And if we had a great stroke association we would have a supplement and diet stroke protocol post-stroke. Instead you are completely on your own to figure out how to recover. Good luck with that.
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The lay press and thousands of nutritional products warn of oxygen
radicals or oxidative stress and suggest taking so-called antioxidants
to prevent or cure disease. Professor Pietro Ghezzi at the Brighton and
Sussex Medical School and Professor Harald Schmidt at the University of
Maastricht have analyzed the evidence behind this. The result is a clear
warning: do not take these supplements unless a clear deficiency is
diagnosed by a healthcare professional.
Humans depend on oxygen
to produce energy, but oxygen also has the potential to generate
so-called oxygen radicals, which may cause oxidative stress and disease.
Markers of oxidative stress have been correlated with cardiovascular
disease, cancer, diabetes, and other conditions. Because of these
associations, antioxidant supplements are taken by millions of people;
however, none of the antioxidants tested in randomized clinical trials
have demonstrated any benefit. On the contrary, some of them may cause
harm. This is because oxygen radicals not only trigger disease but also
perform many important functions in the body, such as for immune defense
and hormone synthesis. Thus anti-oxidants will interfere with both
healthy and disease-triggering oxygen molecules.
"Oxidative
stress could be important in some conditions and only in a small
proportion of patients," said Prof. Ghezzi. "It can be targeted in a
totally different manner, with drugs targeted only at those sources of
oxygen molecules that are triggers of disease and leave the healthy ones
alone," added Prof. Schmidt. The review is published the British
Journal of Pharmacology.
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