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Change Your Brain Every Day

Concussions and Reversing Brain Trauma

Change Your Brain Every Day

Dr Daniel Amen

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.72K Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2016

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Concussions and traumatic brain injury are at epidemic proportions in our society.  Amen Clinics did the first and largest study on active and retired NFL players where we showed high levels of damage, but also the possibility of recovery in 80% of our players.  In this episode, we discuss our rehabilitation program.

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0:00.0

I'm Donnie Osman and welcome to the Brain Warrior's Way, hosted by my friends Daniel and Tanna Aeman.

0:09.6

Now in this podcast you're going to learn that the war for your health is one between your ears.

0:15.0

That's right. If you're ready to be sharper and have better memory, mood, energy, and focus,

0:20.0

well then stay with us. Here are Daniel and Tanna Aeman.

0:30.0

Welcome back. Today we're going to talk about concussions and reversing brain trauma.

0:36.8

So we talked about foods that reverse brain damage so we don't have to do that again.

0:42.4

So I think this is still a big concept for people because I get people

0:45.5

writing into me all the time on Facebook actually asking can I actually reverse

0:50.0

brain damage. That's just sort of perplexing to people. Well what I get excited about and

0:56.2

this is why my big book change your brain change your life was so popular is we've seen through

1:01.6

the brain imaging work we do here at AMIN clinics is you're not

1:04.7

stuck with the brain you have.

1:06.7

You can make it better and we can prove it.

1:10.4

And that is what has kept me excited, motivated for decades now.

1:18.0

And you know, let me, let's just preface this with the big NFL study we did.

1:22.0

So it was 2007 when Anthony Davis came into our clinic

1:26.7

who was just one of the sweetest people. He was a Hall of Fame running back from USC.

1:32.1

He was runner-up for the Heisman Trophy in 1972. He played

1:36.6

eight years in the NFL and his scan at 55 looked like it was a hundred and it was bad and was clearly a brain damaged

1:45.7

pattern and on the program that we're going to give you within a few months he

1:50.8

said he felt so much better his memory was better his temper was

1:54.3

better his focus was better and then he was so excited he had me speak to the

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