The major drawback in seeking alternatives is the cost, she said. Alternative therapies may be reasonably priced compared with some of the drugs that the National Health Service is paying for, but they are still a load of money. Even if a packet of pills is only five pounds for a week's supply, this mounts up. Millions of people can't afford to go to an alternative practitioner, but I feel that kind of health care should be available to everyone as part of an integrated package. It is cost effective because alternative medicine is tremendously cost effective, because it actually cures people who on conventional medicine alone would simply continue to be treated year after year.
Alternative medicine can get people off the sickness treadmill and back into normal working life.
Even if they are treated, the cost is much lower than that of conventional medicine. With this disorder, by the time a person begins to show symptoms, much brain damage has already occurred. This means it is essential to identify those at risk and then prepare a nutritional protocol that will slow down or even stop progression of the disease. Generally acknowledged risk factors for AD are head injury, hypothyroidism, advanced maternal age, low educational attainment, smoking and vascular conditions such as hypertension. HSV-1 exposure, aluminium exposure, elevated plasma homocysteine and thiamine deficiency.