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It wasn't

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my body that needed helium. It was my

1:22

brain and nervous system. I took a

1:24

deeper dive into the world of virology.

1:27

I drove even deeper, spent years

1:30

further researching the nervous system

1:32

and And I'm so grateful that I did

1:34

because I despaired these new,

1:37

novel and natural ways

1:39

of unlocking the healing power of my

1:41

nervous system that

1:42

wasn't being talked about definitely

1:44

in the mainstream, but even in some natural

1:47

medicine circles.

1:49

And so in particular, I discovered

1:52

these secrets buried deeper than my

1:54

nervous system that when I was able to

1:56

access, I was able to trigger

1:58

that healing response,

1:59

and I kept continued to experiment

2:02

and try different things specific

2:04

to my brain and my nervous system. And

2:07

was finally

2:08

able to break through that vicious

2:10

brain stress cycle and truly

2:13

heal my brain at a deep, deep level.

2:15

And

2:15

I shared it with my patients and clients,

2:18

and they began a heal

2:20

as well. And

2:21

so after fifteen years in private

2:23

practice,

2:24

fourteen years teaching other

2:27

doctors

2:28

and working with thousands of amazing

2:30

patients every year. My experience is

2:32

as a functional neurologist, speaker,

2:35

professor, and educator, and concussion

2:37

survivor. I

2:39

learned a few principles, shortcuts,

2:41

and secrets along the way. and

2:43

put together a step by step clinically

2:46

proven process to heal the brain naturally.

2:48

And

2:48

I was able to share with millions of

2:50

people around the world.

2:53

And I'm gonna be sharing with you one

2:55

of the most powerful ones

2:57

in this talk.

3:00

Are you ready to learn more?

3:02

Before

3:03

we do, there's one key

3:05

concept that I really need you to

3:07

understand.

3:08

get this right and you boost your

3:10

resilience against stress, unlock

3:13

the healing potential of your brain and live

3:15

your life to the fullest.

3:17

But if you get this wrong,

3:20

it'll

3:20

stay stuck in that vicious brain

3:22

stress cycle, worsening of

3:24

your brain symptoms and possible further

3:27

degeneration of your brain.

3:29

Here

3:29

it is.

3:31

Your brain is unique.

3:34

not only does it require healthy

3:36

nutrients,

3:38

a clean diet, supplements, and

3:40

good lifestyle practices, Your

3:42

brain also needs activation, stimulation,

3:46

and brain training.

3:48

And

3:49

so when you can uncover the weak

3:51

brain in your nervous system and

3:53

strengthen them through personalized brain

3:55

training exercises supported by

3:58

a clean diet

4:00

targeted personalized supplements as well

4:02

as lifestyle practices. You can

4:05

finally break that vicious brain stress

4:07

cycle and get off the roller coarser

4:09

ups and downs. and

4:11

unlock the hidden potential that's

4:14

within your brain and nervous system.

4:17

When

4:17

you're able to do that,

4:19

true healing is possible.

4:22

I was able to do it. Thousands

4:24

of my patients and clients and students

4:26

over the years were able to do it, and I know the

4:28

same. as possible for you.

4:31

Your brain is capable of so

4:33

much more than you can ever

4:36

imagine.

4:38

In

4:38

order to learn how to break that vicious

4:40

brain stress cycle though, we'll first need

4:42

to take a closer look at

4:45

stress. There's

4:47

no doubt about a stress.

4:49

It's a killer, virtually all the diseases

4:52

of modern society

4:53

aren't linked to stress. In

4:55

this article, this review article, when

4:57

Physicians Council about stress results

4:59

of the National Study, the authors

5:01

concluded that The prevalence of stress

5:04

in their practices, in their private care practice

5:06

was very high, up to

5:08

eighty percent of All visits

5:10

had some type of stress related

5:13

component, and they found that over the past five

5:15

years, forty

5:16

four percent of Americans had reported

5:19

some increase in psychological stress.

5:22

Now, this was back in two

5:24

thousand thirteen when at

5:26

least in my opinion, the world was still

5:28

relatively sane. So I'd imagine

5:30

if they didn't survey today, those

5:32

numbers are probably even higher.

5:35

The

5:35

interesting thing is so

5:37

we need stress. Right? We need

5:39

stress to give us the motivation to get.

5:42

Then step up to life's

5:44

challenges to handle the stresses that

5:46

we encounter every single day.

5:48

But

5:48

the problem is when stress

5:50

gets out of hand, from

5:51

trauma, whether from a concussion

5:54

or even mental and

5:56

emotional trauma, but perhaps just

5:58

chronic stresses over time building

6:01

up. leading to stress

6:03

and stressed out nervous systems or

6:05

even gut inflammation or body inflammation

6:08

could read to physical types

6:10

of stresses. Regardless of the trigger,

6:13

when stress becomes rampant,

6:15

chronic and unmanaged, then

6:18

you can fall prey to all

6:20

the brain damaging effects

6:22

of stress hormones gone

6:24

wild. And so research shows there's

6:27

all these really negative effects that

6:29

stress has on our bodies. It can

6:31

weaken our immune system, destroy your

6:33

gut lining and gut function,

6:35

strain your heart, can

6:37

mess with your hormones, paint your

6:39

sex drive, increase pain

6:41

and migraines, also

6:43

cause you to pack on belly fat.

6:45

Can you relate to some, if not all of

6:47

that? Then

6:48

if so, stress might

6:50

be very well impacting and harming

6:53

your

6:53

body. You know, that's stressful

6:55

in and of itself, but more concerning to

6:57

me is the damage that

6:59

stress has on your brain

7:02

because

7:02

like I mentioned before, your

7:04

brain is your most sacred and precious

7:06

organ. And if things go unchecked,

7:09

you

7:09

don't typically get better.

7:11

And

7:11

so chronic stress in

7:14

the research has been linked with

7:16

serious conditions such as multiple

7:18

sclerosis, or prolonged recovered

7:21

from a traumatic brain injury or concussion

7:23

recovered, the key brain,

7:25

Alzheimer's disease, dementia, and

7:27

much, much more. And so

7:29

the damaging of brain stress,

7:32

like

7:32

the effects that brain stress has

7:34

on your brain and nervous system, Research

7:36

has shown that it can actually shrink

7:39

the physical volume of your

7:41

brain. The actual size of your brain

7:43

can be shrunk by

7:44

stress.

7:46

stress can also trigger brain inflammation,

7:48

what we call, the neural inflammation, but then your nervous

7:51

system can lead to things known

7:53

as leaky grain, a breach of your blood

7:55

brain barrier, and

7:57

then increasing your risk

7:59

for serious

7:59

neurodegenerative diseases like

8:01

Alzheimer's,

8:03

and Multiple Sclerosis dementia

8:05

and much, much more.

8:07

And even if you don't have

8:10

or

8:10

develop those more serious neurodegenerative

8:13

conditions, it's also about

8:15

your quality of life right now.

8:17

With stress, you can end up having these

8:19

nagging brain symptoms like brain fog

8:22

and brain fatigue,

8:23

insomnia. If you have had a

8:25

concussion, maybe you have prolonged

8:27

concussion recovery like I did.

8:29

Maybe experiencing anxiety or depression,

8:32

memory issues, cognitive decline,

8:34

and more. So

8:37

the question is how is stress harming

8:40

your brain? And

8:41

the interesting thing is when you dive into

8:44

the research and I see this in

8:46

my practice all the time with my patients

8:48

and private clients that impacts

8:51

the harmful effects that stress

8:53

has on your brain

8:55

can be very specific. So

8:57

in this review article, the authors

9:00

looked at how stress affects

9:02

your hippocampus. So let me

9:04

share this with you right now. I'm gonna

9:06

take a little bit of break and

9:09

talk about introduce you to

9:11

the hippocampus, so and rather your

9:13

brain. So here is a model of your

9:15

brain, and this is what we call the outer

9:17

covering, which is known as the neocortex.

9:20

And one of the major areas of the nervous

9:22

system is known as your temporal lobe.

9:25

This area helps us process sound.

9:27

So for example, as you're listening to me right

9:29

now, you can hear me and understand

9:32

what I'm saying. That is if you have an

9:34

intact temperable, that that is working

9:36

well. Now, what I'm gonna

9:38

do is that's the outer covering called the neocortex.

9:40

I'm gonna flip that around and show you

9:42

the inside the

9:44

inside portion of your brain

9:46

In

9:46

the inside portion of your temporal lobe,

9:49

right here, this is what we call

9:51

your hippocampus. Now

9:53

your hippocampus is a very

9:55

important structure because it's in

9:57

it's in charge of memory.

9:59

It's

9:59

important when it comes to learning as

10:02

well as managing your

10:04

stress.

10:06

Now

10:06

let's get back to the article

10:08

here now that we have a bit of background. So

10:11

in this research

10:12

article, the authors looked

10:14

at how stress impacted hippocampus.

10:16

Again, the region of your nervous system related

10:19

to memory learning and your ability

10:21

to handle stresses. And this is

10:23

what they found. You

10:25

found that uncontrollable stress

10:28

has been recognized to influence

10:30

the hippocampus at various

10:33

levels of analysis. Structurally,

10:36

Studies have shown that stress changes

10:39

neuronal morphology, suppresses

10:41

neuronal proliferation and

10:43

reduces Hipplecampbell falling.

10:46

What does that mean? Stress can

10:48

break specific regions of your brain,

10:50

including this area called the hippocampus,

10:53

and actually not only disruptive

10:55

treatment of clretion happening within your

10:57

brain cells leading to worsening

11:00

of brain function and brain symptoms but

11:03

actually shrink, like I said before,

11:05

actually shrink the size of your brain.

11:07

In this case, it's specific. to

11:10

your hippocampus. Right? So you can

11:12

see here when we talk about brain health,

11:14

we wanna look at nice plump

11:16

juicy areas of your brain.

11:18

And

11:18

you can see over to the right here this shriveled

11:21

atrophy brain. And, yes, this person

11:23

definitely had

11:24

symptoms. Right? Especially if

11:26

their hippocampus was involved,

11:28

they had issues with memory. They probably

11:30

had issues with learning new things or recalling

11:33

things that they had learned just, you

11:35

know, a day, two or a week ago.

11:37

In

11:37

addition to that, they probably have lot of

11:40

issues handling and managing

11:42

stress because that's all the functions

11:44

of the hippocampus. And when those errors become

11:46

damaged, that could be the root

11:48

cause for many different symptoms. And like

11:50

I said, the point

11:53

is it can be very specific

11:55

how stress impacts your brain

11:57

and nervous system. It's not just the necessary

11:59

global thing. It can be very specific

12:02

leading to

12:03

root causes and symptoms. And

12:06

it's not just localized to hippocampus,

12:09

Now

12:09

the reason why this is so important to understand

12:12

because those different regions

12:14

of the brain that we're talking about here, for

12:16

example, to hit the campus, and these

12:18

other ones listed on a slide here for

12:20

you, those are the

12:22

root causes for all brain

12:24

symptoms. Right?

12:25

all brain systems can be localized

12:28

to different regions of the nervous system.

12:30

So as an example, if you have a

12:32

problem of the hippocampus, you can experience

12:34

things like memory issues just like

12:36

I talked about. But in addition to that,

12:38

there's these other areas like, for example,

12:40

the prefrontal cortex, which should

12:42

say the front of your frontal lobe, right

12:45

behind your forehead. We'll actually talk about

12:47

this later on in our talk today.

12:49

But if

12:49

you have issues with the prefrontal cortex, that

12:51

can be the root cause to your brain fall,

12:53

focus, and memory. And

12:54

a very another a very common one I see

12:57

with my patients and clients is the

12:59

brain sensitive areas of the brain them

13:01

are either underactive or overactive. You

13:03

get experience things like gut symptoms,

13:06

stress, and maybe insomnia or core

13:08

sleep. and on and on the vestibular

13:10

system when my patients are glad

13:12

to have issues with that. And I actually had

13:14

that in my journey healing my brain,

13:17

you can experience things like balance issues,

13:19

business, vertigo. Sometimes even

13:21

they anxiety that no matter

13:23

how many supplements you take, or

13:25

how much you change or die you just can't get

13:27

to a root of it.

13:29

It could be rooted because it's

13:31

in a singular system. And

13:33

the point is, brain stress

13:35

isn't just the subjective kind of

13:38

vague thing that happens

13:40

to your brain and body you

13:41

can actually have very specific

13:44

damaging effects on different regions

13:46

of your brain,

13:47

then triggering the root cause

13:50

for

13:50

the brain symptoms that you

13:52

might be experiencing. And

13:55

why is that so important to understand? It's

13:57

because these weak links in your

13:59

nervous

13:59

system and the physical structures of

14:02

your brain

14:03

are the root causes, like I mentioned, for

14:05

all brain symptoms. And

14:08

so when you can pinpoint the root

14:10

cause, where exactly in

14:12

your brain the weakling are? The physical

14:14

reasons why You

14:15

have the brain symptoms that you do. And

14:18

then you're able to strengthen those

14:20

weeklings through personalized brain training

14:22

exercises that are supported By

14:25

diet supplements and lifestyle

14:27

practices, you can rewire

14:29

your brain, strengthen your nervous system,

14:31

and get your life back.

14:33

Again, I was able to do it. Many

14:35

of my patients and clients were able to do

14:37

it, and so was

14:39

married.

14:40

Mary was a client of mine that I worked with

14:42

who was healthy middle aged woman,

14:45

and she really prided herself

14:47

on her positivity, her intelligence, and

14:49

her sharp mind. She was a

14:51

very smart cookie. She was actually the

14:53

director of a global health institution.

14:56

So had a lot of responsibilities

14:58

in took a lot of mental energy,

15:01

you know, but she was doing really well with it.

15:04

And she also since

15:05

she was tied into this, since she was so

15:07

passionate about health and wellness, she had very

15:09

healthy habits. She had a really healthy

15:12

diet, practiced

15:13

really good lifestyle practices

15:15

in rituals and even meditated on

15:18

a consistent basis. But

15:20

after

15:22

chronic stresses in her life, especially

15:24

after the pandemic,

15:26

all the stresses that came with it with her

15:28

work life, with travel, with things

15:30

shifting, and her having more

15:32

difficulty juggling her personal and

15:34

work life,

15:35

cheap peek at the experience is

15:38

minor nagging

15:38

brain symptoms, like brain fog.

15:40

She started having some trouble with focus.

15:43

bit more scatterbrain than usual.

15:45

Her

15:46

memory is getting a little bit worse. She even

15:48

started to build digestive symptoms. Her

15:51

sleep was off and overall, she's

15:53

just feeling kinda stressed and anxious, but

15:55

it

15:55

was still pretty minor

15:57

and

15:58

she was able to manage.

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