Deans' stroke musings: Perspective: Are Grapes Worthy of the Moniker Superfood?

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.

Saturday, July 26, 2025

Perspective: Are Grapes Worthy of the Moniker Superfood?

Fresh grapes, so ask your competent? doctor how many and the kind; green, black, red, white!

Do you prefer your doctor and hospital incompetence NOT KNOWING? OR NOT DOING?

Perspective: Are Grapes Worthy of the Moniker Superfood?

John M. Pezzuto*

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Abstract

Superfood, an au courant word in the American vernacular, refers to mainstream foods that are basically individual components of the Mediterranean diet, i.e., berries, fish, olive oil, cruciferous vegetables, legumes, etc., and perceived as “healthy.” There is no regulation; the main source of information is the Internet. Blueberries and strawberries are generally featured as superior. However, when tested as a whole food in human beings, grapes modulate the gut microbiome, the metabolome and gene expression, and there are associated health benefits. Thus, based on actual scientific data, grapes have earned what should be a prominent position in the superfood family.