Eighties icon Rick Springfield is wrapping his head round a troubling discovery.
The “Jessie’s Girl” singer, 75, lately came upon that he nonetheless has mind harm from an onstage fall 25 years in the past. It was a stunning discovering from a Prenuvo whole-body MRI scan.
“I fell 25 feet, hit my head and then wood came down and hit my head, and then my head hit the stage again,” Springfield advised Folks journal concerning the 2000 incident at a Las Vegas present.
“I thought I had just broken my wrist, but on the scan I found out I have some brain damage from the fall, so I’m working on trying to repair that,” he stated.
Though Springfield stated that many individuals “don’t want to know what’s wrong with them,” he believes that information is energy on the subject of your well being — a lesson he discovered from his father.
“My dad died from not wanting to know,” he stated. “He thought he had abdomen most cancers for years and by no means obtained it checked out. When he lastly collapsed someday at house, they came upon it was an ulcer that burst, and he died from the lack of blood. It might have been mounted if he had gotten it checked out.
“That was a giant message to me: If you want to live long, you have to be prepared for some bad news now and then,” Springfield continued. “I could find out I have terminal cancer tomorrow and be dead in a year, but I can only do all I can do.”
Now realizing that “I’m the same age as old people,” Springfield stays in form by exercising daily and following a principally pescatarian weight loss plan. He additionally in the reduction of on his alcohol consumption two years in the past.
“I was drinking quite a bit, and as you get older, it’s kind of a natural thing to drop all that s–t,” he stated. “I’ll have a couple of sips of vodka or something when I’m onstage, but I don’t drink any other time.”
Springfield has additionally experimented with ketamine and LSD as therapies for his melancholy.
“I wanted to see if [ketamine would] open a few things in my brain,” he stated. “I did it for as long as suggested, and I wasn’t a big fan. It made me feel heavy and machinelike.”
As for “micro-dosing” acid, “that was actually a little better,” Springfield stated. “I hadn’t done that since I was in my 20s, but it was a great high. I don’t mean to push drugs on anyone, but I’m not averse to anything that helps me be happier and a better person.”
Whereas he’s actively working to reside an extended life, Springfield is reasonable that he can solely achieve this a lot — and that loss of life is inevitable.
”It’s not a loss of life want by any stretch,” he stated. “However it’s vital to concentrate on it. I feel I’ve a greater deal with on dying than I used to.
“You can only put on the party dress,” Springfield added, “but what happens at the party is up to the gods.”
