Modern Medicine Has Dementia and Is Impotent Against Neurological Diseases

This essay paints a picture of a system that’s not just failing neurologically but potentially complicit in worsening it through over-medicalization. For all its extraordinary technology and scientific sophistication, modern medicine remains strangely helpless in the face of neurological decline. Dementia, Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, and a host of other neurodegenerative disorders continue to spread through aging populations. At the same time, the medical system offers little more than modest symptom management and expensive diagnostic tools that do nothing but make matters worse over the long term.

Billions of dollars have been invested in research, countless pharmaceutical trials have been conducted, and yet the fundamental trajectory of these diseases is getting worse. The explosion of neurodegenerative conditions (Alzheimer’s alone projected to affect 150+ million globally by mid-century) while conventional approaches remain stuck on symptom management, amyloid-targeting drugs with marginal benefits, and zero real cures, is indefensible.

Deaths from Alzheimer’s in America have soared 55 percent since 1999 as the burden of this fatal form of dementia grows and the population ages, a federal health report said. “Millions of Americans and their family members are profoundly affected by Alzheimer’s disease,” said former CDC Acting Director Anne Schuchat. There is no cure for Alzheimer’s disease, the most common form of dementia, if you listen to your doctor, which is not a smart thing to do.

The uncomfortable reality is that despite decades of promises and breakthroughs that never quite arrive, the medical establishment still struggles to understand—let alone reverse—the biological processes that slowly dismantle the human brain.

The tragedy is not simply scientific failure. It is that millions of families confront these illnesses with the expectation that modern medicine will provide answers, only to discover that the system is far better at naming neurological disease than it is at preventing or curing it. In that sense, the crisis of dementia may reveal something deeper about the way medicine approaches chronic illness itself. Saying modern medicine has dementia is, in reality, being entirely too kind.

What makes it difficult emotionally is that dementia is not just another illness. It gradually erodes the very things that make a person who they are—their memories, personality, language, and sense of self. Families watch someone they love slowly disappear while the body remains alive. That experience leaves many people feeling that medicine, despite all its sophistication, has very little to offer beyond monitoring the decline.

Getting to the Meat of the Problem

A key factor is cellular stress and energy failure. Neurons are extremely energy-dependent cells. When mitochondrial function declines, or glucose metabolism becomes impaired—as often happens in aging and metabolic disease—the cell activates stress pathways that can increase kinase activity. These pathways can accelerate tau phosphorylation as part of a maladaptive stress response.

Inflammation also plays a role. Activated microglia and inflammatory cytokines in the brain can stimulate signaling cascades that enhance tau-modifying enzymes. Over time, this inflammatory environment contributes to the progressive accumulation of abnormal tau.

In short, tau hyperphosphorylation tends to appear when neurons are under metabolic, oxidative, or inflammatory stress. Instead of remaining a flexible regulatory protein, tau becomes chemically altered, detaches from microtubules, and eventually aggregates into tangles that disrupt neuronal function and contribute to neurodegeneration.

Dementia is not a single disease but a syndrome, meaning a collection of symptoms involving progressive decline in memory, thinking, behavior, and the ability to perform everyday activities. Mainstream medicine recognizes several underlying diseases that can cause dementia, each with somewhat different mechanisms.

What mainstream medicine says causes dementia is obviously not helpful to patients. They say that the most common cause is Alzheimer’s disease, accounting for roughly 60–70% of dementia cases. Yet, they are as impotent toward Alzheimer’s disease as they are with all chronic diseases, including, of course, cancer, which is now killing more people in the first world than heart disease.

Medical Breakthroughs

Neurologists are now discussing why Alzheimer’s disease is increasingly being called “Type 3 diabetes.” That idea connects metabolism, insulin resistance, and brain degeneration in a way that is changing how scientists think about dementia.

In this framework, the brain develops a form of insulin resistance. Normally, insulin in the brain helps neurons regulate glucose uptake, energy production, synaptic plasticity, and memory formation. When neurons become resistant to insulin, they struggle to use glucose efficiently. Since the brain consumes roughly 20% of the body’s energy, this creates a kind of chronic energy crisis in nerve cells. Reduced energy metabolism can impair mitochondrial function, increase oxidative stress, and activate inflammatory pathways.

This metabolic perspective also helps explain why conditions such as obesity, metabolic syndrome, insulin resistance, and vascular disease strongly increase the risk of dementia. The brain depends on stable blood flow, proper glucose regulation, and balanced metabolic signaling. When those systems deteriorate, neurons become more vulnerable to degeneration. For this reason, many scientists now see Alzheimer’s not just as a protein misfolding disorder but as a complex metabolic and vascular disease of the brain. However, mainstream medicine is incredibly stubborn, with doctors hopelessly lost in dealing with both vascular and metabolic disorders.

The traditional medical approach has focused on treating the final stage of disease, such as removing amyloid plaques or managing symptoms after significant brain damage has already occurred.

When neurons can no longer generate sufficient energy, maintain structural integrity, or receive adequate oxygen and nutrients, the conditions that lead to amyloid accumulation and tau pathology naturally follow. From this perspective, dementia begins not with plaques but with a slow collapse of the brain’s metabolic terrain. This process can unfold silently for decades before memory loss becomes visible.

Minerals for Brain Health

Mineral regulation, for example, receives surprisingly little emphasis in most dementia discussions, even though minerals play fundamental roles in cellular energy production, vascular tone, and neuronal signaling. Among these, magnesium is particularly important. Magnesium participates in hundreds of enzymatic reactions and is essential for ATP production—the very energy currency neurons depend on to maintain their electrical activity and structural stability. When magnesium levels are chronically low, the consequences can ripple through multiple systems at once: insulin signaling becomes impaired, blood vessels lose some of their ability to relax and regulate flow, inflammatory pathways become more active, and mitochondrial energy production becomes less efficient.

This intersection of magnesium, insulin resistance, and vascular health illustrates how interconnected brain biology really is. The brain depends on constant, well-regulated blood flow to deliver oxygen and glucose, and it relies on finely tuned metabolic machinery inside each neuron to convert those nutrients into usable energy. If blood vessels stiffen or narrow, if insulin signaling falters, or if mitochondrial function declines, neurons begin operating in an energy deficit. Over years or decades, that deficit can lead to structural damage, synaptic loss, and the biochemical changes that eventually appear as amyloid plaques and tau tangles.

My mum, Eti, is 63 years old and has been diagnosed with severe Alzheimer’s disease. I approached Dr. Sircus 2 months ago when my mum was in a terrible physical and mental state. She hardly talked and did not manage to do anything by herself; she was very tense from the inside, bent over, and shuffled in her walk. Most of the day, she was in a zombie state.

She was treated, until my approach to Dr. Sircus, with conventional medications, which seemed to ruin her body and make her a Zombie. I had a strong feeling that it could not be that my mum would vanish so quickly and that there was nothing to do about it, as everyone believed.

For 3 weeks now, we have been giving my mum almost the full protocol, and the changes that are already happening are excellent compared to the terrible state she was in when starting. We are gradually taking her off the conventional medications (which include an anti-psychotic drug, an anti-depression drug, and another drug “for Alzheimer”)

We are just beginning this journey, and she talks again – in complete sentences. Her shuffling walk is getting much better; she is standing almost straight, and most importantly, she is much more happy and connected to her environment. She laughs, makes jokes, enjoys the people around her, and enjoys films again. Most of the day, she is not a zombie at all! The day she remembered my name and called for me, I cried for half the day.

Even though my mom still needs help in almost everything, her motor functions and her mental state are much better. I must say that 2 months ago, when we only started with the magnesium and sodium baths, that by itself helped her to be more relaxed.

I do not know what the limit of her improvement is, but we already see that Dr. Sircus’s protocol makes a change – and in her terrible disease, every small change is a big one.

I want to say that Dr. Sircus is a true partner in making my mom better, and his heart and mind are always open to us. I feel a deep care for human beings drives him, and he is brave enough to check a new way that makes it possible for my mom to start to heal.

Maya from Israel

Mitochondria—the tiny energy-producing structures inside cells—are especially vulnerable in this process. They are responsible for generating ATP, regulating oxidative balance, and controlling many aspects of cellular survival. When mitochondrial function deteriorates, neurons lose both energy and resilience. Oxidative stress rises, inflammatory signals increase, and the mechanisms that normally repair or recycle damaged proteins become less effective. In such an environment, abnormal protein aggregation becomes far more likely, not because the proteins themselves are inherently pathological, but because the cellular environment that normally keeps them in balance has weakened.

When one looks honestly at the scale of chronic disease in the United States, it becomes difficult to claim that modern medicine is succeeding at its most important task: preserving long-term health. Roughly six in ten American adults now live with at least one chronic disease, and about four in ten live with two or more. Conditions such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes, obesity, autoimmune disorders, neurodegenerative diseases, and cancer now dominate the medical landscape. These are illnesses that have become the defining health reality of modern society. There is nothing healthy about modern medicine, and when it comes to neurological disorders, it is appropriate to say doctors who treat demential have dementia.

CDS is chlorine dioxide gas dissolved in water.

“Regarding my 81-year-old mother, a strong clinical picture of Cognitive Degeneration and Parkinson’s Disease.

Until a month ago, Mother was as if closed in her own world, very mute, completely devoid of emotion and expression. After the first week of taking CDS eight times a day in a bit of water with a very low dosage, I think 5 ml. After the first week, my son and I noticed the first incredible improvements, specifically regarding speech. That is my mother, who didn’t speak, but began to make long speeches, remembering things from 50 years ago.

Today, after just over a month of treatment, we have reached 10 ml of CDS a day, and my mother is a completely different person. She walks in a much more upright position, no longer rubs her feet, and helps me do the housework.

Two months ago, she was utterly self-sufficient, and today, for example, she empties and loads the whole dishwasher for me.

She gets up every hour to get herself the CDS. Another aspect that was absolutely unthinkable a month ago was that my mother was in bed all day. So, it was inconceivable for me that she could get up, go to the kitchen, take the CDS out of the fridge, pour it into the cup, add water… unthinkable.

I bought her an album of mandalas, and she colors them.

The other incredible aspect is that I am slowly reducing her medicines: the triptych, the one for depression that she took in the evening, as well as the Sinemet, which is a medicine for muscle stiffness.

So I am shocked after only a month by the incredible miraculous results, and she is thrilled, and we will take CDS for life, that’s for sure.”

One of the most critical therapeutic insights is that opening blood flow to the brain can reverse much of what we once considered irreversible. Until recently, cardiologists thought that blood narrowing and hardening of the arteries were impossible to reverse. However, as cholesterol-clearing agents, cyclodextrins open much more blood flow and, thus, oxygen to reach the brain; for a full report on a new dawn in neurological treatments, see my report from a year ago.

Of course, vaccines are never implicated in anything harmful, but that is probably the biggest deception in human history. For 23 years have been writing about the Terror of Pediatric Medicine, but that terror has been brought to adults, especially through flu and COVID shots and the vaccine terrorists, that is what I call them, who sponsor these shots and lie about their safety and effectiveness.

“I have completed my first day of magnesium oil therapy on William, who has had Parkinson’s for over 20 years. I am hoping for a revival of functionality, but not with high expectations because of the severity and duration of his symptoms. His condition before starting the magnesium oil was: He couldn’t talk at all. Could not articulate whatsoever! He was barely functional and did nothing voluntarily—no exercise and no attempt to stop drooling. The drooling was getting so bad and so constant that I was beginning to isolate him to his bedroom in his big recliner because the carpets are new here and the enzymes of the saliva stain permanently. And it appeared to be getting worse by the week. That’s how he was. He also started getting violent with me. If I pushed him too hard, he would fly into a rage and hit me with whatever he could lay his hands on.

“I applied the magnesium oil twice yesterday, and he woke this morning and washed his own face, cleaned his teeth, and put on his robe by himself—without being told to do these things. This is unheard of and hasn’t happened for two years. What is more, he is not drooling. The drooling has been massive and absolutely uncontrollable for about a year. His swallowing reflex is simply going. He has had his nutritional drink, his coffee, his brain formula, fresh veggies, and scrambled eggs, and hasn’t drooled once. So, my hope is high. This is the best I’ve seen for a very long time.

“After only three days, interestingly, his speech has been much better overall. I am applying it faithfully three times a day all over him. I will keep up the application and let time do the explaining. I am very encouraged by the improvement in speech. I honestly did not expect to see any results. His eyes are brighter, the concentration is longer and better, and the speech is much improved. By no means has he become a ‘toastmaster,’ but at least he can string two or three words together now and does not freeze up completely.

“Most recently, he has been quite violent. For example, he thrashed me over the head with a plastic ladle one day so quickly that he got in six or seven good thwacks before I could snatch it away from him. But since starting the magnesium oil, his demeanor has improved immensely. No more surly, ugly looks, no more stubborn refusals to swallow or do something that I ask him to do. Great improvement and best of all, he is now able to communicate, so he can tell me what he wants and needs.

“After 3+ weeks, his speech is still much improved. It seems to be stable now. He couldn’t give any lectures at Harvard, but he can make himself understood as to what he needs or wants. As I said before the magnesium treatment, he couldn’t speak well enough to communicate anything.”

Nancy English Vinal

It has only recently been observed that some cannabinoids are potent antioxidants that can protect neurons from death even without cannabinoid receptor activation. It seems that cannabinoids can delay or even stop progressive degeneration of brain dopaminergic systems, a process for which there is presently no prevention. In combination with magnesium, cannabinoids represent, qualitatively, a new approach to the treatment of Parkinson’s disease.

Natural Allopathic Terrain-Centered Medicine

There are two very different philosophies of medicine. One is drug-centered medicine, the other is terrain-centered medicine, which asks a different question: what conditions allowed the disease to arise in the first place? From this perspective, the stability of metabolism, the integrity of vascular circulation, mitochondrial energy production, nutrient balance, inflammation control, and the broader environment in which cells function become the central focus.

The contrast is striking. Drug-centered medicine often intervenes after the damage is well underway, attempting to manage the consequences. Terrain-centered thinking, by contrast, looks upstream at the biological foundations that determine whether cells remain resilient or gradually lose their ability to regulate themselves. Chronic diseases such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes, dementia, and many cancers begin years before they are diagnosed, emerging from slow systemic stresses rather than sudden failures.