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is the tragic story of adage, cut out, one of the pioneers of american football in germany. since both my foster shot break, you can always get more news on our website, w. com. and on our social media accounts, that's instagram. facebook at the house, you or your thanks for watching device the thing to do the same way you expect and more different things from life than your parents. i just want to pursue what that's my thoughts or you think your kid is 2 different, risky, irresponsible, reasonable stopping port in those nonsense? i want my son to become a doctor to in the canal. it's time to, to get your generation with
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a sleep asked. and then when generation slash watch now on youtube dw, don't you mentioned this kind of when it feels like therapy the 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. it's like people killed other people. everything, drinks, you're not a person anymore. the
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a home, a football player, irish call visiting his x team mates grades. they also likely had c t, the same euro degenerative disease that has been plaguing ground for more than 2 decades. this is 3 of our players. no risk, 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 unless i'm going to end up with a hospital myself. on 2 occasions at funerals of former teammates grow collapsed,
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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 gemini, in 1979, he helped establish the ends backwards lease on the gym and football league for the next 12 seasons, the grizzlies with the team to beat and the southern division route also led the
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gym and national team for 6 years. a lot of people telling me that they were 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 that happened. it wasn't until 2000 aged 45 that he started to suffer from headaches. that would stay around for a month. so meant to be able to
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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 this, the c t e is a new road to generate his condition associated with close to the head. a space of
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frequent steven like tip likes to insure the brain. they can damage what a cold micro cheap you need use, which are important for the structure in brain cells that town 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 greys, cognitive issues. he also had behavioral problems like tensions doing, 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 play is that really diagnosed with c t e. after that, this is 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
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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 french press and his age and white cloth. next year when he's 17, seems to smash be a direct quote 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, pole, vault of the athletes fuel. so accompanies the competition.
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even this disappearance is not without risk. i, i never experienced that in 10 years of fully volunteering because i'm very cautious and i'm glad nothing happened. but when i recognized what was happening in the book, so throughout the whole, but traffic situations as a problem, due to ground slowness in analyzing things that don't go the expected way. but over the years, grow has organized his likes 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 if i don't see the reduction to about 10 percent is left from my foreman, be,
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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 cc. you don't know what you do to your brain when you're 20 years or 25 years of age, but you will get the feel. so when you are $45.00 or 50, that will be hard to pay because you cannot change it anymore. growl says 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 growl believes the role changes introduced by the nfl and advancement and equipment tech base provide a full sense of security, all the helmet produces,
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and all the legal officials say you have did you 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 full, my nfl players have been post to mislead, diagnosed with c t a. the real number of suffers is liking for higher officials. acknowledge the link between the sports and c, t in 2016 ending moles in a decade of denial. white only thing was the head coach of the national team and to form a center for additional data. i compare him a lot with mike webster. both the same position, both
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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 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 ends backwards 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 display their opponent,
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hit him as hard as you can make him pay for every yard. he found it. the migraine switch off his cross generational taco and flag football. he's on the evidence about c t, but lately he's begun to wonder if he's developing symptoms. you working with people for 1015 years. you coming up here on the field? 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 cow doesn't touch. dissipate to cuba. coming available in houston lifetime buttons. he's hopeful that young players one day wouldn't have to suffer from c t any more. i'm following scientifically, research, and they have to goals the diagnosis of say to you during lifetime and maybe finding a drug that can help you or the brain after the damage is done. so
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maybe future generations can avoid having that outcome of c t that i have irish call helped bring american citizen to gemini, but he and his former teammates paid a high price. no, no, no, no. i tried 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 us. now, what can i do now with all the advantages that i have, the women holding very nobody could have imagined female manages
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