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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, August 9, 2025

Myth Busting: No, Red Wine Isn’t Good for Your Heart

 But great for social connections which is going to prevent dementia. And tell your doctor the story of the 107 year old Spanish vineyard owner.

Here are many reasons to enjoy red wine and damn your doctor for being a stick in the mud!
  • red wine (122 posts to September 2012)

    • Myth Busting: No, Red Wine Isn’t Good for Your Heart

    This transcript has been edited for clarity. 

    If you’re a cardiologist like me, people probably love to tell you that red wine is good for your heart. It’s not. First off, alcohol is loaded with sugar. Drink enough of it, and you will get fat. That’s why they call it beer belly, not celery belly. 

    Also, the antioxidants in red wine are not as helpful as people think. You have to drink maybe a hundred liters of red wine per day to get enough resveratrol for it to have any effect, which would almost certainly kill you. 

    But even setting all that aside, and it’s a lot to set aside, the problem with red wine is reverse causation. Basically, it’s not the people who drink zero alcohol who get sick; it’s that people who are sick tend to give up alcohol. 

    The U-shaped curve you see with alcohol is a statistical illusion. If you do the research using Mendelian randomization studies, which can get rid of a lot of the statistical confounding, you see that the risk to alcohol is very linear. The more you drink, the worse you are.

    Now, I’m not saying you can’t drink alcohol, but you can’t think it’s good for your heart. That’s a myth.

    For Medscape, I’m Christopher Labos.

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