Deans' stroke musings: Cardiac Benefits of Red Wine Not From the Alcohol

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.

Saturday, September 8, 2012

Cardiac Benefits of Red Wine Not From the Alcohol

Good luck finding dealcoholized red wine, unless you can substitute grape juice.
http://www.medpagetoday.com/Cardiology/Hypertension/34610

Action Points

Explain that a small Spanish open-label, crossover study found that consumption of a moderate amount of dealcoholized red wine over a 4-week period, but not red wine itself or gin, was associated with a modest decrease in both systolic and diastolic blood pressure.
Note that plasma nitric oxide was also increased when dealcoholized red wine was consumed, leading the authors to speculate that the blood pressure lowering effect might be due to nitric oxide.

Rest at the link, I suppose that they will next test the dark beers and say that the alcohol in them is not needed either. Taking all the fun out of life.