Does Ginkgo Protect Against Stroke?
Maybe that’s why they’re so popular in the alternative health field, with ginkgo outselling all but four other medicinal herbs.
Now, new research shows ginkgo may additionally play a key role in the treatment and prevention of stroke. To read more about ginkgo biloba, see that from the Mayo Clinic.
To read more about the study, see that from Reuters. “If further work confirms what we’ve seen, we
So, keep your eyes open. Researchers from Johns Hopkins University studied the impact of ginkgo on mice that had suffered strokes. Today’s medical miracle quickly becomes yesterday’s outdated protocol. Even mice that were not treated with ginkgo until four and one-half hours following the stroke had one-third less damage.
“It’s still a large leap from rodent brains to human brains but these results strongly propose that further research into the protective effects of ginkgo is warranted,” says lead researcher Sylvain Doré, Ph.D., an associate professor in the area of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine. That being the case, it doesn’t get much better than ginkgo biloba.
It’s true - ginkgo biloba trees have been around for 270 million years.
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