I suspect Vernon Coleman knows why he can’t cure dementia.
Vernon Coleman claims to have a cure for many cases of depression, dementia, Alzheimer’s, and even some cases of Parkinson’s. He’s wrong. He cannot cure them. But it’s complicated. And it’s important to understand why.
TLDR: (too long, didn’t read)
- Vernon Coleman claims to know how to cure many, perhaps most cases of dementia.
- On the contrary, depression, dementia, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, are all considered incurable.
- Coleman suggests that addressing the correct cause produces a cure.
- However, if this technique succeeds, it simply proves the diagnosis wrong, the illness was not mental, it was caused by the cause. The diseases depression, dementia, Alzheimer’s, and Parkinson’s are all medically incurable.
- Our current mental paradigm cannot recognize any cures of these mental disorders. It’s worse. Our current medical paradigm cannot recognize a cure in any case of a mental disorder.
- QED: Coleman cannot cure any patient of depression, dementia, Alzheimer’s or Parkinson’s. If a case is cured, the diagnosis must have been wrong, because these diseases are incurable.
- What can you do, if you or a friend or family member are diagnosed with depression, dementia, Alzheimer’s, or Parkinson’s? You can only try yourself. Modern medicine has given up on cures.
- What if you cure? Modern medicine cannot recognize the cure.
Vernon Coleman
Maybe you’ve heard of Vernon Coleman, or maybe not. He’s a character, worthy of some attention. Dr. Coleman is a former doctor (general practitioner) in England, an author of over 100 books on many topics. However, he is described by his WHACKipedia page (where none of his positive influences or accomplishments area mentioned) as an English conspiracy theorist. If you are interested, in forming your own opinion, you might check out the “old man in a chair,” although he has been thoroughly banned on YouTube. He has been banished to the “alternative” areas of the internet.
I want focus on something not mentioned, much less discussed in his WHACKipedia entry:
Vernon Coleman claims there are many different cures for dementias, based on different causes.
His analysis is similar to the theory of the book A New Theory of Cure, a book written long after Coleman’s ideas were published.
Vernon Colman focusses his attention of four specific causes of dementia: prescription drugs and the depression they can cause, normal pressure hydrocephalus, Vitamin B12 deficiency, and Alzheimer’s disease. There are, of course, many other potential causes. Dementia is often classified as idiopathic, having no known cause.
Causes: Prescription Drugs and Depression
“I cannot stress sufficiently that many elderly patients who appear to be demented are… confused because they have been drugged with tranquillisers, sedatives or sleeping tablets.” The Kick-Ass A-Z for over 60s Dr Vernon Coleman
“It is likely that half of all cases of alleged dementia could be cured simply by stopping unnecessary prescription drug use. Sedatives, hypnotics, anxiolytics and anti-depressants are the commonest cause of problems, with benzodiazepine tranquilisers and sleeping tablets such as Valium, Mogadon and Ativan probably being some of the commonest culprits.” Dementia Myth Most Patients with Dementia Are Curable, Dr Vernon Coleman
“Patients who appear demented because they are being heavily dosed with tranquillisers or sleeping tablets will recover if their drugs are reduced or stopped.” IBID.
Coleman wisely avoids the word “cure” with prescription drug caused depression. Cured is not medically defined for stopping a prescribed drug. I suspect that Coleman has not realized that cured is also not medically defined for any case of depression. Our medical systems have no scientific or medical test of cured for depression.
In several books, Coleman cites another common cause of dementia:
Cause: normal pressure hydrocephalus
“there is the type of dementia caused by a disease called normal pressure hydrocephalus. Most doctors have never heard of this. Many specialists have never heard of it. But it is a major cause of dementia and it can be cured.” The Kick-Ass A-Z for over 60s Dr Vernon Coleman,
“Normal pressure hydrocephalus is, for example, commoner than Parkinson’s disease. It is one of the commonest causes of dementia. And it is curable with a simple, cheap operation. Meanwhile, thousands of elderly folk who could be cured are falling and breaking bones. Falling is the first symptom for normal pressure hydrocephalus. Dementia comes next.” IBID
Patients who have been stuck in bed or in wheelchairs can, after treatment, get up and walk. They can resume their lives; talking and enjoying work and hobbies. Patients who have been abandoned have their lives back again. IBID
“A patient who has genuinely died as a direct result of their dementia, without an infection or any other complication, will have probably died of idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus which was not diagnosed but which caused death by compressing, damaging and destroying many different parts of the brain.” Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus (NPH)
Despite many promises, there is still no cure for dementia or Alzheimer’s disease, nor is there any sign of one, but normal pressure hydrocephalus can be cured completely, quickly and with a simple, relatively cheap operation. Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus (NPH): One in Ten Dementia Patients Have NPH And Could Be Cured in Days
Coleman can use the word cured for normal pressure hydrocephalus because the cure is a surgery. Cure is often used to describe surgeries – although there is no medical nor scientific test of cured for any surgery. Our medical systems maintain no statistics of cured for any surgical procedure. If, or when a patient is diagnosed with depression, dementia, Alzheimer’s, or Parkinson’s and successfully treated with a surgery for normal pressure hydrocephalus, such that the symptoms disappear – no disease of depression, dementia, Alzheimer’s or Parkinson’s was cured. The diagnosis was wrong. In addition, no medical reference refers to the surgery for normal pressure hydrocephalus as a cure. The Merck Manual of Diagnosis & Therapy, 19th Edition – 2011, for example, uses words treatment, reversal, and recovery, but not the word cure for the surgery. It’s a treatment. Cure, the word cure, is studiously avoided by modern medicine.
Cause: Vitamin B12 Deficiency
“Patients who have acquired the symptoms of dementia because they are short of vitamin B12 can be treated with very inexpensive injections of B12.” Dementia Myth Most Patients with Dementia Are Curable
“Dementia caused by vitamin B12 deficiency (almost certainly much commoner than dementia caused by Alzheimer’s disease) can be cured with a course of injections.” IBID
Coleman uses the word cured for Vitamin B12 deficiency, although the FDA classifies Vitamins as “structure function” products which are not allowed to be claimed to cure. At the same time, an injection is a surgery and the word cure might be used, but cannot be proven.
“Vitamin B12 treatment must be continued for life unless the pathophysiologic mechanism for the deficiency is corrected.” The Merck Manual of Diagnosis & Therapy, 19th Edition
According to The Merck Manual of Diagnosis & Therapy, 19th Edition – 2011, Vitamin B12 deficiencies are treated. The word cure is not used. Our medical systems cannot recognize partial or causal (ongoing) cures, therefore any cure that requires ongoing action, like the cure for Vitamin B12 deficiency, or even scurvy, is not recognized as a cure.
Cause: Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s
“Alzheimer’s disease causes dementia and a loss of mental abilities but (despite the fact that it is officially regarded as a major killer – in the US it is said to be the fifth commonest killer of people over the age of 65) there is no real reason why Alzheimer’s disease should result in death.” Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus (NPH)
“Nearly half of all individuals with Parkinson’s disease develop dementia, though this usually occurs about10 or 15 years after the disease has first been diagnosed.” Dementia Myth: Most Patients with Dementia Are Curable, Dr Vernon Coleman
Other Causes:
There are many other possible causes of depression, dementia, Alzheimer’s, or Parkinson’s symptoms or disease not mentioned by Vernon Coleman. One of the most commonly cited causes are poisons or toxins. For example, overconsumption of excitotoxins of glutamate and aspartame are reported to cause similar symptoms, which can grow over time as damage accumulates. However, these causes are also immune to cures. If removing the consumption of an excitotoxin appears to cure the illness – the diagnosis was wrong. It was poisoning, not depression, dementia, Alzheimer’s, or Parkinson’s. In addition, in our current medical paradigm, cured is not defined for poisoning.
Understanding Cause
Unfortunately, Coleman, like modern medicine today, has a simplistic understanding of cause, insufficient to cure most illnesses. There are several problems with our current medical concepts of disease causes.
Past Causes: We often cite past causes as if they are the main causes of illness. However, past causes are always hypothetical and often statistical. Every specific case of illness or death has many causes, and each cause has many past causes, as in the ditty “for want of a nail…” Past causes can be used to prevent, but not to cure. Past causes, when they only exist in the past, cannot be accessed to cure. Only past causes which are also present and causing the illness can be addressed to cure.
Cure Cause: A cure cause of an illness element is the cause which, when successfully addressed, results in a cure. A cure proves a cause. An element of cure proves an element of cause. To be successfully addressed, the cure cause must be present, not in the past.
Modern medicine has no concept of a cure cause. Not only that, in many cases, a cure invalidates the diagnosis because the diagnosed disease is incurable. A cure of diagnosed dementia, Alzheimer’s, or Parkinson’s by curing normal pressure hydrocephalus, proves the diagnosis wrong. A cure of normal pressure hydrocephalus by a surgical procedure is not called a cure in any authoritative medical text. Modern medicine’s only cures, and only possible definition of cure cause are for cases of infection that are cured by killing or removing the infectious agent. No other cures are medically recognized in the prevailing medical paradigm.
Partial Cause and Partial Cure: A partial cure occurs when a cause is partially addressed or when a single cause of a disease with multiple causes is addressed. Modern medicine often cites diseases as having multiple potential causes, but does not recognize a partial cures.
Cause of Death: As Coleman notes, “there is no real reason why Alzheimer’s disease should result in death.” Cause of death is complex, often involving political issues of the family, the doctor(s), the hospital or care center, and the medical systems. In addition, cause of death is in the past. No cause can be proven because it cannot be reversed.
Diagnosis Cause: Many, possibly most diseases are not diagnosed by identifying a cause or causes. Most disease cases are diagnosed based only on signs and symptoms. Many disease diagnoses are wrong.
Disease Diagnosis
“A diagnosis of dementia (whether Alzheimer’s or any other variety of dementia) can be devastating to a patient and to family and friends. But that diagnosis is often wrong.” Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus (NPH)
“There is, sadly, no cure for Alzheimer’s disease at the moment but there is a remarkably effective and relatively simple cure available for idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus. ” IBID
“The vast majority of these individuals who have been diagnosed at all will have been diagnosed as suffering from Alzheimer’s disease or some other form of dementia or from Parkinson’s disease. Many individuals, of course, will not have been given a diagnosis at all but will have been simply labelled ‘old’ and dismissed as not worthy of attention.” Dementia Myth: Most Patients with Dementia Are Curable
Coleman advises – as do many medical professionals – a diagnosis is often wrong. An Alzheimer’s or Parkinson’s diagnosis generally comes without a cure cause. Treatments are recommended for signs and symptoms of disease with no intention to cure, with an assumption that cure is not possible.
“‘Many people go undiagnosed and untreated because the symptoms of normal pressure hydrocephalus can mimic Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease and other neurological or spinal disorders that can occur in adults as they age,’ says Michael Williams, a neurologist and director of the Adult Hydrocephalus Center at the Sandra and Malcolm Berman Brain and Spine Institute at Sinai Hospital of Baltimore in Maryland, US.” Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus (NPH)
If normal pressure hydrocephalus is untreated then the path of the disease will match that of Alzheimer’s disease and no one, least of all the doctor, will question the doctor’s diagnosis.” IBID
“The gait disturbance that normal pressure hydrocephalus is often misdiagnosed as Parkinson’s disease.” IBID
Depression, Dementia, Alzheimer’s, and Parkinson’s are Incurable
The problem is simple. It’s official: mental disorders are incurable.
“Some structural brain disorders (eg, normal-pressure hydrocephalus, subdural hematoma), metabolic disorders (eg, hypothyroidism, vitamin B12 deficiency), and toxins (eg, lead) cause a slow deterioration of cognition that may resolve with treatment. This impairment is sometimes called reversible dementia, but some experts restrict the term dementia to irreversible cognitive deterioration.” The Merck Manual of Diagnosis & Therapy, 19th Edition
Words like resolve and reversible are medically acceptable, but cured is not. If it can be cured, the diagnosis must have been wrong.
- alz.org (USA): “There’s no cure for Alzheimer’s.”
- alzheimers.org.uk (United Kingdom): “There is no cure for dementia yet.“
- alzheimers.ca (Canada): “There are no treatments today that can cure Alzheimer’s disease.“
- apdaparkinson.org: “As of today, there is no cure for Parkinson’s disease.”
- michaeljfox.org: “people with Parkinson’s urgently need better treatments” (not cures?)
- parkinsonfoundation.org: “there is no known cause, cure, or prevention for Parkinson’s disease.”
The ICD11, the International Classification of Diseases, maintained by the World Health Organization has 9 different codes, each with multiple causes for 8A00.2 Secondary Parkinsonism.
The ICD11 lists 20 codes each having many different causes for dementia, including:
- Alzheimer’s
- Parkinson’s
- psychoactive substances, including medications
- normal pressure hydrocephalus
- exposure to heavy metals and other toxins
- and… other specified cause and… unknown or unspecified cause
Note: the ICD does not discuss cures for any disease. Medically, if a case is cured, then it wasn’t depression, dementia, Alzheimer’s, or Parkinson’s. It was something else. Maybe it was a miracle. Those diseases are – incurable, by definition, in our current medical paradigm. If it was a Vitamin B12 deficiency, it can be treated, but not cured. Cured is medically undefined for deficiency illnesses.
Elementary Illness : Elementary Cure
In the theory of cure, an elementary illness has a single present cause and is cured by addressing that cause. Most elementary illnesses are simple and easily cured – often with many different alternative cures. There are dozens of cures for scurvy.
Elementary cases of depression, dementia, Alzheimer’s or Parkinson’s cannot be diagnosed as soon as they occur. They can often be cured by natural, healthy activities – before diagnosis.
However, if the cause continues, the consequences continue. Once they are diagnosed, our medical system gives up any attempt to find the cause – to cure.
Uncured, patients with uncured elementary illnesses often encounter other causes, leading too a case of compound illness. In addition, uncured, elementary illness cause damage – leading to complex compound illnesses.
Compound Illnesses: Compound Cure
Modern medicine has no word for a compound illness, an disease with more than one present cause. Compound illness or disease is not used in Coleman’s books, although the concept is discussed. A compound illness has multiple causes and therefore consists of multiple illness elements – some or all of which might be curable.
Imagine a patient who is suffering from normal pressure hydrocephalus for some time. They are then prescribed drugs that cause depression, a symptom of dementia. Then they develop Alzheimer’s or Parkinson’s disease due to other, or multiple other causes.
Can they be cured? A cure for each element of illness requires addressing individual present causes. It is possible that every cause can be found and addressed, or that many, or possibly only one or two. However, in our current medical paradigm, once a patient is diagnosed with depression, dementia, Alzheimer’s, or Parkinson’s, a cure becomes medically impossible.
Damage Caused by Illness
Depression, dementia, Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease, no matter what the cause, create damage in the patient. Early damage might be healed after or as part of a cure, but when damage progresses, further – some damage cannot be repaired, cannot be healed. Damage to the brain is difficult to heal – and difficult to measure the healing as long as the patient is alive. Damage to the mind and healing of the is generally invisible to modern medicine. An elementary cure might addresses the present cause, or the presence of damage caused by a past cause.
Coleman concludes:
“Millions of patients have been wrongly diagnosed as suffering from Alzheimer’s Disease, other forms of dementia or Parkinson’s disease and, since there is no known cure for any of these disorders, they have been more or less abandoned by the medical profession and by society.” Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus (NPH): One in Ten Dementia Patients Have NPH And Could Be Cured in Days
“we have the tragic situation in which millions of patients who currently have
symptoms of dementia, who have been dismissively labelled with the default diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease, and who are living out their days in institutions where they have no freedom and no responsibility for their own lives, could have been cured and could be enjoying the final years and decades of their lives.” Dementia Myth Most Patients with Dementia Are Curable, Dr Vernon Coleman.
A final note or two from Dr. Vernon Coleman:
When I wrote Paper Doctors I argued that we did not need any more medical research. ‘Our libraries are well stocked with information,’ I wrote. ‘What we need to do now is to concentrate on how to use all the information we have accumulated. There are many cures sitting on the library shelves which are ignored, neglected, overlooked, unrecognised or forgotten. So much new research material is published every year that not even experts in a specific area of medicine would claim to know everything about their speciality.’’ Do Doctors And Nurses Kill More People Than Cancer?
- “To claim that dementia is incurable is as absurd as saying that all people with broken legs will never walk again or that all patients with chest infections will die… the truth is that ‘dementia’ is a word like ‘cancer’ and ‘infection’.
- There are many causes of cancer.
- There are many causes of infection.
- And there are many causes of dementia. And some of those causes are curable or, at the very least, controllable if they are properly diagnosed and well-treated.” Dr Vernon Coleman, Dementia Myth: Most Patients with Dementia are Curable
What about you?
What can you do, if you or a friend or family member are diagnosed with depression, dementia, Alzheimer’s, or Parkinson’s? You can only try by yourself. Modern medicine has given up on cures. There are no medical guidelines to producing a cure – and none to recognize any partial or complete cure of the mind or the brain either.
It can be very hard. If it’s family member, or a friend, it can be more difficult – and maybe even an illegal practicing of medicine. In addition, the system is against you, even when it’s wrong. We can only try. We might do what we can to check and re-check the diagnosis. It might be wrong. We can begin the search for a cause, a cause that – when addressed – results in a cure, or a partial cure. How do we find a cause? By curing. Only a cure proves the cause.
What about alternative medicines? Most alternative medicines, like most medicines approved by the medical system, cannot cure. In addition, if they do cure – no cure can be recognized by modern medicine. Your doctor might say cured, in private, but dares not say cure in public. Cured is medical hearsay.
Alternative medical practices and practitioners, on the other hand, do have some chance to cure. Their techniques are not limited to medicines. Fasting, a cure so ancient your pet dog practices when sick, is not recognized as a cure for any illness in modern medicine. Selective fasting can cure many diseases caused by poisons in the diet. Cures can come from fasting processed foods, foods that are mildly toxic, artificial sugars, or any food that is consumed more than average. Many toxic foods are considered GRAS – Generally Assumed to be Safe at normal levels of consumption for most people – even they are toxic in specific individuals, cases, or situations.
Vernon Coleman recommends fasting from prescribe drugs as a cure for depression or dementia caused by the drugs. Unfortunately, some prescribed drugs are so dangerous that quitting can be deadly, especially quitting without medical assistance.
Dietary changes can sometimes address a deficiency causing the illness. When we avoid specific negative foods, we often consume more healthy foods.
Unfortunately, individual cases of depression, dementia, Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s often accumulate causes and damage before they are diagnosed, and require multiple cure actions. The cure battle, can be like rehabilitation – a long struggle.
In the theory of cure, a curable element of illness has a present cause, which when addressed produces a cure. If a cause of ongoing damage can be addressed, that’s an element of cure. If the damage can be healed, that’s a cure. However, these diseases can, over time, produce incurable damage, damage that cannot be healed. Modern medical diagnosis seldom distinguishes between disease and damage. The disease is considered incurable – so there is no reason to distinguish.
Curing a disease that has been present for long enough to be diagnosed often requires multiple causal cures and multiple healing cures as well. After a serious car accident, physical rehabilitation might take many cure stages – although they are not recognized as cures in our modern medical paradigm. Curing complex mental disorders can be even more problematic. We can see a broken arm, but seeing a broken brain, or a broken mind is more difficult.
It is also important to look for social or community causes. Depression can be caused by isolation or abuse. It can also be caused by an excess of responsibility, an excess of social stresses.
When depression is causing a faulty diet, that can lead to damage and dementia. There are many such causes. However, our medical systems cannot recognize any cure for depression and do not recognize addressing cause of depression as a cure.
As each cause is addressed, as each elementary illness is cured, it can be hard to tell. There might only be a slight improvement. In elementary cases, a single action can produce a cure. In compound or complex cases, more than one cure is needed. Even when a cure is easy, recognizing the cure can be difficult. We easily deny cures.
What if you cure?
Modern medicine cannot recognize any partial or complete cures of these diseases. The acronym NED (No Evidence of Disease) is often used, because cured is not even defined in many medical dictionaries.
Not only can modern medicine cannot recognize a cure, it cannot recognize the cause of the cure. The disease’s incurability must be maintained to maintain the current medical paradigm.
To your health, tracy
Author: A New Theory of Cure
