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The reductionist have captured or interest, our minds, our heats, and our wallets! They have convinced us that in order to cure the brain of the symptoms of dementia we need to reduce the causes of the symptoms to the smallest amount of human tissue/fluid we can change by swallowing pills and/or shooting various chemicals into our blood stream. How small must we go to change the symptoms? Right now, we are tracking individual cells and their components. Some study individual proteins. Others are going even smaller, looking at our genes and DNAAnd assuming we do find the real causes of each of the many, many symptoms of dementia, how are we going to undo/alter/prevent them? How, how much and how expensive will this process be for those of us experiencing this or that symptom? What side effects of these treatments can we reasonably expect to experience?

Hands in the audience if you truly see light at the end of this tunnel. Stand up if you think we have the turned for the home stretch. Speak up if you believe that just because we say something, it must, or at least will someday be true - someday!?

As for the rest of us - there is still today to enjoy. There is still a purposeful and purpose filled life to live. There is still love to give and receive. There are still songs to be sung, people to meet, need things to enjoy.

Richard

“Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. Love like you’ve never been hurt and live like it’s heaven on Earth.” - Mark Twain