The National Football League and the Canadian Football League have faced many suicides of players stricken with traumatic brain injury. Cumulative head trauma is the culprit.<\/p>\n
Another well known sports personality has died: Ted Toogood, a former Toronto Argonaut. Over the years he played the sport he loved, he was battered about the field in many ways, including having his helmet torqued to one side. The neurons inside his brain would die, leaving in their wake protein that forms clumps, which then lurk in the brain tissue.<\/p>\n
The time bomb starts ticking. The more head trauma, the more clumps. The more clumps, the more it affects an individual\u2019s ability to function. Only death reveals the tau protein clumps that build up and turn the brain into a deadly liability, leading to death.<\/p>\n
Toogood, like many other players in both football leagues, prided himself on his ability to take hits \u2013 hard hits that rocked (more…)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The National Football League and the Canadian Football League have faced many suicides of players stricken with traumatic brain injury. Cumulative head trauma is the culprit. Another well known sports personality has died: Ted Toogood, a former Toronto Argonaut. Over…<\/span><\/p>\n