lifestyle medicine: the crux of what really matters

Drug companies, the media, physician groups, and patient advocacy groups, month others, have convinced the American public that the key to health is more testing, more doctor visits, more drugs, more procedures.  We have invented more diseases and diagnoses the past decade, scared more patients into falling prey to "necessary and lifesaving" interventions for conditions that are more phantom than real, and yet no one is talking about what really matters.  In areas of the world where people live far longer than we do, and have far less chronic illness, they don't see doctors, take drugs, or suffer from fabricated diseases.  They eat well, exercise, and have strong communities, all of which contribute to their better health.  While our system is excellent at fixing urgent problems such as a ruptured appendix or heart attack, it is awful at keeping us healthy, largely because it has spread a false gospel that people are sick when they're not and that they need more of what our system has to offer, all of which contributes to the $5 trillion healthcare cost and simultaneous drop in life expectancy.  Today Alan and Andy discuss what really matters!  And it's not what your doctor will likely tell you!