The Brain Scan that Saved A Professional BMXer's Life with Josh Perry
Change Your Brain Every Day
Dr Daniel Amen
4.7 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 22 July 2019
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
BMX rider Josh Perry was living out his dreams, travelling, competing, and rising up through the professional ranks when he suffered a horrific crash. The doctors ordered an MRI, and what they saw in the scan changed his entire life. In the first episode in a series on traumatic brain injuries with Josh, he recounts his incredible story to Daniel and Tana Amen.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Brain Warriors Way podcast. I'm Dr. Daniel Aeman and I'm Tanna Aeman. In our podcast we provide you with the tools you need to become a warrior for the health of your brain and body. |
| 0:19.0 | The Brain Warriors Way podcast is brought to you by Aemon Clinics, where we have been transforming |
| 0:25.5 | lives for 30 years, using tools like brain-spect imaging to personalize treatment to your |
| 0:32.0 | brain. |
| 0:32.6 | For more information, |
| 0:34.1 | visit Aaman Clinics.com. |
| 0:35.9 | The Brain Warriors Way Podcast is also brought to you by Brain MD |
| 0:39.6 | where we produce the highest quality nutraceuticals to support the health of your brain |
| 0:44.3 | and body. To learn more go to brainMD.com. Well welcome everybody we have a |
| 0:51.3 | very special week for you. We have our special guest, Josh Perry, |
| 0:58.4 | who is a professional BMX writer, TBI brain tumor survivor. |
| 1:05.5 | He recently went to our Atlanta clinic |
| 1:08.0 | and underwent a full evaluation. |
| 1:10.9 | He developed his passion for BMX writing in Cape Cod, Massachusetts. |
| 1:16.2 | What an awesome place. |
| 1:17.7 | I love teaching there. |
| 1:19.3 | Where he was born and raised when he was 17, he moved Greenville North Carolina to go after his career as a professional BMX athlete and ride with some of the best writers in the world like Ryan Nyquist and Dave Mara. |
| 1:35.0 | Josh won his first pro contest and best trick contest means he has an amazing |
| 1:42.3 | cerebellum in 2009 winning him a brand new |
| 1:47.1 | hardly Davidson motorcycle following the big success he made his first appearance in the X Games and to continue to compete in the due action sports tour at age 21 in April 2010, |
| 2:03.0 | 2010, Josh had surgery in order to remove a brain tumor |
| 2:07.0 | taking up the entire left side of his brain. |
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