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For centuries doctors’ only treatment plan for brain injuries was rest and time. After being overseas for a number of years, I was assigned to the Uniformed Services University in Bethesda where I interacted with wounded warriors at the gym, hospital, and base exchange. I looked at the problem of military Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) as an outsider, not trained in neurology or neurosurgery, and believed that the state of TBI management was completely inadequate.
I began to hear more and more about the Sago coal mine disaster (January 2006) and how high doses of fish oil may have helped the lone survivor, Randy McCloy, recover from carbon monoxide poisoning. I connected with McCloy’s neurosurgeon, Dr. Julian Bales. Rather than saying, “Only time will heal your damaged brain,” Dr. Bales had prescribed heavy doses of Omega-3 fats in the form of fish oil that hastened McCloy’s miraculous recovery. With that on my mind, I went to the head of research for the Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center located at Walter Reed Army Medical Center and asked, “Is anybody looking at the use of Omega-3 fatty acids to help soldiers recover from traumatic brain injury?” The director was very thoughtful, looked at me and said, “No, why don’t you?”
The brain’s made up of fat, so we saturate it in the material that made the brain in the first place. If you have a brick wall that needs repair, you want to use more bricks to fix it. Omega-3 fats are basically the bricks of the brain.
As discussed on my website: http://www.brainhealtheducation.org/resources/omega-3s- and-brain-health/
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