Duration - 5:21
[a video on Peertube about Cuba from the news collective Belly Of The Beast]
When Massachusetts-based musician and activist Ben Grosscup (@BenGrosscup) learned his mother had Alzheimer’s, he turned to Cuba for help.
He traveled to Havana to obtain NeuralCIM, a groundbreaking Cuban medication that has had remarkable results in slowing the progression of Alzheimer’s.
Grosscup has long opposed his government’s economic war on Cuba. But as intensified sanctions and an oil blockade limit the island’s ability to produce medicines like NeuralCIM, U.S. policy became more personal.
When Massachusetts-based musician and activist Ben Grosscup (@BenGrosscup)
learned his mother had Alzheimer’s, he turned to Cuba for help. He traveled to
Havana to obtain NeuralCIM, a groundbreaking Cuban medication that has had
remarkable results in slowing the progression of Alzheimer’s. The treatment was
developed by Cuban scientist Dr. Teresita Rodríguez, whose work Belly of the
Beast documented in Teresita’s Dream:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Renbt-16syg&t=13s
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Renbt-16syg&t=13s] Grosscup has long opposed
his government’s economic war on Cuba. But as intensified sanctions and an oil
blockade limit the island’s ability to produce medicines like NeuralCIM, U.S.
policy became more personal. “The blockade is harming my own family,” he says.
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