Posted on 11/28/2023 8:55:22 PM PST by ConservativeMind
A team of researchers argue that vitamin supplements can help prevent secondary strokes. They also advocate for the value of new technologies in eye research to verify these findings.
Homocysteine is an amino acid associated with stroke and secondary stroke when elevated above normal levels. B vitamins and folate, also known as vitamin B9, can help lower levels of homocysteine and stroke, according to a peer-reviewed editorial.
Elevated homocysteine is the result of genetic mutations or inadequate stores of vitamins B6, B12, folate and riboflavin (B2). Lowering it is relatively inexpensive because it can be achieved through vitamin supplementation.
The research team recommends lowering high levels of homocysteine with low doses of folic acid and cyanocobalamin, which treats vitamin B9 and B12 deficiencies, respectively; or better, with the natural vitamin forms found in food, L-methylfolate and methylcobalamin.
Merrill "Pete" Elias, professor emeritus with the UMaine Department of Psychology, Institute of Medicine and Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences and Engineering, co-authored the editorial with colleagues from the University of Arkansas as part of the Maine-Syracuse Longitudinal Study (MSLS), which he directs.
In the editorial, researchers also argued that the 2021 Guideline for the Secondary Prevention of Ischemic Stroke should be revised to include the use of vitamins to reduce homocysteine, specifically folic acid and low dose cyanocobalamin, or better, L-methylfolate and methylcobalamin.
Additionally, the authors urged the use of new ophthalmologic technology for monitoring risk of stroke and secondary stroke. The research team recommends retinal vascular imaging because this is a noninvasive method for evaluating central nervous system perfusion, which plays a crucial role in stroke.
"The eye is the window to the brain. Thus vascular imaging will play an important role in monitoring the effectiveness of stroke prevention strategies such as the new 2021 Guidelines," Elias says.
(Excerpt) Read more at medicalxpress.com ...
After my first heart attack and the implachement of a Stent, I rigorously studied nutrients. Thereafter I took over 20 supplements designed to help help heal the body and heart. 7 years later i had another heart attack and more stents. I don’t believe in anything saying something will work. Call me sceptical.
I want everything.
I have blockage in my carotid artery. But no stroke. Does this lower the chances. Of stroke if you have never had stroke?
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They disregard the fact that folic acid is a synthetic substance that is toxic to those with MTHFR genetic mutations. People with these mutations (I have three) cannot process B vitamins without methylated folate, the most bioavailable form being 5-methyltetrahydrofolate (5-MTHF). You can throw as much folic acid and B vitamins at these people as money can buy and they will pee out most of it and the rest will clog their liver with toxins. And they put folic acid in lots of processed foods…it’s in most store-bought bread. If you have the mutations, you are just multiplying your toxic load by adding additional folic acid.
I’m in the hospital tonight. I’ve got two gallstones in my gall bladder and one in my bile duct. The gallstones are causing a lot of inflammation in my gall bladder. I’m taking morphine. I’m being
referred to a surgeon in the morning. I’m told they’ll likely remove my gall bladder in a day or two. I can’t get to my computer at home for detailed research. I don’t have my cell phone recharger with me.
Do you know if there are any alternative to surgery to remove the gall bladder?
Your brain has six arteries that feed it. It’s amazing how they all feed into the circle of willis and contribute to cerebral blood flow. The problem with having even one vessel occluded with plaques is that plaques can break off and and enter the micro circulation of the brain. Have yourself followed medically and don’t believe anything on Medical Express, it’s the National Inquirer of medical journals.
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Pictures of gallstone-filled gall bladders are not pretty, and you can die from what happens next, at this time.
It is possible if you only have a small gallstone stuck that they can remove just the gallstone, letting you work on reducing the rest, but if the pain is from your gall bladder itself, that's a different problem.
What is choledocholithiasis vs. biliary colic?
https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/24210-choledocholithiasis
I reversed a coronary calcium score of under 100 to 0.
There are ways to help some problems.
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I had the operation. Doctors said it wasn’t just the stones. The whole gall bladder went bad. The problem was that I didn’t bring the problem in within days of its first appearance. Instead I waited for several weeks. Those weeks caused cascading effects which ruined the gall bladder. I ignored the problem for those weeks because. It was a localized low grade pain that I thought would go away. It didn’t. Instead I went to the ER in terrible pain. I’m on sedatives now. They were not able to remove the whole gall bladder. So I’ll have to return in 6 weeks to remove the rest.
I am saddened to hear that. Normally, people can’t handle the level of discomfort you could.
My wife was in the Emergency area of our hospital and thankfully was okay, but she and the person in front of her were laying on carts. A doctor came up to that person and in a lower voice said this person would quickly have their gallbladder removed, then wheeled the person away.
I turned to my wife and said, “You wound up being fortunate.” We thought she had a similar problem, but it wasn’t. She nearly vomited a couple times in the waiting room.
What level of inflammation did you have, such that they couldn’t get it all out, yet, you were able to handle the pain? You must have a very strong pain tolerance!
Also, as an aside, I do know two people who naturally got rid of their gallstone issues. It is, most definitely, possible.
It’s not clear to me as to why they stopped. I’ll learn more tomorrow. So far I understand that the inflammation spread to surrounding tissue so they could not see the extent of the damage with the laprascope. I did not go through weeks of bad pain. Only an hour or so before I checked myself into the emergency room got morphine. The rest of the time I experienced only a slight dull pain that came and went. Yes I understand that if you catch it early— more options are available. I did not catch it early. I regrets that I did not come in sooner.
I understand things a bit better now. The operation yesterday was aborted. They did not take out any part of my gall bladder. The reason was two fold. The gallbladder was too inflamed. There was too much scarring. They could not remove the gall bladder laparoscopically. They would have had to make a large incision and cut some stomach muscles to do that. I did not give them permission to do that.
So today they installed a drain for the gall bladder. I’ll do antibiotics for two weeks and leave the drain in for six to eight weeks. The hope is that my gallbladder will be healed and the bile duct will drain properly. There is an 80% chance of that happening. At that point I have two options. I can either have the gallbladder removed laparoscopically — or I can change my diet to minimize the chances of gallstones. There is a 20% chance that they can’t remove the gall bladder laparoscopically. Then they would do the more invasive surgery.
The formal name for my gall bladder issue is cholecystitis. The recommended treatment for it is gall bladder removal followed by a keto diet. If my gall bladder is healed— i do have the option of not removing gall bladder. But the it I’m told that to minimize the chances of a recurrence— I need to minimize all oils in my diet—not just bad oils. That means I’d have to cut back on olive oil and coconut oil ghee and grab fed butter and grass fed sometimes unpasteurized whole milk
I’ll have to do more research on this. Please do post whatever info you run across. Tia.
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