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, June 4, 2014

Effect of high potassium diet on endothelial function

You'll have to ask your doctor to get the complete article to find out what the hell the difference between high and low is. I try and do 3 bananas a day for the stroke risk reduction. Potassium 21%   Why eat three bananas a day?
You'll have to ask your doctor to translate this gobbledygook into layperson terms. Exactly how much of what foods should you be eating. Damn it, you're paying them, have them work for their pay.  Having smooth linings of your arteries is a good thing, I think.

http://www.mdlinx.com/internal-medicine/newsl-article.cfm/5306724/ZZF307965849E94474BB34FC062CEC0F93/?

Nutrition, Metabolism & Cardiovascular Diseases,  Clinical Article

Blanch N, et al. – The aim was to determine the effect of increased dietary potassium from fruit and vegetables on endothelial function. The finding suggest that increased dietary potassium from fruit and vegetables improves flow mediated dilatation (FMD) within 1 week in healthy men and women but the mechanisms for this effect remain unclear.
Methods
  • Thirty five healthy men and women (age 32 ± 12 y) successfully completed a randomised cross–over study of 2 × 6 day diets either high or low in potassium.
  • Flow mediated dilatation (FMD), BP, pulse wave velocity (PWV), augmentation index (AI) and a fasting blood sample for analysis of Intercellular Adhesion Molecule–1 (ICAM–1), E–selectin, asymmetric dimethylarginine (ADMA) and endothelin–1 were taken on completion of each intervention.
Results
  • Dietary change was achieved by including bananas and potatoes in the high potassium and apples and rice/pasta in the low potassium diet.
  • Dietary adherence was assessed using 6 day weighed food diaries and a 24 h urine sample.
  • The difference in potassium excretion between the two diets was 48 ± 32 mmol/d (P = 0.000).
  • Fasting FMD was significantly improved by 0.6% ± 1.5% following the high compared to the low potassium diet (P = 0.03).
  • There were no significant differences in BP, PWV, AI, ICAM–1, ADMA or endothelin–1 between the interventions.
  • There was a significant reduction in E–selectin following the high (Median = 5.96 ng/ml) vs the low potassium diet (Median = 6.24 ng/ml), z = -2.49, P = 0.013.
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