← Coffee N° 5 with Lara Schmoisman
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Dr. Patrick Porter
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Lara Schmoizman
This is Coffee Number Five. I'm your host, Lara Schmoizman. Hi, everyone. Welcome back to Coffee Number Five. So don't get too stressed today. Relax a little bit, but if you can't, I'm gonna tell you how. And I was so impressed. I heard this man talk at this gentleman in a conference that I was a couple months ago, and I was like, you need to be in my podcast, because I think everyone in the business world, in the entrepreneurship world, works super stress. And sometimes it's really hard for us to. To close our mind. I think that it's so hard to stop ourselves from thinking sometimes that we cannot think clearly. So I was so impressed by Dr. Patrick's Porter's presentation that I invited him to have coffee with me. Hi, Doctor. How are you doing?
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Dr. Patrick Porter
I'm doing great. Thanks for having me.
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Lara Schmoizman
So I want. You are the founder of Braintap. What is Braintop? And how did you come to the conclusion that the brain tap was needed in this world?
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Dr. Patrick Porter
Well, I think we have a technology problem out there in the world today, right? I mean, people are looking at their screens or they're bombarded by EMFs. There's all this electrical noise that's going on around us, EMFs and things of that nature. And we need a technology solution. So what I. Back in the 80s, actually, in 1986, I was with a group called Light and Sound Research, and we were looking at ways to help people get out of pain. My background psychology. So they. I would be sent people that were psychologically in pain, but they shouldn't have physiologically been in pain. They had a surgery, or maybe they had a. Something happened to their body. And so what we were doing was we were teaching them something called biofeedback. We were teaching them to, for instance, if you have a headache and your hands are warm, you won't have a headache anymore because we now know that you create alpha brainwaves. And so we started researching on how can we trigger this activity in the brain. We call it brainwave entrainment. So when you're training the brain well, that's why we call it brain fitness, is we need stimulus to do that. Every cell of your body is interacting with its environment, and it's training to the environment. So, for instance, if you and I were to sit down next to the ocean, that ocean has an evoked potential of 10 hertz, just happens to be alpha, which is a relaxing, comfortable state. So what we started looking at is what. What do we have out there in nature that is Already doing this. And then how can we create a technology solution that can do the same thing? Because people can't always go to the ocean, they can't always go to the mountaintop, they can't always do all these things. So how can you have a brain break, get your brain back to balance? And right now, I think the main reason we created it and now as we look back over the last 38 years, is that people right now are under chronic low level stress all the time. I mean, used to be when I was in practice before 2000, I could leave the office, shut the door and not have to worry about any clients until the next morning I'd go in.
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Lara Schmoizman
I remember those days, you take a trip and you don't have emails, you don't have phone calls, you have cell phones, nothing. But I mean, it's so interesting that as we grow and in, in this time and this time, we always talking about balance and to me, balance is kind of the age versus sometimes because what balance means for me can be different for someone else. But everyone is talking about work, life, balance and, but we forgot about balance our brain many times.
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Dr. Patrick Porter
Yes. Yeah. When you're, when you're under stress, you basically you have a cortisol response and you also, your liver pumps 25 grams of sugar into your bloodstream. So if you're thinking about that, that's like eating a candy bar every time you get stressed out. So if you're an entrepreneur and you're running your own business, you're going to have a lot of activations, let's call them, where, where you get stressed out. Like things don't work out the way you, you want them to. So your brain actually tells your body that it's in fight or flight. Because this body isn't designed to work in the environments we're in today. I mean, it wasn't, you know, 2,000 years ago we were living in caves, you know, so here we are, we're under lights, we're living in homes, we don't have the same stressors that we have, but the stress we have today, it's constant. So one of the reasons that I invented Brain Tap and why I think people need to have some kind of brain fitness is we need to disassociate, but in a positive way. A lot of people disassociate with drugs and alcohol and things of that nature, but we want to disassociate in a very, very natural way in our cells. Actually on a physiological level, our cells want light, sound and Vibration. That's.
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Lara Schmoizman
Okay, let's explain for a second what brain fitness is. Because many people think that it's doing puzzles or trying to grow your iq, right?
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Dr. Patrick Porter
That's, that's not really brain fitness. In fact, the science has proven that the smarter you become, the dumber you are. It's, you have to be creative. So there's a right brain and there's a left brain. So our, our society acknowledges everyone who's left brained. And they can pass tests and they can do all these things. They can do puzzles, they can do Sudoku or, or whatever, and they, they master those things, but they can't fix the tire on their car. You know, so the, the reality is that we need both of these brains. We need this creative brain. When you think about the Renaissance men like Leonardo da Vinci and Edison Tesla, those kind of people, they were both left brained and right brained. So today, what I think people are lacking is when we think about balance and it really comes down to voltage in the brain. Because the brain voltage that we have, our foods that we're consuming, are causing our body to become toxic. The environments that we're in are causing our body to be toxic. Our thoughts. In fact, Deepak Chopra, who's probably one of the leading voices out there in what we call quantum health, he says that 90% of the thoughts we have today were the same thoughts we had yesterday, but 80% of them are negative. And Bruce Lipton, who wrote the book Biology of Belief, he said that 3,200 gene expressions are actually triggered by the thoughts we think by the words we use. So when you think about stress reduction, there's no such thing as stress reduction. What we need to do is we need to build more capacity in our brain. So when we think about brain fitness, we're talking about something called neuroplasticity, which they didn't know about if we were having.
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Lara Schmoizman
This is so interesting that you were talking about this, because I was reading Adam's grant book where he explains that many times, being a tutor, maybe you learn more than by trying to be a student, right?
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Dr. Patrick Porter
Yeah. They say we teach what we need to learn.
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Lara Schmoizman
Exactly.
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Dr. Patrick Porter
In fact, when I had my interns, when I had my franchise company, you had to be an intern and then you had to teach somebody, because if you couldn't teach what you learned, you didn't learn it.
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Lara Schmoizman
Exactly. It's so important to be able to and also to, to give you a better understanding. Having to explain to someone, it gives you, you not only have to understand the concept, you need to have the ability of expressing it.
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Dr. Patrick Porter
Yes. Yeah. I mean, they say that if you can't explain it simply, you don't know it well enough. You know, a lot of people get all confused about what's going on. So brain fitness is really a simple solution. I mean, we have Braintap, of course, the technology that I developed. But if we had time, the solution is get up without an alarm. Let your own body's natural rhythms wake you up with the light of the sun. You create your own cortisol, neuropernephrine, dopamine. You would be ready to go, you wouldn't need a cup of coffee. You know that coffee. If you need coffee in the morning, you have a neurological imbalance because you just slept all night long. Why would you need coffee to wake you up, you just slept. And they know that when you sleep, that's when you incubate your superpowers, right? If you want to perform better today, have a good night's sleep. They've proven that if you have two nights in a row, poor sleep, it's almost like you had two drinks of alcohol. So sleep is really important. We know the solution. And the solution is turn off all of your technology. Two hours before bed, turn off the lights, you know, do something happy, healthy. You know, maybe listen to some broke classical music or some light music. You know, maybe have a conversation with a family member or friend. Do something. You think about ancient traditions. What did we do in ancient times after we were out hunting and gathering? We'd gather around the campfire, right? And we would talk about the day. Well, now we know in science, neuroscience tells us that that fire is burning at 10 Hz frequency. That's Alpha, that's the, that's the brainwave you want to go to when you meditate. So the fire's going. You ever been to a campfire and you go, that fire is mesmerizing. You know, people just want to stare at it. That's because that fire is flickering. There's a science called frequency following response. So the brain actually matches that. We have mirror neurons in every cell. So our body then resonates to that 10 Hz frequency. Then we begin to create what's called acetylcholine, which is a neurotransmitter. These neurotransmitters are only activated through the different brain waves. So when you think about our lifestyle today, people go from 24 hour news cycles to talking, you know, worry about their business or concerns at night. The last two hours before you go to bed should be only talking about positive things, what you're going to do, maybe even having a prayer moment, whatever it is. And you could do all that without spending a dime. Because also we need to be outside getting Sunlight. You know, Dr. Cousins 20 years ago said the most under prescribed nutrient on earth is light. And this is because people don't understand. Our cells need light energy because everything you eat, everything you breathe, even the sounds you hear around you are converted into electrical energy in the brain. And then the brain decodes them into pictures and images and sounds and all of these things. But it's really comes down to something called ATP. This is the fuel for the cells. So in, in our business world we have money, but in our body we have ATP. So think of ATP like the currency for the body.
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Lara Schmoizman
Let me ask you a question, doctor. How do you connect this with meditation? There are a lot of people that.
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Dr. Patrick Porter
They say that meditation, and I am a big believer in meditation. I think it's great. The problem is that most people can't get into a meditative state because they have something called the default mode network or the, we call it the reticular activating system. So think of this system of the body. It's there to protect us. It's not a bad thing. But what it does is when you walk into a room, let's say you walk into a strange environment, your brain is automatically scanning the environment. Is this safe for me? Is it okay for me to express myself? Can I speak up? You know, all these things come into play and your brain is doing all of that without your awareness. It's being done through your subconscious, not through your conscious mind. And then depending upon if you look at life as a threat or you look at life as a challenge, your body will anticipate and step up or it will recede. You know, they say our cells, all of our cells are either in growth mode or in protection mode. So it starts really with that inner brain. So when somebody's meditating, and I've measured about 30,000 brains over the last 10 years, over 30,000 brains actually. And I could count on one hand the people that meditate correctly. Actually, most people are meditating and hurting their brain because what they're doing is those 90,000 thoughts that I was telling you about earlier, they're negative, right? 80% of them are negative. So when they go into meditation, they're actually exacerbating the problem because they don't have new instruction sets. That'd be like using an old computer with an old program trying to create a new solution to a new problem. You have to create a new solution to the old problem. You know, when, when Einstein said you have to go to the solution state and then return to the problem with the solution in mind, he meant, you know, that's what meditation is meant for. But the problem is most people don't have time for it. You know, it takes about an hour for somebody to get into that. Nobody has an hour anymore. You need to in. You know about yoga, right? I mean, people do yoga all the time when, when I go to India and I, and I work with them. Yoga was designed to prepare your body for meditation because your brain takes a lot of energy. So when you're meditating, if you don't have energy in your brain. And most people we measure, we have a piece of technology called Neurocheck. Most people are not regulating their brain correctly. So we need to bring energy into the brain so they can actually think and actually meditate. Most people, when they meditate, they just muse about all the things that are negative about them and their monkey mind takes over and they don't really know what to do. That's why you need instructor. Typically in, in. If you have a good instructor and you have a good process, yeah, maybe you can do it. But I, as I said, over the last 30 something years, I've not seen very many people. And I've been to India, I've been all over the world. They just don't know how to do it because the conditions around you make it a part of it. When I was in India, for instance, I'll give you an example, I took a guru up on stage and we measured his brain. Of course he had a really good brain. He'd been meditating.
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Lara Schmoizman
You know, how do you measure someone's brain?
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Dr. Patrick Porter
Oh, you use something. We use something called the WAVI or eeg. Any EEG device would do it. The brain has low level electrical current. So you need to put probes on the brain. Or you can use dry sensors. Now they have, so you can measure the brain that way or you can measure it through something called ecg, which is your heart. The like. If you have the smart watches and all these devices that measure heart rate variability, you can also get brainwave activity there. But what we, what I wanted to show people was that this person meditates six to seven hours a day. Nobody has that time anymore. If you're in business, you don't have that much time. So I said, anybody in the audience who's Never meditated.
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Lara Schmoizman
Yeah.
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Dr. Patrick Porter
And I brought somebody up on stage and within, I said, within seven minutes, they will have the same brain profile as that guru. People thought I was crazy. We did it. We do it every time. Because the brain follows light, sound and vibration. Everything in the universe is made up of these things. The reason you can see me on the screen is because pulsating light, sound and vibration, you, your brain then forms it into images and pictures and experiences. So what we did was in. It was so funny because Varun, who's one of our researchers now over in India, Ames Bhopal, he said to me, he goes, patrick, you're cheating. I said, what do you mean I'm cheating? He said, that guru practiced meditation for 30 years. This person just came up here in 10 minutes and did the same thing. I said, well, have you ever meditated to a candle? He said, oh, yes. I just. Like I said earlier with the campfire, I said, a candle flickers at 10 Hz frequency. So if you've ever taken a bath and lit in a candle and relaxed, that's because the candle is flickering at 10 Hz frequency and emitting infrared light. Now, in science today, we know we can create those environments.
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Lara Schmoizman
And then I said, my next question, how can you create those environments? How you can create your mind to take that break? Because I feel sometimes you have those days and you just need. I know they need a break. A lot of people get it in a walk and other people get it in a glass of wine because you need a mental break.
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Dr. Patrick Porter
Right? We, we actually crave those things. There was a, There was an experiment done with, with horses, just to give you an example. They, they took these fermented apples and they put them in the field and the horses went over and they got drunk by eating these fermented apples. Right? And then what they found out was so weird was they actually posted a horse there to protect them, their apples. Because everything, every biological thing, when you think about stress, as stress goes up, our parasympathetic system goes down. So these two systems, the fighter flighter, rest and recovery. But what, what's happening now is there's never a recovery time.
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Lara Schmoizman
So, so how do we recover? I mean, so basically we're all guilty of not letting our brain rest, right?
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Dr. Patrick Porter
It's kind of like you can't, you can't leave your car on idle in the parking lot and then think it's not going to run out of gas in the morning.
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Lara Schmoizman
That happened to my son once.
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Dr. Patrick Porter
Right, Right. So in, in our brains, if we're constantly thinking in what we call the beta brain. That's our wide awake, alert consciousness, which we need while we're talking here. That should only be 45% of your brain's prevailing awareness. 30% of your brain should be in a state of alpha. Alpha is a creative, intuitive, inventive brain state. And if you can get into theta, that's even better with varun too. I said, hey, do you ever wonder why the gurus go to the mountains to meditate when you talk about environments? He said, he said, yeah, to get away from people. I said, no, they're cheating. What do you mean? I said, when you're sitting in the mountains, the mountains have an evoke potential of 7.8 Hz frequency that happens to be theta. So we can create these environments. Think about it. When we were hunting and gathering, we were outside in nature. We were walking on the earth, we were getting sunlight. We weren't under the constant chronic stress that we're under now. They say the average person looks at their phone 300 times a day. Now every time you look at that phone, if you're, if you're the type of person that's optimistic and everything's good and positive, that might be okay. But Most people are, 90% of people are negative. They have a propensity to think, oh no, what's wrong? What is somebody, what's the problem? Why are they texting me? You know, why am I getting this phone call in? That first response causes a cortical response in the brain that triggers the liver to produce 25 releases. Actually, the liver holds 25 grams of sugar or the equivalent of 25 grams of sugar in the, and it dumps it in the bloodstream.
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Lara Schmoizman
Now I have a question for you because this is fascinating to me and how our brain works and all the energy that we bring into our brain, but at the same time, how can we give it a break?
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Dr. Patrick Porter
Well, you can do it by. Well, there's simple ways. They've done a lot of experiments without spending any money. You could listen to, bro classical music, for instance, while you're doing work. Like if you're doing your, your homework or you're doing your business work, put on some music that is not, not Led Zeppelin or Metallica, but we're talking about broke classical music. What they found is this 10 cycle music actually synchronizes the hemispheres because every cell is listening. Think of it like every cell is listening to that pulsing sound. And then it harmonizes all, all the listeners have on YouTube and search for synchronizing metronomes.
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Lara Schmoizman
What about the sounds? A lot of people are sleep or they teach babies to sleep with certain sounds.
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Dr. Patrick Porter
Yes.
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Lara Schmoizman
How that affects your brain?
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Dr. Patrick Porter
Well, we do that too. Yeah. What, what we do is you can slow down that rhythm. Now because of technology, we can change that rhythm from 10 cycles to 0.5 cycles. And that 05 cycles happens to be deep delta. Now when you're sleeping, I'll just tell you a little bit about an experiment we did with, we did a research project that was published with coal miners. These are people that when we did the study, the average coal miner spent 10 hours a night in bed. But they only got one minute of deep sleep. They weren't sleeping, they were in bed. So when people think I need seven hours of sleep. No, you need six and a half hours of sleep. That's the peak performance. Studies have shown that. But you need one hour of deep sleep and two hours of REM sleep. Now you can do that by creating the right environment or training yourself or you know, but you have to get into that first sleep cycle very quickly because when you reach that deep level four sleep that I'm talking about, that's when your brain detoxes. If you Never reach level 4 sleep, your brain doesn't detox. And then what you have is called leaky. Like people talk about leaky gut all the time in health because the, the, the gut membrane gets breached and proteins leak out into the bloodstream. Well, the same thing happens in the brain if you don't detoxify the brain. So when you do these brain breaks. And you can do it through many ways. You can go for a nature walk. I mean there's a lot of ways you can do it for free. Go outside and ground yourself. One of the experiments I tell people to do for themselves, that they can go right now, today when they're out, out and about, go to their Home Depot, Lowe's, wherever they can find a volt ohmmeter and ask the person to measure their voltage. And what they do is they put it on the voltme and they'll put the red on the right hand and the black on the left hand and they'll see that most people are running around with 3 to 4 volts of energy moving through their body. That should be zero.
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Lara Schmoizman
I want to give our audience a little more hands on experience like I had in the event at Inner House when I was at the event and your team was able to measure me and my levels. So. And you gave me different Colors. Can you explain that process and how it works?
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Dr. Patrick Porter
Sure. Well, I helped a team in, in Russia. They actually own the patent on what's called hrv or heart rate variability. And they created this for the astronaut program, for the cosmonauts over there. But what they did was they wanted to have a way to measure health. So think of heart rate variability as the gold standard to measure health. So what we can do is your heart actually is broadcasting information. Like I said, we can measure the brain with probes on the brain, with, with your heart, you can measure it from up to 18ft away. They can actually measure your heart frequency because it's magnetic, it's not just electrical. So what we were doing is we put a clip on one wrist and then a clip on the other wrist and then we ran a low level current through. In physics, we need three parameters in order to, to create any, any equation, let's say. So we, we know that we know what every frequency of the body is because the Russians have mapped that out. So they now know in science that every cell of your body resonates in a healthy state at a certain frequency. And most people think it's not metaphysics anymore, this is science. You know, there's a science behind it. And they got, actually got a Nobel prize for what they call fractal quantum mathematics. And what they did was for the cosmonaut program. And we use this in our astronaut program here too as well, is that they figured out that they could measure the, between the pulses of the heart, there's something called the RR function and there's information about our body. It comes in codes, which is, usually blows people away. It's almost like a computer code. Our body has this code. And what they did was they figured out the algorithm to tell us what's the function of the heart, what's the function of the nervous system, what's the function of your energy field, all of these things. And it's all validated in science. So what we did with you is we showed you what your baseline was. You know, how are you doing right now? Are you in a, are you in a sympathetic state, which means you're in fight or flight. And most people, by the way, in.
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Lara Schmoizman
A very red state.
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Dr. Patrick Porter
Yes, yes. So you were the red state means you were in a very neural hormonal state, which means your body was doing all the work. So think of, there's three different systems of the body that regulate our neur. Our, really our physiology. One is our parasympathetic, our sympathetic and Our neurohormonal. Neurohormonal is like our backup generator. So think of it like we just had a storm, we just had a hurricane and we. The power went out, so we have to turn on our generator. That generator takes a lot of energy to do it. So if you're in the red state, like you were saying, that means at the end of the day, you're probably pretty tired because you, you run out of energy, you use up all your energy.
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Lara Schmoizman
How do you change that red state state to a different state? What. What is it?
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Dr. Patrick Porter
Well, that's what we do with. That's why we use light, sound and vibration. What we found is that the science. Now we can measure the energy at the mitochondrial level. So for the listeners, every cell of your body has an energy center called mitochondria. And in there also is something called a chroma form, which is a battery. It actually stores that energy. So every cell has an energy battery that triggers the mitochondria release of ATP. Now, what they proved was when you use light therapy, like we do with brain tap through the ear lights, which is really weird, people always go, why do you have lights in the ears? It's because your body absorbs light energy. We're not. We are physical, of course, but we are also biophotic. There's actually. Our National Institute of health said in 1994 that we have a field of energy. You know, during COVID they said we were shedding. You heard that expression when people said they're shedding because they had Covid or something. The reality is we're always shedding. We're always broadcasting biophotic energy. That's how we see things. Like we see a plant because it's emitting biophotic exchange. We're seeing that. We're seeing the. The photons emit. And we see a leaf or something like that, or a tree or a person or a car. And so these are. This is always happening. But what happens as it decays that. So we need to fill up the gas tank. Now you can do that in three ways. One, you can eat. You can eat really well. You know, you can drink half your body's weighted ounces of water. You can eat nutritionally. Well, now that's really good. That's a first start because you cannot think a bad diet. Number two, you got to get up and move and breathe. Right? Now the. One of the problems we have in our society is we sit so much, right? So when you're sitting your nervous system, they now say Sitting is the new smoking, because 20 minutes of sitting is equivalency in health to smoking a cigarette, which isn't good. Right. So we want to get up and move and breathe. So I always tell people at least once an hour, get up and move. You know, because you get behind the computer screen and you kind of lose track of time. And then number three is you need to do some kind of brain fitness. Now, if you don't own the Brain Tap, you're going to have to do some kind of breath work, meditation, mindfulness training.
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Lara Schmoizman
Before we want, we need to go. But I want to talk a little more about Brain Tap app because we didn't get to that, how the Brain Tap app can help you get out of the red.
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Dr. Patrick Porter
Yeah, well, you can share the link here with your, with your audience. Yeah, yeah. And when they, when you share that link, they actually will also get a copy of my book Thrive and Overdrive so they can learn more about it if they, if they want to know behind it. But in that app will actually train you. Now, it doesn't have the light part of it, that's the headset. But for 14 days you can use it for free. So what I always tell people is do an experiment with yourself. If you're not sleeping well, there's actually a 21 day Quick Start program on the app that you can play the first 14 days for free. If you don't like it.
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Lara Schmoizman
You think that you sleep well, but you don't realize how bad you're sleeping, even if you sleep a lot of hours. I know people who can sleep 12 hours and they wake up tired.
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Dr. Patrick Porter
Yeah, because it's not about time in bed like I was talking about with the coal miners. It's about how efficiently are you sleeping? Are you going through these every time you go through these brainwave cycles? That's why the brain training is so important, to get the brain waves engaged. And every one of those brain waves actually triggers another neurotransmitter. And there's 54 neurotransmitters. So when you think about these neurotransmitters, they are what makes mental health happen. When everybody's talking about this mental health crisis we have in the world today, it's not a psychological problem, it's a physiological problem. The body isn't producing the energy that it needs for us to be well, you know, and so your body needs energy to heal, to, you know, give you creativity, to give you inventiveness, to handle the stresses that happen, especially if you're an entrepreneur, you know, you need to. You need to have that high energy because you're doing every job. You might be the janitor, the HR.
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Lara Schmoizman
Department, the paying the bills.
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Dr. Patrick Porter
Yes, yes.
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Lara Schmoizman
So, yeah, that happened. And we definitely will put in the chapter list, the link for your website. So before we really go now, what recommendations you can give someone who is stressed, someone who feels that they are not as productive, Because I do believe that sleep also has to do a lot with productivity.
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Dr. Patrick Porter
Yes. Yeah, we actually did a study. We did a study on that.
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Lara Schmoizman
And I want to ask you one more thing, because you mentioned something really important, the negativity, how sleep can affect. To be negative or positive. If you have any data on that.
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Dr. Patrick Porter
Yeah, well, they did an experiment actually measuring mitochondrial health, and they found out that people who are negative thinkers rather than positive thinkers, they produce 200 times less energy.
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Lara Schmoizman
Really? That's fascinating.
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Dr. Patrick Porter
So imagine that we all know those people that, you know, they walk in the room, it gets a little darker. You know, we call them energy drainers or energy vampires. You know, they show up at meetings and you go, oh, no, Sally's here or Betty's here or Frank's here, You know, but then you have the other person that comes in and they're high energy. Everybody wants. They go, all right, Laura's here. You know, all the, you know, the energy's high because you're broadcasting energy.
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Lara Schmoizman
Yes. It's such a difference. I, yeah, you. You can totally tell those people. And even I will say on some. We had, even lately in a situation with someone in our team, that we really felt like it was taking away the energy instead of bringing the energy.
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Dr. Patrick Porter
Yeah. In the. What it, what it is is everything in nature is always trying to seek balance. So when you have a group, that's why they say you're only as. You're only as strong as your weakest link. So if you find that weakest link and you can build them up, you know, get them thinking more positive. In fact, in studies, they showed the best thing you can do for longevity if somebody's wanting to live longer and healthier.
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Lara Schmoizman
Yes.
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Dr. Patrick Porter
It's positive thinking. Six and a half years. They've proven that. It adds six and a half years to your life. Just being a positive thinker. So what I always tell people to go, this negative person's bothering me. I said, don't worry about it. You're going to be around six and a half years longer than them. Just let them be. Don't give them any energy. The main thing is don't Give away your energy to people. I taught my kids, don't give away your remote control.
- [30:39]
Lara Schmoizman
No, that's really. The negative energy sucks. Your positive energy.
- [30:44]
Dr. Patrick Porter
Yes.
- [30:44]
Lara Schmoizman
I don't understand how it works, but it's seeking balance.
- [30:47]
Dr. Patrick Porter
So think in terms of. They want your energy because they're low energy people. When I tell people this is an easy way to think about it. Everything is frequency, what you frequently see. So if you're a positive person, you frequently see positive things, you eat positive foods, you hang around with positive people, you have positive activities. If you frequently see negative things and you're a negative thinker, you seek out negative foods, get a relationships, negative environments. You understand what I'm saying? Think of frequency. If you've just changed, just like a radio dial, you want to change your frequency and you do that. Sometimes you just have to pump yourself up, you know, and that's why we have with Brain Tap, if they download the app, there's sessions for the morning to get you started in the morning, to get you, get you fired up, get your brain going in the right direction. It's a brainwave called smr. In the middle of the day, you do a reboot because it's normal to feel tired in the middle of the day, your temperature drops 2 degrees. And there's a lot more about that they can learn on the website and things like that. But then at night, we need to downregulate so we can get that deep cycle relaxation and really heal our body and our mind and process our day in a way that we wake up in the morning ready to take on the day, you know, and we shouldn't need coffee in the morning. If you need coffee in the morning, you have a neurological issue. So we need to, we need to fix that problem. I'm not saying you don't drink coffee, just don't drink it. First thing in the morning. You should be exercising, doing some breath work, some positive affirmations, something that gets you pumped up for the day.
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Lara Schmoizman
You know, I'm a coffee lover and by the name of this podcast, you can say how many coffees I can get today. But it should be something that you add your life to, your life, not to replace something else.
- [32:30]
Dr. Patrick Porter
Yes, I love coffee. I mean, we spend a lot of money on coffee. We have probably one of the best coffee makers, Mila, in our home. But we don't drink it first thing in the morning because we want our own cortisol, norepinephrine and dopamine to be working. But after two hours of being awake, then I can enjoy my cup of coffee. And I do my light therapy. I have a. I have a soul light, which I basically, before I get on my computer, I actually get sunlight, that it's manufactured. But if I get outside when I'm home, I walk outside, I get sunlight. Because our cells, we need to wake up ourselves, then we can enjoy anything we want. Everything's good in balance. You know, you can have a glass of wine if you want, as long as you're doing it in balance. Now, a bottle of wine, that's not the same thing. You know what I mean?
- [33:15]
Lara Schmoizman
Absolutely. Well, doctor, thank you so much for spending time with us. This was really, really great. And for you out there, you know how to be more productive. It's just regulate your sleep. Regulate is about balance. And like everything in business is balanced. Like you balance your sheet, you also need to balance your brain and your body.
- [33:38]
Dr. Patrick Porter
Yes. Thank you.
- [33:40]
Lara Schmoizman
And to you guys, I will see you next week with more coffee. Number five. Talk soon. Find everything you need at larashmoisman.com or in the episode notes right below. Don't forget to subscribe. Was so good to have you here today. See you next time. Catch you on the flip side. Ciao, ciao.