Deans' stroke musings: Amazing Medical Discovery: Transfusions of Young Blood Appear to Rejuvenate the Elderly

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.

Sunday, October 21, 2012

Amazing Medical Discovery: Transfusions of Young Blood Appear to Rejuvenate the Elderly

I wrote about this in Dec.2011 here;
http://oc1dean.blogspot.com/2011/12/young-blood-rejuvenates-old-brains.html
This was the key paragraph:
These results suggest that chemicals found in the blood of old mice inhibit the generation of new brain cells, whereas chemicals in the blood of young mice promote it. The researchers then injected blood from young or old mice into young adults. Again, they found that animals injected with old blood had far fewer newborn neurons in the hippocampus than those injected with young blood, confirming that old blood contains soluble factors that inhibit neurogenesis.

And the new article here:
http://www.alternet.org/personal-health/amazing-medical-discovery-transfusions-young-blood-appear-rejuvenate-elderly

So this brings up the question for your doctor. Should all stroke survivors get blood transfusions from young people, maybe your grandchildren?
How young should the blood be?