TBI as a Chronic Disease

Dr. Brent Mazel, who spearheaded the idea of TBI as a chronic disease, Dr. Randal Urban and others have found that TBI victims have yet another system in their bodies chronically altered by trauma. Here it was found that TBI victims had significantly lower circulating concentrations of many amino acids. These amino acids are essential for good health in many areas of the body. This abnormal metabolic condition and abnormal relationship between amino acids, hormones and cytokines is and should be studied further.