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a base in life on the bus. and so it does have committed to actually find out about robina story info, migraines. this is the story of irish clown, one of the pioneers of american football in germany, he likely suffers from chronic traumatic. i guess a lot of c o c t, but disease links to repeated blows to the head. his brain is damaged beyond repair, miserable life, everything goes wrong. that's why people kill themselves. that's why people kill other people. every thing, drinks, you're not a person anymore. the a

home, a football play, a rash call, visiting his x team mates grades. they also likely had c t, the same euro degenerative disease that has been plaguing grouse, a mold into decades. this is 3 of our players know wrist. i don't have the emotional stability to go to funerals anymore. i tried with some medical help to go there, but the, i don't going to do that anymore. so i have to stay away from the list. so i'm going to end up with a hospital myself. on 2 occasions at funerals of former teammates grow collapsed. it was 70, thanks to the health of psychiatric medication that he was able to attend to his

own father's burial, his family, his doctors and his coping strategies help him prevent his life from spinning out of control. for people with c t e, it's very important to control their lice mentally and physically because if the bowling ball rose to the right or to the left that might in their life, the growl was one of the founding fathers of american football in germany in 1979, he helped establish the ends backwards lease and the gym and football league for the next 12 seasons liquids. these with a team to beach in the southern division grow, also led to the gym and national team for 6 years. a lot of people tell me that they are lucky to have

a team like those grizzly spect them and they were very happy to have those years with pro it cost it back to the grizzlies made it to the national championship game 9 years in a row grow stuff with a few broken bones during his career, but never even suspected having a concussion, although he sometimes felt dizzy. we were thinking about orthopedic injuries like nice rips, showed us maybe a neck injury, but we never thought that anything might happen to the brain. after retiring from football and 1990, he continued teaching sports biology and chemistry as if nothing had happened. it wasn't until 2000 aged 45, but he started to suffer from headaches. that would stay around for months on end. to be able to teach. i had about 10 s for him by the time

of 11 o'clock. they lasted till 1 o'clock, the school goes over. and that's where i thought there must be something wrong. the pain and discomfort got progressively worse. after a while, his memory started to decline to the i got lost in the school building so many times that i was have people and they finally retired me at age 54. during his career growl played almost 200 games. he can't remember even a hand for the the c t e is a new road to generate his condition associated with gloves. the head, a space of frequent steven light took, likes to insure the brain. they can damage what a cold micro cheap you need use,

which are important to the structure in brain cells that tell proteins are released . they usually stabilize the might create cheap tvs, but following concussions, they clumped together. c t, symptoms, memory loss changes in personality, depression, and mood swings, along side grays, cognitive issues. he also had behavioral problems like tensions during which he viciously insulted people. it took him more than 15 years to understand, but his symptoms were associated with c t, those uh, stories that i heard about players that really diagnosed with c t. e. after that, that's something i could to understand and it helped me a lot because now i could change my behavior to avoid situations where i get a aggressive so it was a start of the the better part

when i knew the problem of his diagnosis. growl has gained around 10 kilos in the last 10 years and currently exercises 5 times a week. earlier this year he became the bavarian champion in finch, pressing his age and white cloth. next year, when he's 70, the aims to smash the age records of a $115.00 killers. the neurologist said, i should do exercises big and loud, and big as like discuss traveling, weightlifting and notice i try to saying it's not too good. i think my weight lifting is better than most thinking once a week round coaches poll volts as in other fleet fuel so accompanies the competition. even this disappearing is not without risk.

i, i never experienced that in 10 years of fully voting because i'm very cautious and i'm glad nothing happened. but when i recognized what was happening, it was so direct the hope of traffic situations as a problem due to ground slowness in analyzing things that doug go the expected way . but over the years, ground has organized his life. for around c t a develop to teens the to manageable for his body and mind. i cannot really work things out late at night or even in the afternoon. so i do things in the morning i have selected. what do i do? and i try to optimize those things, so i don't see that reduction to about 10 percent is left from my form and we have very good results. crowd tries to them as much as he can about c t,

so he can fine tune his strategies. he also receives regular calls from concerned american football players, both active and retires. he tries to raise awareness about the risks associated with c t. you don't know what you do to your brain when you're 20 or so 25 years of age, but you will get the feel 20 or 45 or 50. that will be hard to pay because you cannot change it anymore. grouse as the knowledge about c t among players coaches and even doctors is still limited and an official diagnosis is still only possible. postuma city with an autopsy crowd leads the rule changes introduced by the nfl and advancement to the equipment tech base provide a full sense of security. all the helmet produces and all the legal officials say

you have to do helmets. nothing can have. then you don't have as much to go through to her since you are not allowed to hit with the point of the helmet that the younger players think they are protected. because a lot of things are not allowed anymore. it's not the highest speed condition that causes c t e is the amount of small conditions. more than 300 format nfl players have been post to mislead, diagnosed with c t a. the real number of stuff for us is like he for higher officials acknowledge the link between the sports and c t in 2016 ending moles in a decade of denial, right? total only thing was the head coach of the national team and to form a center for additional data. i compare him a lot. this mike webster, both the same position, both a similar outcome. they are healthy,

they had never problems with c t e, but those 2 they died very young at least 6 of grounds. former teammates died with c t symptoms. one former teammates has been in a closed psychiatry unit since killing 2 people and shooting up 5 of us in 2015 and not the stop to pass them to death. nobody knew the connection between aggressive behavior and football the 20 years ago. but even with the stock, remind this many players still live in a state of denial, gross as much as side left played for the on the spot for his lease, for 20 season is on the defense. he says he enjoyed the violent nature of the game . even though he suffered some severe north american coast, it's that we have the rest come up and just by their opponent hit him as hard as

you can make him pay for it. we are. he found it. the migraine switch off his cross generational taco and flag football. he's on business about c t, but lately he's begun to wonder if he's developing symptoms. working with people for 1015 years. you coming up here on the fios a, b, b. what's his name? what's his name? come on, come on. that's it. that's impossible. if i can do it again, i will do it again. irish call doesn't touch. dissipate to cuba coming available in his lifetime. buttons. he's hopeful that young players one day wouldn't have to suffer from c t anymore. i'm following scientific research. and they have 2 goals. the diagnosis of c t during lifetime and maybe finding a drug that can help you or the brain after the damage is done. so maybe future generations can avoid having that outcome of c t that i

have irish call helped bring american citizen to gemini, a t and peaceful my teammates paid a high price list. now, try to leave maybe in the future, but to i don't think about the test too much and i don't think about the long future and to try to concentrate on what is here about is now, what can i do now with all the advantages that i have the business books view will tell you what the story we have in getting

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