Stroke Recovery 3 Years Later

How Cardio Cocktail Impacted My Life in Less Than 3 Months

Herbert L. Brussow, Ph.D.

(c) 2008

My name is Herb Brussow. I am 72 years old and a stroke survivor of three years—July 29, 2005. I had a life changing experience when I became a stroke survivor while on a trip 300 miles from home. For just short of two days I was experiencing my right side slowly changing. I had to make a concerted effort to lift my right leg and was very conscious that I had to pay very close attention to my right leg when walking. I dropped a tray while in a cafeteria taking my meal to my table. My speech was getting more difficult.

I am very grateful for the manager of a dormitory system at WCIU in Pasadena, CA who saw me and immediately told me to get into his office and lay down that he was calling the paramedics. I have never spent a night in a hospital before my stroke experience beginning on July 29, 2005. The stroke brought many changes including reduced mental agility and serious questions as to whether I could continue serving on doctoral committees.

My debilitated condition began changing starting approximately three months ago after almost 3 years since the stroke and in such a way that I could not have anticipated being so dramatic. Following is an account of a number of changes I have experienced in fewer three months.

It is very exciting how my life has changed for the better since I began taking Cardio Cocktail about three months ago. I have had numerous health challenges due to the stroke. The improvements I have experienced since beginning to take Cardio Cocktail have been very encouraging, healing and near miraculous.

I invite you to accompany me on a journey by reading the following and learn what Cardio Cocktail has done for me.

My introduction to L-arginine happened during my hospital stay in Pasadena. Near the end of my time in the hospital before going to the rehab department, my neurosurgeon came to see me and reviewed all the options for treatment available to me through Medicare.

After she finished she looked at me and said; “Now this is what I do for myself”. She then proceeded to tell me about L-arginine for which three scientists won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1998 for their work with Nitric Oxide and how important it is to the entire body. As we age our body begins to produce less and less Nitric Oxide. L-arginine supplementation is what causes the body to release more Nitric Oxide, which is especially critical and necessary to maintain a healthy cardiovascular system.

After returning home I looked for L-arginine and found a granular form at Costco. I took it for two months with minimal impact and then it disappeared from the shelves. I found L-arginine in capsule form at health food stores. In order to get any kind of an effective dose I had to take so many pills yet with very little observed difference. I still have some in a bottle in my medicine closet. Only periodically have I taken it over the years. To dissolve it in liquid form did take time—half an hour at least

(I have since learned that to experience the best results with L-arginine you need to take it in liquid form and you need to take a therapeutic dose, which is a minimum of 5 grams.)

One day I overheard a friend talking about a product he was using and he mentioned L-arginine. Well my ears perked up and I began to ask questions.

The product was Cardio Cocktail, a super drink containing liquid L-arginine developed by Medical Doctors and Scientists. Cardio Cocktail contains a therapeutic dose of L-arginine along with other vital nutrients. Still remembering what my neurosurgeon had told me I was eager to give Cardio Cocktail a test run. I told my friend I would like to try it but I made it clear I had no interest in marketing the product. I was busy with getting our living situation in California completed for our retirement years and chairing PhD committees and other teaching opportunities to supplement our Social Security.

Since then, in three short months, my experience with Cardio Cocktail has been nothing less than phenomenal and has given me my life back.

I began taking Cardio Cocktail on a regular basis near the middle of June 2008. The first month I noted some changes and improvements but was cautious to say too much about it.

After some apparent good results the next month I suggested Cardio Cocktail to a 75-year-old friend who was experiencing various symptoms and was beginning to restrict his life style and activities. I was floored when in less than a week he was returning to his former self with more energy, pain relief and improved outlook.

At the same time I began to experience more exciting improvements with my own situation. I started telling more people and I began to see more results with others.

My life has so improved and my outlook for the future is so encouraging, and of course I began marketing Cardio Cocktail. People, over the years, have wanted me to get into one product or another in network marketing. I am quite relational. However, I deal with concepts, helps, quality of life, self-help rather than sales, as such. During the past few months of taking Cardio Cocktail People have both asked me about my improvements and I have initiated conversations. Friends and seniors in particular are an audience I have preferred to communicate with. Now, with the improvements I have made I will tell all who will listen to know how I have been helped with Cardio Cocktail. I went back to my therapy office and spoke of it in the lounge. A lady heard me and sent for some Cardio Cocktail for her sister who is currently in therapy

Below I will note the improvements I have experienced with Cardio Cocktail. Some of the improvements are with symptoms left over from the stroke and some are situations that I had before the stroke.

An important thing to know is that I was told by my therapists and my doctor (MD) not to look for any significant improvements after nine months to a year following the stroke. Everything listed below happened almost 3 years after suffering the stroke.

1.   Before my stroke for more than ten years my hand would shake when writing. Even signing my signature was a real challenge at times. The problem is totally gone! Was I ever pleased when I suddenly realized it the first time I noticed I was signing my signature with a steady hand. 

2.   My right eye, after the stroke, was reduced in size and there was a marbling effect in the eye. The marbling is gone and the whole eye has returned to the size it was before the stroke.

3.   Due to spending many years in the tropics, often without a hat, I was left with a dry and kind of a scabby scalp. It would often itch and bleed if I scratched it. Now the itching is gone, it does not itch as before so does not bleed from scratching an itch. The skin of my scalp has a more natural look, a healthy and moist texture.

4.       After the stroke, I had surgery on the end of my nose due to cancer. A piece of flesh was taken from the right side of my face very close to my nose three eighths inch long and a quarter inch by a quarter inch. This left the right side of my face with a slight droopy, lazy look; with a lower cheek line outline as well as the line from the corner of my mouth down to the bottom of my jaw. Now there is no difference and my face has a balanced look again.

5.       After the stroke when eating or talking I would drool a little from the right side of my mouth. That has almost completely corrected itself.

6.       Since the stroke there has been a strange resonance of my voice inside my head. I felt self-conscious when speaking especially if addressing a group. That is all gone. My speech is much stronger and more assured. I told my friend last week that now I feel confident that I could speak in front of a group as I had before giving an hour presentation and carry on an interactive training for hours, as I had done before.

7.       Prior to about six weeks ago words that I had formed into a sentence in my mind just prior to speaking would suddenly disappear. This was very disconcerting since I would frequently be left speechless and did not remember what I was planning to say. This has improved dramatically and I seldom lose words as I did before.

8.   My whole right side had a residual feeling of the effects of my stroke. That is totally gone.

      9.   Two years ago I fell on very hard compressed ground at a construction site. The finger on my right hand next to my pinky was doubled under and severely hurt. The pain was consistent for two years. To shake hands I quickly pushed my hand to the wrist of someone with whom I was shaking hands, as the pain in a normal handshake was excruciatingly painful. Now the pain is totally gone. Nothing was done other than taking Cardio Cocktail.

10.  Since the stroke the grip in my right hand was very weak. After about three months takingCardio Cocktailmy grip has become 50% stronger. My grip has in practice more than doubled. My doctor told me emphatically to stop, when checking the strength in my hand by my squeezing his finger.

11.  The stroke significantly impacted my ability to walk and use my right leg. I have experienced dramatic improvements in a number of areas with my right leg.

 a.      Since the stroke I lived with what is called drop foot. I had to swing my leg from my hip since the  affected  muscles would not work with my knee. Now I walk normally, lifting my foot with my knee as one normally walks. I have more improvement to make but am confident that I am in a process of improvement(s). It is incredible.

b.      My right calf had no feeling at all. I figured it was withering and would further be a problem in walking. I felt my leg would just become a peg hanging and any control was from the hip. Was I ever pleased and surprised to one day about six weeks ago have a warm feeling in my calf. Though others on Cardio Cocktail I know have reported this feeling of warmth, it was my first experience feeling it. I reached down to see if there was anything external on my calf and I realized that the feeling was inside my calf and I had sensation returning to my calf!

c.      Over two years ago in therapy I was told that my ankle would be the slowest to heal and eventually I would experience no improvement. Now I can lift my right foot from the ankle several inches. This had been impossible for almost 3 years. Also I am beginning to feel pain again in my ankle and for 3 years I did not feel anything. It seems that my right ankle is coming back to life slowly and I am regaining some use of it again.

d.      A couple of years ago I was walking toward a garage and fell hard against the corner of the garage. My face went to the left side (front of the garage) and my right shoulder slammed up against the side. My knees fell and one slammed against and shattered a two-inch walk stone lying on the concrete apron of the garage and the other hard against the concrete apron. Since the fall, when getting out of the bathtub my knees hurt me severely as I first am on my knees in positioning to get out of the tub. About six weeks ago I realized I was positioning on my knees to get out of the tub. This set off a little warning in my head that pain was coming, I tensed up in anticipation, however, not an ounce of pain came! Since taking the Cardio Cocktail for several months my knees had healed.

12.  I injured my back in 1964 and have periodically suffered with lower back issues since then. Since the stroke my back pain disappeared totally for nearly three years. In terms of strength, my overall ability to move very freely, lean over and do things that required much use of my back muscles was severely restricted. After taking Cardio Cocktail my back began to have some feeling and it wasn’t long before I found myself naturally leaning over picking up items with my right hand that were on the ground.

About 6 weeks ago my back seemed to come alive again. I started feeling pain. In the past, when I had severe back pain, it would last for three to twelve weeks. The most severe experience was when I could only sit up to sleep. Being flat on a bed the pain was excruciating and I would have to roll out of bed to get up.

I experienced another episode of this severe pain in my back one day about a month ago. In the past before the stroke, when I experienced pain this severe I always required a minimum of three weeks of downtime in order to recover and be able to walk upright and be relatively free of pain.

This time my friend suggested that I take a second dose (1 ounce) of Cardio Cocktail. I did and then decided to take one before going to bed totaling three ounces for the day. From the severity of the pain I was feeling, past experience led me to believe that I was looking at a minimum of three weeks to get back to a functional state. To my complete amazement I awoke the next morning with just a very slight feeling of a residual irritation but no severe pain. This was my first experience with my lower back responding in this way and returning to normal so quickly.

13.   My recent visit to my Medical Doctor after not seeing him for around six months was a very enlightening experience for him and newfound approval for me. The doctor came in and immediately I demonstrated for him how I could lift my foot at the knee instead of my hip. He expressed his astonishment in this and other changes as he learned about them; changes that I have had since my last visit to the doctor in March 2008.

All the improvements happened in a six-week to three-month period. I first showed him how I could walk without lifting my right leg from my hip. Then he did a strength test on my leg and hand. He again expressed astonishment and said I increased strength 50% or more in my leg and hand.

Of most interest to him was the change and improvement in my voice. He made the statement that he has never seen nor heard of my kind of improvements beyond 9 months to a year of having a stroke. In fact, improvement is a progressive experience with therapy and then tapers off after several months and then most stroke survivors just have to live with what is left with very minimal improvements.

The doctor revealed to me that he has been using L-arginine in some nutritional applications but he has not seen the kind of results expected or that I am enjoying especially after three years of experiencing a stroke.

My doctor is quite interested in seeing the make up of Cardio Cocktail.If he keeps being nice to me I might let him look at it.

Oh and one more thing. Three years ago when my neurosurgeon told me about L-arginine and the Nobel Prize winning discovery, she turned to leave my bedside when the visit was over. Up until this time she had been all business, very serious. At the door to my hospital room she turned to face me with a sly grin on her face and said. “Oh yes, it’s (L-arginine) a natural Viagra, too!

Cardio Cocktail! What a life changer! Cardio Cocktail has been developed by very serious professionals from various fields of medicine, science, nutrition, etc. The life changing impact of Cardio Cocktail needs to be extended to all who have a willing heart to improve their health and quality of life.

Herb Brussow

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