My dad was diagnosed at age 52 back in 2000. At the time, I worked on Capitol Hill and immediately went to work researching and meeting with Pharma lobbyists and scientists who for sure would have something. We tried everything for my sweet dad, and after a few trials and a few useless drugs, decided to go off all of everything because t…
My dad was diagnosed at age 52 back in 2000. At the time, I worked on Capitol Hill and immediately went to work researching and meeting with Pharma lobbyists and scientists who for sure would have something. We tried everything for my sweet dad, and after a few trials and a few useless drugs, decided to go off all of everything because the side effects were not worth it. He, and millions of others like him who have suffered the same end, are our heroes.
As I am a few years away from 50, I now worry I will meet the same end. We normal people don't understand why there hasn't been the promised breakthroughs, and attacking the hypothesized plaques from 22 years ago haven't made a difference.
Yet after the past three years where we have all publicly witnessed the complexities and biases within the FDA and government, and after we critical thinkers have been forced to look to alternative preventions and health treatments for this cold virus that has rocked our world, this article hints at the greater complexities of what the ALZ community faces. Could it be so sinister? It can't be ! A 'cabal' of researchers and big Pharma would sentence millions more to the same end by their refusal to entertain and promote any other ideas? Sounds too horrible to be true.
I wonder if ALZ is a type 3 diabetes. If inflammation has a larger role. Maybe we have been looking all a long down the wrong highway. Maybe it's more the body at its core: inflammation and trauma and how the body heals itself.
Thank you for this piece. If Big Pharma won't address, I suppose just like everything else these days, it will be up to us to find our own solutions and work together outside the mainstream. Sigh.
My dad was diagnosed at age 52 back in 2000. At the time, I worked on Capitol Hill and immediately went to work researching and meeting with Pharma lobbyists and scientists who for sure would have something. We tried everything for my sweet dad, and after a few trials and a few useless drugs, decided to go off all of everything because the side effects were not worth it. He, and millions of others like him who have suffered the same end, are our heroes.
As I am a few years away from 50, I now worry I will meet the same end. We normal people don't understand why there hasn't been the promised breakthroughs, and attacking the hypothesized plaques from 22 years ago haven't made a difference.
Yet after the past three years where we have all publicly witnessed the complexities and biases within the FDA and government, and after we critical thinkers have been forced to look to alternative preventions and health treatments for this cold virus that has rocked our world, this article hints at the greater complexities of what the ALZ community faces. Could it be so sinister? It can't be ! A 'cabal' of researchers and big Pharma would sentence millions more to the same end by their refusal to entertain and promote any other ideas? Sounds too horrible to be true.
I wonder if ALZ is a type 3 diabetes. If inflammation has a larger role. Maybe we have been looking all a long down the wrong highway. Maybe it's more the body at its core: inflammation and trauma and how the body heals itself.
Thank you for this piece. If Big Pharma won't address, I suppose just like everything else these days, it will be up to us to find our own solutions and work together outside the mainstream. Sigh.
In honor of my dad.