Enhance Your Brain Health With Light And Sound Therapy

Patrick Porter, PhD

Thank you. Yes, my background is that I started in electronics, so people ask me, How did you create a piece of technology when you’re a psychologist? I started by saying that my dad was a Silva method instructor, and for those who didn’t know, he was back in the seventies. The Silva method is still very popular out there, and millions of people are using it. My dad found help, as in with alcoholism using Silva. I found help with my learning disabilities. So that got us on the trail of doing this with sound, something they called the Silva sound. people go, why do you use light, sound, and vibration? That’s kind of my background. I went to school for psychology.

I have a degree in Christian counseling. I don’t use very much of that anymore in what I do. But over the years, I have had a lab here in New Bern, North Carolina, where we do a lot of testing. We’re partners with 12 different universities. What I’m going to say is that my answer will be predicated mostly on research and things that we’ve done back in the seventies and eighties. When we first started doing this, there were no research capabilities like we have now. We would look at skin temperature, respiration, heart rate, and the biology of somebody and get them to relax. Now we can measure brainwave activity and what’s going on with the brain. We know so much more about neuroplasticity and neural pruning. I want to share that with the audience. We now know that the brain can change. I’m sure you’ve heard that over and over again, hopefully within the context of this summit. Because your brain isn’t fixed and you’re not subject to what other people are telling you, there are a lot of methods to keep your brain functioning.

I like to tell people, just as we begin here, that there’s been no ancient culture that keeps the wisdom of the tribe with the youngsters. They kept the wisdom of the tribe with the elders. That must mean something’s going on with our lifestyle and how we’re living. We need to change it to get back to having a healthy brain in 100 years and beyond. There’s no reason we can’t have a healthy brain for as long as we’re breathing.

Heather Sandison, ND

Start with the basics, like what are the principle tools that allow light and sound therapy to change dementia and support Alzheimer’s patients through this entry into this brain and treatment?

Patrick Porter, PhD

The most unique part about this whole thing is that we’re doing it all the time anyway. We didn’t know about this back in 2003 when they said they mapped the human genome. A lot of people are afraid. All my family has a history of Alzheimer’s. It’s in their genes. There’s a lot that’s in your genes that will never be activated. This is called epigenetics. We have what they did: they mapped 1% of the gene expression. They’re taking 1%, and they’re telling people about their lives and their futures, whereas the 99% are just leaving it aside. In 2018, they proved that 99% is not junk DNA. Like they said in 2003, junk DNA is changing every 40 seconds, and it’s changing based on things like light, sound, and vibration. It’s your environment—everything about it, from the thoughts you have to the food you consume to the people you hang out with to whether you’re consuming water. You are consuming alcohol. What are you doing? All of those are playing into how your genes are expressed. When you’re eating junk food or the SAD diet, the Standard American Diet and you’re dehydrated and not active, there are three rules for brain fitness.

If you think about them, the number 1 rule is nutrition. You cannot think about diet. We need to eat for our brains. Now, back when I still remember in the seventies when I was in Iowa with my family because they’re Iowa farmers and I was training to go to school at Ferris, I had a track scholarship, so I had to stay in shape. I put on my track shoes. I put them on and my uncles are all laughing. “What are you doing?” I said I got to stay in shape. Come out onto the farm, I’ll teach you how to stay in shape. Because they didn’t know working out back in the 70s, they thought that if you physically worked out like muscle building, you were going to stunt your growth and all that. Now we know that we have to physically work. The number 2 rule is you have to move and breathe. Not only is sitting the next smoking, but it’s worse than smoking because smokers have to get up and go outside and smoke. Where we could sit and we may now know that after two hours of sitting and watching television or sitting at your desk, you lose 10% of the oxygen to your brain. Bad things happen when you don’t get the oxygen to the brain.

The number three is you need to do some kind of brain fitness. And this is where lights, sounds, and vibrations come in. So, when we walk outside in the morning, we ground ourselves and we see the sunlight, our cells wake up based on light frequencies from the sun. So cortisol dopamine, norepinephrine, all those things are being by the brain naturally. If the first thing you do in the morning, is get up and go get a cup of coffee, you start it out in a deficit. You can drink all the coffee you want, but you just have to drink three cups of water to replace that one cup of coffee especially as we get older our brain dehydrates. So we need to hydrate our brain. First thing in the morning, I always recommend water with salt. Think about how our brains take all of their information from it’s environment. 

How it works? If you go to sleep at night, and you don’t get to sleep before 10 o’clock, between 10 and 12, you make more melatonin than you do the rest of the night. It doesn’t matter if you go to sleep at one o’clock in the morning. You have to get to sleep between 10 and 12. If you don’t get to sleep before 11 o’clock, your liver cleans at 11 to 12. With all these things, your body is on schedule with the light frequencies of our sun. The sun is causing information to ourselves and this is what they found out back in 2018. What they call the Photobiotics of our body. Our body, through light, is telling itself what to do, and it’s getting that from our environment. like whether it’s the light you’re under right now or the walls or the walls you’re in, the plants that are around you, the books you read—all of that has a vibratory frequency. Everything is moving and teeming with energy, and every cell, not just our brain, has something called mirror neurons. These mirror neurons evaluate our environment and then set our body up, saying, this is the environment, and this is how you need to show up to handle that. If you are the type of person who looks at life as a series of challenges, which is good, like an optimist, then your body’s going to express itself on the top level; it’s going to have its best level.

But if you look at life as a series of threats, then your body down-regulates under a threat-feeling situation. That’s why mindset is so important. It’s not the most important. As I said, diet is most important. Movement is important. That’s why we work a lot with diet, and we work a lot with a lot of people who don’t realize one thing you should do right now. Everybody on Earth should be taking some kind of niacin supplement in the morning because vitamin B3 is something we don’t get, and think of B vitamins as brain vitamins. Not a lot, especially if you haven’t tried it before, because you’ll get what we call a niacin flush. But when people think they go, why would we use niacin?

Most people know about the program called AA. When Bill wrote the book about AA, he left out the part about nutrition. He stopped drinking because he took niacin. The same thing in niacin creates blood flow and microcirculation. That’s what we need, and when we think about light, so when you’re looking at the nutrients and you look at the light, whether it’s brain tap, sunlight, infrared light, or some kind of red light therapy, the body is creating what we call vasodilation, blood flow circulation, and nitric oxide release. All the things you get from taking the supplement—nitric oxide—you can get from taking the supplement of light. Dr. William Cousins said the most under-prescribed nutrient on earth today is light because people stay in their homes even if they like. I’m in a studio here with some lights they fixed up in the room in my home.

So these lights are bright, but they’re nothing compared to the light of the sun. They’re just a fraction of that. When you think about sound, we’re born with only two fears. the fear of falling and a fear of loud noises. Those were the only two fears that we had. When we think about sound, it’s there to protect us. Our reticular activating system is part of our brain that is hardwired. We’re designed to be kind of pessimistic. That’s just part of our nature because we have the genetic memory of all of our ancestors inside of us. They don’t consciously come to bear. But like we all know, families, the best experiments that I saw were when they took ducklings and had them hatched by a chicken. But the ducklings still, after they were hatched, found their way to the water and went into the water. The mother didn’t teach them to do that. It was already encoded into the duckling, and the whole idea was that we have something that’s already encoded into us. whoever you are now, the good thing about the brain now, through something called neural pruning, is that we can change those things.

But it is also a double-edged sword when somebody says, How can I change a habit? If you’re the type of person who’s used to drinking diet sodas all day long and you wonder why you have dementia or if that’s going to lead to Alzheimer’s, it’s because that’s dehydrating the body and has no redeeming qualities. The number one thing I always tell people is to start drinking water if they’re dehydrated or if herbal teas are also a good substitute because, for most people, they’re dehydrated. That’s the first sign. then when that starts a problem happens in the brain. But when we think about that behavior change, it causes a neurological reaction inside of us because we’re used to having that soda, we’re used to having that coffee, and we’re used to having whatever that drink is; it’s programmed into us.

That’s a frequency response as well. If I say or think about this after a meal, are you the type of person after a meal that can just get up without dessert or after a meal? Do you think the meal is not complete without the sweets? It’s just like the person who smokes; some people aren’t done eating until they have their cigarette, or they’re not done if they have sex or whatever; it’s not done until they roll over and have their cigarette, like in the movies or whatever. That’s all the conditioned responses. It’s over, but the brain doesn’t know when it’s over because that’s programmed into it. Some of the things that we need to do are reproach, rhythm, and the way we think about things because it’s our behaviors that brought us to where we’re at right now. When you think about frequency and follow-up response, we put our beautiful music in the background. For instance, there’s something called the Mozart effect. They know if we play classical music, which is what they call ten psycho music, that our brain works better. People are smarter; they don’t have to teach them anything different. Just play that music in the background. Their brain works better. This is because the frequency response of the brain hears the music and matches it.

The same thing’s true with your friends,? They say if you have five alcoholics to hang out with, you’re going to be possibly the sixth. If you have five winners who are successful in business and life, you’re probably going to be the sixth. That’s why it’s so important. The other thing most people don’t know is that as we age, our mitochondria lose their shine if you will. It loses its ability to broadcast light during the pandemic. They did a test, and they found people who were pessimistic and optimistic. The optimistic thinkers broadcast 200 times more light energy from the cells. Every person out there, you and I included, is broadcasting light energy, Dr. Heather, all the time, and it’s in the form of 810 nanometers of light.

Now, if those people who are into light therapy know, 810 nanometers of light, that’s healing light. It heals the brain. Our mitochondria are designed to instruct the cells of the body through bioprepare exchange. It has to change every 40 seconds. Every person out there has the potential to reprogram every cell of their body or every DNA strand, I should say. It’s happening all the time. What we’re doing with light, sound, and vibration is that we’re using very specific frequencies of light, sound, and vibration. These are called earth frequencies, not like EMF. You might have somebody on your summit who’s talking about that and how it affects the brain. I’ll tell you why it affects the brain here. When you get it, when you’re standing by a 5G tower, it’s broadcasting a frequency of 50 pulses per second. Our cells are trying to figure out what that instruction set is telling us to do because we’ve never seen, heard, or experienced that many pulses per second. We’re used to 0.05 to 100.

Those are called earth frequencies. If you and I were on a spaceship going toward Earth, the Earth would have an evoked potential of 0.5 to 100. If we’re in a body of water, it’s 10 hertz. That’s Alpha. That’s why 90% of all humans live near water. Because we need it. We’re 90% water, depending upon what books you’re reading—70, 80%. Most of them say, So we want to be near water. Now we go to the mountains. Mountains have an evoked potential of 7.8 hertz. They call it the human frequency or the earth frequency because the earth is at that level where the treeline is; one is Alpha, which is a very relaxed and comfortable healing state. Theta is even deeper, which is even harder to get to. But when you’re sitting in a Theta field like you go to the mountains, like somebody says, I had a mountaintop experience. There’s a reason they say that is because you have a lot of Gamma activity, too. After all, the minute you have Theta, you have Gamma, which rewires the brain and causes dementia and Alzheimer’s.

More specifically, we find that gamma is not there anymore. It’s almost like the autistic child that doesn’t have Alpha; the person with Alzheimer’s doesn’t have Gamma. We need at least 5% of our brain and gamma all the time. Think of it like the bass drum of a band; the marching bands are going, but they don’t have any bass drums anymore, so it just regulates everything. We need Gamma to regulate the brain. It’s kind of like the Northern Star, if you will, for the brain and keeps the whole brain all the frequencies in order.

Heather Sandison, ND

How fascinating. We’ve heard a little bit about brain waves and, certainly, nutrients. Sometimes our conversation is dominated by nutrients and toxins. This light and frequency concept is unique and new. I’m curious how the lighting, sound, and science of brain waves in treatment are like narrow beats or ISO chronic tones. There are some other things that we can kind of compare to or put in the context of other things that people might be familiar with.

Patrick Porter, PhD

When you think about just relaxing music in general, when you go to a doctor’s office and they’re playing that relaxing music, they’re playing it for a specific reason. There’s a reason they’re not playing Metallica. Metallica would put you in a high state of data, stress, and anxiety. When we think about binaural beats, the brain is doing this all the time. It’s always measuring the differences between things. It’s when somebody says, I don’t know why. When I have a good experience, I’m thinking about bad things. They’re just aware of it. Our brain does that all the time. It’s just, which one are we focused on all the time? We always have. We always think of the very good and the very worst.

It’s always there. But with these sounds, we’ve been mirrored by neural beats, isotropic tones, and frequencies themselves; it’s like everything has a frequency. Like a tree has a frequency, you have a frequency we can measure. Most people know about what’s called heart rate variability. That’s because we have very high frequencies and very low frequencies. Most things, like the Oura ring or the Biostrap, and these kinds of devices, can be extracted from the ECG, which is your cardio, your heart. Your heart has 40,000 neutrino cells. What happens is that these frequencies are measured. Whether it’s sound frequencies or light frequencies, we’ve matched them. We do what we call biocular. The same thing we’re doing with sound, we’re doing with lights in the eyes. Your eyes are closed. You don’t need a lot of light. It’s only eight LEDs. Unlike your cell phone, which has over a million LEDs, this has only eight LEDs. What it does is flicker in a very specific way. just to put it in perspective I was doing some research in Bhopal, India, where last year they voted our team researchers of the year in India.

What we did was show him pranayama breathing. You can match the two hemispheres—the brain and the body—and put dementia on hold by doing a breathing exercise. Then we showed him that you can do that three times a day or tap your brain for 10 minutes a day; of course, people don’t want to work at it. They put the brain tap on because it’s easy. You just put it. But I wanted to show them that there’s an ancient tradition that they’ve been doing this with, and we can create modern technology that does it. when you think about it, so breathing is key to doing this.

Heather Sandison, ND

I want people to understand that, like you said, okay, in 10 minutes you can do this. What does that 10 minutes look like? What are you doing?

Patrick Porter, PhD

In the 10 minutes, what you do is put the headset on. If they’re watching the video behind you, the headsets on the glass head over there, and you just put it out, it looks like virtual reality, but it’s not virtual reality. It’s flickering light at very specific frequencies in their sound that matches it. What’s going on in the right ear is happening in the left eye, and vice versa. We have it mixed and matched so that the brain is stressed out a little bit, but it’s a pleasant stress. It’s kind of like playing a card game where you’re trying to figure out what everybody else has. Then when you figure it out, you get that eureka moment, something like that. The brain’s figuring it out, and the brain’s used to do this. To put it in perspective, when I was in Bhopal, a doctor of a room, we took a guru, we measured him, and then we took somebody who’d never meditated. We measured, and we made his brain look like the guru’s brain during meditation. They said, “That’s cheating. All you do is put this on.” I said, “What do you mean it’s cheating?” They go, “The guru’s been meditating for 30 years. This person doesn’t meditate at all.” I said, “Have you ever meditated on a candle? That candle flickers at ten-hertz frequency.”

Heather Sandison, ND

Fascinating.

Patrick Porter, PhD

The mirror neurons in the mitochondria in the eyes have the most mitochondria per square centimeter. Mitochondria’s job is to absorb and transmit light. But if you don’t have a lot of light energy, it only absorbs light. It doesn’t transmit anymore. That’s why when somebody says you, you, when somebody says they go, you’re glowing today. They are because we’re giving up that light, like when you’re pregnant, you’re in love, or something positive is happening to you because you have more energy, more light energy. You’re transmitting. He said, “Okay.” I said, “Have you ever wondered why the guru went to the mountains to meditate?” He goes, “No

just to be alone.” I said, “No, they’re cheating,” “What do you mean?” I said “They’re sitting in a Theta generator. They’re sitting in the atmosphere. When you think about what’s happening, is there a brain tap for 10 minutes? If you put this on, you don’t have to do anything. We tell people, to let it happen. The word let means in no way to help or hinder the process. You don’t have to do anything. You just close your eyes, and the process will go on. I love it when we do things like we were just talking before we started a forum, sometimes we’ll bring people up and we’ll say, “Who’s skeptical about this? Who doesn’t believe this will happen?” Of course, a doctor will raise their hand or whatever. I’ll say, “Would you mind? We’re going to put you on the machine. You’re not supposed to do anything. Just lay there.” We hook them up with the EEG. We put them on the brain tap, and then, while we’re going, I’m telling him where his brain is going to be when I’m done. What they’ll say is, “How did you know his brain going to be there at seven minutes, in 10 minutes?”

Everybody’s brain works the same unless you have something organically wrong when you get this stimulus. When you’re hit with this stimulus, it’s kind of like tasting salt or sugar. Our bodies taste salt and sugar pretty much the same, no matter who we are. The same thing’s true. The heart reacts to these frequencies. You just lay down and close your eyes. It takes you through a cycle of sleep. But the benefits are very much like meditation, where a lot of people can’t meditate because their monkey mind’s going everywhere. What we do is that’s because the Theta brain takes over. When we’re doing the brain obsession, it lowers those brain frequencies. When you get into Alpha and Theta, you get into this timeless space. They also call it hyper-nausea or super-memory. If we impress upon you some information at that level, like your memories improving, things of that nature, or your concentration, we’re building new neural pathways. Now, the brain can do the work it needs to do. While you think nothing’s happening, there’s a lot of neurological activity going on, and the benefits we find last for about 72 hours.

That’s why we’ve priced it so that somebody could buy it and have it for home use so they can continue to improve. Now you’ll get a basic improvement, but you have to do it over time. It’s like working out. That’s why we call it brain fitness. If somebody just does it once, you might have a good experience. Like going to the movies, you might have a good experience, but it’s not going to be life-changing. You need to do something over and over again. A lot of people have abused their brains or not worked on their brains. Maybe it’s a better way to say it. They just think it’s going to take some time. It’s going to take an hour in our six-week dementia study that we did; we’ve not done a full-blown Alzheimer’s study. It’s right now in the works at Seminole College. I was hoping to get some information from that, but they’re not back from school yet. Before we did this call, in our dementia study, we took everyone in our study of the dementia scale in six weeks. The secret to brain health is to do it early. Don’t wait until you get diagnosed.

Like they say, if you can’t smell peanut butter and you can’t say certain words, you want to start. But everybody needs this; we’re all subject to the ravages of time. If we don’t do something to improve our brain function, it doesn’t have any choice but to go backward, especially if we’re not eating healthy and we’re not doing physical activities. Our thinking is not very well thought out.

Heather Sandison, ND

Many people are probably listening. This sounds too good to be true. In 10 minutes, I can do something each day that’s going to potentially reverse, my dementia. Tell us a little bit more about how it works, because light and sound, with which a lot of people aren’t as familiar, are one of the mechanisms. Just blood flow—the delivery of nutrients and oxygen to the brain—is another piece of what’s going on here. Can you explain how that works?

Patrick Porter, PhD

There are three reasons. The brain isn’t functioning. Thoughts and traumas are toxins. If they’re thinking poorly, the brain can shut down because of stress. The stress can cause the toxins to be a big thing. What brain tapping does is that it’s going to help you sleep better when you offload stress. The first cycle of sleep is the most important. Most people, unfortunately, never get through their first cycle of sleep. They never reach deep delta sleep. We did a sleep study in Australia, and before we did, we did the washout period. It’s upfront where we’re measuring their sleep. For the first two weeks before we did this study, the average person in the study got less than 5 minutes of deep sleep a night, and you need an hour minimum to score, 80 to 90% of these in these little apps that we have out there, and the only time your brain detoxes unless you’re stimulating it through light-sounding vibration is that you have to get into level four sleep so people can be in bed for seven to eight hours and still not get the sleep they need. They can wake up tired because they never got that deep delta sleep. The first thing brain tap does is help people sleep deeper and get back on a cycle. If we can cut that first sleep cycle down to an hour now, you will have more sleep cycles.

The more sleep cycles you have, the deeper sleep you acquire. Most people find that they have an increase between 40 and 60% in deep sleep within the first three weeks of using brain tap. That’s number one. Number two, the way that light works, and you kind of mentioned it already, is blood flow and circulation when you have damage. All of us, had damage before we were four or five years old. We hit tables; we hit the ground. We fell, we got in car accidents, whatever’s going on, we just remodeled. But there still might be hematomas in there, and we’ve measured them. That’s why, like Dr. Ayman, he uses his scan technology and shows these blockages in the brain.

Anywhere there’s blood flow, the brain’s functioning. Anywhere there is no blood flow the brain isn’t functioning there because, without blood flow, the cells will die. Light is absorbed into the hemoglobin of the bloodstream. The eyes and the ears are a couple of good ways to get blood into the brain. to get light into the brain. The ears, all of the blood in your body goes through the ears every three to four minutes. When we use the red and blue lights. Remember that light is not just light; it’s energy-frequency light. Every two minutes, it changes to another energy frequency. What the doctor found out is that there are seven frequencies in our body, and he would use something called iridology, in which he would use needles to input the frequency of that sound into these regular points in the ears. What we started having was back over ten years ago, when some of my doctors used lasers with no J frequencies.

Of course, you can do that. It works well, but it takes a person. It takes a doctor or somebody to do that. I thought, What if we did the same thing? But we used photo-biomodulation. What that means for the listeners who don’t know is that cells work differently than people. Most people, if they get too much stuff, go to a storage unit and fill it up. If you fill that storage unit up, you go get another storage unit. What cells do when they fill up with energy is share that energy with the cell next to them. That’s called a photo-biomodulation. No cell takes too much energy. It just takes the amount of energy it needs and shares it with the rest. It’s very efficient because that’s what mitochondria do. If it can get the right light energy or the right energy, everything you consume, everything you breathe, and everything you do about bringing energy to the cells. And the brain gets the first 25%. It’s like the king and queen. It’s going to get the first cut at everything. It’s the tax. Because what we are is a digestive machine for our brain to take us out to get experiences, so when we do, what’s happening is we’re going to feed light into the brain through the blue and red light.

We use the brain blue and red light because we want to have a combination of those two colors to imitate sunrises and sunsets. We are working on a full-spectrum light device. I’ve done it before, but we had to stop. But right now we use blue light for the front, and that’s mainly because blue light is the safest. It has the lowest amount of light, which means it penetrates the smallest amount into the skin. It doesn’t even penetrate the eyelids. You have your eyes closed. But what happens is that the photonic energy is still absorbed by the cells in the lights, which are so sensitive. For example,  if you have blue eyes like you do with green eyes, I hope they’re blue or green, but I have dark eyes so I can take more light. But a blue- or green-eyed person doesn’t take as much light. You just adjust the light so it doesn’t have to be overpowering. It’s just enough to trigger the optic nerve. It’s not even using the real pathways of light. But what we found is that if you meditate, and this is one of the reasons people can’t meditate, only 5% of people who start meditating continue.

It’s such a powerful process. But the problem is that their monkey mind takes over and they don’t have energy, so they fall asleep in meditation. If anybody does yoga, which is good for the brain, or tai chi, these kinds of things are good. We have a device we call the 60-uP, which is an exercise system that’s been getting people out of wheelchairs and everything. It’s cool. It’s right there in California. I should introduce him to you. We’ve been using it with our dementia programs now to make it part of the movement because you can hold on to it. But whatever it does, that movement is going to activate the brain. Now, if we put light on that movement, you have only neural pruning, which means those things that are working for you, the brain will stop doing. It’s going to say that we don’t need those anymore. then it’s going to say, We need more, but we also need oxygen, blood flow, and nutrients, because those dendrite connections in that brain wiring are not going to happen if we don’t have energy. What’s going to happen is that we’re going to hit the couch, we’re going to pass out, and we’re going to go to sleep.

We want meditation if we give it light energy. Now the body has the energy it needs, and when we’re feeding the brain this light and sound, which I’ll give the example of sound in a moment, but light, the hemoglobin comes in, it absorbs, and that will take energy. It circulates into the brain because, in the ear, all the blood circulates in and out of the year, too, to keep the brain cool or warm, depending on what’s happening outside. Now we’re delivering that. We’re delivering that light into the brain when that brain finds a cell that is dying, which is apoptosis. When that happens, it becomes like a negative pull, and the full-time becomes like a positive, and it absorbs it into the cell. That cell comes back to life. It starts the Krebs cycle. That cell is the only reason that cell died, and I published a paper on that and the heart they kept alive for 35 years at Harvard, which is not a myth. They did. It wasn’t the whole heart; it was just tissue. But as long as they gave it the right light, the right nutrients, and kept it clean, they felt like they could keep that tissue alive forever.

The reason that our cells need to age, but they age because of oxidation, stress, and things of that nature. If we can get light into the brain, then the brain can heal itself. The brain knows how to heal itself, just like the brain is designed to heal itself, just like the body. But it needs the right nutrients. In the one nutrient most people are getting. The brain is light. So when we give that now, the sound works the same way. You’ve probably been to a party before; you didn’t want to go, but somebody talked you into it. You get there, and they start playing your favorite music from high school or college, and I’ll certainly start tapping your toe. You start moving, you start dancing, and they go ahead and think you ought to be here because that music moved the cells of your body into your body and absorbed that energy. Your body’s always absorbing energy, whether good or bad. We want to be around that. That’s why we want our environment to be clean and free from toxins and other things of that nature. Because it gives you an example of what happens. There are a lot of people with mold; they and you probably have somebody on here talking about moldy brains.

That’s one of the first things we have people look at when they come to us with dementia or Alzheimer’s because they might be living in an environment where it doesn’t matter what you do at the doctor’s office; if you go home and you’re sitting in a toxic environment now, the reason somebody goes, well, if there’s mold in my house and about it, you probably did know two years ago when you got the runny nose and you got sick the first time, the second time, and the third time. Then your nervous system said that he must like this. He keeps coming back here. It’s like living next to a paper mill,? Most people can identify with that. If you’ve ever known somebody who lived near a paper mill and you go, how can you stand living? It smells so bad; it smells like dirty diapers or something. They don’t even smell it. The same thing happens: somebody lives near a railroad crossing, and you’re there with them, and you’re hearing the railroad. And you go, “Man, how can you stand that train goes by?” “What train?” The nervous system is good at taking things that it doesn’t think are threats anymore and erasing them from your conscious memory, which is bad because they’re hurting us. But the brain says they’re not taking action on that. I made him sick a couple of times, but they didn’t do anything about it because you didn’t know what was happening. It didn’t say, Hey, you’ve got mold in your house or you’re sitting under a 5G tower or whatever’s going on. This sense of smell is one of the best danger identifiers we have. But we don’t use it as much as we would like to or should.

Heather Sandison, ND

One of the early signs of dementia is a lack of smell or the inability to distinguish smells. Tell me, are there ways that you personalize this program, Brain Tap? I’ve been working with Neil Nathan. You mentioned mold for years, and he has suggested brain-tapping for a long time. He would always say that we make sure they get you the right program. So is there a way for people who are suffering from dementia versus somebody who’s maybe more moldy? Specifically, how do you help people with their cognition on an individual basis?

Patrick Porter, PhD

We have specific sessions for those things now, so all they have to do is put those in the search feature. But the main thing that we tell people is that we have a protocol now in the morning: we need to wake up the brain with something called SMR, which are Sensory Motor Rhythms. There’s a brainwave just below Theta and just above Alpha. It’s right between them. That’s the cognition. That’s the one: we get better looking and more intelligent with age. That’s the one that atrophies. If you’re wondering what happened and exercise stimulates that now when you drink coffee, unfortunately, it suppresses it, so you get a synthetic lift. That’s why I always recommend it, especially to people who don’t need to do it.

They’re just drinking coffee. Out of habit is to drink your coffee for at least two hours after waking up. To give your brain time to create your neuroprotection, dopamine, and cortisol. Because if you don’t, the brain will very easily say if you want to do it for me, do it. Then what happens is that you become dependent on that coffee in the middle of the day. It’s very common. Everyone in the world, at two o’clock in your time zone, is going to drop two degrees, and you’re going to get hungry. That’s because you should be taking a nap. Everybody, and I’m talking about our bodies now, were designed to live in the Serengeti. What do you do at two o’clock in the afternoon in the Serengeti? Nobody’s running around chasing zebras. They’re taking naps. We don’t do that. What we do, of course, is we have lights, we have cars, we have traffic, and we have our jobs. We have to keep pushing through it. These bodies weren’t designed for the lifestyle we’re living right now, so we need to somehow reboot our brains.

If you can’t do it at two o’clock, I recommend doing it right when you get home from work because what will happen is that you’ll offload the stress. Stress builds up kinetically in the body. That’s why, if you’re relaxed and having fun, you’re in love. Let’s say you can take more. You can take a bigger hit. Let’s say something bad can happen with no problem. But if you’re like me, I had a person I knew who used to say she was on her last good nerve, because that’s because she’s like that. The teapot is full, and she’s trying to put more in it. There’s no place to go. You need to offload that stress. do a 20-minute session in the middle of the day. Those sessions are called brain fitness. We have a series called Brain Fitness, and we find that there’s a longer version to train those SMI brainwaves, but it also includes training more of the Alpha and then getting you into Gamma. They could also do the Gamma, like if you were to come in to see me. I was to do a brain map with you. I might say that we need to do a gamma session every other day, and you would do a brain fitness session because we need to increase that Gamma. We need to see at least, as I said, at least four to 5% Gamma; most people will have a boost of about 20%. Gamma, when they listen to brain tap now.

Heather Sandison, ND

Instead of taking a nap, you would do a 20-minute session in the middle of the day. So, someone who’s using this, we’re talking about personalizing it, but would someone use it in the morning when they’re waking up at midday or two o’clock and then again before going to bed? Not just 10 minutes, but maybe 40 minutes a day with different sessions and different goals.

Patrick Porter, PhD

Like in our study, we told them, Just set your alarm. We don’t like alarms, but if you’re going to set an alarm, set it to some kind of music, something that sounds peaceful for your nervous system. Enjoy yourself awake. Put some kind of beautiful music on. At least you wake up realizing that this is a great place to be. Not shocking your system. But if you set it for 10 minutes early, do your session in the morning because you’re going to get the equivalent of four hours of sleep. if you need to catch up on your sleep in those 10 minutes, so you’re not taking any more time. Then at night, you can just wear the earbuds, or even some people will play just in their room without anything on their heads because the eyes are kind of tones and can work in a room environment.

You can just put it on and go into the Delta sleep because there are also sessions that we have that have two voices, which is a little. We don’t use it a lot with people with dementia or Alzheimer’s because they kind of think it’s not. But it’s designed to trigger and exercise the nervous system. There are different voices to trigger stress in the brain again because we are only learning growth through stress. But we want to make it fun. The time that you’re going to spend is that time in the middle of the day. You can have ten-minute sessions you can listen to at that time if you want. But in our study that I was talking about, they did it three times a day for six weeks, and they had a 39% neuroplastic change in six weeks. That’s why they were all taken off the dementia scales because their brains were now functioning as they did 10 to 15 years ago because of blood flow and circulation and getting those neurons to wire together.

Heather Sandison, ND

How exciting. What great stuff. It sounds like there’s a long-term benefit. Of course, there’s a short-term benefit. You’re talking about a six-week trial. But what are some of the longer-term things that people can expect?

Patrick Porter, PhD

One thing is that the SMR brainwave I was talking about is your distributor system or your balance. A lot of people think I’m getting older; I’m losing my balance. We found that it’s your brain that’s the problem, not your muscles because your muscles don’t move your brain. Your brain moves your muscles. If you fix your brain, your balance will return. Now, if you can exercise at the same time, that’s why we have a 60-uP program on the app where they exercise while they’re wearing it. You’re going to see that balance come up. 

Heather Sandison, ND

Now 60. Is that for people 60 years of age and older? Is that what’s going on there?

Patrick Porter, PhD

We have athletes using it in stuff too, but it’s more because that’s, I guess, Dan Metcalfe, the designer of it. I don’t know why he called it 60-uP, but he got Bob Eubanks out of a wheelchair. So it became kind of famous because of that. It’s a very different exercise. It’s different than you think. It’s not about it; it’s about movement therapy—getting the body and the brain to connect. You can do a lot just with your brain, but if you connect it with exercise, it’s going to be much better. That’s why I like Dr. Miller, who wrote the book Saving Your Brain, in which he talks about our study. We didn’t do this during the study. But afterward, he took him through his whole program because if he didn’t have any nutrition in there, he didn’t have any exercise. After all, you’re doing a study, you got to just take one thing and even get better results when you get them on the proper nutrition, like getting them on the right diet, getting rid of the sugars, and having them eat more of the low-glycemic fruits instead of the high-glycemic fruits and things like that.

Putting him on an inflammation-free diet—not quite a keto diet, but similar—something like that to get them to get their bodies Most people don’t realize that for every stressful event your liver delivers to your body, 25 grams of sugar are stored in your liver. When you have a stressful event, the liver pumps that sugar into the bloodstream. If you’re just sitting there watching a movie, reading a book, or talking on the telephone, your body’s going to put all that sugar into the adipose tissue, and it’s going to cause a cascade of events in your body that you don’t like, just like you did with a candy bar, but you didn’t get the pleasure of eating it. This is why we want to be part of it. If we reduce the stress, get them to sleep better, and get the meeting going better, the body will heal itself.

Heather Sandison, ND

We are certainly fans of stacking interventions, and what you’re describing is almost like dual tasks, getting the brain involved at the same time as getting the physical body involved, and how exponentially it’s the benefits that you get from any sort of activity or challenge. I want everyone to know how they can find out more about Brain Tap and what you’re looking for. It’s you. You’ve been at this. You mentioned this. You started it in the seventies, maybe even before. I just want to tell everyone how much I admire you and how impressed he is with what you’ve done and just your staying power—that you keep reinventing and coming up with new things to help and support people. It’s inspiring and I’m just so appreciative, and I’m looking forward to hearing, like, What’s next on the horizon? Because for you, there’s always something. then making sure everyone knows how to find out more.

Patrick Porter, PhD

We are coming out with a sleep mask for people, and the first one that comes out won’t have this. But we’re going to work on an EEG protocol that will measure brainwaves while you sleep. If you come out of the sleep cycle, the lights will come back out and put you back into a deep sleep. Now we’re working on that, but a lot of people have asked for one that will be cloth. It’s cloth, and you can take the electronics out to wash them, and people will cut them out all the time because about 90% of our people, at least weekly, do a nighttime session. It’s easier than our plastic one. It’s a little uncomfortable to wear. We have that coming out, and I just saw the prototype working today on video. It’s being built by our researchers. We built it, but now it’s a prototype, and they’re putting it all together, and we’re hoping to launch that within the next three to six weeks.

Heather Sandison, ND

That’s great. Congratulations. Where can people find out more about you and Brain Tap?

Patrick Porter, PhD

If they go to braintap.com, they can see the website or @Braintaptech on other social media sites. They can also find my website. They are drpatrickporter.com, and it’s @drpatrickporter for all the social media. There are a lot of videos, and I’ve interviewed a lot of great people like yourself and some of my podcasts and things like that. We have the bullet points in a few videos there. They can learn a lot more about Brain Tap there.

Heather Sandison, ND

That’s fantastic. Thank you so much for joining us. It’s always a pleasure to connect with you.

Patrick Porter, PhD

Thanks for having me. It’s great being here.