The prevention paradox is that it is cheaper to spend money on prevention than to spend money on the cure. In our USA capitalistic economy very little money is made by the caretaker on prevention and a lot of money is made on detection and cure of the disease. Doctors who have graduated from medical school usually have large financial obligations that must be paid off. They are more interested in the detection and the cure of a disease rather than the prevention of a disease.

Drug companies are in the business to make money so they are not interested in prevention unless it is prevention of the the deterioration of an existing disease (For example Coumadin may prevent strokes). The fact is with the help of the FDA the drug companies will suppress any new prevention methods especially if they are simple, natural and inexpensive with no side effects by declaring that the new prevention method has not been thoroughly tested so no claims can be made in marketing that product. In an idealistic society where everyone has perfect health, health care providers would not make much money but the medical system would not be in financial trouble either.

Economics dictates that health care and medical research focus on the detection and the cure and not the prevention.

People spend there entire lives saving for retirement and when they are in retirement they must spend much of their retirement on curing disease and living longer. This phenomenon is not obvious unless experienced early in their lives with love ones.

Prevention becomes important only when a love one has suffered because they were not proactive with disease prevention methods.

Because each person is an individual and has different genes and eats different foods and processes their intake of food differently health issues will show up in different ways. People may be exposed to the same polluted environment such as EMF radiation or air or water pollution with totally different results. Because every person does not have the same results many environmental and man made anomalies go unnoticed. .

It is pretty obvious that standing next to a radar antenna that is transmitting a signal or even a cell phone tower that is in operation can be dangerous to ones health but because we cannot see either, it is sometimes hard to believe. We are constantly being bombarded by weather and airplane RADAR signals, Cell Phone RF signals, television signals, EMF waves from out electronic equipment on a consistent basis. Just because we cannot see them, feel them or taste them, these signals are always there. Collectively we have no idea how these signals are affecting us and because they do not affect everyone the same it is hard to determine how or where a disease comes from. All of these anomalies affect our immune systems.

Add to this drugs that use poisons to cause different parts of our immune system to engage. then the processing and preservation of processed food, add to that the lack of minerals in the soil and therefore the lack of minerals in our fresh produce. All of these anomalies and imperfections in our food together cause immune system deficiencies. The lack of one specific mineral such as magnesium may be causing havoc in our health system and making a lot of care takers rich. Magnesium deficiencies are known to attribute to asthma, allergies, cardiovascular disease, insomnia, fibermyalgia, just to name a few.

We cannot prevent exposure to things we cannot see but we can assume that we are being exposed to all of them and take a proactive approach to our health and do what it takes to keep up our immune systems because it is not likely that anyone else will because money is made in the cure and not in the prevention.