Foundational health practices such as quality sleep, nutrition, social interaction, and stress avoidance are important for overall health and modulate brain function, setting a foundation for what is possible, especially for individuals with TBI.

“We hear so much and there's so many studies showing that great sleep, quality nutrition, good social interactions, avoiding chronic stress, and on and on and on are important for everything; they're related to Alzheimer's, they're related to ADHD. I mean, we could do thousands of podcast episodes just returning to the same 10 things: Sleep, don't stress too much or too long, good social connection, avoid toxic people, eat good food, not too much processed food; We could have an argument all night and I don't want to have one about whether or not it's mainly plants or this. I mean, this is obviously eating high quality food is something that we should all be doing, which foods you select is a topic that is very barbed wire, and I can give only my opinions. All of that modulates your brain function, but it doesn't mediate or change anything directly. It's setting a foundation of what's possible. So we should all be doing those things, and especially people who have TBI.”