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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.

Thursday, January 9, 2020

Dark chocolate improves coronary vasomotion and reduces platelet reactivity

What is your doctor doing IMMEDIATELY post stroke to increase oxygen to your brain? Maybe this dark chocolate  by dilating your arteries?

Or your doctor will never suggest this one:

 The team that found chronic cannabis users have higher cerebral blood flow and extract more oxygen from brain blood flow than nonusers.

 Or maybe beet juice?

 The study showed that beet juice with high amounts of nitrate made the blood vessels relax and return to normal function

Or this?

Sesquiterpenes, a natural compound found in essential oils of Vetiver, Patchouli, Cedarwood, Sandalwood and Frankincense, can increase levels of oxygen in the brain by up to 28 percent 

There is this from March, 2005:

A Pilot Study of Normobaric Oxygen Therapy in Acute Ischemic Stroke

 And this in October, 2010

Normobaric oxygen therapy in acute ischemic stroke: A pilot study in Indian patients

And this from October 2012:

Normobaric Oxygen Therapy

If your doctor is doing nothing about oxygen delivery to the brain s/he is letting more neurons die than should. ARE YOU OK WITH THAT?

The latest here:

Dark chocolate improves coronary vasomotion and reduces platelet reactivity

Flammer AJ1, Hermann F, Sudano I, Spieker L, Hermann M, Cooper KA, Serafini M, Lüscher TF, Ruschitzka F, Noll G, Corti R.

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Cardiovascular Center, Cardiology, University Hospital Zurich, Raemistr 100, CH-8091 Zurich, Switzerland.

Abstract

BACKGROUND:

Dark chocolate has potent antioxidant properties. Coronary atherosclerosis is promoted by impaired endothelial function and increased platelet activation. Traditional risk factors, high oxidative stress, and reduced antioxidant defenses play a crucial role in the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis, particularly in transplanted hearts. Thus, flavonoid-rich dark chocolate holds the potential to have a beneficial impact on graft atherosclerosis.

METHODS AND RESULTS:

We assessed the effect of flavonoid-rich dark chocolate compared with cocoa-free control chocolate on coronary vascular and platelet function in 22 heart transplant recipients in a double-blind, randomized study. Coronary vasomotion was assessed with quantitative coronary angiography and cold pressor testing before and 2 hours after ingestion of 40 g of dark (70% cocoa) chocolate or control chocolate, respectively. Two hours after ingestion of flavonoid-rich dark chocolate, coronary artery diameter was increased significantly (from 2.36+/-0.51 to 2.51+/-0.59 mm, P<0.01), whereas it remained unchanged after control chocolate. Endothelium-dependent coronary vasomotion improved significantly after dark chocolate (4.5+/-11.4% versus -4.3+/-11.7% in the placebo group, P=0.01). Platelet adhesion decreased from 4.9+/-1.1% to 3.8+/-0.8% (P=0.04) in the dark chocolate group but remained unchanged in the control group.

CONCLUSIONS:

Dark chocolate induces coronary vasodilation, improves coronary vascular function, and decreases platelet adhesion 2 hours after consumption. These immediate beneficial effects were paralleled by a significant reduction of serum oxidative stress and were positively correlated with changes in serum epicatechin concentration.

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PMID:
17984375
DOI:
10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.107.713867
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