Budgeting for health, not survival

We put a significant portion of our health care budget toward keeping people alive during their last two years.

We put almost no money and energy toward teaching our culture how to cultivate and maintain their health throughout life in an effort to avoid such an enjoyable couple of final years.

Imagine if budgets swung toward teaching our culture to

  • find, buy, prep, and consume non-toxic nutritious foods
  • move well and identify appropriate intensity, frequency, and intensity of movement and exercise
  • think, speak, and act toward to themselves and others that contributes to and improves the quality of life for all involved
  • master the act of recuperation and take on the doing of nothing so that the mind and body can take advantage of the space to heal, integrate, and strategize how to contribute to the world while continuing to do maintain the above mentioned habits.

Imagine the money saved on heart disease surgeries, type 2 diabetes dialysis treatments, and Alzheimer’s and dementia medications and care facilities.

Imagine if more people died healthy at home than they did drift away after years of physical and mental atrophy in convalescent facility beds.

Imagine the generational connections and teaching that occurs with grandchildren who have conversations with their grandparents because they still have the ability to participate in life.

This is a shift that matters.

It starts with us showing a way and building bridges.

I can’t think of a better reason to live a good life.