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TBI. Unfortunately, the management of mild TBI and concussions hasn’t changed in centuries! Management of headaches, pain, and sleep disturbances has not changed.
Every medical textbook, website, and healthcare provider is going to tell you the same thing:
• Get plenty of rest;
• Avoid physical activities and sports while you recover;
• See your healthcare provider who may prescribe medicine if you have symptoms such as a headache, difficulty sleeping, or depression.
These things are important! However, no current therapies address either the secondary phase that continues to damage the brain over the hours and days following injury or the need to facilitate the early neuroregeneration process to help the brain repair any damage.
I am pioneering methods to rebuild the injured brain rather than masking of symptoms with pharmaceuticals. In addition, I advocate increasing the resilience of the brain to withstand injury so those at significant risk may be protected. That simple conclusion is the basis of why Omega-3s are important in concussion and TBI – both in prevention of injury and even more important when an injury does occur.
• There is no cure for concussion and TBI. There are no magic medicines nor will there ever be. The brain has to heal itself. All we can do is optimize the conditions to help the brain do the healing. That is what using Omega-3’s will do. It provides a tool, the basic building block, for the brain’s healing.
30% of the brain is fat. Omega fatty acids are analogous to bricks in the wall of your brain. The balance between Omega-3 and Omega-6 fatty acids is important. Omega-6
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