10 Warnings Signs Of STROKE A Week BEFORE It Happens

Hello Health Champions today we're going to talk  about the top 10 warning signs of a stroke and the  

things that you can figure out a week before  it happens and one of the signs is loss of  

consciousness so how would that come about that  seems pretty drastic well what is a stroke that  

is when the brain is deprived of oxygen and that's  a big deal because the brain is only two percent  

of your body weight but it uses 20 percent or  more of your energy so it is incredibly highly  

metabolically active it's working all the time  whether you're awake or asleep and therefore  

if it doesn't get the oxygen that has drastic  consequences so if it's losing oxygen for even  

10 seconds then you're going to go unconscious  so it's not like you're just holding your breath  

because then the blood and the oxygen is still  circulating you're just not adding any new but  

with the stroke it's a complete loss for a portion  of the brain and if that lasts 10 seconds you can  

go unconscious if that goes on for four to six  minutes now we get permanent brain damage those  

cells that have been deprived for that length of  time they are dead and they're not coming back  

and there are two types of Strokes primarily both  of them obviously have to do with lack of oxygen  

the first is ischemic which means lack of blood  and that accounts for about 87 percent of all the  

strokes and the other kind that is even worse is  called hemorrhagic that means a bleeding stroke  

which is the other 13 now both of these are  devastating but the ischemic will kill people  

almost immediately three percent of the time now  it usually involves a loss of quality of life  

there's a rehabilitation but for the most part  you can restore all or most of the function after  

an ischemic stroke however with a hemorrhagic  stroke more than 50 percent of people are going  

to be dead either immediately after or a short  time a few months or a year after the stroke and  

then there's something called a transient ischemic  attack or a TIA and this has a long in common with  

Strokes in the way they show up but this one is a  temporary setback because it lasts less than five  

minutes so if the oxygen deprivation is severe  but not permanent if it lasts a shorter time than  

the four to six minute it takes to kill off brain  tissue then we can recover from it so here's the  

difference between these three the first one is  called the ischemic and very often these strokes  

happen at a portion when there's a junction when  we go from a bigger blood vessel to a smaller  

so we have a clot an embolus a clump a blood  clot that travels and the first portion of the  

blood vessel is big enough that it's just flowing  with the blood but then it gets into a smaller  

portion and it gets stuck so now it blocks off  that smaller portion and everything that is beyond  

everything that's distal to this blood vessel  all of these cells get no blood supply and after  

several minutes that tissue dies and then the even  worse stroke which is called hemorrhagic and now  

what happens it's not necessarily at a portion  where there's a junction but it is a point where  

there is a weakening or where there's a turn of  a blood vessel where there's a lot of friction  

there's just constant pounding and now the blood  vessel breaks and this blood flows outside of the  

blood vessels and it just starts spilling into  the brain tissue and now because it's in the  

wrong place it starts filling up between the bone  and the brain and it starts creating pressure on  

top of the fact that the blood isn't going where  it's supposed to and the Third Kind which is the  

transient ischemic attack might look like this and  here again we have a clot or we could have maybe  

some plaquing where there's a narrowing so now if  we have a vasoconstriction or some Factor that's  

going to occlude to put some pressure increase the  pressure and reduce the flow then that could be  

severe enough that we temporarily get a blockage  or it could be a clot that gets stuck but it's  

not severe enough that it's going to completely  occlude it maybe this breaks up and gets washed  

out or it gets dissolved after a little bit they  don't really know exactly how these things happen  

but the key here to understand is whatever the  reason that we get a blockage or reduction in  

blood flow it's temporary and if that doesn't  last long enough to kill off the blood cells now  

we can get back to normal and these typically get  a full recovery so the transient ischemic attack  

is temporary and the time period that the oxygen  deprivation actually lasts that it's cut off could  

be anywhere from seconds to a few minutes but less  than five minutes however the symptoms people are  

usually having a really bad day and it could be  minutes or up to 24 hours and in some cases even  

a little bit longer for people to fully recover  and a lot of times when people think they have  

transient ischemic attacks and they think they're  fully recovered if they do some Imaging they'll  

see that it actually was a small stroke and this  happens in as many as 40 percent of the time but  

if there's no permanent damage or if people don't  know that they have any permanent damage then why  

is this still so important why does it still  matter because the Tia is also called a mini  

stroke or a pre-stroke or a warning stroke so  that's the key word it's a warning it tells us  

of something and about one-third of the people  who have a TIA will go on to have a full stroke  

with permanent damage within a year and to look  at it from the other direction in one study they  

found that the people actually had had a full  stroke 43 percent of them had had a TIA within  

seven days so obviously the earlier that you  address this the better off you are because if  

it happens within seven days there may not be a  whole lot of time to do something about it but if  

it takes upwards of a year then there's plenty of  things that you can do to reduce the risk but the  

other thing to understand is that a lot of medical  conditions are under reported because doctors and  

statisticians only know about them when people  tell about them so a lot of people are going to  

kind of stick their head in the sand it's just  human nature especially with men that we have  

this little thing it only lasts a few seconds and  we'd rather not tell about it because if we ignore  

it then it's like it never happens so I believe  that these things are tremendously underreported  

especially the small stuff that happens early on  the really big stuff that we get worried about  

or we fall over or somebody else gets notice  of that we end up in the emergency room those  

probably get reported but the little stuff in  the beginning is probably grossly underreported  

so I believe and this is just my opinion that if  we really paid attention to the symptoms we're  

going to talk about signs and symptoms then I  believe the majority of people will have some  

warning signs that we can pick up on early on  and one of the most classic signs of a pretty  

severe stroke is weakness or paralysis and the way  it's going to show up it's going to be sudden and  

that's a key feature of all these things that  they happen Suddenly It's like out of the blue  

and it often happens unilaterally when we're  talking about a weakness or paralysis which  

means it affects one side of the body because we  really have two brains in one head and they're  

just connected by a little stalk in between in the  middle but the right side of the brain controls  

the left side of the body so if we get this  weakness or Paralysis on the left side of the body  

then we know that it's the right brain that had  the stroke and this could happen typically where  

we're going to notice it mostly it's going to be  in the face the arm or the leg because if it's the  

face we're going to see it or we're going to feel  it immediately and obviously with an arm and a  

leg if we can't move it that's pretty obvious and  if it happens in the face it's something someone  

else can observe because we'll have something  called facial drooping the face just hangs on  

one side or if we smile it's an uneven smile  it's basically just happening on one side but  

a weakness can also happen in smaller less obvious  muscles and again I want to emphasize that all of  

these things are sudden and it could be if you had  difficulty swallowing or chewing all of a sudden  

then that could be a stroke if you had loss of  fine motor skills such as writing or buttoning  

clothing or things like that and it could also  show up as difficulty speaking or slurred speech  

and of course loss of muscle and motor function  could affect balance and coordination and this is  

not just your average poor balance but something  that just comes on very suddenly and number five  

is cognitive changes so now if for example we no  longer understand language whether it's spoken or  

written that has not so much with motor function  but there's another portion of the brain that has  

been affected other cognitive changes could have  to do with people being confused it could be that  

their memory suffers or they can't recall things  anymore if they no longer can solve problems or  

make decisions could also be a sign of a stroke  but a stroke could absolutely affect any of the  

five senses so very often we hear that blurred or  double vision is a sign of stroke or if we have  

numbness or tingling in any part of the body  especially face or hands or legs is typically  

where we're going to notice them that could be a  stroke but we don't typically hear about changes  

in the other senses and the reason is that it's  not so obvious for example if we get a change in  

hearing than due to a stroke then there's probably  going to be other things going on that are much  

more overpowering same thing with touch or taste  or smell we probably will have some change in  

these but it's going to be relatively small in  comparison to all the the other things going  

on but what does it mean to catch these signs  early well there aren't really any early signs  

of a stroke but here's what we need to understand  that the transient ischemic attack the mini stroke  

or the warning stroke and the real thing have  the same signs because it's the same mechanisms  

however they differ in severity and they differ in  duration so the transient ischemic attack once it  

comes that really is the early warning even though  it's pretty far gone even at this point that is  

the early warning and if we want to catch it even  earlier then we're not going to go by signs but  

now instead we need to really understand the risk  factors and to develop a healthy lifestyle so  

here are some of the lifestyle risk factors that  predispose you to a stroke one would be a prime  

clear history of a transient ischemic attack or a  stroke if you've already had one then the risk is  

definitely up second if you have a blood disorder  like sickle cell anemia if your blood cells are  

abnormal they'll have a greater tendency to clot  and create clumps that can get stuck so that's not  

a great thing number three would be autoimmune  diseases like SLE systemic lupus erythematosus  

often known as just lupus or rheumatoid arthritis  so with these you have a lot more inflammation  

typically which also would predispose you to a  stroke but I'd like to talk about lifestyle risk  

factors meaning things that you can do something  about so if you've had a prior stroke then you've  

already had it you can't undo it so yes you want  to make some changes but you can't really do  

anything about these so they're not really truly  lifestyle risk factors same thing with a blood  

disorder you have it or you don't it's genetic you  can modify your lifestyle to a certain degree but  

it's not strictly a risk factor same thing with  autoimmunity you can develop a lifestyle to reduce  

the effects but the autoimmune condition is never  completely going to go away you you can improve it  

to where it doesn't really change your quality of  life but the rest of these factors I want to talk  

about are truly lifestyle there's something that  you can do something about so number four is high  

blood pressure that is a risk factor and I I saw  several lists by the way where they called high  

blood pressure a sign of a stroke which obviously  it isn't it's a risk factor that predisposes you  

because high blood pressure puts additional stress  on the blood vessels and it can cause ruptures and  

problems and there's some obvious risk factors  that I hope everyone knows about is smoking and  

tobacco use and also excessive alcohol use so  these are just common sense Lifestyle Changes  

having a sedentary lifestyle sitting around  exercise is not optional your body is designed to  

move it needs to move and movement and exercise  Drive pretty much all physiological processes  

in the body so sedentary lifestyle is a risk  factor but also medications like birth control  

and hormone replacement therapy in particular  will increase the risk of Strokes number nine  

is stress because stress affects everything it  puts your body in a fight flight mode and just  

changes all the priorities of healing and 10 is  insulin resistance type 2 diabetes and all the  

factors related all the conditions related to  metabolic syndrome so here we're talking about  

cardiovascular disease high blood pressure poor  circulation chronic kidney disease peripheral  

artery disease and all of these problems all of  these conditions are often listed as independent  

risk factors but I don't like to do that because  they're not independent they're directly resulting  

from insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes and  metabolic syndrome which we can do something  

about so by following a lifestyle and a lot of  the advice we promote on this channel you can  

handle the high blood pressure you can handle the  insulin resistance obviously you can stop smoking  

and drinking too much you can start exercising  and then you can develop a lifestyle where you  

minimize or get rid of most of the medication a  lot of people can stop their medication over time  

if they just heal the body and restore the body  to the point where medication isn't necessary so  

don't just jump straight off and say these are bad  things but realize they're just making up they're  

just covering symptoms that result from something  that isn't working and if you make it work again  

then for the most part you're not going to need  those medications and then we can truly understand  

what stress is and I've done several videos  on it and if we start handling the root causes  

then we can minimize the effects of stress on our  bodies and our health so if you're fairly healthy  

healthy then these are the things that you need to  maintain to stay that way if you are diabetic or  

insulin resistant then you need to do these things  to reverse it and if you had a transient ischemic  

attack then you start these like yesterday and you  get really serious about it to minimize the risk  

of having a stroke as a follow-up event now a big  part of the problem is that up to 88 percent of  

the population is to some degree insulin resistant  or have some metabolic problem but based on the  

standard blood work and standard ranges They  Don't Really catch it so I've created a blood work  

course and you could get some blood work to figure  out exactly where you are and to really understand  

a lot of this stuff much better so if you'd like  to learn more I'll put some information down  

below and some other symptoms of a Tia or stroke  could be nausea and vomiting it could be severe  

fatigue especially sudden severe fatigue like  overwhelmingly tired all of a sudden or a severe  

headache and again not your average thing that  just comes creeping up but something that's like  

someone stabs you in the head with an ice pick  severe sudden pain or it could be some personality  

changes and this is probably not something you're  going to pick up on yourself but something You  

observe in someone else like something different  about their behavior if you know how they usually  

act and now it's just completely different  something about their mood changes or something  

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