The Importance of Brain Health for Successful Professionals

In today’s show, we’ll explore the relationship between brain health and professional success. I’ll outline three key points for maintaining good brain health throughout your professional life that will ensure your success

Key Points from this Episode:
 [ 01:29]     What causes brain fatigue?
[ 09:11]     Is STRESS Your Normal STATE?
 [09:51]     Negative Emotions MUCK up your Cognitive Function
 [10:47]     What Is Your POOR NUTRITION Costing Your Brain?
 [20:09]    Is Western Medicine solving your Health Issues?
 [22:22]    Start Here-->Nutritionally Support Your Genes!

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Transcript

 ITZ_EP106_Brain Health

SUMMARY KEYWORDS

brain, subconscious reprogramming, fatigue, approach, lead, people, function, techniques, genes, literally, genetic, middle, stress, body, top down approach, symptoms, feeling, organ, chronic sleep deprivation, results

The mission is simple to help high achievers naturally eliminate emotional and physical obstacles so they can optimize their life for higher achievement. Welcome to Genesis Zone Show. 

 Good day. Good day and welcome to the Genesis Zone show. This is Dr. Brian Brown. Thank you for taking time out of your busy schedule to join us today on the Genesis zone show. I know you could have been a million other places and you're here and I appreciate that. 

 I in today's show we're going to be exploring the relationship between brain health and professional success. I'll outline three key points for maintaining good brain health throughout your professional life that will ensure your success.

 Have you ever felt like your brain just wasn't cooperating with you? Some days like it was on vacation, but the assembly line was still rolling at 200% capacity? And all the widgets on the assembly line were piling up at the end like Mount Everest?

 Well, if that's the case, then you're not alone. And you might just be suffering from brain fatigue. I know firsthand what this is like. I think most Type A professionals know exactly what this condition is like all too well. 

 From my 25 years of clinical practice experience. There are many issues that can lead to brain fatigue. You know, in the past I've identified about six minor issues and three major issues that can cause brain fatigue. 

 Now the Minor Issues that are linked to brain fatigue. 

 1-Dehydration

First and foremost is dehydration. And if you'll allow me for a second I'm gonna get on my soapbox here. Dehydration can lead to things like headaches, cognitive impairment, and overall brain fatigue. 

 And you may recall from your high school biology days, the term mitochondria. Well, if you're not familiar with that term, or it doesn't ring a bell mitochondria is the powerhouse for your cell. Now what they didn't teach you in high school about mitochondria was this. The average cell inside your body has 2000 of these mitochondria powerhouses in each cell. And each of these mitochondria requires water to form energy by splitting off a hydrogen atom from the H2O molecule, which leads to a combustion reaction providing energy for that mitochondria inside the mitochondria and a fuel sale. Those cells fuel your organs and the domino effect carries throughout the rest of your body. 

 So, without proper hydration, you are literally starving your cells in your body of the very thing that they need. Even your brain of the things that they need, like water, you're starving it of water, you're starving and have the energy that it needs in order to function in order to survive. 

 That's all I've got for my soapbox when it comes to hydration. Dehydration is one of those minor maybe major causes, but definitely a minor cause for brain fatigue. 

 2- Lack of Physical Activity

The next up is it goes without saying that lack of physical activity and research shows this is important for maintaining good brain function as it increases blood flow to the brain and oxygenates the body. 

 3- Maintaining Poor Posture for extended periods of time

Next research shows that maintaining poor posture for extended periods of time, such as slouching or hunching over or slumping over in your in your chair, sitting at the computer screen all day literally can disrupt bioenergetic flow in your body and lead to brain fatigue. Additionally, spending excessive time in front of the computer screen or on your phone, et cetera, et cetera. And guess what? It leads to eyestrain headaches and brain fatigue. 

 4- Noise Pollution

Then there's noise pollution. Now, some people can relate to this. Some people can't. But noise pollution is one of those minor things that can lead to brain fatigue constant exposure to noise and loud noises and music traffic whatever the case may be, can affect sleep quality, and it can also lead to brain fatigue. 

 5- Multitasking

And then last but not least, probably one of the most. One of the ones that hits closest to home for a Type A personality is multitasking. Trying to do too many things. I call it the spaghetti plate analogy where you fall too much spaghetti noodles, play too much sauce, too much meat, too many meatballs and things just start spilling over the sides.

 If you're doing that to yourself and you're setting yourself up for not only decreasing productivity and decreased attention, concentration and focus, but also increased brain fatigue. 

 Now you may be thinking those don't sound like minor issues, Dr. Brian. Well you know my response to that is this in terms of minor being relative. If you only have one or two of those six things that I just listed, then it's probably minor and something you can fix fairly quickly. 

 All right, but if you can relate to three or more of those “minor” issues that cause brain fatigue, and guess what? You're already set up for Brain fatigue, or you may even have symptoms of brain fatigue and you just don't even know it yet. 

Brain Fatigue

·         So, what are those symptoms of brain fatigue? Well, some symptoms of brain fatigue include:

·         Forgetfulness

·         Irritability

·         Difficulty focusing or concentrating

·         Feeling easily overwhelmed

·         Being easily distracted

·         Sadness. Notice, I didn't say depression, but just feeling melancholy or blue or sad or just your moods not quite right. 

·         Feeling anxious

·         Being stressed out over the least little things that normally wouldn't stress you out, and then feeling mentally exhausted when you wake up even after a full night's sleep, whatever that is for you. 

 3 Major Issues that Cause Brain Fatigue

So now let's talk about those three major issues that cause brain fatigue. And these are issues that I commonly see in clients that I work with and I've seen throughout my career over the past 25 years or so. These by far are the ones that wreaked the most havoc on your neurological system and on your physical system throughout your body. 

 1-Chronic sleep deprivation. Lack of adequate and restful sleep can result in chronic brain fatigue. As the brain requires sufficient time to recharge and rejuvenate. Now we get that recharging effect in two phases of our sleep. One more important to do, but they're both important one is REM sleep, which is a lighter sleep. It's where we dream. Those are our dream states. That's very restorative for our brains. 

 Typically, we pass through REM sleep on the way to deep sleep. And then when we pull out a deep sleep, we come back up into room. So rhythm is the kind of a 2 for 1, two parts around one part deep sleep typically is the way it goes. So you're cycling in and out like this. Kind of down measure. 

 But those two phases of sleep are critically important. Now if you don't remember your dreams, it doesn't necessarily mean you're not in REM sleep. You're dreaming. You're just one of those people that may not remember those dreams and that's okay. 

 The only way you can really know what phases of sleep you're in throughout the night is to track it. And there are a lot of different tracking devices. I don't represent any of them. So, you kind of do your homework if you want any help with that. I've got some that I use personally and I'll be glad to recommend them. You could just message me on LinkedIn and Instagram or Facebook @DrBrianGBrown. I'd be glad to help you out on that.

 But chronic sleep deprivation is critical.

 Now, let me talk a little bit more about that. You may actually be sleeping 6, 7,8 maybe even 9 hours per night. I don't even know what that feels like. But because I'm not one of those people. I'm a seven hour a night person and that pretty well does it for me. Every now and then I'll get eight but seven is my sweet spot. And I know that energizes me. I track my sleep I know I'm getting about 30% Deep sleep there and which is really good for you know my age, but I work on that there are different things and techniques that I use to make sure I get that. But deep sleep is where it's at. It's critically important. Gotta be tracking. If you're not tracking your sleep, you need to start tracking your sleep now. 

 2- Chronic Stress

Number two, the number two most common major cause of brain fatigue is chronic stress. Now prolonged exposure to stress. It goes without saying research has proven this over and over again. Prolonged exposure to stress can cause the brain to become overwhelmed, leading to fatigue and decreased mental clarity. 

In other words, if you're expending energy and areas of your brain that you have no business expending energy ends, such as dealing with stress, whether physical stress or emotional stress, relational stress, whatever the case may be. You're expending energy in those areas that you're not devoting to focusing on the task at hand, which is the work that you have before you, your business that you own, the work that you do as a C suite type executive. 

Now, having practiced functional medicine in psychiatry for nearly two and a half decades, I can attest firsthand that negative emotions such as anxiety, depression, stress chronic stress, they definitely cause brain fatigue and negatively impact your cognitive function. 

 It's not pretty when it happens. In fact, a lot of type A people like me and you are those types of people that can go a long time before we reach our breaking point. We can deal with a lot of stress because it's just the way we're programmed is to deal with that level of stress. And we pile more and more and more on us until we reach our breaking point. And then our brain literally shuts down. 

 You need to know this is a growing problem. It has been for my entire practice career, but more so in the past three years, I've seen a significant uptick in chronic stress. 

 3- Poor Nutrition

And the last but not least, the number three is poor nutrition, you know an inadequate diet lacking in essential nutrients and vitamins can lead to brain fatigue, as the brain requires a steady supply of nutrients to function at an optimal. 

 Poor nutrition can contribute to sleep problems and it just further exacerbates brain fatigue. Chronic physical fatigue is related to nutritional deficits can also lead to brain fatigue. So, there's this trickledown effect. 

 They're all saying you are what you eat has never been truer when it comes to brain health and brain fatigue. I have people that come in, new clients that come in all the time, and they'll say I do pretty good in the mornings, and by midafternoon my brain is just shutting down. I can't function. 

 One of the first questions I asked him is “What do you typically eat at lunch every day?”

  Some people will say nothing. I don't eat anything and lunch. I'm too busy. I work right through lunch. That's a problem right there because you're in a calorie deficit. You're in a protein deficit. You really need to get those calories, that protein in your system, some good complex carbohydrates in order to keep functioning through the afternoon hours because our body takes this ( It's the technical term is diurnal) but this rhythmic change throughout the day. 

 And the way we function energetically about the time we've been awake for about six to eight hours. So about anywhere from if you're getting up at 6am bothering him, anywhere from 12 Noon ish to one or two o'clock in the afternoon. You're on your downward cycle for the energetic cycle for your waking day. And those are things to pay attention to.

 So, we got to feed our body, we've got to feed ourselves. I always tell people “Think about eating to eating to survive, not surviving to eat.” People who love food, they're foodies. They just survive to eat, they love to eat, they're looking for their next meal. They're planning the next meal out. But we should get into this mindset of thinking about this as you know proper food Proper nutrition is my survival. It's what's going to make me feel my best. So put the right things into your body and your body will reward you. 

 Supplement

I will say this food supplies as a general rule are nutrient poor these days. I mean the soul has been depleted of proper nutrients for a long time. So, do we have to supplement it from time to time? Yes, we do have to supplement from time to time should we do an analysis of what those nutritional needs are? Absolutely we should, both from a genetic and from a just systemic level. But that's another conversation for another day. 

 Now here's the thing about these three major causes as cut and dry as getting your diet right, ensuring that you're getting seven to eight hours of sleep per night, or just simply distressing your life. Now don't get me wrong. These are great starting points, good measures to take and every professional out there should strive for you know moving in those directions, but chances are, you've probably already tried getting your diary I tried to get enough sleep. Trying to get the DC, tried to destress and declutter your life. And chances are you've had limited success with that.

 3 Strategies to Maintain Good Brain Health

Well, there's a reason for that. And that leads me to my next point, which are these three strategies that I'd like to share with you that will help you maintain good brain health and subsequently good physical health.

 Do This EXERCISE

I want you to grab a piece of paper in front of you. Now you can do this straight down the middle of the page. I want you to draw three circles, one at the top, one at the bottom and one in the middle. I want you to connect those circles with a line in between each one of them. So, you end up with this line. These three circles connected by a line 111 linear line now.

 1-    Top Down Approach 

I want you to think about the number one strategy to maintaining and ensuring and protecting and restoring brain health as a top down approach. Now this top down approach represents that top circle at the top of your page. 

 Now this one involves subconscious reprogramming, don't get freaked out by that term. It's not somebody trying to shrink your brain you know you go into a psychiatrist and trying to have your brain “shrunk,” none of that stuff. Nobody's doing this work but you. And it is guarded by a professional that knows what they're doing. But subconscious reprogramming is possible. 

 Now you see, after years of studying Traditional Chinese Medicine psychiatry, which is what I'm board certified in functional medicine. Have a secondary certification in that Genetics, German New Medicine and various other techniques throughout my 25 years practice. 

 Here's what I found. It all starts with your thoughts and belief patterns. 

 And most of this occurs on the subconscious level. Now before you tune me out, and you think whoa, this is way too Woo woo, I don't want to go off and all my subconscious programming work. I mean, look at Tony Robbins.

 Tony Robbins is one of the most proficient people at walking people through subconscious reprogramming. And he does it beautifully. And there are other techniques that work very well very rapidly that can be done on the fly and get massive results. And those are the techniques that I use personally, I don't claim to be a Tony Robbins by any stretch of the imagination, but I am similar in that respect and that I do believe that the brain controls everything. It's a top-down approach. And I'm going to explain that to you. 

 This is based off of my research, okay. What I found in my years of research, studying all these various techniques is that external stimulus comes in; an event, a circumstance, something happens and we develop a subjective perception. And most of the time this subjective perception, the perception about this event or this circumstance is totally subconscious. Sometimes it's not, but most of the time it is, and this activates the brain. And when the brain gets activated and it's chewing on this processing this at a subconscious level. It literally develops a new belief pattern about that circumstance or event. 

 Now this new belief pattern causes a cascade or waterfall effect of electromagnetic and neuro chemical messengers that are excreted from the brain. The brain releases all of these electromagnetic and neuro chemical messengers that go out, flood the body, all the tissues, all the organs in the body. And the body and the organs receive received the electromagnetic and neurochemical messages from the brain. And then they start creating neurochemical and electromagnetic messages of their own. That then crossed the cell wall in the organ system. 

 And once it crosses the cell wall, it goes into the cell nucleus. And when it gets in the cell nucleus, guess what it does? You reprogram your DNA. And guess what the DNA does? That DNA is really trying to combine for that cell, in that organ, in that tissue system in that body, and it sends that new message back out for to the organ system - this is the way you're going to function. Okay? So by simply starting with an event circumstance and our perception, our belief pattern about that event, and the chemical pathways that come down all the way to the genetic level, and the genetics literally reprogram the organ to function a certain way. It's good science people and I've got this got the research to back this up. 

 It plays out over and over and over every single day. We store trapped emotion in various systems in our body. And guess what?  There are ways to map that, we can actually see where that trapped emotion is. We know exactly where to target, how to target it, and know what to do with it to reprogram that so that it starts working to our advantage instead of our disadvantage. 

 And hopefully, you're able to see how your thoughts can literally reprogram your genes and the function of your organs which can either help you or hinder you. So approach number one is a top down approach of subconscious reprogramming of those initial beliefs so that good chemical messages are sent out to the body's DNA and subsequently the body's working.

 2-    Middle Out Approach

Now the second approach is what I call it a middle out. Really simple minded. It's a middle out approach on this diagram on the diagram it represents that middle circle on your drawing drew a few minutes ago. 

 Now this is what I call a symptom in approach and it's where traditional Western medicine and all the complementary and alternative medicine techniques reside, all with their unique strategies and unique techniques and approaches. But all individually they're to serve the management of symptoms. 

 Notice the nuance there. We're not treating causes, we're managing symptoms. Now, each one of those will tell you we're treating the root cause of what's going on. But in reality, they're not because we're not treating the thoughts. We're not treating the root cause. 

 I'll show you in a minute, there's another root cause that we need to address. But this middle out approach is more of a reactionary symptom management, symptom reactive type approach. Now people in the complementary and alternative space do not like to hear that. But it is what it is. It's still in that middle out approach that we're coming from, and there's nothing wrong with it. There's a place for it. They're all on a spectrum at what the different niche areas that they work in. And that's great.

 But you need to know it's a middle out approach. When we're talking about this cascade of events that occurs from an event and a follow on and a belief all the way down to the genetic level. It's a middle out approach. Now there's a lot of good work that can be done here. 

 But it really is on treating issues after the issues have appeared after the problems have appeared. And addressing only symptoms, or they appeared can pose a problem. If you're not addressing the true cause or causes, such as beliefs and thinking patterns, or this next approach which 

3-    Bottom-Up Approach

We're about to go into this next approach number three is what I call a bottom up approach. It represents that bottom circle, and you've probably guessed what I was going to call it by now just simply by hearing the names of the other two, but this is a bottom-up approach. 

 Now this approach represents the bottom circle on that diagram drawing and it's all about DNA. Did you know that you can literally nutritionally support a gene or multiple genes at the same time by giving them what they need nutritionally in order to function correctly? Thus, turning a “bad” gene off. Okay, and turning a good gene just like a switch on. It's amazing how that happens. People don't even realize this, but it's true. And we know how to do this based on a simple genetic profile. It's like a cheek swab. Okay, doesn't even require any blood. 

 Now, please understand, the type of genetic testing that I'm talking about is medical grade level testing, not your 23andme variety, which is a very watered down direct to consumer level type of tests. No, on the contrary, the type of testing I'm talking to, is the type of genetic testing this kind of next level stuff, okay, it goes really deep and really, really wide. And you get a complete picture of what's going on with this person with the modifiable genes that we know we can modify right now. 

 o, to review we have a top down or subconscious reprogramming approach. We have the middle out or reactive symptom management level type approach, where complementary and alternative medicine and all of those different techniques as well as traditional medicine reside and we have a bottom up approach which is nutritionally supporting your genes to function at their highest level. 

 Now, if I'm being completely honest with you, and I never want to be anything other than that, I'm being completely honest with you. I've personally and professionally used every single one of these approaches through the years, okay, even in the complementary and alternative field, you name it, I've done it, okay. However, it wasn't until the past five or so years that I came to realize that I truly don't have to spend much time in the middle out approach category. 

 If, and this is a big if, I spend time on the top down approach and the bottom up approach, at the same time, and this is key, we can't work on the top down approach and expect super rapid results. You get results you get great results. Okay? We can't spend time on the bottom up approach alone and expect great results. You get good results, but you won't get great results. 

 But what I found is an astronomically rapid way to get results for clients, including myself, I was the first person that healed because that's another story for another day. I've had major health issues due to an electrocution injury at age five that caused a whole host of problems and then again another story for another day. 

 But these when you combine the synergy of a bottom up genetic approach with a top down subconscious reprogramming approach, it's amazing the results that you get.

 We used to and just using standard functional medicine that middle out approach technique, we would see really good results in you know, 6, 9, 12 months on people that were chronically ill had never been able to find answers for years or decades, and we'd be able to get them turned the corner within 6, 9,12 months, which is very short period of time relatively speaking when you're talking about chronic illness. 

 But when you start working on the top, with the subconscious reprogramming and the bottom with the genetics you don't have to do much in the middle. Yeah, for some people you might have to for this part you don't. And I found that it's mostly a hands off approach in that middle out portion because you're addressing the top and the bottom at the same time. 

 Now wrapping up, I hope you're able to see that complementary and alternative medicine techniques, no matter what genre they fall into are all good. The question is, are they best challenge that one approach is not necessarily better than another and also challenge that one approach is not better than a combination of approaches, which to me is a more complete way to treat this person. You, me, all of us at a very holistic level, a whole personal level. 

 And I think that's what you deserve. I think that's what we all deserve. We deserve to get the best results, the fastest way we possibly can. Because guess what, you don't have time to deal with health issues whether they be brain or body issues or otherwise, and your time is way too valuable for that.

 So if you're curious about how to check your genes, how to start working from a top down subconscious reprogramming approach, just reach out to me on Instagram, Facebook or LinkedIn at @Dr. Brian G Brown, and I'll be glad to walk you through that. 

 Most informed most trusted and generally maps grateful that you spent this time with us today. Until next time, stay in the zone. I'm Dr. Brian Brown.