FALLEN SOLDIER

This morning – as I always do, I signed into my A. Prime account looking for a movie to watch and I found the one that titles this post…….guess what? It’s about a young American boxer who goes to England to fight a true champion in the mid-lightweight category and he receives so many punches to his head that he gets knocked out, goes into a coma due to his brain conditions for the TBI he got (way worse than mine), so I decided to make a post about what this movie meant to me,  it took me half a day to find and select the Youtube videos you see in this post, mainly because I wanted to show this man several years after his recovery still totally blind with only 80% of his hearing.

Ho my god!! Talk about someone in dear need of some a conservator! BUT since he’s surrounded by the love of his family (his sister in particular), supporters and friends, his life is completely free from any conservator (the losers!!) and through former fans’ donations his family is able to pay for all of his meds and special therapies he’s in need to receive. I admit that I fell in love with one of the opening statements in this movie/documentary that I personalized like this:

The road less travelled is the path of a warrior, I was born blessed with superior intelligence and great athletic abilities, and i.e. I was in Rome in 1982 with a group of swimmers to be chosen to participate to the European swim championships.

BUT, in the early afternoon of October 12th 2005 I was struck by a minor (without his driver’s license) as he was parking his father's jeep while I was riding my highly accessorized street bicycle, which resulted in my TBI followed by 2 months long in a coma during which my family – my wife and my 2 children whom I love so much that the day I came out of the coma I said that I had made “an agreement” (with Jesus Christ??) to return to living earth, no matter that I was warned in advance that “it’s going to be painful” for my unmeasurable love for my 2 children.

Anyway, I’m sure that nobody can even think of the millions of YouTube videos that come out if you put in the search bat “fallen soldier” they are ALL about our soldier’s bodies returned to the USA for their proper burial and rejoining with the families (you try and see….) Among the dozens of videos I watched to find these ones, former presidents of the past either sent personal handwritten letters (Lincoln) to the families of the fallen heroes,  or went to the arrival of their bodies already inside coffins at the airports or naval ports with the families, shaking hands and giving words of support to the family members of the fallen soldiers (Obama, Clinton and Bush).

Bottom line: I truly am a "fallen soldier" and was born to be a fighter and no one can take that away from me!

1. https://www.brainline.org/article/concussion-and-sports
2. https://www.aans.org/en/Patients/Neurosurgical-Conditions-and-Treatments/Sports-related-Head-Injury
3. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK326721/

TISSUE NANOTRANSFECTION

Talk about the miracles of science and technology together, we have on one side, what I call the “flue of the second millennium” and on the other – given the tremendous costs to support all the disabilities together with the inabilities – even for high level professionals – to work again, so no tax paying anymore the “cure to this flue has given extreme focus and determination in very many research and technology field in our country.

I’m not going to mention the fact that the best solution to this “flue” already exists since decades, BUT since the Big Pharma (=gigantic business) would be losing billions over billions of $$$ in incomes and profits, our political environment has been staying away from – at least – having a clinical trial being made, therefore there’s one intelligent man in LA who by protecting the use of this simple therapy with a patent has been making himself and the (too) few other (smart)  MD’s, who bought the extension to his patent billionaires (at least, if not trillionaires) offering for a reasonable amount of money, this treatment mainly to citizens of the USA and Australia – regardless that our FDA has approved it or NOT (which is the reality).

Anyway, given that my entire life as the retired man I’ve become has turned out to be the one of someone who spends 14 hours each and every day browsing the internet, I discovered that some researchers and scientists at the OHIO university have mixed medical science with advanced technology to produce an item that just by putting on a damaged part of the body can change both DNA and RNA to give to our body to rebuild what’s damaged.

To my huge excitement it turns out that not only clinical trials for the FDA approval are already in the plans but it seems that even the damaged brain cells (neurons) can reform/restore themselves using this nanotransfection.

I’ve contacted already a bioengineer who lives in town (incredible luck!) to let him know that if and when any clinical trial or explorative test with this new technology would ever be done, I’m the first on the list of voluntary participants.

I just invite my readers to both enjoy these 2 Youtubes and go to the linked websites that it took me some time to choose.

1. http://www.tissuenanotransfection.org/clinical-trials.html
2. https://wexnermedical.osu.edu/mediaroom/pressreleaselisting/researchers-develop-regenerative-medicine-breakthrough
3. https://aleteia.org/2017/08/10/one-touch-of-this-dime-sized-disk-can-heal-anything-from-flesh-wounds-to-brain-injuries/
4. https://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/38736/20170811/touch-device-heals-ailing-organs-tissue-nano-transfection-cures-brain.htm
5. https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2017/08/regenerative-nanochip-restores-any-tissue-with-98-success-and-clinical-trials-start-next-year.html
6. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tissue_nanotransfection

NEUROINFLAMMATION & NEUROPLASTICITY

I feel sick to think that I must say …again….that I’m not a MD., however I can follow with my logic (still intact ,dear Ph. D.’s) what’s recently being proven to be true, or that after an injury the human brain gets inflamed and rather than remaining like this for few hours  its inflammation can last for decades.

Well, it turns out (new to me) that neuroinflammation pretty much stops the natural neuroplasticity of our brain and this is the very reason why what Tobinick has been selling as therapy - described as miraculous – is so effective and real.

The other day I was thinking to all the medical progress humanity has reached with some sort of pride, but then I realized – through few very simple facts – that we haven’t made any progress at all, in this field, in fact, just think to when you cut your skin…..what do any MD in the entire world tells you to do?

1.     Disinfect

2.    Apply a Band-Aid

Reasons being that in this second millennium all that medicine has figured out is to create the best conditions to let the body repair itself.

Same for if you break a bone……most advanced medical solution? Make extra-sure to put the broken bone either in alignment or as close as possible to its original configuration, then immobilize it with a cast (in many different colors today😄) to let the body repair the bone by itself.

Same for Tobinick’s  patent….by eliminating (using what and how is the patented trick) the neuroinflammation, the (damaged) brain returns to be plastic and in a fairly short time, it repairs itself.

I find it both funny and frustrating that if I could be able to use (assume) some Cannabidiol I might have some benefits…..HOWEVER, I can’t smoke it (I never smoked in my life because I cough my lungs out of my chest) I can’t eat it (I tried to eat some marry-brownies and felt like puking my own liver out).

1. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4273623/
2. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0278584616302524
3. http://neuroscience.oxfordre.com/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780190264086.001.0001/acrefore-9780190264086-e-56
4. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25565964

NEUROINFLAMMATION & NEUROPLASTICITY

I’ve said this already here several times: I’m not a M.D. BUT I can still use my head to reason and filter information through my logic.

One of the things I learned when I was “fully immersed” in my discovery  of the Perispinal Enbrel therapy is that unlike what every neuro-textbook states, the inflammation of the brain after being injured can last for decades  - NOT FEW HOURS – this is actually the very information that did convince me of this still non-FDA approved therapy.

What plenty of these textbooks nevertheless say is that with neuroinflammation reduction, neuroplasticity can start again to do its “job” and it’s this the concept that totally made me fully believe that IF I’d ever have the chance to receive some injections, my life would return to be acceptable (still as the head of my household, still married without conservator and still with all of my money and a job to make more of it).

I find it pretty funny that cannabidiol promotes neuroplasticity by reducing neuroinflammation (look at website n. 3).

In truth this is what frustrates the heck out of me, I mean if what I need is to have the inflammation in my brain to be reduced so that its plasticity can return to operate again, why is it that none of my neurologist has ever (at least) tried to do the same? Brain inflammation is well-known and typical in Alzheimer's and Parkinson's Diseases, both have been very well known and studied/treated since plenty decades, so rather than risk to infringe a patent why hasn’t any of my neuro. tried to go this way with me……at least to experiment?

Shall I believe that all meds that treat these two diseases are worthless and only cost money to the patients who have them prescribed (certainly not few) to?

I’m thinking that I may email the link to this post to my current (really good) neurologist…….after all, this wouldn’t be the first time that I “direct” one of my M.D.’s towards my own specific (and widely researched) direction.

1. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25565964
2. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4273623/
3. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0278584616302524
4. http://neuroscience.oxfordre.com/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780190264086.001.0001/acrefore-9780190264086-e-56

NOOTROPICS DO STIMULATE NEUROGENESIS

OK these are the 5 times I posted in my blog here about nootropics (too many?).

1. http://lingiaca.blogspot.com/2017/06/nootropics-for-tbi.html
2. http://lingiaca.blogspot.com/2017/08/piracetam.html
3. http://lingiaca.blogspot.com/2017/09/again-on-nootropics.html
4. http://lingiaca.blogspot.com/2017/11/on-nootropics-again.html
5. http://lingiaca.blogspot.com/2017/11/nootropics-neurogenesis.html

 in contradiction of what I had stated once my taking a mix of these OTC natural herbs has truly had the neurogenic effect that few of the websites (some NIH official) I had linked over the years I had posted about this effect – some since the beginning of last year - in fact I can say with confidence that my strong unbalance while standing has totally disappeared, while the damage in my occipital lobe (sight field cut) isn't getting any better.

This means that if my femur head hadn’t been fractured last year (followed by rapid surgery with the insertion of many screws) I'd be walking already on my own, in my mind I’m sure that by giving muscle strength back to the left leg, I’ll walk into the court room next time when that disgustingly fat judge will insert my policeman (AND his buddy) up my ass. In the next few days I’m going to talk of the (magical) ability of our brains to create reality, our universe (I said this already) and make few comments about the way our brains operate with electrical charges that can never disappear (very close to the science of the afterlife).

So, enjoy this (fairly long) Youtube video, expect my next posts, look at my 5 past ones and do not forget the donation for the creator (of this blog = ME).

1. https://corpina.com/neurogenesis-how-to-increase-nerve-growth-factor-ngf/
2. https://www.braintropic.com/ngf-nerve-growth-factor-stack/
3. https://supplementsinreview.com/nootropic/how-to-grow-brain-cells-nootropics-lifestyle-tips-for-neurogenesis/
4. https://www.mindlabpro.com/blog/nootropics/grow-brain-cells-nootropics-neurogenesis/

NOOTROPICS & NEUROGENESIS

OK, I promise that this possibly my last post about nootropics, my reason to make yet a new post on this natural supplements is one that no MD or neurologist seem to be aware of, which is that by increasing the amount of blood and – consequently – oxygen in the brain, the neurogenesis id facilitated, which is a huge help to the brain to repair itself.

Just think in example to when you get your skin cut or bruised or when a bone in your body gets fractured, who or what repairs these damages? It’s simply our body, all by itself, we are in the year 2017 and we can just put a cast around the broken bone and leave it there for 40 days or so, but we still have no way to repair the bone, or  a technique or technology we've developed, in fact as well as we cast a broken bone we use a band aid to make sure that while the skin repairs itself, no bacteria can get to the skin when it’s cut to avoid any infection, the same for the fractured bone, all we need to do is to make sure that the two parts of the bone are aligned in the right position (or as close as possible to its original one) to make sure that as our body reconnects the two extremities of the fractured bone there won’t be any physical obstacle to resuming its correct and natural use.

In some way the idea to give plasticity back to the injured brain is just like putting a band aid to the injured brain through increased oxygen via improved blood circulation.

It must really be because I’m not an MD that all these ideas seem very idiotic to me and I can’t figure out the reason why, rather than advise the use of natural and fairly inexpensive supplements any and all MD’s prescribe meds that are both very expensive and give billions of side effects, often very unsafe.

1.  https://supplementsinreview.com/nootropic/how-to-grow-brain-cells-nootropics-lifestyle-tips-for-neurogenesis/
2. https://nootriment.com/nootropics-list/
3. https://therevisionist.org/bio-hacking/nootropics/noopept/
4. http://www.brainprotips.com/how-to-increase-neurogenesis/
5. https://www.braintropic.com/ngf-nerve-growth-factor-stack/
6. http://www.thefeelgoodlifestyle.com/supplements-to-increase-mental-performance.html

ON NOOTROPICS AGAIN

Last time I talked here about nootropics I said that I was disappointed and that I was basically going to take them to the last pill only because I had spent some money and they are all either roots extracts or vitamins.

However in my never-ending internet research and browsing I learned that even if you haven’t immediate effects and/or improvements, the nootropics elements do help the neurogenesis.

I therefore went to watch again the movie Limitless that – as I had said here in the recent past – is about this “magic pill” that’s really nothing different than a nootropic supplement.

As I always do I put links to “official” websites that fully support what I just stated and let my readers know that my effort isn’t going to end any time soon, especially since the stem cells clinical trial at the UCLA rejected me, after having looked at my brain MRI done this past July simply telling me that “I do not qualify for the study at this time”.

I’m very happy that the ladies I had been communicating by email with, sent back to me all the medical material, with the MRI CD that I had sent there and I’m now planning to bring it with me at the next visit with my current neurologist who happens to be in contact with the Princeton team who has been performing the same procedure for the same reason and with the same goal.

What may I say? One way or another I’ll have my brain repaired and made like it’s new again.

1. https://nootropicsexpert.com/best-nootropics-for-traumatic-brain-injury/
2. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5021479/
3. http://www.longecity.org/forum/topic/48867-longterm-use-of-piracetam/
4. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19441945
5. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/24427044_Nootropic_agents_stimulate_neurogenesis_Brain_Cells_Inc_WO2007104035
6. https://peaknootropics.com/nootropics-brain-injury-damage/
7. http://www.jneurosci.org/content/37/28/6603
8. http://www.longecity.org/forum/topic/66077-recovery-from-traumatic-brain-injury-need-help-with-nootropics-or-medications/

IT’S NEVER OVER

This coming Monday 9/18 I’m going to the UCLA for few final med. tests to finalize the approval to the participation to the stem cell trial I’ve been dreaming to receive in order to “fix” my brain.

However, as in my title here it truly is never over for me simply because few months ago I fell from my “beloved” wheelchair as I was pulling up my pants and – ooohhhh surprise surprise – I had my femur broken so bad that I received the surgery detailed in these 2 pictures here that shows how much metal, screws and nails it took to “reassemble” my femur almost as it was.

Now I’m thinking that no matter that my brain will recover its injury well, I’m still going to be prisoner of a wheelchair…….BUT no matter that my remaining to be a prisoner, the fact that this could make my Queen (Michele) et. al. correct is more than sufficient for me to focus my immensely strong mind into running a half marathon before I’ll be 60 y/o.

This circumstance has made me think very often to one of the last things that my dad (Saint Gianfranco) taught to me few months before he passed over, that’s about the pain that any father suffers when one of his children gets hurt or gets in trouble. I connected this to the reason why our God came on earth as Jesus to die by crucifixion in order to expiate sins and pains of his children, all of us. Saints like St. Francis might say: “bring it on!” well that’s NOT what I’d ever say myself, all I say is that this is yet another challenge that will need all my focus and hard work to be (finally) overcome (too).

Now all I can think of is W.T.F. how could such a disaster may have happened to me, wasn’t it sufficient that my brain is badly injured already? What was I thinking so bad that my own personal God would decide to give such hurtful additional obstacle? Truth is that no matter how much I tried to find the answer, I’m still without any; this means that I’ll have to figure out the way to start to run again after this new treatment that already seems to give exceptional results. Maaybee I won’t run half a mile BUT no doubt I’ll be swimming a full mile very soon!!

• http://braininjuryhelp.com/relearning-to-walk-severe-brain-injury/ 
• http://www.brain-injury-law-center.com/latest-news/types-of-disabilities-caused-by-traumatic-brain-injury/
• http://www.apa.org/pi/disability/resources/publications/newsletter/2015/03/brain-injury-identity.aspx

THE IMPOSSIBLE

I mentioned here in my blog many times already that plenty of the people who worked with me – as partners or employees – know well that I always said that nothing is impossible if you have determination, clarity of your goal, time, resources and ability to make any effort, therefore there truly exists nothing that can be considered as impossible.

Well today this is what I decided it worth to talk about and – as I always do – I put below several links to websites dedicated to this concept and a video that I find too close to me, for how close to one of my biggest passions and for how pitiful it looks like.

Anyway, as I was saying, the “nothing is really impossible” reminds me of the sniper, who to center the target needs a very good tool (rifle with outstanding scope) the target, full control of his own body movements control, mind focus and determination to center his target.

This is truly what I think about when I decide to give to myself a goal (of any kind and as I’ve always done in my life) right now in fact I have and I’m fighting for two different impossible goals, where one is to fully recover from my TBI and the other (more important) is to reunite with my wife and children, therefore reconstitute my family as it had been for more than 15 years.

What makes these two goals really difficult – borderline impossible to reach – are three very different individuals, one being my eternally damned former physiatrist (1), named (by himself) B. and the other my magnificent spouse (2) who got brainwashed by B. about the fact that nobody can ever recover from TBI, therefore just give it all up on me and then my fucking conservator (3).

Therefore, aside from having two objective “impossibilities” to fight against I have three individuals getting in my way to reach my goal.

What’s worse is that my outstanding tool (my brain) got injured, so my situation is just like the sniper with great rifle but without scope, so I can’t focus on my targets to take them down.
I'm however going to show to both and to the entire world that three individuals are nothing and cannot make it impossible to reach my goal - even if my tool is injured - just wait and see my 3 obstacles complete elimination!

1. http://www.thesecret.tv/stories/nothing-is-impossible-anything-is-possible/
2. https://www.kibin.com/essay-examples/the-most-important-lesson-i-have-learned-in-life-nothing-is-impossible-with-determination-LFn4nPNz
3. https://www.inc.com/thomas-koulopoulos/nothing-is-impossible.html
4. http://gomsba.com/2017/06/27/day-17-the-difference-between-impossible-and-possible-msba-2017/

PIRACETAM

It turns out that that eternally damned of B. is the MD who first had me take Piracetam, the “father” of the nootropics and of this category of supplements too, strangely while I have lists of meds taken over the past 10 years with the way they made me feel and – if discontinued – the reason why, I have nothing about stopping to take this Piracetam and no matter if I asked to my Queen I got the same reply to all of my questions to her for the past 8 years or,……………………………………….. (= dead silence) Since Piracetam is almost always named in every web-article on nootropics, I couldn’t go on in my “nootropics expedition and adventure” without trying some of it.

This is how I may have figure out the reason why I discontinued this supplement, it’s much more powerful than all the other I’ve been “playing with”, in the sense that it’s best to be taken before going to bed, it really puts me to sleep very quickly and deeply, so I mix it with some St. John’s wort and sleep like a log for 9 hours straight.

Now, my (undying) hope is that as my brain isn’t excited by the whirling activities that it’s been under in the last 10 years (almost 24/7) my brain has taken all the benefits that this supplement with a long and positive record of use normally gives to any taker.

I certainly don’t like the fact that this supplement was suggested by that frigging loser, nor that my Queen keeps telling me nothing even when I ask about what I was taking years ago for few years.

Anyway, I put below – as I always do – few links that talk of Piracetam and a couple of carefully selected Youtubes.

1. https://www.nootropedia.com/piracetam/
2. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5056292/
3. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16007238
4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piracetam 

NEUROPLASTICITY

When our skin is cut, the best we can do is to put a Band-Aid on it to keep the two parts of the cut skin close to each other, we disinfect the cut to avoid infection and then wait for our body to seal the cut that at most will result in a simple scar, or when a bone of our skeleton brakes, all we do is to make sure to position the two parts of the bone in the straight or closest to its original position and either cast or bandage it as rigid as possible and then – again – wait for our body to reattach the two parts of the bone together, here the trick is double, i.e. make sure that the two parts of the bone are aligned as close to the original alignment and wait 40 days for our body to have enough time to repair with sufficient rigidity and resilience the bone fracture in order to give it the same properties like it’s new (never fractured).

When it comes to this identical ability of our body for the brain we have a specific term in use since centuries, that’s neuroplasticity, or neuro is all that relates to the organ named brain and plasticity that refers to its capacity to reform itself around the injured (dead) part(s).

This is another of the main reasons that made me want to give it a try with nootropics, in fact as you can learn reading the website-articles I link below, this is one (if not the main) of the very interesting effects of the nootropics that make me want to keep taking – as I had said earlier – at least until the bottles I have will be empty.

This decision is actually very related and connected to my idea that medicine is a guess-science, simply because everyone has a different reaction to any medication or supplement taken.

So while the articles I found say that these nootropics help neuroplasticity, I surely won’t know until I’ll have tried – very much like I won’t know if taking an aspirin to get rid of my headache will be sufficient and successful.

1.  http://peaknootropics.com/nootropics-brain-injury-damage/
2. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4026746/
3. https://discourse.soylent.com/t/performance-enhancement-at-the-cost-of-potential-brain-plasticity-nootropic-study/13238
4. https://smartdrugsforcollege.com/what-is-neuroplasticity-and-how-nootropics-can-speed-it-up/

ON NOOTROPICS AGAIN

I feel forced to post for the 3rd time on this subject because after having announced my proud happiness for having discovered about these chemicals on 6/12 (nootropics for TBI) and on 7/28 (my nootropics failure) about the failure related to my using them, my rigorous and intelligent research on this subject has revealed that the very reason why I initially got interested in their use was scientifically and biologically well supported, in fact in my logic I was thinking that if these supplements could give increased focus and attention to the users they may have the ability to stimulate the neuroplasticity of our brain, that’s been the primary focus of my research in the recovery from my injury of ’05.

Now, regardless of the fact that all the neurology text books used by the students in neurology say that after an injury the brain remains inflamed from few hours to – at most – few days, experience has demonstrated that such brain inflammation can stay for entire decades after the initial injury (which explains why the perispinal Enbrel claims to be effective decades after the injury) so now it seems (scientifically) that with the reduction of the brain inflammation the neuroplasticity is free to start to do its work again and therefore let the brain repair itself (basic explanation of the success of the perispinal Enbrel injections).

More simply my research about the potential benefits of the use of nootropics has confirmed – scientifically – that what’s being offered since decades in LA is very well supported by the latest scientific and neurological research.

Then what’s the reason that explains my failure in using the nootropics? As you can see one of the main purposes of the nootropics is to reduce brain inflammation and help the recovery from stroke (still an injury to the brain), but here we get into the guess science that I despise so much, I mean what was it? The brand, quality or quantity, time of the day and foods ingested with these supplements that made my attempt turn into a failure? I can only say what I said on 7/28, I’m just going to empty the bottles of what I have and call this “nootropic adventure”, another failure……BUT well supported by science.

1.  https://selfhacked.com/blog/can-regrow-brain/
2. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4273623/
3. http://www.thebioneer.com/neuroplasticity-an-in-depth-guide-on-how-it-works-and-how-to-transform-your-brain/
4. https://nootriment.com/nootropic-long-term-effects/
5. http://www.thedailybeast.com/silicon-valleys-eating-up-super-ritalin-i-got-the-best-of-it
6. https://corpina.com/nootropics-brain-neuroplasticity-learning/

MY NOOTROPICS FAILURE

On 6/12 I published here a post about my “discovery” of nootropics that are simple OTC (over the counter) supplements that look very much like meds (pills, caps, etc.…) that in my complete medical ignorance I had hoped that could start the neuroplasticity of the injured brain, I even exchanged dozens of emails both with “experts” in this field and developers in this seemingly profitable supplements field.

What I had wanted to believe is that the heavy sleepiness that I developed shortly after ingesting one of these supplements was simply because I wasn’t used to them, so I decided to give it few days to get used to this new (for me) supplement, however since I spend all day long in the internet, I looked around to learn more about these substances and I learned that I’m not the only one with the same “side effect”, in fact my “sleepiness” even has its name, it’s called “brain fog” that – of course – can be treated with yet more OTC pills that for the major part contain caffeine (Daaahhhhh!!).

As the idiot (or brain injured) I am I decided to toss away few more $$ in the acquisition of such “magic solutions” to my sleepiness issue and I decided to give it a good try, hoping that my normally very reactive and superiorly self-healing organism could do the magic and repair my motor cortex (= the ONLY injured part of my brain).

I’m now sadly at the point that I’ve decided to keep ingesting these pills of plastic just to feel that I’m not throwing them all away, I decided in fact that as I empty the packaging of each pill I’m not going to replace it with a new one….. in other words, I’m going for the process of self-elimination.

What makes me wonder big time is that my forever damned physiatrist B. used to have me take 3 pills of Piracetam (the very first and probably most serious nootropic in the market since decades) each day; I’d say that this is one important reason that had me go after this “nootropics path”.

As I just said – I’m sure I’ll make plenty of my visitors here rather disappointed – I’m completely done with this yet other experiment, no neuroplasticity has restarted, nor I ever felt the very objective that these supplements proudly claim to give (focus, memory, attention and logic).

Given that most of these supplements target as their market the people affected by Alzheimer’s or other similar brain conditions I can say that they really aren’t in the market to help injured brains, I’d say because they surely don’t affect the brain plasticity, I’d surely know by now.

Since these supplements are all OTC you can buy them online wherever (for me, my beloved eBay) they aren’t expensive at all and given that they are made with lots of vitamins of the B group. Plus iron, manganese, etc.… etc.. if I haven’t helped my neuroplasticity, I’ve surely given a vast amount of vitamins and minerals to my system. In other words, if I haven’t helped my brain get better, I certainly helped my body for anything else it might need to live well balanced and healthy.

1. http://peaknootropics.com/nootropics-brain-injury-damage/
2. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5021479/
3. http://nootropicgeek.com/nootropics-for-post-concussion-traumatic-brain-injury-recovery/
4. http://www.longecity.org/forum/topic/66077-recovery-from-traumatic-brain-injury-need-help-with-nootropics-or-medications/ 
5. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5056292/
6. http://www.longecity.org/forum/topic/48867-longterm-use-of-piracetam/
7. http://www.ixneuro.com/concussions.html?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI6JPexMGt1QIVBJR-Ch2ARAjoEAAYASAAEgJAXvD_BwE

NOOTROPICS FOR TBI

Let me start with this simple statement – directed to my neurologists and to my neuropsychologists especially: Nothing in neuroscience is absolute because the brain is still a black box.

Brain damage is something that most people hope to never deal with, and is a terrifying thought for most. Brain damage is also something that most people think nothing can be done about, and may even think that the damage is completely unmanageable. This is where nootropics come into play, as they are supplements that are not only capable of lessening the severity of brain damage, but they can even help keep brain damage from becoming out of control.

It is important to comprehend that there are different types and severity of brain damage and not all are treatable. In some instances, a person can fully recover from brain damage and in other cases, they cannot. In order for doctors to analyze on whether a patient will recover from brain damage or not, you have to consider the following factors:

• The severity of the head injury
• The duration of the injury
• The area of the injury

There are hundreds of cognitive enhancing pills (so called smart pills) on the markets that simply do NOT work! With each of them claiming they are the best, how can you find the cognitive enhancers that are both safe and effective?

The primary function of nootropics is to improve and enhance the cognitive function. People diagnosed with brain damage can take a medication, but it will not reverse the damage caused by the injury. However, it will increase the functions of the remaining neurons still present in the brain.

People who have damaged the part of their brain responsible for the cognitive function may see improvement in their ability to recall and learn things. Even though nootropics may not be restoring the lost neurons, they may be benefiting the existing ones (still intact/alive/udead).

For example, the nootropic Piracetam (prescribed for me by the truckload from the eternally damned, my first fucking physiatrist Dr. B.) increases communication between the left and right hemispheres of the brain, which helps protect the brain from becoming oxygen-deprived. This causes the user who  takes this nootropic to become more alert, and have a reduced reaction time.

The main reason why I like to use Piracetam – among the many other racetams in the market today – is that it supports (increases some say) the neuroplasticity of the brain, therefore helping its self-repair(all you can hope for still today).

In conclusion I can say that in general, supplementing with nootropics is smart and offers many preventive benefits for brain health. However, considering the direction of neurologic research, I’m sure to see more nootropics being suggested by MD’s and used by brain injured patients. In fact let’s say that I’ve been “playing” with these supplements for several months at this point and I’m sure to have “overdeveloped” several areas in my brain (overdeveloped already) that I’m sure they weren’t as powerful as they are now.

I’ve understood too how powerful it can be by putting an uncomfortable idea in the mind of someone unsure of him/herself, because it’s by using – without knowing or being unaware – our mind and consciousness (always connected to each other), that we can do/have it happen, what we call a  “miracle” (something that science can’t explain and  that it cannot be measured nor repeated)

MORE ON NOOTROPICS

The effects that are widely reported by nootropic users can be cumulative. If you consistently use nootropics every day, you will start to rewire your brain to be more plastic and produce more neurotransmitters on an ongoing basis.

The more you challenge and ask of your brain, the faster its capacities will grow. In this way you can think to the brain like a muscle that needs constant exercise. Following an exercise regimen, you can further enhance the long-term benefits and positive effects of most nootropics in the market today.

One of the biggest benefits of using Piracetam is that it can increase neuroplasticity (yeeeeaaaahhhh). 

1. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5021479/
2. http://peaknootropics.com/nootropics-brain-injury-damage/
3. http://www.longecity.org/forum/topic/66077-recovery-from-traumatic-brain-injury-need-help-with-nootropics-or-medications/
4. https://corpina.com/nootropics-brain-neuroplasticity-learning/
5. http://brainblogger.com/2013/01/29/nootropics-reduce-the-severity-of-brain-trauma/
6. https://smartdrugsforcollege.com/what-is-neuroplasticity-and-how-nootropics-can-speed-it-up/
7. http://supplementsinreview.com/nootropic/nootropics-for-concussions-brain-injuries/

STRING THEORY

What I like most about this theory is that one scientist (I don’t remember his name) said that the string theories with their vibrations – like the strings of an instrument -  make music that goes all around our universe, I think that he called it “the music of God”.

What truly fascinates me is that with their study we’ll probably be able to figure out what the pre-big-bang era was like.

In simpler words it seems that the most advanced (quantum) scientific research is not only confirming what Jesus taught to us - by example –but it’s trying to find God too.……all of this makes me think to the atheists I know, I truly want to hear how they’ll try to justify the non-existence of an intelligent creator when it’ll be hard science with numbers and measurable experiments that will prove the real existence of our creator (Jehovah).This actually reminds me of the time when I had tried to put in touch the afterlife super-expert with my friend the incorruptible atheist Iacopo.

The super-expert refused to have an email dialog with someone who sustains the impossibility for a God creator to exist.

One email from the super-expert and one reply from Iacopo and that was it, the super-expert let me know of her refusal to “waste her time” talking with someone who lives on another planet (in another universe).

It’s truly going to be very interesting how – finally – this atheists vs believers fight – will be put to rest, or if it will go on, I suspect that any atheist will find out something else to go against the natural beliefs and expectations of humanity since its beginning (hundreds of thousands of years ago).

I hope you accept – as I did – that my blog has become something like a collection of internet (Google and Youtube) searches.

Therefore I promise that soon I’ll return to talk again of my TBI recovery and of the effort in my recovery struggle, totally misunderstood by all people who (still) have power over me, personally and over my financial wealth.

1. http://zidbits.com/2011/03/a-laymans-explanation-for-string-theory/
2. http://superstringtheory.com/index.html
3. http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/may-2007/explain-it-in-60-seconds-string-theory
4. https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/String_theory 

Long video, worth watching to the end:

NEUROINFLAMMATION AS A BIOMARKER FOR TBI

I’m not a doctor at all and in my whole life I’ve always and only gone to see a doctor if something was bothering me with the precise expectation to have the doctor fully and finally take care of my reason to be seeing him.

What I write and post here is simply my understanding of what I learn in my never-ending internet research on TBI and possible solutions, excluding its prevention (obviously).

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) has become the signature wound of wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Injury may result from a mechanical force, a rapid acceleration-deceleration movement, or a blast wave. A cascade of secondary cell death events ensues after the initial injury. In particular, multiple inflammatory responses accompany TBI. A series of inflammatory cytokines and chemokines spreads to normal brain areas juxtaposed to the core impacted tissue. Among the repertoire of immune cells involved, microglia is a key player in propagating inflammation to tissues neighboring the core site of injury. Neuro-protective drug trials in TBI have failed, likely due to their sole focus on abrogating neuronal cell death and ignoring the microglial response despite these inflammatory cells’ detrimental effects on the brain. A prolonged state of inflammation after brain injury may linger for years and predispose patients to develop other neurological disorders, such as Alzheimer’s disease. TBI patients display progressive and long-lasting impairments in their physical, cognitive, behavioral, and social performance. Inflammatory mechanisms that accompany TBI in an effort to increase the understanding of the dynamic pathological condition as the disease evolves over time and begin to translate these findings for defining new and existing inflammation-based biomarkers and treatments for TBI.

This concept of neuron-inflammation is what drove the successful use of Etanercept, or Enbrel to reduce such inflammation, when injected in the spine so it can pass the brain barriers and give the anti-inflammatory effect to the neurons that work under the stress of being overloaded by the absence of the ones that are dead.

A prescription developed only for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis has been casually found to decrease the inflammation of neurons following a TBI giving back to the brain its plasticity, that’s always working as long as we live.

The doctor who very casually discovered such property of this medicament named Etanercept by the German Pfizer has patented with the US registration office its use for TBI and Alzheimer conditions, and is being referred by medical publications as “A new ground-breaking study that provides clinical evidence, for the first time, that chronic neurological dysfunction from stroke or traumatic brain injury can rapidly improve following a single dose of this drug that targets brain inflammation, even years after the stroke or traumatic event.”

Since – as I’ve been saying for years – the guess-science of medicine doesn’t ever give any certainty on anything for anyone, I’ve been fighting against those who are supposed to love me and say they want the best for me, to be given the freedom to give to this new and still unproven (they say) therapy at least one chance to improve my disabilities.

I guess that I can say that only God knows how this battle will end, but the loss once again of Michele’s support makes the hole in my heart even bigger, deeper and more painful.

1. http://www.cnn.com/2011/HEALTH/05/05/brain.plasticity.giffords/
2. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/edward-taub-phd/the-plasticity-of-the-bra_b_6031376.html
3. http://journal.frontiersin.org/researchtopic/2781/mechanisms-of-neuroinflammation-and-inflammatory-neurodegeneration-in-acute-brain-injury
4. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK326735/
5. http://jonlieffmd.com/blog/update-on-traumatic-brain-injury-and-inflammation
6. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroinflammation