NFL Football Concussions: Winners or Losers?
Change Your Brain Every Day
Dr Daniel Amen
4.7 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 14 December 2016
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Football is so popular in the U.S. but the truth is football is one of the most dangerous games for your brain. We've scanned hundreds of football players and the results we're far from pleasing.
In this episode, we'll share with you our studies and findings. Be sure to listen to the full episode and if you have any brain changing experience, we'd be happy to hear it. Drop us an email or a video message.
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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. |
| 0:10.0 | 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 Tana Aeman. |
| 0:24.0 | Hi, I'm Dr. Daniel Aeman. |
| 0:30.0 | And I'm Tana Aeman. |
| 0:32.0 | We're so excited to have you with us. |
| 0:34.0 | Today is actually one of the most important lessons that I've learned from looking at nearly |
| 0:40.0 | a hundred thousand scans. |
| 0:41.0 | In fact, if people came up to me and said, Dr. Raymond, what's the single |
| 0:44.4 | most important lesson you've learned? And that would be mild traumatic brain injury, ruins people's |
| 0:51.0 | live, and virtually no one knows about it. |
| 0:53.8 | What most people don't know is that your brain is really soft. |
| 1:00.3 | It's about the consistency of soft butter, tofu, custard, somewhere between egg whites and jellop. |
| 1:05.7 | Now, that's news to most people because they think it's firmed, fixed and rubbery. |
| 1:10.0 | Right, so I was going to say, so when I was |
| 1:15.0 | in my anatomy and physiology classes in school I thought of it as being this sort of hard rubbery thing. |
| 1:18.0 | That's because it was soaked in formaldehyde. |
| 1:20.0 | Right, that's what happens to it. |
| 1:21.0 | But inside a living skull, it is really soft. |
| 1:26.0 | Think, toothpaste. |
| 1:27.8 | And it's housed in a really hard skull |
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