He expresses concern about the cumulative effect of undiagnosed minor head injuries encountered throughout a football career.

“if all of the times that we saw the tunnel vision or the black bubbles or the or the little birdies, if those were concussions, I don't know how many times y'all had them, bro, but it scares me to think about how many times I had it if all of those times were concussions.”

Warren Sapp believes parents should avoid enrolling children in tackle football between the ages of 10 and 14 to prevent head trauma while the brain is developing.

“don't do it until you got hell underneath his arm and head around the little you know the Family Jewels High School no no cause we gonna do baseball basketball tennis critical thinking chess swimming we're gonna do everything that does not hit their head because that's when their brain is developing”

He believes the accumulation of repeated head trauma and brain injury is a serious issue that leads to CTE and long-term health problems for football players.

“when they played the game and they were concussed in the game they were told just what every other tough guy is told rub a little dirt on it you know rest a little bit and go on back in there and do what you do well that just doesn't work well with 310 20 pound linemen”

Scientific evidence linking heading the ball to long-term brain health issues necessitates better awareness and restricted practice for younger players.

“I have. Yeah. You know what? like the and listen you know I'm not I'm not sell poor footballers we head the ball you know like I'm pretty sure boxers have it worse than we do you know um but there is a there's definitely a link it's been proven that um there is a link between heading the ball and an”

Extended recovery times in concussion protocols suggest that tests are not being passed and that teams or players have legitimate health concerns.

“Whenever you see multiple weeks, you know, that means that tests are not being passed, concerns are had by both the either the team or the player, which I suspect might be both in this case.”

Engaging in consistent, low-level zone two cardio can help accelerate the clearance of debris from the brain following injury by supporting the glymphatic system.

“The other thing that has been shown to improve the function of the glymphatic system is a certain form of exercise. And I want to be very, very clear here. I will never, and I am not suggesting that people exercise in any way that aggravates their injury or that goes against their physician's advice”

Treatment for concussions should involve an active, targeted approach that includes exercise and vestibular therapy rather than rest.

“we take a very active very targeted very exposure-based model to treating this problem but you need to see a specialist in how to do that because you can do it the wrong way and make patients worse”

Hyperbaric oxygen therapy can be beneficial for traumatic brain injury by using pressure to dissolve oxygen into the plasma, reaching areas inaccessible at atmospheric pressure.

“there are potentially benefits just like there's potentially benefits with psychedelics there's potentially benefits with the use of marijuana that's you know properly dosed so there's potential what needs to be determined is what's the best fit based on what's going on in your brain”

Infusing lactate can assist in treating traumatic brain injury by providing the brain with a necessary fuel source when glucose metabolism is impaired.

“So, our approach is to bypass that by infusing formulations containing lactate salts and esters other lactate-containing compounds that will get into the brain through the blood-brain barrier, and get into the mitochondria, and fuel the brain.”

The mainstream medical system frequently misdiagnoses or minimizes traumatic brain injuries, preferring to treat them as PTSD to facilitate the prescription of pharmaceutical drugs.

“I think there's a tendency uh in the mainstream medical system to just hit the easy button which is the PTSD button right now which you know that gives you a diagnosis and then it opens this whole Pandora's box of all the different medications they can throw at you to try to deal with that. But come”

Common misunderstandings about brain injuries often lead to people failing to recognize or connect their symptoms back to a specific head trauma incident.

“sometimes the symptoms are severe sometimes they're subtle uh but often times people don't connect the dots like if they have a depressive episode later or they're suffering from headache they don't necessarily reflect back on on like the incident that caused it”

Brain injuries are frequently invisible and often misunderstood, which makes it challenging for patients to receive adequate support and guidance in the healthcare system.

“it is an invisible injury you know I probably look fine to you and people can't see that you're injured and often it's invisible from those around you but it's often a hidden injury as well that people aren't comfortable talking about the fact that they have a brain injury because we don't know what”