wwjd

WWJD
what would joe do
thats what i was thinking last week as i listened to
the news report

my younger brother was a deputy sheriff for several years
he died last year from that devastating disease
alzheimers disease
the one none of us wants to get

its alzheimers disease then stroke then cancer then heart attacks
thats what america fears

joe was fair
i spoke with him several times about being a policeman
he seemed to deal with people fairly
especially those normal citizens that made a mistake
like speeding
or
maybe jaywalking

no hard core stuff like drugs dwi prostitution murder robbery
those guys didnt get off easy

i even discussed with him once about the time i was stopped
and had my wife she not been there with me i probably would have
made the 6 oclock news like she did

i turned like hundreds of drivers every morning early into a
turn lane
if we all didnt do that then the traffic at that intersection that
time of day would come to a standstill
had been doing it for years
then
there he was behind me with his lights

sir you turned too early on that turn lane

what do you mean everyone does that
look see all those people doing it now

enter my wife she sitting next to me and who gave me
a swift elbow in the ribs
shut up she said youre making him mad

think maybe he had been up all night and was grumpy
as i argued more he got more unhappy
glad he didnt reach and grab me by the arm
i probably would have ended up like she did
although she seemed more innocent than i was
so
i was sore in the ribs by then
i got the message

last week in austin a young college student got ready to
do her morning job
shoes on ear buds in place
put on her toe shoes
i wear those ear buds not the toe shoes
when i work in the yard on weekends to listen
to my garden show
my wife is always talking to me and i cant hear a word
she says
glad she doesnt come up behind me and grab my arm
something bad may come of that
like it did for her

she was running on the drag
thats the area around the university of texas west campus

when you drive down that street everyone knows to
watch out for pedestrians as the students
ok when i go down to this area i do the same thing
just walk out into the street to the other side
you know like deer do sometimes on the roads
or chickens crossing the road
notice how you never seem to hit those chickens

you have to be cautious
then
theres those signs you are suppose to wait for
those white gloved signs that starts sometimes
a countdown to let you know when to stop
however
the rule of the road in that area
if its clear dash across
i do it they do it its the common law
understood by all

so she is running
cuts across like everyone does
now there was a cop a real big cop not tall
writing a ticket to some criminal at the intersection

wonder
why
he wasnt a further east and north
at that intersection
if you live around here you know what it is
ok its rundberg lane
you can get a hit a joint a bag of something a fix a lady
or a man anytime 24/7 a day
we know it they know it the police know it
so why werent those cops over there stopping that criminal
activity instead of working so hard
stopping those student hardened criminals who broke
societies law of
jaywalking
a threat to us all

so she crossed the street runs past the cop he reaches out
and grabs her arm
wrestles her to the ground
how surprised im sure she was as she went down
slammed those handcuffs on her
if she could have jerked away there is no way in hell
that cop could ever have caught her
it appears it took 4 of them to subdue this criminal
as she yelled
i didnt do anything wrong i was just jogging

it was caught mostly on tape and on pictures by bystanders

now she did do wrong when she started to f bomb some
i fbomb did nothing wrong
yes you did you menance to society you jaywalked
youre worse than those rundberg criminals

into the car she went
ok she was fbombing as she went
i fbombed didnt do anything wrong
she wouldnt learn would she

later the police chief seemed a little too grumpy to me
must run in that police force that day
he said something about at least they didnt rape her
seems strange

wonder how he explained that on cnn

all i can say is thank goodness she wasnt black or hispanic
it could have been a lot worse

oh yes across the street while this was all happening
was a reporter for the daily texan the ut newspaper
who was sitting at starbucks drinking his coffee
he caught this all on video which has gone viral
you can even hear him talking to her
and warning other potential criminals who would jaywalk there

here is the link to a story on this event from the daily texan


here is his youtube video of the event

  

she looks like a hardened criminal to me
hope she is a law student

so wwjd
joe would have been fair
im sure in his heart he would have looked at her like he would
have looked at one of his daughters
that look he could give
probably gave a warning a stern warning
not to jaywalk
and would have let her go and finish her run
so she could get back to class

they dont make those cops like him anymore i guess

the organicgreen doctor

and it makes you feel better

AND IT MAKES YOU FEEL BETTER 

on days when i take my dogs walking along the 1 mile path
i have mowed in my pastures i get a sense of well being as
i walk
i notice that the rest of the day seems to
go much smoother

i am just 6 feet from whats happening on the ground
as eg now i see all those blue bonnets growing everywhere
that i would not normally see from the driveway or the
road driving by

i can see eg the blue birds as they are searching for a place
to live this year
please take my blue bird houses i have readied for them
yes i talk to them
i love their song they sing
i tell my wife she do you hear the blue birds singing

then there are all those turkeys agobbling down by the river
and that owl that hoots and hoots even in the early morning

i see all the signs the deer have been in my pasture
the tracks the residue they have left the areas where they
seem to be bedding down
they seem to get closer and closer to the house each year
as my pastures and the trees there especially the trees get
more and more grown up

many times in the early morning there are lots of deer that
will travel across our front pasture i guess on the way
back down to the river

so its relaxing to take that short walk
peaceful
and its exercise

our dogs love it
they walk and run a lot more than that mile course
as they follow smells and run through the deep native grasses
we have there

we have a resident road runner bird now that seems to live year round
in our pastures
heck hes around so much our cats and dogs just ignore him

so this relaxing exercise is good for your heart your brain your soul

in the last 3 weeks i have been to two conferences on alzheimers disease
there has been and is now going on a lot of research on the effect
of exercise on the development of dementia and alzheimers

folks its been shown that exercise can decrease the production of
beta amyloid in the brain
that stuff sticky stuff that shows up in alzheimers disease

if you add other things we can do to stay healthy
like
control blood pressure
control cholesterol
control diabetes
control your weight
eat a healthy diet
dont smoke
dont drink excessively
sleep well

wait isnt that what i wrote yesterday when i wrote about things
to decrease the chances of having a stroke
and before on heart attacks

the europeans are big into doing studies on preventative stuff
for the general population
if you look at the above list
its all doable
its cheap to do
most we can do ourselves
and
in their studies the dementia rate can be decreased by 30-40%
over a long period of time

in the us these long term studies are going on now
isnt that where most of us came from the european countries
so
their findings should apply to us

so could this be the major prevention that those of you who
are in your 20s 30s 40s 50s could be doing now
to prevent through treatment with those things listed above
to not get or to remarkably slow down dementia and alzheimers
onset later in life

even starting this later in life in your 60s 70s 80s 90s seems to help
but not as much as in those millenniums

exercise research shows that it increases the number of blood vessels
that supply the brain cells and increase the number of connections
between nerve cells

i swear as im walking in my pastures enjoying the scenery
that i can just feel those new vessels growing and those
nerve cells start interconnecting again

so as of right now the best hope for treatment for me
and for you younger folks the hope for prevention
is to exercise any exercise and to do those things on
the list above

so lets get moving
for your heart and your brain and your soul

the organicgreen doctor

dont have a stroke

DONT HAVE A STROKE
in my practice which was a family practice
made up of mostly young healthy folks with some
older folks
i didnt have many patients who had strokes

if had a patient with a stroke it was usually a young person
sitting here trying to think of the men i had that had strokes
i remember only one and he was 19 when he had his
before he became my patient
his was caused by smoking uncontrolled blood pressure obesity
and severe high cholesterol

but the rest of my stroke patients were young females of
child bearing age
luckily for them there strokes were not life threatening and they
all seemed to have recovered well

there was usually some explanation like the pill hormone replacement
smoking migraines high blood pressure eg

new guidelines came out recently for women for stroke prevention
in addition to the usual recommendations
quit smoking
control blood pressure
control cholesterol
control diabetes
maintain a normal weight
exercise

uh thats the same as ways to slow down or prevent alzheimers also

the new guidelines focused on stroke risks more common in women
stroke is the third leading cause of death in women
they live longer than men so this may be one explanation of the increased
risk of stroke in women

here are the risks

migraine with aura
the women who suffers with these have a prodrome or warning before
that awful headache occurs
things like dizziness ringing zigzag lines in your vision light sensitivity eg
i had the zigzag lines once when i was in practice
my first thought was oh shoot im having a dang stroke
women have migraines more common than men and they seem to
be hormone related
if you add smoking birth control to this mix then the risk for stroke
is increased
women with migraine with aura should not smoke
nor should those who dont have migraine with aura

atrial fibrillation increases the risk for stroke
women over 75 should be screened for it
the left atrium fibrillates or doesnt beat right and a clot
can form there which can be dislodged and sent to the brain
causing a stroke
most of these i picked up was simply from listening to the heart
beat during an office visit
the treatment is converting this to a normal rhythm with medicine
or mild shock treatment
some women who have this have to take coumadin long term
to prevent clot formation

menopause 
women use to be given hormones to prevent strokes and heart attacks
thanks you drug companies for lying to us for years

birth control pills
women should be screened for high blood pressure before starting
the pill
they probably shouldnt take the pill if they have high blood pressure
or smoke
both increases the risk for stoke

most of the clotting events i had in female patients on birth control
were deep vein thrombosis a clot in the legs and
pulmonary embolism a clot in the lung
which can be fatal
it seems most of those clots were in women who were on the pill
and smoked

pregnancy
if a women has preeclampsia which causes elevated blood pressure
in pregnancy they are at increased risk for strokes later in life
and quadruple the risk for high blood pressure
the greatest risk for stroke during pregnancy with preclampsia is
the last 3 months and during the early postpartum time

elevated blood pressure before pregnancy needs to controlled

some women with this condition may need low dose aspirin treatment
during pregnancy

aspirin therapy
is recommended for women who have had a stroke not caused by a
ruptured blood vessel but by a clot
is recommended for women over 65
is recommended for women with type 2 diabetes
no one though should take aspirin unless they discuss it with
their doctor

so we men are well acquainted with the fact that women are different
than men
live with one and you know that for a fact

women do have risk factors for stroke that are also different
hopefully women will
take note of these new guidelines on stroke prevention in women

the organicgreen doctor