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, November 19, 2017

How To Stop Your Brain Shrinking With Age

Is your doctor complicit in your brain shrinkage because s/he hasn't gotten you recovered enough to partake of the needed exercise?
http://www.spring.org.uk/2017/11/exercise-brain-size.php?omhide=true
Normally people’s brains shrink by about 5% every decade after the age of 40.
Exercise increases brain size, a new study finds.
In some of the best evidence to date, exercise was shown to increase the size of the hippocampus, a brain structure critical for memory and other functions.
So far, studies have mostly shown the connection between exercise and brain size in rodents.
Researchers followed people aged 24 to 76 for up to two years in a range of separate studies.
They looked at the effects of walking, cycling, treadmill running and general aerobic exercise.
Most people did around 2-5 sessions per week.
The results showed that left hippocampul volume was increased in people who exercised.

Dr Joseph Firth, the study’s first author, said:
“When you exercise you produce a chemical called brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), which may help to prevent age-related decline by reducing the deterioration of the brain.
Our data showed that, rather than actually increasing the size of the hippocampus per se, the main ‘brain benefits’ are due to aerobic exercise slowing down the deterioration in brain size.
In other words, exercise can be seen as a maintenance program for the brain.”
The study reviewed 14 separate clinical trials, including brain scans from 737 people.
This is some of the most definitive evidence yet published of the beneficial effects of exercise on brain health.
Normally people’s brains shrink by about 5% every decade after the age of 40.
Exercise is one of the few interventions proven to slow this process down.

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