Clean Out Your Brain

By Claire I. Viadro, MPH, PhD Neurological disorders, autoimmune diseases—they seem to be everywhere these days. Scientists writing in Neurology in 2007 estimated that the burden of neurologic illness affects “many millions of people in the United States.”1 Autoimmune illness, too, is at epidemic proportions—nearly 24 million Americans as of 2012.2 These trends are disturbing enough in their own right, but even more disturbing is the general scientific apathy about why the surge in these diseases is occurring. Why do the causes of these alarming epidemics remain “underrecognized and underaddressed?”3 Stephanie Seneff is one of the all-too-rare scientists who is trying to ask the questions and connect … Continue reading Clean Out Your Brain