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Omega-3s is imperative to help protect the brain from impacts. DHA clearly decreased the amount of this head trauma biomarker in these athletes.
Unfortunately, a huge setback occurred in 2017 when the NCAA came out and placed fish oil on their “Not Permissible” supplement list. When that happened, I started getting calls from university athletic trainers from around the country who were frustrated by this action. They were used to providing fish oil supplements every day to their athletes of all sports, they were using my Omega Protocol after an injury, and now were told they could not do either. I guess the backlash from the universities to the NCAA was influential. In January 2019, the NCAA changed its bylaws making Omega-3 fish oil “Permissible” so universities can provide the supplements at no cost to the athletes, stating in the rationale “Omega-3 fatty acids are essential for neurological development, resilience, and performance for student-athletes.”
Concussions and TBI, with their diverse heterogeneity and prolonged secondary pathogenesis, remain a clinical challenge to clinician, patients, and their families. Current medical management of TBI patients appropriately focuses on specialized prehospital care, intensive acute clinical care, and long-term rehabilitation, but lacks clinically proven effective management with neuroprotective and neuroregenerative agents. Clinical studies thus far have failed to identify an effective treatment strategy as they typically have targeted single enzymatic factors in an attempt to identify a pharmacologic target rather than considering multiple mechanisms of injury with a more holistic approach. The concept of a ‘magic bullet’ focused on a single target is not helpful, and instead a combination of targets controlling aspects of neuroprotection,
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