About: Doug Broeska

We honor God when we use our intelligence to create for the greater good. That honor is of the highest order when we use everything that God has given us to create something that will improve or save lives. Improving the human condition is also the ultimate act of human kindness, and I believe that all humankind is good at its core. If we accept that human beings are essentially good, it also naturally implies that we understand the difference between good and evil, or right and wrong. Interestingly, even recent psychological experiments with babies have demonstrated that they know the difference between right and wrong at a very early age, long before socialization has occurred. Knowing the difference is part of the natural instinct of man. Doing wrong comes from man being put in desperate or artificial situations.

There is no known cure for neurodegenerative diseases such as MS, ALS, Parkinson’s disease or Alzheimer’s. And there is no drug in the conventional research pipeline that would allow patients stricken with any one of these diseases to hope for a cure in their lifetime. In trial after trial, pharma-based strategies have produced nothing more than symptomatic relief; none of the chemical-based drugs targeted at brain disease have been effective, and sometimes they have been highly unsafe with serious adverse side-effects. After 50 years of attempting to find some chemical element or compound that even suggests that such an approach can direct us towards a possible cure, isn’t it just possible that pharmacological-based medicinal substances cannot be effective by themselves in this regard?