Brain Health

Here’s How to Lower the Risks of Strokes in 5 Steps.

Strokes can be prevented with healthy lifestyle choices and timely support from professionals.

Dr Mehmet Yildiz (Main)
EUPHORIA
Published in
7 min readOct 2, 2022

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This article introduces stroke, its symptoms, root causes, and practical tips to reduce the risk factors. This story is not health advice. Instead, it is for information, inspiration, and awareness purposes.

Stroke is a critical brain disorder. The root cause of stroke is the interruption of blood flow to brain parts due to blocked blood vessels.

Stroke is critical to address timely as it can cause disability (permanent damage) and even death as the brain cells cannot survive without oxygen.

There are many reasons for blood vessels to be blocked. Most of them are related to lifestyle choices. Some are related to other health conditions. For example, stroke and heart disease are similar.

Stroke is widespread, affecting millions of people. It is the third leading cause of death in the United States. According to NIH:

“Each year, about 795,000 people in the United States have strokes, and of these incidents, 137,000 people die. About 610,000 of these cases are first strokes, and 185,000 people who survive a stroke will have another…

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Dr Mehmet Yildiz (Main)
EUPHORIA

Scientist, Technologist, Inventor, focusing on HEALTH and JOY. Founder of ILLUMINATION, curating key messages for society. Connection: https://digitalmehmet.com