Posted on 12/31/2019 4:59:52 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
I certainly didn’t fit the classic profile of the aging stroke victim. At the time of my brain explosion, I was 38. I’d run eight half-marathons and had a diet and exercise regimen that helped me cross those finish lines. But I also had an intense job that involved booking groups—including NBA teams—into hotels in San Francisco. That’s what I was doing at 2 a.m. on the Friday before Christmas in 2013, welcoming the Los Angeles Lakers to their hotel. I got four hours of sleep that night, then drove 90 miles to my mother’s house to drop off holiday gifts. On Sunday morning I was supposed to meet another sports team.
But by that time, I was fighting for my life.
My stroke shouldn’t have come as a surprise. A few years earlier I’d been having migraines and thought that food sensitivities might be causing them. I set up a meeting with a naturopathic doctor, and during the intake exam, a nurse did a double take at my blood pressure. “If I can’t get your blood pressure lower, we’re going to send you to the ER,” she said. Still, to me my blood pressure was just numbers, like a race time or a salary.
Working with the naturopathic doc, I was able to lower my blood pressure without meds as I worked my way through an elimination protocol to knock out inflammatory foods: beef, food coloring, lemons, and bananas. And, of course, salt. Good for me, right?
Soon my husband and I moved, and with the pace of my new job and my active life, I started to take my health for granted. My dietary vigilance slipped, and my blood pressure must have spiked again. That’s when my brain cooked up a reminder.
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Last I read, that was a solid maybe, depending.
I think you nailed it.
I had 3 strokes a year and a half ago. They were spaced about 5 weeks apart.
After two hospitals in Boston, and 12 doctors trying to figure out my last stroke it was determine my high blood pressure over 220 had sheared off the linings in the distribution system above my heart and cut off my blood supply.
Im doing OK now with a 115-120 over 60-68 blood pressure..
I was in such bad shape I lost my entire left side leg and arm and hand, and vision in my left eye, and at one time couldn't speak English.
I seem to have put that all behind me. -Tom
She would have blown out her knees by age 50 anyway. I cannot imagine why people think running is so healthy.
Jim Fixx had heart problems that ran in his family. As someone wrote recently you can’t outrun genetics.
This woman should been seeing a cardiologist and probably taking blood medicine medication.
We only have so many steps is my theory. Don’t use em up;^]
I have encountered several people who believe that running cures all.
Blood pressure meds work GREAT!!!!!
I used to be a long distance jogger, that was 20 years ago. I am now 64 and I walk now, much easier on me and I do some swimming.
No way I would go back to running, too much stress on the body and I am lucky I have had np ankle or knee problems.
This woman should be walking, much better fir her.
WOW, what a saga. Congratulations on your current BP and your recovery!!!
No, the point is running did NOT help anything.
Health nuts are always telling us eating right and exercising will make us live long. But it often fails.
“I cannot imagine why people think running is so healthy.”
Paraphrased because I do not remember his exact quote:
“The heart has an finite number of beats to it. I’ll be damned if I am going to use mine up running down some damn street.” - Neil Armstong
Yep, cannot run from a stroke.
I ran 7-10 miles a week in my 50’s culminating in a half-marathon at 59. Came in third in my age class but decided I was better off dialing it back. Now at 70 I walk briskly for several miles and run a short interval a couple of times along the way.
No knee problems, thank goodness!
“No, the point is running did NOT help anything.”
In her case. I think its more individualized, not a hard rule. Many runners are long-lived too. Humans are natural runners, just like we are natural omnivores. One good look at our body structures tells us that.
That said, some hardcore runners overdo it and cause themselves problems. But that’s what OCD people do in all their endeavors.
The old folks had it right. All things in moderation.
Lemon is good for kidneys too, Dr. recommends lemon juice everyday for people with kidney failure and those that suffer from kidney stones.
As a runner for decades who had to give it up because of chronic injuries, I agree with you.
Jogging and sprinting are two different things. Sprinting good.
One of the judges I appeared before ran 5 miles a day. Had a huge heart attack one night in bed and croaked. You just never know.
If you live long enough, you’re bound to die of something.
Humans are natural runners, just like we are natural omnivores.
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Indeed. Read somewhere that humans, although not among the fastest in the animal kingdom, has endurance over any other animal species.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=826HMLoiE_o
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