Jon’s PostLife Crisis: Neurosurgeon Dr. Uzma Samadani - Why Your Kids Should Play Football Despite CTE Risk

This episode I interview Dr. Uzma Samadani. Dr. Samadani is a brain researcher and neurosurgeon in Minneapolis, Minnesota. In the interest of full disclosure, Dr. Samadani was my neurosurgeon when I was diagnosed with an anoxic brain injury nearly a year after my heart attack.

Dr. Samadani and I discuss:

• CTE is much more complex than we think
• Why playing sports is better for your kids than them not playing sports
• That there is no real test or definition of concussion
• Brain research is where heart research was around 1950
• Why it’s difficult to do brain research and what needs to change

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