Dr. Andy Galpin

Now I know I got pretty technical there. So if I lost any of you, don't worry about it. Just think about it this way. At the highest level, TBI is going to involve some likelihood of a physical injury or damage. This could be your capillaries or any of your vessels, your blood brain barrier, your membranes of your cells, your astrocytes, your neurons are actually physically torn.

Now I know I got pretty technical there. So if I lost any of you, don't worry about it. Just think about it this way. At the highest level, TBI is going to involve some likelihood of a physical injury or damage. This could be your capillaries or any of your vessels, your blood brain barrier, your membranes of your cells, your astrocytes, your neurons are actually physically torn.

If you were a house, this would mean your windows are smashed, your door is broken, you got a hole in a wall. It's not a functionality issue as it is an actual structure is broken and has to be repaired. Now, in addition to that, we're going to be dealing with a secondary problem, which is now because we don't have the physical structure to get in nutrients and get waste out, we can't make energy.

If you were a house, this would mean your windows are smashed, your door is broken, you got a hole in a wall. It's not a functionality issue as it is an actual structure is broken and has to be repaired. Now, in addition to that, we're going to be dealing with a secondary problem, which is now because we don't have the physical structure to get in nutrients and get waste out, we can't make energy.

So problem number two is a massive energy deficit. Your brain's going to try to get around it. It's going to start ramping up our less effective methods of producing energy, but it's never going to catch up. And so physical damage, number one, energy deficit, number two. Number three in response to number one and two is this prolonged inflammatory response.

So problem number two is a massive energy deficit. Your brain's going to try to get around it. It's going to start ramping up our less effective methods of producing energy, but it's never going to catch up. And so physical damage, number one, energy deficit, number two. Number three in response to number one and two is this prolonged inflammatory response.

And so we're sending in molecules that let the inflammation continue and they exacerbate it and they start breaking down and killing and getting rid of actual tissue. And so the ones that maybe were not injured initially will be injured or removed entirely in the weeks to months because of this inflammatory response. So effectively, those are our three big problems.

And so we're sending in molecules that let the inflammation continue and they exacerbate it and they start breaking down and killing and getting rid of actual tissue. And so the ones that maybe were not injured initially will be injured or removed entirely in the weeks to months because of this inflammatory response. So effectively, those are our three big problems.

which means now we can talk about what nutrition options we have to solve or mitigate or at least attenuate, slightly reduce some of those issues. I'd like to take a quick break and thank our sponsors. Today's episode is brought to you by Momentous. Momentous makes supplements of the absolute highest quality.

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