The Chris Voss Show - The Chris Voss Show Podcast – Mental Clarity: Daily Habits to Clear Brain Fog And Improve Focus by Michelle Davies BSc

Episode Date: November 27, 2024

Mental Clarity: Daily Habits to Clear Brain Fog And Improve Focus by Michelle Davies BSc Amazon.com Braincareexpert.com Osteoergo.com Mental Clarity: Daily Habits to Clear Brain Fog and Improve Focus Are you struggling with persistent brain fog, anxiety, or feelings of depression that cloud your mind and hinder your daily life? Mental Clarity by Michelle Davies, BSc (Hons) Ost, offers a groundbreaking, holistic, and scientifically grounded approach to regaining control over your mental health. In this transformative book, Michelle, a graduate of osteopathy in 1997 and an internationally acclaimed healer and health consultant, provides actionable strategies to clear brain fog and restore your focus. She delves into the critical role of the glymphatic system and the flow of cerebrospinal fluid—often referred to as the Christ oil—in maintaining mental clarity, and how proper care, including diet, sleep, exercise, and prayer can enhance its function. One of the most surprising and intriguing insights Michelle reveals is how birth itself can cause a type of concussion, creating a blockage in the glymphatic system that, if left unaddressed, can persist for a lifetime. This hidden trauma, often overlooked, can lead to chronic issues like depression and anxiety. Michelle's expertise in identifying and treating these birth-related traumas offers a unique and essential path to mental clarity and emotional well-being. With a unique blend of scientific insight, spiritual wisdom, and her deep connection with God, Michelle explores the profound impact of concussion-related brain injuries on mental health, particularly their connection to depression and suicidal ideation. Through the practice of cranial osteopathy, the innovative use of AO Scan Technology©, and the healing power of Inner Voice bio frequency music, combined with prayer and scriptural guidance, she offers readers a path to natural healing, addressing the root causes of cognitive dysfunction and emotional distress. Inside, you'll discover: The underlying causes of brain fog and how to address them effectively. Nutritional guidance for a brain-boosting diet. Exercise tailored to enhance cognitive function. Mindfulness and prayer techniques for stress management, including the incorporation of healing scriptures. Advanced healing methods, including cranial osteopathy and AO Scan Technology©, that promote lasting mental clarity and spiritual well-being. Whether you're seeking relief from mental cloudiness, recovering from a concussion, or looking to improve your overall cognitive health, Mental Clarity is your comprehensive guide to achieving a clear, focused mind. Embark on this journey to reclaim your mental sharpness, deepen your spiritual connection, and live a vibrant, fulfilling life grounded in faith and healing. Why This Book? Mental Clarity not only equips you with the tools to overcome cognitive challenges but also uncovers the hidden impacts of birth-related trauma, offering innovative solutions to lifelong issues. Ideal for those seeking a deeper understanding of the mind-body connection, this book is perfect for professionals, spiritual leaders, and anyone dedicated to personal growth. Join Michelle on this journey, and discover why her methods are trusted by top-tier clients and sought after by international audiences.

You wanted the best. You've got the best podcast, the hottest podcast in the world. The Chris Voss Show, the preeminent podcast with guests so smart you may experience serious brain bleed. The CEOs, authors, thought leaders, visionaries, and motivators. Get ready. Get ready. Strap yourself in. Keep your hands, arms, and legs inside the vehicle at all times because you're about to go on a monster education roller coaster with your brain. Now, here's your host, Chris Voss. I'm Voss Voss here from thechrisvossshow.com. Oh, my gosh.

The excitement in my voice and the Iron Lady this morning. She just completes me. She completes me. That's what we do after 14 years. I got tired of singing thechrisvosshow.com. No one wants to hear that. Anyway, guys, welcome to the show. As always, go to goodreads.com, 4chesschrisvoss, linkedin.com, 4chesschrisvoss,

chrisvoss1 and the TikTokity and all those crazy places on the internet. Today we have an amazing young lady on the show. She's going to be enlightening you and brightening you. I just made that word up and it's a callback word. Of all her knowledge and insight and experience. And she's going to help you make your life better because I've seen some of your lives and you need some work there. We all do, right?

We're all in the same boat together. We're trying to figure it out, trying to get it and all that good stuff. She's the author of the latest book that came out September 4th, 2024 called Mental Clarity, Daily Habits to Clear Brain Fog and Improve Focus. Michelle Davies joins us on the show today. We'll be talking to her about all of her stuff and hopefully most of our audience will walk away much smarter because that's what we do on the show today. We'll be talking to her about all of her stuff, and hopefully most of our audience will walk away much smarter, because that's what we do on the show. Michelle Davies is an internationally acclaimed healer,

over three decades of experience empowering individuals to transform their health and reclaim their vitality. She's helped over 57,000 people of all ages, from newborns to the elderly, reduce suffering, and achieve profound self-healing through natural osteopathic and energy-based techniques. She's the author of the Miracle Worker whistleblowing book that gave the public their voice back by sharing 75 censored testimonies of transformation and healing. These powerful accounts suppressed by a regulator reveal the

profound impact of her work and highlight the importance of integrity and transparency in healthcare. In her latest book, Mental Clarity, we'll be talking today, she focuses on overcoming mental health challenges such as brain fog, anxiety, depression, and suicidal ideation. She'll give us some innovative techniques to stimulate the glyphatic. Am I pronouncing that correctly there, Michelle? Yes, you are. I flunk second grade. That's the callback joke on the show. And improve your spinal fluid flow.

I'll just say that because I can't pronounce that word. Offering practical solutions to enhance mental clarity and vitality. Welcome to the show. How are you, Michelle? Thank you so much, Chris, for having me. This is a wonderful opportunity for me to be speaking with you and your audience and to convey a very important message that we can all self-heal and self-recover. We have an innate ability to do this. And I really appreciate the opportunity to share some of my knowledge. Thank you for coming. The word I was struggling with was, is it cerebrospinal fluid flow?

Is that? Yes, that's right. You did it right. I did it? I just ran away scared there the first time I saw it. Michelle, give us your dot coms. Where do you want people to get to know you better on the interwebs? So my book can be found at findmentalclarity.com and also braincareexpert.com and smarter sitting.com. And then do you have another, there's a.com that we have osteoergo.com. Is that yours too?

Oh yes, that one. Yes. And there is another one, Worcester-osteo.go.com. Is that yours too? Oh, yes, that one. Yes. And there is another one, Worcester-osteo.com. Okay. And give us a 30,000 overview. What's inside your new book? My book consists of 10 chapters. It's a self-help book. And the reason for writing it is to reach more people so that they can understand that they have ability to be able to heal themselves from a lot of mental ill health issues and the 10 chapters cover a wide variety of subjects perhaps i can share just a few of those with you sure so the first chapter is about

understanding brain fog the second chapter anatomy of the brain and the glymphatic system. That's that word, which actually you said correctly. The causes of brain fog, the role of nutrition and hydration in mental clarity, the power of physical exercise, the importance of sleep, mindfulness, prayer importance of sleep, mindfulness, prayer, and stress management, the impact of the environment, cognitive exercises, and the role of social connections, and then advanced healing techniques. 10 chapters. These are all really important because, you know, anytime I'm short in any of the things you listed, you know, I don't get enough sleep. I don't take care of my mental well-being.

I tend to suffer. And it didn't used to be that way. I could get away with a lot of crap when I was young. But now I'm 56, going on 57 in January. You know, it's become a struggle. You know, it's an issue. Do you have any stats you can quote on how many people struggle with these sort of ailments or brain fog? What we know is that one person dies by suicide every 40 seconds.

Oh, wow. And 32 people develop mental ill health every second, which is a staggering problem of mental health illness. And often brain fog is one of the first signs that there's a problem with the brain health. You know, there was two things I had there. One is a lot of mental health problems. The body kind of turns into physical problems, doesn't it? Doesn't that equate to my understanding? Yes, correct. Often results in chronic pain yeah you know i i was i had no idea i was suffering from brain fog i think i think most

people are just like he's always been an idiot so nothing's really changed but i have good friends that are honest with me but i i a year ago this would have been November 2023, those watching 10 years from now, I realized that my testosterone, I went in and had my testosterone tested. And I found that it was low. And I've been trying to put on muscle and lift weights for two or three years, and I could only get to a certain point. And so someone said, you know, go have your testosterone checked. And boy, what a life changing thing that was. But one of the first benefits of it that came within days was I was living in a brain fog and I woke up from it with a testosterone. It eliminated the brain fog I was

having. And wow. I mean, I was like a week off from reality and I was kind of at a point in my life where I was waking up every day. And I literally would crawl into bed. And I'd just been like, I just left this bed five minutes ago. Life was just starting to really blast by me. And I'd heard from so many people, as you get older, that things tend to speed up because your equation of time is so long. Where when you're young, it's short. So every day is, you know, is, is so long where when you're young, it's short.

So every day is, oh my God, this is forever, you know, but when you're older, you're just like, oh, fuck it. No day. And, and so within three days of the spike hitting me from the testosterone injection, I woke up from brain fog and I couldn't figure out why time was moving so slowly for me. I'm like, why is if it's been two hours and it only shows it's been a minute. Like I was, I was like a week and a half off. I got done with the first Monday I got done with it.

I was sitting there halfway through the day going, why isn't it Thursday right now? What the fuck? And then why isn't it Monday? I was like, yeah, out of sorts in brain fog so it's a really big deal that people suffer from huh yeah and not everybody can have a solution either which is what the biggest problem is because it starts with brain fog but then the brain fog leads to another symptom of the brain dysfunction and before you know it you're in a right state and unable to get out it's like being in a dark black hole and not being

able to find your way out of it I kind of felt that way I mean I literally you know we do two or three shows a day here a weekday on the Chris Voss show well you know there's work there's all sorts of work I do you can track what I do every day but I would just literally be crawling into bed at night going, I swear to God, I just left this place 10 minutes ago. What, what, and, and the other thing is I wasn't getting stuff done that I really want to do beyond what my basic work schedule was every day. And, you know, there's, there's lots of things that we have to develop and, or, you know,

you're like, Hey, maybe there's some other revenue streams or things we want to do. And I wasn't getting any of those done. I had this to-do list of wishes that were a mile long. I wasn't getting any of them done. And I'm just like, I just feel like I'm just doing the basics every day. And yeah, I felt really trapped and I just kind of thought this is old age and man, it sure wasn't. No, no. Do you know what's really interesting that what I'm finding with all of the patients that are presenting with severe mental ill health and that could be suicide fantasy or depression or schizophrenia and the interesting thing about all of these cases is that I'm finding a concussion. So they've had some form of brain bang, a bang to the head, brain injury, but also it can be

from their birth. And because all of us have been born, it's potentially there is a reason there if that birth was traumatic in any way like a forceps delivery or von two's delivery even cesarean as well yeah i mean there's a shock and i mean there's definitely a shock i'm still in shock for being born i'm like seriously this is fucking it this is what i waited nine months for so you talk in your book about there's daily habits that can help clear. Do you want to tease a couple out? Yeah, sure. Yes. Maybe how to identify it too. You know, if someone's in the audience right now going, do I have brain fog?

You know how to identify it. So it feels like a cloud over you and it feels like you can't think straight. And perhaps you're not communicating very well with people and it's like you're not listening which affects your connection with others as well so they they're the quite often they're the usual things that people would associate with brain fog not just not being able to think straight and not get things done and they're procrastinating a lot of the time as well that That's a lot of what I do. I'm really good at procrastinating. I'm doing okay. I'm a master.

I'm a Zen master of procrastination. So some of the tips to help. The most important is sleep. Sleep is really important. Going to bed at a reasonable time. I'm not sure what time you go to bed. Maybe you need to be in bed a little bit earlier. That's probably true.

I tend to push it being an entrepreneur. You're like, ah, just work on this one little project. Yes. Go to bed. Just one more. So I'd say sleep is number one. Trying to be in bed by about half past 10 in the evening. And then sleeping through until around about 5. That's is number one, trying to be in bed by about half past 10 in the evening and then sleeping through till around about five.

That's the number one is sleep and making sure that you have a good sleep hygiene. Sleeping on your side is better because sleeping on your side helps the glymphatic flow, which is the word you used earlier. So this is the flow around the brain, which helps to keep the brain clean and to keep it detoxed. So if you sleep on your side and preferably on your right side, they say that that is the best position for us for the, for the glymphatic flow. So sleeping back and forth, I'm kind of weird,

but I do sleep on my side. So I, I tend to flip back and forth through the night. That's a good thing. Am I trying to wash my brain? Is it a rinse cycle for my brain? Yes, at least you're going this way and then you're going this way. You're helping the flow.

I'm just trying to get all the clean. I'm just trying to drain out all the crap from what's left of my brain, mainly from going on social media, Twitter or something and reading things. And you're just like, my brain is dirty now. All sorts of crap. We clean it out. That's what we need. We need a wash function on the brain, I think.

That's what we need. We need a brain washer. Wait. That's where I come in. Brain washer. That's what I do. That is kind of what I do, though. Because I use my hands to encourage the flow of fluid,

which helps the brain to detox. And I think one of the reasons I like to flip side by side, too, I used to drink at night pretty heavy. I wasn't addicted. I was just abusing it. And for me, vodka was like sugar. It was a fuel. So as an entrepreneur, like I say, you know, you got those projects.

And so you're like, I got some more work I need to do. You know, I'll put some vodka in. I'll relax. And, you know, the sugar will, you know, keep me going. And I did that for about 20 years. And so a lot of my system would be fucked up. And so my lymph nodes, I think think on my sides and stuff would just feel all irritated and clogged and so sometimes laying on my side would help i don't know release that

and clean it up and i was always trying to figure out how to get that to work better but now i eat well and i try and sleep is that was the other question i had for you is how important is it sleep do we need to sleep seven to eight hours or i would time, I would say the optimum time is seven to eight hours. And you touched on a really important point there about sugar and alcohol. It's really a bad idea to drink alcohol in the evening and have sugar through the day anyway, just generally don't eat sugar, but alcohol, you'd be better off having a glass of wine at lunchtime, not in the evening. And it's because of the sugar content. It tends to wake you up in the early hours of the morning and again that's it's really important to have the deep sleep because when you go into a deep sleep that's when the glymphatic system works

it when it's it's when it's the brain is able to cleanse itself so if you're waking up into that cycle of deep sleep that's a disaster because then you're not able to self-heal. And that needs to be happening every night that you sleep. So caffeine is the other problem as well. If people are having caffeine after midday, this is sounding like a disaster for you, Chris. Yeah, I quit drinking in 2020 and it's the best thing I ever did. It's so nice not to have the hangovers, but we do have a little bit of coffee caffeine problem. I traded one vice for one.

Oh, no. Rotating the vices, basically. If you can have your coffee before midday, how about that? Maybe before 11 a.m. We do that, but then we have it through. But I understand the impacts of caffeine and yeah it's not it's not the best for you it's best to have a natural high you know meth or cocaine but no i'm just kidding don't do that people these jokes don't do that i tell you the work that i do every day I am on a high at the end of a clinic every single day.

I am high. I'm just so elated because of the people seeing the ability of people to be able to self heal and self repair. It's just wonderful. So, yeah, I'm on a high just naturally, but by helping people to heal themselves. Let me ask you this. What is your position on marijuana or pot to help heal relaxed muscles? And I mean, if it's not being addictively abused, I tend to find, and I might be deluded because I was the guy who for 20 years thought that I slept better drinking vodka before going to bed, and I didn't.

But one thing I seem to have found or that I'm under the delusion impression is that somehow it helps me heal and it helps, it definitely helps me with pain. You know, I always thought people who smoke pot were full of shit when they're like, yeah, it helps with pain and my PTSD. And I i'm like sure so does my vodka you you do you baby but then when it became legal in nevada i started i tried it because i was trying to get off alcohol and i feel like it has healing properties or at least relaxes swelling and inflation inflammation and it does help me sleep better i sleep like a baby and I wake up refreshed without a hangover. I've been through those days.

And, you know, I mean, anything that you take too much of is, continuum is probably not good for you, but I found it really helps me. And I take edibles, so I'm not smoking it. And I'm not really up on what it probably does to the lungs, but I usually take edibles. But what was your thought on that, on healing the body? So cannabis is a plant, isn't it?

So I tend to think that all plants have a healing capacity. And just to be natural is to be best. The problem is when people mix that with tobacco or that you're buying it on the street from someone and it's been mixed with other chemicals. This is where the problem is. I don't think the problem necessarily is with the plant itself, but it is when it's mixed. And I think you're also right about it being it's better edible than it is to be smoking it because of the problem with the lungs. So I think probably edible would be better rather than smoking it. And I'm tending to want it. It's not my area.

It's not something that I, I mean, patients do ask me though. Some patients do ask me and I say the same thing to them really, that it's a plant and plants are there for a reason, aren't they? They are there for healing. I was living on Tylenol like two to three a plant. And plants are there for a reason, aren't they? They are there for healing. I was living on Tylenol like two to three a day for a long time. And when I started taking edibles, a pot, and of course, you know, I get them in Nevada where they're made by companies I'm not buying off the street. You know, because nowadays you can get fentanyl on it and God knows what else. But I, so i started

taking edibles and they really worked for me they gave me a piece they seemed to really help with inflammation if i was in pain it would go to that and one day i walked into my bathroom after six months three to six months and i found this bottle of tylenol that I used to live on daily. And I was like, I haven't taken any Tylenol for three to six months. And I was like, holy shit. Now I know they try and make marijuana illegal. There's no money in it for Tylenol. Anyway. It's very good for Parkinson's, isn't it? I've seen some incredible videos with people having Parkinson's disease

and where the cannabis actually stops the shake. And it's incredible. And it is on prescription for some people here in the UK. I think it's for chronic pain. It's prescribed for that. And perhaps it is prescribed for Parkinson's as well. And things like MS. MS, yeah. Over there in the UK, do you guys have, is pot legal yet? Or is it still restricted? No, it's restricted. It's only on prescription for the people that would have chronic pain.

Or neurological pain. We're trying to get it legal over here., like you say, I mean, Tylenol was making a killing off me for the longest time and it really helped. What are some other ways we can identify brain fog or the daily things that you talk about habits to clear it? Yeah. So the other important thing is drinking enough water. This is the second most important.

You're not doing that as well, Chris. I'm doing that right now, actually. Honestly, I got some water. I already have my coffee. This is my coffee cup. So it is. I don't know how to show you this one. I poured it on myself.

I think that's been stained by the coffee bean. Take it off. But I did already have my coffee this morning. So this is trying to get me to come back down. You know, it's kind of interesting. A lot of things you're listing are like things that we constantly hear are good for us. Eat healthy foods, you know, breathe, drink lots of water so you're hydrated, sleep. You know, it's kind of the basics, but it's kind of funny how we tend to lose track of this or the day-to-day craziness, chaos that we have in our lives.

We don't self-care. No, it is the biggest problem. It's far easier for people as well to take a tablet usually than try to address the root cause. Because behind every symptom that everybody suffers suffers there is a root cause to the suffering but it isn't as easy to identify that and it can be expensive but these tips in the book they're they're all free pretty much although part of the the dietary ones like eating walnuts and blueberries obviously you have to pay for pay a good diet. And these foods can be quite expensive, can't they? But the water, of course, and if you live near a spring, it's even better to collect the water from a spring.

So we've got the Malvern Hills very close to me in Worcester. So I go regularly and I collect my water from there. And I also drink distilled water as well. Distilled water, yeah. Distilled, yeah. That's removing then any impurities all of the impurities in the water yeah it makes your coffee taste way better too it really does i mean it's it's uh everything you know in it's it's interesting how simple these things are

and one of the other things you talked about was people who suffer from challenges suicide a lot of this stuff kind of plays into each other. Depression, suicide, the body being unhealthy in so many different ways. I went through a period after losing my dog, after a year and a half of home care of her, had cancer. And then shortly after that, I was in depression of the loss. And then one of the hard drives with the last couple hundred photos of her got lost destroyed basically it quit working and it i fell into this deep

depression and suicidal thoughts and i was just getting overwhelmed with my adhd just beating me up every day and i'm just like you're gonna take my dog and then you take the pictures to life this is the way you're going to work me and and it was just it was it's interesting look at now the spiral that I went into and of course back then I was probably drinking vodka and and not sleeping and you know who knows what else I was up to but it's interesting how all those things kind of contribute to each other. Yeah, and it just spirals. And before people know it, they're in a deeper hole than they thought that they would be. It's just so quick, isn't it? The one symptom leads to another, to another, and then it can be devastating.

And a lot of people don't talk about it either. I'm often the first person that will be told that that person is feeling suicidal they haven't told their friends or their family but they tell me and that's really upsetting as well isn't it that they these people are not actually they don't feel that they can share that with anyone. And it's tragic. I mean, there's been a lot of patients now that I've worked with that have been suicidal. And I mean, it's on the other side, it's fantastic to be able to help them heal because if they follow some daily habits and having some of the cranial treatments, which is to aid the detoxing of the

brain, it can turn someone away from considering suicide. And it lifts them out of a depression. And this message isn't spoken about enough because there aren't so many people treating those conditions, mental health conditions with their hands or following advice. The other part of the work I do, you mentioned it, it's called the cerebrospinal fluid, but it's called the sacred secretion, the Christ oil. You may have read that in the book. This is another way that you can help raise your energy and your spirit by honoring your Christ oil. So this is the sacred secretion, which is in every single one of us. And it's the cerebrospinal fluid, which flows around the brain and all of the nerves and the spinal cord.

So if you look at it in a spiritual way, because we are spiritual beings, we're not just a physical being, we're spiritual as well, there's that element to us. And if we honor that, then that's also another way that we can feel much better. But actually how it heals the body. So what I mean by that would be like not being quick to anger, not being boastful, not being prideful, not being gluttonous, loving people and forgiveness, not taking offense and gratitude. So if we live a life within our spirit, then also that helps to cleanse the brain. So part of my work with people is to suggest that they say a prayer. And this particular prayer is really strong. It's so profound. So many of my patients have reported miracles as well as myself experienced miracles.

And it's really simple. So I'd love to share that with you and the audience. Sure. So it's, I am sorry, please forgive me. Thank you. And I love you. And if you say it often enough and become an expert in it, which means saying it hundreds of times a day, if not thousands of times in the day and the night, it helps to push the negative thoughts further away and they come back less often. And let's face it, most of us have negativity, the disempowering, unsupportive voice, the chit-chat in the ear, telling us that we're bad and telling us also to do bad things. Because the patients that I've seen, they say that they hear voices in their head and it's the voices that tell them to hurt themselves and to take their life. And some of these patients have made attempts on their life.

So to try to counteract that voice that's there would be to use the prayer and it cleanses the thoughts. And it means that you don't have to then judge the thoughts that are coming into your mind because it's better to try not to judge it because usually it's nonsense and it's not supportive. So you want to push it away. And the prayer does the work. It's crazy. It's amazing. So it's definitely worth trying that.

So if anybody's struggling, I think that's also top of my list. So it's the sleep and it's the water and it's the prayer. They would be the top three for relieving any kind of mental ill health, I would say. I mean, you're replacing the, you know, the, what is that, inner voice talk, the inner voice talk that you have. You know, sometimes we get into the cyclical nature of that. So one of the challenges I've always had on my life is having severe ADHD.

And in fact, the funny thing is I thought I had it under control and then I started testosterone and now it's back. Squirrel. But sometimes the part of the ADHD is your thoughts get cyclical. And I remember when I first was diagnosed with it, I was having panic attacks almost a day or a couple times a day. And the doctor explained it to me and i was like you're full of shit i really just i was like whatever he's we're gonna give you some meds try

them and and you'll see and i'm like okay i'm gonna try your little game but you're full of shit and he said you know what he says i want you to keep a journal and I want you to write down everything you're focusing on hour by hour throughout the day. And he goes, I will bet you that you think about the same exact topic at the same exact time every day. So at 10 p.m., you're probably worried about your business revenue or I don't know whatever this the thing was and I was like yeah okay sure I'll do that yeah we'll see you's crazy yeah turns out he was right as hell he nailed it every day I had a schedule it was it was like scheduled in my brain there I had a schedule of anxieties and and insecurities and worry about you about stuff that was probably never going to happen.

But every day, 10 o'clock, up on deck, here's our schedule. And it was the same pattern over and over again. So I can see how something like that prayer would disrupt that and help change that. And a lot of times we don't feel it you know there's a lot of people when i was feeling suicidal i just felt so whipped my mind brain like i was just being beaten up every day by everything i did wrong everything i every person i maligned every bad memory of me being just awful sometimes loss of my dog missing you know loss and it would just it was just relentless and people i don't think people realize that people that consider suicide in a real form of

sense you know they're just not doing a cry for help i mean you just you're trying to end yourself because you want that whipping that just relentless punishment from your brain that the hindbrain that just kicks at you you just wanted to stop and leave you alone and it's the only way you can get peace and it's ironic when you think about it because you know a destruction of the self is destruction of the self is permanent you know it's it's quite it's good you know we we tend to you know if you attack me i'm going to defend myself by nature of fight or flight mode you know we we tend to, you know, if you attack me, I'm going to defend myself by nature of fight or flight mode. You know, we tend to avoid suicide as much as we can or dying.

But, you know, there comes a point sometimes where that brain is just activity is so relentless. And I felt that. You just feel it. And thankfully, I was lucky enough to get exposed. I had someone come on the show and I talked to him after the show about the problems I was having. And they told me about Eckhart Tolle. And I started doing kind of mindful meditation and peaceful meditation, trying to slow the brain down and recognizing what was going on and trying to live in the present as opposed to, you know, all this psychosis I was going through. Yeah. It's a real big deal. You, you touched on, if you want to expand on that,

expand on you and I'll bring up my next question. Yeah. So you're describing overwhelm. It's like you're drowning. This is what patients say to me that they, and it's, yeah, it's just total overwhelm and a drowning sensation. And it just feels like they can't escape from that they and it's yeah it's just total overwhelm and a drowning sensation and it just feels like they can't escape from that and it also it requires so much energy to make a shift as well from where you're at so it literally is like they're drowning yeah and it's like there's no way out of that for them yeah yeah you alluded i think earlier on to diet and food. One of the things I did years ago is when I lost 100 pounds in three or four months, and I quit drinking. I was drinking Mountain Dew 10 to 15 times a day, and then mixing it with vodka at night. And then I was eating at every fast food restaurant mcdonald's you know taco bell you name it i was just eating garbage and i was weighing probably close to 400 pounds and and one day i just you know i broke i just got sick of it i just got sick of being sick and

feeling awful and i was just like i'm just not doing this anymore i don't know what i need to do but i i'm not doing this and so then i got into raw foods, you know, kind of a vegan-ish, whatever, variation of diet and started eating salads. And then I started learning, you know, how to eat raw foods, how to eat living, live foods, you know. Yes, yes. You know, something that hasn't been dead and frozen and blanched and with salt and, you know, sodium for and you know sodium for you know

five years while it sits in the freezer department and so that was a real thing that it really helps with mental clarity to eating healthy and eating live foods as opposed to garbage now i get most of my food from from local farms milk and and stuff. That's wonderful. Yeah, so you may have had leaky gut, and then you started to heal your gut because there is a direct axis between the brain and the gut. So we find that if you have a leaky gut, which you probably did because of the processed foods, maybe too much wheat, too much dairy,

too much alcohol, too much sugar, these things tend to weaken the gut lining and cause little holes and there's a direct access so access so you can then start becoming toxic in your brain because your gut is toxic so with the live foods like a probiotic and a prebiotic it starts to heal the gut lining and that way you can reduce brain. So it sounds like that's what you were doing. That turnaround for you, that would have been really profound for your brain

to make such a shift in your diet and your eating habits. Yeah. We've had a lot of scientists and PhD and psychologists on the show. I mean, they call the gut your second brain. Absolutely, yeah. And it's connected to the brain. It is. A lot of them have found that people that have MS or other brain swelling issues,

they can reduce it, sometimes solve it, depending upon the variation or the depth of the issue, by changing the diet. And it's all about, if you eat shitty foods, it will cause brain swelling. That's right. It causes a reconcussion brain swelling. Yeah, that's right. It causes a reconcussion. Yeah. Yeah, it's phenomenal.

So I could have a patient that their brain has actually felt much better. And then when they return a couple of months or a few months later, it's, oh, wow, your brain feels like it's constipated. And I use that word. I say your brain is constipated. My brain is like it's constipated. And I use that word. I say, your brain is constipated. But it's because they've, the very likelihood is that they have a leaky gut. And so they are retoxifying themselves regularly then with the food. So then they need to establish what it,

what food is that they need to perhaps eliminate for a while. Not forever, but just for a period of time of elimination. So that the brain actually doesn't, it's not reconcussed. But there is such a problem as that, yeah. Definitely. And you know, you feel different when you eat healthy salads. Like I buy my salads now from a local farm. And they're a homey,

wrong word. They're, they're a, they're a water based farm. Basically they can operate year round because they operate off of, I forget the term they use, but basically they use water and different things. And so they,

and they're, they're covered of course, but here in Utah where I'm visiting is they have, visiting, they have snows half the year, pretty much. It's ice cold. So it's hard to grow a garden here. But they have the hydroponics, I think it is. But they grow the most freshest, beautiful lettuce, variations of lettuce that you look at the lettuce that you buy at our stores here in america it's just this kind of dead looking void colored sort of bluish thing that you're just like i don't know should i throw

this out or should i eat it yet when i go to my local farm the colors are vibrant in the lettuce it lasts longer on on the shelf in my refrigerator because it's not been brought from, I don't know, Argentina on a ship and, you know, it's on its last stages here. And it's so much, so much different of experience in eating good, healthy, live foods, you know, that have those live probiotics or something in them, whatever the case may be. And your bodies, our bodies are designed to eat that food. I mean, we're not designed to eat processed food. No.

And unfortunately, it's in every shop, on every aisle. Now, when you go into these supermarkets, they're just aisle after aisle after aisle of processed foods. And they're actually very tempting for most people, aren't they? So it's really hard not to put it in your trolley. Yeah. The one thing I learned from a friend, and this is really important years ago, was he says, do you know why the produce is on the outside of the store?

He goes, look at the store, how it is. And he goes, if you look at most stores, at least here in America, I can't speak for the UK, but in our stores, the freshest food, the produce is on the outside rim of the store, closest to the doors. And as you go inward, the food becomes more dead on each row as you go inward. And usually in the center of most of our stores is the frozen food. So it's the stuff that's been blanched with sodium to flash freeze it, you know, preservatives galore, the potato chips, the pop, you know, the closer you really look at how a grocery store works, the closer to the middle is the more dead of the food. And he says, you know, the reason that it is that way is because they have to constantly change the produce section because you know the

food goes bad it's you know it's it's live food so it's on a you know it goes bad fairly quickly the stuff that's dead in the frozen food you know that can be there for the next 20 years and you probably eat it i don't know yeah but and so he says you know they have to constantly change that food that's why it's on the outside of the store out out out a rim of the store and in close to the doors is because they can they they need to be able to you know take constantly turn that food over is what i'm looking for and i and so he said to me he goes the key is don't go down the aisles that are the bad aisles so go down the pop aisle don't go down the chip aisle don't go down the sugar candy aisle you know what the Oreos avoid the thing and so I I literally just when I go to the store I'll go hit my produce I might hit a few things you know using some coffee I'll pick

up or whatever you get some you know whatever you need to buy for you know I drops or something and then I'm out you know dog food and some dog treats and i'm out i avoid i just do not there's some rows i have no idea what's on them anymore because i just avoid them like the plague you have to be so disciplined to do that and that means that it's it's good to exercise the muscle of discipline so that's also something for the listeners to consider, isn't it? That actually sometimes it's you have to exercise the muscle. It doesn't just come. To be disciplined is hard work. Yeah, especially when you're a procrastinator like me.

I did find that I did have, I think we had some on the show, or I did read something that sometimes procrastinators, what they're doing is they're waiting for the creative moment or they're looking for the creative spark and they're looking and using as a catalyst to to propel them into what they do like they did a study of architects and they found the best architects don't when they have a project they don't start on it right away they wait and they're looking for the creative moment or the creative spark now for some people that you know you know, you're just,

you're just wasting time and coming up with reasons to not do the work. Yeah. Depends what your career is. Yeah. Depends on whether you own a copy of black ops six call of duty, you know, video game. You're like work or can I, should I play some video games? I'll just do it for 10 minutes.

I'll just do one game. Yeah. Five hours later hours later anyway you know people entertain themselves but what are some other things we haven't touched on or talked about in the book that you want to tease out so people will pick it up so the biofrequency the quantum physics so for the patients that can't fly in to see me or they can't drive miles to see me, I'm in two practices. I'm in Harley Street in London and then Bromyard, Herefordshire. So for the people that can't make it there, I use a product which is AO Scan technology and it's biofrequency healing music. And that's incredible.

I used it on someone who was in hospital. They had a stroke and they were given 72 hours to live and if the lady lived past 72 hours the daughter was told that she wouldn't walk again she wouldn't be able to eat solid food and she would have to live in a nursing home so we got her started on this biofrequency music. And 111 days later, she walked out of hospital. And she is the woman that she was before she had the stroke, and she was given 72 hours to live. So that was amazing. That's an amazing testimony of the frequency music. It's incredible technology. It analyzes the voice and it pulls out 12 notes. And there are four notes in our voice that are either underproducing or overproducing sound. And the technology is able to match that with another note to be able to change the frequency.

So if the note's too high, a note of music will be used to bring that note down. And then if the note is too low, they use music to then bring that up. So it creates a balance within then the voice. But that's not just the voice because the voice is linked with our emotions and our organs in our body so i've found that this is really useful so some patients use it for when they're anxious they use it then to get things done you say procrastinating and that's sometimes when patients will use the biofrequency music to not feel anxious or to have more energy, get things done, or to be able to sleep better, better quality sleep. So I've got lots of testimonials of patients that have been

using the biofrequency. I use it every day. And it's, it's incredible to use it. And at times, I have felt so connected to the Creator, to God, by using this frequency music that I've been crying. And other patients say the same. It's just have this emotional response that's come from nowhere, but just feeling like I'm in heaven, just so joyous. And that's just from listening to that frequency music. So I've written about this in one of the chapters of the book as well. Isn't it interesting how music affects us in that way?

And it really does have a magical effect on us sometimes. They use it, don't they, in the cinema, in movies, either to make you feel really scared about something or you're laughing or you're crying. It's really emotional. So they use music in those situations. So we can now use music in healing. They use sound frequency to change the tissue in those situations. So we can now use music in healing. They use sound frequency to change the tissue in the heart for heart surgery.

So, yeah, this is sound therapy to bring about healing. And it's actually American, AO Scan Technology. It's an American company. Wow. I use Metallica to get stuff done. So when I want to get in mood and get pumped up and do stuff or go to the gym i have a lot you know that it works for me for some reason yes yeah people some people like dark music and for some reason it's healing like i can be like

i don't know bugged about something or uptight about something or whatever like you know i can head bang on to some metallica and I'll get done. I'll feel relieved. I'll feel like there's going to be a release. Yeah, and some music we associate with things. So if you associate Metallica with actually something that actually makes you productive, then that's going to work for you, isn't it? And some people, there'll be music that they just cannot stand.

They can't listen to it because it invokes an emotional response. They can't get anything done if they listen to Metallica. Meanwhile, I'm getting all sorts of stuff done, but you know, everyone has got their, maybe there's a tuning thing that we have in our brain. Everyone kind of has a little different tuning fork that they,

you know, they resonate with. Yeah. Some sound actually hurts people. So you have young children that can't stand an airplane flying over. to your website and services that you offer so that people can reach out to you and find out more and work with you. You have a lot of websites, I think, that promote the book. What's the best website to get to know your services, how people can work with you, and what you offer them? So I would say that would be

braincareexpert.com. But if your audience would like to read testimonials then the best website for that would be worcester hyphen osteo.com okay is your brain sabotaging your life yeah it definitely is every freaking day but with your advice hopefully we can get that to stop tell us more like How can people reach out to you? Who are your prospective clients? What sort of things can they do to reach out to you, find out more about you, the services you offer? So I have a few products. One of them is Smarter Sitting.

We haven't spoken about that on the show today, but people can look that up. There is a site called smarter sitting.com but that's where i help people address their posture in their workplace because too many people are using laptops and there are too many people have got their head down over their screen and that in itself can lead to brain fog but also low energy and depression because their body isn't in the optimum position. It's really important to have your screen at the right level, your keyboard in the right position, your nips, your knees, sorry, and your hips in the right position as well. Have your nips in the right position too. That's important. Having your head up and your head back.

I don't know what nips mean, but I just... Sometimes the jokes are better. Knees and hips what nibs mean, but I just... Sometimes the jokes are better. Nibs and hips is nibs. Just make that up. Keep those nipples perky. That's my policy. I'm doing that right now. That or it's just cold in here.

I don't know which it is. But wintertime. So there's a free video that the audience can watch. And it just shows them... It takes them through the steps of how you can set up your workplace at home. So they might like to access that. And that's really important posture. I mean, you know, I've, I have a slumping problem where I tend to, I get tired and

I slump through the day and eventually I'm down here like this and you got that ugly dowager's hump, you know, that big hump on the back here. Oh yeah. Yeah. That is so ugly. Yeah. And I want that. You got that ugly dowager's hump, you know, that big hump on the back here. Oh, yeah, yeah. That is so ugly. Yeah. I don't want that. I'm just teasing.

No, I do. Not saying that you've got that crimp. I can't see your back. I do a thing called sea sitter where I tend to, I'll be hunched over after a while if I don't pay attention to my thing. I got a good ergonomic, I got this ergonomic pad for my chair and it lets your spinal cord or spinal butt thing drop. And then it, it kind of holds you kind of at a weird angle that makes it so that you, it kind of forces you to, to push back and sit backward, not backward. That sounds weird, but you know, to sit up straight. So your hips should be higher than your, your, your hips should

be higher than your knees. I was going to say limbs again. And your shoulders should be higher than your hips. If they're not, then you're up to something. I don't know what that means. It sounds like that's the angle that you're working on. Your car might be upside down. Let's put it that way.

If your shoulders are above your, anyway, whatever. Your hips are above your shoulders. Have we covered all the ways they can reach out to you and services? Do you do coaching in packages or courses or hourly? So I work one-to-one with patients and I treat babies and children. And often they just need 15 minutes or it's a half an hour appointment or a 45-minute appointment. But I treat from about two days old, two days young, I should say, through to people in their 90s, because birth, any birth trauma is really important to have that corrected. Birth trauma tends to present itself with the inconsolable baby, the baby with colic and reflux, difficulty sleeping. And if these problems aren't addressed young enough, it then develops into a behavior problem

and a sleep problem. And then after that, it becomes the mental illness. I wonder how much that translates into prisons and people that do bad things. So maybe that's my problem. Maybe I just had a bad birth. I think it was a natural birth kid, but i was 10 and a half pounds wow i was 10.9 pounds that's big and i was like 10 months or something so i was a miracle baby they had a hard time having me for three years then they finally had me and and i think my dad and mom hate me for it you know my mom's lovely but

you know like all moms i gave birth to you and you know that thing but you know it's true i think i gave her more trauma than i did at 10.9 pounds passing me through a natural childbirth so maybe that's wow so maybe she needs more healing than i do after raising me she probably i'm pretty sure she does she doesn't even some healing i had to put up with the fucking kid all my life it's interesting chris though that you say about the adhd because i often find that's an issue with the temporal bone and sphenoid bone it's on the side of the head and that's the area that gets stuck in the cervix oh really so if you were such a large baby and you spent a little bit too long

In the birth canal and not coming through quick enough It puts a lot of pressure here And that doesn't necessarily go away That can last a lifetime You know I have TMJ over here What do they call it? The jaw thing? That's the same bone The temporal bone

Really? Maybe that's the whole damn problem This whole time is my birth And my temporal bone I think we maybe that's maybe that's the whole damn problem this whole time is is my birth and my temporal bone i think we need to get you booked in yeah i think i need to talk to my mom did you take an epidural when you deliver me i don't know but yeah it's i mean i'm i'm still in shock of being born so whatever i'm like is this all there is seriously it's cold out here too it was nice and warm where I used to be. So give people a final pitch out on to where to buy the book,

how they can get to know you better and reach out to you, et cetera, et cetera. So to get the book, I would go to findmentalclarity.com. If you'd like to find out more about me, then go to braincareexpert.com. And if you'd like to know more about the Smarter Sitting product, then go to smartersitting.com. And I'm on social media. I'm new to social media. So my following is small at the moment. But that's my next big goal is to change that.

But I am on YouTube and Instagram and Facebook. And the handle name is the dot Michelle Davis with an E Davies. And then of course, appearing on our show will help with your social media too, especially passing the video on. So thank you very much, Michelle, for coming to the show.

We really appreciate it. Thank you so much, Chris. I've had a great time. We had a great time. You can always see all the best shows because they last a long time. They usually go like an hour instead of half an hour. And it's not that the shorter shows are not as great, but we've been having a lot of fun with the data on the show and learning a lot of stuff.

So lots of education here. So thank you for coming to the show. And you've done a great job. Thank you so much. I've really enjoyed this evening. Thank you. Or the afternoon for you. It's true. I've really enjoyed this evening. Thank you. The afternoon for you. It's true. It kind of broke me there for a second. What?

How's the future going anyway? Can you give me an update on what's going to have the next few hours there since you're ahead of us? We've got a little bit of snow. Snow? Damn it. I don't want that. We want some snow. As long as the world doesn't end anytime soon, I'm good with it. I think we're good for that.

But I do want to check my Bitcoin. I want to check the Bitcoin price. There you go. That's really high at the moment. Yeah, it's pretty crazy. Who knows what that's been doing while I've been away from my phone. Hopefully it's always going up. I mean, that's what you want over there.

So, Michelle, thanks for coming to the show. Thanks for tuning in. Pick up her book wherever fine books are sold. It's called Mental Clarity, Daily Habits to Clear Brain Fog and Improve Focus, out September 4th, 2024. One more testimony I'll give. I had no inclination that I had brain flog. I mean, I think, I think I'm a pretty self-aware individual, but I, you know, wow. And check your testosterone if you're a man, especially if you're a man and yeah, diet, all the, all the things you mentioned are just so important.

It changed my life. Sadly, I waited before I figured it all out. So read Michelle's book so you can skip to the end without being at the end like I am. Thanks so much for tuning in. Go to Goodreads.com, 4ChessChristmas, LinkedIn.com, 4ChessChristmas, Christmas 1, the TikTokity, all those crazy places on the internet. Be good to each other. Stay safe.

We'll see you next time. And that should have us.