Your Optimum Health with Dr. Edmund Chein - Your Brain Health Part 4

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And that type of thing on our brain. Today we're going to talk about something that I just think we just kind of forget about it or we only deal with it after it's happened. And that's brain trauma or injury. Right.

Even those people who suffer brain trauma don't know that they are victims of brain trauma. That's the unfortunate part of it.

So I know today you're going to take us into that, a little deeper into that, that whole process.

Yes. I would like to talk about traumatic brain injury as a category first.

And recently just one thing just really bothered me quite a bit because I have an idol. My idol was Linda Ruzi, okay? She is a mixed martial artist who beat all of her opponents within one minute. When she started the career, I mean, she was moving up so fast in the mixed martial art world and she was knocked out by one kick in Australia. That was her first loss. One kick, Just one kick. And since then she lost every single fight.

And she already, by then already meet 2 or 3 million I think by the record. And she didn't know that today. She didn't know. She trained and trained recently. Trained, trained. The most recent fight, she fought a boxer from, from South America and she lost it in 45 seconds.

Oh my goodness.

Boom, it was over. I mean, people were saying, why, why? Where is the Linda we used to see? Yeah, I was sitting there as, oh my God, she hasn't seen a doctor.

What she should have done is after the knockout in Australia.

Go to have the spec test, go to have the PET scan.

The brain imaging test diagnosed it. Yes, you survived it all right, but X ray cast cancer, CAT scan show no problem. But the SPECT scan and the PET show, you have brain damage, treat it. If you don't treat it, no matter how hard you train. And she trained for a whole year to come back to this second, another match with a thought she thought was a comeback for the South American boxer. In 45 seconds he was gone. Knocked down. She was knocked down because the brain doesn't have the reaction, the perception, everything that's necessary to have a win.

And I, I doubt even she have knockout power. And she cannot develop that knockout power because the motor strip is involved in a traumatic brain injury. So this is the most recent story that I feel so sad about that, that I think people should know about post traumatic brain injury. And then I, I wanted ex football players, retired football players, if you stop having symptoms like calculation, thoughts, smelling, hallucination, you know, doing our tests and failed. And you were the Ex football player. You got a lot of money, okay? And NFL pays for it. So go to the test and call up NFL and have them.

There's no reason not to.

There's not. Your insurance will pay for that. There's no reason for you not to have your cte. Chronic Traumatic Encelopathy, which they give to only to the American football players. There's no reason why you cannot get that cure. It's curable, but you have to know that you got it. And so as a football, ex football player or even present football player, you know, in fact, if I were a football player, I'm an sc, I'm a Trojan, okay? I went to school, I'm a Trojan and I went to college at SC and I love SC football. So. So if I were a quarterback, you know, and I get knocked out all the time, I would do it annually.

So not every time you get knocked down.

But no, I would do my PET scan, which is harmless. You know, I would do my PET scan, which is harmless. I would do my MRI every year.

In college. And once I'm into the professional football, I would do it every year and pay millions. What is this test? This test is nothing.

Yeah.

You know, so I would do the test to find out and document that I don't have the problem. I don't have the problem. And once I have the problem, I fix it. Yeah. And I can have my career longer. You've seen some of these quarterbacks and football players, they have 20, 30 year career. And you sit, see some of them, two, three years, they're gone.

Yeah.

They lost their, their, their, their accuracy or in, in the case of a quarterback, the characteristy and the distance and all that. Why, what, how did you lose it?

CTE could be traced back.

Yes.

Times where they got knocked down.

Yeah. You can make millions. What is treatment? It's, it's, it's, it's thousands only you know, maximum test is a. About a thousand dollars to $3,000. You'll have yourself diagnosed and then you spend a few more thousand dollars reversing it. You can make millions more over a long time. You can have your career longer. So I really want to get this across to. You know, of course I'm talking about football. It's too obvious. The mixed martial artist, too obvious. But anybody. You know, you could be an engineer, you could be a doctor, you could be anybody and you have it. You have had a brain injury, brain trauma. Go test it. And.

The awareness is getting more and more is coming up. But unfortunately A lot of these veterans mistreated, coming back from the war, they start getting into drugs, getting into suicidal. Do you know that several hundred, I don't want to forget, per year of American soldiers kill themselves. And it was kept a secret. National institute, they don't report that. You know, my sister was, is a professor at USC obgyn and she one weekend out of each month she had to donate to teach the residents at Los Angeles County USC Hospital. And she goes, so she obgyn, they deliver middle of the night. So she goes there middle of the night. She saw truckloads veterans. Newspaper cannot report it. It's national classified information. Truckloads of veterans coming in injured into the USC Medical center for rehabilitation. So if the, if the explosion enough to take your finger away, imagine the explosion to your head, the concussion to your head. You just didn't lose your finger or leg or arm. You have brain injury on top of that. So when you try to kill yourself, it is not. You are crazy, it's a part of the injury. Suicide is part of the injury. Trauma, hallucination is.

Breaking of a family relationship. It is erratic thinking, is temper, personality change. All of these are part of post traumatic syndrome that you can fix. Once you fix it, you have a great family again, you have a great personality, great life again. And your addictions are gone.

That's such a common statement of like, you know, when so and so went off to war and they came back, they were never the same.

Yes, the explosions, yeah, they survived the bullets, they didn't get hit. But the concussion, boom, boom, boom, going.

Off just like getting hit across the line from a 300 pound lineman.

And even the rifle, they said the M16 rifle, the rifle itself, every time you fire the. When you get boom, boom, boom, that bullet going off, that concussion, there's evidence now showing that that sound explosion can cause deafness and head concussion syndromes.

Amazing. So this is brain injury.

Brain injury, traumatic brain, traumatic brain injury.

And cte, which is specifically for the American football players. But you're lumping them together because they are. It's still injury to the brain.

Injury to the brain.

And one thing I want to point out here as you're watching, this is one of those things that Dr. Chen said back in the very first episode of this. All of this, once it's measured and determined, can be reversed.

Yes, can be reversed.

So all of this, it's like, you know, I jokingly said this, but now I'm thinking about it, it's like, yeah, I've had plenty of Bicycle accidents. And now I'm thinking, wow, nothing. Never talked about then until today. Right?

Thank goodness. Like I said, I passed the balance test. I'm looking at these other tests. I can't wait to try them and make sure I pass those. But those are things that, when your kids are in popcorn or football and they're 7, 10, I don't know how early they start. Amy, how old is your nephew? That's six years old. They're starting to bump heads at that age. And then they do that. By the time they do get, as you said, hey, they were really good in college, went to. And all of a sudden, it's like their talent dropped completely off. It was that years and years and years of just bend. I don't think we ever think about testing that. This has been a series on your brain health and often brain health, because at the end of the day, let's face it, the last thing we want to do is be looking like Arnold Schwarzenegger, strong and in great shape. But our brain is gone. And all we do is we're looking out the window, we're seeing the ocean behind us, and we don't even know. We can't even relate to that.

And.

And we're having issues with our hands or feet or whatever. And. Because our brain, as you said, that's that mechanism that sends that message. It can't. Yes. And we don't even know that we have gangrene or we have this, that, and the other. I don't think we want that. So take charge now. Take charge.

You've got to take charge.

Here's. Here's the first step I want you to take. If you haven't done it and you've been with us all four episodes, shame on you. If you haven't done it, pick up the phone right now. Call Jordan. Jordan will give you these tests. These are three simple tests to determine. Hey, is there anything going on with my brain? The balance test, the MOCA test, the reverse numbers test, the five words in five minutes test. If you have trouble with those, call now, Take action. At least you have something to say. Well, it wasn't just this one rare thing.

And I guarantee you it's not drug. You will not be prescribed a drug. Guarantee you should.

They, you know, they call Jordan and they test out and for some reason have issues. Can they get ahold of you? Can you treat these things?

Sure. I mean, I put it out right now. Mark Gordon in Ventura, he's the guru on point of post traumatic brain injury. Go to Dr. Mark Gordon. Okay, but if his appointment book is next year, you might want to choose me again. If you got Alzheimer's, dementia. Dr. Dale Bredesen, UCLA. I. Hey, he's the guru.

And no drugs.

No drugs go to the guru. But if the guru's appointment is next year, you don't want to wait. Maybe you want to try me. Stop. First finding out the causes, because this.

Is all about, let's face it, your facility is called Palm Springs Life Extension Institute. The part that I like about his institute is, to me, it always says, hey, you're always learning. I mean, you were at it. You were at a major conference on the brain. You do this many times a year and you're always learning.

So how can a person. What is the meaning of extending their life if they have Alzheimer's?

Totally.

You'll be eating dog food when you're in nursing home, your ass be wiped by somebody else. You don't even know when you pee and poo. You cannot control yourself. What is the quality of living? Why do you want to extend your life?

Stop it now.

So that is why I'm involved. I'm involved because I don't want that to happen. The live extension has to do with quality, and it's the quality that's important in live extension. Yeah, that's why I'm involved.

Take action now. Call Dr. Chen's office and ask for Jordan. The number's on the screen. And take control because this is not something that you have to. If you go into your normal doctor and they do a yearly physical, this is never going to come up, gang. You're never going to say, well, you know, before you leave, I want you to take the MOCA test. Not going to happen.

Right?

We're not. They're not going to play the number, the backward number game with you. It's just not going to happen. Right? So this is one of those things that you have to do, the self discovery. You can do this every year and you know, and share. Please, please, please share with friends.

Neighbors love to share with your friends, relatives and loved ones, you know, because they don't know. Forgive them. I feel like a preacher. Forgive them, please. Do not blame them. And I recently had an executive, very wealthy executive, sending his girlfriend to me, you know, and his girlfriend was beautiful girl, nice girl, but crazy on marijuana. Getting drunk all the time, you know, and irrational, up and down and throwing things all over her home. It's a mess, you know, but he left her, okay? So I think there's something wrong. Dr. Chen Checker All I was question. Did you have a brain injury? Yes. When 17. What kind of injury? The car was totaled and how many they was in hospital five days. Do you know? How do you know five days? Because I woke up in five days. I was unconscious for five days. Wow. That is brain injury, you know. So lucky he's got the money for PET scan and spec test document prove it. Now she's on treatment and it's getting better.

Excellent.

So, so, so here it's just a even. Just even a friend. The boyfriend caring about her saved her because she was total mess with the family. Family doesn't want her parents disown her. Do not want her to go through because she's crazy. She smokes all day long and then, you know, she has terrible relationships because of traumatic injury, you know.

Well, Dr. Chen, thank you so much. And this has been amazing. And go back and look at these one through four, if you haven't done already. And make sure to join us every week on the program. It's called you'd optimum health. Dr. Chen is always sharing information to help you not only look better, but feel better from the inside out. And that does not preclude making sure your brain is at his optimum health. Dr. Chen, thank you so much.

You're welcome.

And thanks for joining us. This is called you'd Optimum Health. I'm Jeff Harrison.

Dr. Edmund Chen.

See you next time.