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Mother Nature’s Master Class
Hey, I’m David Smith (DrDave). I’ve made it my life’s work to study and better understand the natural world. This knowledge has mitigated the consequences of Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) and Altitude Sickness and inspired a new way to manage Sleep Apnea.
I want to share them with you!
David Smith, MD
Discovering Nature’s Secrets for Preventing Traumatic Brain Injury
When Heads Come Together outlines the journey to solve many longstanding scientific mysteries, including the elusive scourge of Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) that endangers contact sports and the brains of our warfighters.
“Why don’t clever people solve Traumatic Brain Injury?” an Army Research Lab member asked DrDave. Fourteen years and 25 publications later, DrDave pioneered “SLOSH Theory™” after studying Nature’s highly g-tolerant creatures such as woodpeckers, giraffes, and head-ramming sheep.
The results?
• The Q-Collar™, the first and only device authorized by the FDA
for claims of prevention against TBI.
• The SAGE Rebreather™, to mitigate TBI and altitude sickness and
revolutionize sleep apnea management.
Nature is my mentor™
“The breadth of my background in chemistry, physics, and medicine helped me to discover clever adaptations in the animal kingdom leading to multiple theories and medical devices that alleviate human suffering.” — DAVID W. SMITH, MD.
“BRAIN SLOSH Theory™” depicts a pathway to mitigate energy absorption into brains to prevent and even reverse TBI.
He and his wife, Ruthann, reside in Cincinnati and have five kids and a dog Vinny.
My pathway to discovery begins with a simple question… WHY?
Chapter 1: A Look Inside Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
Grave danger? TBI has presented one of the most challenging conundrums for the academic and military communities and society at large. Read the background events leading to devising a new look at this scourge and the potential hope to assuage Mankind’s misery.
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Chapter 1: Cavitation and the Pistol Shrimp
The Physics of TBI Revisited. The theory of “cavitation as the true mechanism of TBI” was presented in the 1950’s and more or less discarded at the turn of the century 20 years ago. But was this premature? Come read about how natural world has utilized cavitation and why this theoretical mechanism can explain how the physics of a head impact can lead to the chemistry the occurs after a TBI.
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Chapter 2: The Woodpecker: A Gauntlet Is Thrown
What can a lowly woodpecker teach us? The evolution of SloshTheory came about by studying the amazing anatomy of the Omo-Hyoid apparatus as an evolutionary correlate to the human’s omohyoid...and get this...before our work, no one knew why we humans even have an omohyoid muscle?
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Chapter 2: The Compensatory Reserve Volume
What the heck is this, and how does it become the basis of all our latest and greatest ways to mitigate Brain injury? We have 4 ml of excess “wiggle room” inside our skulls, and it is this space that Nature has figured out how to fill and thus dramatically improve tolerance to concussive forces.
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Chapter 3: Hydrodynamics Rule the Day (SLOSH Theory)
Understanding the physics of head collisions can help you see how clever we overcame so much energy absorption into the brain. We put fresh eggs into large mason jars attached to a paint shaker and turned on the shaking. Amazing, just filling one jar prevents the egg from exploding.
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Chapter 3: Hydrodynamics Rule the Day (SLOSH Theory)
Read how filling a container prevents the absorption of energies imparted into it. Everyday happenings like dropping two basketballs side by side opens the door to truly understanding hydrodynamics
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Chapter 4: Innovation: Not for the Faint of Heart
This chapter walks you through the winding journey of discovery, failure, recovery, and finally, to a higher level of understanding. Join us as we uncover one natural peculiarity after another.
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Chapter 5: Cue The Q-Collar™
One design feature after another, close to 80 iterations with 80 failures to finally receive the Industrial Design Society of America’s GOLD MEDAL award in 2017
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Chapter 6: Jugular Compression: We’ve Been Using It for Millions of Years
Did you ever wonder why we YAWN? Well, our journey required us to disregard conventional wisdom, time and time again, to get to the bottom of this curiosity? Nature led the way and Natural Selection was there pointing to the answers.
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Chapter 7: What Rebreathing CO2 Can Do for You
Why do bats hang upside down and why would they live in such inhospitable caves? These and other natural wonders are answered and just waiting for you to devour.
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Chapter 8: Don’t Hold Your Breath: Here Comes the SAGE Rebreather
Secrets to longevity and even repairing brain damage revealed. We even discovered new ways to treat Sleep Apnea and even Altitude Illness! Yes, Nature has the answers!
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Chapter 9: Not Invented Here’: A Rapid-Fire Hodgepodge of Ideas
Heads did come together to solve how highly g-tolerant animals of the forest can not only survive multiple head impacts but actually thrive by striking their heads millions of times and at forces more than ten times greater than Mankind can tolerate. So we took this curiosity multiple steps forward to explain the world around us.
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