
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Nerve your vagus nerve will get you in a relaxed. State,
now when you, gargle you gotta do it really. Intensely
the louder the, gurgle the. BETTER i want you to
be so loud that you wake up your. Neighbors so
if you have, anxiety post traumatic stress, disorder you get, panic,
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insomnia start. Gargling gurgle really. Intensely the louder the, gurgle the.
Better and gargle with you, know hot, water cold, water salt,
water a lot of, water a little. Water it's more the.
Action it's not about what's in your. Mouth but that being,
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said don't use mouthwash because mouthwash is made from, alcohol
and alcohol kills off all the good. Bacteria we want
good bacteria in our, mouth we just don't want the
bad bacteria in our. Mouth so the best way to
get rid of the bad bacteria it's called oil. Pulling
so you get some moreganic coconut, oil and right in the,
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morning right when you wake, up before you even speak to,
anybody before you, swallow take some coconut. Oil swish it
around your mouth.
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And you. It swish, it swish, it get.
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In all the, crevices it comes in between the, teeth
and that will literally kill off the. Bacteria and then
you spit it out in the, garbage not in the.
Pipe we don't want to ruin our pipes with the,
oil but spit it out in the garbage because you
don't want to swallow it. Either that's all the bad
bacteria you gotta get rid. Of so the coconut oil
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will kill off the bad, bacteria sparing the good. Bacteria
but alcohol listerine mouthwash will kill off. Everything and your
mouth needs good bacteria and your gut needs good. Bacteria
that's why antibiotics are bad, also because that kills off
all the good. Bacteria we don't want to kill the good.
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Bacteria so if you ever have taken, antibiotics you must take.
Probiotics and if you are taking, antibotics you do probiotics in.
Between so if you take, antibiotics eight am and eight.
Pm you take probiotics at two, pm and then after
you're done taking. Antibiotics you got to take lots of,
probiotics and every two months switch it because you want different,
bacteria different, Strains they have different jobs and. Activities and you,
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know once we get your good gut microbiome, going you
don't have to keep taking the same probiotic because now
they're replenishing on their. Own so we don't want to
take antibioticsa that kills the good. Bacteria we don't want
to take drink or use listering because that kills the good.
Bacteria we don't want to take necessarily statins because that
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kills the good. Cholesterol, right our body has good, bacteria
it's got good, cholesterol it's got good brain.
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Cells we just.
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Need those glio those nursal cells to take away the
bad brain. Cells because remember we lose ten percent of
our brain cells every decade of our life after the
age of. Forty but we got to make sure that
the brain cells that die off are the bad brain.
Cells and we cleanse out that bad brain cells and
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preserve and, replenish and we oxygenate all the good brain
cells to get better on neuroplastic changes in your brain
so you can function, better feel, better and live a better.
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this is Doctor Eric, kaplan and you're listening to boost
your brain. Power this month is Post Traumatic Stress disorder,
month and we see lots of patients with post traumatic stress.
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Disorder we have to rewire the. Brain you got to, say,
hey you know, what you can be, relaxed and there's
lots of ways to get your brain in a relaxed. State,
now what a lot of people do is, meditation and
you don't have to do like THE tm where you
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do you, know a half hour twice a. DAY i
do a thirty second. Meditation that's all you. Need but
every day it's more about the. Consistency i'd rather you
do seven days a week of meditating for thirty seconds
than one day a week of meditating for a half.
Hour the consistency is very. Important now an easy meditation
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THAT i do because a lot of people with post
traumatic stress disorder they can't meditate because they can't shut
their brains. Off so we got to come up with
strategies to relax the brain and then you'll be able
to meditate.
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More in the.
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Meantime just do a thirty second. MEDITATION i call it
the relax, technique and you start at the top of
your head and you close your eyes and you say,
relax and you imagine the muscles on the top of
your head melting and. Relaxing then you go to your
forehead you say, relax and then you go to your Tech,
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relax go to your, Eyes relax your, Jaw relax your,
mouth relax your, Chain relax your, Neck relax your, Shoulders
relax your, back relax all the way down your, Hips
relax your, knees relax your, Feet relax your.
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Toes.
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Relax so you do every single body. Part you just
pick thirty body, parts so one body part a, second
and you just relax those areas and you'll, See, hey
when you get your shoulders you say, relax you'll actually
feel your shoulders go. Down when you get to your
jaw and you say, relax you'll feel that tension. Decrease
because a lot of people post traumatic, stress they don't
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even realize they're tensing their, jaw they're tensing their their,
neck their, hips their. Legs so every single day you
do a thirty second relax meditation. Technique it's all about
the consistency that will help your brain get in a
more relaxed. State then you want to practice mindfulness very
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important for post traumatic stress. Disorders practicing. Mindfulness mindfulness is
when you only do one thing at a. Time you,
know when you're reading a, book you're reading a. Book
you don't have THE tv in the. Background you're not you,
know eating breakfast at the same. Time you're just focused
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on reading the. Book when you're eating, lunch you're focused
on eating lunch that's scrolling through social. Media you focus
on the, tastes on the, smell on the, texture and
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you look at all the different colors of your salad
or whatever you're, eating and you hear the crunch as you.
Chew focus on those five senses of whatever you're. Doing
but be, mindful and when you, choose chose thirty five
times so you can really taste it and break it
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down in your mouth with all that good bacteria because
you did your oil. Pulling when you're at the, gym
be at the. Gym don't be gossiping talking to your.
Friends don't be on your cell phone texting. People be
in gym. Mode when you're on a, date put your
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cell phone. Away you shouldn't be looking at your cell.
Phone you're on a, Date be one on one with
your spouse or your significant, other and be focused on date.
Night when you're.
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At, work focus on.
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Work you shouldn't be looking On facebook or checking your
emails or text, messages shouldn't be calling your spouse or your.
Friends be in work. Mode so when you're, eating you're
in eating. Mode when you're, reading you're in reading. Mode
when you're at the, gym you're in jim. Mode you're
at work your work. Mode when you come, home it's dad,
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time it's husband. Time be in family. Mode. Right so
that's mindfulness very important for your. Brain so if you
have post traumatic, stress start practicing mindfulness one thing at a.
Time we gotta shut off the, brain gotta chill it out.
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Overstimulation one good exercise to chill out the brain is
where you listen to music but only focus on one
instrument and, Say i'm only going to listen to the,
Bass i'm only going to listen to the, drums only
gonna listen to, Piano i'm only going to listen to the,
guitar and then you shut off all the other. Sounds
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you don't even realize it because you're focusing on, that
that becomes really, loud and everything else will become even.
Softer that helps to relax your. Brain it's a pretty cool.
Strategy take advantage of the stuff that you learn on
my show because it's. Free it's, easy but you just
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got to do it every. Day it's about the consistency
anything in, life it's about. Consistency can't just brush your
teeth one. Day you gotta brush your teeth every, morning every,
evening after every, meal over and over and over, again
so you don't get. Cavities don't wait until you get.
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Cavities don't wait until you need a root. Canal don't
wait for the oral surgeon. Gingerviatis take action now and
flass every, day and use the water pick and brush
your teeth and clean in your tongue an oil pull
and don't use. Fluoride look into hydroxy. Appetite very good
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for the, teeth all, Right so an ounce of prevention
is worth a pound of. Cure so if you have
post traumatic, stress don't wait till you have high blood,
pressure and now you got to start taking. Medication don't
wait until you get a stroke or a heart. Attack
don't wait until you get, cancer don't wait until you have.
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Insomnia don't wait to have a panic disorder or severe.
Anxiety take action, now rewire your, brain get your body
out of that stress. Mode you don't want to be
in a fight or. Flight you want to be in
the rest and. Digest that's why a lot of people
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will post traumatic stress have digested problems because they're not
in a camp. State they're not in the rest and.
Digest so not only WILL i have sleep, problems either
trouble falling asleep or staying, asleep but also have digestive.
Problems and it could be, colitis or it could BE,
ibs or it could be silliac, disease or it could
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Be crohn's.
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Disease or it could be.
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Bloating or gas or acid reflux or, gourd or it
could be a, Hernia it could be the. Esophagus it
could be you have decreased stomach. Acid you, know there
could be so many different causes of digestive problems when
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you have a post traumatic stress. Disorder so normally we
think of that as a brain, issue but your brain
controls your. Gut and then when you have your gut. Inflamed,
now if you get exposed to a bacteria or virus
or parasite or worm or. Cancer now you have what's
called a leaky and the bad, stuff whether it's yeast
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or mold or, whatever it, is heavy. Metals they enter
the bloodstream because now you have these big holes from
a leaky. Gut now they can attack your brain and
then you're stuck in this vicious. Cycle that's not. Good
it's gonna rewind your brain through a process called, neuroplasticity
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so you're not in that post traumatic stress. Disorder but
there's lots of strategies you could take besides you, know practicing, meditation,
mindfulness doing some brain. Exercises, right you could do the,
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gargling you could do the cold water on the. Face
another good exercise is putting different tastes on your. Tongue
this activates what's called your parasympathetic nervous and what it
likes is, sweet, sour and salty on the front of
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your tongue and bitter in the back of your. Tongue
so for, sweet just get some, honey and for, salty
just get Some celtic. Salt and for, sour just get some.
Lemon and every day you do a different taste. Tests you,
know for bitter you do dark chocolate or some bitter
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herbs or some coffee. Grinds but you do. Well you
stick out your tongue and do a taste test for thirty.
Seconds one day do, sweet one, day do, sour one
day do, salty one day do. Bitter that will actually
help relax your nervous. System the gag reflex activates your vagus,
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nerve which is going to get you add that fight
or flight mode into a relaxed rest and. Digest, now
don't do the gag reflex if you have a history of,
bolimia we don't want to trigger anything like. That but
outside of an eating disorder and you have postraumatic stress,
disorder the geg reflex is very powerful because it activates
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your vegus, nerve and your vagus nerve will cause an
increase in your parasympathetic nervous, system which is inversely proportional
to your sympathetic nervous, system which will get you out
of that fight or flight mode into a relaxed rest
and digest, state therefore improving how your brain performs so
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you function, better feel, better and live a better. Life
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More information, function better, feel better and live a. Better
life this Is Doctor eric kaplan and you're listening to
boost your. Brain power this month is Post Traumatic Stress Disorder,
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Awareness month so we have to be aware of people
with this, stress disorder and you might not see it
or realize it right because they, don't have, you know
a broken bone with, a, cast right they don't have,
You know parkinson's where you see their. Big tremor they're
not in, a, Wheelchair right so people with post traumatic,
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stress disorder you're not going to be able to tell
what they. Look like so, for them it's very frustrating
because they don't get. Much empathy, you know it's not
like diabetes or cancer or high blood. Pressure medication there's
a little stigma with. Mental disorders, people, say oh. He's
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crazy why how come they, don't, say oh, you know
oh he's. Just diabetic now they don't, say, that right,
say oh we are you taking? The medication, you know
hopefully you won't, get neuropathy you won't, get blind you won't,
get amputato you won't. Get, dementia yeah, that's right diabetes.
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Causes dementia, in fact, many clinics Like The, mayo clinic
has Started calling alzheimer's disease diabetes type three because it's
like a combination of diabetes, type one which is an,
autoimmune disease and diabetes, type two which is mostly due to,
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poor diet, sedentary lifestyle lack, of exercise, high stress not.
Speaker 4 (40:36):
Good, Sleep.
Speaker 3 (40:39):
Right so if you want To, prevent alzheimer's you going
to make sure you don't. Have diabetes guess what else causes.
Memory problems statin drugs that they write. For cholesterol so
remember we said before that cholesterol is. Actually healthy now
when you take, cholesterol medication that decreases, your cholesterol making
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you more likely to. Get dementia, That's right cholesterol meds
can lead. To dementia diabetes can lead. To DEMENTIA.
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So i by you.
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If you, have diabetes if you got, heart disease you
got high, blood pressure you got, high cholesterol. High triglycerides
you better get in. Shape now you better start, eating
healthy you better, start exercise and you better get off.
Your butt follow the. Twenty rule never sit for more than.
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Twenty minutes sitting is the. New smoking you have to,
Get up so get, an alarm, vibrate ring cooking. TIME
around i don't care what, it is but something to
remind you every twenty minutes to. Get up move your
body for. TWENTY seconds i don't care if it's a twenty,
second walk twenty second, jumping jacks twenty seconds of, push
ups twenty seconds of, sit ups twenty seconds, of squats
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twenty seconds of, shoulder rolls twenty seconds. Of lunges just
move your body for twenty seconds every. Twenty minutes get that,
blood flow get. That oxygen move. Your body if you, have,
stress anxiety you've. Been traumatized the worst thing is. Just
sitting you need to get your, brain, stronger right gotta.
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Be uncomfortable it's not the time to. Be lazy this
is the time to make your, brain, Stronger right and
that includes maybe getting up earlier to go to the
gym and meditate.
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And read.
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Maybe it includes not eating those cookies or, the cake
or the pizza or the, fried chicken or drinking that soda,
or lemonade or the juice or the, red bull or
the coffee or the beer or. The wine it's gonna.
Be uncomfortable you might be used to having your. Morning
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coffee you might be used to having your glass of wine.
With dinner you might be used to having ice cream
and pizza and using all your seed oils and your
microwave dinners and, your takeout your fast food and.
Speaker 4 (43:25):
Your candy you might be used.
Speaker 3 (43:28):
To it so it's gonna be uncomfortable.
Speaker 4 (43:32):
To not, eat it not. Drink it.
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But that's when you, get stronger that's when you get,
more resilient when your brain can handle. The stress this
there's always gonna be stress in. Your life whether, it's,
money relationships, living situation, job, situation, family. CHURCH charity i
don't care what. It is there's always gonna be some sort.
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Of stress even just turning on the news. Is, Stressful
right you're gonna hear stories all. The time, You know
i'm dealing with a lot of stress. Right now, you
know my aunt got into a bad accident as she's,
a pedestrian and she's in rehab and she can't even
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stand up on. Her own i'm getting sued right now
for a lot. Of Money my, you know one of
my relatives has. Severe, depression okay you know my family
members are going through some neurological Issues that i'm helping.
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Them with, all right my good friend just killed himself
And now i'm having to deal with his wife and his.
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Two kids.
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And there's a lot. Of stress there's always gonna. Be
STRESS but i wake up in the MORNING thinking i
have the, greatest life EVEN though i have all. This
stress have, two offices got two, radio shows got two.
NEWSPAPER columns i got like six or SEVEN employees i
have to. DEAL with i got MY family i gotta take.
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Care of, you know there's a lot of stress in,
my LIFE but i gotta handle it Because if i'm,
Not healthy i'm no good to. My patience i'm no
good to, My wife i'm no good to, my kids
no good to, my parents no good to. My, aunt
RIGHT so i gotta take care, of myself, you know
like what they say on, the airplane put your mask.
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On first so with, your health you gotta. Be selfish
you gotta take care of your. Health, first now some
people don't even realize they're going around in post. Traumatic
stress some people don't realize they have anxiety or they worry.
So much other people around them might, realize it but
sometimes they're not. Self aware so the best way to
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know if you have anxiety or you have post, traumatic
stress or sleep problems or a lot of other stuff
is CALLED a qEEG, Brain mapping and this is going to.
Pick up do you have, sleep? Deprivation insomnia do you have?
Memory problems do you? Have anxiety do you worry? Too
much do you have? Anger aggression are you? Too impulsive
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there's your mind raise? Too quick do you have troubles?
With focus you're? Easily distracted do you have any problems?
Shifting tests do you, have confusion. Brain fog do you
have a, thyroid problem? Intestinal problem do you have? Brain
inflame do you have low dopamine or? Low acetoclin it
literally picks up all. OF this i love this test
because there's, no radiation there's no, contrast food there's no,
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small tube there's, no risk there's no. Side effects, super quick.
Super easy it's normally six, hundred dollars but for the
first seven people, to call text, or email you could
GET this qEEG brain mapping for only twenty. One dollars
another gift we're going to give is called A v
g OR video vog, video ocilography and it measures your,
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eye movements the beast, eye movements your slow eye movements
up and down and left and right and dark, in
light with head movements and without and. With focus and
based on the eye movements and the direction and, the
speed we can analyze the different lobes of, the brain the,
front door, the parietal, the cerebellum the, brain stem and
the right side to the. Left side it tells us
which areas are overactive and which areas. Are underactive the
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areas that are overactive that's going to cause some, sleep problem,
some anxiety, some anger, some aggression.
Speaker 4 (47:53):
SOME add adhd some, you.
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Know the mind's racing, so much you worry. A lot
you know your brain is just overactive. And INFLAMED the
vng will pick that up and also pick up which.
Is underactive, poor focus, then, memory fatigue, low motivation, poor planning. Always,
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late right this is an. Underactive BRAIN the vng picks
that up, as well and.
Speaker 4 (48:26):
We might have. To focus our therapy is only on.
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One side if one side, is underactive you got to,
strengthen that and if one side, is overactive you gotta.
Relax it so THAT'S why i really LIKE the vng for.
That TEST so i would suggest doing THE q eeg
brain mapping take advantage because that's only twenty. One dollars
and the other gift we're gonna give IS a vng
OR a vog for only twenty one dollars because that
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test is normally six hundred. Dollars too and the third
gift we're gonna give is a one on one with
Me where i'm gonna REVIEW.
Speaker 4 (48:57):
Your vng i'm gonna review.
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Your brain if you have any past blood WORK or
MRIs or. Cat scans we're gonna go over All that
we're gonna go over, your history any medications, you're on
any supplements. You take we're gonna also go over. Your,
goals hey do you want to improve? Your sleep do
you want to improve? Your energy do you want to reduce?
Your anxiety do you want to improve? Your memory whatever your, goals,
Are right so we're gonna go. Over Those then i'm
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gonna do. An evaluation i'm gonna check, your memory. Your
balance we're gonna check out, your heart, your lungs, your
gut check out, your posture, your alignment and check, your, bones,
muscles nerves, your circulation, blood flow, your eyes, your ears
so a full physical and. Neurological evaluation it's normally six,
hundred dollars but for the first seven people, to call
text or email you could get the one on one
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with me for only twenty. One dollars and you can
also do all three if you, want so just call
text or EMAIL say i want to do all three
tests for only twenty one. Dollars each the number to
call or texts is to zero one two six one
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two one.
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Five zero.
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The email is Info at Caplinbrain and body. Dot com,
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