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Prevent dementia by providing fast, easy homocysteine levels checks Linda Sue Johnson

COMPETED FOR

$5K
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Competed in
March, 2010

Goals

  • Educate people about the danger of high homocysteine

Overview

The Prevent Dementia project will hold clinics with free testing, and distribute information to local doctors and residents about the benefits of knowing your homocysteine level. Just like your blood sugar, when it gets high, it can cause damage. It attacks the weakest part of your body, so it could cause heart disease, strokes, cancer, osteporosis, even snoring! But the one damage it does that affected my family was that it gave my mother dementia. A doctor treating her would not give her urgent care because he said, "Would you want to live if you had dementia?" My mother's dementia could have been prevented in the 1960's when she had an h. pylori infection, but back then, no one knew about h. pylori. The lack of knowledge made many people's lives miserable and led to their early death. Please help me educate my community about the dangers of high homcysteine and help me test the people at places like CVS, Walgreens, Jewel to find the people whose homocysteine levels are too high. TIA

How will the 5K be Used?

Budget Notes: $3000 will purchased enough test kits for one free testing day. $2000 will pay for informational booklets to be handed out at pharmacies, advertisement for the one-day testing, and set up a website to make the information available to everyone. I am hoping this endeavor will encourage others.
$ 3,000 purchase homocysteine test kits
$ 2,000 Informational booklet, ads, and website
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