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The Jay Ferruggia Show

#242: How to Feed a Brain Properly with Cavin Balaster

The Jay Ferruggia Show

Jay Ferruggia

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4.91.6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2018

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

My guest in this episode of the #RenegadeRadioPodcast is Cavin Balaster. In 2011 Cavin sustained a severe traumatic brain injury after a two-story fall. He was initially comatose for 12 days and given less than 10% chance of ever regaining consciousness beyond a vegetative state. Once awake he suffered from severe complications including memory loss, brain fog, breathing problems and double vision. He was unable to eat, walk or talk for several months.

About a year after his injury Cavin was introduced to a nutritional protocol that helped him begin to regain some clarity. He devoted his life to the study of metabolism, neurometabolism, neuroscience and nutrition and learned everything he could about how to optimize brain function and maximize recovery. While documenting his recovery process he developed his award-winning blog, “Adventures in Brain Injury”. Today he is a speaker, educator and author of “How to Feed a Brain: Nutrition for Optimal Brain Function and Repair.”

If you want to know how to optimize the health and performance of your brain don’t miss this episode.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

What's up everybody? Welcome back to another episode of the Renegade

0:16.4

Radio podcast. I am Jay Ferrugia here to help you unleash your strongest

0:21.1

self. My guest today is Kevin Ballester. He's the author of

0:26.3

How to Feed a Brain. Nutrition for optimal brain function and repair. What an

0:31.2

inspirational dude. What a story. He suffered a severe traumatic brain

0:37.9

injury and over 90% of the patients with this brain injury never again regained consciousness.

0:44.3

Most of them will, who do, will often remain in a persistent vegetative state.

0:49.3

My man, Kavan, didn't eat, walk, or talk for months.

0:52.9

He made a miraculous recovery,

0:55.1

figured out how to optimize your brain function.

0:58.5

Did all the research, had access to all kinds of top doctors and experts in this field and has a lot to share.

1:06.2

I mean he dedicated his life to it like his life depended on it which it truly did.

1:10.6

So I think you guys are going to love this episode.

1:12.4

We're sponsored by

1:14.8

cured nutrition and their amazing CBD products and actually before Kevin and

1:20.8

I recorded this podcast we we dropped a little there, CBD in the coffee we made.

1:26.6

And it's great stuff.

1:27.8

I love CBD.

1:28.8

It's one of my favorite things for inflammation, for relaxing, and for having deep rustful sleep at night.

1:34.0

I use it all the time.

1:35.0

It's not addictive.

1:36.0

There's no psychoactive properties.

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