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, June 15, 2014

Could E-Cigarettes Someday Be Used to Combat Alzheimer's Disease?

Take that question directly to your doctor to see if that would combat your 33% dementia chance post-stroke from an Australian study 

http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2014/06/15/could-e-cigarettes-someday-be-used-to-combat-alzhe.aspx
But the marijuana plant may not be the only plant that could offer hope to people with chronic disease. Research studying nicotine suggests that it may have a medical benefit in patients with neurological disease like Alzheimer's.
If so, the use of nicotine as a treatment would challenge conventional thinking that ties the chemical to cancer and heart disease causing cigarettes.
Separating nicotine from smoking
More than 20 million people have died from causes related to smoking, according to the Surgeon General's annual report on the health consequences of smoking.
An intense focus on educating smokers in the risks of the disease has substantially reduced the number of cigarettes purchased in the U.S. over the past few decades. That's great news given that smoking causes 87% of lung cancer deaths, according to the Surgeon General.
Source: National Cancer Institute
But evidence suggests that nicotine, a stimulant chemical found in tobacco, may have some medical benefit -- just not when smoked as a traditional cigarette.
In a study conducted by Vanderbilt University's Center for Cognitive Medicine, Dr. Paul Newhouse found a link between nicotine and improved brain function in elderly patients with mild cognitive impairment, a potential precursor to Alzheimer's.

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