111: Dr. Kabran Chapek on How to Protect Your Brain

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Dr. Kabran Chapek is a staff physician at the Amen Clinics and the author of CONCUSSION RESCUE: A Comprehensive Program to Heal Traumatic Brain Injury (Kensington Publishing / January 2020).

A graduate of Bastyr University, he is an expert in the use of functional and integrative treatments, and has additional training in the assessment and utilization of hormones to treat traumatic brain injuries in combination with SPECT imaging and the Amen Method.

His areas of focus include the assessment and treatment of Traumatic Brain Injuries (TBIs), Alzheimer’s and dementia, PTSD, and anxiety disorders. Dr. Chapek is the founding president of the Psychiatric Association of Naturopathic Physicians, an affiliate group of the American Association of Naturopathic Physicians.

In his groundbreaking book, CONCUSSION RESCUE, Dr. Kabran Chapek presents the programs and protocols he uses at the Amen Clinics to put patients on a pathway to healing from traumatic brain injury.

He provides clear and concise instructions on recognizing the symptoms of mild to severe TBI, as well as healing strategies from the cutting edge of brain science – immediate and comprehensive evaluations, assessing hormone imbalances, correcting structural integrity, brain training, sleep, exercise, and more. Readers not only receive the tools to address a recent brain injury, but are shown how to assess if a long-ago brain injury could be troubling them today.

In this episode, Dr. Kabran Chapek talks about brain health and healing from traumatic brain injury:

• Traumatic brain injury (TBI) as a silent epidemic
• TBI and mental illness
• Brain injury and aggression
• Football players and concussions
• Vulnerability of brains
• Brain reserve
• Zachary Lystedt Law
• Cumulative brain injuries
• Putting your brain in a protective state
• Vitamin D for brain health
• Low sugar/keto diet to protect brain
• Supplements for brain health
• Sleep for brain health
• Fitness being the best for BDNF
• Interval training
• Testing for traumatic brain injury
• Delayed symptoms of brain injury
• SPELT blood flow scans
• Symptoms of brain injury
• Acquired ADD
• Determining if issues are due to past brain injury
• Hormone deficiencies and brain injury
• Healing the brain
• First Aid for your brain
• Glutathione supplement
• Window of time to react after possible brain injury
• “Brain Rice”
• Starting ketogenic diet immediately after brain injury
• First Aid kit for brain health
• Protecting our children’s brains from injury
• What sugar does to the brain

Featured Guest

Dr. Kabran Chapek

Links

Book: Concussion Rescue
Amen Clinics Website
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