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🗓️ 12 March 2018
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Elle Russ chats with Cavin Balaster about his experience sustaining a severe traumatic brain injury that left him comatose with less than a 10% chance of regaining consciousness beyond a vegetative state. Since waking up, he has devoted years to researching and connecting with doctors, professors, researchers, nutritionists, practitioners, and neuroscientists. His book, How to Feed a Brain is the culmination of the nutritional tools that he has learned through this journey, presented as a user-friendly guide with handouts and web resources created to help anyone improve their brain function.
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0:00.0 | Hi, it's Mark Sisson. |
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0:25.2 | We are so excited today to have Cabin Ballister. |
0:28.8 | This is an amazing story. |
0:30.0 | Six years ago, Cabin sustained a severe traumatic brain injury that left him comatose |
0:34.9 | with less than 10% chance of regaining consciousness beyond a |
0:38.8 | vegetative state and obviously he's a guest today so since waking he has devoted years to |
0:45.1 | researching and connecting with doctors professors nutritionists practitioners and neuroscientists |
0:50.7 | to try to get together the nutritional tools that he has learned through this journey. |
0:56.3 | And he put those down in an amazing book called How to Feed a Brain, which is the culmination |
1:01.4 | of that, you know, many years of resources and personal experience, really a resource to |
1:07.3 | help anyone improve their brain function. |
1:09.7 | So we're going to get into this. Welcome to the show and |
1:12.2 | welcome back. Thank you so much. It was a journey, you know? It was a journey. I know you've |
1:21.4 | repeated this. Tell us about it because we are going to want to know how the hell and what happened to |
1:27.4 | you. This is really amazing. We're talking right now. All right. Well, um, us about it because we are going to want to know how the hell and what happened to you this is |
1:28.0 | really amazing we're talking right now all right well six and a half years ago i i i i fell from |
1:36.3 | rooftop water tower sustained severe traumatic brain injury was instantly unconscious rushed |
1:43.6 | to the hospital put in life support. |
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