It all has to do with inflammation. When you get a concussion, your brain goes into protection mode. Now, if your brain had sustained some type of infection, this is a good thing because it will stave off the infection from spreading and doing more damage. However, with a blunt force injury, this is a catastrophic thing. The glia within your brain, which are responsible for protecting your brain, begin to divide in order to protect your brain from more damage. Well, this actually winds up causing more damage then what was originally incurred.

This is actually how the neurosteroid progesterone works for acute brain injuries. It acts as an anti-inflamatory agent in the brain by preventing the aforementioned catastrophic cascade from occurring.

Now, when you get a second concussion before your brain is healed, this sets off the inflammatory response again only it takes a much smaller hit to cause the cycle to begin because your threshold is much lower than before. In other words, your glia are ready and waiting for another insult to happen and because of this, the glia will respond to any thing that happens to your brain regardless of force.

Scientists are actually discovering that with mild tbi's, the impact is actually no big deal. It is the consequent actions of the glia that cause the most damage.

So, what can be done at this point? Well, one suggestion is to get into contact with a doctor who administers glutathione injections. Glutathione is a powerful anti inflammatory agent (although not as powerful a progesterone). The next time you bump your head, go in and ask for an injection of 6 mg of glutathione. You may need to get a couple of these before you begin to feel better. And, not many conventional MD's do this, but many ND's and a few OD's do.

Also, probably in the near future progesterone will be prescribed in ER rooms for people with brain injuries. So, when you bump your head and feel concussed, a simple visit to the ER will suffice to bring down your symptoms.

Also, also, the idea in recovering from a head injury is to bring down the inflammation and speed up the brain. This is where neurofeedback and other therapies come into play. Get the inflammation to go down with rest and speed up the brain with therapy.


You should also not get too discouraged by this. This is all theory because scientists still don't know exactly what happens when you bump your head. Also, it may be that when you slightly bump your head, you do cause the inflammation to happen but it doesn't cause any damage. Hence the feeling of getting better after a week thing.