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 7, 2014

More fun on the 10% usage of the brain and 'Lucy'

This is just too good to pass up. Is your doctor warning you about thinking too much?  Spontaneous combustion of the brain? Has your doctor had this happen to any patients?
Thinking Makes My Head Hot
Now for the kicker – what if we were only using 10% of our neural function and what if we could find a way to use 100%? It would kill us in just a few hours. Yep, we could think ourselves to death.
The average brain is only about 2.5-3% of our body mass, but it uses 20% of our energy reserves. Consider the energy needs if we suddenly used the other 90% of our brain. Scarlett probably consumes 1800-2000 calories a day, so her brain scarfs up about 360-400 of those calories. If she started using all her brain – it would require 3600-4000 calories just for itself.
She would have to eat like a Tour de France rider every day just to keep from starving to death. Rule the world? She’ll have to do it from an Old Country Buffet.
 
If Lucy used 100% of her brain, then she would put out 171.96 kCal/hr. This would be enough energy (in Celsius heat units) to raise the temperature of her 3 lb. (1.4 kg) brain by 128˚ C every hour! OK, so not all of it would go to heat, but she would definitely be running about 20˚ C above the normal 37˚ C. Brain damage and death occurs with a fever of about 106 ˚F (41˚ C). Lucy’s brain would be parboiled and served up like an appetizer at one of those fancy gastropubs.

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