Consensus must agree that the health of society is a matter of collective defense.
Pivoting toward evidence-based investments in integrative health-promoting infrastructures will strengthen the global economy by progressively strengthening whole-of-societies.
COVID-19 is soon endemic. Most likely, it already is. 1
Without Health, all is nothing including the economy.
Without Science grounded in chemistry, biology and physics; all will fail including politics, ideology and economic markets.
IT IS CLEAR that there are individual health consequences to economic hardships that have fueled the addiction-related epidemics and global economic consequences to viral pandemics; meaning these consequences concentrically affect both human and earth ecosystems from the inside out and from the outside in.
Pandemics provide immediate lessons on the power of concentric action; meaning that the action of one can exponentially affect the lives of many and the collective actions of many can have a powerful effect in saving a single precious life.Without health, all is nothing including the economy. Without science grounded in chemistry, biology and physics, all will fail including politics, ideology and economic markets.
Already, genomic epidemiology has made an evolutionary leap in genetic surveillance on the raw fact that it was necessary for our survival. Genomic sequencers, first mapped out in 2002 by NIH National Human Genome Research Institute, are now evolving at a tremendous rate in accuracy, lower costs and greater speed. Exomes, or portions of genetic code, can now be read in less than 24 hours to detect viral mutations and even investigate the most specific genes linked to higher risks of cancers, which brings profound promises in fields from personal health to cultural anthropology and environmental monitoring. For healthcare, this equates to a significant step closer to the realization of personalized medicines and integrative lifestyle plans, tailored to our genetic strengths and vulnerabilities.
Pivoting toward scientific evidence-based investments in health-promoting environmentally sustainable infrastructures to strengthen the global economy would progressively strengthen the health of whole-of-societies. Consensus must agree that the health of society is a matter of collective defense, therefore all parliamentary and congressional defense committees and national security councils must advocate strongly for comprehensive environmental and healthcare reforms that protect human rights and integrate into medical systems preventative and rehabilitative solutions for not only communicable diseases such as pandemic viruses but Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs), addiction, trauma and chronic pain that are exponentially debilitating who-communities of people.
Scientists actively engage in the mapping of climate-change, diseases and viruses in order to find antidotes and treatments. Integrative evidence-based solutions2 must be included in this mapping, which could help societies build resilient infrastructures that reduce the risk of epidemics and prevent evermore devastating pandemics driven by human behavior.
When NCDs and communicable diseases become endemic, integrative health rehabilitation and preventative strategies3 lead the way to reclaiming and assuring a flourishing life.
© Shelley R. Noble-Letort
Excerpt from Prologue: Hope for Healing at the Intersection of Myth (xxiv-xxv),
Human-Earth Expressions on Integrative Health and Our Environment: Mapping Caves
listen to SWAY podcast host Kara Swisher interviews Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong: his take on how the Covid-19 pandemic will become endemic in unvaccinated communities and his T-cell vaccination study taking place in South Africa.
see NATO HFM 195 Task Force: Integrative Medicine Interventions for Military Personnel see NIH Heal Initiative Clinical Research in Pain Management
see NIH NCCIH Mayo Clinic Proceedings Clinical Trial Data on Complementary Health Approaches to Pain
understand Integrative Approaches to COVID-19 at University of Arizona Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine