Deans' stroke musings: Volunteers Sought for Stroke Study NOURISH trial to explore how nutrition impacts brain recovery after a stroke

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.

Tuesday, August 22, 2023

Volunteers Sought for Stroke Study NOURISH trial to explore how nutrition impacts brain recovery after a stroke

Sign up if you can because right now there are no protocols for diet post stroke. Hopefully they will create them for all these conditions.

For dementia prevention; for cognitive improvement; for cholesterol reduction; for plaque removal; for Parkinsons prevention; for inflammation reduction; etc.

Volunteers Sought for Stroke Study NOURISH trial to explore how nutrition impacts brain recovery after a stroke

Newswise — Researchers at RUSH are seeking volunteers to explore how a change in diet may improve brain health after a stroke.

The study, called NOURISH — short for Nutrition Effects on Brain Outcomes and Recovery in Stroke After Hospitalization — aims to prevent cognitive and memory decline that is common in stroke survivors.

“We know that stroke survivors are twice as likely to develop dementia compared to the general population,” said Neelum Aggarwal, MD, a cognitive neurologist in the RUSH Alzheimer’s Disease Center and professor in the Department of Neurological Sciences. “We hope to find out whether a specific diet helps prevent dementia and memory problems that we commonly see in stroke survivors.”

“Many research studies show that there are foods that promote brain health, including vegetables, berries, fish and olive oil, which we hope will also help stroke survivors maintain their cognition,” said Christy Tangney, PhD, nutritionist and professor in the departments of Clinical Nutrition and Family and Preventive Medicine. “If we find that specific foods slow cognitive decline in stroke survivors, our dietitians could advise stroke survivors how to incorporate these foods in order to preserve memory and brain function.”

To be eligible to take part in the study, participants must be 55 years or older, recently been admitted to the hospital for a new ischemic(Why not hemorrhagic?) stroke and are being discharged home or to rehab for after stroke care.(This means they are completely ignoring chronic survivors! If survivors were in charge we wouldn't leave any survivors behind. Bad research.)

Those interested in participating in the study can learn more at the NOURISH website.