How to Stop or Slow Down Stroke Damage

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How to Stop or Slow Down Stroke Damage

Stroke is the third leading cause of death in the United States and a leading cause of serious, long-term disability in adults. About 600,000 new strokes are reported in the U.S. each year. The good news is that treatments are available that can greatly reduce the damage caused by a stroke. However, you need to recognize the symptoms of a stroke and get to a hospital quickly. Getting treatment within 60 minutes can prevent disability.

First of all, a stroke, sometimes called a “brain attack,” occurs when blood flow to the brain is interrupted. When a stroke occurs, brain cells in the immediate area begin to die because they stop getting the oxygen and nutrients they need to function.

There are two major kinds of stroke. The first, called an ischemic stroke, is caused by a blood clot that blocks or plugs a blood vessel or artery in the brain. About 80 percent of all strokes are ischemic. The second, known as a hemorrhagic stroke, is caused by a blood vessel in the brain that breaks and bleeds into the brain. About 20 percent of strokes are hemorrhagic.
Disabilities can result from a stroke.  Although stroke is a disease of the brain, it can affect the entire body. The effects of a stroke range from mild to severe and can include paralysis, problems with thinking, problems with speaking, and emotional problems. Patients may also experience pain or numbness after a stroke.

On the positive side, there are a growing number of people who have made a 90% to 100% recovery by correcting their biochemistry via the results found in doing a timely Cardio/ION test.

The sad fact is these people are in the minority simply because traditional medicine does not look at human biochemistry as it relates to stroke recovery.

As it now stands in standard medical care thrombolytic therapy is the only treatment for ischemic stroke. 

The most commonly used drug for thrombolytic therapy is tissue plasminogen activator (T-PA). T-PA works best to help people with strokes caused by clots (ischemic strokes) when it is given right away after stroke symptoms begin. Ideally, one should receive thrombolytic medications within the first 90 minutes after arriving at the hospital for treatment.

Unfortunately a 2008 paper published in the New England Journal of Medicine stated that due to its narrow therapeutic window and complexity of administration, only 3-5% of patients benefit from plasminogen activator (T-PA) therapy. The paper further commented that the current treatment for stroke patients is simply not enough to give good results.

A viable and medically documented answer that sadly is not addressed for the stroke victim is the recommendation of DHA (docosahexaenoic acid, an omega-3 fatty acid that is in cod liver oil).

A recent study showed that when they created strokes in experimental animals, if they gave DHA this cut the size of the infarct (the area of brain that is damaged) by up to 77%! In other words the brain’s area of stroke damage was only one quarter of its original size.

Now there is something you MUST know to make this effective and that is DHA needs to be given within five hours of the stroke.

This study emphasized the significance of doctors giving as little as 500 mg of DHA as soon as someone is diagnosed with a stroke.

This amount not only cut the area of damage by three-fourths, but increased recovery and improved many other parameters, such as reducing the amount of swelling in the brain, and much more.

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