You do want to keep your neurologist away. But I bet this will not make it into your hospital diet or your take home stroke diet protocol. This would be too difficult for your doctor to actually contact the hospital nutritionist and make sure all survivors get this on a daily basis. So to bypass that f*cking problem, call the hospital president and state that the stroke department has no clue what it is doing because it is not following and implementing changes to protocols from research. I bet this would be more likely to be followed than the beet juice one.
http://www.eat2think.com/2013/10/2-cups-hot-cocoa-day-keeps-neurologist-away.html
VIDEO + ARTICLE:
Harvard Medical School studied people who drank two cups of hot cocoa a
day. The researchers saw better memory and blood flow to the brain.
Watch top Alzheimer's expert Dr. Gary Small share his opinion on these
findings.
MINNEAPOLIS – Drinking two cups of hot chocolate a day may help
older people keep their brains healthy and their thinking skills sharp,
according to a study published in the online issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.
The study involved 60 people with an average age of 73 who did not have
dementia. The participants drank two cups of hot cocoa per day for 30
days and did not consume any other chocolate during the study. They were
given tests of memory and thinking skills. They also had ultrasounds
tests to measure the amount of blood flow to the brain during the tests.
“We’re learning more about blood flow in the brain and its effect on
thinking skills,” said study author Farzaneh A. Sorond, MD, PhD, of
Harvard Medical School in Boston and a member of the American Academy of
Neurology. “As different areas of the brain need more energy to
complete their tasks, they also need greater blood flow. This
relationship, called neurovascular coupling, may play an important role
in diseases such as Alzheimer’s.”
Of the 60 participants, 18 had impaired blood flow at the start of the
study. Those people had an 8.3-percent improvement in the blood flow to
the working areas of the brain by the end of the study, while there was
no improvement for those who started out with regular blood flow.
The people with impaired blood flow also improved their times on a test
of working memory, with scores dropping from 167 seconds at the
beginning of the study to 116 seconds at the end. There was no change in
times for people with regular blood flow.
A total of 24 of the participants also had MRI scans of the brain to
look for tiny areas of brain damage. The scans found that people with
impaired blood flow were also more likely to have these areas of brain
damage.
Half of the study participants received hot cocoa that was rich in the
antioxidant flavanol, while the other half received flavanol-poor hot
cocoa. There were no differences between the two groups in the results.
“More work is needed to prove a link between cocoa, blood flow problems
and cognitive decline,” said Paul B. Rosenberg, MD, of Johns Hopkins
School of Medicine in Baltimore, who wrote an editorial accompanying the
study. “But this is an important first step that could guide future
studies.”
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