Ep. 300 | Overcoming Traumatic Brain Injury: The Path to Healing with Andrew Marr & Dr. Mark Gordon
Retired Special Forces Green Beret, board member and Vice President of the Special Operations Associations of America, TEDx Speaker, Andrew Marr, along with top Traumatic Brain Injury treatment specialist, Dr. Mark Gordon, delve into Andrew's journey through traumatic brain injury - how it impacted his life inside and out, the pathway to healing, and their incredible foundation, Warrior Angels, that focuses on education and alternative treatment methods.
ABOUT Dr. Mark Gordon
Dr. Mark Gordon has been instrumental as a thought leader in developing the area of Interventional Endocrinology and now the area of Neuroendocrinology, as it pertains to symptomatic Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) with depression, anxiety, bi-polar, obsessive-compulsive disorders, dementia, Parkinson's, GTE, and post-concussion syndrome.
Dr. Mark L. Gordon, originally board certified in Family Medicine, has also practiced Orthopedics, Cosmetic Dermatology, and Sports Medicine, before pausing his medical career in 2007 to write his first book on Interventional Endocrinology (Anti-Aging Medicine), a term which he coined in 2003. In 2004, Dr. Gordon discovered a pattern of personality and cognitive changes in his professional sports patients in association to lower hormone levels. In pursuing the science behind this when he treated these individuals with hormonal replenishment the conditions improved. In 2005, Dr. Gordon continued his self-education in Neuroendocrinology while becoming an advocate of Integrative and Functional Medicine along with the promotion of wellness medicine thought the correction of underlying hormonal deficiencies. He was instrumental in promoting the recognition of Traumatic Brain Injury as a cause of hormonal deficiency in the hallmarked presentation on ESPN’s Outside the Lines (Jan. 2007).
In 2012, Life Extension magazine published an article entitled; Healing TBI with Hormones. This article launched the recognition of hormones for brain health. Two years after the success of the Life Extension article, Dr. Gordon appeared in January 2014 on the Joe Rogan Experience (#438) where the discussion on Traumatic Brain Injury and hormonal dysfunction generated national and international interest. A second Joe Rogan program in November 2014 (#574) included Jason Hall, the screenwriter for American Sniper and ex-petty officer and Navy Seal Corpsman Matthew Gosney who spoke at length about his blast trauma, gunshot wounds, surgery, depression and 16 different medications that did nothing to prevent his attempted suicide in January 2014. He shares his experience of being evaluated by Dr. Gordon and starting a hormonal replenishment protocol that led to his stopping 14 medications within six weeks and the resolution of his deep depression. In 2015, his book, Traumatic Brain Injury, A Clinical Approach To Diagnosis and Treatment, was launched along with a three-day workshop attended by international and national medical specialists seeking advanced training in the diagnosis and treatment of TBI. Dr. Gordon and SFC Andrew Marr (ret) were again on the Joe Rogan Experience (#700), discussing the benefits of neurosteroids on conditions frequently found associated with TBI and PTSD. Dr. Gordon continues to work with veterans’ groups providing full and partial funding for those with injuries received while in the theater of war. Dr. Gordon is owner and Medical Director of Millennium-TBI, located in Encino, Calif., and Medical Director of the 5013c Warrior Angels Foundation.
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