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that are physically and financially breaking not only individuals but entire health
care systems. I’m no alarmist. What I want to share with you is the truth.

Identifying the new disease profile change -- a serious healthcare crisis
in the making

Before I start painting the daunting truth picture, I’ll first give you a short quiz.

Have you noticed how many people are fat? If you are one of these persons, have
you noticed how difficult it is to achieve sustainable weight loss now as opposed
to way back when?

Have you noticed how many people you know are affected by disabling diseases
that were never heard of thirty years ago, or how many of them are on
medications for chronic pain, depression and a host of other ‘mental’ conditions?

Are depression and chronic pain yuppie fads that will soon find disfavor? Or, is the
routinely-used drug armamentarium of antidepressants and pain-relieving opioid
narcotics simply an aggregate of newly-discovered essential nutrients we all will
now need to stay alive and ‘healthy?’

Have you noticed too how much more money we are now spending for healthcare
and yet, despite it all, the health outcomes of our citizenry and patient satisfaction
have seen a decline over the last thirty years?

If your answers are “yes”, you may see my point that our health crisis is serious
and it’s not going to improve by ignoring it.

It’s going to get much, much worse if we ignore it. Presented in this chapter, and
in the rest of this book, are the facts.

They paint a picture of reality in its wonderment, of reality in its terror. It is the
black and the white -- the yin and the yang.

More and more patients and doctors view the contemporary medical paradigm as
ineffective. They feel disenfranchised by what seems like a series of revolving
doors leading only to frustration and confusion. Their concerns are that this
‘thinking paradigm,’ in essence, discounts prevention and considers disease as the
lack of drug or surgical interventions.

Such a mind-set seems to define good health as a balance of such interventions.
This deeply ingrained thinking also tends to discount the roles of one’s
environment and poor lifestyle choices as significant causes of disease. After all,
in the final analysis of causes and effects, illnesses are products of 3 primary
influences -- our genetics, our environments and our lifestyle-related choices.
Genetics play an obvious role in the cause-and-effect equation of disease.
American healthcare is currently dominated by health scientists who are burdened
with a bias toward genetics.

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