infant mortality, with a rate of 5.4 per 1,000 live births. Our ranking is far worse than nations like Japan or Norway.
So, the next time you hear about amazing breakthroughs in medicine or large amounts of funding being allocated, remember that the facts indicate that all of those resources will continue to be wasted if we as a society aren’t addressing our frames, diet, and lifestyle to support our body’s Innate Intelligence.
1, 2, 3
The 100 Year Lifestyle® approach, the Doctor of the Present, is all about supporting the body’s innate ability to heal. We provide and advocate for Lifestyle Chiropractic Care to keep your spine and nervous system free from interference and operating at the highest level with a frequency of care aligned with your lifestyle intensity.
Should you be dealing with a health challenge where your body needs an intervention to heal, then turn to drugs as a second choice. Surgery, a permanent intervention, is always a last choice.
For example, let’s consider cancer. Despite decades of research and billions of dollars invested, cancer rates and incidence continue to climb overall (especially for certain cancers). Meanwhile, treatments, including aggressive chemical therapies, surgeries, and long-term follow-up, often come with severe side effects. These side effects usually contribute to other long-term problems including cognitive decline and chronic inflammation.
Given the high cost of allopathic medical care in both in dollars and in human cost, options two and three raise a serious question: Are these efforts solving the problem of American health or merely perpetuating cycles of chronic disease, dependency, and intervention?
Have Government Agencies Been Hiding the Reality?
When it comes to not only our health care but also our food and environment, proponents of the MAHA movement argue that there is institutional inertia, conflict of interest, and systemic deception at work. They maintain that many government agencies, regulatory bodies, and medical institutions are more invested in treating disease (and keeping disease alive) than promoting true health and prevention.
As a chiropractor, a member of the industry that had to sue in order to stop being slandered by the American Medical Association, I don’t find the MAHA arguments to be a leap of any kind.
The unfortunate truth is that chronic disease creates recurring revenue for the allopathic medical community from medications, follow-up visits, hospitalizations, and lifelong care. Those with vested interests in treatment-based medicine may have little to no incentive to promote prevention, self-care, good nutrition, or natural health approaches. As I’ve been saying for decades, there’s a lot of money in creating and keeping alive generations of neurologically damaged and chronically diseased people. They’ve always known it, and now we all know it.
Yet, despite all we now know to be true thanks to the work of organizations like the Informed Consent Action Network, many government officials still argue that vaccine-injury statistics, drug side-effect data, long-term impact of polypharmacy, and medical-error mortality aren’t real.
They continue to fight our calls for transparency, accountability, and a re-orientation toward prevention, not profit. Their priorities are clearly misaligned with genuine population health. But things are changing.
From COVID to MAHA
As you probably remember, conditions changed dramatically during and following COVID-19. For many Americans, the pandemic was a catalyst, a “last straw.”
COVID exposed systemic vulnerabilities. It exposed the fragility of a system dependent on crisis medicine, the over-reliance on pharmaceuticals and hospitalizations, and disparities in outcomes. Many people began to question if this is how our healthcare system handles a global emergency, what does it say about its capacity for everyday health and prevention?
That disillusionment sparked an awakening. More people began to question the status quo, began to look for alternatives, and turned toward preventive, lifestyle-based health. For some, that meant exploring chiropractic care, nutrition, and a more holistic lifestyle.
My message, the message of The 100 Year Lifestyle®, and now the message of MAHA resonated: we don’t have to wait for Doctors of the Future. We can and must take responsibility for our health now.
The Doctor of the Present Represents The 100 Year Lifestyle® Paradigm
The Doctor of the Present advocates for:
· Optimizing health: By taking care of your frame, eating whole, nutrient-rich food, an organic diet, and reducing stress, we can minimize the dis-ease in our lives.
· Resilience before crisis: By addressing the health of the spine and nervous system, nutrition, diet, stress, and detoxification now, you build a foundation of health that can dramatically improve outcomes if (or when) crisis hits.
· Avoiding polypharmacy and its risks: Rather than piling on medications for every symptom, self-care reduces the need for drugs in the first place.
· Lowering risk of medical error: Fewer allopathic doctor visits, fewer hospitalizations, fewer surgeries all mean fewer opportunities for medical mistakes.
· Improved quality of life: Longer life is not the only goal. Longer healthy life matters. Minimizing years spent with chronic disease or disability improves well-being, productivity, and joy.
· Reclaiming health from a profit-driven system: Living a lifestyle focused on prevention and wellness undermines the financial model that thrives on chronic disease and repeated interventions.
An Action Plan for the Present
The vision articulated by Edison more than a century ago is here. No longer “visionary,” the Doctor of the Present is here. The philosophy is simple: recognize your body’s innate ability to heal; respect it with prevention over intervention; and don’t wait for the Doctor of the Future.
This present moment is giving us fertile ground for systemic transformation. Aware and educated individuals who are frustrated with the status quo are now embracing this new health paradigm.
Stop waiting for government to change your personal health care. You can make those choices now. Stop waiting for a crisis. Prevention, good nutrition, and your 100 Year Lifestyle® are available to you with every choice you make. Stop waiting for the Future, it’s already here. Be Present.
Present doesn’t mean you’re alone. Find a 100 Year Lifestyle® provider near you today to help you on the most important journey of your life.
We are now expanding our network of Certified 100 Year Lifestyle® practitioners, and we want to refer people to your practice. If you’re a provider who is already a Doctor of the Present or wants to become an expert in this model, contact us today to become a 100 Year Lifestyle® Certified practitioner. If you are a company with products and services that remove dis-ease, nourish the body, and/or support proper alignment, we’d love to speak with you about becoming part of The 100 Year Lifestyle® network.