Helmets do NOT protect the 🧠 from concussions
A TBI can have lasting affects up to years post blow to the head!
One of the things it disrupts is sleep, which ironically is important to a healing brain and makes sense why my sleep has been shit for over a decade amongst the multiple TBI’s I had and never giving my 🧠 time to heal while flooding it with sugar and alcohol at a young age.
Thankfully I was still young at the time (18-23) because neuro plasticity was still in my favor.
Did you know that you don’t need to get K.O’ed to endure a concussion?
Or, that a TBI can double - 4.5x your risk of getting Alzheimer’s?
At the high end of the spectrum, there then lays the risk of getting CTE (chronic traumatic encephalopathy) with a career of multiple TBI’s.
The movie concussion did a great job exploring CTE and how it was discovered and how it’s formed over time due to excerpting dementia with accumulation of amyloid beta plaques and tau tangles which are two hallmarks of patients with Alzheimer’s disease.
BUT, this isn’t a post to freak you out.
Thankfully, we’ve come a long way and have tools to empower ourselves and take our 🧠 health back.
People like:
@davidperlmutter
@ryanplowery
@drdanengle
@doc_amen
@shawnwells
@dave.asprey
And many more are doing research & providing tools & things within our reach that don’t cost anything extra all the way to things that are an investment & yield so much benefit to our brain.
Things like lowering blood sugar via diet, sleep, supplements and exercise.
Tools like meditation, float tank therapy, psychedelics, light therapy, hyperbaric oxygen therapy and much more.
The intention with this post is awareness & empowerment.
It’s NOT enough to know.
You must do what you can to preserve your 🧠 health, regardless of injury or not because stress, poor sleep habits, and a poor diet can affect your brain in the same manner and TBI can.
These modalities are not just for athletes with TBI’s.
They’re for everyone with a 🧠.
Josh P. 💚🧠✌️
Www.JoshPerryBMX.com/MITO