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.

Wednesday, December 14, 2016

Researchers to study effect of watermelon juice in reducing heart disease

Were these two earlier research efforts not enough to prove the benefits? This waste of resources is directly a result of NO fucking stroke strategy.  I eat a pound of watermelon a day whenever possible, can't find juice.

Watermelon Could Lower Blood Pressure April 2014 

Watermelon juice reverses hardening of the arteries Nov. 2011

 

 Researchers to study effect of watermelon juice in reducing heart disease

University of Alabama researchers soon will launch a study that looks at watermelon juice as a way to reduce heart disease.
Dr. Kristi Crowe-White and Dr. Amy Ellis, researchers in the College of Human Environmental Sciences' department of human nutrition and hospitality management, are recruiting subjects for a 10-week study to see how watermelon impacts blood vessel function.
The researchers believe that several natural ingredients in watermelon — lycopene, citrulline, arginine, glutamine and ascorbic acid — will act in synergy to decrease arterial stiffness and oxidative stress.
Arterial stiffness is an early independent risk factor for cardiovascular disease and cardiovascular events like heart attack and stroke. As people get older, the arteries get stiffer, more rigid and less able to dilate, Ellis said.
Oxidative stress also increases with age because the body is not able to compensate, and people's diet typically is lacking in needed antioxidants. Oxidative stress is one of the underlying causes of all chronic disease, so when the level is high, if a person has a genetic predisposition for a chronic disease, that's when the manifestation will occur, Crowe-White said.
"Our goal is to reduce the risks of these future cardiovascular events, but since we are both dietitians, we're interested in doing this through a food-first approach versus just another pill or medication," Ellis said. "If there are natural ingredients in this food that could be beneficial, why not try that first."
Study participants need to be postmenopausal African-American or European-American women ages 55 to 69 who do not smoke or have high blood pressure, diabetes, liver disease or kidney disease. The first four weeks will involve study participants drinking either 100 percent watermelon juice or a placebo twice a day.
At the end of the four weeks, there will be a two-week washout period where neither beverage is consumed. In the next four weeks, participants will drink the opposite of what they had in the beginning of the study. Vascular and blood measures will be assessed at the beginning and end of each four-week period. Participants are eligible for compensation up to $100.
Source:
University of Alabama

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