Snapshot · The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Even after severe brain damage from football, 80% of Dr. Amen's NFL players showed measurable improvement on a brain rehabilitation program, demonstrating the brain's capacity to heal.
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A common fear among people who have damaged their brains — through sport, substances, or neglect — is that the damage is permanent. Dr. Amen confronts this head-on using one of the most extreme examples available: NFL players. Football is, unambiguously, a brain-damaging sport, he says, and the denial around that fact has to stop. [1] — Dr. Daniel Amen "80% of NFL players improved with rehab: Even after severe brain damage from football, 80% of Dr. Amen's NFL players showed measurable impro…" 08:44 Yet when Amen put these players on a comprehensive rehabilitation programme — addressing diet, supplements, sleep, and lifestyle — 80% showed measurable improvement on their brain scans. The lesson extends to anyone who has spent years gaming compulsively, eating badly, or drinking heavily: meaningful recovery is possible, often within just a couple of months. The gateway to that recovery, Amen insists, is psychological rather than pharmacological. You have to develop what he calls 'brain envy' — a genuine, almost visceral desire to have a better brain — before any intervention will take hold.
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