Medical Misfit

In this interview clip with Dr. Mark L. Gordon (), we discuss the resistance in conventional medicine to treating traumatic brain injury with hormone replacement therapy. It's been found that within three months of a head injury, 56% of individuals had one or more hormone deficiencies in testosterone, growth hormone, thyroid, and cortisol.

As a TBI survivor who is also an HRT patient, it was difficult for me to find the care that I needed. Despite seeing several conventional medicine doctors, including endocrinologists, I wasn't able to find help until I left the conventional system.

To contact Dr. Gordon, visit http://www.tbimedlegal.com/

To watch the full interview called Nutraceuticals and Hormone Replacement Therapy for Traumatic Brain Injury on my YouTube channel, visit: https://tinyurl.com/DrGordonTBI

Secretary Kennedy U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Welcome to my new home! I've spent the last couple of days moving all of my belongings here, and to say that I'm exhausted is an understatement. I rented this home through PadSplit, a room rental service that matches tenants to rooms for rent. I really like this home and am mostly moved in, but I'm considering transferring to another property. The idea of moving again makes me feel literally sick because it took everything I have to make this happen. I'm moving by myself.

This is the first time I'll be living alone without a partner or family since before my head injuries occurred in 2006, which healed a few years ago, waking me up for the first time in nearly 20 years. There's a lot I have to relearn, and I'm trying to view this as a learning experience because I know I'm going to make a lot of mistakes.

To move, I rented a minivan and drove over the course of two days for the first time in years. I had to stop driving in 2019 because of my health (I kept getting lost in familiar places and having panic attacks while driving). It's such a weird experience to be awake again, and as I was driving through Atlanta alone for the first time, I couldn't help but be completely weirded out by how both oddly familiar it felt and new because I don't know my way around Atlanta.

Stay tuned, and I'll share why I'm considering leaving this PadSplit to move into another so soon after arriving

There’s a trend in traditional medicine to quickly diagnose people with mental health conditions and medicate with psychiatric drugs like antidepressants without doing any additional testing. This can be extremely common with conditions like traumatic brain injury, masking symptoms and offering no real solution or pathway to healing.

In this interview clip with Dr. Mark L. Gordon (), he discusses why he disagrees with this approach, citing a lack of cause and effect when treating traumatic brain injury patients. Instead of simply medicating away psychiatric symptoms, he dives deeper to understand the physiological explanation behind these symptoms and treats accordingly to restore as much functioning as possible, offering his patients answers instead of band-aids.

As a traumatic brain injury survivor whose head injuries were misdiagnosed as several mental health conditions and who was overmedicated with psychiatric drugs for over a decade, this approach would’ve saved me years of my life and a whole lot of suffering. I know for me, addressing only the symptoms offered no relief. In my experience, conventional medical professionals asking why to get to the root cause hasn’t been the norm, as they are largely content to throw medication at a condition rather than provide actual answers and a path to true healing. And it’s not necessarily their fault; the blame lies with the system that trained them.

Cause and effect should be the rule, not the exception.

To contact Dr. Gordon, visit http://www.tbimedlegal.com/

To watch the full interview called Nutraceuticals and Hormone Replacement Therapy for Traumatic Brain Injury on my YouTube channel, visit: https://tinyurl.com/DrGordonTBI

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kennedy