first, this guy, joe namath, he's a football legend. we know that. talking concussions and guns and trump, mr. namath is next. ♪ oh, on broadway ♪ >> i found a disease that no one has ever seen. repetitive head trauma. the nfl does not want to talk to you. you've turned on the lights and gave their biggest bogeyman a name. you're going to war with a corporation that owns the day of the week. stuart: that's a clip from the movie "concussion". my next guest knows a thing or two about that joe namath. he recently underwent hyperbaric treatments that doctors claim reversed the results of hits in the nfl. j joe namath, welcome, sir. >> thank you, stuart, thank you. stuart: would you describe the hyperbaric treatments, what did you do or what did it do to you. >> knowing i had concussions, i wanted to find out if i had traumatic brain injuries that i could do something about. we did scans, the left temporal area of my brain was virtually getting no blood flow. so we did use a protocol process in the hyperbaric chamber and i did 120, after each 40 i was chec

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stuart: a couple of weeks ago, joe namath was on and he suffered concussion during his playing career treatment through hyperbaric chambers what they put divers in, pumping oxygen basically into his brain and said it worked for him. what is your treatment? >> you know, that's a good question. everybody's got this thing or that that thing and the next great thing to kind of help with this. there is no real formal treatment for that. i had to kind of learn it on my own. i had to kind of learn it by trial and error. i went to doctors and when i retired in 2007 and told them my symptoms and how i got all of these concussions and led to the symptoms and i had a doctor at emmerson hospital in boston said you've reached new research territory, i don't know what to do with you. i had a very well-known psychiatrist at mclane's hospital in boston tell me, recommend i do ect, electric shock therapy. what i did, i took that information and went to a neuro surgeon and i had someone tell me to get ect, you have a neurosurgeon the best in his field and a psychiatrist best in his field polar opposite