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The Wellness Mama Podcast

Help for TBIs and Cognitive Decline with Dr. Patrick Porter

Jan 23, 2024
31:52

Episode Highlights With Dr. Patrick Porter

  • What happens in the brain when there's a head injury and why everyone has this to some degree
  • You're the result of how your brain remodeled after all the head bumps as a child
  • Some people have blood in the brain from an injury even a decade after the injury!
  • The only time the brain detoxes is during level 4 sleep
  • What’s going on with age-related cognitive decline 
  • The importance of vitamin C for brain and nervous system health 
  • The aging brain is a brain that's on fire with inflammation
  • Why they call Alzheimer's type 3 diabetes 
  • Our livers hold 30 grams of sugar and why this is important 
  • The brain uses 25% of all the energy in the body before the rest of the body gets any
  • Words can change up to 2,300 brain expressions 
  • Our eyes have the most mitochondrial density of anywhere in the body
“It’s either thoughts, trauma or toxins.” -Dr Patrick Porter 

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