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LE Magazine December 2003

The Crumbling Walls of Medical Ignorance

How to Avoid Becoming a Casualty of Medical Ignorance
We live in a world where scientific discoveries have become routine events. Regrettably, the enormous volume of new findings has overwhelmed many practicing physicians. The media superficially reports on a few discoveries, but the majority of lifesaving breakthroughs remain buried in the millions of pages of scientific text that are published every year.

I advise all readers of this column to implement the concept of translational medicine and guard against becoming a victim of medical ignorance. Your membership in the Life Extension Foundation empowers you to achieve this goal.

Each month, we publish practical data that enable individuals to improve the quality and length of their lives. Members who have questions about the written text have toll-free phone access to knowledgeable health advisors.

Life Extension members also have direct access to a vast array of low-cost blood tests that can help them fine-tune a scientific-based health maintenance program. If questions arise after the blood test results come in, Foundation members can phone or email licensed medical doctors who can help explain the results or make a referral to the appropriate specialist.

Marvelous discoveries are published in prestigious medical journals today, yet little of this information is utilized to save lives. It is as though an impenetrable barrier separates scientific solutions from those in critical need of this knowledge. The Life Extension Foundation’s objective is to break down the walls of ignorance and apathy that are the underlying causes of most human suffering and death.

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For 23 consecutive years, the Life Extension Foundation has been educating its members about validated methods of preventing and treating disease. Our track record demonstrates that we have consistently been ahead of conventional and alternative medicine. The latest edition of Disease Prevention and Treatment provides the greatest volume of novel information ever compiled into a medical textbook. It is our firm belief that this book will save the lives of millions of human beings who would otherwise succumb to medical ignorance.

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For longer life,

William Faloon.

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