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Preventive Health Care: Does it Exist?

True preventive health care is nonexistentcontinues to fund the same unproductive
for most Americans. That's because"plaques and tangles" theory as the cause of
traditional medicine focuses on treatment ofAD.
symptoms, and that's not prevention. Our
health care system operates like the old barnAt the same time, credible Alzheimer's
door - it's left open and then the farmerresearch at universities (with the help of
tries  to  figure out why the horses ran off.government funding - not usually the
pharmaceutical industry) clearly shows there
Preventive or "alternative" medicine isis a probable answer to AD but more research
available, but it's not the norm. You have toneeds to confirm preliminary findings. Why
be informed enough, open minded enough andisn't promising research followed up by the
have enough money to get it. If you find aentities that claim to want prevent or cure
traditionally trained physician whoAD?This brings me to a true story. The
integrates alternative medicine into his orhusband of a close friend, Mary, was
her practice, and still takes your insurance,diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. In the
you  are  in  luck.early stage, he had some hand tremor but what
was most disturbing to Mary was evidence of
Most often you will not be in luck becausecognitive decline. A math whiz, her husband
alternative practitioners are usually fed upnow  had  difficulty  with simple arithmetic.
with the traditional system. Part of their
gripe is dealing with insurance providers whoThe doctor said medication was not yet
dictate what medications the insurer will payindicated. He could offer nothing to help the
for. So doctors stop taking insurance. Thecognitive problem. Mary asked if I knew
result is that patients seeking alternativeanything  that  might  help.
medicine must either pay the entire cost of
care  or  do  without.I had recently seen research that showed
progression of Parkinson's could be slowed a
Our overburdened health care system isstaggering 44 percent by taking 1,200 mg. of
controlled by the pharmaceutical andCoQ10 a day. (Normal daily dose is 50-150
insurance industries. The pharmaceuticalmg). The Life Extension Foundation protocol
industry holds the "solution" (prescriptionfor treatment of Parkinson's indicates up to
drugs) to medical problems. That prescription3,000 mg daily. There are no known side
drugs usually don't cure a condition doesn'teffects or contraindications for high doses
matter. Drug companies are not interested inof  CoQ10.
finding cures. A cured condition does not
require medication. No profit itMary started her husband on 1,200 mg a day
that!However, it is profitable just to manageand about two weeks later bumped up the dose
symptoms (high blood pressure for example)up  to  2,400  mg.
with medication for years, or until the
patient changes lifestyle habits or theWithin a month, her husband's cognition was
patient  dies.almost back to normal. Was it luck? Was it a
"miracle" that would have occurred without
If you think about how long it is taking tothe CoQ10, or was it the CoQ10 that produced
find a cure for cancer, diabetes, Alzheimer'sthe benefit? Will the improvement last?Shall
and other devastating diseases, you mustwe wait for Alzheimer's advocates or the
conclude that something doesn't add up. Wepharmaceutical industry to fund adequate
are the most technologically andtrials of CoQ10? We should not hold our
scientifically advanced country on the planetbreath.  CoQ10  is  not  patentable.
and  it  still  takes  forever to find cures.
When the traditional health care system fails
Take the amount of time and money spent overus all we can do is take personal
the years to find a cure for cancer. Yes,responsibility and act on our own behalf to
there are cures (which often becomethe  best  of  our  ability.
relapses), but treatments that poison the
entire body in an effort to get at the cancerTaking personal responsibility includes
and usually end up killing the patient aredeveloping a prevention-oriented mindset -
barbaric.  There  has  to  be  a  better way.learning how to stay well without reliance on
a health care system that talks a lot about
Look how long we have been dallying withprevention but doesn't seem to know how to
Alzheimer's disease. Research money providedprovide it.
by corporations and advocacy organizations



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