Deans' stroke musings: ASU study to look at non-drug treatments that could help prevent Alzheimer's disease

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, February 26, 2022

ASU study to look at non-drug treatments that could help prevent Alzheimer's disease

With your excellent chance of getting dementia, has your doctor put this all together into an easily understandable and actionable form?

Your risks of dementia, has your doctor told you of this?

1. A documented 33% dementia chance post-stroke from an Australian study? May 2012.

2. Then this study came out and seems to have a range from 17-66%. December 2013.`

3. A 20% chance in this research. July 2013.

4. Dementia Risk Doubled in Patients Following Stroke September 2018

Where are the protocols to prevent your dementia?

The latest here:

ASU study to look at non-drug treatments that could help prevent Alzheimer's disease

By Kathy Ritchie

Published: Monday, February 14, 2022 - 5:05am

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A study out of Arizona State University will explore how exercise and brain training can affect memory in people who have mild cognitive impairment.

First let's define mild cognitive impairment…

"For people with MCI, it may be difficult for them to do things as efficiently as they used to, but they are fully capable," said Fang Yu. She’s a professor and the Edson Chair in Dementia Translational Nursing Science at ASU.

She says MCI is an important phase because not everyone will progress to dementia.

"And what we're hoping to accomplish is using exercise on cognitive activities to prevent people from going into dementia," she says

The study’s open to anyone 65 and older. Participants will also receive a paid gym membership and MRI brain scans.

"So basically, what we're hoping to do is identify non drug treatments for preventing Alzheimer's disease, because Alzheimer's disease is a pathology that develops over years and decades."

Yu says staying socially active and continuing to work can help maintain brain health. Here are other tips Yu recommends:

Aerobic exercise

○ ACSM: Physical activity guidelines

■ 150 minutes of moderate intensity activity per week.

■ 30 minutes of moderate intensity activity per day, most days of the week

○ The American Heart Association has a lot of information on fitness

○ Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans 2nd Edition

○ American Heart Association Recommendations for Physical Activity in Adults and Kids

○ CDC – How much physical activity do adults need?

Resistance exercise

○ ACSM: Physical activity guidelines

■ 2-3 days per week; training large muscle groups