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Is she taking any medications? Antidepressants, pain pills, or migraine cocktails can cause severe symptoms when taken during a concussion (black outs, memory that comes and goes, sadness, disassociating).

The brain needs optimal conditions and optimal nutrition to heal. Alcohol will slow or stop the healing, and fuels pre-existing emotional distress which contributes to anger. High amounts of weed contribute to anxiety and fear, so those substances should be avoided.

The secondary impacts can trigger excessive inflammation and that inflammation causes symptoms. Anxiety and anger are also linked to brain inflammation. A lot of the foods we eat cause inflammation, which will hinder the healing and contribute to mental health issues, so it's important to stop eating inflammatory foods as part of the treatment plan. (see below).

College life puts a lot of stress on the brain. The lectures, homework, and busy environment is a lot of stimulation for the brain to process. Plus, her friends may be pressuring her to party with them. The brain needs rest from high-level intense cognition to heal. If the above lifestyle changes do not improve her condition, then consider bringing her home to a quiet environment.

Stop eating these inflammatory foods-
- Sugar/fructose/corn syrup
- Sugary drinks/soda
- Wheat/gluten
- Fast foods
- Processed foods
- Fried foods
- Refined carbohydrates
- Processed vegetable and seed oils (polyunsaturated fats) because they are harmful to the brain
- (Safflower oil, Canola oil, Sunflower oil, Corn oil, Soybean oil, Cottonseed oil)
- Trans fats (shortening, hydrogenated vegetable oils, margarine)

Eat this instead:
- Replace wheat with whole grains. (Paleo flour, quinoa flour, almond flour, coconut flour, chickpea flour, etc)
- Eat a moderate amount of protein
- Eat lots of vegetables and some fruit for the antioxidants
- Cook with lots of healthy saturated fats (animal fats, Coconut oil, Butter, Olive oil, Avocado oil) because fats are the building blocks of new brain cells
- Bone broth
- Eat cold water fatty fish for the Omega 3 DHA
- Eat organic foods because pesticides contribute to neurodegeneration