Deans' stroke musings: The Amount Of Alcohol That’s Good For Your Brain

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.

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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, February 7, 2018

The Amount Of Alcohol That’s Good For Your Brain

You'll never hear this from your doctor and you didn't hear it from me. I'm not medically trained.
http://www.spring.org.uk/2018/02/alcohol-brain.php?omhide=true

Alcohol helps remove damaging waste from the brain.

A couple of alcoholic drinks can help clear the brain of toxins, new research finds.

Low levels of alcohol — the equivalent of around 2.5 standard drinks per day — may help to remove waste linked to Alzheimer’s disease and reduce inflammation in the brain.

Dr Maiken Nedergaard, who led the study, said:

“Prolonged intake of excessive amounts of ethanol is known to have adverse effects on the central nervous system.

However, in this study we have shown for the first time that low doses of alcohol are potentially beneficial to brain health, namely it improves the brain’s ability to remove waste.”

The study helps support the view of some research that suggests low levels of alcohol intake can be beneficial.

The new study gave varying amounts of alcohol to mice and looked at the effect on their brains.

Those given high levels of alcohol over a long period showed increasing levels of damaging inflammation.

They also had worse cognitive and motor performance.

In the mice given low doses — equivalent to 2.5 standard drinks per day — the brain was more efficient at removing waste than those not exposed to alcohol.

The mice on low doses of alcohol also showed no differences in cognitive or motor performance with those given no alcohol.

Dr Nedergaard said:

“The data on the effects of alcohol on the glymphatic system seemingly matches the J-shaped model relating to the dose effects of alcohol on general health and mortality, whereby low doses of alcohol are beneficial, while excessive consumption is detrimental to overall health.

Studies have shown that low-to-moderate alcohol intake is associated with a lesser risk of dementia, while heavy drinking for many years confers an increased risk of cognitive decline.

This study may help explain why this occurs.

Specifically, low doses of alcohol appear to improve overall brain health.”

The study was published in the journal Scientific Reports (Lundgaard et al., 2018).