Maybe your hospital nutritionist should start here:
1. 50 years of studying diet, lifestyle related to cardiovascular diseases in new website
2. Forget Supplements-It's All About Diet
3. Fatty diet damages brain - study
4. 5 Foods That Can Trigger a Stroke
5. Foods That May Harm the Brain
6. Curcumin for Heart Disease
7. Seven power foods that lower your stroke risk
8. The effect of protein and calorie intake on prealbumin, complications, length of stay, and function in the acute rehabilitation inpatient with stroke
9. 5 Foods to Eat When You're Depressed
10. New Research on Walnuts and the Fight Against Alzheimer’s Disease
11. Tingling sensation caused by Asian spice could help patients with chronic pain
You have a 33% dementia chance post-stroke from an Australian study
which I'm 100% positive your doctor won't tell you about or know about.
To forestall that I would do these things.
1. Multiple cups of coffee a day.
Coffee May Lower Your Risk of Dementia
2. Fish oil -
Fish Oil Might Guard Against Loss of Brain Cells
Omega 3 fatty acid for the prevention of cognitive decline and dementia
3. Coconut oil -
Evidence-Based Medicinal Properties of Coconut Oil - brain boosting
4. Beet juice -
New research suggests beets could help increase blood flow to the brain .
5. Nicotine
A Nicotine Patch a Day Keeps the Cognitive Impairment Away
Prevention of your next stroke by these:
1. Watermelon juice -
Watermelon juice reverses hardening of the arteries
2. Beet juice -
3. Bananas -
Why eat three bananas a day?
4. Dark chocolate -
Eating small bar of chocolate cuts risks of stroke in men
5. Consuming a diet high in magnesium-rich foods, such as green leafy vegetables, beans and seeds, may reduce the risk of ischemic stroke.
6. Tomatoes - Serum lycopene decreases the risk of stroke in men: A population-based follow-up study.
Vegans at risk for heart attacks and strokes
But maybe fasting is the way to go.
Intermittent fasting attenuates increases in neurogenesis after ischemia and reperfusion and improves recovery
1. Calorie Restriction Prevents Neurodegeneration
2. To Stave off Alzheimer’s, Stay Hungry?
3. Researchers: Mini-Fast Prevents Alzheimer's
4. intermittent fasting—one day on food, the next day off of it—can also protect the brain
2. To Stave off Alzheimer’s, Stay Hungry?
3. Researchers: Mini-Fast Prevents Alzheimer's
4. intermittent fasting—one day on food, the next day off of it—can also protect the brain
5. Alternate day fasting is effective for weight loss and cardio-protection in obese individuals
I'm sure with a bit of intellectual work your hospital nutritionist can come up with the perfect stroke meals. There are only thousands of hospitals out there, One of them is likely to get it right and you might have a .001% chance of it being your hospital. Assuming your hospital even condescends to creating healthful stroke meals for you. Good luck.
Dean, this is the first post of yours with which I have a number of disagreements -- that is, regarding nutrition -- as well as MANY points of agreements. I(t is also the topic with which I have done the most research, reading, and personal implementation.) As I understand you, we both look for evidence-based research. Moreover, my intent is not to be right, but to find out what is the case. So a few comments...
ReplyDeleteYes, it's about the diet. But selective supplementation, especially geared toward any nutritional deficiency, can be of great help. Both food AND supplements are bio-active chemicals. Ingested, both enter into an incredibly complex interaction with the body and with any other food or supplements. To be sure, all are not equally effective in supplying the body with what it needs to rebuild, facilitate, and provide structural integrity (health).
Regarding vegans and heart health, I encourage you to re-read the article. It is NOT difficult to get the nutrients referred to in the article. Indeed, it takes but an awareness of what nutrients MAY be difficult to get in a non-vegetarian or non-vegan diet, MANY scientific studies make clear that a vegan diet lowers blood pressure and reduces the chances of a heart attack and of cancer.
Since I had my massive hemorrhagic stroke six (6) years ago -- September 6, 2008 -- over @the first eighteen (18) months I gradually became vegetarian, then vegan, My blood pressure steadily lowered and a host of health indices made clear that I was healing. My neurologist made clear that "whatever you're doing [with my diet], keep doing it". Since the stroke, I have not even had a cold, I am more energetic, and 6 years later, I continue to heal.
For a year after the stroke, I did not drink coffee. But reading the many evidence-based articles which indicated that coffee can be good for you, I am drinking java again.
My experience is the three things to do which effectively help one heal the most from a stroke are: (1) NUTRITION (including selective nutrition supplementation such as Vitamin B6 and B12 , Ubiqinone, Krill oil -- little red pills"); (2) appropriate EXERCISE; and (3) MEDITATION such as "mindfulness" and rest/sleep.