How to Improve the Functioning of Your Prefrontal Cortex - With Dr. Heidi Haavik
The Resetter Podcast with Dr. Mindy
Dr. Mindy Pelz
4.7 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 3 April 2023
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to episode 168 with guest Dr. Heidi Haavik!
This episode is all about how to improve the functioning of your prefrontal cortex.
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My guest, Dr. Heidi Haavik, is the Vice President Research and Dean of Research at the New Zealand College of Chiropractic. She is a chiropractor and has a PhD in human neurophysiology from the University of Auckland and is one of the most popular chiropractic speakers in the world today. She is the author of the book 'The Reality Check: A quest to Understand Chiropractic from the inside out.'
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| 0:00.0 | The prefrontal cortex works with different networks of the brain to control different functions of the body. |
| 0:04.6 | So what you're doing when you're going to the chiropractor is you're exercising your spine, |
| 0:07.8 | those little muscles close to the spine, and you're reactivating them, |
| 0:11.0 | which recalibrates the brain, |
| 0:12.7 | so it can actually perceive what's going on. |
| 0:17.0 | Hey, Dr. Bindi here, and welcome to season four |
| 0:20.6 | of the Resetter Podcast. Have I got a lineup for you this season. Lots of deep |
| 0:26.9 | thinkers, lot of brilliant minds all with one focus to move the needle forward on your mental and physical health. |
| 0:38.0 | So please know that this podcast is all about empowering you to believe in yourself again. |
| 0:45.0 | And I want you believing in your body. |
| 0:48.0 | I want you believing in your mind. |
| 0:50.0 | I want you believing in your spirit. |
| 0:52.0 | If you have a passion for learning, if you're looking |
| 0:55.8 | to be in control of your health and take your power back, this is the podcast for you. |
| 1:06.2 | Enjoy. On this episode of the Resetter podcast I bring you Dr. Heidi Havik. Now let me tell you what you're about to hear because Heidi is a |
| 1:15.6 | pre-frontal cortex expert is what I'm gonna call her. She has two degrees. She |
| 1:20.6 | is both a chiropractor and has a PhD in neurophysiology. |
| 1:25.0 | So she has a beautiful marriage of bringing together what it means to have great body |
| 1:32.0 | health and brain health and how the two of them connect. |
| 1:36.5 | Why I wanted to bring Heidi on is because she has done decades of research specifically on the prefrontal cortex. |
| 1:45.0 | And if you're not familiar with the prefrontal cortex, |
| 1:48.0 | this is the part of our brain that tells us if we can be hopeful, |
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