Jake Paul claims he has ‘early signs of CTE,’ but then retracts comments
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Jake Paul isn’t losing sleep at night over the critics who question his commitment to combat sports, but he has an odd way of proving his dedication.
At just 24 years old, Paul is preparing for only his third professional fight this weekend against retired UFC fighter Ben Askren. But he claims the damage done to his body and brain are already quite significant.
“It’s a dangerous sport,” Paul said about boxing during the Triller media day on Thursday. “That’s why when people question my dedication to it, I’m showing up every single day, I’m putting my mental health on the line, my brain is on the line. I’ve gone and gotten brain scans and have early signs of CTE but I love this sport and I wouldn’t trade it for anything else.
Chronic traumatic encephalopathy — more commonly known as CTE —is a term used to describe “brain degeneration likely caused by repeated head trauma” and there are no known ways to detect CTE in a living patient. The only way to truly diagnose CTE is through “deposits of tau and other proteins in the brain that can be seen only upon inspection after death” during an autopsy.
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