“There’s something wrong with the world today – I don’t know what it is
Something’s wrong with our eyes – We’re seeing things in a different way
And God knows it ain’t His -It sure ain’t no surprise
We’re livin’ on the edge.” –Arrowsmith
In the time it takes you to read a meme on FB, we will have spent another $15,000 caring for someone with dementia and Alzheimer’s. In the span of time it takes you to watch CSI, Law & Order, or the Bachelor we will have spent $18.3 million.
The skyrocketing number of disorders such as Alzheimer’s, Autism, fast-growing cancers like thyroid cancer (Which has tripled in the last 30 years), and Diabetes are debilitating to us on multiple fronts. Health disorders such as these, occurring in parabolically increasing magnitude, take the obvious intense physical toll on the sufferer, put an abundance of strain on the family or caregivers, and as we’re learning – are creating an unsustainable economic burden.
As economists and healthcare leaders assess the costs of these conditions and project out their growth, any one of a number of diseases would be enough to totally bankrupt the U.S. Experts predict that by 2050, Medicare costs for Alzheimer’s alone will be almost as much as the budget for defense.
Here’s where this has gotten to be terrifying. Many other world powers are getting their country’s health under control. Some have never lost it. Experts predict that as our every-growing health crisis depletes the U.S. of all of its resources, we will lose our ability to defend the nation. Soon, our inexplicably poor health will become a serious threat to our national security.
We live on the edge of chaos. In some incredibly rare cases, we just plain run into “bad luck” when it comes to our health. Yet, way more often than not, health problems are as a result of the fact that our bodies are highly sensitive to the way we live our lives. If you get sick, you’ve pushed your body over the edge.
You will find under any microscope that if you create a healthy environment for human cells they will thrive and if unhealthy, they will struggle. Epigenetically, it is just about that simple! There is a direct and measurable correlation to the way you are living and your internal ecosystem. Every action we take matters and causes us to turn on good genes and turn off bad ones, or the reverse; turn off good genes and turn on bad ones. The choices we made yesterday are either destructive and have moved our body and our world toward chaos or constructive; supporting and promoting health and well-being.
There is a principle of physics called “Chaos theory. ” Chaos,” however, is actually not really the perfect term because processes and outcomes as they occur in nature and in people are not as random as they appear. Your bodily systems have been specifically designed to live within a range of possibilities and thrive or struggle based on how much you interfere with them.
The famous scientist, Edward Lorenz, has been credited with the concept of the “Butterfly effect” which vividly describes chaos theory. He states that the earth’s weather systems possess such an immense level of sensitivity, that if a butterfly flaps its wings in the jungles of Africa today, the air disturbance that it would have a compounding effect gradually until it ultimately turns into a storm in Europe one month later. What this means to us is that there is always a cause of every event that occurs in nature and in people.
Lorenz found that although something in life seems nonlinear or sort of arbitrary, there are actually simple equations to determine their outcomes. In other words, our good health or our health problems aren’t generally random or simply bad luck, they are attracted.
We live on the edge of chaos. Our body’s ecology has been specifically designed to live within a range of possibilities and thrive or struggle based on how much you interfere with it. If not today, those tiny poor choices flap their wings and can bring a tidal wave of disease tomorrow.
The leading doctors of today are helping people set the environment needed to optimize function, heal, express vibrant health, and experience paramount longevity. This kind of provider will avert the healthcare tsunami that we’re in right now. The ecological change that would occur from such care wouldn’t just be doing good, it would change the course of history. The future of the nation, the nations, and the beloved people in it is in our hands.
Abraham Lincoln is believed to have said, “The best way to prepare for the future is to create it.” The choices you make today have a rippling effect on tomorrow – so make them good ones.
Need help? I’m here and willing!
Have fun saving the world
Dr. Ben
