HEALTH DIVIDE

            The Wall Street Journal is hosting a health forum March 24 and the full page ad jumped out at me after just attending Dr. Al Sears' Confidential Cures Summit in Florida a week ago.  Just for fun, I'll give you the names of the speakers at the WSJ forum and then the ones from the lunatic fringe.  Here we go:

             Larry Merlo, president and CEO of CVS Health

            Amy Abernethy, Principal Deputy Commissioner, U.S. Food and Drug Admin.

            Anthony Fauci, Director, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease,                                     National Institutes of Health

            Patrice Harris, president, American Medical Association

            Trevor Mundel, president, Global Health, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

            Sekar Kathiresan, CEO, Verve Therapeutics

             The topics are interesting as well:

             The corporate consolidation that's reshaping health care.

            Why new drugs are--and aren't--developed.

            How to reinvigorate the antibiotic pipeline.

            Exploring the human genome for medical breakthroughs.

            The rise of heart-disease deaths in the U.S., and the impact of gun violence on                                     the public-health debate.

            Now take a look at this list of speakers and their topic titles as a contrast:

Joel Salatin:  Regenerative Agriculture and Authentic Nutrition

Mark Smith:  Wipe Out ALL Disease with This Rock-Solid Primordial Diet

Nora Gedgaudas:  Live Longer, Slow Aging, and Super-Power Your Brain

Michael Smith:  Natural Ways to Protect and Restore Youthful Brain Function

John Gray:  Humor and Hormones Between the Sexes

Bill Andrews:  hTERT and the New Promise in Telomerase Gene Therapy

Al Sears:  Bio-Age Study and the Age of Regenesis

Newt Gingrich:  Reclaiming Health Freedom

Max Gomez:  Cells Are the New CURE!

Jesse Ventura:  Marijuana Manifesto and Bucking the Establishment

Paul Harch:  Precision Hyperbaric Oxygen for Neuro-Rehabilitation

             Dear folks, when you compare these two listings, the differences could not be more apparent.  One is the tired old, same old antibiotics and health care concentration.  The other is way out in heretic land talking about wellness rather than combating disease.  I couldn't help but laugh thinking about the difference.  Wouldn't it be cool if the WSJ folks would invite Jesse Ventura?  Ha!  Their heads would explode. 

             Which one would you rather attend?