Jan 6, 2020
Today on the Yogahealer podcast,
Dr. Gary Kaplan, D.O. joins me to chat about the various impacts of
stress and sleep deprivation on the brain and overall
health.
What you’ll get out of tuning in:
- What
is Mast Cell Activation Syndrome
- What
causes brain inflammation and how it impacts our quality of
life
- Why
sleep is so crucial for long-term health
- How
Yoga treats pain
- Why
meditation is so effective for sleep and pain
disorders
- Why
sleep apnea is so dangerous for your overall
health
- What
really causes Lyme disease
- What
is EDS and how does it impact the body on a deeper
level
Links Mentioned in Episode:
Show Highlights:
- Dr.
Gary explains how to determine if you have brain
inflammation
- Cate
and Dr. Gary discuss what optimal sleep is, and give advice on how
to get it.
- Cate
and Dr. Gary rap on the many benefits of meditation for physical
and mental health.
- Dr.
Gary spells out the different forms of Lyme Disease and how to
treat them.
Timestamps:
- 4:00
- 9:00 Stress and inflammation in the brain
- 9:00
- 17:00 Optimal sleep and sleep disorders
- 17:00
- 24:20 Sleep Apnea
- 25:30
- 29:30 Disease in adolescents and belief systems
- 29:30
- 36:00 Meditation, processing emotions and gratitude
- 36:00
- 40:30 The benefits of habits on overall health
- 40:30
- 46:00 Lyme disease and EDS
Favorite Quotes:
- “Deep
sleep is essential because that is when the brain detoxifies” - Dr.
Gary
- “As
you start to get sleep deprived (less than 6 hours), after a week
of that, your performance level is the same as being drunk” - Dr.
Gary
- “If
you wake up feeling behind, there is something wrong, and it’s
lifestyle based” - Cate Stillman
- “Deep
sleep and deep meditation have a lot of similar abilities to
detoxify the mental and emotional buildup of activities (the
thinking and emotions) that get packed into our day.” - Cate
Stillman
- “Our
habits are creating the disease” - Cate Stillman
- “Taking care of ourselves should be our first,
second, and third priority, then we are much more effective at
everything else we want to do.” - Dr. Gary
- “Meditation, we can’t start early enough. We
should be teaching meditation in grade schools. We should be
teaching yoga in the grade schools.” -Dr. Gary
- “What
are our belief systems that are driving our habits? What are our
belief systems that are forming our lives? That’s when doing things
like meditation where you are really sitting and listening to
yourself, you are aware of what is going on that you begin to
understand where you can get better.” - Dr. Gary
- “Meditation is a pain in the ass. Because
meditation is sitting and being with what is and not judging it.
Sometimes with what is is painful. Fear. It’s about what else is
there.” - Dr. Gary
- “Building these habits, these habits that help
us be healthy changes us physiologically. They change our brain,
they change our immune system, they change our health.” - Dr.
Gary
Guest BIO:
Gary Kaplan, D.O., is the founder and medical director of the
Kaplan Center for Integrative Medicine, and author of Total
Recovery: A Revolutionary New Approach to Breaking the Cycle of
Pain and Depression. A pioneer and leader in the field of
integrative medicine, Dr. Kaplan is one of only 19 physicians in
the country to be board-certified in both Family Medicine and Pain
Medicine. He is board-certified in Medical Acupuncture and has
studied and practiced Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine, Emergency
Medicine and Herbal Medicine. In response to growing numbers of
patients presenting with heavy metal toxicity, Dr. Kaplan received
certification in the science and practice of chelation therapy, by
The American College for Advancement in Medicine (ACAM).
A clinical associate professor
in the Department of Community and Family Medicine at Georgetown
University School of Medicine, Dr. Kaplan was one of the directors
of a $1.7 million NIH grant that funded an educational initiative
to incorporate complementary, alternative, and integrative medicine
into Georgetown’s medical curriculum.
In 2013, Dr. Kaplan was
appointed by U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS),
Kathleen Sebelius, to the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Advisory
Committee (CFSAC). The Committee provides advice and
recommendations to the Secretary of HHS through the Assistant
Secretary for Health on issues related to ME/CFS.
In 2015 Dr. Kaplan established
the Foundation for Total Recovery in order to provide support and
find a cure for all who suffer with chronic pain and depression by
educating patients, building an online community of patients,
doctors and researchers, partnering with leading researchers,
academics and innovators, and studying data to find a baseline
approach to diagnosing and curing neuroinflammation.