Deans' stroke musings: Study reveals the simple changes that could cut your dementia risk

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.

Wednesday, July 15, 2026

Study reveals the simple changes that could cut your dementia risk

Guidelines NOT protocols! Screaming at your doctor for EXACT PREVENTION PROTOCOLS may be required! And we're supposed to be grateful for lazy crapola like this?

Study reveals the simple changes that could cut your dementia risk

A new study suggests that a structured programme of regular exercise and a brain-healthy diet could improve memory and thinking in older people at risk of dementia.

The trial, conducted across 12 countries in Latin America, included more than 1,000 patients aged 60 to 77.

They were deemed at risk of developing dementia due to age or factors such as high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and whether they smoked.

Around half of these participants were assigned to a two-year programme. This involved supervised exercise sessions four days a week and personalised dietary advice, focusing on brain-healthy foods like green leafy vegetables, whole grains, berries, fish, nuts, and beans.

Activities were tailored to local culture, including salsa dancing, with researchers ensuring diets were affordable and easy to source locally.

Patients also met in small groups to socialise, took part in computer-based brain training, and regularly had their blood pressure, weight, and blood sugar recorded.

The second group were given general health advice and attended four one-hour meetings over the two years.

The study found that cognition, episodic memory, executive function and procession speed were all better among those following the structured programme.

Researchers said that the findings, published in The Lancet, suggest that “harmonised, non-pharmacological interventions can be implemented across diverse sociocultural settings while maintaining standardisation and producing measurable cognitive benefits in older adults”.

Alzheimer’s Society estimates that about a million people in the UK have dementia, a number likely to rise to 1.4 million by 2040.

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