Marine veteran Tony Crescenzo shares on the Tango Alpha Lima podcast how he found Peak Neuro LLC to help veterans enhance sleep, emotional resilience and trauma recovery.
At 55 years old, Tony Crescenzo’s second wife told him that he had been in more fights with other people than all the men she’d ever dated.
“It was that way for me for 30 years, I mean really, like zero to f*** you in 10 seconds kind of a guy,” said Crescenzo, a U.S. Marine Corps veteran and special guest on today’s American Legion Tango Alpha Lima podcast. “You don't even realize if you have you have PTSD, you don't know you have it. You just think everybody else is messed up. I had no idea how angry I was.”
It took reading a 1983 article on quantum physics, where he sampled a technology on brainwave entrainment that fundamentally changed him in six days. “So much so that my ex-wife, my wife, my daughter, my friends, business associates, all wanted to know what I was doing because things were so different,” he said.
That profound transformation led him to found Peak Neuro LLC to help other veterans and first responders transform mental health challenges into resilience. Peak Neuro, a neuroscience and AI-driven platform, harnesses proprietary neuroacoustic technology through a mobile app to enhance sleep, emotional resilience and trauma recovery.
The results are visible in the story of Mark Green, a 24-year retired Navy SEAL with 12 combat deployments who suffered from PTSD, lack of sleep and hypervigilance.
“Raise your hand if you go to a restaurant and you have to have your back to the wall to watch the door,” Crescenzo said. “In two months, Mark went from that to sleeping six hours a night uninterrupted, no hypervigilance. His PTSD is about 80 percent resolved … his brain fog is gone.”
What does Peak Neuro do?
“We shut down the front of your brain, literally suppress your brain's ability to create rumination, cognition, anxiety and stress. And we open up that whole back of your brain to allow you to digest anxiety, stress, and trauma somatically with your body,” Crescenzo said. “You can actually experience an episode of the original trauma, but since we're suppressing emotion, you watch it like it's a movie and you're not involved.”
For his own military trauma experiences, Crescenzo said he can talk about events “without emotion because it doesn't own me anymore. It's something that happened that isn't part of me. It's just an event. We’re changing the way that your brain works and creating a frame for you to digest that trauma in a way that allows you to come out of it feeling clearer.”
Want to get started? Download the app, grab your headphones and relax in the comfort of your home.
Also in this episode co-hosts Stacy Pearsall, Joe Worley and Adam Marr talk about:
• Your best impression of the infamous Woody Woodpecker’s laugh on the 86th anniversary of the cartoon’s creation by a World War I veteran.
• The heartfelt story of a 20-year-old World War II soldier saying goodbye to his dying mother that inspired the Peanuts comic.
• A group of women veterans in California taking on all three categories of The American Legion USA 250 Challenge. Join them!
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