Out-of-the-box thinking from Justin from Ideapod - what about using it for stroke?

 I consider everyone in stroke too fucking hidebound to have any original ideas on how to solve stroke. I have ten thousands, they're sprinkled through my 28,553 posts. Every day I come up with more, that's how much stroke research is out there!

Send me hate mail on this: oc1dean@gmail.com. I'll print your complete statement with your name and my response in my blog. Or are you afraid to engage with my stroke-addled mind? I need an explanation of your incompetence on why you're not solving stroke.

out-of-the-box thinking from Justin from Ideapod

Hi there,

The scene: A psychology lab.

The year: 1945…

On the table in front of you: A candle, a box of thumbtacks, and some matches.

Your task? Fix the candle to the wall so it can burn without dripping wax on the table below.

On the surface, it seems simple. But this experiment by psychologist Karl Duncker didn't go well for most of its participants.

Most people failed.

They tried tacking the candle directly to the wall... the candle was too thick.
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They tried melting the wax then pinning it... that didn't work either.

The solution was staring them in the face, but they couldn't see it.

Use the box. Tack it to the wall and place the candle inside.

Why am I telling you this story? Because this experiment is where the phrase "thinking outside the box" comes from.

And this phrase has come to shape how we’ve viewed creativity and problem-solving ever since.

The whole point of Duncker’s experiment was to demonstrate that we’re often so conditioned to think in a certain way that we can lose our ability to see obvious alternatives.

And to me, that’s profound.

It's certainly the case that MY greatest breakthroughs often come when I challenge my assumptions and embrace uncertainty.

Things go more smoothly when I don’t have to have all the answers.

And I get much better results when I’m willing to question everything about my decisions and processes.

The first step in thinking outside the box is becoming aware that you HAVE these mental boxes.

They tend to be the areas where you feel defensive or are afraid to be wrong.

Sometimes I have to take a big step back and examine my assumptions before I can see a different way of doing things.

 

New study on elderly mice suggests cannabis could be a good treatment for dementia.

How many decades before your doctor suggests cannabis for its health benefits? NEVER?
I don't care that this was tested in mice, can't your doctor  think outside the box?  Does your doctor think at all?
http://www.spring.org.uk/2017/05/cannabise-brain-ageing.php?omhide=true 

Cannabis reverses the brain ageing process, new research finds.
The study on elderly mice showed that their brains could be regressed to the state of two-month-olds.
They were given a low-dose treatment with a cannabis-active ingredient (THC).
THC could prove to be a good treatment for dementia eventually, the researchers think.
Professor Andreas Zimmer, who led the research, said:

“With increasing age, the quantity of the cannabinoids naturally formed in the brain reduces.
When the activity of the cannabinoid system declines, we find rapid ageing in the brain.
It looked as though the THC treatment turned back the molecular clock.”

The ‘elderly’ mice in the study were actually two-years-old.
Mice normally start to show cognitive deficits at around one-year-old.
However, a four week low-dose course of THC (the active ingredient in cannabis) reversed these cognitive deficits.
Professor Zimmer said:

“The treatment completely reversed the loss of performance in the old animals.”

The next stage is to conduct clinical trials in humans.
The study was published in the journal Nature Medicine (Bilkei-Gorzo et al., 2017).

FDA Warns Against ‘Stiff Bull’ Coffee with Viagra-Like Ingredient

Don't do this on your own, but see the possibilities of Viagra here:

14 posts on Viagra here.

None of this will ever be standard stroke rehab. The whole point of this post is to get people thinking about out-of-the-box possibilities.

FDA Warns Against ‘Stiff Bull’ Coffee with Viagra-Like Ingredient

Nothing kills the mood quite like a public health safety warning.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has issued an advisory regarding the consumption of not-so-delicately named Stiff Bull Herbal Coffee, a roasted coffee product containing an ingredient similar to the active ingredient in the erectile disfunction drug Viagra.
The FDA said it examined the coffee product through international mail shipments, finding desmethyl carbodenafil, an erectile disfunction alternative to the popular prescription drug sildenafil. Desmethyl carbodenafil is a chemical compound and unlisted ingredient that the FDA recently advised consumers not to use for the purpose of sexual enhancement.
This section of the FDA advisory regarding the Stiff Bull coffee reads a bit like a Viagra commercial. (Go ahead, picture a smiling, grey-haired man driving along a coast in a vintage rag-top or golfing with his buddies as you read this as a voiceover:)

This undeclared ingredient may interact with nitrates found in some prescription drugs such as nitroglycerin and may lower blood pressure to dangerous levels. Men with diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, or heart disease often take nitrates.

Stiff Bull, a company registered in Maryland that has distributors in nine states, according to the company’s website, says its coffee is augmented by a proprietary blend of tongkat ali, maca root, and guarana. The company’s slogan is “made for adults who want to maintain relationships.”
The FDA said the warning was part of a larger effort to educate consumers about the growing trend of dietary supplements or other food promoted as beneficial to sexual performance or health, despite the fact that they may contain “potentially harmful hidden ingredients.”