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male and female athletes such as soccer, ice hockey, basketball, lacrosse, baseball/softball, female players experience concussions at a much higher rate than male players. In some cases, the rate is doubled, or more. While football gets all the attention in high school and college, the sport that has the highest rate of concussion in youth sports is female ice hockey.
A lot of attention has been directed towards the head and neck size of girls and the musculature of girls. Researchers speculate that girls have smaller, weaker necks than boys of the same age, and this leaves them more susceptible to trauma. Hormones could also play a role. If a teen or woman suffers a concussion in the pre-menstrual phase when progesterone levels are high, the injury will cause an abrupt drop in the hormone. That kind of immediate drop in progesterone can contribute to, or worsen, symptoms like headache, nausea, and dizziness, and affect trouble concentrating.
There’s still a lot of resistance for my Omega Protocol from the medical community; even the military community, too. There are times when I find myself questioning if I’m making a difference. After all, I couldn’t get the U.S. Army to listen to me when I published a study with the NIH on how Omega-3s might reduce suicides in our soldiers. Julian Bailes and I published a paper in Military Medicine advocating for use of fish oil to increase the resilience of the brain to withstand injury in the first place. Then I had published a case report in a medical journal about a teenager I helped recover from a severe TBI and it was picked up as a great story by Sanjay Gupta for his CNN show, Sanjay Gupta, MD.
Starting in June 2014, Texas Christian University (TCU) began a concussion and nutrition study with their football team, the Horned Frogs. They enrolled their entire
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