Here’s a subject that was nothing but controversy for the longest time. For some reason, former Professional Football Players who had quit playing the game years earlier would start to suffer from some horrendous Brain Trauma. Over time it was discovered that there was a protein in the Brain called Tau. What happened was that the Tau Protein would form tangles, and at this stage is when the problems begin to multiply and get worse. The Brain will start to feel to like it’s smoldering, like right before a fire. When the fire erupts into flames, this is what’s considered to be a CTE meltdown, for that is what it feels like. You never want to see one of these! Once the fire is lit, you can’t put it out, then move out of the way! The other most notable symptom is VIOLANCE! A Violence so extreme that one cannot fathom it. When the Brain is on fire, the person is besides themselves and completely racked with so much Pain from the Brain that it literally does feel like it’s on Fire and impossible to deal with, hence the reason for so many suicides!
Concussion the Movie
CTE was not discovered until one brave doctor took on the NFL and won in the form of this dreaded Disease being given a name, Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy or as CTE as we now know it. The movie ”Concussion” starring Will Smith, tells the true story of what so many former players and their families know and had to suffer through in coping with CTE before it was discovered and even to this day, they still suffer. I think what needs to also be addressed also is the effect that this condition has on their wives and the children of the players who have to go through hell trying to help their loved one with an incurable and violent illness. It’s very sad and also scary when your partner is having a meltdown and you’re totally helpless to do anything that could help that person, or the person is attacking you when all your trying to do is help them! What a terrible situation for both of you, your spouse, your family and often times results in the player using a shotgun to the head for Pain relief. I know what that was like for me, and a shotgun in our home for Pain relief was not an option for my loved one, not with me handling her care!!
Current Treatments Available on the Market right now other than a Shotgun.
Right now, there is nothing on the market that is known for helping with CTE. If there was, I would have used it and I would not be sitting here writing this to you right now. The cause as we stated earlier is the Brain feeling like it’s on fire because of the Tau Protean forming Tangles. While most people get stuck on what’s happening to the individual, not enough people are saying what can we do to help it and leaving the families to fend for themselves. Saying there is nothing that can be done to help the person just doesn’t cut it with me to say the least. What, and just watch them suffer and do nothing? Curel up and die perhaps? No quality of life? To be forgotten, then what? You still have to feed them, clean up after them too. Not to mention to look out for that next meltdown, and it will come again in time sooner or later, you know that, and it won’t be fun either. It never is! There has to be a better way than this than current methods. Is this the best that Medical Science can come up with?
My Experience Yes, that was the best that Medical Science could come up with. A very sad and helpless feeling when you are first confronted with it, and when first you also discover that there is nothing that you can do to help your loved one. Then you have to deal with the fact that there is also nothing you can do to stop the Pain and feel even more helpless than you already felt to begin with. You just want him or her to be comfortable as they do also! They want a world without their Brain having a five-alarm fire in it! Please, make it STOP!! Comfort doesn’t exist when your Brain is on FIRE, and it’s on FIRE!!! All the person is looking for is to extinguish that fire that can’t be put out in their Brain, it’s beyond terrible, and explains why so many Suicides happens, they just want the Pain and Fire to STOP!!
Unfortunately, I have had enough experience with CTE to last me a lifetime. Anyone who has dealt with this can tell you that. I had a loved one that suffers from this illness, and everything I’m writing about here is not from looking it up, I don’t need to do that. I actually experienced it myself day by day, night by night, for it was not fun. I can’t begin to explain what this is like in a home setting, but I’ll try. From the movie you can see the extreme violence that the person and family are having to contend with, but helpless to stop. You would be to if your Brain was on FIRE! So how do you put the fire out when Medical Science says you can’t? This is what I came up against when seeking help for my loved one, nothing that could help her…really! You can’t tell me that and be serious! Oh, there are some expensive almost useless drugs that really didn’t do much to help her that are on the market at great costs but look out for those ”Body Rejection Effects” that they’re so well known for.
Pharmaceuticals
Yes, in my case they had plenty of Pharmaceutical Drugs that they claimed would help? But beware if you believe that one. They should be selling bridges in Brooklyn to! That’s about how effective their drugs were. What I experience was somebody that had limited success with Pharmaceuticals and no shortage of ”Body Rejection Effects”. I think the Theory possibly was that if you tried enough of them, maybe one might actually help and be successful. Really? Just keep guessing and hope that you’re right one of these times. Anyone have a dartboard? Well, this time that Theory was tried and shot down. This sadly is what happens all too often, and why a person needs not just one Doctor, but a team of Doctors to cover the many aspects of this Disease because there are no basics here, and the Brain is way too complicated an organ. There are so many things in play here going on at the same time that one Doctor to deal with this is just unrealistic!
The Terpene Treatment
This injury is what lead to the formation of Vital Terpenes Therapeutics in 2020 after six years of research, only I didn’t have Terpenes back then, just CBD. Back then I had to obtain CBD on the black market for $150 a gram and I sure felt lucky that I could find it anywhere, at any price and it did wonders by itself. It didn’t bother me becoming a potential Felon, I knew that CBD would help her! The first time she used it, she had a Spinal Pressure Headache from hell for the last two days which she describes as ten times worse than a Migraine. It took her a while to get ready, but eventually we made it to a friend’s farm. He knew her plight and he had a contact in California for CBD, but not many people were growing CBD. He finally found enough to make into oil and sent it to his brother for me. When I saw it, it looked like gold for I had seen it work on 60 Minutes and knew it would help her. She tried it that first day and in under thirty minutes, she had forgotten about her Pain. Think about it, after a two-day Spinal Pressure Headache from hell, she said it was gone in under thirty minutes! After a while, the CBD began to lose its effectiveness, so I had to start adding Terpenes to make up the difference, and the Terpenes were up for the challenge!
The Terpene Treatment Now that I have told you the about the CBD role, let me tell you about the Terpene role. As I was trying how to figure out how to help her, I wanted her to have a real life and enjoy it in a more normal way. I was told about Terpenes which I had never heard of before. I was like ”what’s that”? It was at that moment that a lifelong obsession, excuse me, lifelong love affair began with Terpenes. I found that Terpenes have much to offer upon further research.
What Did I Find? I found a world filled with Terpenes that could help with all sorts of Brain Issues, including CTE which was good, because I was treating more than one Brain Injury. Three in fact. Not only was I treating CTE, but I was also treating two confirmed Traumatic Brain Injuries, or TBI’s and PSC or Post-Concussion Syndrome. Try do deal with all of that at once, it’s a handful to say the least! This is not an injury that you can have a test done to see if you have it or not, see it on a screen or look it up and get a prescription for it, let alone ”shake it off”. No, this is God awful Pain at its worse and it can be terrifying to say the least for everyone involved.
Do Terpenes Work? How many ways do Terpenes help with CTE? As I said earlier that a build up the Tau Protean forming tangles in your Brain is the main culprit. This is the part they can’t help with. Ask any Neurologist what they can do to reverse Tau Tangles and you will probably get a puzzled look on their face, or double talk. You know the saying, ”dazzle them with brilliance, and baffle them with BS! Ask them about the latest research that says that Tau Tangles are being reversed with Terpenes, just do some basic research, it’s out there. Seek and ye shall find, I did! When I took over her treatment for this, they knew nothing about the impact of Tau on CTE. In fact, it was pretty much like it is now, no known treatment. This doesn’t give you much to start with and assures one of the difficult road ahead of you, but I can assure you that with enough digging, help can be found, and you’re the one that can find it, remember that I did!!
Yes, Terpenes Do Help
The first thing I learned that was wrong with her also was too much Inflammation in her Body. So, I treated the Inflammation in her, but then I found out there were many types of Inflammation and also, I learned that the fuel for the Inflammation was called Cytokines, so I went after that also. I figured that if there was Inflammation in the Body and other places, I thought one of them had to be Neuro (Brain) Inflammation and it was, but I didn’t stop there. I learned that some are Neuro Protectants protecting the Brain, so I added them to the blend. Why stop there? Why not one to help with Oxidative Stress? That one helps with Neurodegenerative Diseases and is being researched for that, so another way to help the Brain. Let’s keep going. We also have Terpenes that make the Brian Cell more Permeable letting more Terpenes and Cannabinoids across the Blood Brain Barrier or BBB giving the Cental Nervous System (CNS) and get you more relief. Probably the most important research coming out now says that CTE is caused by the Tau Protein as we know it forming into Tangles that can’t be reversed. That’s until now and Terpenes at the forefront! There are several confirmed Terpenes that are showing promise at reversing Tau Tangles and has even been reversed in some people. There is research from the National Institute of Health NIH to back this up.
The Final Word I often wonder if I reversed the Tau Tangles in my ex-wife’s Brain to where she is leading for the most part a normal life with Terpenes in it. She doesn’t have the Flairs anymore that were so painful and draining. And speaking of draining, it was very draining on both of us. She as the patient going through it, and me being the caregiver trying to keep all the pieces together, no two more important than her health and our marriage. No, this story does not have a happy ending to it, it usually never does with CTE involved. In the end, we won as far as getting her multitude of Brain Injuries managed and under control with both Terpenes and CBD in it, but we lost the most important thing of all, we lost ourselves, each other in the process, and in the end, after ten years of marriage, it ended and not on a good note. I did make sure she had all of her conditions under control before we divorced and was able to lead a normal life on her own, a far cry from where she started off at without Terpenes and CBD. Divorce, it happens a lot with this Illness, or worse. She was the first person that I ever assisted with helping to alleviate her Pain and numerous other Medical Conditions and go onto her own path of recovery to enable her getting back to a closer and more normal way life again than before there were Terpenes and CBD in her Regimen. It also helped with her being a Registered Nurse Diploma Program. She knew much more about medicine than I could ever possibly know on my own, and it was extremely helpful in this situation. It helped with her knowing what was happening to herself internally that could not be seen and could explain it to me in real time. I learned so much with her that you never get to learn things like this in a school, only living and experiencing it while it’s happening to either you or a loved one either way, it’s not pretty. This is a view that few get to see and even fewer want to see! I am able to share this regimen with you now starting with Brain Injuries, which I cut my teeth on as far as learning goes. If you can do that, you’d be surprised at what all else you can do with Terpenes!
I thought about it the other day, my former marriage. I wondered what I missed about it if anything, and yes, I realized that I did miss something, Captain, my dog! I miss him so much. I have no visitation rights though, not even a picture, and that saddens me dearly!
Lex Hahn, Founder
Vital Terpenes Therapeutics
”As Nature Intended”
Tau protein in neurodegenerative diseases – a review – PubMed (nih.gov)
Tau phosphorylation in neuronal cell function and dysfunction – PubMed (nih.gov)
Concussion in Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy – PubMed (nih.gov)
