Deans' stroke musings: Red Wine Prevents Memory Loss

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.

Monday, February 16, 2015

Red Wine Prevents Memory Loss

I follow this religiously. Tonight out at dinner with friends I only had 3 glasses of red wine. The meatballs had a tomato based sauce. But I bet your doctor will never prescribe red wine.

Lycopene in tomatoes reduces stroke risk by more than 50%

Thermal Processing Enhances the Nutritional Value of Tomatoes by Increasing Total Antioxidant Activity

http://au.ibtimes.com/red-wine-prevents-memory-loss-1421612

Drinking red wine has a positive effect on the brain, a new study has shown. Researchers from the Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine have uncovered that red wine helps prevent memory loss.
The benefits of red wine are attributed to resveratrol, an antioxidant found in red grapes, some berries and peanuts. Ashok Shetty PhD. has been studying the antioxidant because he believed that is also has a positive effect on the hippocampus of the brain. This part of the brain is responsible for functions such as mood, learning and memory. Cognitive capacity in humans and animals declines after middle age.
Working with aged rats, Shetty and colleagues were able to show that the antioxidant found in red grapes may have the ability to treat memory loss in older adults. The antioxidant also has the ability to potentially alleviate neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s. The researchers found that while spatial ability was largely maintained in the rats who didn’t get the antioxidant resveratrol, after 22 to 25 months the ability started to decline dramatically. Meanwhile both spatial ability and memory improved in rats treated with the antioxidant. The growth and development of neurons in the rats treated with the antioxidant doubled compared to the rats in the control group. The rats given the antioxidant also had better microvasculatures, which indicated improvements in blood flow. They also had lower chronic inflammation in the hippocampus.
The researchers worked with 344 male Fischer rats aged 21 months old. Before the study started the rats were given seven to ten days to get used to the area they were being kept in. The results conclude that using the antioxidant found in red wine during late and middle age can aid in improving mood and memory function in older adults. The researchers did not, however, mention how much of the antioxidant is required.