The unsustainable ‘pill for an ill’

Joined up, multi-disciplinary thinking is what hasn’t happened when you look at how we’re managing our health. Many of us are taking things into our own hands, carefully managing our diets and our lifestyles in ways that make us much less prone to disease. Our health records don’t sit in any archive to be mulled over by researchers or bureaucrats so those making decisions about us don’t really understand just how well we are, or why we’re so well. Then we get treated like pariahs by our governments for using so-called ‘illicit’ substances for ‘illicit’ purposes and communicating ‘illicit’ information. Our only real sin appears to be staying well.

Well, that’s the theme of our two main pieces this week. In our news snippets, among other items, you can read my letter to The Times that was refused publication and countered a very one-sided piece on vaccination.

Read and digest this week’s output from ANH-Intl. And please help as many others as you can to do the same. Positive change in healthcare in the coming years will likely be less about bells and whistles technology or top-down policy, and more about changes in grassroots behaviour. Let’s all play our part in facilitating that.

In health, naturally and sustainably,

Rob Verkerk, PhD

Founder, executive & scientific director