Can You Rewire a Broken Brain?| Billy Carson

Can You Rewire a Broken Brain?| Billy Carson

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When trauma and brain injury collide, recovery seems impossible β€” but science proves otherwise. In this episode, we follow an incredible journey of brain healing through neuroplasticity, discipline, and breakthrough imaging. From meeting Dr. Daniel Amen and uncovering trauma patterns on a SPECT scan… to surviving a 75-mph crash and overcoming severe navigation issues β€” this is a real story of resilience, science, and recovery. πŸŽ™οΈ Watch the full episode here β†’ https://youtu.be/cG3NLSWAzEk #BrainHealth #Neuroplasticity #TraumaRecovery #SPECTScan #HealingJourney #BrainInjury #MentalResilience #PodcastEpisode #AustinAndMattPodcast

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I went to Dr. Daniel Aeman, the number one psychiatrist in my opinion in the world. He does all the NFL CTEs and everything and he did a spec scan of my brain. Uh the first spec scan, he saw a trauma pattern, a diamond. When you see the diamond on the spec scan, it means severe trauma growing up. And he read my brain like he was reading a book. He was read my whole life out of that scan. He knew everything that happened to me. I was like, "This is crazy." >> When did you have this done? >> That was about 3 years ago. >> Whoa. >> Then he put me on this. I also had a brain injury from a car accident. I went through the front windshield. That's why this eye, this is a reconstructed eyelid. This is called a starburst. And I went through the front shield of a of a car doing 75 miles an hour on the highway. And I went over the car that we hit. >> How old were you >> at that time? I was like 22, I believe. And um got rushed to the hospital. They, you know, took the glass out from behind my eye and everything else and uh stitched up, did the star, and then it busted open again and they had to redo it. But um that that that sloshed my brain around in my skull and it created a dimple here that no blood flow was going to right here. This spot is actually still numb. There's no feeling here. Nerves got cut somehow from here. And uh he I was having severe navigation problems. This why I went to him. I I was getting lost in this house. >> Wow. >> I was getting lost in cars everywhere. If I would if I would drive I don't drive that much, but if I would drive somewhere, I would be lost. Um, and sometimes I drive 30, 40 miles out of the way. My brain would tell me I'm doing something right. I'm going somewhere. Right. >> This is years later after the accident. You're talking about kind of recently. >> It progress. Yeah. Recent. It got it got worse. >> Okay. >> I remember when I was even younger, I would take my kids to basketball practice and one time I had my daughter. I was bringing her home late from practice and I got lost in the neighborhood. I I said, "Can you please wake up and tell me how to get home?" And what set it off for me is I was going out on a date um and I walked into a wall. We were at a movie theater. I walked into a wall cuz my brain told me that was the the escalator to go up. And so after that, I was like, "Okay, got to go. Got to see what's going on here." It was that spot in my brain. And he put me on a special regimen of brain supplements. Uh and >> you remember what they were? >> Uh it's his own brand of Dr. Aean brain supplement. I'm not I don't know specifically what's in each one. >> Yep. >> He just trust them because the guy does great work. So I just >> give me give me these vitamins. They're all organic and natural. So, I took all that. I was also taking a lot of magnesium and also my own ADK. Um, and then I was, uh, >> what's ADK? >> Uh, vitamin A, D, and K. >> Oh, vitamin A, D, and KK. Got it. >> Yeah. Yeah. And then I was doing, he he recommended table tennis because it activates the left and right hemisphere of the brain, but not just casual like with a professional trainer and all of that. I started out, but then I really had a love more for basketball. And basketball does the same exact thing. So I just, you know, shooting left hand, shooting right hand, left hand, layup, right hand, layup, just drill left hand drill, right hand drill, two ball drills. I did all of that. I got my sleep, stopped drinking coffee after 5:00 p.m. because it restricts blood flow to the brain. >> This is recently. You're 53. You were 50 when this was happening. >> Yeah. Yeah. This is on It's on his TV show, Scan My Brain. You can pull it up on in on your YouTube. >> Okay. >> On Dr. Ammon's YouTube account. It's recent. This is really recent. I went back to him 10 months later after following his exact regimen. And I already knew I was healed because I was wasn't getting lost anymore. It went away. Just faded away. And my spec scan, my second spec scan, which is online, the dimples gone. The blood flow problem is fixed. I'm perfectly healthy again.