How to Save an Injured Brain? Art and Science!

An Art of Wellness POV

When I was blind-all-and-systems-frying from the effects of industrial toxins on my body and brain--the first real relief and concrete reason to keep believing I could beat this--I could get better--came when I met Dr. Hershel Toomim.

Experimenter, researcher, scientific inventor and pioneer--my kind of guy all around. Interested with something experimental to offer. The success we began to have gave him one of his first HEG case studies. I was lucky to meet him. He got was I was going through. He was the first one who asked questions that made sense--that mattered--to figuring out what was going on. The first who had something to help.

There was no comprehensive program for me to follow. No roadmap but my own lifelong Wellness practice and a strong background in human development, peak performance, mainstream and alternative medicine. That’s how I knew how to find the cutting edge of the BioFeedback Center of Los Angeles, BioComp Research and Dr Hershel Toomim.

Our first goal was to stop the deterioration caused by neurotoxins. The healing didn’t start til I began to get enough oxygen. That took time. Time for me to get it, and once I did, time for my body to use it and start healing itself.

In our first HEG-training sessions, we worked on the areas that gave me some of the most troubling brain malfunctions--cognitive, physical, and behavioral.

Then everything began to improve and continued improving.

We worked and talked of many things: the other wholistic treatments, natural products and practices in my own Self-Designed rehabilitation plan.

He was my seasoned scientific guide into brain-injury and technology and I the determined trainee who challenged him to develop his art. We talked about HBOT (hyperbaric oxygen) and how it was being used in cases of toxic chemical brain injuries.

My own rehabilitation program combined with regular HEG sessions with Dr. Toomim let me return to living life: I was working--I gave up my Disability, I volunteered in my community, and I told stories at the Getty--but I was still blind, and I still needed supplemental oxygen. What I was doing was not enough. I chose a clinic south of the border to get the holistic, medically supervised detox treatment I needed combined with HBOT. The only treatment they didn’t have there I wished I could be doing concurrently was HEG via neurofeedback.

I left LA a blind woman and came back with sight. At last I could see the man who’d taken a confused, deteriorating neuro-toxically brain-injured blind woman and helped me fight my way back! He helped me make sense of things over the next many months as my brain continued to reorganize.

Today, Dr Hershel Toomim’s combining HEG and HBOT with great success in his Los Angeles facility. Thousands of individuals who have benefited from HEG neurofeedback therapy or who use Brain Exercise Works!™ at home, attain the benefits of cognitive acuity (improved I.Q.) as well as improvements in social integration (autism). The idea that anyone can learn to voluntarily control the blood flow in their brain is now as real as the ground we stand on. The Biofeedback Institute of Los Angeles is entering a new expansion phase to provide many more people the opportunity to experience Brain Exercise Works!™. Currently, there are over 2,000 instruments and 1,000 therapists worldwide providing HEG brain exercise at any given moment.