Predictive Medicine. XIV. Results

Abstract

Much has been written about the nature and causes of the aging process. For purposes of a predictive medicine program the following points serve as a reasonable base: 1) old people report more symptoms and signs, 2) the old die more readily than the young, and 3) old people with many symptoms and signs die more readily than old people with few such manifestations. Thus it is highly desirable to use all the techniques possible to reduce the number of clinical findings to a minimum. A predictive medicine program can anticipate classical disease. One example is given to show that the supposed inevitable increase of cardiovascular symptoms and signs with age can be thwarted by dietary means (vitamin E). Another example is given to indicate that, partly by exercise or diet, people may be made younger at heart.

Nutritional Counseling: A Humanistic Approach to Psychological and Physical Health

“…Health as a freedom from a disease is a standard mediocrity; health as a quality of life is a standard of inspiration and achievement (Cheraskin & Ringsdorf, 1973;Williams, 1964).…”

Predictive Medicine. XV. Epilogue

“…The program is unique because it is based on the thesis of anticipating rather than identifying disease (12, I). It is also noteworthy by virtue of its sensitivity to proneness profiles (12, II), and the fact that it operates from a base designed to identify factors which contribute to host resistance and susceptibility (12, III).…”

“…The program is unique because it is based on the thesis of anticipating rather than identifying disease (12, I). It is also noteworthy by virtue of its sensitivity to proneness profiles (12, II), and the fact that it operates from a base designed to identify factors which contribute to host resistance and susceptibility (12, III). There is a built‐in recognition of the gradation of disease from an early nonspecific pattern of diverse and independent symptoms and signs to a level where it can be given a distinct diagnostic label (12, IV).…”

“…It is also noteworthy by virtue of its sensitivity to proneness profiles (12, II), and the fact that it operates from a base designed to identify factors which contribute to host resistance and susceptibility (12, III). There is a built‐in recognition of the gradation of disease from an early nonspecific pattern of diverse and independent symptoms and signs to a level where it can be given a distinct diagnostic label (12, IV). Perhaps one of the most critical ingredients is the awareness that peripheral health and disease, as judged by clinical symptoms and signs, are parabolically and linearly related to the biochemical state (12, V).…”

Predictive Medicine. Vii. The Specificity of Tests

“…In earlier reports we have developed the philosophy of predictive medicine (1) and have described some of the unique features (2–6) that set it apart from traditional medicine. The purpose of this report in the series is to consider whether specific testing procedures are pathognomonic or characteristic of disease.…”