Ask your doctor what EXACTLY they are doing to see what help this might be for stroke recovery. Not doing one damn thing should be grounds for firing. Dead wood needs to be removed before it affects the health and recovery of your children and grandchildren from stroke. Do not do on your own.
http://www.alphagalileo.org/ViewItem.aspx?ItemId=174140&CultureCode=en
Scientists at the University of York have discovered a potential link
between eating Marmite and activity in the brain, through the apparent
increase of a chemical messenger associated with healthy brain function.
Participants
consuming a teaspoon of Marmite every day for a month, compared to a
control group who consumed peanut butter, showed a substantial reduction
of around 30 per cent in their brain’s response to visual stimuli,
measured by recording electrical activity using electroencephalography
(EEG).
Researchers think this may be due to the prevalence of
vitamin B12 in Marmite increasing levels of a specific neurotransmitter –
known as GABA – in the brain.
GABA inhibits the excitability of
neurons in the brain, with the chemical acting to ‘turn down the volume’
of neural responses in order to regulate the delicate balance of
activity needed to maintain a healthy brain.
As Marmite
consumption appears to increase GABA levels, this study is the first to
show that dietary intervention may affect these neural processes. GABA
imbalances are also associated with a variety of neurological disorders.
Anika
Smith, PhD student in York’s Department of Psychology and first author
of the study, said: “These results suggest that dietary choices can
affect the cortical processes of excitation and inhibition - consistent
with increased levels of GABA – that are vital in maintaining a healthy
brain.
“As the effects of Marmite consumption took around eight
weeks to wear off after participants stopped the study, this suggests
that dietary changes could potentially have long-term effects on brain
function.
“This is a really promising first example of how
dietary interventions can alter cortical processes, and a great starting
point for exploring whether a more refined version of this technique
could have some medical or therapeutic applications in the future. Of
course, further research is needed to confirm and investigate this, but
the study is an excellent basis for this.”
Dr Daniel Baker,
Lecturer in the Department of Psychology and senior author of the paper,
said: “The high concentration of Vitamin B12 in Marmite is likely to be
the primary factor behind results showing a significant reduction in
participants’ responsiveness to visual stimuli.
“Since we’ve
found a connection between diet and specific brain processes involving
GABA, this research paves the way for further studies looking into how
diet could be used as a potential route to understanding this
neurotransmitter.
“Although GABA is involved in various diseases
we can make no therapeutic recommendations based on these results, and
individuals with a medical condition should always seek treatment from
their GP.”
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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.
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