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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 football team in a randomized, double blind, placebo controlled study, and looked at using a daily placebo versus Omega-3s. When the study was completed, they published their research as a medical journal article: “Effective Dose of Docosahexaenoic Acid on Biomarkers of Head Trauma in American Football.” I did a bit of consulting with Jonathan Oliver, the lead investigator, to get the study up and running.
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