#82 with Ben Velazquez on Concussions, Brain, and Movement

Meathead Hippie

Emily Schromm

Health & Fitness

4.8 • 600 Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2018

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Ben is an award-winning, nationally recognized strength and conditioning coach and the expert in concussion exercise solutions. [4:30] Introduction Ben is an award-winning, nationally recognized strength and conditioning coach and the expert in concussion exercise solutions. [9:04] Neurological, mechanical and hormonal components in TBI “All the inflammatory markers that a doctor is looking at will be elevated, systemic inflammatory markers will be elevated and if it's allowed to go long-term we're seeing a lot of the same systems as autoimmune.” [19:22] Injuries can lead to increased risk of concussion “So that ankle injury, if it's not rehabbed 100% and you're not 100% ready to go on that ankle, then in my opinion you're creating an environment where you can't dissipate force and if you can't dissipate force, you're more likely to get hurt with an impact than someone who doesn't have an ankle injury.” [25:07] Best things to do if you get a concussion “I think the first thing that I would do is to change your diet… The biochemistry plays a huge role from a standpoint that you want to lower inflammation, number one, and you want to provide more ATP to your brain and the neurons in your brain.” [27:00] How exercise can be beneficial post-concussion “..You’re going to decrease your cardiac efficiency or your cardiorespiratory efficiency, and so just by doing that you're going to deliver less ATP to the cells in brain for healing.” [35:28] Supplements to promote brain healing Turmeric, curcumin, CoQ10 and Omega-3’s “Those are the things he's using to lower inflammation, but primarily he's putting most of our guys and gals on Ketogenic diets. [43:20] Biohacking recommendations to be a better athlete - Heart rate variability, hydration, and mobility “So my athletes, the intracellular hydration is very important to what you said, which is you know that whole vitamin, mineral cascade that depends on water for that exchange in the cell. That's important, but then there's extracellular which is really the hydration you're talking about in the fascia and all the connective tissue.” http://benvelazquez.com/ Thank you listeners!! Please leave a review if you enjoyed and checkout my links below to get plugged in more to what I'm doing. PRIVATE FACEBOOK GROUP: www.facebook.com/groups/1292792567518714/ Find more on Em here: @emilyschromm www.emilyschromm.com youtube.com/emilyschromm

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0:00.0	Good morning. So it's Wednesday. I don't know if you missed it, but I am so bummed. I missed last
0:07.0	week's podcast. It was this podcast that I had to reschedule with all the New York craziness.
0:12.3	We were trying to meet in person and then it got pushed back. I had a great event in New York.
0:17.2	My T-E hormone balance was picked to be well and good. 2019 trend of the year, which is exciting.
0:24.3	We did an M-PAC workout with Reebok and Forbes Women, and it was a whirlwind of fun and
0:31.3	amazing, but also made me miss a week of podcast.
0:34.6	So my apologies.
0:35.6	If you're new to my podcast, I'm Emily Schramm.
0:38.1	Meathead Hippie. I had to explain meathead. So just in case you don't know, meathead as
0:43.1	in, yes, I do like well-sourced sustainable meat. But I also am just a total meathead as in
0:51.3	the gym meathead, aka I used to wear a lot of cutoffs and I still do a
0:56.7	lot of bicep curls. So meathead hippie is just an accumulation of conversations that talk about
1:03.3	all in any things related to meathead or hippie. I feel like we've been a little bit more hippie
1:10.3	recently, but today is somebody that I'm really excited to talk about. If you have known me, I love talking about the brain. I love talking about how the gut connects to the brain. I'm actually currently running a gut challenge, a seven-day happy gut challenge. It doesn't mean you're going to have a happy gut in seven days, but it does mean you're going to learn all about why you bloat, why you burp, why you have weird poop, all of those things. And I love running this program. So I'm rerunning it. If you are interested in this, any type of thing, if you're not already in it, the Facebook group is where to go. I do Facebook lives every Tuesday and then randomly peppered in between.
1:45.7	It's where I talk about meathead hippie stuff, but in a smaller scale. So if you don't have a lot
1:50.0	of time or if you just hate Facebook and you need a breath of fresh air, these are incredible
1:54.6	humans, good humans that are just helping support each other. So it's an incredible tribe. So jump
1:59.8	into that and you can learn more
2:00.8	about the gut challenge and learn more about the things I'm doing. I think the only thing I wanted to say
2:05.5	is since it's Wednesday on Friday, this Friday at Platform Strength, I'm celebrating. I'm about
2:10.7	to turn 30. So I'm doing a Bring a Friend Friday day. So come any of the classes, you just have to
2:17.4	sign a waiver or you can reserve your spot through the link in come any of the classes, you just have to sign a waiver or you can reserve
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