As stated in my last column, the only solution to the pandemic of human suffering and financial burden caused by chronic illness; is less sick people. The key to producing a society with fewer sick people is to correctly answer two critical questions: "Why are we getting so sick?" and "What do we need to get and stay well?"

When you ask the right questions, the answers are self-evident. We are sick because we have changed our lifestyle choice towards what causes our species to genetically express chronic illness and away from what makes us genetically express health. Changing our lifestyle patterns back to what is genetically suitable for our species is the only way we can get and stay well.

The reason medical researchers and clinicians have not solved the pandemic problem of chronic illness is not due to a lack of intelligence, lack of caring, or a lack of effort. Rather, the reason is because of the paradigm that guides traditional medical research and clinical intervention. This paradigm dictates that the entire traditional medical system operates within a gene-centered Sickness and Treatment paradigm that is inaccurate regarding the cause of illness and the source of health.

Until the current medical paradigm is replaced with the more accurate lifestyle-centered, Wellness and Prevention Paradigm, the pandemic of chronic illness and the unsustainable human, economic, and societal burdens it causes will never be eradicated.

Chestnut, J.L. 2011. The Wellness and Prevention Paradigm. The Wellness Practice – Global Self Health Corp. Victoria, BC., Canada.