@caseymeansmd: 80% of US healthcare spending goes towards treating preventable chronic illness. Imagine a world where chronic conditions like heart disease and diabetes are RARE because we addressed the root causes. What if we never had to treat disease again because we prevented it from occurring in the first place?⁠ ⁠ Thanks @Jillian Michaels for mentioning me on Real Time with @BillMaher and speaking about upstream medicine and @Levels ⁠ What exactly is upstream medicine?⁠ 👩‍⚕️🩺⁠ ⁠ - It focuses on PREVENTION by addressing the root societal, environmental, and behavioral causes of illness, rather than just reacting once diagnosis occurs.⁠ ⁠ For example, heart disease develops over DECADES due to diet, activity levels, sleep quality, stress, and other modifiable lifestyle factors interacting with genetics and environment.⁠ ⁠ Upstream medicine aims to uncover those risk factors early on and help people make sustainable lifestyle changes before disease ever gets a chance to take hold.⁠ ⁠ Our current medical system still heavily incentivizes downstream, reactionary care - diagnosing and treating disease once it emerges rather than preventing it in the first place. ⁠ ⁠ This has to change. We need to shift focus upstream 🚣‍♀️ to keep people healthy.⁠ ⁠ Small lifestyle changes prompted by identifying risk factors early on can prevent the onset of chronic illness down the road.⁠ ⁠ It’s time we get to the root cause.⁠ ⁠⁠ #upstreammedicine #rootcause #prevention #chronicdisease #lifestylemedicine #health #bloodsugar #healthy #metabolichealth #cellularhealth #mitochondria #goodenergy #energy #feelgood #healthytips

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