Deans' stroke musings: alpha tocotrienols and stroke

Changing stroke rehab and research worldwide now.Time is Brain! trillions and trillions of neurons that DIE each day because there are NO effective hyperacute therapies besides tPA(only 12% effective). I have 523 posts on hyperacute therapy, enough for researchers to spend decades proving them out. These are my personal ideas and blog on stroke rehabilitation and stroke research. Do not attempt any of these without checking with your medical provider. Unless you join me in agitating, when you need these therapies they won't be there.

What this blog is for:

My blog is not to help survivors recover, it is to have the 10 million yearly stroke survivors light fires underneath their doctors, stroke hospitals and stroke researchers to get stroke solved. 100% recovery. The stroke medical world is completely failing at that goal, they don't even have it as a goal. Shortly after getting out of the hospital and getting NO information on the process or protocols of stroke rehabilitation and recovery I started searching on the internet and found that no other survivor received useful information. This is an attempt to cover all stroke rehabilitation information that should be readily available to survivors so they can talk with informed knowledge to their medical staff. It lays out what needs to be done to get stroke survivors closer to 100% recovery. It's quite disgusting that this information is not available from every stroke association and doctors group.

Tuesday, April 26, 2011

alpha tocotrienols and stroke

I hadn't really seen anything about this until I was contacted by a PR firm wondering if I wanted to blog on this. I tried asking, Why me? but she didn't respond.
So here goes:
What are they? A natural component of Vitamin E that is found in barley, rice bran and palm oil products. Your standard vitamin E supplements only contain the tocopherols.
This report suggests that a level of this vitamin E can protect the brain after a stroke. But it takes about eight to 10 weeks of supplementation to build up to an adequate level in your system. For most Asians having a rice diet they would naturally have this.
How one form of natural vitamin E protects brain after stroke

marketing websites here:
www.carotech.net www.tocotrienol.org http://www.tocotrienol.org/images/stories/pdf_upload/Magazines/tocomin%20natural%20neuroprotective%20vitamin.pdf
I'm afraid that this is attempting to be the next statin blockbuster, so beware. Although for survivors it might be one more prevention. I'll wait until more trials are done.
It does talk about stopping glutamate damage which I discussed here;

Protecting the Brain from a Glutamate Storm

I'm more interested in acute phase intervention with this. Dr. Sen has proven that tocotrienols, taken orally, cross the blood-brain barrier.
None of this is going to help me, I need either hard neuroplasticity, neurogenesis or stem cells.