Return to Healing: Common Sense Health Care
The authors of A Return to Healing give you tips and advice about how to improve your health and negotiate an often deceptive health care system. And it all comes down to common sense!
Return to Healing: Common Sense Health Care
Dementia: Promises and Reality
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Dementia tells us a great deal about our healthcare system. Not even noted to be a disease at the time of Medicare's birth in 1965 it is now one of the most onerous and common diseases of the elderly. Why? And why is the incidence so much higher in the United States than the rest of the world? We have tried to medicalize dementia and memory loss and created a multi-billion dollar industry around it including useless drugs, unhelpful tests, and far too many specialist visits. But we've missed the point. Dementia can't be prevented or treated by throwing money and drugs at it. It is a disease of lifestyle, and only by improving inflammation through diet, exercise, and other lifestyle changes can we seek to prevent and mitigate it. We'll discuss all of this in our podcast.
"The greater the ignorance, the greater the dogmatism." -William Osler, MD
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