Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor
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And then K stands for killer headache.
Throbbing, pulsing, like that caustic pain that you get when you bite into ice cream, major warning sign.
Usually one-sided.
Again, not always, but usually on one side or the other.
And then E stands for eyes or all of a sudden major problems with vision.
And stroke is, it's a stroke.
Boom.
It usually happens.
It happens quickly.
And, you know, so those are the primary warning signs.
What can you do to help prevent it?
What are you eating?
Really, food makes a difference.
How much sleep are you getting?
Sleep is time period when new information streaming in shuts down.
And this is when the cells turn on and the garbage cleaners go in and they clean out all the waste.
You have to consider your brain is like 800 billion neurons that are talking to one another.
They're eating, they're creating waste while you're busy.
So when we go to sleep, that's when we go in and we flush the system.
So that's really important.