Speaker 1 0:13

And welcome to another episode of coffee with Dr . Golden , where we explore integrative solutions to your chronic challenges. I am [inaudible] and with me merrily sipping his coffee is my good friend, Dr. Craig, golden

Speaker 2 0:28

Morning , everyone.

Speaker 1 0:30

Um, okay. So today we threw out a very wide mate , uh, with, with the topic. Um, and you said, you know, where you can talk about this for a week nonstop , um, but let's look a bit into brain boosting and, and like you said, it's not a medical term, but what do you understand under that? And what can we do to boost our brains?

Speaker 2 0:55

Yeah, that's a very open-ended question because there's so much that one could talk about. Um, you know, there's so many different ways to approach it. You could use, for example, the breeders and recoat system, and look at the different things that go wrong with the brain, like inflammation and loss of trophic support and toxicity and harsh sugar, and location , um, trauma trauma to their head or vascular problems. So you can look at it medically, or you could just grasp, I guess, some straightforward principles. So for example, any degenerative problem of the brain, you want to approach it with regenerative medicine and the core of that is mitochondrial health. So you could focus on the mitochondria, do some cocuten PQ the amount of Conrad on units , um, like a seagull L-carnitine and so on. Um, Southern mitochondrial approach is very important. And then there's a whole field of what we call neuro tropics . I think we've had a coffee before I met. We have David Tolman wrote a lovely book or has written a lovely book on new tropics . And I used them in practice. You know, sometimes I'm using Bacopa sometimes I'm using Gingko biloba, sometimes I'm losing them using vinpocetine and then other neurotropics , um, you know, there's so many of them, it's a bit much to me to list them all in a box in a coffee, but I think that concept of nootropics , um , and the brain is very important because they brain boosters, as you, as you use that term, it's very broad concept. It's this really optimizing the function of your brain. And then, you know, one of my favorites is medicinal mushrooms and mine's Maine , right ?

Speaker 1 2:38

So I take that almost every day . I mean , it makes a massive difference.

Speaker 2 2:41

Lion's mane is a wonderful mushroom for , for the brain. It's the mushroom for , for the brain. And then you get all sorts of fancy things , um, you know, like whole , uh , coffee extracts and coffee, fruit extracts, and supplements. You know, you get three and seven and the list goes on and on and on, you know, in terms of what you can do. But something that comes to mind that I think is very, very important. Cause you know, we've put together a good course on cognitive decline. Don't forget exercise, exercise, you know, 50% improvement , um, in some studies of brain function . So very important to, to exercise. And we know in Alzheimer's patients that their reserve or keep their memory of music and music is a powerful tool to , to boost your brain. You know, it's , it's beautiful . And I think people should enjoy the music that then

Speaker 1 3:33

Exactly that video of the ballet dancer, who , um, have you seen that? Um, so she she's a ballet dancer and they , they play her music from Swan Lake.

Speaker 2 3:44

Yes. I have seen it at S and then she comes back from, from very advanced Alzheimer's it's heart wrenching, and then you bring them back and then you do your little tricks, you know, like a led laser yes . Around the head and the helmet and all sorts of things there. Something else that comes to mind is the glymphatic system, you know, detox that happens when you sleep well. Um, so the lymph drainage and the glare of the brain combined to form what we call the glymphatic system. And that is very useful for detox in the brain, which directly is going to boost your brain because you have less toxins in the way. Right. Of course.

Speaker 1 4:20

And then something, I mean, you, you spoke about exercise and something specific in exercise that just popped out to me is something like yoga because it's not just, and I'm not dissing

Speaker 2 4:33

Yoga and

Speaker 1 4:34

Meditation. Um, I I'm actually starting again because I'm not able to train in my group at the moment , uh, in, in the Aikido. So my body is going to, to waste with, with fitness and, and I thought , let's start again with yoga.

Speaker 2 4:52

Well , you know , not , I think I see a lot of patients every day. And the general consensus is since this COVID story, a lot of people have given up the exercise regime because the gyms kind of didn't didn't operate. And , um, people associate exercise with the gym that you can do that at home, you know , um, you and I both have a yoga mat, so you can do or set up some blanks and yoga stretches and stuff at home. It's not really a , it'd be to get some exercise in and obviously walking and , uh , and exercises I've said is very important. The other thing that comes to mind when you say in boosting of the brain is heavy metals, like aluminum and mercury. So just for those two , I mean, I'll use the horsetail herb [inaudible] , which is SSE targeted to orally absorbable. Yes . Um , for mercury and vitamin C very important for the brain, but I mean, E very important for the brand new B vitamins for methylation , um, due to thyroid support, inositol cystine NAD. I mean, we must've mentioned NAD would abuse to the brain, is that

Speaker 1 5:53

Exactly? But I mean, everything that you mentioning now, we can just as well copy paste into a talk for heart health and we can copy and paste as you want

Speaker 2 6:01

Vascular system in your heart, your neck peripherally and in the brain to be in good shape, you know , so improving vasculature, I mean, I can bring up pycnogenol way, you know, so improving blood vessel function, or so, you know, pine bark extract is marathon French maritime pockets or bark extract. Sorry. Yeah. And then you have your essential oils. There's a whole field in that. Uh , so there's so much to talk about. It's kind of intimidating too ,

Speaker 1 6:30

To, to approach with,

Speaker 2 6:34

With the knowledge that we have now. Um, there's so much you can do to improve the function of it .

Speaker 1 6:40

And , and also then frequencies and how we spoke about the laser we touched on . But , um, if you listen to specific frequencies, you can boost your brain. Um, when I write articles, for example, I sit with my earphones on and , um, I know YouTube, isn't always the best resource of information, but they are , uh, um , videos with specific frequencies that boost imagination or boost focus. Um, and

Speaker 2 7:10

Those sorts of machine , or when you're talking about

Speaker 1 7:14

Sounds [inaudible] sound frequencies. Well, I need rifles, just some frequencies that we can't hear , um, which is also, it's, it's a beautiful therapy, but this is specifically music at a specific frequency.

Speaker 2 7:27

Yeah. Well, some people do well on Mozart . Other people do well, maybe what do you listen to God of interest?

Speaker 1 7:32

Um , so frequency sound frequency, it's a sound frequency. And then they have music over that. Or they have , uh , environmental sounds , um, or they have chanting, but it is at a frequent, a frequency that's overlaid .

Speaker 2 7:47

So we know sound is a medicinal approach that is not utilized enough. I mean, I think it's, I think it's very, very powerful. You know what you mean? Truffle yoga to a very close friend of ours called me ward who use sound as part of her therapy. And gosh, I felt tremendous up to them and I still do, to be honest, I sound as a powerful medicine as is music. Exactly.

Speaker 1 8:12

We love you code name . We must, we must meet up against ,

Speaker 2 8:15

Don't forget to laugh and enjoy your life. The other foods, you know, try and eat foods that are good for your brain. You can Spanish full of B vitamins, your broccoli extracts for detox of endogenous toxins and so on. And so on. We can, we can talk forever.

Speaker 1 8:29

Yeah. I mean, I'm , I'm really on a roll at the moment. Quiet time.

Speaker 2 8:34

Hmm . Well, meditation, quiet time. I would put that in the same kind of category or what you want is less peripheral noise.

Speaker 1 8:40

Exactly. Exactly. I had a , um, a challenge was monitor . I get up at four now to , uh , do a form of contemplated pray or sat in meditation and the neighbor's dog , um, had been yapping. So I got with , um , not a , a happy thought going into meditation. And then just in , in some way that noise started to fade and it's beautiful because then the brain starts to focus and it just starts being. And if you can start your day like that, it is such a wonderful way of preparing for the day.

Speaker 2 9:19

Yeah, it's true. And another thing that comes to mind is the gut brain and adrenal gut adrenal brain . So looking after your adrenals and gases is very important for brain health. I mean, just look at a couple of nutrients that phosphatidyl when nutraceuticals [inaudible] ashwaganda right, pregnant alone , you're doing things there for nerve growth factor and brain derived neurotrophic factor by looking after your adrenals. And we know that a healthy gut leads to a better functioning brain too. So don't forget, you know, the , the, the whole concept of gut health leading to brain health. I mean, that's another card .

Speaker 1 9:55

It is. I actually wanted to talk about that as well at some stage. So we will,

Speaker 2 10:01

I think we should do a whole coffee on gut-brain connections. You know, the hormones, the neurotransmitters serotonin that's in the gut, your immune system, that's in the gut, death begins in the colon. So if you're treating the brain or you're boosting the brain, don't forget the guts. Yes .

Speaker 1 10:17

And then, I mean, we've now spoken about things to add, but also very important as things to remove. Yeah,

Speaker 2 10:23

Absolutely. That obstruct your progress. Exactly. Um, there's so many scientists , heavy metals mold in Alation

Speaker 1 10:32

[inaudible] choices,

Speaker 2 10:33

Huge things , stress, right? Yes. Managing your adrenals, they're managing your stress so important for brain booster and it's cortisol causes brain folks . So yes. Better manage reporters or better.

Speaker 1 10:45

It's something that , um , sorry to people, but , uh , we need to learn is saying no,

Speaker 2 10:55

But I think we all learn it at some point as part of our journey here on planet earth.

Speaker 1 11:01

And we need to start incorporating it because for us, the , the , the challenge is that we have such a passion, I think, to help people that everybody ends up with your cell phone number and they think it is okay to then at eight o'clock start discussing the issues. And , um, and for some people it is okay. You know, for, for me, it depends on who the person is. Of course I will usually respond, but the challenge comes in that it becomes the norm. And if you then are not available for five or six people at eight o'clock at night, then they get upset and having those healthy boundaries, that's where I'm getting to is setting healthy boundaries. Um, it's also a form of boosting your brain because you need to switch off and you need to have they're dressed well downtown, right? Downtown burning the candle at both ends, sadly me time or family time or whatever you want to call that doggy time. That's true. Otherwise you burn yourself up and your adrenals are shot. Then what happens after that brain fatigue, mitochondrial fatigue, and then you're in trouble. And then you can't help anybody nor your soul to look after yourself and love yourself first. Exactly. Give yourself a hug. We can love everyone else. Yes . Okay. Now on that happy note, I think this was a very condensed thing. If , if we were going to go back and listen to it, it's going to be quite , um, I think we mentioned some concepts concept . Beautiful. It's , uh , it's very practical to speak in consequences. Yes. Okay. So we will be back next week , um , for another episode of coffee with Dr . Golden. And , um, what I wanted to chat about next week is the interaction between practitioner and patient that it's not just, you know, patient comes, sticks out the arm and says, Jake me and make me better. Well , I think that, you know, I try my best to inform patients what they're doing so that they understand what's going on with their problems, as well as the solutions when communication is key there around a good patient doctor relationship, where's its own boundaries examination so that we will discuss next week when we will be back for another episode of coffee with Dr. Golding . And we are going to explore integrative solutions to more of your chronic challenges. Also, I'm quite a bit funny yet in saying goodbye.

Speaker 3 13:40

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