"There is abundant evidence in medical literature that Western diet and lifestyle drive the cellular and metabolic processes which underlie chronic non-communicable diseases. However, non-pharmaceutical interventions, which focus on nutrition, the microbiome and lifestyle, to prevent non-communicable diseases are not part of mainstream treatment, for a variety of reasons [mostly ignorance and greed].”

In the USA chronic non-communicable diseases affect 50% of people, account for 87% of deaths, and consume 85% of health budgets. It is estimated that 70–90% of these diseases are preventable by dietary and lifestyle modification.

“Lack of progress in stemming the rise in chronic non-communicable diseases can be attributed to the current ‘downstream’ medical paradigm which is focused on treating disease and symptoms, rather than preventing disease via an ‘upstream’ approach, which looks at cause and process.”

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW

“In the last 40 years a global epidemic of chronic non-communicable diseases has emerged, driven predominantly by overconsumption of ultraprocessed foods. Excessive consumption of ultraprocessed foods results in cellular and metabolic processes that lead to obesity, mitochondrial dysfunction, insulin resistance, inflammation, vascular endothelial dysfunction and dysbiosis. Obesity, mitochondrial dysfunction, insulin resistance, inflammation, vascular endothelial dysfunction and dysbiosis are unifying factors which underlie the majority of chronic non-communicable diseases.”

WHAT YOU NEED TO DO

You need to understand that prescribing or taking drugs to treat the diseases caused by unhealthy lifestyle (obesity, diabetes, heart disease, cancer, depression, Irritable Bowel Syndrome, etc) or to treat the underlying physiological risk factors of disease (high blood pressure, high cholesterol, high blood sugar, acid reflux, inflammation, emotional stress etc) will NEVER prevent or resolve chronic illness.

Diagnosing and treating effects with drugs has never, and will never, work to prevent or cure chronic illness because the underlying causes are not addressed and the enormous health benefits from healthy nutrition, physical fitness, and emotional/social fitness simply cannot be replicated or replaced with drugs. Anyone claiming otherwise is either scientifically ignorant or dishonest.

If you want a healthy gut, healthy cell function, healthy brain, heart, lung, and immune function, if you want to be get well and stay well, there is only one way – you MUST Eat Well – Move Well – Think Well®.

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Reference:

Phillips, R. (2025) Diet, Mitochondrial Dysfunction, Vascular Endothelial Damage, and the Microbiome: Drivers of Ocular Degenerative and Inflammatory Diseases. Ophthalmol Ther 14: 1429-1452