Hey folks, welcome back to another edition of the Paleos Solution Podcast.

I think I mentioned that we will have a couple of different shows on the topic of traumatic brain injury

looking at this from a variety of different directions. Today's show is with Andrew Marr.

Andrew is a Special Operations Green Berets.

He is the co-founder of The Warrior Angels Foundation

and author of Tales from the Blast Factory,

A Brain Injured Special Forces Green Green Berets Journey Back from the Brink.

His book is being made into a full feature documentary titled Quiet Explosions.

Andrew was an MBA candidate at Pepperdine School of Business and Management and really an amazing guy, a father,

husband, they have five kids and I believe they have two more kids on the way.

Holy smokes, two kids was enough for me to really question whether or not I had the

competency to keep doing this stuff. But we talked a lot about his entry into the military, his passion for doing the work that he did, his injury, and the really precipitous physical decline that he experienced after his injury.

And, you know, it, in as delicate a way as we could,

because I have huge respect for everybody in the military and whatnot but the standard of care for a

variety of issues including or possibly in particular traumatic brain injury

it's really wanting. People go through a really

expensive comprehensive process and they may be on no medications or maybe one

or two medications before going through an assessment and then at the end of the assessment

they're on 12 or 13 different medications and it really doesn't do anything for these folks and so

Andrew talked about needing to go outside of the system

and relied heavily on you know kind of anti-inflammatory paleo ketogenic type diet

interventions on the nutrition side,

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