Deans' stroke musings: Effects of saffron on sleep quality in healthy adults with self-reported poor sleep: A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial

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.

Saturday, June 27, 2020

Effects of saffron on sleep quality in healthy adults with self-reported poor sleep: A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial

Not to be done on your own because your doctor already has an effective sleep protocol, hopefully it is not sleeping pills.

Effects of saffron on sleep quality in healthy adults with self-reported poor sleep: A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial

Lopresti AL, Smith SJ, Metse AP, et al

Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine|June 18, 2020

This 28-day, parallel-group, double-blind, randomized controlled trial with healthy adults (aged 18–70) with self-reported sleep problems was conducted to determine the sleep-enhancing impacts of a standardized saffron extract (affron). The participants were randomly assigned to receive either saffron extract (affron; 14 mg twice daily) or a placebo. The primary outcome measure was the Insomnia Severity Index. The Restorative Sleep Questionnaire and the Pittsburgh Sleep Diary were also used. Findings revealed improvements in sleep quality in correlation with saffron intake in adults with self-reported sleep complaints. Read the full article on Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine.