Brain Doctor: These Popular Sports Are Causing Brain Damage & The NFL Is Keeping This Devastating Disease Quiet!

In a study of hundred and fifty two young athlete, most of them had brain damage from small repetitive hits to the head, and it really destroys a person's life. That is shocking news, but medical professionals don't take it seriously. And the NFL wanted me to present my findings, but they didn't believe me. And so there was a huge effort to really discredit me. Dr. Ann McKee is the world leading brain scientist who runs the world's biggest brain bank. He's revealing groundbreaking research on the serious life. The threatening consequences of playing sports. These injuries are acceleration, deceleration very rapidly, and twisting of the brain. And that braids the nerve cells, and then over time the disease progresses and this protein called tau, it stains brown and it starts spreading through the brain. And we have lots of evidence that this is happening in contact sports, but all Also military veterans, domestic violence, etc. And it causes depression, personality changes, aggressive and violent behaviors, or maybe the person takes their own life. Look at Aaron Hernandez and Wyatt Ramwell. 18 years old. He was a American football player and he videotaped himself before taking his own life. My head is Pretty messed up and damaged.

The voices and demons in my head just started to take over everything I wanted to do. He shot himself in the heart instead of the head. Because it was his dying wish to donate his brain. Yeah. I saw multiple CTE lesions in many parts of his brain. Of course by playing tackle football for several years. Yes, and every time you see it in a young person, you just can't get over it. It's a lot for you to carry. There's some days that are darker than others, but we're not where I'd like us to be. What do we do about this? We have to Uh

What is the mission that you're on in y with your life and your professional endeavors? Well, my mission in life has take an abrupt change about 17 years ago when I first saw a CTE in the brain of a football player, and I realized that uh That The play of football was associated with a a chronic and progressive neurodegenerative disease.

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