LONGECITY

Has anyone had any success treating these injuries and related lasting cognitive difficulties with nootropic/diet/exercise stacks at all? Especially interested in hearing about treatment years after suffering the injury.

Thanks!

I read about progesterone but have no experience.
http://www.nature.co...ps2013160a.html

Most are junk and are nothing but placebo.

 

The only things that I feel have definitely helped with my TBI are human growth hormone and thymosin beta 4. The brain is not easy to heal and I have still not found anything to help with the slight but lasting memory deficits. HGH improved my deep sleep, stopped my cycles of bradycardia and tachycardia and let me get rest to heal. TB4 allowed me to have some REM sleep and dream again. I was taking TB4 in hopes of improving my memory. It had no effect on that, but by day 24 I started dreaming again which I hadn't in 7 years. Between being able to do into deep sleep and dreaming my so called PTSD disappeared. I take melatonin occasionally as well and I am having an oxytocin(posterior pitutary hormone) nasal spray compounded for the hypervigilance and other PTSD like symptoms. If it doesn't get compounded soon there may be no point as my brain stem seems to be healing now. Can you get the premade spray in the USA yet?

 

I had additional injuries that were much easier to heal. Diet and exercise were extremely important to that healing process. Broken lumbar vertebrae are a breeze to heal compared to an injured brain.

From personal experience the best treatments are plenty of sleep, a healthy diet, and exercise when possible. I found piracetam to help with dizziness and cognitive difficulties, and I took fish oil to help repair neuronal damage. 

 

More exotic treatments do have merit, but I don't think their effects on post-concussive brain damage are studied well enough to say definitively. 

Edited by Ampamet, 11 May 2014 - 12:14 AM.

There are some good studies at the DCOE. Google DCOE Ned and TBI. The treatments are very political as one of the docs called it. 15 to 20k per year is more than the VA is willing to pay.