Weekly Update 7/8/2026

[00:00:00]We think of learning as the process [music] of habituation. So as long as we're learning, we are growing new connections between neurons. We want to engage with problem solving we don't want to avoid.

[00:00:17]>> Hello, welcome Nation. And guess what?

[00:00:20]Merry Christmas.

[00:00:22]>> Yeah, cuz it's uh Christmas in July here at Solex. And if you haven't seen it already, we just announced we're bringing something back just for this month. We made a special run of two limited time offers, >> fan favorites, >> chocolate brownie and vanilla caramel >> youth.

[00:00:40]>> Not [laughter] bad.

[00:00:41]>> We have so many people that have asked for it and so we decided to do a little Christmas and July special. So it is now starting today through the 31st of July.

[00:00:50]So if you love those flavors, get them >> or while supplies last. I got to say that we did a it's it's a fixed run and so once the supply is gone, we won't be doing another run. Hopefully, we'll bring it back. We have heard many of you say bring these back permanent.

[00:01:04]>> We're working through that process to see if that's a possibility. But right now, it's available for Christmas and July. So, have some fun with it.

[00:01:11]>> Speaking of July, it is free this month to become a QLA.

[00:01:15]>> Yes, if you enroll with a qualified purchase. If you make a purchase, uh, you will be able to enroll as a quantum living advocate. That's a distributor, someone who loves to share Sollex with others and get something back for doing so. You get to do that for free. And not only do you get it for free when you enroll right now as a QLA, not only do you get all of the benefits of commissions and a website and customer service support and and the the products you get to distribute all of those things, you also get a six-ack of AOSCAN sample passes that you get to kick off your business with some flare by sharing with six other people and entice them and share with them and get them experience AOSCAN and hopefully they come to Solex. You know, something I've heard from people is, "I don't want to start a business." You don't have to, but this month it's free to become a QLA, which means that if you decide next month that you um are telling somebody about youth or you're telling somebody about a scan or another Solex product and they decide to buy it, because you became a QLA this month, that means that you can earn a commission. It's just like being an affiliate. It's like being an influencer. Um, so now is the time to get that for free. Now, the the big question people always ask whenever we've done this in the past is, can a customer upgrade to a qualifi?

[00:02:34]And the answer is yes. Just call customer service in order to place that order and then obviously get that membership for free.

[00:02:41]>> Yeah, it's a good month. All right, we have something really exciting to announce. Our Solex podcast is back.

[00:02:48]>> Yes. So, every week, check out the in the different podcast locations. You can go and download the latest episode from the Solex podcast. Now, the Solex podcast isn't just a replay only of what happens here on this Wednesday call, >> although we will have the education portion of this call on the podcast.

[00:03:05]>> Yes, it but it can be parts that are played on this call or elongated parts or special episodes that are only for the podcast. And so, we really love Kylie and Jake and those involved and really getting this ramped up and put together. They're having a great time with it. They're getting some incredible information put out there. So, check us out on your favorite podcast location and download the latest episodes.

[00:03:30]>> If you watched our our weekly update last week, we had Lauren Swenson on and it was he probably talked for about 15 minutes. That was a portion of a longer podcast. So, if you want to hear more about what he had to say about AON as well as uh in-depth AO scan, go to our podcast. Okay. Last thing we want to talk about today is our very soon coming Day of Discovery. And if you don't have a ticket yet, watch this.

[00:04:24]>> [cheering] >> We have some familiar faces. We have some new faces. We're gonna have what we can guarantee is incredible content.

[00:04:40]Yes.

[00:04:41]>> Which happens every year from these these experts, these brilliant minds who come on stage and teach you a new way to look at frequency and well-being and just your health overall. And they give great counsel and great advice. And we've heard from these people before and so many of them, at least we have. And we love how they deliver. And so come and join us. Tickets are expected to sell out. Make your plans now. We know it's a travel thing. So, it's happening on September 17th and 18th.

[00:05:08]>> 18th and 19th.

[00:05:08]>> Oh, 18th and 19th.

[00:05:10]>> Friday and Saturday.

[00:05:10]>> Yep. 18th and 19th. We're going to have a fantastic swag bag.

[00:05:15]>> Oh, yes. That's the reason to come along. Um, new launches, new scanner drops. You'll want to be there.

[00:05:21]>> Okay. We had our contest last week and we asked you, what is something that has helped you feel more in tune with your body? And I think that a lot of people entered this contest because we're giving away AO2, >> the transducers. Yeah, you did great.

[00:05:36]>> Okay, first one is Birdie V. Uh, everything in the AO scan helps me feel more in tune with my body. Being able to read my reports to educate myself on what my body is needing. Being able to play frequencies directed to my body.

[00:05:52]Being able to play sounds that help balance my body. 100%.

[00:05:56]>> Love that. All right, second winners right here. All right, this is L. Lucy Chapen. Yeah, >> loved the fun in the call. Awesome specials and always love hearing from Lauren. I I would say what has helped me most the most to be in tune with my body is inner voice.

[00:06:17]>> Always. Yeah.

[00:06:18]>> You know, that'd be interesting to to play your inner voice frequencies through aotune >> at different areas of the body depending on your report.

[00:06:27]>> I bet a lot of people have done it to hear what they say. All right, Tammy Morrison. I find using Easy Scan every morning helps me stay in tune with my body. I'm with you on that. Ben, watching more what the body is telling me is out and listening to the harmonics. Great job, everyone. Well, congratulations. You all won a tune.

[00:06:44]That is a big deal.

[00:06:45]>> Yep. All right. And then we last thing is our top enrollers for the week of J, excuse me, June 29th through July 5th.

[00:06:53]>> We have quite the tie. Okay. So, in second place, we have Troy Shelton, >> Steven Jones, >> and Carmy Gubser. I hope I said that right. Or Gobser.

[00:07:02]>> Yeah, I >> we'll put the name here. So, sorry.

[00:07:07][laughter] >> Car, you won. Good job. Great. Well, well done. And in first place, we also have a tie.

[00:07:11]>> Yes, we have Lelle Weimi.

[00:07:12]>> We have Cheryl Alure >> and Lee Malden. Congratulations to all three of you. You will receive a six-ack of AOSCAN sample passes so you can continue to share AOSCAN. All right.

[00:07:24]Today on the call we have Dr. Wes Center.

[00:07:30][music] [music] [music] Ho ho [laughter] ho.

[00:07:49]Merry Christmas.

[00:07:54]>> Hey, I'm Dr. Wes Center. I'm a brain health and wellness specialist. Uh my formal title is psychophysiologist, but that's a mouthful and it really doesn't give a any great insight into what it is that I do. So, I help people um leverage what we call positive neuroplasticity.

[00:08:13]That is help their brain to change in a positive way. And a lot of that's done through the dispelling of myths. Uh one of the most commonly repeated myths that I hear is that you know brains stop developing or growing you know after childhood early adulthood. And there is some sense in which that's partially true but it's not completely true. So what what part is true? So the brain uh has its most um explosive growth uh prenatally and in that first uh two years uh postpartum and then the growth of the brain in terms of its uh neurons and connections between the neurons slows down a little bit. So the primary maturational process that's going on after age two and then continuing into early uh adulthood or late adolescence defined by um about ages 25 to 27 is called myelination. So myelination is the laying on of uh fat cells along the length of the axons. That's that long connection fibrous connection between the cell body and then the distant end what which we call the axon terminals.

[00:09:38]And that long fleshy thing is covered with these little bitty flat fat cells we call swan cells. So that part of of development reaches a peak at about ages 25 to 27. And the frontal loes are the last part of the brain to fully mileelinate. So when you hear people say that the brain is matured at age, you know, 25 27 and the insurance companies know this because they they drop your rates at that age is because the frontal loes are more fully developed, but they're not finally developed. And so so what happens after that? So between the ages of about 25 and 35, the brain is habituating the networks that it's going to use for the rest of your lifespan. So the attention networks, dorsal and ventral emotional attention networks, salience network, the what's important network, the default mode, which is probably the most important of all of our brain health networks because that's what your brain is doing when you're not doing anything with it. So all of those networks reach their connection potentials and they optimize for uh electrical activity around age 33, 35.

[00:10:52]So the brain isn't finished functionally optimizing until about that age. But yet we are constantly turning over neurons through programmed cell death, a process that's called apoptosis. So programmed cell death where um a neuron reaches the end of its lifespan. So uh the brain recycles those parts these these big cell eating cells called macrofasages.

[00:11:21]Macro meaning big fage comes from the word fagus which means to eat. So these big cell eating cells come in and eat those neurons and then recycle their parts the organels to create new neurons. So this process is constantly going on. Each um cell each nerve cell has a bornon date and a projected end of service life. And so those macrofasages come out, consume those before those neurons start to act up because they're scinsesscent, too old. That's what cellular scinessence means. The so cells gotten too old to replicate properly. So the macroofasages come in, clean it up.

[00:12:02]We grow new neurons and then they have to grow axons and then they have to connect to neurons uh like happened early on. But this is done on an individual basis rather than an onmos basis. You know a bunch of cells doing that at once. So this leads to the process that we call positive neuroplasticity. And if there's positive neuroplasticity, there's got to be negative neuroplasticity. So what is positive neuroplasticity? That's that's growth that happens in response to learning. So whenever we learn a new thing, the existing neurons uh try to make the connections between the neurons where that information is stored and then sometimes it causes the release of dopamine. Learning causes the release of dopamine and so does the anticipation of reward. And dopamine is a signaling chemical to tell the brain to either make new connections, new synapses, new synaptic connections between neurons or in the case of there's an overburdened system already, it'll grow new neurons.

[00:13:08]So when a new neuron comes on board, it has to then grow axons and then it has to grow connections to other neurons that are associated with that information. So that that positive neuroplasticity causes to uh grow new neurons and new connections between neurons. So the growth of neuron new neurons is called neurogenesis. So neuro neuron genesis to to start to begin. So new neurons are new synapses, synaptogenesis.

[00:13:39]And so that process of neurogenesis, synaptogenesis leads to the uh the growth and habituation of new neurons. So essentially knowledge what we possess is new information and and things that we know uh actually creates physical connections in the brain to for that for that information to travel in. And the more often that we use that information, the more the nerve cells that are involved in that process become habituated. And so we think of learning as the process of habituation, the habitual use of a pathway involved in the transfer of information between uh neurons. So the brain is organized functionally. certain parts of the brain do are largely responsible for certain functions. So the back part of the brain, the occipital lobe is largely responsible for vision and visual processing. The parietal loes are largely [clears throat] responsible for things like sensory integration and sensory processing, handwriting, math, u certain aspects of language. Um but a lot of languages in the left frontal lobe. Um uh uh spatial relationships are done in the um parietal loes as well as self and other processing. The frontal loes are largely decision making, planning, control and inhibition. So the the frontal loes are stopping. They they have our brains breaks. Uh the lyic system is the the engine of behaviors which driving things. the temporal loes, primary auditory cortex where we process sounds but also memories are stored there. Um and then other parts of the brain do different things. Lyic system functions to not only drive behavior but so a lot of goal- directed behavior is in there as well. The anterior singulate cortex helps us to shift between states of arousal and all of those things uh work together for us to to have function. The cerebellum does autonomic nervous system kind of activities. Um breathing, breath rate, heart rate, blood pressure, those are moderated by the cerebellum. There's a thing called cerebellar depression and part of there there's a cerebellar executive function network. So the cerebellum uh meaning little brain uh also does some functions typically associated with the uh the cortex. The word cortex is a Latin word for bark. Just like the outer part of a tree is bark, the outer part of the of the brain is the cortex. And so the cortical functions are most highly developed in humans. And actually our frontal loes are 20% larger than the nearest mammal relative. Um and and it's again because decision- making, planning, control, and inhibition of action. So throughout the lifespan, all of those functions that we've talked about can not only be maintained but grown through uh lifelong learning. So as long as we're learning, we're growing new connections between neurons. One of the greatest studies in all neuroscychological literature has to do with uh the nuns that used to teach in the Chicago prochial school system. When they would retire, they went to this very pastoral lifestyle where they would uh grow their own food, make their own wine, beer, cheese. They would work together in in the kitchens and then doing all the things that are required to maintain, you know, a large u kind of lifestyle like that. But they would sing together, pray together, they would read scriptures together, but they also taught each other the subjects that they taught in the school system. So the art teachers would teach art, the history teachers history, math teachers math and so on so forth. And they would continue learning. So many of these ladies lived into their late 90s, early hundreds with no evidence of any uh neurodeenerative disorders. And yet when they passed they would donate their brains to the University of uh Wisconsin Medical School system and they studied their brains and they found this amazing thing that these ladies had sometimes advanced signs of neurogenerative disorders but in their lifespan they didn't they didn't have any symptoms of that. And when they looked very closely, they noticed that they had new neurons and new connections between those neurons.

[00:18:17]Many times wiring around areas of damage. So that kind of set everything that we thought about brain uh health, growth, and new neurons on its head. Uh no pun intended. Uh we we discovered that you could continue to grow uh new neurons well into late uh adulthood. And you know in the 70s maybe even as late as the early 1980s we suspected that uh new neuron growth was not possible after the mid-50s early 60s. And so what we've learned from these ladies is is that staying engaged mentally, uh moderate levels of exercise, a moderate uh dietary uh consumption, low sugar, high proteins, low simple carbs, and this lifelong learning that they engaged in can uh really defeat this idea that um the brain stops growing. So what are impediments to the brain doing that?

[00:19:19]Well, if you don't exercise your your brain's capacity for learning, you're putting it essentially in idle. Uh you're you're inducing a low turn turnover of neurons because you're not placing a demand on the brain to make new ones. um a diet that's low in um polyunsaturated fatty acids. So some people call them poffas, but you know really the omega-3s and diets that are too high in omega sixs and omega 9s which are pro-inflammatory.

[00:19:54]So those old fat cells I talked about earlier, the sch swan cells. So they require omega-3s to grow. So, it's difficult to grow new axons, particularly after damage to the axons, if you don't have a diet rich in omega-3s. Uh, we also need to acetylcholine. And so, uh, choline can be gotten dietarily from many sources, but it's particularly rich in pasture-raised um, non-caged uh, chicken eggs. And duck eggs are really loaded with omega-3s and choline. And so having a diet rich in choline, which is a pre precursor to acetylcholine, which is a neurotransmitter in the brain that's essential for uh memory and for learning, but it's also essential in the communication of smooth muscle um neurons. So those neurons that communicate with the gut and the diaphragm uh largely are innervated by norepinephrine and acetylcholine receptors. And so having a diet rich in omega-3s and uh choline will help maintain those pathways.

[00:21:08]um u exercise, making sure that we're getting, you know, enough movement uh to allow for uh good cerebral blood flow and oxygenation. Also critically important. uh watching your weight. We we actually call Alzheimer's disease type three diabetes because it's associated with sedentary lifestyle uh pro-inflammatory diets and uh poor sleep uh alcohol use smoking and other although smoking actually um isn't associated with Alzheimer's.

[00:21:44]People who smoke have lower risk of Alzheimer's than people who don't, but that's because of nicotine. So, the brain is loaded with nicotinic receptors. And uh one of our frontline interventions actually with mild uh uh early mild cognitive impairment is actually nicotine patch with a lot of our u first diagnosed Alzheimer's disease uh patients. uh our neurologists that we work with and other functional medicine practitioners will use nicotine because nicotine is a stimulant and that stimulant helps to overcome that tendency of the brain to become sedentary. Uh hydration is also critically important to uh brain health, brain growth and brain development because we need to be able to move things out of the body and the the kidneys and urinary pathway is the primary means for excreting toxins and waste bi bow-wastes as a result of cellular activity and metabolism. So it's extremely important and again these things couple together to work. So, a good diet, uh, good hydration and exercise work together to increase cerebral blood flow and oxygenation, which increases the brain's ability to move toxins out of the body. Uh, staying hydrated allows the kidneys to filter out the toxins and to move them out as waste. Also to move things out through sweat as waste, again, exercise and water. So these things work together uh to bring about um the brain's ability to remain plastic. So I talked about negative neuroplasticity. What's an example of that? So when we first are learning to walk, we we learn to walk with our head upright centered over our body's natural center of gravity. And when you watch a child, they very rarely when they're learn to walk will fall forward. They almost always sit. So they they they sense that they're going to fall, so they just sit. And that's a natural way to handle falling. But as we age, our heads no longer stay in line with our center of gravity. And when we're walking, we tend to drop our head down while we watch our feet, particularly when we're moving downstairs. And it throws off our center of gravity. It actually pushes it forward. So, it makes it more likely if we do trip or if we do lose our footing that we're going to fall forward because we've changed our our center of gravity.

[00:24:21]That's an example of negative neuroplasticity.

[00:24:25]So, uh what do we want to do to maintain our brain's ability to grow new neurons?

[00:24:32]So, we've talked about diet, including hydration. So, increasing omega-3s, increasing uh protein, high quality dense protein, uh increasing hydration, decreasing simple carbs in refined sugars, particularly sugar, sugary drinks, those are just absolutely devastating to the brain. So, that's the things we can do dietarily. We talked about exercise. So, walking as if you're late, 20 to 40 minutes a day, about 3 to 5 days a week. Um, the younger you are, the less you need to do. The older you are, the more you need to do. Um and then once you reach the age of about 45 to 50 somewhere in there and again in discussion with your primary health care physician or your wellness coach um you should shift from cardio to more core and uh weightbearing activities. So at 65 now I do very little cardio compared to what I used to do. So almost everything that I do is ground work um involving core. So just going from laying on the ground on my back or on my face and getting to a standing position or going from a seated position and standing up without using my hands to stand as many times as I can in a minute. Those things strengthen the core and your legs a and also make you resilient uh to falls. And then anything that you can do for weight bearing particularly in your your um your thighs, your calves, your ankles, and your feet. Uh doing toe raises, toe curls, getting up against the curb, and doing uh curl-ups. It strengthens your calves and your ankles. Those are the kind of things that induce positive plasticity for your brain. And also make sure that you're insulating yourself against the effects of aging. And that kind of plays into another one of these things about, you know, the brain doesn't grow. Another related myth is that uh memory loss is a normal part of aging. It is not a normal part of aging.

[00:26:41]People do lose memories as they age, but it isn't normal. That's not the way it should happen. Again, one of the reasons they lose is this negative neuroplasticity. They don't rehearse information, so they don't recall. they rely on other things other than their memory. And so um using um overuse of your smart technology to keep track of appointments to remember cell numbers and things like that, phone numbers, addresses and things and and a lot of people's attitude is well if I can do it on my phone and it can remember everything why do I need to? Well, you need to because you need to exercise your own memory systems. So the more you become reliant on technology to do that, the brain will go well I don't need to do that anymore and it will stop doing it. Um there are things you can do for memory like um look at pictures and re remember face to name. So as you go through pictures uh and and places and remembering details about those events that's rehearsing memories th those are those are good ways to do it. um remembering the lyrics to songs that you used to sing back in the day, you know, so sing old songs or for me it would be old hymns. My dad was a music minister in a Baptist church, so I practically knew the entire Broadman Baptist himinal. So for me remembering old hymns is a good way for me to rehearse uh memories. So there all these kinds of memory uh devices that you can use to maintain memory a as you age. And again, don't over rely on technology to do what your brain is optimized to do anyway.

[00:28:23]So, that's a good thing for uh positive neuroplasticity.

[00:28:28]Engage in lifelong learning. And if I could put a plug in here for Susan, the Solex University School of Naturopathy, um if you're not engaged or involved in that already, get involved. You don't have to finish the entire four-year, you know, uh, naturopathic program, but I I would encourage you to do as much as you're able to do because it's a part of lifelong learning. It's a way to take material that you already have an affinity for and to learn and expand that knowledge. And doesn't matter how, you know, young or old you are. If you were a high school graduate or if you're in your mid60s like me, I would encourage you to get involved in Susan because it's it's an aspect of lifelong learning that will benefit you personally, but it'll also benefit your brain health. And then the other things you can do is minimize your reliance on smart devices. Uh read real books with real pages and real, you know, real hardback. Um guard your sleep like a hawk. Don't let anything to interrupt your sleep. So really protect your sleep. Um and then um engage in social relationships as much as you can. One of the downsides about um smart devices is it's actually decreased the amount of social engagement the average uh smart device user has. So engage in u you know classes that you can do art classes or music classes or um some sort of craft classes. um be involved in a faith community, a church or a small group. Uh get out and enjoy, you know, u open areas, uh green spaces together. Um meet with, you know, your family, get make sure that you're staying engaged as as much as you can with your healthy family members. So, uh that's another way of maintaining positive neuroplasticity.

[00:30:21]And then of course um we all have to have hope that our health is going to be maintained throughout our lifespan. As I've I've often told my clients, you the idea is for your brain and your body to go on the same day. You don't want your body to continue, you know, for years after your your healthy brain function is gone, such as a neurodeenerative dis disease. But you also don't want to have this really bright sharp mind but you've not taken care of your body and then have a failing you know bodily system.

[00:30:55]Uh unfortunately if the body the body health isn't maintained it's going to have a negative effect on the brain. And then the other thing is just be vigilant in your lifestyle for anything that promotes inflammation.

[00:31:09]Foods uh lifestyle habits you know tobacco and alcohol are are pro-inflammatory but so are toxic relationships. I mean relationships can promote inflammation in the gut and in the brain. And then make sure that when you are feeling sick, if you are feeling unwell that you're using, you know, good health practices uh to uh get yourself back into a healthy spot. And most all uh physical illnesses, most all brain health illnesses uh can uh be remedied with the appropriate application of diet, sleep and exercise uh um hygiene and rest. And so rest and sleep are not the same thing. Sometimes we need to rest mentally. Sometimes we need to rest emotionally but not necessarily go to sleep. And many people will you will use sleep as a way to escape from dealing with problems. And so I'm not encouraging that. What I am encouraging is is to is to rest and re regenerate and restore but not necessarily hibernate, you know. So um we want to engage with problem solving. We don't want to avoid. And so all of those things are really going to be benefit you in terms of uh brain health longevity. Um I hope that these this discussion has been helpful for you some of the tips and tools and and the encouragement that your brain will continue to grow and development and develop as long as you challenge it by learning by uh learning new things. not not relearning old things but learning new things and then by being vigilant about what goes into your body and what comes out of it. Thanks so much for your attention and I look forward to seeing in another another discussion. Hey >> everyone, it's Jake and Kylie and if you haven't heard Solex has a podcast.

[00:33:12]>> Solex does have a podcast with new episodes every [music] Monday. So listen on your favorite streaming platforms >> and on YouTube. We have our video podcast there.

[00:33:20]>> Yep. Solex podcast on YouTube >> and uh [music] we try to dive deep into wellness topics and with great guests.

[00:33:26]I'm so excited for you guys.

[00:33:28]>> Yeah. So we'll see you on Monday. Thanks for listening.

[00:33:32][music] >> We love listening to Dr. Center. He is a brilliant mind and we love having him as a part of our Susan instructions and as well as our upcoming Dave discovery.

[00:33:48]Yes. Yes, you're going to get so many different angles from him, just real life practical. He's a practicing practitioner when it comes to not only frequency, but psychology and so many other things. He just knows so much and really every time I have a conversation with him, he brings me in >> to viewing something from a different angle that I hadn't considered yet. And I love that.

[00:34:08]>> He's brilliant. We love Dr. Center. All right, we're going to have a contest again this week like we do every week.

[00:34:14]Who's surprised? and we're going to ask you a question and just put your answer after the live chat is over if you're watching this on the YouTube premiere and we will draw three names next week and the question we want to ask you is what is one positive thought or habit you are trying to strengthen and we are giving away think. All right, good luck everyone. and we'll see you next week.

[00:34:33][music] >> To announce our Solex podcast is back.

[00:34:47]>> So, the Solex podcast is back.

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[00:34:53]>> Take three. [music] The Solex podcast is back.

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[00:34:59]>> Solex podcast is back. Yes. So, where would [laughter] >> Hey everyone, it's Jake and Kylie. And if you haven't heard, Solex has a >> Yeah, they do. Yes, they do. Uh, Solex podcast, I think, is just the name of that profile. That was bad.

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