The Paleo Solution - Episode 388 - Cavin Balaster - Severe TBI Recovery

Robb Wolf - The Paleo Solution Podcast - Paleo diet, nutrition, fitness, and health

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🗓️ 27 March 2018

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

This week on Episode 388 of the podcast we have Cavin Balaster, author of the new book How to Feed a Brain. Cavin survived a two story fall, was comatose for 12 days, suffered from a diffuse axonal injury (DAI) and had less than a 10% chance of recovery. Cavin has a very interesting experience of recovery from a severe traumatic brain injury, and has done a great job of digging into info to help his recovery, and is a very inspiring person with a great outlook. Listen in as we chat about TBI’s, recovery, and more.

Show Notes:

00:00 – Summary/Pre-Intro
3:15 – Intro and Traumatic brain injury (TBI)
5:50 – Cavin’s background and brain injury
8:30 – Nutrition sparking Cavin’s study
10:58 – Greatest challenges Cavin faced along the way
15:09 – Cavin’s nutrition
17:50 – Increasing Brain Derived Neurotropic Factor (BDNF)
20:12 – Journaling
21:49 – Supplements
25:47 – Fasting
30:32 – Pfizer stopping hunt for Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s drugs
39:46 – Cavin’s advice for TBI
45:43 – Where to find Cavin

Article: Pfizer ends research for new Alzheimer's, Parkinson's drugs

Websites:
feedabrain.com
Preview of interview series: feedabrain.com/preview

adventuresinbraininjury.com
adventures in brain injury podcast

Book: How to Feed a Brain

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey folks, welcome back, another edition of Palo Solution Podcast. I am Rob Wolf and very excited to share today's show with you.
0:14.0	You're going to see three, two, three,
0:18.0	maybe four episodes over the next couple of months,
0:21.0	probably, the deal in various ways with the topic of traumatic
0:25.1	brain injury or TBI and this is clearly just a huge issue in everything ranging from American lead style football to folks in the
0:38.4	military huge variety of other sports, UFC, you know, any type of head trauma-inducing event,
0:45.5	which there's a lot more things out there that produce traumatic brain injury
0:49.3	than what people are generally aware of.
0:52.4	And I think that our altered sleep and also pro-inflammatory
0:57.5	diet is making this whole situation worse but I'm kind of getting far afield
1:01.1	on that today's guest is Kevin Ballester.
1:05.0	He is the author of the book How to Feed a Brain.
1:08.2	Kevin is a pretty amazing guy.
1:09.7	He survived a two-story fallum was comatose for 12 days. He was diagnosed with a
1:15.1	diffuse axonal injury, a D A I, and was given less than a 10% chance of recovery.
1:20.7	Most people, about 95% of people with this injury died. of
1:25.0	most people, about 95% of people with this injury die and or never wake up. They're in a vegetative state for the rest of their life.
1:30.0	So he actually came back from that and upon awakening he experienced severe brain fog memory loss
1:36.6	breathing problems double vision was horribly prone to infections and a host of gastrointestinal related issues.
1:47.0	And we've learned more and more about the effects of the gut on the brain, but it's interesting, it's a two-way street damage to the brain
1:55.6	ends up damaging all of the other systems in our body
2:00.0	via both immunological and also endocrine function and so I talked extensively with
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