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.

Thursday, August 14, 2014

Mayo Clinic challenges some recommendations in updated cholesterol treatment guideline

Once again we have some of the most brilliant minds in medicine  not willing to change from the status quo of cholesterol is bad.  The real problem is inflammation which grabs the cholesterol particles as they float by. Thus this cholesterol lowering is a secondary prevention option. If they would focus on solving the real problem of inflammation we wouldn't need all these statins that just disrupt our normal funtions. Our brain is composed of a fair amount of cholesterol. This table from here explains how much cholesterol.
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CCQQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.jlr.org%2Fcontent%2F6%2F4%2F537.full.pdf&ei=h7jsU5GyHoqcyAScu4CYAw&usg=AFQjCNHzTR0vtSCnvnCE3PwFSgmvhc6yLQ&sig2=NMQy6qWbum6T_7o40WBqGA&bvm=bv.72938740,d.aWw

Do we really want to disrupt our brains that much by compromising our  cholesterol levels?
Do NOT listen to anything I have to say, It is the rantings of a stroke addled brain, but I bet your doctor will not be able to easily refute the findings
And here are the Mayo recommendations:
http://medicalxpress.com/news/2014-08-mayo-clinic-cholesterol-treatment-guideline.html
A few selected paragraphs;
Mayo's cholesterol treatment recommendations challenge some core ACC/AHA recommendations, and go further in-depth in some areas. For example:
* The ACC/AHA cholesterol treatment guideline recommends prescribing the strongest statins at high doses to most men older than 65, even those with no history of heart disease, or any major risk factor for heart attacks, and with normal cholesterol levels. Men this age will be classified as high risk only on the basis of age. The Mayo task force found no evidence from clinical trials to recommend treating people only on the basis of age in the absence of risk factors, high cholesterol or inflammation.
This is fascinating considering this guideline; Which this seems to go against.
FDA announces new safety recommendations for high-dose simvastatin

* The ACC/AHA cholesterol treatment guideline recommends cholesterol-lowering medication as a primary preventive measure against , and encourages health care providers to simultaneously emphasize the importance of healthy lifestyle habits. The Mayo task force encourages lifestyle changes—such as exercise and dietary changes—first, followed by re-evaluating risk in three to six months before prescribing statins, especially in motivated patients and with borderline high risk.
* The ACC/AHA cholesterol treatment guideline recommends statins for all people with diabetes mellitus who are 40 years or older. The Mayo task force debunks the concept that all diabetics have the same risk as people with history of heart attacks. The Mayo task force does not recommend in favor of or against the use of statins in patients with diabetes in whom the risk for heart attacks or stroke is low based on the calculator proposed by the ACC/AHA.

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