The Impact of Impacts on the Brain - Joseph Maroon : 559

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🗓️ 17 January 2019

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Dr. Joseph Maroon is a 78-year-old world-renowned neurosurgeon with extensive experience in neurosurgery. He specializes in minimally invasive surgery to speed recovery for his patients. He is a sports medicine expert and innovator in concussion management, personal fitness and nutrition. As an Ironman triathlete, he lives and breathes his own advice.

Dr. Maroon has been the team neurosurgeon for the Pittsburgh Steelers since 1981, and is Medical Director of the World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). He has successfully performed surgery on numerous professional football players and other elite athletes with potentially career-ending neck and spine injuries.

Dr. Maroon is also very well-known because he created a test that 13 million people have taken to understand the impact of impacts on your brain.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Bulletproof Radio with Dave Asprey.
0:16.4	Today's episode is filmed on location at the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine,
0:22.6	which is where 27,000 physicians, well, fewer than that show up, but 27,000 physicians are members
0:30.0	of a group that's been working for 26 years to define aging as something that we can attack and
0:36.5	change and reduce and maybe even reverse medically and with lifestyle. And it's given me the opportunity
0:42.7	to see many great friends and to make some new ones and to meet people who've done decades of
0:48.4	work to change the world. And today's guest is one of those gentlemen. He is a neurosurgeon, 78 years
0:56.0	old, who is very, very well known because he's the guy who created a test for that 13 million people
1:05.1	have taken to understand the impacts of impacts on your brain. So he studied traumatic brain injury.
1:11.6	He's the first neurosurgeon in the NFL and name you might have heard if you have ever watched
1:18.2	the movie Concussion, although the character in Concussion has very little to do with the real Dr.
1:23.5	Joseph Maroon. Dr. Maroon, welcome to Bulletproof Radio. David, it's a pleasure being here and a
1:29.9	pleasure meeting you for all of your phenomenal accomplishments and what you've done to assist with
1:36.2	anti-aging programs. Coming from you, that's a huge compliment. Thank you. Well-earned.
1:44.4	Anytime you get a chance to meet a neurosurgeon who's practiced for decades and decades,
1:50.9	it means that they've had the chance to accumulate some wisdom and to see this incredible sea change
1:57.2	that's happened in a field. And you'll see that almost anyone who's practiced medicine for many
2:01.0	decades, well, you know, here's what we did in the 60s. It was a little bit different than what we do in
2:05.3	the 70s and they have this long view of the evolution of a field. And the first thing I'd like to know,
2:12.8	Dr. Maroon, is what's changed since you started looking at the brain? Well, in terms of concussion,
2:21.5	I think you're exactly right. The most important thing is perspective as it is in anything in life.
2:27.1	And I've had the good fortune to have perspective from the 80s to the 90s to the present day,
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