Struggling with epilepsy, TBI, dementia, or depression? Understanding brain function is key to effective treatment. Explore how metabolic health, oxygen levels, and sleep quality impact neurological conditions. Discover why traditional sleep studies might not be enough and how diet especially the ketogenic approach can play a crucial role in brain recovery.
Beyond medication, real healing requires the right nutrients, hormonal balance, and lifestyle changes. Learn how regeneration, diet, and active participation can transform brain health. No quick fixes just science-backed strategies to take control of your well-being. Tune in for actionable insights and a smarter approach to brain health.
Highlights of the Podcast
00:04 - Brain Function & Disorders
01:44 – Epilepsy & Oxygen Levels
03:30 – Types of Sleep Apnea
05:15 - Diet & Brain Health
07:18 - Key Nutrients & Regeneration
12:37 - Lifestyle & Compliance
13:39 - Final Thoughts
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:00:04] All right. So today we're going to talk about brain-based function. You know, this is going to include dementia. This is going include epilepsy. This is gonna include traumatic brain injury. This is, gonna include some of the autism stuff and the vaccine damage stuff, uh, this, is gonna, this can include, you know, some of the PTSD, stuff like, stuff like that. So it's always funny. Um, so I had epilepsy for like 20 years, grand mal seizures, out of nowhere, the whole deal. Um, and when we're talking about the brain, what we have to understand is that people, people look at the brain like it's, oh, it's so difficult. And I don't know, maybe it is. I, I really love it. And so it's something I've been able to study for a long time. Um, but it's very similar to a lot of the other things in the body. The metabolic function requires certain things. If it doesn't have those things, it doesn' work right. Um, we see the issues with the brain a lot easier where they, you know, they manifest in mental health issues, you know, depression, anxiety, schizophrenia, you, know, ADD, stuff like that. Like they present in ways we're like, Oh, there it is. You know, whereas you can't see diabetes in people very easily. You can't. Hormonal dysregulation in people, very easily, um, but you can see it in people like, you have, like if they're having a grand mal seizure, you can see. Um, so we, we think of them as much more difficult and they're not necessarily more difficult. They're just more visible. Um, and so when we started talking about these things, uh, it's kind of like a plant, right? And I'm, if I can boil this down to the easiest way, you know, if your plants not growing, you go, huh, am I watering it? Am I feeding it? Does it get sunlight? You know, those things, right. Those are the things we start kind of checking first.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:01:44] Same thing with brain. Is it getting all the oxygen needs? Is he getting all of the ATP it needs? Is he giving all of chemicals it's supposed to have? And if it is, it should be working right. And if not, we either missed a chemical that's supposed to have, or it's got too much of a chemical. It's not supposed to happen. So one of those two things is going on. So, um, when we start looking at, let's start with epilepsy, the, there's a lot of things that we look at for epilepsy. Um, the first ones we always start with, especially if they're adults is going to be airway function. So we're going to do sleep studies. And what I find hilarious about this is that we get people in and I'm like, have you done a sleep study and they're like, yeah, and I might great. Send it to me. And they sent it to and it's like right at that 9192 mark and their doctors like that's within the range. You're fine. And I always laugh and I like, you're at 91% of the oxygen. Oxygen is the number one most important thing for your brain. You have a brain-based disorder and you think 90 and you think 10% off is, is acceptable. And so we jack those up. And lots of times what we end up seeing is that when we get the oxygen levels up high enough, um, we see significant changes. Uh, the other thing that I'll see all the time is people will have horrible sleep studies and they'll send them to me and I'm like, oh yeah, man, this is terrible. And they're like, yeah, don't worry. I got a CPAP or don't I got to mouthpiece. The mouthpiece ones I hear more often than not. Um, CPAPs are great, but most people won't use them right. They don't get enough, like they don't want people walk through that with them. Anyway, so they'll have the mouthpiece and everything. I'm like, great. And I'm, like, have you had a second sleep study? And they're like, why would I do that? Like, well, you had. We came up with a solution for it.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:03:30] Did you test the solution to make sure it worked? And people are like, no, my doctor never told me to do that. Okay. Um, yeah. you're not going to get paid by insurance, so the docs don't run it. But checking to make sure your solution worked is really, really important because there's two types of apnea. Remember this. There's obstructive apnea, which causes all your snoring and stuff like that. And then there's centralized apnea which you get damage from vaccines, from head trauma, from food sensitivity issues, allergies. There's all sorts of reasons why you get this one where you just stop breathing. And if you put a mouthpiece in your mouth, it'll help the obstructive sleep Yeah quite a degree, but it does nothing for centralized apnea. And a lot of people have both. I have both, and so what ends up happening is if you just put these people to give these people a mouthpiece, they're still having an oxygen deprivation issue. They're still going to have neurologic issues. They're Still going to have problems. You know, they are going to get concussions easier. They're going to have longer healing from concussions. They're gonna have, you know, faster neuro degeneration. So you're going to end up having memory issues, brain fog issues, things like that. higher rates of dimension, Alzheimer's, stuff like that. So higher instances of just dying early, heart attacks and strokes, stuff that. So you need to make sure that when you give a solution, you test the solution and make sure that you got the whole problem solved. Well, there's a lot of times we'll test people again with when we get BIM CPAPs and we have to send them oxygen concentrators because their oxygen's still not high enough. So there's lot more to sleep studies than just get a mouthpiece and you're done. So That's one of the issues that we always have to look into this for dimensions for depression, for all of them. Um, so that's, that's one major caveat.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:05:15] The other one is, you know, if you've got brain-based disorders, you need to go with the diet that has been proven for a hundred and something years to have six substantial, ridiculous, high levels of success treating this thing. So the, the, The keto diet, the real keto diet. was designed specifically to treat epilepsy and it's amazing at it. Like you take like when they've done this research, they've taken a whole bunch of people with epilepsy with brain-based disorders, and they've put them on the real keto diet and 50 60% of them no longer have epilepsy gone finished out. So that's a giant chunk of people. Now a there when we talk about keto diets, we talk about diets. I rarely put people on a real keto. A real keto diet is like four to one fat. Um, like it is really, really high. Like you've got people who are just, you know, eating coconut oil with a spoon or eating butter or eating, you're taking shots of olive oil, like the Greeks do. Like this is a thing. And then they really, like when you prescribe this stuff for significant brain based disorders, that's kind of where you're going. Uh, a lot of people will get better with this standard low glycemic diet. Um, and so. And again, there's there's, if you guys are not familiar with this, but most people aren't, there is the standard American diet, which is literally poisoning yourself horribly. No one ever should run this diet. And so here that's where that's like, that's like a zero diet. Then you come up to like a standard low glycemic that I would put, um, most people on for weight loss, for health, things like that. That's on a scale, like a keto scale. That's like a six. Um, the taking shots of olive oil or, you know, eating, you know, coconut oil with a spoon thing, that's closer to like a nine or a 10. Um, but there's a gradation function of this, uh, and not everybody can run a keto diet. And there's a lot of people we gotta, we gotta ease into the glycemic function a little bit. So that's a big one.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:07:18] But if you're noticing that you've got these issues, if you've, you got, you kids got epilepsy, you've got epilepsy. You've got depression. You got some of these mental health issues. Um I would get with somebody immediately who understands how to do this. And the three things I would look at are going to be, uh, you know, the sleep study stuff and not just one do one, find a solution, then check your solution and make sure it worked right to, I would start putting them on. I would strip all processed food out and I would put them on a higher fat, uh like no carb, higher fat diet. You're going to need somebody to walk you through that. That is it is, it is possible to do on your own. It's taken me 10 years of significant study to figure out how to do it properly. So. can do the same thing. You can spend 10 years reading research for hours and hours until you figure it out or you can have somebody who knows what they're doing walk you through it. So I would recommend that you have somebody walk you through it the other thing is is I would look very heavily about Regeneration function of the brain. So you're looking at, you know, and I would look at, you know hormone levels, especially if you're an adult, where your testosterone levels are, where you're growth hormone levels are those two. I would spend a lot of time making sure you get those exactly where they're supposed to be, um, because those two are going to play a significant role, uh, and then the easy, I know this is four, but the easy thing that I would make sure that you're getting in is all of your methylated B vitamins. Like if you don't, I'm not going to worry about any other nutrient, but methylated to be vitamins. work on your methyl AB vitamins. There's such a substantial piece of it. And, you know, I talk, I tell us about this all the time with people. You know, like you can go and you can get the DNA test. We will run your DNA tests for you. I love the DNA tests that we do.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:09:01] There is oodles and oodles noodles and information on it. I, like, I think like the last one we did, uh, for somebody I thought, I think was like 300 pages of information. Um, and so I went through and explained it all to him. You can do that. And it's fantastic. If you'll just take methylated B vitamins, like the superior B we have on the website, we have in the office, about 90% of those things you don't have to worry about. You just, okay, I'm giving my body all the methylated to B vitamins it needs. I say 90%, because if you don' have intrinsic factor, it's gonna be hard to pull B12 in, and we can look for that, but it's easy to see, because we give you a bunch of methylated, B12, and we don't get resolution, and we're like, well, it's obviously, we don' do any more testing. It's most likely an intrinsic factor function. And so we can bring that in. Um, but that's kind of where a lot of this brain stuff is like, those are the things we check first. Like, are we getting plenty of oxygen? Are we getting the maximum amount of oxygen we can? Um, or have we stripped out, you know, the processing and something like that, that are obvious toxins, uh, are we getting, the metal, the methyl AB vitamins the body needs. And we have the ability to regenerate and heal. There's a lot more to it, but if you'll start there, you're going to get 30, 40% of your issues resolved. with epilepsy, with, uh, I'll throw depression in there. I'll throwing anxiety in there to a degree. Um, uh dementia, you're going to see good turnaround on that as well. Um, so that's the thing, like those, those are the pieces that if you're like, oh, I really want to take care of my brain long-term or we have a kid with epilepsy or whatever, um, those were a lot of the things I would start looking at first, uh if your docs not looking at those first and they're just being like, well, here's an anticonvulsant or Here's an anti, here's an antidepressant or something like that.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:10:48] You need to, you can co-treat that works really, really well. You can work with a guy like me and somebody who's going to sling pills at you. Um, and I'm not saying that slinging pills is necessarily the wrong, wrong answer, especially at the beginning, um, because it can help long-term. What we see with those things is that they, they help less and less. We have to go up and dose higher and higher. And then all of a sudden they're just not working very well at all. And your problems are so substantial that nobody can do anything about them. because you've never corrected the root problem, which was either a toxin you didn't get rid of or a nutrient or a variety of nutrients your body needed that wasn't getting. And so the damage just goes on and on and one. So if you'll start there, that's gonna be probably the best place to do for a lot of these things. It's funny, I've got, in like three weeks, I've gotta class and teaching a bunch of therapists about using metabolic health and diet and this sort of stuff to help treat these issues that these therapists and counselors and psychologists are working with. Um, because what we're starting to see is that the body is in fact, needs to be looked at from a holistic standpoint. We have to understand that, you know, we've got, you know the chemical stuff we gotta deal with. There is some functional movement we gotta do, you know, and then we do have to get into the mind and start working with people about the way they perceive the world and how they deal with things and that type of thing. So You know, as we're starting to learn more and get away from the, the, the lies that, you know, we've been told for the last 50 years, um, about how the body functions, what we're staring to see is that, uh, we can make substantial corrective functional changes. Um, the problem is, is that this is the biggest problem. And I'll tell you, this is the thing that makes everything work or not work. The patient has to patient has a plan. Like, yeah. It's like, it's like weight loss.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:12:37] So if you don't do the diet, you don' do the exercises, you know, you don't, do the supplementation. You don't sleep right. You don' do the things you're supposed to do. And then you're like, the plan didn't work. No, you didn't run the plan, you know, and that's, that's what we see quite often. Um, you know, I've got, you and I have these patients, everybody has these patients who are just non-compliant. You know, they don't, they don't do, you set them down. You're like, okay, here's the diet. Here's the supplements and here's the exercises. And they do about 30% of each of it. And they're like it didn't for me. I'm like, well, you didn't learn the plan. So that's the hardest part. And I'll tell you like right now, if you're, if you're looking for a pill, so you don't have to do anything, that's. you should don't work with me. It's not gonna you're not gonna get any better. You're gonna have to actively participate, you're gonna change your diet, you're going to have to do a little bit of moving, you gonna move, get up and exercise a little bit. And you're have to start sleeping, you have to make alterations to your lifestyle, for your body and for your health to get better. And if you're not willing to make those alterations, you not getting any better? That is that is the key to this whole thing.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:13:39] So if you so I should preface this and be like, if you want to get better health. and you're willing to put some effort into it, give us a call and we'll be able to help you get through it. I'll walk you through it and I'll coach you through it and we will be able to make alterations as we go and you will get better. Um, but if you're not going to do any of the work. Go take a pill and hope and pray. Uh, if you guys have any other questions, you just have questions@Chalmerswellness.com DM me, like you guys normally do. Um, and, uh, we'll be able to help you guys out. Uh, give me any other question. Uh, send them to us. I got, I got to, didn't a podcast with Dr. Artists yesterday, great guy. Uh, lots of great information. That guy is pretty cool. He brings a lot of receipts. I love that when he's like, here's a crazy thing. And you're like, what? He's like here's all the research. She got out. Cause he sent me a bunch of the research and I, you know, he's a lot of it's in his new book. Um, so I highly recommend you guys check out his new book, uh, the, the lies about COVID-19. You know, just Google doctor Ardis book. You'll be able to find it's A R D I S. Uh, you guys have a good time. I'll talk to you soon.
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