Inside QEEG Brain Mapping and Neurofeedback: What Your Brainwaves Reveal About Mental Health

Dr. Rimkau2019s path into psychiatry 0:00

In that process, I was very frustrated with what I seeing and was like, this cannot be the thing I want to get into. Like I very drawn to the patients people threw away. I wanted drug addicts, alcoholics, schizophrenics things like that. The ones you think are impossible. Well, that's pretty much my entire family. So this is what the world I know how to do. And I'm not throwing anyone away, so this solution of this house of horrors is, what would call that these institutions, these, you know, it's awful.

So that's what I kind of dove into, went back to grad school and said, this is what i'm going to do and the journey to learn how to help those people. You're listening to the Lifestyle Medicine podcast with Dr. Ivan Rusilko, brought to you by Access Lab, where we explore new perspectives at the forefront of personalized health care. Welcome back to the lifestyle medicine podcast. I'm Dr. Ivan Rusilka, your host and we're powered by Access Labs. If your doctor's not checking your labs, they're not a doctor.

And today we got Dr Stephanie Rimka and she, I'll be honest, we've been trying to start this podcast for the last 10 minutes and just keep having too much fun. So this is going to be a very good one. Hold on to your butts. It's going get crazy. But Dr Rimke, thank you so much for stopping by. We were supposed to talk on like, you know, EEGs and the neuro aspect of it. Then we, we branched off into peptides and it's great because normally whenever we start to talking about peptide on the show, which would you do occasionally?

You get doctors who started peptize maybe two, three, four years ago when it got, when I got popular. Um, I myself started back in 2012 and I finally found somebody who's started it there around the same time I did. So can you tell me how you started your peptid journey so much so, so far before the curve? Well, probably because I do things that nobody else wants to do. So I specialize in autism recovery, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia. I started my career 30 years ago. I have a lot of orgasms, but we'll get there.

Yes, we're going to get. If you want to glow ladies, it's not GHK copper. I make the best peptides, don't I? I don' know why y'all are trying. Anyway, that's the truth. Who makes the greatest manufacturing machine on earth? The brain, the body. This is who's doing it. People need to understand that. Too many clinicians are forgetting the basics like that, So that's what I started in the mental hospital 30 years ago with schizophrenics. And my job is to help get them from the hospital into group homes, the ones who are qualified to get out of that environment because they were shutting them down.

In that process. I was very frustrated with what I seeing and was like, this cannot be the thing I want to get into. Like I very drawn to the patients people threw away. I wanted drug addicts, alcoholics, schizophrenics things like that. The ones you think are impossible. And like well, that's pretty much my entire family. So this is what the world I know how to do and I'm not throwing anyone away so this solution of this house of horrors is, what, I would call that these institutions these, you know, awful.

That's what I kind of dove into, went back to grad school and said, this is what i'm going to do. And the journey to learn how to help those people. My nephew became autistic and this became very personal.

Early peptide training and clinical philosophy 3:30

You have to end up diving into everything. Genetics become important, gut health becomes important. Neurotransmitters, brain inflammation, everything. And then the family dynamics. So I was trained in talk therapy and doing gestalts and things. I had to be trained by do mentorships with talk therapists to figure out family dynamic and how to do all that. geneticists to understand what, you know, what was happening here and how to really understand methylation. You have to go down the methyltion pathway, which was insane at the time and fell down.

The pathway of orthomolecular psychiatry started by Hoffer and Pfeiffer out of Canada. Most of the people who trained me are dead today. So, again, I was kind of an upset like most people, right? Performers were obsessive and we want to, we achieve and study all the time and retain a lot of information. That's what low method leaders can really do. I'm like, well, you might be a little anxious, but we're smarter than you. So whatever, it's just how it works. So that's what kind of made me start getting into it.

So I was always trying to figure out, it can be outrageous if we catch it soon enough, especially in a child. But usually there's a couple other things we have to stack. And sometimes you could find two, three things, we're done. Other people it's 15, 17, and you're still digging, trying figure something out. Like there has got to be, there have got be more, So, ultimately, the thing that kind of pushed me into the peptide world was I was getting some further genetic training from Dan Stickler, a peer on genomics, and it was a different way of looking at it.

I'm just very used to genetics for autism. And I really wasn't into optimization and human performance. Like, I don't really care about that. We're trying to get a kid to stop using a diaper. This is not into bodybuilders. Yeah, it's just not, I don't care. But my friends were like, It's hard what you do. Like, there's a lot of sadness. I'm like well, yes and no, right? Yeah. And I liked it. It was very satisfying. Also trying to, and I was getting more peak performers. College professors, CDC employees, you know I am in Atlanta, so I would get a And they're all PhDs, and a lot of physicians that are just like, I'm losing my edge.

They wanted neurofeedback just to make them sharper and perform better. I want to go back to what it was like here. So in that, why am I getting more of these people? And what if I could offer another level of care? That's kind of how you go into Dan. And he was super into peptides about 15 years ago. Everybody in this group, this community, was being trained in about 400, 500. docs, 90 physicians, maybe 85, there were definitely chiropractors, naturopaths, you know, a few other weird therapists.

Yeah, everybody here, you know, that visit, but they were already people who are cash practice, not hospitalists, already were doing IVs or other things and have more coaching type style would spend time with patients, right? You can't do this type of care in seven minute appointments. So it was in there that I was like, okay, let me look at this. And honestly, aloe vera was something I used to restore guts in a lot of people and it just stopped working the same way. I'm using colostrum and CBD, and I am using this ion thing.

But things are not working the same. Something's changed. That's a whole other story. It was because a couple of things were not work, so I was like, I've got to learn more. I started learning. And I start taking courses. Back then, a peptide course was $5,000, $45,500. Things were expensive. Like, look at it now. We've gotta give away. Everybody learns on Instagram now. I mean, I have patients come and try and teach me stuff. Right. Reddit. Now I'm like, this one says, you get the video a patient sends and you're like...

Here we go. Right? Okay, we started with Huberman. That's a whole other story. I'm like, what? I just go, What? Yeah. So I learned from Stickler, Kent, you know, Holtorf, Jim LaValle, so I was in all of their types of trainings and courses and things. But it was about You know, probably I still was fighting it. I didn't like it, I'm not from the drug model. And I was so I mean that, you know psychological psychiatric war world and my goal back then, 20 years ago, 15 years and stuff. Well, in practice 30 years was I wanted no drugs, no medications.

That was anti all of them. It took. Peptides kind of help take a little bit open my worldview, and I'm not as anti-medication at all anymore. I like, there are a few things I tell people, listen, I get it, but low-dose naltrexone, LDN is amazing, ketamine used right, you know, they are some amazing things, so they'll usually come to me, my doctor must put me on, like yeah, she's smart, You should be on that. Okay, why are you not on thyroid hormone? Like, if I have to talk them into using things now, So, but they feel so scammed by traditional medicine, they don't trust anything now.

So I'm like, no, LDN, good. And potentially we might have to talk about ketamine. You know, so, I've changed my view and peptides are one of the way that I got okay with bringing these outside in inputs into the systems. But it took me a few years to get comfortable. I started with myself, before I brought it into my practice.

Gut health, autism, and family-centered care 9:00

Yeah, but then I did. It took about three, four years of studying and being in these groups and visiting their offices and saying, you know, I love these people. I trust them. They showed me like Stephanie, it works. You're safe. you're not going to, You know I was, three four, five, six year olds. Like they've already been medically injured. with just a handful going after gut and brain function and stuck to a small handful for about five years before I started expanding. So I've been clinically, it's been about 11, 12 years using with patients.

But I have a certain type and a group that I'm using. I am not the person you go to to get super cut for a competition or you know i don't know how to do those i'm like i know, how, to use gear like that you guys or whatever like, i am not gonna use each the way you, know they're gonna do it yeah i love that and i think the biggest thing that, you mentioned out of all that which was awesome, awesome information was the whole gut aspect of it and, I think with where traditional food has gone in this country.

I mean, it's terrifying. And I'm actually going across the seas tomorrow, I'll be eating pizza and feeling great, you know, because the bread over there is different, the condiments are different. Everything's different over here. You come back here, eat, smell any type of bread you use, gain weight because they're so processed. Now, do you find something like that, whether it is food sensitivities or the process of foods or dysbiosis or things like, that do, think that's a major contributor to things such as autism or, somebody who's on the spectrum?

Outrageously so, because we have a damaged system now, there's not a lot of wiggle room. There's very, very little wiggle-room here once we've really fallen into that category, right? You know, you have somebody who loses two, 300 pounds, if they were obese to that level, their fat cells respond differently now. If we even lose the weight, they don't have the kind of wiggle room that you had, right? Like, I was never that big. People are like, we eat whatever we want, because my system knows, but it never got to the point.

My brother has a titanium leg because he almost lost it. Well, his leg performs a little differently than before. There was a titanium rod being his tibia. You know, like there is some pain and he can't do the same things. He can ski the way he used to, but he has the leg at least. So there's been some damage and we have to always deal with that. And the biggest thing too is, again, I'm a huge believer in that. I mean, the lifestyle medicine is right. That's why the podcast is named that, you know, food, exercise, stress reduction, hydration, and sleep are the best medicines on earth.

And again you don't need to see a physician to actually do that but I see it a lot of kids and mostly kids come here if they have issues when it comes to depression, issues not growing properly, things like that and everything starts with the gut. For me food sensitivities and again there's a lots of nonsensical food sensitivity tests out there but then there are some really legitimate ones. that go through and actually help you diagnose and it not only so much the food sensitivities, but it helps gives the you're actually treating the parents because the parent can now sit there and see can eat this can't eat, this candy this like, well, that's what they eat every single day and whether it's a Pavlov's dog aspect of her just being like you shouldn't be feeding your kids this nonsensical bullshit.

I guess you would say, you know, I mean like they're growing and the whole puberty type years. Those are the most important parts, not only for growing tall and developing your sexual organs and everything, but also for the brain aspect of it. So how pivotal during puberty, when it comes to things like food sensitivities, dysbiosis, and even things, like heavy metals, how much of those influence not, only how the kid's concentration is, How they think, their memory, But also their emotion. I'll say this because we are probably going to differ here.

I think most food sensitivity testing is bullshit. Most people's money, I just don't need it. Especially if you're lit up like a Christmas tree and they're like, yeah, you are not sensitive to these things. It's just your gut is ripped apart. We got leaky gut. because it's not normal to really be sensitive to much of anything. Unless I'm seeing like an anaphylaxis, unless I am seeing, you know, immunoglobulins that are showing me I have an actual problem, like then don't eat the peanuts, then I don�t need that.

In general, I do not think anybody is really sensitive. I think they have created damage and responses to it, but their immune system is being tweaked from damage. You fix the damage, A lot of people realize your gut is where your immune system lives. Your head is your neurologic system, your chest, you're cardiovascular system. If you don't realize, 80% of your system surrounds your actual intestines and your stomach and everything. Yeah. So, I mean, see where tests like a gut zoom or something like that, they're important.

I like the pre and the post because that really is, like you said, most of it is to motivate appearance. Because you can say something to them and they'll like blah, blah. Unfortunately, I'm a mother. It's a lot of energy to change the food in a house. You have a lots of emotional reasons around food, it's very strong emotion. I breastfed my son till he was three. So for anyone, any man tries to tell you food is just energy. you clearly are not a woman and you never breastfeed. Because food it love.

it's loud, it connects when you're going to go over, you know, Europe, like Italy will show you that more than anything, right? The whole culture, food, and people who live long with all the centenarians, communing together around food is a massive part of that connection and why they're living so long, why there's so much joy and pleasure in their lives, that's part It comes back to mother's milk and the food is love. It is connection, it is safety, nourishment in every way. So, you know, I get it's a very emotional thing and I don't like to shame these families for that.

Then you have finances involved. I'm telling them to, they're eating that way because of money a lot of times, right? To save money and their time because they've got to get the kids to school or off therapy because overhead is very high and the stress level, the debt is high. So there's a lot that goes into changing it. Sometimes, unfortunately, I don't like to waste patients' money. I've never accepted a drop of insurance in 30 years. They spend cash with me. Like, they wish they could go to their $10 copay, right?

But they don' do anything. But I try to get them connected to nature in every way. We have become so disconnected in thinking of Pop-Tart and a Brownie and cappuccino for a seven year old is actually an appropriate way to eat before they go to school. Terrifying. And it's, it is terrifying. By the time somebody often gets to me, they're nine, 10, 11, autistic, right? So having all these problems and the parents are at that point are trying to avoid psychiatric medications. They're trying to avoid ADHD and anti-anxiety meds because the school wants them at this point.

And they're like, this is too much. I can't do it. But nobody has ever told them, at that point, through all the doctor visits, you can be feeding them that. What are you feeding? Oh my gosh. Before I came and get them to talk about GAPS diet or carnivore or something, these ultimate elimination diets so we can bring the inflammation down, I like to clean it before I run tests. I do run the test, but I want to clean it up first. So I don't get all these wild 50 foods instead. I, I love. Oh, so one, you got to start there.

Puberty is a whole other. It's, it's when the shit show's going to happen. I mean, so it was kind of like, well, cause we can get things really stable and then say ADHD is gone. Anxiety is going. There's no medication. Kids are doing great. So listen, when puberty hits though, things might change and you might see some things and might need to come back in because we, you know, there's some radical changes now when it starts there from the first time.

Puberty, food, and worsening mental health 17:00

Wow. At this point, it becomes much harder because now they're off and out. They're eating all this other stuff. Before they were 12, I could control everything in the house. Once they, 12-13-14, they are not really doing what mom and dad are telling them to do anymore. And the peer group become much more important. I really think it's much harder than we're also dealing with potential birth control. I cannot tell you how many parents will put the 15-year-old in birth-control and now you're asking for anxiety, panic, and depression because we end up with a big problem.

Zinc and copper ratios are super huge and important for me and what they're doing, I'm always testing those with any mental health or cognition issue. Critical, critical mineral stability, fatty acids, omega-3, ratios. These are all basic foundations that that's super important to me. I can get those stable. We're usually good, but again, behaviors now and those tenures around devices and the digital addictions and digital dementia. It's a very different world today than how I started practicing 30 years ago, right?

15 years ago, I never had to have a conversation about the kid falling asleep in the bed with an iPhone. And nobody would have ever thought it was normal to give an iPad to a two-year-old. But now that's, you see infants holding phones in a restaurant. Like I just, it's a very different thing. So having those conversations, and I'm very concerned about that under 12 with screen time. It's causing ADHD and anxiety and panic in them. So it's much harder in the teen years, and we have to modulate a lot more at that time.

But yeah, absolute chaos is happening. And today, you probably are seeing this never in my career. Did I ever think, and you can see it on a QEG, so I'm board certified in neurofeedback. And so, I do think it's a missing piece in all of healthcare that, again, because pharma can't bill for it and can write a prescription for, it so who's going to fund it, who is going do it. Time consuming, It's not fast to do what I But brain mapping, doing quantitative, you know, analysis, a good neurofibic therapist, and electricity is what starts the chemistry.

So the electrical system, the electromagnetics of the human system. is really what we should be addressing. It moves faster, it's permanent, I get a much bigger response. So I'd rather deal with the electromagnetics of the person than the chemistry. The chemistry then I might have to micromanage a little at a time, but as we fix this, all of that regulates itself and you get off all the medications that are dealing with chemistry and it is very, very simple in black and white. I like getting QEEGs especially of the teen years, especially if they do sports, we always like to get a pre in case they get concussion.

I have a baseline just the way, you know, I had my labs from when I was 22 years old about my hormone, my thyroid, like, because I, have them all in a file. You don't guys don' keep your numbers because how are you supposed to know what normal is? Exactly. Like 22, 25, 30. So if 50, whenever things start to change, like, oh, that's normal for you. It's not normal. For me, this is my normal, I know what my blood pressure has been. I don't my glucose looks like I I, know my weight is right. So heavy metals, I run almost all the time, but QEGs can show you a lot of metabolic dysfunction.

Not that I know of. We have known medication patterns. Somebody may have studied this and have it published actually, though I don't think so because I'm one of the... Metabolics aren't taught to everyone how to read a QEG because the majority of people using them are psychologists and they don' really study that very much. But the neurologists that do it, there's been this blending and merging of different types of us that due neurofeedback and we meet in conferences and everybody learns from each other.

So we run different algorithms. You run them through to do that. We're good with, we would know definitely drugs. There's a lot with like, this is a benzo pattern. You know, This is an opioid pattern, so we can train through it or not and identify the pattern or they're on a Benzo. We know that, So we have to know what we're seeing has a little bit of that information and it's not baseline. So no, We are going to see high beta. we are gonna see that brain kind of on fire pattern and you have decide you know, is it, why is that like that?

So when we see certain things, the job then is to discover what it is and you have your good case history and your questioning and looking at the labs and diagnosis. Yeah, it lets you, gives you an idea where to go. I mean, some are obvious. They go to the shooting range all the time. You know, okay, I'm going to probably check for less, you know what I mean? Like, there are some things, but sometimes it takes a minute and sometimes you see the lab and you go, that's crazy. Do you, do you do see a correlation between various things such as low thyroid, high testosterone, estrogen, progesterone imbalances?

Do see, can you that on an EEG? So if you seen EEGs, see pattern like what we're going text every sex hormone he has because it's got to be one of those or anything like that or no? No, it's a little bit more simple of it. It's metabolic. Thyroid is a big one. Alpha waves, so delta, theta, alpha, beta, and we break beta up, right? So slow to fast and then gamma. So in that, we're going to look at different patterns, we're looking at how much, where, coherence, front to back, left to right, symmetry, asymmetry, so it's through multiple patterns of how things are.

And I think probably just eventually a lot of clinical intuition lets you go It's probably boom, boom boom. So we need to run these laps. so yes and no, you know, it's based on who they are, what the story is. They told you that they're struggling with. Cause you want as many points on the line as possible. Right. I want this many point on a line for this. That I wanna know that I know. And it was like, Oh, there that. Oh yeah. It was really important. We get this on you. It's really important we run this.

Did you ask your endocrinologist that, well, tell them to do this again and let me look at their, bring me those labs and then we see it. So yes and no, it's not as black and white as, oh, its testosterone or estrogen. No, growth hormone you can see because that's Delta.

QEEG, neurofeedback, and brain mapping 24:00

I mean, some of the things, a little bit, but it is not that precise. No, I'm curious, just because you brought up growth hormone Delta. Do you see a lot of issues? I don't know if you use DSIP or CJC, hypermoral and intestinal and all those kind of things. If you put a patient on that, do you a different change in their EEGs all over time or is that? But yeah, you can see, yeah. So yeah I love DCIP. I wish I knew why. That's the best one that didn't get approved. You know what I mean? I approved everything else.

Well stupid. Didn't do that one. No, so stupid, but that's a whole other, well none of them are approved really, whatever they did, whenever that weird shenanigans. Yeah, so it's Delta sleep inducing peptide. We make it and some people clearly are not making enough of it. And so sometimes you can give it to them and we can get this incredible response. I personally have a strong response to it, I love to use it I've used it on many people in my family, maybe it was one of those that's in fridge all the time and I'm always ready to go if someone's like, oh, you got trouble?

Here, let me help you. So let's see how you sleep tonight. The vast majority of people around me are like It's amazing. I'm like, I know you clearly know, you're not making it. So let's talk about why you are not. Making it so my job is to say, let me help you for a while to get the sleep. You can see it right away. you can change your QEG live with someone. so we've done many like experiments in the office. We have people hooked up. and we'll make them do different behaviors and you can change it based on that.

Different essential oils will change. I can a map 30, 35 with essential oil. So everything that's an input, sensory information coming in, I ask a lot of questions about Do they run fragrances in their house? So many things are causing these problems without them realizing it. So simple things like, I'm like okay, so we're going to use lemon essential oil. We're gonna use frankincense. Were using vetiver. Vetiver, they radical changes in an EEG pattern right when you're doing it, because we've never saw anything that could do it like it And I would show it to parents, like pre and post testing.

I'd say, here, I want to show you. See his brain, see how he's performing? See how we see in the mark? We would do neurofeedback right there in front of him. Let him see like how the kid was doing. Now we're going to have him play Minecraft with his mind. We hooked up doing neuro feedback. And they would literally see it. I go, that's what it's doing to the brain. That's why I don't want him to do it, I didn't wanted to play it at all, but I get we have social conditioning, and I want them to belong.

But Monday through Thursday, we're not doing that shit anymore, please, because it is ruining what the kid is learning at school and causing all these problems. And he doesn't need Ritalin or Adderall. He needs you to put more boundaries and change the behaviors of what's happening in the The brains are not stupid, they're super efficient. They're going for efficiency and whatever it's asked to do repeatedly, it is going to get really good at it. And these screens and these games and the way we live and TikTok and fast scrolling are creating brains that are designed to pay attention for a very short amount of time, create a lot of theta because screens are gonna make theta and alpha, we all do it.

You get glazed over because of the flicker and it creates a fight or flight response in the brain. And its job is to say, I can't do that. I'm burning myself out. So I gonna to make slow waves to soothe myself, right? And that's why alpha rises to soothe that. It's like, it's doing it because it is trying to make the right decision. But what are you doing that is still putting like gasoline on a fire? You know, that why suddenly in one person, you used to be able to handle a little bit of alcohol.

You used be to able handle little of sweets, but now it causing this massive problem. Yeah, because look at your brain. Its post concussion can do the same thing. Absolute lights up with high beta. Yeah. So the history matters. You can't just look at a map and you have to see what's male, female, age, you know, a little bit of information, then you can read it, and then ask more questions. But once you kind of know the gender and the age you could tell a lot. lot from you can see a series of concussions you look well probably was a cut in this here there probably at this age this you.

Can see even at. This age probably this if you're doing a 19 channel z-score Loretta it's almost creepy with the broadman areas of the brain like how creepy it can be so when you tell somebody map to them and they're like they think you are psychic you know they are like why do you It's right here. I think we're on the same pages. Again, you can't really jump down the path of treatment. Like I talked about before we got here about everybody's on a peptide, an IV, ketamine, this, whatever it could be.

The most important thing is diagnostic testing and a good intake. Diagnostic testing includes imaging, EEGs, everything under the sun. You can really be a solid practitioner until you know all the pieces of the puzzle. We can put that puzzle back together until we really understand it. I just think the brain imaging is not getting enough. By far. I agree with you. Because like EEGs, it could be there was a push. It was like 20 years ago, maybe it's 25 years about this point, I can't believe I'm like this old.

And we all thought it was some company I forgot, like, this is going to be a winner. They were pushing towards pediatricians and psychiatrists, but they thought the pediatrician, there's a single channel EEG where they could just do a CZ just at the top, you know, midline of the head and just look at theta beta ratio. If you just even did theta-beta ratio at one spot, and you could simply go, ADHD, yes or no? It's under arousal, it's over arusal. So we have attention problems because our brain is falling asleep, or we had attention problem because we're sped up too fast.

Well, we call one, ADHD we called one anxiety. At least, even if you were gonna use drugs, if we knew nothing but chemicals, which I think we should go beyond chemicals. You would know, well this one needs to be spED up. This one need to slow down. Adderall or Ritalin to this brain, you would give this something different and you'd give, they're not the same, but in an 8, 9, 10 year old they look exactly the the class. Because they can't tell you really well what it is. No. And, you know, it's unfortunately, especially in there's a big gender gap between the way girls and boys show these things.

You know? Poor boy, I'm the mother of a boy and like, y'all got a real short end of the stick on a lot of this because you have a guy who's anxious in any way, he's not going to cry like the girl. He's going look angry. You know, his expression is different.

Diagnostics, treatment strategy, and closing remarks 31:00

Well, that's very problematic to a teacher, to the school, and they don't like it. And they just want to fix it, they want it to sedate it they wanted to go away, there's a lot of tolerance and compassion for the fragility. There's not tolerance for them masculine way of being afraid. In a little boy, seven, eight, nine, 10, 11, doesn't know what to do. He doesn' have the skill set of 40, most 40 year old men can't handle it and so we're children to do stuff that they're not ready for and then just drugging them up because nobody knows how to.

So I just think any psychiatric situation for sure should have a brain image of some sort. QEG is the easiest because there's nothing invasive, but you could use a SPECT scan, that is a little invasive. You could do a functional MRI. That's probably the gold standard of the But QEG's overlay specs and functional MRIs perfectly. The studies have been done. I've read many, some people are like, oh no, no. That's legit. It's right here. Like, yep. You know what I mean? And we can see enough on a queue, if you have a 19 channel to go, you've got to always rule out structure, right?

Yeah, structure governs function and vice versa. Yeah. So a Q can still show you that too. And you go. There's something, something there we need to go with clear to see if we can do it. I just think, instead of just a question right now they just prescribe based off a questionnaire, like, yeah, I'm like. Yeah, you run new labs and you don't look at the brain. I don' understand. And I think diagnostic testing intake forms are the, are, the root, root of medicine. It's getting overlooked, especially with the whole brain scans.

We go to all these different conferences. You hardly ever sit in on a lecture. Or you really see you walk the floors. Don't see too many companies trying to promote this or give you an easy to use device for the family care practitioner. So it's definitely difficult to really kind of get that gauge done. It takes a while to learn. I mean, it was like just the certification was three years. It's not fast and easy. Nobody gets into it because they think usually it's a personal story. This is what changed my nephews with autism.

We went hard diet. Did GAPS diet, a lot of genetics, some basics, cleaning up the gut, and it were all feedback. was kind of those two where the big, big sweet spot where my sister said it, I was trying to refer my best friend. I'm like, you have to get him, Najeeb needs neurofeedback. Nothing's better for seizures than neuro feedback. We are so good at eliminating ADHD. The literature proves it. But because you can't write a prescription for it and that's not gonna be monetizable that way, and it's going to take, because of neuroplasticity, it takes repetition two to three times a week for a certain amount of time, at least for this to be permanent.

The literature is real on it. I still have to go, yeah, I'm getting you bigger, better, stronger, faster. You know, you gotta- They don't want to be calm. They want a sleep better. I tell them, I know you're smart. It works so great with children because you show them or show you what your brain looks like inside. Okay, and it's beautiful rainbow colors and stuff and I just show them and It's as simple as that It so they just go what I go look how beautiful you are and all it is is see how that's red It supposed to be green And for whatever reason, I don't know you hit your head.

You fell off the bike. Who cares? No big deal. I go, listen, I've hit my head a lot of times. They had a lotta concussions. My head was red, too, for a while. Now it's green. That's all you're gonna do. You're going to play some games with your mind. Your gonna control it with you brain, because you are that powerful. It's gonna change on its own. And you'll never need to see me again when we're done. We're not using any needles or drugs here. We need more of you out there. We do, we need a whole bunch more.

Well, Dr. Rimka, thank you so much. This has been such a spirited educational. I'm not gonna lie, I learned a lot on this one, so I can't thank enough for sharing your knowledge. Can you tell everybody where they can find you? DrRimka.com, D-R-r-i-m-k-a. com, Instagram, drrimka I teach a lie. Do a lotta continuing education. And I teacher outside university. A lot of public speaking. I do a lot of groups and courses. So I'm kind of focused on that for a minute because I just, it's been, a hell of a 18 months, two years for me.

And I know we didn't get a chance to talk about the book. I'd love to send it to you and maybe you send me the blog. Maybe we schedule a second one and go over it. Yeah, and then we can talk that book and you'd be like, oh, so there's just I've been through some stuff and sometimes I learned as a woman, especially I need to take a 2nd and let myself rest. That's great. And so I'm going to do some of the things. So at Dr.Ingrid.com, you can see about the memberships and the programs and courses I do have.

And of course, I have a pep side course because what would I be if I wasn't here. You know what I mean? You got to monetize. I think that's what it is. But thank you, it's been a pleasure. Thank you so much. Again, this has been the Lifestyle Medicine Podcast. I'm Dr. Adam Rusoka. We're powered by Access Labs. Check us out. On Instagram, we're on YouTube, on Spotify. Anywhere you can find a podcast, you find us. And again, Dr Rimka, This has absolutely been thrilled. So thank-you. Thanks for joining us today on the Lifestyle Medicine Podcast.

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