Happy New Year!


I just came across this article about BCAA's, which are amino acids, and how researchers think when taken as a supplement that they could help people recovering from mTBI and MTBI.

http://www.naturalnews.com/027849_am...in_damage.html

Researchers are going to give people with mTBI and MTBI BCAA's in new studies.


Here's an older study where researchers discovered that BCAA's helped people recovering from Severe TBI.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16181934


Personally, I just ordered some. I read that if you're going to take them, it's best to take supplements that are 50 percent leucine, 25 percent isoleucine, and 25 percent valine and B6 is needed to synthesize the amino acids.

If you're healing from a brain injury, your doctor has probably already told you to take a B Complex regularly and B12 daily. (My neurologist told me to!) So that's where you'll get some B6 for the amino acids. But you might also want to get a BCAA supplement with a little B6 in it for good measure. Of course make sure the supplement you want to try is approved by your health care professionals.


Again:

**Don't forget to write this stuff down so you can ask your Dr. about whether you should try it. You want to make sure you talk about it with them first so they don't interfere with any drugs you might be taking, etc..




(I suffered a complex severe concussion which caused increased intracranial pressure for six months before the Dr.'s discovered it... the accident was about 18 months ago. I'm very impatient to get better.)