12/01/2025
A Message for Healthcare Change by Dr. James Chestnut
As I do every December, I am choosing to move away from sharing a scientific article and just write a message from my heart rather than my head.
We are in the midst of a pivotal moment in the history of healthcare and, hopefully, in societal health. We have lived through, and are still living in, the chronic illness pandemic where Industrial Humans have become the sickest, most chronically ill species in the history of life on earth. Never in human history have children, teens, adults, or seniors ever been so riddled with physical and emotional chronic illness – never.
The solution we have been offered, more drugs and surgeries every year for the past 75 years, has not just been a catastrophic failure in terms of improving health, it has completely failed at preventing or curing chronic illness. The millions of people that are dying each year from diabetes, heart disease, and cancer, and the millions suffering with digestive issues, emotional issues, chronic pain issues, sleep issues, fertility issues, and the issue of significantly reduced quality of life that comes along with chronic illness and chronic prescription drug use, are not suffering due to lack of access to care. These millions that are sick and dying have more access to drugs and surgery than any generation in history, and they remain the sickest generation in history and are still dying by the millions. More drugs every year has NOT resulted in more health every year.
Whatever your political views, the above statements are irrefutably and provably true. Politics may be able to determine who has to pay for healthcare, but politics can never validly determine which care is most effective and cost-effective and thus should be paid for.
It’s time for a change. Remove politics from your healthcare decisions and focus on common sense and valid science. Both logic and science make the truth self-evident. Chronic illness is caused by unhealthy lifestyle and until individuals admit this to themselves, and until healthcare and political healthcare policies are based upon this self-evident truth, our children, teens, adults, and seniors will continue along the inevitable path of consuming more drugs as they get sicker and sicker.
Like or dislike the politics of MAHA, don’t let politics cloud your desire to change healthcare into something that has the goal and interventions to utilize healthy lifestyle to produce health and prevent illness rather than to treat the effects of already developed illness with drugs. If we cannot question a system that has so badly failed to prevent or cure chronic illness, then we will never fix it. A system must be judged by its outcomes not its intentions. The current healthcare system, however well-intentioned, has abysmal outcomes in terms of producing health or preventing chronic illness.
Take responsibility for your health in 2026 – make it the year you choose to focus on creating health with healthy lifestyle rather than treating sickness with unhealthy drugs.
