Alzheimer's Disease Epidemic

The Alzheimer's Epidemic - Why is This Happening to Us?

Though researchers have long noted the health disparity between those of us who live in the modern world and those who continue to consume a more primitive, more natural diet they’ve been unable to isolate and identify the precise factor that accounts for this difference. What is it in our diet that’s so promotes disease?

For several decades the pieces of this puzzle have been slowly but steadily falling into place. A long series of studies have been published and books written each casting a light on a different aspect of the Alzheimer’s puzzle.

Though we don’t have all the pieces of the puzzle, for the very first time the big picture is finally coming into view. The cloud of confusion that has for so long surrounded the subject of age-related memory loss is now clearing. The main culprit behind this terrible epidemic has at long last been identified.

Will Modern Medicine Save Us?

But surely modern medicine with all its high-tech wizardry and wonder drugs will come to our rescue – right? Today doctors can perform operations on a tiny fetus while still in the womb, can transplant a human heart and can even knit the tiny cells of a damaged kidney back together as good as new. Certainly our doctors will soon come up with cures that will rid us of all of these modern plagues.

While we should certainly remain hopeful, modern medicine’s track record when it comes to cures is a rather dismal one. When you stop and think about it, your doctor can’t cure anything. In fact, your doctor can’t even cure a common cold!

The sad fact is, modern medicine doesn’t deal in cures. When was the last time your doctor even used the word?

Instead our medical system seems content to crank out a never-ending series of new “helper” drugs. These medications provide what we most desperately desire – immediate temporary relief from our suffering.

Why does our health care delivery system ignore cures? Simple - these helper drugs are much more profitable than any cure for the obvious reason that patients have to keep taking them in order to keep their symptoms at bay. There’s very little profit in cures. You can’t make money that way.

When a doctor puts you on high blood pressure medication, what he neglects to mention is that you’re probably going to have to take the drug for the rest of your life.

Though drug companies could certainly charge a huge fee for a cure - if they had one, over the long haul it’s far more profitable to get patients hooked on symptom-alleviating medications they’ll have to take for years or even decades. That’s how you make the really big money.

For example, take a widely used medication like Plavix. A month’s pills will on average set you back somewhere around $99. That’s a yearly cost of $1,188. Over a decade the total accumulates to around $11,880. And if you take it for a full three decades you’ll end up spending a whopping $35,640!

Now you can see why doctors who prescribe these highly-profitable helper drugs are often lavishly rewarded by the drug companies with free big screen TVs and all-expenses paid vacations to Hawaii for writing a few hundred such prescriptions.

Though pharmaceutical firms love to claim they’re working hard to find cures, their words fall flat when you closely examine their history.