Hi, this is Dr. Mercola Hope and you take control of your health.

And today we are joined by Dr. Dan Engel, who is a board certified in adult psychology and

neurology and completed psychiatric fellowships and child adolescents and

forensic psychiatry and he has a very interesting book about something that most of us, most of us watching this have

experienced personally our life, which is as an acronym called TBI or traumatic brain injury and it's pervasive. Now obviously it's not the extremes we see in the war victims or people in sports injuries or football players and boxers but it still happens and

he Dr. Drenkel has had personal experience with it which is what passionately motivated him to pursue this discipline and write a book about it.

So welcome and thank you for joining us.

It's good to be with you today as well.

So why don't you expand a bit on your history that I briefly

summarized and explain your motivation for writing your book. Yeah, I went to college to play soccer.

They didn't really know what I wanted to do after that.

And I had a series of concussions that led up to me choosing medical school to orient towards

potentially surgical medicine or ER medicine and then two weeks before medical school I broke my neck and that was kind of

a big entry point in a recalibration of my direction. After I broke my neck they gave me the option of holding out a year or going and

starting with my current team and I went ahead and started in one of those big

contraptions called a HALO device where they screwed into your skull and you're

walking around fixated and so for the first three months of med school I was in this HALO and it was the first

thing that finally slowed me down, helped me self-reflect,

and helped me realize that I was just driving

such a level of intensity in my life

that I didn't really enjoy.

So I ended up having much more fun in med school

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