with millions of people now trusting the new paradigm. We raised our family this way. Families that have already made this shift are much healthier for having done so.
While chiropractors once stood alone, today the work of the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement, championed by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. in his capacity as Secretary of Health and Human Services, is built upon the same philosophy as The 100 Year Lifestyle® of returning responsibility for health to individuals, emphasizing holistic self-care, prevention, and lifestyle rather than pharmaceuticals, mandatory vaccination, non-essential surgery, or medical dependency of any kind.
The 100 Year Lifestyle® Continuum: Crisis Care, Critical Transition, Lifestyle Care
As the public’s interest in finding a Doctor of the Present increases, as they seek more support in creating their holistic, drug-free lifestyle, providers such as chiropractors, ayurvedic practitioners, and functional health doctors have grown in popularity. Maximizing and best adapting to this lifestyle involves understanding The 100 Year Lifestyle’s® three phase health care hierarchy: Crisis Care, Critical Transition, and Lifestyle Care.
Our model directly contributes to restoring health in times of crisis. Crisis Care is about important life saving measures in emergency situations while also providing relief and stability in crisis situations including problems or subluxations within the spine and nervous system. Whatever the exact injury or illness, it is essential that the body is given the support it needs to get relief and start the healing process.
While this care is important, it isn’t the whole picture. Individuals and families are simultaneously looking for ways to stay healthy and drug free to avoid and prevent a future crisis from occurring or recurring. They want to solve their current problem while optimizing their health to avoid future problems.
The Critical Transition from Crisis Care to Lifestyle Care is to stay consistent so the body can regenerate, preventing life-long problems and degeneration. Patients who think that pain relief is the same thing as health often skip this Critical Transition, only to end up on a rollercoaster of relapses, or worse.
Unfortunately, they are often supported in these bad decisions by allopathic practitioners and encouraged by advertisements advocating a new miracle drug. By not completing this Critical Transition, people can get stuck on this hamster wheel for the rest of their lives.
Once 100 Year Lifestyle® patients complete their Critical Transition, they enter or re-enter Lifestyle Care where they follow Edison’s original vision by focusing on optimizing health and function, by addressing and removing the causes of dis-ease and minimizing the risk of future illness of injury.
As Doctors of the Present themselves, they do this with the peace of mind that they are proactively avoiding the rising costs of allopathic crisis care and the suffering experienced by their parents or grandparents, many of whom were bankrupted by these end-of-life issues.
The 100 Year Lifestyle® is based on science, the reality of our world today, our longevity potential, and the body’s Innate Intelligence. In today’s world our food, water, and air are filled with toxins. Too much of our food is chemically manipulated, offering no actual nourishment to the body.
We live highly stressful lives. Things can and do happen to our health. However, whatever crisis you may encounter, living the 100 Year Lifestyle will help you get through it with a better, healthier outcome.
A System of Polypharmacy, Medical Mistakes, and Over-Medicalization
If things do happen to your health, it’s likely you will experience one or more aspects of our current medical system. The first aspect is polypharmacy. That’s where people are prescribed multiple medications over long periods, contributing to a “chronic disease lifestyle.”
This is especially common for, but not limited to, older adults. Polypharmacy increases the risk of drug-related interactions, side effects, and dependency. In many cases, medicines conflict, creating problems that are even greater than what they were prescribed to manage or “cure.” I put “cure” in quotes because, as we all know, medications by and large treat symptoms rather than address the root causes.
Compounding this is the disturbing reality of medical mistakes. According to studies, between 250,000 and 440,000 Americans die each year due to medical errors including misdiagnoses, incorrect medication dosages, surgical errors, and communication failures. Those figures place medical error as the third leading cause of death in the United States, behind heart disease and cancer. That means that medical errors are responsible for more deaths than stroke, Alzheimer’s, flu, pneumonia, or even car crashes.
Those figures alone make it understandable why 60% of Americans do not trust the established healthcare system. It’s easy to see why people believe that the conventional medical system is doing more harm than healing. Americas Seniors are Being Overmedicated into Oblivion
Billions Spent While Health Outcomes Worsen
Despite this data, the U.S. continues to pour tremendous resources into fighting disease. Billions are spent on cancer research, heart disease treatments, and chronic illness management. But to what end?
According to the Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development’s (OECD) 2025 Health at a Glance report, we’re not doing as well as you would think. Here are their key takeaways regarding the health status of the U.S.:
· In the United States, life expectancy is 78.4 years, 2.7 years below the average.
· Preventable mortality is 217 per 100,000 in the United States (higher than the average of 145); with treatable mortality at 95 per 100,000 (higher than the average of 77).
In other words, all the money we’re spending isn’t giving us the results we want. And what’s even worse, we’ve been so conditioned to believe that ill health is just a part of life that we no longer recognize how far our health has actually declined. While we’re grateful for the lifesaving emergency providers and practitioners, the health care side is failing.
And I’ll say it again, these are our rankings despite being by far the highest-spending country per capita on healthcare among OECD nations, approximately three times the OECD average.
The real-world result of all of this? Many Americans are spending many years of their life in bad health. We’re talking about the type of ill health that robs you of your independence, bankrupts your family, and lands you in a nursing home. We’re talking about the type of life that keeps you from doing what you enjoy and spending quality time with those you love. Even the American Medical Association’s findings are that Americans now spend an average of 12.4 years living with disease or disability. That number is up from 10.9 years in 2000.
But this also means that many, many more lives never reach that point as in 2023 the U.S. ranked 33rd out of 38 OECD countries for infant mortality, with a rate of 5.4 per 1,000 live births. Our ranking is far worse than nations like Japan or Norway.