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.

Sunday, January 22, 2017

The Popular Supplement That Will Boost Your IQ

Bet you never hear about this from your doctor. Don't do this on your own, you would hate to be smarter than your doctor.
http://www.spring.org.uk/2017/01/the-popular-supplement-that-will-boost-your-iq.php?omhide=true
Improve both your memory and intelligence with a popular supplement.
Creatine — a popular dietary supplement — boosts IQ and working memory, research finds.
Creatine is generally known as a supplement used by athletes for gaining muscle mass.
But that is not its only effect.
For the research vegetarians and vegans were given creatine supplementation.
Dr Caroline Rae, who led the study, explained the choice:
“Vegetarians or vegans were chosen for the study as carnivores and omnivores obtain a variable level of creatine depending on the amount and type of meat they eat – although to reach the level of supplementation in this experiment would involve eating around 2 kg of meat a day!”
Dr Rae said that creatine was a natural choice to test:
“We know that creatine plays a pivotal role in maintaining energy levels in the brain.
So it was a reasonable hypothesis that supplementing a diet with creatine could assist brain function.”
The creatine supplementation was tested over six weeks with participants taking 5g each day.
Dr Rae explained the results of the cognitive tests:
“Both of these tests require fast brain power and the Raven’s task was conducted under time pressure.
The results were clear with both our experimental groups and in both test scenarios: creatine supplementation gave a significant measurable boost to brain power.
For example in the digit span test subjects ability to remember long numbers, like telephone numbers, improved from a number length of about 7 to an average of 8.5 digits.
These findings underline a dynamic and significant role of brain energy capacity in influencing brain performance.
Increasing the energy available for computation increases the power of the brain and this is reflected directly in improved general ability.”

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