LyrArc Article Gist
How Integrative Medicine, changes in lifestyle and diet, yoga and exercize, meditation, no smoking habits, can add up to changes in the nation's health that work more effectively than new drugs to prevent or delay the onset and progression of chronic diseases like diabetes, asthma, heart disease and of obesity, etc that consume 75% of the costs in the $2.1 trillion spent on medical care in the USA. Shockingly 95% of these costs are incurred after the onset of the disease, proving that prevention is simply not an important part of the equation.
How Integrative Medicine, changes in lifestyle and diet, yoga and exercize, meditation, no smoking habits, can add up to changes in the nation's health that work more effectively than new drugs to prevent or delay the onset and progression of chronic diseases like diabetes, asthma, heart disease and of obesity, etc that consume 75% of the costs in the $2.1 trillion spent on medical care in the USA. Shockingly 95% of these costs are incurred after the onset of the disease, proving that prevention is simply not an important part of the equation.
