Show 1413: Stopping Strokes: How to Reduce Your Risk of a Brain Attack

The People's Pharmacy

Joe and Terry Graedon

Health & Fitness, Medicine, Kids & Family, Alternative Health

4.5 • 934 Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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This week, we hear a first-hand account of what a stroke feels like, from neuroanatomist Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor. Then we learn from a neurologist, Dr. Matthew Schrag, about the risk factors for such a brain attack. What treatments could be helpful? You could listen through your local public radio station or get the live […]

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0:00.0	I'm Joe Graydon.
0:01.5	And I'm Terry Graydon.
0:02.9	Welcome to this podcast of the People's Pharmacy.
0:06.0	You can find previous podcasts and more information on a range of health topics at
0:11.5	People's Pharmacy.com.
0:14.9	Americans worry a lot about heart attacks.
0:18.1	That's why 50 million people take a statin daily. What about brain attacks?
0:23.4	This is the People's Pharmacy with Terry and Joe Graydon.
0:34.0	Strokes are an important cause of disability as well as death.
0:38.3	We'll hear from a survivor about her extraordinary experience.
0:42.3	We'll also talk with a neurologist who focuses on the overlap between vascular and cognitive neurological diseases.
0:50.3	He'll explain the different types of strokes and what puts us at risk. What advances
0:55.8	have been made that can help improve recovery from a stroke? Coming up on the people's pharmacy,
1:01.5	stopping strokes, how to reduce your risk of a brain attack.
1:30.6	In the People's Pharmacy Health headlines, many Americans are recovering from their winter holidays, quite literally, according to the CDC, symptoms of fever, sore throat, cough, and congestion are soaring. Rates of flu infection are high,
1:36.6	especially in the West, the South, and the Southwest. The primary strains showing up on tests are influenza A H1N1 and influenza A H3N2. RSV infections are also rising, and COVID-19 is making many people sick.
1:49.5	Test results for COVID are no longer reported, so public health agencies rely on wastewater testing.
1:56.3	Those levels are currently going up. The CDC estimates that cases of COVID-19 will continue to increase
2:04.5	in the coming weeks. China is experiencing a wave of upper respiratory tract infections due to
2:11.5	human metanumovirus, or HMPV. This virus was only identified by Dutch virologists in 2001, although it may
2:22.8	have been circulating for decades before that. HMPV causes symptoms such as cough, shortness of
2:29.6	breath, sore throat, fever, and nasal congestion. Sounds a lot like flu, COVID, or even the common cold.
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