Deans' stroke musings: A Relaxing Way To Cut Heart Disease Risk 50%

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, October 20, 2019

A Relaxing Way To Cut Heart Disease Risk 50% - napping

Make sure you get this prescription from your doctor so your boss allows daytime naps. Maybe 50 years from now when this hits the medical books and your new doctor knows about it. Remember you can't do this dangerous task without a doctors prescription.

A Relaxing Way To Cut Heart Disease Risk 50% - napping

Performing this type of break once or twice weekly will half the risk of heart attack and stroke.

Napping once or twice a week can decrease the risk of cardiovascular disease, including heart failure and stroke by nearly 50 percent, as study finds.
The research compared regular nappers with those who did not nap, assessing the link between naps and heart disease incidents.

In the study were 3,462 Swiss residents aged 35 to 75 who were selected randomly for this study and followed over 5 years.
The study found that those who napped once or twice weekly had a 48 percent reduction in the risk of cardiovascular disease events compared to those who did not nap.
Nap duration or having more naps didn’t show any positive effect on cardiovascular disease.
Those who napped more than 3 times a week tended to be male, smokers, older, and to weigh more.
They slept longer at night when compared to those who didn’t nap through the day.
They also reported more episodes of sleepiness during the day and suffered from severe obstructive sleep apnea (OSA).
This sleep disorder occurs when the throat muscles relax and block the airway during sleep, causing abnormal breathing.
Professor Kristine Yaffe and Dr Yue Leng, in a linked editorial, said:

“While the exact physiological pathways linking daytime napping to [cardiovascular disease] risk is not clear, [this research] contributes to the ongoing debate on the health implications of napping, and suggests that it might not only be the duration, but also the frequency that matters.
The study of napping is a challenging but also a promising field with potentially significant public health implications.
While there remain more questions than answers, it is time to start unveiling the power of naps for a supercharged heart.”