Prevention and reversal of chronic diseases: A Protocol

Abstract

For a decade, our research group has been developing protocols to prevent and reverse chronic diseases. The present article outlines the lessons we have learned from both conducting the studies and identifying common patterns in the results. The main product of our studies is a five-step treatment protocol to reverse any chronic disease, based on the following systemic medical principle: at the present time, removal of cause is a necessary, but not necessarily sufficient, condition for restorative treatment to be effective. Implementation of the five-step treatment protocol to reverse any chronic disease is as follows: 1) Obtain a detailed medical and habit/exposure history from the patient; 2) Administer qualitative and quantitative performance and behavioral tests to assess the severity of symptoms and performance measures; 3) Administer laboratory tests (blood, urine, imaging, etc.); 4) Identify and eliminate contributing factors (CFs) to the chronic disease of interest; and 5) Implement treatments for the chronic disease of interest. This individually-tailored chronic disease treatment protocol can be implemented with the data available in the biomedical literature now. It is general and applicable to any chronic disease that has an associated substantial research literature (with the possible exceptions of individuals with strong genetic predispositions to the disease in question or who have suffered irreversible damage from the disease). To prevent any chronic disease, eliminate those factors that have been identified to contribute to the onset of the target disease. Our recent studies on common CFs between selected chronic diseases and COVID-19 show that many of the CFs that enable or exacerbate the selected chronic diseases studied also enable or exacerbate COVID-19. While further studies are required, it appears that the toxicology-based methods we have developed for preventing or reversing chronic diseases may also be applicable to preventing infectious diseases, such as COVID-19.