Concussion Treatment
Scientists have now identified how to successfully treat Concussion: After a three-year top-grade study, a new nutrition based product has proved to work better than anything.
My first patient on the new product is now in his fourth day and has had major improvement already. He had complained of foggy thinking, memory loss, poor balance and exhaustion. All of these symptoms have had dramatic improvement. On the first day, a health provider told him that his eyes were bright again for the first time since the accident. Those symptoms were already being helped by two cranial, hands-on techniques, which continue to assist: Craniopathy with Dr. Paul Aaron, DC, and Craniosacral therapy, practiced by Shannon Trudeau, LMBT, both with advanced training. Formally rest was the main prescription offered, and it rarely provided the improvement desired.
The big lie about complete blackout room with no activity is that mild activity is needed for improvement.
So now majorly effective concussion treatment has finally been proposed. Starting this February 5, scientists can say what will likely work for all mild to severe concussion and traumatic brain injury (TBI) as demonstrated in a major study sponsored by the Standard Process company. Up to now, help was from prayer, rest or controlled activity, various cranial treatments, calmness, mindfulness and the the use of proper foods and nutritional supplements. In my office, all of these have helped this patient and he will continue them, but it was the new treatment which made a dramatic difference in just three days
Vital new info is:
- to rest a bit but
- maintain some movement, especially guided by professionals or at least taking walks;
- Read the march 17 and March 22, 2024 Apple News concussion articles, which did an excellent job at showing why total rest is now out.
- A CT scan can tell if there is major physical damage, which should be handled in the ER.
Today, TBI remains one of the leading causes of death worldwide. Minor concussions, especially if repeated, cause trauma survivors to suffer from a variety of long lasting health consequences of a different sort than do major concussions or other traumatic brain injury.
For 45 years, it has been my intention to help overcome the effect of head injuries. For this reason, my clinic, Health Center of Hillsborough, is fashioned to have providers who are highly trained, very experienced, and who work in treatment techniques which vary. There have been many successes, but some patients remain in treatment for life. It is not always obvious or easy to find what actually has happened to the brain. For this reason, I always want my patients to have medical confirmation of what likely happened to the brain, so I often send people to UNC or Duke facilities where a CT Scan is often performed to see if there is visible damage. Keep in mind that most mild to moderate brain injuries are “functional” rather than physically visible. Following brain injury, we don’t function as well. The functional symptoms can still be devastating to the patient, causing work and social difficulties at any age.
What was demonstrated clearly in the February 5 study is that a very specific part of a particular substance is the first and only treatment that has been highly and sometimes immediately effective. All studies involved, and all scientists involved have been very clear to say that it is not just the substance, but a very particular part of that substance that is effective. The substance must be broken down properly and carefully to utilize just that particular part. Extensive attempts were made to use the whole substance, but all of those attempts failed. Why I’m saying this is that I don’t want readers to jump on finding a product of A similar name without knowing that it is the particular part of the substance that is the only one that works. Used as a food to support recovery, eating organ meats and fresh vegetables can be helpful, that is true, but the one part of the one particular gland is the only one that changes what is wrong as far as anyone studying this has ever found.
Because it is so important, this will lead you to a page on my professional website for you to read for yourself what the authors have so brilliantly put together. You can read the original language and make a decision on your own. As a doctor, I always want my patients to know everything that I know so that I’m not making a sole decision for you, but that you can use your own knowledge to participate in your own healing. When I say “doctor heal yourself,” I also mean you need to be the doctor as well. Don’t take my word for it. Learn all you can about your condition and we will help each other make the right decisions for each other’s wellness.
The study’s authors determined that, not the whole Thymus gland, but a nuclear fraction of bovine thymus (TNF) displays greatly improved performance on balance and spatial memory tests. They say “we identified an array of signaling pathways that are modulated by Thymus nuclear fraction (TNF) supplementation….Bovine thymus-derived extracts contain antigens found in neural tissues, and that supplementation…induces production of serum IgG antibodies against neuronal and glial antigens, which may explain the enhanced…recovery….Our data demonstrate, for the first time, the potency of a nutritional supplement containing nuclear fraction of bovine thymus in enhancing the functional recovery from TBI.”
Next, I really want to admit to you why I am involved in this subject. In the summer of 1995 I arrived in Hillsborough. A year later, I was lying in the UNC Hospital, unconscious, following a collision with a truck, which pulled in front of me from his stop sign. Fortunately, four hours later, my wife found where I was. Amazingly, her light kiss startled me out of my coma. I have spent all the years since studying how to get well. The very nuclear fraction of bovine thymus referred to in the study is now available. I have been taking it for four days. I have done my best to ensure a large supply on my shelves so that others who are victims of concussion or TBI can try it out. I’ll let you know when my mind and body have stopped making it difficult for me at work and in my social life. So far I’ve managed to function well as a doctor, but questionably in my social interactions. I tend to say things that don’t make sense even to me when I look back on them. I tend to drop things. I tend to make the staff of the Health Center of Hillsborough laugh along with me and correct ways in which I do things that are funny. I lose my glasses and cell phone 20 times a day as though I were a tottering old man. But yes, I remain athletic.
Can you get up from lying on the floor into a standing position without using your hands? I can. I continue to teach specific yoga asanas and QiGong forms for my patients to overcome injuries and to be functional. And so forth. Fortunately, my spiritual life has kept me full of joy. Fortunately, I have wonderful family and friends. Fortunately, the Health Center has a collection of providers who are knowledgeable in treating cranial and other bodily injuries.
My administrative staff and my patients are first in class, and make it feel to me as though I’m walking into a loving family gathering. You are always welcome here with questions or solutions.
I am thankful to a higher power that I am able to do my work effectively and safely to help patients find wellness. Please read the available study summary several times carefully and make decisions for yourself, your family and friends. It is not an easy read, but it is worth knowing what is going on.
Paul Aaron, chiropractic physician, certified in acupuncture and cranial techniques
Research Summary
Successful Functional recovery from traumatic brain injury….utilizing Thymus extract.* There are currently no effective treatments for TBI.
Abstract
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is one of the leading causes of death worldwide. Trauma survivors suffer from a variety of long lasting health consequences.… TBI patients who do not meet the daily recommended allowance for keen nutrients, have a higher risk of mortality, longer hospital stays, and poor neurological scores…. We sought to evaluate the potential therapeutic benefits of nutritional supplements derived from bovine thymus gland, which can deliver a variety of nutrients and bioactive molecules….inducing production of serum, IGG antibodies against neuronal and glial antigens, which may explain….the potency of a nutritional supplement containing nuclear fraction of bovine thymus in enhancing the functional recovery from TBI.
Abbreviations
- TBI: Traumatic brain injury
- mTBI: Mild traumatic brain injury
- BBB: Blood brain barrier
- AD: Alzheimer’s disease
TBI is a result of mechanical force trauma to the head that causes close to 30% of all deaths, occurs in approximately 70 million people, worldwide, yearly, and is referred to as a silent epidemic. Depending on the nature of the impact and injury, TBI varies from a mild concussion to a severe, disabling, and long lasting condition.….inducing symptoms that range from brief unconsciousness, and amnesia to coma and prolonged central nervous system dysfunction. Approximately 5 million people In the United States alone, suffer from lasting consequences of this injury. TBI, including repetitive TBI is one of the most significant non-genetic, and non-age related risk factors for Neurodegenerative diseases, such as chronic traumatic encephalopathy, Alzheimer’s disease, a DN like dementia, and even brain cancer.
The consequences of TBI, however, extend well beyond the brain, health and cognitive function and affect other organ systems. Due to the complex nature of the pathology, which involves Neuro degeneration, formation of lesions, disruption of blood, brain barrier… And because of the poor regenerative capacity of the brain, TBI treatments need to target multiple sailor and molecular pathways and processes to date. There are no approved effective treatments for TBI, besides hospitalization, often in the intensive care units, surgery, and palliative or symptomatic care aimed at neurorehabilitation.
In this study, we sought to evaluate the impact of nutritional supplements derived from bovine glandular tissues, on TBI recovery efficiency. Thymus is a glandular organ of Neuroectodermal origin that serves many diverse roles: (1) regulation of the immune system function, including self-/non- self- recognition across many organ systems.. (2) providing neuroendocrine support, and (3) displaying Nuro, protective and anti-inflammatory properties. We hypothesized that the concentrated material extracted from thymus – nutrients, peptides, and other bioactive molecules combined Extract and the nuclear extract, for their capacity to improve recovery – could facilitate faster TBI recovery. To this end, we tested three types of supplements derived from bovine thymus – the desiccated form, cytosolic extract, and the nuclear extract for their capacity to improve recovery. We report that the functional recovery as assessed by balance, and memory tests, is significantly improved… With nuclear extract, but not with the other thymus extracts. We report that multiple molecular signaling pathways are differentially regulated in the hippocampus. We further demonstrate that the induction of Auto antibodies against neural and gal. Antigens may be beneficial during recovery. Together, our data support the need for optimal nutritional supplementation during TBI recovery phase.
Desiccated thymus and thymus gland extracts — cytoplasmic (thymus tm) and nuclear (thymex PMG tm) provided by Standard Process, Inc. (Palmyra, WI, USA). Cytoplasmic and nuclear extracts were made from frozen raw bovine glands and dried on site using Standard Process Inc. proprietary processes. All test products are in powder form and are suitable for consumption by animals and humans. These extracts have been commercially available as dietary supplements in the United States since the early 1950s. The nuclear fraction of bovine thymus, particularly its concentrated form, may carry unique bioactive components with significant impact on gene regulation that could explain, in part, the enhancement of functional recovery
Signaling pathways implicated in TBI, pathology and recovery are modulated by thymus extract supplementation.
Brain injury, induces changes in many cellular and molecular pathways that respond to tissue damage and support healing and recovery. We therefore used ingenuity pathway analysis to evaluate which canonical signaling pathways are affected alone, and can be modulated by thymus extract, supplementation, and the extent to which each of the thymus extract impacts individual pathways in relation to the vehicle – sham group. we find that the number of signaling pathways significantly altered and thymus extract supplementation differs dramatically. Extract containing the thymus nuclear fraction, exert, pronounced effects on hippocampal gene expression patterns. Only the one thymus extract supplementation significantly improves recovery. Resveratrol, however, was found to be beneficial in the context of recovery from TBI.
Extract derived from bovine thymus contain antigens found within the nervous system, and their oral supplementation increases serum levels of IgG antibodies against those antigens.
An increase in some autoantibodies against neural, and glial antigens is part of a pathological process, observed in several Neuro degenerative diseases, and with brain injury, and exacerbates the damage to the nervous system. However, when auto antibody production is elicited by antigens, delivered in food, the immune response can be suppressed through an oral tolerance mechanism, Which involves initial production of IGM antibodies against given antigens, and later, transition to production of IgG, antibodies against the same antigens, which can confer long-term suppression of the immune response. When antigens delivered in food, are identical or highly homologous to those that are normally not present in circulation at high levels, and are released from the brain tissues on injury, the circulating IgG antibodies induced through ingestion of food would prevent the immune system attack on cells that carry those antigens this reducing inflammation.
Famous gland develops from Neuro, dermal tissue, later serves as a Neuro endocrine function, and is known to express neuronal and glial antigens.
This summary is of an exciting research study of concussion/traumatic brain injury (TBI). It is the first highly successful treatment ever found. It uses a trademarked very particular fraction of Thymus extract. The study indicated that using whole thymus or using other fractions, was only barely helpful. The summary is Dr. Paul Aaron’s attempt to help all of us understand the well-put-together study, showing us what’s up . Please understand that in order to do that, it was necessary to eliminate certain wording that would only be interesting to people who wanted to know the underlying scientific wording of the study and are willing to read 28 pages of detailed scientific wording. Most important is to understand that this supplementation works and that other dietary choices are also beneficial.
The specific extract derived from bovine thymus fights antigens found within the nervous system. This oral supplementation increases serum levels of IgG antibodies against those antigens.
“An increase in autoantigens is part of pathological process, observed in several Neurodegenerative diseases and with brain injury, and exacerbates the damage to the nervous system. However, when antibody production is solicited by antigens, delivered in food, the immune response can be suppressed through an oral tolerance mechanism, which involves initial production of antibodies against given antigens, and later, transition to production of IgG antibodies against the same antigens. This can confer long-term suppression of the immune response. When antigens delivered in food, are identical, or highly homologous to those that are normally not present in circulation at high levels, and are released from the brain tissues, upon injury, the circulating IgG antibodies induced through ingestion of food would prevent the immune system attack on cells that carry those antigens, reducing inflammation.”
Thymus gland develops from neuroectodermal tissue, later serves as a neuroendocrine function, and is known to overcome neural antigens. These antibodies wage war against those antigens and could be induced after oral supplementation.
Despite the high prevalence and long lasting consequences of TBI, effective treatments for this condition are still lacking, while timely, nutritional support and intervention are considered essential for reducing the risk of death and poor neurological outcomes. “In this study, we assess the potential benefit of bovine thymus gland TNF extract supplementation in acute head injury which recapitulates many common TBI symptoms observed, and is validated for experimental reliability by numerous research groups. This work reveals possible cellular and molecular mechanisms that may underline nutrition mediated improvement and acceleration of the recovery from TBI. Previous studies have demonstrated that TBI significantly impairs the vestibular-motor function in the early phase, following injury, and this effect diminishes, or disappears completely overtime.
“Consistent with previous reports of the prolong, cognitive and memory impairment, following TBI compared to sensory/motor dysfunction, we find that performance is poor. This effect of TBI is significantly ameliorated in TNF treatment.”
Sham and performance-behavioral studies together demonstrate the TNF supplementation prior to during recovery phase illicits, brings a pronounced improvement in both the early and long lasting symptoms of TBI that involve the vestibulomotor and cognitive functions, respectively. These findings suggest that TNF nuclear fraction of bovine thymus, which may have a unique composition compared to other thymus extracts we examined contains bioactive components that may be beneficial for faster recovery from TBI.
Multiple studies have reported dramatic changes in hippocampal gene expression levels following moderate to severe TBI at both early, acute time points after the injury and throughout the recovery. While not many changes in gene expression were reported between days 14 and 30 after TBI, large numbers of genes appear to remain either up or down regulated, long-term. In our study, we find that TNF induces persistent changes in gene expression patterns with the majority of differentially expressed genes involved in inflammation and tissue repair. Conversely, we find the thymus extract supplementation, and TNF supplementation, in particular, induced, notably, larger changes in HIPAA gene expression patterns . These data suggest that beyond the expected normalization of hippocampal gene expression pattern that may accompany recovery from TBI, TNF affects the expression of many additional genes, which are likely to collectively influence the efficiency and the time course of functional recovery from brain injury. This finding is consistent with a known capacity of dietary components to change gene expression in various tissues through a variety of mechanisms. Notably the patterns of activation, versus suppression of the signaling pathways, most affected by thymus gland extract supplementation appear similar between supplemented Groups, Suggesting that the material contained in the nuclear fraction of bovine thymus is similar and composition between these two materials though differentially concentrated, which can explain the observed overlap, and affecting signaling pathways within the hippocampus.
Signaling pathways involved in the immune system response and neuro inflammation as well as in brain tissue, repair, and remodeling, are known to be modulated by TBI. Notably phagosome formation and autophagy, Specifically, are among the most significantly affected signaling pathways in the thymus extract supplementation. Autophagy is vital for both the pathogenesis and the recovery from TBI, and can also be triggered by nutrient, deprivation and attenuated by nutrient supplementation. On the one hand, increased autophagy following TBI can be beneficial for converting damaged or dysfunctional molecules and cellular organelles into the recyclable components. On the other hand, prolonged Autophagy can also eliminate functional proteins, lipids, nuclear acids, and cellular organelles. These results demonstrate that down regulation of key players in auto phagosome formation, coincides, with better recovery from TBI, suggesting one of three possible explanations: (1) the process of Autophagy is no longer highly necessary, and tissue repair has been largely completed in TNF supplementation; (2) prolonged, damaging Autophagy has been attenuated by TNF supplementation leading to fast tissue recovery (3), TNF, and other thymus extract supplementation may have a direct impact.
Among the most promising bio markers of TBI are antigens derived from the proteins residing within the nervous system, which can be detected in blood or cerebral, spinal fluid, potentially due to BBB disruption and cellular damage. Increase levels of circulating auto antibodies against antigens of neuronal and glial origin are found in many neurologic diseases, and may be an important, contributing factor toward disease, pathogenesis and progression. in fact, a proposed mechanism for the development of CT following repeated head trauma, involves repeated BBB permeation events and release of neural and glial proteins from the injured tissue into the blood, resulting in induction of the immune response to these proteins, evidence by higher tiers of auto antibodies against antigens of neuronal and glial origin. Together, these events lead to persistent Neuro inflammation and autoimmune processes, including loss of self tolerance, often observed in athletes and military personnel, who experience mild, repetitive concussions. Harnessing the immune system function. On the other hand, it’s one of the most promising approaches to the treatment of many pathological conditions, including TBI. Here, we demonstrate that bovine tissue extracts are capable of a listening production of IgG antibodies against the antigens specific to the tissues of origin. Notably, the nature of the extract determines what antigens are concentrated, bioavailability, and antigenicity. Consistent with this, we find that supplementation with heart – nuclear fraction elicits production of IgG‘s against myoglobin and troponin , but not some others. This may be due to low concentration of the others in the nuclear fraction of bovine heart tissue or to its low by availability among other possibilities. Yes, heart tissue extract is potent at inducing IgG antibodies against neuronal and glial antigens, in particular, that which also serves as predictive biomarker for patient outcomes, following cardiac arrest. Similarly, we find the thymus extracts increase serum levels of IgG against proteins present in the heart tissues, consistent with the expression of cardiac markers, such as myoglobin and thymus tissues.
In this study, we demonstrate that a dietary supplement arrived from animal glandular material, is potent in improving the recovery from TBI when administration prior to, and following the injury. This finding is comparable to other studies that found dietary supplementation, including Resveratrol and DHA, among others, being neuroprotective, alleviating the symptoms and enhancing the recovery from brain injury. Compared to individual, dietary compounds and nutrients, however, thymus extracts are derived from the complex matrices of thymus tissue, and are likely to contain of variety of bioactive molecules, including peptides, lipids, and nucleic acids, which together can influence that array of cellular and molecular processes, in the context of brain injury, where ideology is complex, and involves many distinct processes And pathways, nutritional supplementation that offers multiple beneficial, bioactive compounds with a naturally occurring matrix, can possibly deliver a multifaceted neuroprotective effect that is required to effectively support TBI patients.
While meat consumption worldwide remains high, and is still rising, consumption organ meets, especially glandular tissues is low, particularly in countries, where western diets are common, such as the United States. Meanwhile, several nutrients and vitamins that are known to be neuroprotective and facilitate better recovery, following brain trauma, such as vitamin B12 and creatine can be found at higher levels in organ meats compared to muscle meats, and are low in plants if present at all, these observations suggested diet, especially Skeletal muscle, may not deliver the optimal amounts of nutrients that facilitate Neuro protection, support, cognitive function, or facilitate recovery from injuries. Nutritional supplements, derived from animal glandular tissue should be considered in the design of dietary plans for patients suffering from medical conditions and healthy individuals alike.
Summary
In summary, we demonstrate that TNF supplementation enhances the functional recovery from TBI, both the balance function, and the special memory improve. We further show that TNF supplementation induces, dramatic changes and gene expression patterns in the hippocampus, following TBI, and validate that the process of autophagia is modulated by supplementation. Induction of IgG antibodies against neural, and glial antigens with better performance shortly after the injury. Together our data demonstrate, for the first time, that nutritional supplement containing a bovine thymus nuclear fraction is potent at rating the functional consequences of TBI, and may aid in the regulation of the immune system, possibly through an oral tolerance mechanism. The specific mechanisms whereby thymus TNF extract exerts its beneficial effects on brain health following injury remains to be elucidated.
