Truth Doesn't Have a Side: My Alarming Discovery about the Danger of Contact Sports

Truth Doesn't Have a Side: My Alarming Discovery about the Danger of Contact Sports

Truth Doesn't Have a Side: My Alarming Discovery about the Danger of Contact Sports

Truth Doesn't Have a Side: My Alarming Discovery about the Danger of Contact Sports

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Overview

One day in 2002 the fifty-year old body of former Pittsburgh Steeler and hall of famer Mike Webster was laid on a cold table in front of pathologist Dr. Bennet Omalu. Webster’s body looked to Omalu like the body of a much older man, and the circumstances of his behavior prior to his death were clouded in mystery. But when Omalu cut into Webster’s brain, it appeared to be normal. Something didn’t add up.

It was at this moment, Omalu studying slides of Webster’s brain tissue under a microscope, that the world of contact sports would never be the same: the discovery of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy. CTE can result in an array of devastating consequences including deterioration in attention, memory loss, social instability, depression, and even suicide. And Omalu’s discovery of CTE in the brain of an American football player has become the catalyst of a blazing controversy across all contact sports.

At the center of that controversy stands the unlikely Dr. Bennet Omalu, a Nigerian-born American citizen, a mild-mannered, gentle man of faith. It is fascinating that it would take someone on the outside of American culture to make this amazing discovery, and refuse to let it be kept hidden. Dr. Omalu began his life in strife, growing up in war-torn Nigeria. But his medical studies in forensic pathology proved to be a lifeline. It fed his natural curiosity and awakened within a deeper desire to always search for the truth. Who would have thought that such an unexpected character would play such a role in bringing to life this world-changing data?

In Truth Doesn’t Have a Side, discover the truth about CTE: Its causes and symptoms, how we might keep our children safe and guide professional athletes when CTE sets in. The problem of CTE is coming to light with each new story about an athlete’s concussion problem, and we are likely facing dramatic changes to professional sports. You’ll be inspired by Dr. Bennet Omalu a man driven by his love and concern for the welfare of all people, and his professional vow to speak the truth.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780310352549
Publisher: HarperCollins Christian Publishing
Publication date: 08/22/2023
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 297
Sales rank: 418,078
File size: 827 KB

About the Author

Dr. Bennet Omalu is a Nigerian-American neuropathologist who discovered  and named chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) in American football players, other athletes and military veterans. He is the chief medical examiner of San Joaquin County, California, and a clinical professor at the University of California, Davis. His story is told in the major motion picture Concussion, starring Will Smith. Bennet and his wife have two children and reside in Sacramento, California.


 Mark Tabb has authored or coauthored more than thirty books, including the number one New York Times bestseller, Mistaken Identity

Table of Contents

Foreword Will Smith 11

Preface: God Did Not Intend for Human Beings to Play Football 13

1 My Father's Son 17

2 Child of War 27

3 To Be Myself 37

4 Answered Prayer 45

5 "Heaven Is Here, and America Is Here" 55

6 Welcome to America 67

7 Through the Wilderness 77

8 Land of Contradictions 87

9 A Bold Gamble 99

10 Finding Myself 109

11 A Divine Appointment 119

12 Prema 129

13 A Game-Changing Diagnosis 139

14 Nearly Over before It Begins 151

15 The NFL = Big Tobacco 163

16 "In the Name of Christ, Stop!" 177

17 The Baton Is Passed 187

18 Marginalized, Minimalized, Ostracized 199

19 I Wish I'd Never Met Mike Webster 211

20 Finding Life in the Wilderness 223

21 Omaha Goes Hollywood 233

22 Concussion 245

23 From Doctor to Dad: What Will I Say When My Son Asks, "Can I Play Football, Pleeeaaaassse?" 255

Afterword: "I Bet My Medical License That O.J Simpson Has CTE" 265

Appendix: Questions from Parents about Brain Trauma and Contact Sports, Especially Football 269

Acknowledgments 285

Notes 289

Index 295

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