The Regenerative Model of Health Health care in America is a tragedy. A system that spends 18% of its national output only to rank 50th in global lifespan is unsustainable and unacceptable. So how did we fall into this mess? One reason is in the very way we view health. Fortunately, we can change that. […]
Treating Information as Food (5/30/12)
Food is Information, Information is Food Your body runs on information. Think of your body as an information processor and how it works starts to fall into focus. Food as information has many forms. There are proteins and calories, fats and sugars. Yet there are innumerable information packed chemicals in food, ranging from vitamins to […]
Should we pay for prevention? Making health the goal of health care (5/24/12)
Making Health the Goal of Health Care How much do practitioners get paid to prevent illness and regenerate people’s health? Most of the time – zero. How much do doctors get paid to treat long standing, chronic illness? Depending on health insurance – which prefers some illnesses to others – the sky’s the limit. Why […]
Infectious cancers – what you can do (5/21/12)
Infectious Cancers and How to Prevent Them People are living longer than they did a hundred years ago. One major reason – far more effective control of infectious disease. In the early part of the last century, TB killed about one in seven people. The great decreases in death were wrought by public health measures […]
Regenerating Yourself – Information is Key (5/18/12)
What Is Information? Regeneration is how your body stays healthy. Cells rebuild and renew themselves every moment. Information from both inside and outside your body then tells it how to rebuild—and remake itself anew.But how to get the right information? And what is information, anyway? Here is the very briefest of primers of how marrying two […]
