Deans' stroke musings: Eating a diet rich in vitamin C and other antioxidants can lower your risk of atherosclerosis and the risk of stroke

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.

Tuesday, December 5, 2017

Eating a diet rich in vitamin C and other antioxidants can lower your risk of atherosclerosis and the risk of stroke - Pineapple

Your doctor will never come up with a diet protocol so don't even bother asking for one. This is too dangerous to do on your own, so don't even think about it.
http://www.strokesmart.org/Pineapple

Posted by Christa Knox

Dec 01 2017

Pineapple—fruit of the tropics and a delicious superfood! Just one cup of pineapple contains over 100% of your daily vitamin C needs.

Vitamin C is the body's primary water-soluble antioxidant, and it defends the aqueous areas of the body against free radicals which can can attack and damage normal, healthy cells. These free radicals have been shown to promote atherosclerosis (hardening of the arteries due to plaque build-up). About half of all strokes are caused by atherosclerosis which is a disease in which plaque builds up inside your arteries, and can cause heart attacks develops silently and can put our brains and our independence at risk.

Eating a diet rich in vitamin C and other antioxidants can lower your risk of atherosclerosis and the risk of stroke. In addition to having high amounts of manganese, which supports antioxidant defenses, pineapples also contain high amounts of the B vitamin thiamin, which is used in energy production.

Pineapple also has a protein-digesting enzyme called bromelain, which supports a healthy digestive system, and is a strong anti-inflammatory agent.

Foods that are inflammatory include: refined sugars, refined flours (white bread, cookies, pasta, crackers, and more, animal fats, alcohol, and food allergens. Inflammatory cells are factors in ischemic ((inadequate blood supply; 87% of stroke cases) brain injury and stroke.

Additionally, inflammatory genes are involved in determining stroke outcome. So, as you can see, eating anti-inflammatory foods is critical post-stroke and can also help in preventing stroke in the first place. To help reduce the consequences of a stroke, it is critical that we support the Blood Brain Barrier (BBB) with anti-inflammatory foods, like pineapple, turmeric, ginger, and wild salmon.