302. The Antibiotics That Reversed Alzheimer's Blood Marker - Dr. Richard Horowitz

0:0042% of people 55 years or older are expected to become demented.

0:05And yet, they spend $2.4 billion a year at the NIH, and no one has come up with a solution for it.

0:10When we realize that we spend $5 trillion a year on healthcare, we estimate that 85% of all chronic disease is preventable.

0:16We have to start looking at things like our chemical supply, our food supply, our water, our air as microtoxic environments that accumulate over time.

0:25And ultimately, what does it come down to?

0:27Inflammation in the brain.

0:28All chronic disease is driven by chronic inflammation.

0:31But where's the inflammation coming from?

0:33Bacteria, viruses, parasites, fungi, microbiome issues in the gut, vitamin mineral deficiencies, sleep disorders.

0:40We are waking up to infectious disease and toxicity as a root cause of some of the most prevalent chronic conditions that plague society and mankind.

0:50And I don't know why this happened in medicine, but they're like naming a disease and throwing drugs at it instead of getting to the underlying causes.

0:56For folks that are watching this, like where do we start with testing to just get a dashboard of what kind of villain we're after?